DC - Sonic Adventure: Limited Edition

[Buford T Jenkins]

Anyone know anything about this version of the game? I'm always on the lookout to add to my DC collection and I stumbled upon this one on eBay. The only difference appears to be the words Limited Edition on the booklet.

The guy selling it claims it's the rarest DC game of all-time, but I highly doubt that. Silly fleabay.

[agbulls]

Let me be the first to say, welcome!

Take a look at the left column, and you'll see the Online Rarity Guide. Here's what it says on Sonic Adventure LE.

Developed by Sonic Team.
Description: Soundtrack by Jun Senoue and Wave Master. This is an incomplete, rental version of Sonic Adventure adapted from the Japanese version of the game. Internet features and memory card saving is disabled. It debuted at the Hollywood Video chain nearly two months before the Dreamcast launched, and later appeared in store kiosk kits.

Style/Genre: Platform/3D/Action. Click to see other games of this type.

Released: 07/15/99. (USA)

A rarity 7 is pretty damn hard to find. I don't think its the rarest---but definetly up there. You have an ebay link to the auction, out of curiosity? I'm not gonna bid it up -- don't worry

[s1lence]

It is one of the more rare of the DC titles. Its fairly hard to find it complete so if you can get it for a good price go for it.

[Kitsune Sniper]

... it's funny.

One auction has the manual, but no back inlay. The other has the back inlay but no manual. XP

[udisi]

I've got a complete one, and it was a bitch for me to find. First of all as far as I know these were all made for Hollywood video and made available before the offical DC system release( A promotion thing), so one, all the copies I've seen have that clear HV sticker on the top of the disc, 2 most are beat up beyond belief(mine is semi-scratched), and 3rd being a rental, most of the instruction books are beat-up/missing. HV would sell these off disc only so you find it a lot that way, and finding the whole back insert/manual is way harder than the disc which isn't easy itself.

to add, the spine also says Limited edition and there are some small differences on the back insert. The manuel has a 9-9-99 advertisement(the day the dreamcast was suppose to launch). I actually haven't got around to playin this yet, but I'm told it does have some differences from the general release, but I can't confirm that.

[Perkar]

that auction, although the in the pictures looks complete... is not. its stated in the auction that the back inlay tray card is missing. looks like he replaced it with a web browser inlay card or something.

[Buford T Jenkins]

Thanks for the help guys. I didn't realize there was more to this site. I only found the forum through a Google search. I'll throw the link out for the eBay auction because if this thing is actually worth $50 like the guide says, I won;t be in the market for it anyway.

eBay link

[PapaStu]

Thanks for the help guys. I didn't realize there was more to this site. I only found the forum through a Google search. I'll throw the link out for the eBay auction because if this thing is actually worth $50 like the guide says, I won;t be in the market for it anyway.

eBay link

It's worth every penny of $50 bucks. You won't necessarily spend 50 bucks on it if you do a little hunting, as both Perkar and I have found nice lots with copies of Sonic LE in them, but stand alone Sonic LE ebay auctions will end in the $50+ range every time.

mine is different than this one, because it has none of the hollywood video writing on it, so i'm figuring it's one of the later kiosk ones. it does definitely say "limited edition" on the disc itself and on the title screen though.

perhaps there are differences in the hollywood video manual as well...

Orangest:
The image you linked to in that old post isn't a different disc. What Hollywood Video did with a majority of the copies was just put a Hollywood Video disc shield sticker on the disc. Of the two copies i've owned one had that sticker (and was a Minty Mint copy) and one didn't (which isn't perfect, but pretty good considering where it came from).

[Buford T Jenkins]

Crap, it's now up to over $60. I'm out. Too rich for the likes of me.

[sisko]

It's worth every penny of $50 bucks. You won't necessarily spend 50 bucks on it if you do a little hunting, as both Perkar and I have found nice lots with copies of Sonic LE in them, but stand alone Sonic LE ebay auctions will end in the $50+ range every time.

Agreed. I've found 5 copies in the wild so far, and paid about $5 each.

Finding a complete set is pretty tough though, with the manual seeming to be more rare than the back insert.

[Barbarianoutkast85]

I've found and bough two copies. One complete in alright condition, one disc only.

[200609]

How much did they cost you Barbarian? Two just sold on eBay a few days ago. One complete for $79, one missing instruction manual for $10. A little while ago the case/manual (no disc), went for $35. Odd I think. I personally only have the LE disc. It came in a lot I bought earlier in the year.

[Barbarianoutkast85]

How much did they cost you Barbarian? Two just sold on eBay a few days ago. One complete for $79, one missing instruction manual for $10. A little while ago the case/manual (no disc), went for $35. Odd I think. I personally only have the LE disc. It came in a lot I bought earlier in the year.

I found both of mine in the wild. The complete copy was $25 dollars the loose copy was $5 so I've only spent $30 total for two copies. Pretty good I guess.