It is a spoof hack which intends to add humor to the game by making various changes.

Changes include editing some text, darkening the strange pixel on Tails backside in the intro (try the original to compare), and editing some sound effects and redubbing the voice clips.

Sonic Advance Review. GameSpot. Archived from the original on November 29, 2013.

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It was the first Sonic the Hedgehog released on a Nintendo console and was produced in commemoration of the series tenth anniversary.

The story follows Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy as they journey to stop Doctor Eggman from taking over the world.

Controlling a character, players are tasked with completing each level, defeating Eggman and his robot army, and collecting the seven Chaos Emeralds.

Sega recruited Dimps to lead development, making the game the first in the franchise developed by the studio.

While Sonic Advance follows a similar style of gameplay to the Sega Genesis Sonic games, certain concepts and designs were reused from newer games such as Sonic Adventure (1998).

The game has been ported to Nokia s N-Gage and Android devices, and is available on the Wii U via the Virtual Console in Japan.

It was a major commercial success, selling 1.21 million copies in the United States and is among the GBAs bestselling games.

Dimps has since created many entries in the series, including two sequels to the game, Sonic Advance 2 (2002) and Sonic Advance 3 (2004).

Players select one of four characters, each with their own unique set of moves.

Sonic the Hedgehog is fastest and can perform an insta-shield that protects him for a moment; Tails can fly or swim for a short time; Knuckles the Echidna can glide through the air, swim above water for a few seconds and climb walls; and Amy Rose can destroy enemies using a hammer.

Except for Amy, each character can defeat enemy robots by jumping and curling into a ball, or by performing a spin dash on the ground to gain speed.

By entering a cheat code, players can control Sonic while Tails runs alongside him, similar to Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992).

Each zone is split into two acts, where the player must guide their selected character past enemies and obstacles such as spikes and bottomless pits to reach the end in under ten minutes.

Scattered around acts are springboards, boost pads, and golden rings, which serve as a form of health; players survive hits as long as they have at least one ring, but their rings will scatter and disappear after a short period.

Players collect canisters that contain power-ups such as speed shoes, elemental shields, and invincibility.

The first act ends when players pass a signpost, and the second culminates in a boss fight with Eggman; after hitting him eight times, Eggman will flee and drop a capsule of captured animals.

Each character starts the game with a number of lives, which are lost when they are hit with no rings in their possession, crushed, drown, fall in a bottomless pit, or exceed an acts 10-minute limit.

If they collect enough rings, the player receives a Chaos Emerald.

Collecting all seven Emeralds unlocks an extra boss fight.

The game also features a minigame, Tiny Chao Garden, where players can raise Chao.

Players can transfer their Chao between the Tiny Chao Garden and the Chao Garden from the GameCube versions of Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2.

The game also features a competitive multiplayer mode, where up to four owners of the game can race to the end of a level or search for Chao.

Despite this, they also incorporated concepts from Sonic Adventure (1998) and Sonic Adventure 2 (2001), such as the ability to grind on rails and the modernized character designs by Yuji Uekawa.

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As the Sonic games released for the Dreamcast allowed players to download minigames onto the Visual Memory Unit (VMU), the development team decided to expand upon this by using a similar concept with the GameCubes GBA link cable, making Sonic Advance one of the first games to use the cable.

It also features graphical techniques such as rotation effects and Mode 7.

The game was released in Europe on March 8, 2002, 4 where Infogrames handled marketing and distribution.

A port for Nokia s N-Gage, SonicN, was released worldwide on October 7, 2003.

The game was released on Android on November 25, 2011, and on the Wii U s Virtual Console on February 18, 2015.

During the period between January 2000 and August 2006, it was the 12th highest-selling game launched for the GBA, Nintendo DS or PlayStation Portable in the United States.

IGN wrote the games new ideas, such as the ability to grind on rails, were clever and determined that Sonic felt better on the GBA, rather than the Genesis.

AllGame said the game relied too much on nostalgia, but felt it was still a winning formula and called the game enjoyable.

The games use of the GameCube link cable was praised; IGN noted the replay value and variety it offered, 2 and GameSpot called it interesting, and felt it made good use of the GBAs connectivity to the GameCube.

Nintendo World Report felt the game was not perfect, but was still a game that deserves a spot in your GBA case.

IGN agreed, and stated the game successfully recaptured the spirit of classic Sonic gameplay while feeling unique and taking advantage of the GBAs capabilities.

In 2007, both Sonic and Nintendos mascot Mario featured in Mario Sonic at the Olympic Games.

Nintendo Power wrote that Soniccreated as opposition to Nintendoseemed at home on Nintendo consoles; 38 GamesRadar said Sega and Nintendo were now like old friends.

Sega continued to contract the company in following years to create many games in the series.

The first of these were two sequels to Sonic Advance Sonic Advance 2 (2002) 39 and Sonic Advance 3 (2004).

Dimps also developed the Nintendo DS games Sonic Rush (2005) 41 and Sonic Rush Adventure (2007), 42 the handheld versions of Sonic Colors (2010), 43 Sonic Generations (2011), 44 and Sonic Lost World (2013), 45 and co-developed Sonic the Hedgehog 4 (2010) and the PlayStation 2 and Wii versions of Sonic Unleashed (2008) with Sonic Team.

Several journalists have noted that Dimps handheld games have received consistently better reviews than Sonic Teams home console games.

GamesRadar wrote this was because Dimps managed to keep the spirit of the original games alive in theirs.

Sonic Advance Review.

GameSpot. Archived from the original on November 29, 2013.