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Secrets of Sonic
NeoMetallix > 12-13-2023, 10:38 PM
This topic is to view, post, and discuss rare info about Sonic and Sonic games that are fairly unknown/uncommon and stuff that leaked that you were never meant to know!
Here's the rules
/u] ( 1 ) [u]Keep the discussion to tiny, preferably more obscure or previously undiscovered Sonic factoids and bits and blobs of information. Imagine things like "Did you see this new Sonic thing at ____ store?" "There's a Sonic statue at this place!" "Did you see Sonic cameo in this recent episode of _______?" "There's a weird Sonic bootleg going around...". These are pretty reasonable subjects.Giving us simple facts like "did u kno miles prower is tailz' name cuz miles per hour?! FUN FACT" or "did you see what this guy was doing in the background of this scene from Sonic Boom?" and other things people already know or could easily observe on their own is NOT acceptable so don't do it, k?( 2 ) On that note, let's keep this from being a "FUN FACT" kind of place altogether, unless if the information is linked to something else and has discussion value. This isn't here for trivia (well unless you use what you find here as trivia, but that's neither here nor there), it's here for discoveries!( 3 ) If it isn't verified, don't post it. If there is no proof for validity to your claim then please do not mention it until you do. We're not gonna handle "my dad works at Sega" baloney, nor are we going to just say stuff because it sounds like it's real to you maybe.
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RE: Secrets of Sonic
NeoMetallix > 12-14-2023, 05:40 AM
I'll start things off. Sonic 2 was originally going to have time travel like Sonic CD ended up getting as well as an over world much like seen in Mario. See images below for proof!
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RE: Secrets of Sonic
Josiahblaze > 12-16-2023, 04:51 PM
Here's one from me: Rouge the Bat's original name was "Shadow", back when the actual Shadow character was still called "Terios".
For some reason, this was only revealed in the hashtags of a post from the official Sonic Tumblr. -
RE: Secrets of Sonic
RedFox99 > 12-17-2023, 07:50 AM
I didnt know that about shadow and a fun way of revealing some unknown information. -
RE: Secrets of Sonic
NeoMetallix > 12-17-2023, 09:06 PM
Here's some new stuff, Cyber City Zone aka Genocide City.
A new video published by the Video Game History Foundation has unearthed some fascinating new information about the Mega Drive classic's development, alongside a new stage reveal and a reconstruction of a Zone once thought to be entirely lost.
The long and short of it is that, through some fantastic donations and insight from former SEGA Technical Institute developers and artists, the VGHF organization was able to document and archive a previously-unseen Winter variant of the well-documented "Sand Shower" (aka "Dust Hill Zone"). You can see an image of this below:
Now, we all know that part of Sonic 2's chaotic development involved time travel, before the concept was scrapped ahead of the game's final release. But what's interesting is the video explains that, in order to fit as many stages as that original idea would have needed (the video discusses, via concept documents, a 'future' South Island that included no less than THREE Death Eggs installed on the planet), the studio decided to recycle art assets to save on memory. As a result, the above screen you see here would have most likely have been intended as a past or future version of the canned Sand Shower Zone.
It also means that various stages that DID end up in the final version - including Chemical Plant and Hill Top Zone - were originally planned to be past/future or otherwise time-travelled "remixed" versions of other Zones in the game.
Using assets from a number of Sonic 2 prototype sources, combined with colour palettes and background work from Sonic Spinball's "The Machine" stage (a level which was confirmed in the video to be the recipient of a lot of Cyber City Zone's hand-me-down art) and existing stage design maps from Hirokazu Yasuhara, the above result you see is an experimental project that aims to re-imagine what one of the planned penultimate stages of Sonic 2 might have looked like.
All in all, it's a fantastic piece of game research and a cracking video - it's well worth the 20-minute watch, so we highly recommend you spend some time over lunch to view it and learn more about the never-ending mystery that is Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
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RE: Secrets of Sonic
BurningBlaze > 03-22-2024, 05:04 PM
Genocide City sounds metal as heck!
