Sonic Advance 3

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Sonic Advance 3

System(s): Game Boy Advance

Publisher:

Sega (Japan, Europe)

THQ (US)

Developer: Sonic Team, Dimps

Distributor:

THQ (Europe)

Peripherals supported: Game Link Cable

Genre: Action

Number of players: 1-4

Official in-game languages:

日本語

English

Français

Deutsch

Español

Italiano

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	2004-06-17^[5]	¥4,800 (5,040)4,800 (5,040)^[5]	AGB-P-B3SJ AGB-B3SJ-JPN
US	2004-06-07	$29.9929.99^[1]	AGB-P-B3SE AGB-B3SE-USA
EU (FR/NL)	2004-06-25^[3]		AGB-P-B3SP AGB-B3SP-FAH
EU (ES/IT)	2004-06-18		AGB-P-B3SP
DE	2004-06-18^[4]		AGB-P-B3SP AGB-B3SP-NOE
UK	2004-06-18^[2]	£29.9929.99^[2]	AGB-P-B3SP AGB-B3SP-UKV
AU	2004		AGB-P-B3SP AGB-B3SP-AUS
JP ▼	2016-05-25^[6]	¥650 (702)650 (702)^[6]	WUP-N-PC8J

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Production credits

Created by Sonic Team™

Producer: Yuji Naka
Director: Akinori Nishiyama
Art Director: Yuji Uekawa
Assistant Director: Ai Mashima

In cooperation with Dimps®

Producer: Kouichi Sakita
Line Producer: Yukihiro Higashi
Planners: Yukihiro Higashi, Masaaki Yamagiwa

Programming

Programmers: Tatsuaki Nakashima, Hiroki Yoshitake, Kuninori Douno
Designers: Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Yuko Yamanoue, Etsuko Hosokawa, Tohru Nakanishi, Tomohiro Ozawa

Sound

Sound: Hironobu Inagaki, Atsuyoshi Isemura
Special Thanks: Katsuya Kuramoto, Kenji Ayukawa, Syuhei Kimura, Isamu Kubota

Sound Created by Wave Master™

Sound Creators: Tatsuyuki Maeda, Kenichi Tokoi, Hideaki Kobayashi, Masaru Setsumaru, Fumie Kumatani, Tomoya Ohtani

SEGA Corporation

Marketing & Production: Mitsuru Takahashi, Naoko Ooka, Hideki Yokaichiya, Mariko Takeda
Publicity: Yasushi Nagumo, Youko Nagasawa
International Business & Product Development: Tatsuyuki Miyazaki, Yusuke Suai, Shikou Sakai
Development Division: Toshihiro Nagoshi, Toshiro Nakayama, Yusuke Asano, Akiko Kuroda
Marketing Research: Tsuyoshi Sawada, Noriko Hashimoto
Manual Production: Yoshihiro Sakuta, Hisakazu Nakagawa, Youichi Takahashi, Hiroki Osawa, Satoru Ishigami, Colin Restall
Customer Relations: Yutaka Shoji, Masahiro Ozeki, Nobuyuki Inoue, Mariko Okada
Product Test: Jun-ichi Shimizu, Akira Nishikawa, Akinobu Koechi, Akira Terasawa, Satoshi Yamagata

Sega of America

Executive Management: Hideaki Irie
Localization Producers: Yosuke Moriya, Klayton Vorlick
Director of PD: Osamu Shibamiya

Sega of Europe

Sega Europe COO: Naoya Tsurumi
Director of PD: Jin Shimazaki
Localization Producer: Kuniyo Matsumoto
European Product Manager: Mathew Quaeck
SOE Test Dept: Darius Sadeghian, David Smith, Roy Boateng
Special Thanks: James Nicholas, Ricky Ip

Voice Acting

Voices (Japanese): Jun-ichi Kanemaru, Ryo Hirohashi, Nobutoshi Kanna, Taeko Kawata, Sayaka Aoki, Jon St. John, Chikao Otsuka
Voice Recording Producer: Hiroyuki Inage (TOHOKUSHINSHA)
Voice Recording Director: Eriko Kimura (TOHOKUSHINSHA)
Recording: STUDIO UNI
Voices (English): Ryan Drummond, William Corkery, Scott Dreier, Jenny Douillard, Sarah Wulfeck, Jon St. John, Deem Bristow
Voice Recording Director: Lani Minella
Recording Coordinator: Keith Palmer
Executive Management: Hideki Okamura, Masanao Maeda
Executive Producer: Hisao Oguchi

