Amazing Island Gameplay Hints (GameCube)

A genre innovator ideal for the younger crowd, SEGA's Amazing Island is the first monster creation title that allows GC-GBA connectivity. This E-rated game sets players' imaginations free as they create custom monsters and enter them into a series of 30 different competitions involving timing, speed and head-to-head battles! SEGA's patented "Monster Editing System" allows for a nearly infinite number of monster creations, each with unique features and abilities. Each successful competition earns new features for monster enhancement.

Gameplay Hints

Bonus cards:
Use a link cable and download the mini-game to a Game Boy Advance. Play through the mini-game to unlock bonus Monster Cards in the main game.

Pull And Stretch Power:
Collect the Vision Orb after completing the Goofy Route on the Intermediate Course. Power 2 will now be available in the Hall Of Life. This Power lets you edit your monster's lines.

Monster Creation Power:
Collect the Vision Orb after completing Beginner Course. Power 1 will now be available in the Hall Of Life. This Power allows you to create a monster with the attributes you specify, without going through the interview process.

Size Power:
Collect the Vision Orb after completing the Strict Route on the Intermediate Course. Power 3 will now be available in the Hall Of Life. This Power lets you resize and move body parts.

Slide Pattern Power:
Collect the Vision Orb after completing the Dash Route on the Advanced Course. Power 4 will now be available in the Hall Of Life. This Power lets you slide a pattern after choosing a texture and pattern for your monster.

Stamp mode:
Get the fourth Vision Orb from the Advanced course to unlock Stamp mode.

Paint mode:
Get the third Vision Orb from the Advanced course to unlock Paint mode. This allows you to customize individual colors of body parts.

Piggy mode:
Inside the store near the second course, there is a black-spotted pig. If you talk to him, he will ask, "Oink?". If you answer "Yes", he will say, "Oiiiiiink!!!", and you will hear a noise. You are now in Piggy mode. Piggies will replace something in that particular game.

Sound test:
Successfully complete the game to unlock the sound test option.

Black Evil:
After catching the Magma Ball, start spinning as fast as you can get without hitting the edge. Try to pause game play while the spin meter is in green. After that, resume the game and immediately press A. This should result in a red hit most of the time.
If you time the catch correctly, you will stay put and hurl the magma ball back at full power. Usually, the correct time to press A to do this is just before the magma ball touches the creature's outstretched arms.

Spin Road mini-game:
You can use your fully-charged spin attack as a jump. When you reach the moving path floating in the lava, step onto the first moving panel, then "jump" over the pit. When you reach the highest point of the course, go down one floor and "jump" from the edge of the platform. Most monsters will be able to land on the ending from there.


Here's a video packed with monsters: