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[DiGi Valentine]

NiGHTS Reels by SEGA Casino

Now, firstly. How did we overlook this?
Secondly, NiGHTS encouraging gambling. Goes hand in hand, lol

Anyway, does anybody know how long this has been running? If it's a new recent game added then this makes me quite happy ...just so i know NiGHTS is still being used by the company

-edit-
It seems the game includes new animations made specially for the game. The video shows a Pian flying around and then later shows Owl flying when the player gets a row of cards. Both of those anims were not in JoD.

So Sonic Team made more NiGHTS related content for NiGHTS Reels. Interesting

[Razer112]

Heheh...
NiGHTS is a jester, And it has a Card game! *ShotshotSHOT*

[DiGi Valentine]

I'm at work right now but i managed to quickly grab the advert for NiGHTS Reels on the SEGA Casino website -



More from the info page here - NiGHTS Reels info page

Lol, "Cheers to the NiGHTS!" indeed, my odd son. There is no NiGHTS, He is THE NiGHTS!! XD

Well, it's certainly nice to see NiGHTS is still being used else where within SEGA. This makes me feel a little more at ease about NiGHTS' activity in the company in general.

[Huruyami]

I don't know why sega loves throwing NiGHTS cameos into casinos, but I'll take it this seems very cool, kinda reminds me of the big NiGHTS section of the casino in sonic adventure.

[DiGi Valentine]

Yeah, i was thinking along the same line in regards to the Sonic Adventure thing ...only with real money that you can actually lose! XD;;;

Also found out that the reason SEGA didn't advertise this via community team is because there are laws about advertising this kinda thing, so the community team have nothing to do with the Casino ...which is probably why we didn't know about this right away.

[viperxmns]

Huh, interesting.. too bad the cards themselves aren't NiGHTS themed. But yes, for Sega to do anything at all with NiGHTS right now makes me happy. Having trouble accessing their site at the moment..

[Noctourne Wonderland]

NiGHTS Reels made me think that a NiGHTS movie was in production.

At least Sega is still using NiGHTS! After Sonic Adventure, it seems like NiGHTS make some money between games by gambling.

[Jof]

Hahah! That's insanely awesome. I work in a betting shop, Paddy Power, and I have to sit in fron of these kinda slot machines all day. It's freaky cause I've always though about NiGHTS reels in there, and now you come up with this.

I'm loving the little animations. I would like to know how long theyve been there too, so we can see if it's a recent thing or not. How did you stumble across it DiGi?

EDiT:

To Celebrate New Year and the Launch of our New Casino Slot Game NiGHTS™ Reels, we're giving away great prizes this January 2010.

Sounds like it is new! C'mon NiGHTS!

EDiT 2: BTW, if anyone's intrested in giving it a shot, after downloading the software, you are given the option to play for just fun, no real money. No cards needed!

[Sierra]

Thank god, I was like, 'Whee, gambling! But wait, I'm a student... I don't have money... ;.;"

I must definitely give this a shot.

Gambling really suits NiGHTS, s/he's so ADHD I can see him/her being easily sucked in, bouncing from one game to the next. XD

[viperxmns]

This is annoying, is this site active or what? I can't access it.. Sega Casino's site gives me a 403 forbidden no matter what I try. Otherwise I'm wondering if Sega Casino has been discussed at the Sega Forum, I am inclined to make a thread over there about this..

[Huruyami]

vipermixns, i'm getting that too :| is it a UK only thing?

[Jof]

I managed to download the software (direct link to the download page is here) however, upon downloading and installing, none of the games seem to be active, and I have no idea why. I would consider throwing a few bob in it to try it for real, but I don't know if that will make any difference, and I don't want to lose money in a glitchy game.

[viperxmns]

Hm, that link is dead to me too. Curse you, internet! How cruel as to make something difficult when it be in regard to NiGHTS. Well, at least it seems the game exists, even if accessing it seems to be problematic.

[Noctourne Wonderland]

It's a UK thing. At least there are pictures and video for everyone else to see what's going on.

[Nemoide]

Odd, I know that when Sega Casino first started up I couldn't access it. (It's not open to Americans AFAIK.)
But now I can access the site with no problems. PRETTY STRANGE.