Source:

In-game credits

Voice actors

Character	VA (English)	VA (Japanese)
Sonic the Hedgehog	Ryan Drummond	Jun'ichi Kanemaru
Miles "Tails" Prower	William Corkery	Ryo Hirohashi
Knuckles the Echidna	Scott Drier	Nobutoshi Kanna
Amy Rose	Jenny Douillard	Taeko Kawata
Cream the Rabbit	Sarah Wulfeck	Sayaka Aoki
Eggman	Deem Bristow	Chikao Otsuka
Announcer	Jon St. John	Jon St. John

Magazine articles

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

Advance (UK)

PAL

82

^[7]

Alaab Alcomputtar (SA)

84

^[8]

GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

75

^[9]

GMR (US)

NTSC-U

80

^[10]

Hyper (AU)

PAL

76

^[11]

NGC Magazine (UK)

PAL

81

^[12]

Nintendo Official Magazine (UK)

PAL

83

^[13]

Nintendo Power (US)

NTSC-U

78

^[14]

Play (US)

NTSC-U

83

^[15]

Pocket Games (US)

NTSC-U

85

^[16]

	81
Based on 10 reviews

Sonic Advance 3

Main article: Sonic Advance 3/Magazine articles.

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

✔

CRC32	49dda5e6
MD5	e0533faf6aa36e3111669574f1c5df92
SHA-1	30db467effa5014806d42db57e2299398a51355b

16MB

2004-04-14^[17]

Cartridge (US)

✔

CRC32	5bf83456
MD5	e6b78109c11d82f621db846da70bc30a
SHA-1	685af3a2dc0f1b3f8922e73ec42c1dc92e210e39

16MB

2004-04-18^[17]

Cartridge (EU)

✔

CRC32	4375f1d6
MD5	a2bd14f0b57836fe7288e03a6fc154fa
SHA-1	bf8a4a7db9b5f45dd4ffebce67585d6556055ed4

16MB

2004-04-18^[17]

Cartridge (JP)

?

CRC32	143df94d
MD5	0fc4610a0ece925b2b17fcf7321883f1
SHA-1	42a3d30cb1a0559bc6fe82141dbdb45eaeda3d83

16MB

2004-03-01^[18]

Cartridge (EU)

Page

References

↑ Press release: 2004-06-07: SONIC ADVANCE 3 Now Available for Game Boy Advance; Third Title in Franchise Racing Off Store Shelves
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 http://www.amazon.co.uk/THQ-Sonic-Advance-3-GBA/dp/B00023HURG (Wayback Machine: 2007-01-28 17:58)
↑ https://www.amazon.fr/S%C3%A9ga-Sonic-Advance-3/dp/B00022GIZ2/ (Wayback Machine: 2019-06-20 01:55)
↑ https://www.amazon.de/THQ-Sonic-Advance-3/dp/B0001YWC4W/ (Wayback Machine: 2019-06-20 01:57)
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 http://sega.jp/gba/sonic3/ (Wayback Machine: 2004-04-16 02:42)
↑ ^6.0 ^6.1 https://www.nintendo.co.jp/titles/20010000017088 (Wayback Machine: 2016-06-10 14:30)
↑ Advance, "July 2004" (UK; 2004-06-17), page 36
↑ Alaab Alcomputtar, "" (SA; 2003-xx-xx), page 52
↑ GamePro, "August 2004" (US; 2004-06-xx), page 78
↑ GMR, "August 2004" (US; 2004-xx-xx), page 91
↑ Hyper, "July 2004" (AU; 2004-06-02), page 65
↑ NGC Magazine, "July 2004" (UK; 2004-06-17), page 70
↑ Nintendo Official Magazine, "July 2004" (UK; 2004-06-11), page 84
↑ Nintendo Power, "August 2004" (US; 2004-0x-xx), page 122
↑ Play, "July 2004" (US; 2004-xx-xx), page 73
↑ Pocket Games, "Summer 2004" (US; 2004-0x-xx), page 33
↑ ^17.0 ^17.1 ^17.2 Sonic Advance 3/Hidden content#Build dates
↑ Sonic Advance 3 (prototype; 2004-03-01)/Hidden content#Build date

