Su GoNintendo è stata postata una parte dell'intervista fatta a Steve Lycett da OSV riguardo al comparto audio del gioco.

OSV: SEGA fans are extremely excited for this game, and one of the most exciting aspects is the audio approach in these crossover titles. Let’s start by talking about the music itself, what can we expect?

Steve: Why not, good place to start! For this game we’ve once again been given the keys to SEGA’s big audio closet. What we try and do with the All-Star games, is get a good mix of music both old and new. That way we can hopefully raise some fond memories of older games you’ve played if you’re a SEGA fan, surprise you with some new songs – and also – hopefully- introduce a whole new legion of players to the music we’ve all enjoyed.

To this end we’ve got classic tracks from many, many games. If we take just the Sonic courses, we’ve got music from Sonic Heroes, Sonic CD, Sonic R and many more. Outside of Sonic, we’ve raided official sound tracks to get new arranged versions of music. We’ve even managed to get a Crush40 track in there!
What we do is give you a track for each course, then by playing the game, you earn SEGA Miles, which you can spend on the in-game shop. As you buy new music, you can then select from the ones you’ve unlocked when you start a race.

OSV: Finally, what can we expect for the DS version? How are you cramming all that content into the handheld cart?

Steve: Want to play on the move, we’ve also crammed all these sounds and more into the DS version. As we’ve got to squash all this onto a cartridge, we’ve enlisted the services of Allister Brimble to compose us unique MIDI versions of all the games tunes . You won’t believe what he’s done with it. My personal favourite is “Can you Feel the Sunshine,” a track I didn’t think would ever work in MIDI format, but amazingly it does. Again – the byword for the game is “How much SEGA can we legally squeeze into one game” and I think Allister has done us proud.

Steve Lycett ci rivela che le colonne sonore spazieranno dai classici agli ultimi giochi; per quanto riguarda Sonic, avremo musiche da Sonic CD, Sonic R, Sonic Heroes etc...  ci saranno inoltre alcuni remix e qualche pezzo dei Crush 40                     Il DS avrà dalla sua remix in midi file delle colonne presenti nelle altre istanze, fra cui un remix di "Can you feel the sunshine" (da Sonic R), di cui Lycett sembra essere molto soddisfatto.  Confermato un Muisic Store dove poter acquistare i brani che potremo sentire durante le corse

Inoltre sul forum di SEGA circola la voce che alcuni utenti del forum ufficiale di NiGHTS abbiano parlato con un membro di SUMO Digital, e che abbiano ricavato informazioni secondo le quali il giullare potrebbe non essere presente nel roster finale; per questo motivo hanno organizzato una sorta di "campagna elettorale", per proporre NiGHTS come DLC.

Personalmente penso che sia tutta una farsa, comunque vi terrò aggiornati.

Daniele