Sonic the Hedgehog (NES) - Improvment + Tracks (NES)

Sonic the Hedgehog (NES) - Improvment + Tracks is a ROM hack made for Somari for NES. It was first created by the jabu in November 20th 2016. It was then improved upon by Ti and re-released December 1st, 2016. The game play was improved and the sound effects will no longer interrupt the music.

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Rovio To Launch An Educational Angry Birds

Finland’s Rovio Entertainment has partnered with Washington-based game developer Legends of Learning to launch new Angry Birds games with a focus on education.

Based on the Angry Birds characters, the games will teach STEM concepts—such as force, collisions and how to measure angles—to kids ages five to 14. The Legends of Learning online platform will release the games this fall.

Launched in 2017, Legends of Learning is a learning hub for elementary and middle school students. Game-based learning improves children’s grades, says Legends of Learning CEO and co-founder Vadim Polikov. The platform, which contains more than 2,000 educational video games, is mostly free but also offers paid options for teachers. It also allows kids to customize avatars by paying a subscription. It’s used by about 10 million teachers and students in the US, according to a release.

Rovio has long seen its Angry Birds games—which have been downloaded over five billion times—as a potential educational tool. The company previously expanded the games into education through a partnership with the University of Helsinki, which focused on creating games that blended fun with learning. And in 2014, it launched a standalone venture called Fun Academy to create educational games. 

Rovio has lately been expanding beyond its core focus of making games. It’s now producing a series for Amazon Kids+ and Prime Video titled Angry Birds Mystery Island.  Meanwhile, Japanese game developer SEGA is in the midst of acquiring Rovio in a US$776 million deal.

SEGA To Acquire Angry Birds Company Rovio

Sega, the Japanese-headquartered video game company best known in the West for its Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, is acquiring Angry Birds developer Rovio, the companies announced today. The Finnish headquartered mobile games developer will be acquired for €706 million (around $775 million), which The Wall Street Journal notes represents a roughly a 19 percent premium over its share price at close on Friday. The deal is expected to close by the end of September.

In a press release, Sega said it hopes to use “Rovio’s distinctive know-how in live service mobile game operation, to bring Sega’s current and new titles to the global mobile gaming market.” It sounds like a similar aim to what Sega’s rival Nintendo has been doing with its franchises, with smartphone releases like Mario Kart Tour, Pokémon Go, and Super Mario Run. Sega also wants to help Rovio “expand its platform outside of mobile gaming.”

“Among the rapidly growing global gaming market, the mobile gaming market has especially high potential, and it has been Sega’s long-term goal to accelerate its expansion in this field,” said Haruki Satomi, president and group CEO of Sega parent company Sega Sammy holdings. In a statement, Rovio CEO Alexandre Pelletier-Normand specifically called out the company’s Beacon platform, which is designed to help develop games-as-a-service products.

Rovio is best known for its work on the Angry Birds franchise, which launched in 2009 and is claimed to be the first mobile game series to have reached 1 billion downloads. In total, Rovio says its games have been downloaded over 5 billion times. Angry Birds has since been adapted for the big screen twice (once in 2016 and again in 2019), but more recent entries in the franchise have struggled to make a similar impact.

Sega isn’t the first company to have expressed an interest in acquiring Rovio. The mobile game developer had previously been in discussions to be acquired by Israel-based Playtika, but talks officially came to an end in March 2022. Rovio has been a publicly traded company since 2017. 

Rovio’s acquisition by Sega is the latest example of an independent mobile gaming titan being hoovered up by a more traditional games giant. Candy Crush developer King was acquired by Activision Blizzard in a $5.9 billion deal that completed in 2016 while Zynga, the company behind FarmVille, was bought by Take-Two for $12.7 billion last year.

Sonic Adventure 7 (GBC)

Sonic Adventure 7 is a later version of Sonic 3D Blast 5 released in 1999. The manual that comes with the game copies its text from the US Sonic Blast manual with screenshots and character art from Sonic Adventure added. All text referring to Knuckles the Echidna (without controls) are replaced with ＂Sonic Adventure 7＂. The intro is an abridged version of the Sonic & Knuckles title screen animation (and despite his appearance, Knuckles is not playable), and the title screen is the Sonic Adventure logo. The graphics seem to have been hastily recolored, as they are often unfitting and visually unpleasant (e.g. many neon colors are used and some sprites are not colored in), and the music has been changed to more rearrangements from Sonic & Knuckles Collection.

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Cool Genesis (APK)

High quality emulator for Sega MD and Genesis for Android.
High quality emulator for Sega MD and Genesis for Android.
Supports all GENESIS games,Sega MD,Sega CD games, Mark III games with best compatibility.
Simple controls keyboard, giving you the best arcade game experience.
Features:
- Support Sega Mega Drive,Sega Genesis, Sega Master System
- Supports Android 2.3+
- High compatibility: Virtual Racing, Phantasy Star, etc
- Supports ROM-based games in .bin, .smd, .gen, and .sms formats, optionally in ZIP, RAR, or 7Z files
- Sega 6 Button Support
- Multi Touch/Keyboard/Gamepad controller supported
- Custom key bindings
- 2Player support
- Custom multi touch input location and size
- Real Time rewind (see youtube for video)
- Shaders! (hq2x, super eagle, 2xSaI, etc).
- Game Genie
- Haptic Feedback
- Fast Forward
- Auto Save, phone calls won't ruin your game
- Move and resize the touch input controls to your liking!
- Load/Browse compressed archives (*.zip, *.7z)
- Custom ROM directory, RomFetcher support
- Tablets, many tablets are known to be working perfectly
- Portrait Mode
- Native bluetooth support
- Stereoscopic 3D (only on supported devices)
- Shader performance increase for all devices
- PAL support

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