R2 - The Lost Level From Sonic CD

I don't think that looks like a ruin, it looks more like a abandoned lab for me.

 

Personally I always thought that "ruin" was actually meant to represent Tidal Tempest in the ending, with the collapsing floors and all. Plus the stages aren't exactly shown in the right order in the ending anyway (Metallic Madness is shown before Stardust Speedway).

 

Metallic Madness is shown, it's the part where Sonic dodges the lightnings of the 3 lightbulb badniks in the darkened room which in the game can be found in MM3. And the badniks destroys with the Wacky Workbench platform are from MM as well.

Anyway, that theory doesn't sound right to me. If you look at the images of the unedited ending, the scenery looks more like an abandoned factory or as mentioned above, laboratory to me. Furthermore, judging by all the roots, vines, and sand lying around I'd assume it to be in some sort of jungle or cave. That badnik can't be found anywhere in Tidal Tempest, and sand in a water Round? No way.

 

Some people (myself included) think it to be that one enemy that jumps out of waterfalls in Palmtree Panic. (You know what I'm talking about right?)

 

Actually I have never seen that bot in Palmtree Panic, but I don't think it's impossible that said bot was intended for Tidal Tempest like the other lobsterbot.

 

Interesting, the it's the wrong colour and lacks Teeth.

 

heh, I am reminded of these:

http://exteel.no-ip.org/_Sonic/SSRG/Area%2051/Sonic%20CD/

The Gabriel Morales mentioned just-so-happened to be in #protos when I showed these pages too XD

02:00:04 <+TheSonicRetard> man, I loved Area 51
02:00:21 <+TheSonicRetard> haha, that was me! and I swear I remember seeing the directories
02:00:26 <+TheSonicRetard> and yeah, my disc did break

It shows the theory about the background of each level showing something of the next level, with some random Dust Hill theories thrown around.

Edit: I'll convert these to HTML some day :P

 

I remember there was a magazine scan somewhere talking about the Sonic 2 CD "version" to include remixed levels from Sonic 1 as an extra feature not present in the genesis version. Although (I think) it wasn't confirmed this scan to be actually legit, I have the theory that if this was the plan at some point, they ended up using the remixed levels exclusively for what would be SCD.

To the point, it's only a theory, but it'd make perfect sense for R2 to be the "remixed" marble zone if it really went that way, since that's the only missing one in SCD as remixes from S1.

 

Yuji Naka had no involvement in Sonic CD.

 

I agree with Master Emeralds' theories (though the reused art I'm not so sure about).

On the subject of theories, I'd like to throw in that I always thought the track "little planet" was supposed to be the music used for this R2 ruins level. It sounds very ruins-esque and is a very elaborate and long track for just the default music of the DA Garden.

 

But I do!

From Sonic CulT.

On a semi-related note, anybody got a copy of the OEM version of Sonic CD PC, with the DINO library files? It'd probably be interesting to pick those files apart, seeing as how it's essentially a port of the Genesis graphics system to the PC

 

...You mean, the track with the seagull noises?

 

Who wants the dino directory? I'm proud to have the original legit copy of Sonic CD =)