Hint Box
Purpose
Proving information
Description
A
Hint shaped like a floating screen.
The Hint Box [1] is a gimmick that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog series . It is a floating screen and a variant of the Hint which provides the player with instructions during gameplay.
Description
The Hint Boxes appear as floating, stationary computer monitors found in different Stages and Adventure Fields . When interacted with, its screen glows and it provides the player with information in the form of a text box about the surroundings, gimmicks, objects, enemies, and strategies on how to play the game.
Games appearance
Sonic Adventure
In Sonic Adventure , and its remake Sonic Adventure DX: Director's Cut , the Hint Boxes mostly appear in Adventure Fields , but also in a few Action Stages . In Adventure Fields, they are usually found near shops or enterprises to tell whether the player can use these locations or not. In Action Stages however, they tell the player how to operate vehicles or objects.
To use a Hint Box in gameplay, the player has to step up to it and wait until its screen shows a question mark on it, then press the action button. While interacting with them, the player can neither move or attack. To leave them, press the action button again.
Sonic Adventure 2
The Hint Box provided a hint, from the 2012 remaster of Sonic Adventure 2 .
In Sonic Adventure 2 , and its remake Sonic Adventure 2: Battle , the gimmick is again referred to as the Hint Box ,[2] though the manuals simply call them monitor screens [3] [4] (モニター[5] , monitā ? , lit. "monitor") . In this game, they work like a Wifi device, as they show the Wifi bars symbol on their screen. They only appear in the Treasure Hunting Stages , where they provide hints as to where the Master Emerald shards or Keys are hiding in the form of riddles, or the names of the Stages' sections, though at a cost of potential points . They can give up to three hints and once used, they will fly away. However, the player can see their info by going to the pause screen where they will be displayed. Only one will appear at a time but the game will scroll through all of the hints while in the pause menu between intervals.
Not all the Hint Box can be used at the same time, as every hint is locked to their designated target. As such, the Hint Boxes will be transparent until the player can collect the object they talk about. In multiplayer mode, they appear less frequently in the Treasure Hunting challenges.
In Mad Space , the Hint Boxes are not reliable, giving false information about the Emerald Shards ' locations. According to Omochao , this is due to electrical disturbances messing with their systems.[6]
Sonic Rivals 2
The Hint Box collectable card, from Sonic Rivals 2 .
In Sonic Rivals 2 , the Hint Box is one of the collectible cards in the game. The player can obtain it by successfully using a total of ten Power-Ups .
References
Main article | Scripts (Sonic , Tails , Knuckles , Amy , Big , Gamma , Super Sonic ) | Story Screens (Sonic , Tails , Knuckles , Amy , Big , Gamma ) | Credits | Glitches | Beta elements | Gallery | Re-releases (DX , 2010 )
Playable characters
Sonic (Super Sonic ) | Tails | Knuckles | Amy | Gamma | Big | Metal Sonic **^
Non-playable characters
Dr. Eggman | Beta (E-101 Mark II ) | Birdie | Chao (Dark Chao **, Hero Chao **) | Chaos (Chaos 1 , Chaos 2 , Chaos 4 , Chaos 6 , Perfect Chaos ) | Cream ** | Delta | Epsilon | Froggy | Grandma | Knuckles Clan (Pachacamac , Tikal ) | Mr. Know-It-All | NiGHTS | Station Square Police Department | Unnamed Sonic robot | ZERO | Zeta | Animals (Deer , Elephant , Gorilla , Kangaroo , Koala , Lion , Mole , Parrot , Peacock , Penguin , Rabbit , Robin , Seal , Sea Otter , Skunk )
Adventure Fields
Egg Carrier | Mystic Ruins | Station Square
Action Stages
Emerald Coast | Windy Valley | Casinopolis | Icecap | Twinkle Park | Speed Highway | Red Mountain | Sky Deck | Hot Shelter | Lost World | Final Egg
Sub Games
Sky Chase | Sand Hill | Hedgehog Hammer | Twinkle Circuit | Boss
Enemies
Beat | Bladed Spinner | Boa-Boa | Buyoon | Cart Kiki | Cop Speeder | Egg Keeper | Electro Spinner | Fighter Aircraft A | Fighter Aircraft B | Gola | Ice Ball | Icecap's unnamed aircraft | Kiki | Leon | Mechanical fish | Pirate | Rhinotank | Sky Deck's unnamed jet fighter | Spiky Spinner | Sweeper
Bosses