[Press_release:_2004-06-07:_SONIC_ADVANCE_3_Now_Available_for_Game_Boy_Advance.3B_Third_Title_in_Franchise_Racing_Off_Store_Shelves-1] Press release: 2004-06-07: SONIC ADVANCE 3 Now Available for Game Boy Advance; Third Title in Franchise Racing Off Store Shelves

[http:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20070128175837.2Fhttp:.2F.2Fwww.amazon.co.uk.2FTHQ-Sonic-Advance-3-GBA.2Fdp.2FB00023HURG-2] 2.0 ^2.1 http://www.amazon.co.uk/THQ-Sonic-Advance-3-GBA/dp/B00023HURG (Wayback Machine: 2007-01-28 17:58)

[https:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20190620015550.2Fhttps:.2F.2Fwww.amazon.fr.2FS.25C3.25A9ga-Sonic-Advance-3.2Fdp.2FB00022GIZ2.2F-3] ttps://www.amazon.fr/S%C3%A9ga-Sonic-Advance-3/dp/B00022GIZ2/ (Wayback Machine: 2019-06-20 01:55)

[https:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20190620015756.2Fhttps:.2F.2Fwww.amazon.de.2FTHQ-Sonic-Advance-3.2Fdp.2FB0001YWC4W.2F-4] ttps://www.amazon.de/THQ-Sonic-Advance-3/dp/B0001YWC4W/ (Wayback Machine: 2019-06-20 01:57)

[http:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20040416024240.2Fhttp:.2F.2Fsega.jp.2Fgba.2Fsonic3.2F-5] 5.0 ^5.1 http://sega.jp/gba/sonic3/ (Wayback Machine: 2004-04-16 02:42)

[http:.2F.2Fweb.archive.org.2Fweb.2F20160610143002.2Fhttps:.2F.2Fwww.nintendo.co.jp.2Ftitles.2F20010000017088-6] 6.0 ^6.1 https://www.nintendo.co.jp/titles/20010000017088 (Wayback Machine: 2016-06-10 14:30)

[:File:Advance_UK_08.pdf_p36-7] Advance, "July 2004" (UK; 2004-06-17), page 36

[8] Alaab Alcomputtar, "" (SA; 2003-xx-xx), page 52

[:File:GamePro_US_191.pdf_p78-9] GamePro, "August 2004" (US; 2004-06-xx), page 78

[:File:GMR_US_19.pdf_p91-10] GMR, "August 2004" (US; 2004-xx-xx), page 91

[:File:Hyper_AU_129.pdf_p65-11] Hyper, "July 2004" (AU; 2004-06-02), page 65

[:File:NGCMagazine_UK_095.pdf_p70-12] NGC Magazine, "July 2004" (UK; 2004-06-17), page 70

[:File:NOM_UK_142.pdf_p84-13] Nintendo Official Magazine, "July 2004" (UK; 2004-06-11), page 84

[:File:NintendoPower_US_182.pdf_p122-14] Nintendo Power, "August 2004" (US; 2004-0x-xx), page 122

[:File:Play_US_031.pdf_p73-15] Play, "July 2004" (US; 2004-xx-xx), page 73

[:File:PocketGames_US_15.pdf_p33-16] Pocket Games, "Summer 2004" (US; 2004-0x-xx), page 33

[sonic:Sonic_Advance_3.2FHidden_content.23Build_dates-17] 17.0 ^17.1 ^17.2 Sonic Advance 3/Hidden content#Build dates

[sonic:Sonic_Advance_3_.28prototype.3B_2004-03-01.29.2FHidden_content.23Build_date-18] Sonic Advance 3 (prototype; 2004-03-01)/Hidden content#Build date

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Sonic Advance 3

From Sega Retro

Contents

Production credits

Created by Sonic Team™

In cooperation with Dimps®

SEGA Corporation

Voice actors

Magazine articles

Technical information

ROM dump status

References