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[viperxmns]

For the record, I was thinking of 'over 9000' jokes before any of you! Totally absolutely truest ever.

NiD in 3D could be awesome; the Mare course with the rings and such is in the foreground, and the dreamscape recedes into the distance.

[Musashi_HUmar]

Personally, I think NiD is fine the way it is. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Messing with it would only take away from not only its nostalgic value, but would mess up the game play we're used to.

[DiGi Valentine]

If the 3DS mechanic was on a console then i'd be all for it. I just don't feel NiGHTS should be on a handheld, it needs to be enjoyed on a big screen. There's so many little bits of detail in NiGHTS that will get lost on a handheld version of the game.

I think they should port it as normal for the main consoles and then maybe perhaps make a nice little spin-off version for the 3DS. Taking NiGHTS to the 3DS entirely would mean every NiGHTS fan now has to buy another system just to play the game. And if NiGHTS does get a port it's going to need all the sales it can get to show SEGA it was not a waste of time, people can't just up and buy a new console every five minutes. Also, remember how we all had to buys Wii's for Journey of Dreams? Wouldn't be good if we all had to do it again for a port.

[viperxmns]

3D is slowly creeping onto the PS3, but we need to also have 3D TVs to use it, so it'd be feasible by the time Sega might actually be ready to make NiGHTS 3.

I wonder what Sega's current plans are for the 3DS? I don't recall hearing about anything yet.

[LUCiD]

hey, i made this to try to get more support for the campaign, what do you think?

[viperxmns]

Nice one LUCiD, I would only say the red text is hard to read against the banner graphic, maybe try yellow?

[LUCiD]

Nice one LUCiD, I would only say the red text is hard to read against the banner graphic, maybe try yellow?

thank you, and i'll change it to yellow later.

[LUCiD]

Here's the improved version, what do you think?

[viperxmns]

Hm.. still a bit too busy; let's take a lesson from subtitles, a black stroke around the text should fix it. Or otherwise reduce the opacity of the banner graphic.

[LUCiD]

Hm.. still a bit too busy; let's take a lesson from subtitles, a black stroke around the text should fix it. Or otherwise reduce the opacity of the banner graphic.

ok *goes back to work*

[LUCiD]

im 99.9% sure i didn't screw this one up. ^^;

[viperxmns]

Yeah the image of NiGHTS perched is a better choice for reading the text, that works better

[LUCiD]

Yeah the image of NiGHTS perched is a better choice for reading the text, that works better

finally lol XD thanks for the advice, it really helped. now, i am off to my NiGHTS fanfiction.

[DiGi Valentine]

So, what with RubyEclipse (SEGA USA Community Team Manager) slyly name dropping our campaign into this weeks SEGA's Free Stuff Friday competition, as well as TRiPPY linking to the campaign in one of SEGA's FaceBook updates via the comment section, we are now over 2150 votes by having another surge of voters.

My my. We're making some good ground with this campaign. Any minute now i'll smell a port land on the community doorstep!

[Noctourne Wonderland]

So, what with RubyEclipse (SEGA USA Community Team Manager) slyly name dropping our campaign into this weeks SEGA's Free Stuff Friday competition, as well as TRiPPY linking to the campaign in one of SEGA's FaceBook updates via the comment section, we are now over 2150 votes by having another surge of voters.

My my. We're making some good ground with this campaign. Any minute now i'll smell a port land on the community doorstep!

Sega has no excuse at this point. I can be done from the PS2 version, tthere's DEFINATELY demand, all the have to do is talk with Microsoft, Sony, and maybe Nintendo if something can be arranged.

[Alex Atkin UK]

I just noticed something missing from nid15.com, no Facebook "LIKE" button which 99% of the web seems to have these days. Surely that would help spread the word?
http://developers.fa...ce/plugins/like

[Noctourne Wonderland]

I just noticed something missing from nid15.com, no Facebook "LIKE" button which 99% of the web seems to have these days. Surely that would help spread the word?
http://developers.fa...ce/plugins/like

I'd guess that it's because anyone can click a button, but you have to have a Facebook account to "like" things. Plus, having things all in one counter is more organized, so the numbers look bigger at a quick glance.