Chaos 0 | Chaos 2 | Chaos 4 | Chaos 6 | Beta | Mark II | Gamma | Delta | Epsilon | Zeta | Egg Carrier | Egg Hornet | Egg Viper | Egg Walker | Knuckles | Perfect Chaos | Sonic | ZERO
Moves/ Techniques
Playable characters
Bolt of lightning | Climb | Dig | Flight Mode | Glide | Hammer Attack | Hammer Jump | Hover | Homing Attack | Homing Missile Launch | Jump Attack | Laser Gun | Light Speed Attack | Light Speed Dash | Lure Attack | Maximum Heat Knuckles Attack | Pick | Propeller Flight | Punch Attack | Rapid Tails Attack | Spin Attack | Spin Dash | Spin Hammer Attack | Spin Jump | Tails Attack
NPCs
Arm Punch | Bomb Attack | Bomb Gun Attack | Charge | Double Punch | Earthquake Attack | Electric Arm | Energy Ball Attack | Flame Thrower Attack | Guiding Missiles | Instantaneous Liquefaction | Laser Beam Attack | Homing Tail Slice | Inhale Attack | Marble Attack | Phantom Shadow Move | Punch | Quarter Attack | Scorpion Attack | Shockwave Attack (Chaos 6 ) | Sonic Boom | Spin Attack | Spinning Spike Attack | Spouting Attack | Squash Roll Attack | Swing Punch
Gimmicks and obstacles
Bumper | Bumper Car | Cannon | Capsule | Car | Conveyor Belt | Crank | Dash Panel | Dash Ring | Drum Can | Explosion Trap | Fan | Flame dart | Flipper | Fountain | Giant Ring * | Goal Balloon | Hanging Bell | Helicopter | Hint Box | Hint Orb | Icicle | Iron ball | Jump Panel (plate) | Jump Panel (ramp) | Jump Ramp | Laser field | Lit Panel | Mirror | Monkey Detonation Switch | Orca | Point Marker | Power cube | Rocket | Satellite | Slot machine | Spiked bar | Spring | Spring Catapult | Switch | Teleporter | Wide spring | Wind Path | Zip Line
Items
General
Air Bubble | Cart pass | Chao Egg | Chaos Emerald | Doll | Emblem | Emerald Shard | Employee ID Card | Item Box (5 Rings , 10 Rings , Extra Life , High-Speed Shoes , Invincibility , Magnetic Shield , Random Rings , Shield , Smart Bomb ) | Key Stone (Gold statue , Ice Stone , Silver statue , Wind Stone ) | Ring | Sandboard | Snowboard | Sonic Token
Level Up Items
Ancient Light | Crystal Ring | Fighting Gloves | Jet Anklet | Jet Booster | Laser Blaster | Life Belt | Light Speed Shoes | Long Hammer | Lure | Power Rod | Rhythm Badge | Shovel Claw | Warrior Feather
English voice actors
Ryan Drummond (Sonic ) | Corey Bringas (Tails ) | Michael McGaharn (Knuckles ) | Deem Bristow (Eggman ) | Jennifer Douillard (Amy ) | Jon St. John (Big ) | Elara Distler (Tikal , Station Square train voice, default menu voice) | Steve Broadie (Gamma , Pachacamac , Mystic Ruins train voice) | Tomoko Sasaki (Chao )
Japanese voice actors
Jun'ichi Kanemaru (Sonic ) | Kazuki Hayashi (Tails ) | Nobutoshi Canna (Knuckles ) | Chikao Ōtsuka (Eggman ) | Taeko Kawata (Amy ) | Shun Yashiro (Big ) | Kaori Asoh (Tikal ) | Jōji Nakata (Gamma ) | Tōru Ōkawa (Pachacamac ) | Kaho Kōda (Station Square train voice) | Nobutoshi Canna (Mystic Ruins train voice) | Elara Distler (Default menu voice) | Tomoko Sasaki (Chao )
Music
Songs
"Believe In Myself " | "It Doesn't Matter " | "Lazy Days (Livin' in Paradise) " | "My Sweet Passion " | "Open Your Heart " | "Unknown from M.E. "
Albums
Passion & Pride: Anthems with Attitude from the Sonic Adventure Era | Sonic Adventure: Songs With Attitude Vocal Mini-Album | SONIC ADVENTURE OFFICIAL SOUNDTRACK VINYL EDITION | Sonic Adventure Original Soundtrack 20th Anniversary Edition | Sonic Adventure Original Sound Track (Digi-Log Conversation) | Sonic Adventure Remix
Other
777 Slots Pinball | Altar of Emerald | Angel Island | Auto Running | Black Market | Card & Pinball | Chao Adventure * | Chao Garden (Station Square Garden , Mystic Ruins Garden , Egg Carrier Island ) | Chao Race | Chao Stadium | Chao in Space | Chao Machine | Chao Search * | Corkscrew | Debug Mode | E-100 Series | Eggmobile | Egg Carrier | Egg Carrier 2 | Emerald Radar | Freeze | Game Over | Life | Life gauge | Loop | Master Emerald | Mission Mode **^ | Mystic Ruins | Shrine of Knuckles's race | Sonic Adventure (LCD) | Sonic Adventure: Navigation Guide | Station Square | Tails's Work Shop | Tornado | Tornado 2 | Transporter Machine | Water
*Appears in only the original Dreamcast version
**Appears in only Sonic Adventure DX
^Appears in only the Sonic Adventure DX DLC of the 2010 remaster
Main article | Scripts (Hero , Dark , Last ) | Staff | Manuals | Glitches | Beta elements | Gallery | Pre-releases (The Trial ) | Re-releases (Battle , 2012 )
Playable characters
Hero
Sonic (Super Sonic ) | Tails | Knuckles
Dark
Shadow (Super Shadow ) | Rouge | Eggman
Misc.
