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It's July the 5th, it can only mean one thing – another year of NiGHTS into Dreams. Another year of hoping your old Saturn doesn't bite the dust, another year of looking back and remembering the fans and people who brought him here today. Time really flies, I can't believe 14 years have passed! I'm still as hyped as I was in 1996 for the game and everything else that goes with it.
It's quite staggering isn't it, the fact that NiGHTS' fanbase has remained strong for so many years and actively stuck around. Every year that goes by just sort of bolsters my love for this community. I always wonder who will turn up in the upcoming year, what new friendships will be forged, what sort of news and general mischief we'll get involved in. Thanks guys, for caring about NiGHTS. There has been points in my life where I've considered passing the torch to someone else and stepping away from the .com, but I never have, especially not when because of this website I found the greatest love of all through my wonderful co-admin DiGi. NiGHTS brought us together and I know that he's done the same for a lot of other people. It always makes me smile. So it's DiGi and I's job to stick up for the purple guy even if it gets us into trouble sometimes 
We have a lot of cool secret things coming between today and NiGHTS' next birthday in 2011. None of which I'm going to talk about right now incase I jinx them, but stick around for the regular sort of madness.
One of the big things happening that I -can- talk about and that I'm personaly looking forward to is the OCRemix NiGHTS project- NiGHTS: Lucid Dreaming. Due for release in 2011, today we have something real special for you thanks to the insanely talented Level 99.
A full track from the album which is free to download – Twin Seeds Flyby (Right click and save as).
Level 99:
This is the teaser track for the upcoming NiGHTS: Into Dreams arrangement album called NiGHTS: Lucid Dreaming. This project is brought to you by OverClocked ReMix, in part association with NiGHTSintodreams.com.The project is going to feature the original soundtrack to NiGHTS: Into Dreams ReMixed, by over 20 different musicians. The project will also feature a strong emphasis on art that captures the feeling of the music and the original game.
The track you are listening to is Twin Seeds Flyby by me, Level 99. It is a ReMix of Growing Wings, and you can follow the following link to the project thread to both download the song and stay up-to-date with project progress:
http://ocremix.org/forums/showthread….The project will be released on July 5th, 2011, in honor of the 15th Anniversary of NiGHTS' original game release. This teaser track is being released on NiGHTS' 14th Anniversary, as a birthday present and to show a little bit of what to expect from the project. It is also being released in support of NiD15.com, an online campaign to get Sega to port the original NiGHTS onto current-generation systems so that many more people can have the opportunity to play this fantastic game. Please go to NiD15.com and show your support!
July 5th, 2011. Be ready to fly.
Happy Birthday NiGHTS 
How is this for perfect timing? In an interview released today with SEGA's Yosuke Okunari the producer of the upcoming XBLA Dreamcast ports, it was revealed that all hope is not lost for the SEGA Saturn's catalogue of classic games! This makes the possibility of the long overdue western NiGHTS port so much more likely.
From Nowgamer.com via Impress Watch
"Okunari : It's not that we're ignoring Saturn I think you can see this, considering that we ported Nights Into Dreams (PS2) and other titles. What we announced this time is a project where we will have consecutive releases of titles that were debuted on Dreamcast. Separate from this, we're of course thinking about ports of Saturn games. It's the same as how Sega Ages and Virtual Console were separate existences. It's not that we have no intention of porting Saturn titles, so please share your requests."
Read the full article here:
http://www.nowgamer.com/news/3583/sega-considering-saturn-download-titles
Of course a giant flaming fangirl like me is never happy with second-hand information so I approached Okunari-san directly myself with the request for NiGHTS to be ported for download directing him to our NiD15.com campaign website to show him demand for the title. I explained that although the PS2 version is nice it's not convenient for fans (especialy younger fans) to have to import things from Japan. And what do you know, within a few minutes he replied to me He acknowleges that the PS2 version never made it overseas BUT he states that he would be interested in challenging himself with a NiGHTS port if the chance came up. So hey, let's make that chance happen~ show your support for www.NiD15.com. Press the button once, leave a comment in the comment section to back up your vote, join our forums and get in on the discussion – share it with your friends.
There are a lot of great titles on the Saturn i grew up with from Burning Rangers to Panzer Dragoon, Guardian Heroes to Fighters Megamix. If all Saturn fans pull together we might actually see this happen. The hardware might not have sold insane amounts back in the day but the games were incredible. Get to it.
Taken from the lovely musical chaps over at OSV from a recent interview they had with Yuji Naka:
OSV: So, of all the game projects you’ve worked on, which game has the best soundtrack?
Yuji Naka: Of all the title’s I’ve been involved with, it would probably have to be NiGHTS into Dreams. That was the best one that I remember. Next would be Phantasy Star Universe or Phantasy Star Online. Anything that I made with the Sonic team… all of it was great.
Always brilliant to hear Naka-san still holds the game in high regards
Read the full interview from OriginalSoundVersion.com here.
NiGHTS into Dreams .Com's first real attempt at getting the original Saturn game ported to Xbox Live and Playstation Network is now underway. Join us in showing your appreciation for the game and doing all you can to spread the word. Japanese gamers were treated to a NiGHTS into Dreams remake on the PS2 a few years back, so it's long overdue that us gamers elsewhere in the world get a chance to relive the nostalgia again whilst the new fans get to see what inspired Journey of Dreams.
Help us show how awesome NiGHTS into Dreams was (and still is!)
It's NiGHTS' 15th anniversary next year on the 5th of July – so add your vote for a fantastic game that deserves to be remembered.
Hi folks, TRiPPY here with a bit of an update on things that have been happening lately. Well first things first I had London MCM Expo to contend with and it went very well. Seeing my art up on a big video screen was epic, as was watching Bentley Jones do a live performance of 'So Much More' from Allstars Racing. Thanks to all the people involved with that and thanks to all the Sonic/SEGA community people I got to hang out with over the weekend. Great times were had.
Sexy times.
Now straight after that I had to unleash my art portfolio www.lynnetriplett.com in the hopes of getting a little bit of local work coming in. But within 24 hours I had a job interview in Sheffield and now I work for SUMO Digital. Yeah… it's not sunk in for me yet either. It's ironic that all this came about because of NiGHTS hahah. Let that be inspiring to you.
SUMO Digital are the wonderful, friendly and talented chaps who brought us Sonic and SEGA Allstars Racing amongst other great titles. The people who pushed to get NiGHTS into ASR for us. Now I work for them as a concept/2d artist. And you can bet your burning merch that I'm going to give them my 100% effort and loyalty since they done so much for our community. I know this might effect my ability to personaly report on any future (i wish) NiGHTS related leak things, but I'll make up for it by giving you guys my best work on-game. I'm not going anywhere from the NiGHTS fandom. If anything this might actually help us, lol.
Job gets!
So what else have I been up to lately? Well DiGi and I are very much on the campaign bandwagon and have a new NiGHTS related website to open next week. But you'll have to wait and see what that's all about.
Speaking of NiGHTS, Sonic Stadium recently interviewed Iizuka-san and someone popped a question about the possibility of new NiGHTS stuff. Go check out the full interview here:
@ Sonic Stadium
Hope you guys enjoyed E3. I think Nintendo's lineup impressed me the most with love being shown to their classic IP's … and yes we all want to play with Microsoft's Kinect. Can't wait to get my hands on a 3DS either!
Later 
There are a lot of NiGHTS fans out there- sometimes we're even in the same place at the same time (god forbid). Traveling miles by the mighty power of airplanes, trains, boats and the slightly less exciting foot. This page here is a collection of meetings we've had as a community with photos and goodtimes(TM) attached. If you would like to attend a future meet, keep an eye on our forums for anything happening near to you. If more than 2 of you met up and you have a story to tell or photos to share email me and I'll include it in this archive here
Archived:
- Summer of Sonic 2010 (England – UK) – Details – Discussion
- Anime Detour 2010 (Minnesota – USA) – Details - Discussion
- Summer of Sonic 2009 – Details – Discussion
- Auchinawa 2008
I swear, these SEGA community days just keep outdoing themselves! It's been a couple of weeks now since we got home but I wanted to spend some good time trying to remember all the details of what was a brilliantly fun trip. I mean the SEGA JoD demo in my house thing was epic enough but then this SEGAfest of community love was something I wish happened every other weekend! The whole thing was really quite surreal… and trying to find a place to start from is hard when it was 48 hours of madness. But lets start from the very beginning…
The invites.
Were we excited? Why yes we were! Though… when SEGA threatens to 'take you away' after months of you irritating the hell out of them with NiGHTS DLC emails you get slightly worried. DiGi considered this SEGA's revenge since DiGi and rollercoasters do NOT mix. There were quite a few jokes going around about 'technical difficulties'.
A press release appears what will you do?
Sonic The Hedgehog spins into Alton Towers Resort!
Alton Towers Resort teams up with the world’s most famous hedgehog to revamp classic attraction
This February half term, Alton Towers Resort’s famed attraction Spinball Whizzer will be receiving an exciting makeover. The Resort has teamed up with iconic video gaming character, Sonic The Hedgehog, to be the new face of the ride Sonic Spinball, opening on 13th February 2010.Since 1991, SEGA has sold more than 60 million copies of computer games featuring Sonic The Hedgehog worldwide. Famous for his incredible speed and spin attack, this gaming icon is the ideal character to re-launch Spinball Whizzer.
