Sonic Adventure 2 Magazine Preview Build

Excellent - Do RAR them all up together as well, if you can.

 

I remember this. I got it of StephanUks site somewere a few years ago I think.

This is because its a bad rip if I remember.

I uploaded the adxs for you to MegaUpload.

 

So I don't need to upload then?

 

Excellent! Be on the lookout for my full comparison in a week or so, and thanks for the upload.

Yeah, you're good. Thanks for the offer, though.

 

I remember thinking "what in the world" sounded odd... I hate censors.

 

Yeah, im glad someone noticed it. And mines hardware encoder too :P

 

I just downloaded it via an HTTP mirror. Game runs very well in chanka as expected. Expect vids/screens soon.

Things I've noted so far:

Voices are fucked up in this version too, so it might not be a bad rip
City Escape music is the same as the Trial (Or "Public Beta") released with PSO.
When setting chanka to wireframe mode, the Magic Gloves area is in plain sight, complete with the upgrade in there and everything.
Playing this at 30fps = no good
Sonic no longer has an engrish line when looking at the Mystic Melody thing (In the trial, that used only Japanese voices btw, the subtitle for what sonic says at the ruin is in engrish, this time it isn't) but there's some weird character at the end of the subtitle.

This game appears to be after the trial, what with sonic having his SOAP's and all. Obviously a magazine build, but not an alpha, the trial is much more likely to be an alpha than this. This could have also been a build showcased at E3 2001.,

 

So had people really not seen this before?

I have a burn from about 2003 laying about here....

 

I've seen this from ages ago, but no one's really bothered to do an in depth play on it and compare it to the final.

EDIT: http://www.sonic-cult.org/!trash/nightsposter.jpg Check your SA2 DC discs, I don't feel like redownloading sa2 final or finding my actual copy but I don't remember this poster

EDIT2: http://www.sonic-cult.org/!trash/demoswitch.jpg Also like in the trial, the switch under here still works, even if you cant break the box.

 

I was showing off the game to Qjimbo via capturecard sending though the MSN webcam, here's a pic of sonic's shoes glowing in the dark. I'm not sure if that happened in the final or not.

 

Hm. Sonic's shoes change from normal to SOAP the moment he jumps off the helicopter.

And being Knuckles crashes the game when you try to load the level.

But rofl at the sound in both Knuckles/Rouge cutscenes when Rouge shakes Knuckles. It's either "AAAAAAAAAAH" or "growl". XP

 

I can confirm the NiGHTS poster is in the final-for God's sake, it's in the Gamecube version.

Actually, I can only confirm it in the GC version right now. I played it at my cousin's just a bit ago. I noticed the poster because I notice anything NiGHTS in that game, like in Radical Highway, the big NiGHTS head at the end.

 

The NiGHTS poster in the GC version is different—it's for a NiGHTS-themed resort hotel.

 

The handcuffs are on Sonic in the final version, I just found out.
=O

 

No, it's not, I'm sure I remember seeing the cuffs in the many times I've watched that scene.

 

If anyone is interested, I recently found a huge archive of most of the SA2 Beta stuff from Dream Avenue (before it went down) on my HDD. I've put the page online on my server, but be warned - there are MANY broken links!

http://tomsonic.dyndns.org:90/dreamav/sa2/...nicAdv2_Up.html
When this was written, Solly didn't have very good English (she was French), so there's a lot of Engrish on this page! I'm happy to say that she has since improved

Here also are lots of screen captures from the beta levels, but these are just the raw files, with no HTML pages linking things together.
http://tomsonic.dyndns.org:90/dreamav/sa2/Beta/

By the way, is this what you mean by Sonic's Engrish line when looking at the Mystic Melody pedestal?
http://tomsonic.dyndns.org:90/dreamav/sa2/...a/Images/27.jpg