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It’s hard to notice in normal gameplay, but NiGHTS and Reala have differently colored trails following their Drill Dashes. Interesting colors for Reala’s 👀🌈

During normal flight, Reala also has blue and red sparkles as opposed to the gold sparkles he has in NiD— but the turtle Nightmarens in Crystal Castle, who transform into NiGHTS, have a gold sparkle trail 🤔 (NiGHTS has bluish/silver sparkles in both games)

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To think about it, Saturn NiGHTS might be the most datamined out of all nights games as of right now. Currently it's even being torn down on a coding level to understand the a-life system in there. Which is actually quite impressive and complicated! And it also got a lot of cut features and behaviors which we would've never knew about if it wasn't for GremmarWarden's efforts

If you want to check up her findings you can see them here:

As for Jod a-life. We'll that's a whole wild depths that no one was able to tackle yet. There is only some info available through official guides (like the fact that pians have typings somewhat similar to chao, and that the only way to find what type your pian was is the color of the flower that it leaves behind after it's death)

So yeah I imagine, datamining jod's a-life mechanics would require some programming and probably decompilation knowledge as well as the knowledge of wii archetecture

Hell, even datamining game for resources normally is actually quite annoying. You have to get a really specific .one unpacker that still can mess up some of the files, and then use other software to datamine models/textures etc. Also some files are just so hidden that no one would even look in there to check it out. That's how it was with the freaking PROROTYPE DESIGNS AND CONCEPT ART that I once found. And I still shiver remembering the pain I went to dig for unused cutscenes subtitles...

Oh and I still dream of enabling the game to run in debug mode... (at least I was able to make it run in regular dev mode tho!)

So yeah, JoD datamining is pain in the ass and no one bothers to do it aside from me who was insane enough to spend her time on it. But on the bright side, the TCRF JoD page is not like 90% contributed by me and my findings!

So yeah go check it out maybe. Or not

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UPDATE! UPDATE!!

I HAVE NOT GOT THE MEDALS, but a dataminer has revealed the mountain icon and the ribbon badge. The mountain is confirmed 100% So activate your weather links, get your flying pian and UP your playtime guys!!

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I wanted to look around more on the Sonic Team website archive after seeing the last post— turns out there are two more NiGHTS figurines 👀

There’s also a Christmas Nightopian plush and a version of the book’s cover without text on it

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A custom figure for ‘NiGHTS Into Dreams’, which appeared on Sonic Team’s website in 1996. The figure was made by TOUMA, who also wrote about how they made it. Naoto Ohshima posted a photo of it recently: https://x.com/NaotoOhshima/status/1560288869739683840 Support us on Patreon

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A closer look at this unique pose NiGHTS does in one of JoD’s level select transition screens - this is never seen in the game itself as far as I know

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I havent seen anyone else share this but please vote for journey of dreams on gog to bring the game to PC!

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All Of You NiGHTS Fans Need To See This!

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This render also seems to be unique to this picture

btw that same concept art contains a render of nights that i don’t think is seen in its entirety anywhere else

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I wanted to mention that a new NiD Japanese guidebook has recently been scanned and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user Detchibe, it has a lot of cool visuals and contains some uncommon art 👀

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i noticed two of reala's voice lines from sega superstars tennis match up with two of the unused cutscenes in journey of dreams. am i crazy?

(In case anyone needs them, Reala’s Tennis voice clips can be heard here, and the text for JoD’s unused cutscenes are here - I think the two mentioned here are “I’ll destroy your hope” and “The time for mercy has passed”)

I’m not sure if voiceovers for these cutscenes were ever recorded, plus Reala’s voice in Tennis is a lot different from his voice in JoD 👀 They might be references to the unused cutscenes though, this is a cool find

(Quick editing to say that the other line is “you irritating little child” (lol) which definitely seems like a reference to these cutscenes— the way he says it matches how it’s written in the script)

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Sonic blasts past Nights, from the intro to ‘Sega Superstars’, an Eyetoy game for the PlayStation 2.  @NakaYuji @NaotoOhshima

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From Sega Saturn Magazine - June 28, 1996: Some more rare NiGHTS art by Sonic Team, made as a prize for an art contest. The 3rd prize, a mini CD version of Dreams Dreams, also features a slightly earlier cover (final cover can be seen here)

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So one of the missing icons appears to be a silhouette of a moutain? Hmmm it looks similar to the mountain icon of Pure Valley mission in Will's dream. Also the official japanese guide has an image of a mountain terrain in My Dream, take a look!

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Hello :3 random question,

What version of Dreams Dreams is your favourite?

Probably just the original NiD version or the Christmas NiGHTS remix version 🤔

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Some more fascinating NiGHTS artwork from various issues of Sega Saturn Magazine 🤔 The last two also seem to be made by the same artist who drew the comics found on Japan’s official NiGHTS website

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NiGHTS into Dreams… (Sega Saturn)