[DiGi Valentine]

We did have a FaceBook page for the previous campaign we did earlier this year, and while it did help spread the word a little it didn't generate as much support as we would have liked. Ironicaly, this method of making a website specificly for NiD15 has resulted in better amount of support, more than we could have hoped for. Chances are, even if you have a facebook page you probably already know about this campaign anyway so it's kinda pointless making one.

That being said, there are already a few different NiGHTS related pages on FaceBook where the news of this campaign has been posted so people are aware this is happening. If they are not then i guess this news really is flying over their heads, lol.

[Twin Seeds]

I read somewhere that NiGHTS had been ported for XBLA, but when i went to my friend's house, i couldn't find it on there. I looked in the arcade and marketplace. Did we miss out on it?

[iLLViLLAiN]

No, there's been no record of NiGHTS ever being on the XBLA. I'm afraid you've been misled.

[DiGi Valentine]

Misled or misread, either way there's no NiGHTS on XBLA. Yet. Obviously, we're working on that XD;

So, what's happening this weekend?
Well, a certain blue hedgehog (forgot the buggers name now) is having a convention that of which me and TRiPPY will be attending. We have made some really REALLY cool NiD15 related leaflets that will be going in to the con bags, it has a nice mini comic strip that TRiP drew that WINS, lol. We'll post it up here after the con is over so you can see what it looks like.

There are estimated near on 800 people potentialy trying to come to this years convention so if we can get their support too then it'll be a nice booster to that counter.

[Nemoide]

The thread for nidscores.com makes me realize how awesome a proper NiGHTS leaderboard would be. I'm curious as to how I would compare to other folks who aren't necessarily THE SCORE MASTERS per se.

What are people's thoughts about the inclusion of a two-player mode (NiGHTS vs. Reala)? I used to play that mode years ago, when I could still convince friends that playing Saturn could be fun, but honestly it was not that big a draw. I'm pretty sure the PS2 version doesn't have it. Yet in the name of completeness, it might be nice...

[Noctourne Wonderland]

And here she is, Miss Flagbabe!


http://noctournewond...babe-174101715

It wasn't easy, but I colored it. Enjoy!

As for two player mode, tthe original was fine, but I like JoD's racing a lot more. Maybe they could apply that to a NiD port?

[viperxmns]

Bonus 2P modes would be icing. I would love NiD race modes. And a stunt challenge dammit!

Other super plusses to a port:

Leaderboards
Online 2P NiGHTS vs Reala the real way (I forgot about how the PS2 version doesn't have it)
Save files that won't go bye bye (though there is this feature on the PS2 port)
Ideally, Christmas NiGHTS would be downloadable as well, if not part of the NiD package.

Sure wish I could go to Summer of Sonic.

[iLLViLLAiN]

We finally cracked 3,000.

[iLLViLLAiN]

The fine gentlemen over at SegaShiro have dropped a new article on the campaign.
http://www.segashiro...versary-push-2/

[Noctourne Wonderland]

8 months so far, and 3971 votes.

[DiGi Valentine]

In these last 8 months we've had Yuji Naka agree that todays gamers should be allowed to play NiGHTS into Dreams.

On top of that, Okunari, the guy in charge of handling ports, has also expressed his desire to port NiGHTS to consoles around the world, though he has also stated that he don't think it will be this year.

I'm still honestly finding new people on twitter every other day just through word searches who have recently been tweeting about NiGHTS yet really didn't know this campaign was currently running.

In terms of votes, this is no way near over because we could quadruple this figure if SEGA would just openly ask everyone if they would like a NiGHTS port. But of course, SEGA can't so we have to do things the hard way.

I do feel this petition will pay off somewhere down the line. It won't be for NiGHTS 15th though, which is a shame but what are ya gonna do.

