I just saw this on your site: and that you're wondering what is this: well,let me say it's something useless because it's not in the game... I have proofs: http://membres.lycos.fr/adamis01/photos/articles2.jpg just check the Sonic 2 screens, they all have thesame green square!! I think it's just a logo on the tv
Good finding, adamis. It does look like the same green square. The positions of it also exactly match (slightly above the life icon text). This mystery has been around since the early days of Area 51, and we finally have the answer now. Thx.
I knew the quality in that Chemical Plant picture reminded me of something! If you go to the "Sonic 2 prototype #3" section in my site, there's a picture of Chemical Plant that shows Sonic in the same place and with the same rings and score, only 2 seconds earlier! 0_o So those pics were taken from the same version and TV set. Do you have scans for the rest of the article?
I searched, but the rest of the article is no use, only telling what is Sonic 2... but I found some pics of Sonic 1, but they don't seem unusual to me
I'm not sure if anyone has seen it before, but on that special stage pic were Tails name should be, it says Miles.
If I remember correctly, theres a picture of the special stage in the Sonic 2 english manual that has "Miles" instead of "Tails" as well, just like that one.
Yes that is right. On page 17 of the Sonic 2 book Tails is in the special stage. And on page 7 the title screen pic is from Sonic 2 Beta, but it has a 1 player / 2 player choice! If you let Sonic 2 Beta play on its own it will show Emerald Hill being played 2 player in split screen. There must be a way to access this. But what we have for Sonic 2 Beta isn't as complete as the pictures in the book. Oh, and I don't have the book under my pillow or the pages memorized :D . But every Tails Fan would know it would be a dishonor to not know where exactly the Sonic 2 book were :lol:.
Erm XFoxPrower, split screen mode is easily accessable by sonic 2 beta that we have, all you got to do is go into level select and hold down your assigned B button untill the level starts, just make sure its a level without water or it'll be glitchy
Yeah, I think the picture on page 7 of the guide is discussed in Simon's site somewhere. It was concluded to be a newer beta, as it had the 1 player/ 2 player option on it. And as Foamy said, you can access two player in the beta by holding down B.
That's interesting. I didn't know that. I tried beating Emerald Hill 1 as Tails and the sign at the end is gone! and when Sonic catches up, its still not there. That's one way to ruin the level. And if you do this on EH2, the boss won't be there as Tails but when Sonic comes along, Tails side of the split screen will be a bit glitchy. Try it!
Heh if you think that's glitchy try a water filled level :D now that's glitchy mate hehehe, also if you hadn't noticed sometimes it looks like Tails is moving through the stage as the background area is moving, I'll explain better, If at the start fo example you did EH1 , keep Tails at the start and move Sonic through the level for a while (This might not work but I've witnessed it before) if its working properly like it did for me the background for tails moves with Sonic, so the poor person who plays Tails won't see where their going, But when I did that I was doing Chemical Plant, best of luck with the glitches though :D
EDIT: Just noticed a glitch with my version or S2b. If you play 2p in beta, move with sonic, everything of tails' screen is shooting left and hes standing still :P
Yes that's what I just said, freaky isn't it ? I reckon its because they hadn't implimneted the background stick to Tails on the beta we have