No way am I downloading the software. I get addicted to things way too easily and I can see myself starting to "play for fun/free" and then three hours later I'll be putting my kidneys up on eBay for more spins.

[Narco]

Odd, I know that when Sega Casino first started up I couldn't access it. (It's not open to Americans AFAIK.)
But now I can access the site with no problems. PRETTY STRANGE.

No way am I downloading the software. I get addicted to things way too easily and I can see myself starting to "play for fun/free" and then three hours later I'll be putting my kidneys up on eBay for more spins.

Same here dude. I'll be addicted to this thing and will never leave my computer.

[DiGi Valentine]

I came across it by searching for Tweets on Twitter. The search function is handy at times. I just typed in 'sega NiGHTS' and two people were talking about the Reels. I'm telling ya, half the news i find out these days comes from Twitter. It's quite useful.

In regards to the game though, is it only a one month promotion thing? I think i read somewhere it's running until the end of January so this might be on for a short time.

I'm also wondering why America can't access it. It could be due to a currency thing, perhaps this game is not set up for American dollars. Perhaps the site only pays out certain currencies. Either that or there's a law in place that won't allow the game to run in America. I'm just guessing though, i have no idea what's causing the site errors.

[Jof]

Guys outside the EU could try this direct link to the setup file, though I'm not sure if it'll work either.

However, it seems the software is broken right now anyway. I can't seem to get any of the games to work at all. I've went through the support channels, and they suggested it might be their systems are in maintenance. However, you're supposed to be able to play these games offline for fun too, so surely you should the games should be there in any case. Not sure whats up. But they told me they'd e-mail me once they're out of maintanence, so fingers crossed.

I really want to give it a shot lol. Stick £5 quid in there, and then as revenge for SEGA being complete dicks about the franchise, bleed them dry using the very franchise they won't let drive a car! lol

[DiGi Valentine]

Lol, good idea Jof. Grab that monaaay! XD

Let me know what becomes of it. I might download it and have a few goes myself, actually.

[TRiPPY]

AND SO IT BEGINS!

[viperxmns]

Guys outside the EU could try this direct link to the setup file, though I'm not sure if it'll work either.

Nope, not even that link is working for me. Wow man, wtf. This is like the internet version of NTSC/PAL. Oh well. At least I'm not much of a gambling man anyways.

[Penelopi]

It's odd. The first couple links Jof and DiGi posted I couldn't access, but the last one worked. I have it now. Tis very fun. And I am in America. *looks out window just to be sure* Yep, still in hilly Virginia. Weird.

[Jof]

I have no idea why this software isn't working for me then If it's working for you. Whenever I enter the lobby, all I get is this.



With none of the games being clickable. I've uninstalled and re-installed countless times, made sure my flash version was fine, tried running it in compatibilty mode, yet I'm still stumped.

[SmashQueen]

Gonna gamble~ ...For fun anyways. This is so cool... ...Just have to wait for the download. >>;

Thanks for the link Jof. Now we can gamble NiGHTS style.

Edit: That's weird Jof... I see everything just fine...
I live in the U.S. to boot... Getting a screenshot. Just a moment...
There we go.

Maybe if you try downloading it again? Or from a different link?

[DiGi Valentine]

That is odd. Guess it ain't a region thing after all o.o

I would try but the computer we're currently using is a little slow now, poor thing. When the new comp arrives i'll try and get it installed on that.

Jof, let us know if you overcome this problem and how you done it. I'm guessing the support people have not helped much either, right?

[Jof]

: ( It's really bothering me that I can't try this. I've re-downloaded it tonnes of times, tried every concievable different way of installing it/running it, yet it keeps happening.

What I'm assuming, is theres something going wrong in the installation. The setup .exe itself is only a front, once it runs it downloads what it needs to install. Maybye it's not grabbing it all for me for some reason ?

Would anyone be willing to .zip up their entire SEGA Casino folder from where they installed it, and host it somewhere like MegaUpload ? My SEGA Casino folder comes in at just under 40Mb after the install. I'd like to check if using one someone else has downloaded works.