[iLLViLLAiN]

It won't be for NiGHTS 15th though, which is a shame but what are ya gonna do.

Better late than never. Just depends on how late.

[viperxmns]

I hope it happens before his 20th, lol.

Or maybe not lol. Given Sega's track record, it's possible : /

[Penelopi]

Woot! Broke 4000!
I wonder if we could ask Sega permission to ad the campaign on some of their bigger pages on the net. When I see 800,000+ people who are fans of Sonic's Facebook page, I wonder how many of those might be NiGHTS fans who haven't heard about the push yet.

[DiGi Valentine]

When I see 800,000+ people who are fans of Sonic's Facebook page, I wonder how many of those might be NiGHTS fans who haven't heard about the push yet.

Yeah, seriously. I wonder that too. The thing with fans of NiGHTS is they're all so spread out all over the place. Since NiGHTS was such a cult game back in the day the people who experienced it have gone on to different things but if they only knew this petition was happening then i'm sure they would support it.

For example, i love Streets of Rage. I'm not part of any Streets of Rage fanbase or forum community yet when i heard about a recent petition of fans asking SEGA to make a 4th title in the series i instantly supported it. Because i don't hang around those communities i didn't know that petition was running but as soon as it caught my ear i signed up to it.
As i said, it's the same thing with NiGHTS' fans. They just need to be made aware this petition is happening.

[iLLViLLAiN]

Yeah, seriously. I wonder that too. The thing with fans of NiGHTS is they're all so spread out all over the place. Since NiGHTS was such a cult game back in the day the people who experienced it have gone on to different things but if they only knew this petition was happening then i'm sure they would support it.

For example, i love Streets of Rage. I'm not part of any Streets of Rage fanbase or forum community yet when i heard about a recent petition of fans asking SEGA to make a 4th title in the series i instantly supported it. Because i don't hang around those communities i didn't know that petition was running but as soon as it caught my ear i signed up to it.
As i said, it's the same thing with NiGHTS' fans. They just need to be made aware this petition is happening.

Wait. There's a Street of Rage 4 petition?

[Level 99]

Maybe we should hire that dude doing the Sonic 2 HD thingy to do a small demo of a NiGHTS HD thingy (highly doubtful but its at least an idea to start things a-brewing). Every fight we have to do as a community to be recognized has been against the grain, amidst a sea of Sega fans who are fanatical about other games. There must be a way to pull together the NiGHTS fans from within that and get more support.

[Nemoide]

NiD15 was featured on Sega of Europe's blog, along with Lucid Dreaming. And that blog post was linked to from both the official Sega and Sonic Facebook pages.

[Noctourne Wonderland]

NiD15 was featured on Sega of Europe's blog, along with Lucid Dreaming. And that blog post was linked to from both the official Sega and Sonic Facebook pages.

It helps to have friends in high places.

[Bonzi77]

Hot damn, can you say BOOST? The campaign just jumped another 1000 votes.

[Nemoide]

(No, it only jumped about 50 votes.)

However, if Wikipedia is to be trusted, this is totally happening: http://en.wikipedia....5th_Anniversary
Note: I'm pretty sure Wikipedia is not to be trusted in this instance. Now with extra bad grammar! :P

[iLLViLLAiN]

(No, it only jumped about 50 votes.)

However, if Wikipedia is to be trusted, this is totally happening: http://en.wikipedia....5th_Anniversary
Note: I'm pretty sure Wikipedia is not to be trusted in this instance. Now with extra bad grammar!

A wise person once said, "If you want something really bad, act as though you already have it" or something along those lines. This is the very definition of wishful thinking and there's nothing wrong with it at all if you ignore the fact that a few people are actually going to believe this lie.

[DiGi Valentine]

Lol, oh Wiki. That's gonna get taken down very soon no doubt but i admire the fans wanting something that much that they have to make a Wiki out of it.

If only, right?