
Insider sources!ĭespite Sonic 4 being readily available to iOS and Windows Phone 7 users for quite some time now, it seems Sega has finally decided that those of the Android persuasion should be so fortunate to finally get Sonic 4: Episode 1 on for general consumption, launching on the Android Marketplace for only $3.99/£2.56/€3.05.Ī word of caution for those of you with tinfoil hats: Sonic 4, for some reason, requires permissions to have access to your phone number, potentially knowing who you’re calling. Why a game of all things would need this is beyond us, but we are guessing it may have something to do with a potential phone database where Sonic Brand Manager Ken Balough will personally call you to tell you about Sonic 4: Episode 2. Curiously enough, the game also uses the graphical assets of the iPad version, which makes Sonic and his environs look more detailed.Ī word of caution for those of you with tinfoil hats: Sonic 4, for some reason, requires permissions to have access to your phone number, potentially knowing who you’re calling. It also includes the console version’s overworld, though in a much more static variety. That’s right, that means everyone’s favorite minecart level and 100,000 point pinball challenge are back. Like its mobile brethren, it shares the same stages. Simply rename this to “Sonic_vis_save.dat” and all your hard work will be restored.ĭespite Sonic 4 being readily available to iOS and Windows Phone 7 users for quite some time now, it seems Sega has finally decided that those of the Android persuasion should be so fortunate to finally get Sonic 4: Episode 1 for general consumption, launching on the Android Marketplace for only $3.99/£2.56/€3.05.Īctually, this version of Sonic 4 is once again an oddity compared to the others. Click on the Sonic 4 folder and you should see a file named “Sonic_save.dat”.

To do so, head into your Steam folder located in Program Files, click on the folder named “steamapps” and then “common”. As for the save file, it’s still there with all your hard work. To restore settings, you’ll need to run the settings application included with the game. What this last update did is create a second executable file: one for Windows XP and one for Windows Vista/7. While we could take yet another potshot at Sonic 4, let’s focus on fixing that issue. Upon trying the game out, you might have also noticed that your settings were all gone and that your save file was gone as well.


Chances are the small percentage of you that picked up the PC version of Sonic 4: Episode 1 have gotten a small update to the game.