[SmashQueen]

40MB? That doesn't sounds right... Including the NiGHTS Reels, there's roughly 117 - 119 MB on the disc taken up. I'd zip it up, but I couldn't even upload half that before without the WiFi going wonky and disrupting everything. The folder slots_NiGHTS20lines takes about about 17 MB and the data folder itself for the casino takes up about 111 MB. Really wish I had checked out the disc size prior to DLing NiGHTS Reels though... Ah what the heck. I'll go uninstall then reinstall it for comparison.

*10 minutes later*

... Okay this is weird. I've got 33.3 MB and it works just fine. I'll go ahead and zip it all up. It won't be megaupload though. Hope you don't mind.

Edit: Sent off the link in a pm. I'd put the link in the thread, but I get the feeling that there'd be more than one download and right now it's only needed for testing purposes.

[Jof]

40MB? That doesn't sounds right... Including the NiGHTS Reels, there's roughly 117 - 119 MB on the disc taken up. I'd zip it up, but I couldn't even upload half that before without the WiFi going wonky and disrupting everything. The folder slots_NiGHTS20lines takes about about 17 MB and the data folder itself for the casino takes up about 111 MB. Really wish I had checked out the disc size prior to DLing NiGHTS Reels though... Ah what the heck. I'll go uninstall then reinstall it for comparison.

*10 minutes later*

... Okay this is weird. I've got 33.3 MB and it works just fine. I'll go ahead and zip it all up. It won't be megaupload though. Hope you don't mind.

Edit: Sent off the link in a pm. I'd put the link in the thread, but I get the feeling that there'd be more than one download and right now it's only needed for testing purposes.

Thank you so much for doing this for me. Sorry to put you through the trouble. I'll download it asap and give it a shot . Upon looking at my Casino Folder, I don't even have a NiGHTS folder, so there sure as hell is something going on with my install download.

This is really strange. I replaced my files completely with the ones you provided, however the problem still exists, which makes me think it most definately must be something on my end. However, I looked through the contents and still don't see any slots_NiGHTS20lines folder. Was that in the zip?

EDiT! I finally got it working!

And I think I figured out the problem. After seeing that SmashQueen's files weren't working for me either, I figured it must be something to do with my computer alone. I noticed a few Flash files in the folders, so wondered if that could be it. However, I'd already tried re-installing the latest flash player plugins. But when I went back to the Flash download page, I noticed there were 2 different versions of flash, one for Internet Explorer, and the other for Firefox etc.

Guys, if you run into the same problem as me, download and install both. This has solved the problem for me. I must not have had the Internet Explorer version (being a sole Firefox user), which this must need to run properly.

Here's the link to both versions.

Thank you again SmashQueen for all your help!

EDiT: Yeah, it's a really cheap game when it comes to gambling real money lol. Just lost a fiver in that bad boy. Don't let the free-game version fool you. You'll win a lot more in there than in RL. It can be quite unfair at times with the double or nothing card section (where theres no chance of winning sometimes). Stick with free-play. Kids, don't gamble. Lessons are learned here the hard way : P

[Jof]

EDiT because we love obsessing over NiGHTS. I have successfully converted the animations into .gif's for your pleasure. Be warned though, I spared no expense at filesize, these are 1Mb+ each.



Awakener - 10
Awakener - Jack
Awakener - Queen
Awakener - King
Awakener - Ace
NiGHTS
Reala
Pian
Owl
Bellbridge

[Noctourne Wonderland]

Thank you, Jof! Those animations have so much avatar potential that it's not even funny.

[SmashQueen]

Thank you so much for doing this for me. Sorry to put you through the trouble. I'll download it asap and give it a shot . Upon looking at my Casino Folder, I don't even have a NiGHTS folder, so there sure as hell is something going on with my install download.

This is really strange. I replaced my files completely with the ones you provided, however the problem still exists, which makes me think it most definately must be something on my end. However, I looked through the contents and still don't see any slots_NiGHTS20lines folder. Was that in the zip?

Sorry, didn't include the NiGHTS folder. It would have put too much stress on the uploading (less than 10 kb/sec.). Plus it was erased upon uninstalling. Ah well. Glad you got the casino working. Always happy to help out when possible. Now to just get back to the reels...later. Mwahahah...

Love the GIFs. I tried like crazy trying to get them all in the reels. lol Thank you.