Spinball Whizzer was one of Alton Towers Resort’s much loved attractions. Opened in 2004 and with an impressive drop of 54 feet, the coaster gives each rider a unique experience by spinning and dropping in different directions, allowing you to ping and spring your way around this pinball-themed twisted track that is full of surprises!
Alton Towers Resort’s guests will also have the chance to relax in the Sonic The Hedgehog room at the Alton Towers hotel. The rooms will be fully themed around the Sonic universe. Guests can also enjoy playing the latest Sonic games in the dedicated gaming area of the room.
Morwenna Angove, Sales and Marketing Director at the Alton Towers Resort, said: “It’s a great joint venture between the Alton Towers Resort and SEGA. The affiliation of both brands will add to the great family offering at the Resort for kids seeking fabulous family fun and adrenalin addicted adults”.
Escape to the Alton Towers Resort this February Half-Term and enjoy an early preview of Sonic Spinball as well as some of the Resort’s best attractions before the main season even begins!
So we didn't sleep much that night. Mostly due to the fact that DiGi always leaves his packing until the last second. One of the main things we had all been worrying about was the weather since it had been snowing and pouring down with rain on and off in London. As fun as rollercoasting with snow in your teeth would be we weren't really feeling the extreme weather thing. But lo and behold SEGA must have some kind of Weather Control Emeralds because the next morning the rain had almost vanished (almost).
The trip on the underground to the meetup point consisted of DiGi joking about everything that can go wrong with rollercoasters and how I wasn't going to get him to go on ANYTHING even if I got pouty about it. The man was determined, you gotta give him that. But I am a TRiPPY and I gets what I want 
So we wandered around outside the infamous Ritz in central London trying to find anyone that remotely resembled a Sonic fan. You can usualy find them wearing a lot more blue than usual. NiGHTS fans are easy to spot by their disregard for clashing colors and dayglow hair. Both fanbases have that distant 'I'm an admin online and I lost my soul' look in our eyes. Then from out of the station bops AAUK and Echohawk with their posse, all looking suitably blue. We then proceeded to annoy the general public by all standing in the middle of the pavement chatting about the trip and things that had conspired a few days beforehand. Our little group started to get bigger as more and more familiar faces arrived from both the Sonic community and gaming press. Soon we were a veritable mob of chattering flashy nerds as our private coach pulled up down the street and we all climbed onboard. It was later revealed to me that our awesome driver did infact look a lot like Man of Arms from He-Man (thanks Rory).
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I will drive you by the POWER OF GREYSKULL!
When I was first told about this trip I didn't realise that so many people were coming along from the media, which was really fun, even though most of them take ages to get on a bus. There were people from magazines, newspapers, websites all sitting on this big coach with us community guys ready for the journey ahead. Alton Towers is a fair distance from London (around 142 miles) so you can imagine the fun of being stuck in a bus for around 4 hours with all these people. And yes, we had sandwiches, AMAZING sandwiches and flapjacks. Very nice posh lunches by SEGA, though I seemed to inherit about 4 bottles of water and apples in my handbag. DiGi decided on having -another- tuna sandwich which probably wasn't a great idea considering he was on a long distance drive and would then be straight on a rollercoaster…. yeah. But it was all very relaxing as the coach started to drive through drizzly central London and I sat eating my epic flapjack looking out the window at people walking past. In all the time I've lived in London I've never been down Oxford street on a bus, haha. So that was nice for me. Quiet morning mumbles turned into rowdy community banter as we all woke up a bit and started heading proper north. North is an amazing place, it has trees and everything.
*story ACTUALLY continued today thanks to my server letting me upload things again XD; sorry guys*
Credit goes to AAUK (SonicWrecks & SEGA Europe), Vger (EmeraldCoast), G (SEGANerds) and Rory (TSS) for the stolen photographs, because i roll like that.
First off i just want to say thank you so MUCH to those of you who sent in an email! We had a grand total of 382 fans send in emails supporting NiGHTS DLC for Sonic and SEGA Allstars Racing. That's quite a lot when you consider that's people not emails. So again, thank you
Now onto the art draw! I had an hour long powercut just a moment ago (again with timing), so as soon as the electricity came back on I got straight onto http://www.randomizer.org to do my random number chosing stuff.
As you guys know I've already completed the first picture but I'm hard at work on the other two bits of art still. Don't worry I'll add them to this post (And my DA page) as they are completed this week. Winners will recieve the real lineart on paper plus a signed print of the color versions.
Now onto the draw! Revealed after the break. Hit read more to see if you were one of the lucky winners.
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