Amy * | Big *^ | Chao Walker * | Chaos * | Dark Chao Walker * | Metal Sonic * | Tikal *
Non-playable characters
Chao (Chao Principal , Chaolin , Chaoko , Chaos Chao , Chaosky , Dark Chao , Dinner , Happy , Hero Chao , Wacky ) | Gerald | Maria | President | Scorpion Troop | Secretary | Sigma-Alpha 2 | Spider Troop | Researcher | Animals (Bat , Bear , Boar , Cheetah , Condor , Dragon , Gorilla , Half Fish , Parrot , Peacock , Penguin , Phoenix , Rabbit , Raccoon , Seal , Sea Otter , Sheep , Skeleton Dog , Skunk , Tiger , Unicorn )
Stages
Hero
City Escape | Wild Canyon | Prison Lane | Metal Harbor | Green Forest | Pumpkin Hill | Mission Street | Aquatic Mine | Route 101 | Hidden Base | Pyramid Cave | Death Chamber | Eternal Engine | Meteor Herd | Crazy Gadget | Final Rush
Dark
Iron Gate | Dry Lagoon | Sand Ocean | Radical Highway | Egg Quarters | Lost Colony | Weapons Bed | Security Hall | White Jungle | Route 280 | Sky Rail | Mad Space | Cosmic Wall | Final Chase
Misc.
Cannon's Core | Green Hill
2P Stages
Downtown Race | Grind Race | Planet Quest | Pool Quest | Deck Race | Pyramid Race
Enemies
G.U.N.
Blue Eagle | Bomb Beetle | Bomb Wing | Gold Beetle | Gun Hawk | Gun Beetle | Gun Hawk | Gun Hunter | Gun Wing | Hornet-3 | Hornet-6 | Hornet-9 | Laser Hawk | Laser Hornet | Laser Hunter | Mono Beetle | Phoenix | Rhino Cannon | Rhino Jet | Rhino Metal | Rhino Spike | Shield Hunter | Sky Hawk | Spark Beetle | Spring Beetle
Badniks
Buzz Bomber | Chopper | E-1000 | Gola | Unidus | Kiki
Misc.
Artificial Chaos (Artificial Chaos P-1 , Artificial Chaos P-100 , Cell , Float Type , Guard Type ) | Boo | Boom Boo
Bosses
B-3x Hot Shot | Biolizard | Dr. Eggman | Egg Golem | F-6t Big Foot | Finalhazard | King Boom Boo | Knuckles | R-1/A Flying Dog | Rouge | Shadow | Sonic | Tails
Moves/Techniques
Amy Flash * | Black Shield * | Black Wave * | Booming Missile * | Bounce Attack | Captive Light * | Chaos Bind * | Chaos Control | Chaos Impact * | Chaos Screw * | Chaos Spear | Chaos Strike * | Charm Ray * | Crazy Rush * | Crouch | Dark Finish * | Dark Omochao * | Dig | Drill Claw | Drill Drive | Fire Somersault | Glide | Grind Step | Grinding | Hammer Punch * | Heaven's Justice * | Hell Bomber * | Hip Drop * | Hover | Homing Attack | Jump Dash | Kick/Kick Attack | Knuckle Spin * | Laser Missile * | Light Attack | Light Speed Dash | Lock-on | Lock-On Missile | Magic Hands | Omochao | Pick | Power Flash * | Power Laser * | Propeller Punch | Punch (Eggwalker) | Punch/Punch Attack | Rocket Launcher | Rumble Launcher * | Screw Kick | Somersault | Sonic Wind * | Speed Up * | Spin Jump | Spin Dash | Spiral Upper | Storming Heart * | Super Sonic Boost | Swim | Thunder Arrow * | Time Stop * | Volkan Cannon | Wrath of Gaia * | Zap Laser *
Gimmicks and obstacles
Ancient Ruin | Ball Switch | Bungie Vine | Dash Panel | Dynamite | Egg Beetle | Gravity Control Switch | Green energy fluid | Grind Rail | GUN Military Truck | High-speed warp tube | Hint Box | Hourglass | Iron ball | Jump Plate | Laser field | Missile | Pipe | Point Marker | Propeller Spring | Pulley | Ramp | Rocket | Safe | Sinking pool | Spikes | Spinning drum | Swing Bar | Time Stop Switch | Turtle | Warp Hole | Warp Wall | Weight | Wide spring
Items
General
Air Bubble | Balloon | Chao Egg | Chao Key | Chaos Emerald | Chaos Drive | Car | Container (Cage , Chao Container , Steel Container , Unbreakable Container , Wooden Container ) | Emblem | Emerald Shard | Gate key | Goal Ring | Item Box (5 Rings , 10 Rings , 20 Rings , Bomb , Extra Life , Health , High-Speed Shoes , Invincibility , Magnetic Shield , Shield ) | Key Stone (Gate Key ) | Meteorite | Outfit | Ring | Snowboard
Level Up Items
Air Necklace | Air Shoes | Ancient Light | Bazooka | Booster | Bounce Bracelet | Flame Ring | Hammer Gloves | Iron Boots | Jet Engine | Large Cannon | Laser Blaster | Light Speed Shoes | Magic Gloves | Mystic Melody | Pick Nails | Protective Armor | Shovel Claw | Sunglasses | Treasure Scope
English voice actors
Ryan Drummond (Sonic ) | Connor Bringas (Tails ) | Scott Dreier (Knuckles , GUN Soldiers ) | Jennifer Douillard (Amy ) | David Humphrey (Shadow ) | Lani Minella (Rouge , Omochao ) | Deem Bristow (Eggman ) | Moriah Angeline (Maria ) | Marc Biagi (Gerald , GUN Soldiers ) | Steve Broadie (President ) | Shelly Fox (Default menu voice) | Jon St. John (Big ) | Elara Distler (Tikal ) | Tomoko Sasaki (Chao )
Japanese voice actors
Jun'ichi Kanemaru (Sonic ) | Kazuki Hayashi (Tails ) | Nobutoshi Canna (Knuckles ) | Taeko Kawata (Amy ) | Kōji Yusa (Shadow ) | Rumi Ochiai (Rouge ) | Chikao Ōtsuka (Eggman , Gerald ) | Etsuko Kozakura (Omochao ) | Yuri Shiratori (Maria ) | Kinryū Arimoto (President ) | Shun Yashiro (Big ) | Shelly Fox (Default menu voice) | Tomoko Sasaki (Chao )
Music
Songs
"A Ghost's Pumpkin Soup " | "Believe In Myself " | "Deeper " | "Dive into the Mellow " | "E.G.G.M.A.N. " | "Escape from the City " | "Fly in the Freedom " | "For True Story " | "It Doesn't Matter " | "Kick the Rock! " | "Live and Learn " | "My Sweet Passion " | "Rhythm And Balance " | "Space Trip Steps " | "Supporting Me " | "The Supernatural " | "Throw It All Away " | "Unknown from M.E. " | "Vengeance is Mine "
Albums
Multi-Dimensional Sonic Adventure 2 Original Sound Track | Passion & Pride: Anthems with Attitude from the Sonic Adventure Era | Sonic Adventure 2 Battle - Sampler | Sonic Adventure 2 Official Soundtrack | SONIC ADVENTURE 2 OFFICIAL SOUNDTRACK VINYL EDITION | Sonic Adventure 2 Original Soundtrack 20th Anniversary Edition | Sonic Adventure 2 Vocal Collection: Cuts Unleashed
Other
2G Hi-Speed Shoes | Altar of Emerald | Angel Island | Auto Running | Black Market | Central City | Chao Adventure 2 ^ | Chao Garden (Dark , Hero , Neutral ) | Chao in Space | Chao Kindergarten | Chao Lobby | Chao Machine | Chao Race | Chao Stadium | Chao Transporter ^ | Chao World | Corkscrew | Cyclone | Eclipse Cannon | Eggman Bombom | Eggwalker | Emerald Radar | Fake Emerald | Game Over | Gerald Robotnik's diary | Health Gauge | Kart Race | Life | Loop | Master Emerald | Prison Island | Project Shadow | Rank | Space Colony ARK | Station Square | Teleporter | Totem pole | Tunnel | Water
*Appears or is playable in only the 2P mode ^Appears in only the original Dreamcast version