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Sonic Pocket Adventure Demo (Possibly a Late Proto?) With Unused Intro!!

#1 User is offline Mdm7923 

Posted 12 April 2008 - 02:06 AM

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Well, I Googled Sonic Pocket Adventure the other day, and came across a sort of "Alternate" version. It is a Demo version that would have been played in stores, as only the first zone is available for play, as well as the special stage. unfortunatley sonic doesn't have his different pose (as in the Beta) but there still is a pretty cool Intro and a garbled SEGA sound, so It could be a very late prototype as well

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RANXEGOX
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#2 User is offline Rika Chou 

Posted 12 April 2008 - 03:00 AM

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Very intersting! Where did this come from? Was it reciently dumped or something? I know I've never seen it.

Too bad it looks like it could just be a demo of the final, but it does have that neat intro.

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Posted 12 April 2008 - 08:41 AM

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Well now this is interesting. I don't think I have seen it before either.

Info about the source?

#4 User is offline Kat 

Posted 12 April 2008 - 09:03 AM

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Nice find... I'm also curious about the source. I'm guessing just some random store lackey that took the cart once the store was done with it, but who knows.

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For those of you curious about the source

http://stifu.free.fr...mu-ngpcroms.php

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Heh, this is the same prototype that I mentioned a sibling of mine owned back in 2006, though I had absolutely no proof and should have waited until posting.
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Is there anything remarkable about this? Should we put it on the wiki if it turns out to only be a one level demo with no differences?

#8 User is offline True Dude 

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Well, the intro was never in the original, and there were no voices either.

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View PostTrue_Dude, on Apr 12 2008, 12:00 PM, said:

Heh, this is the same prototype that I mentioned a sibling of mine owned back in 2006, though I had absolutely no proof and should have waited until posting.

Well now I feel like a jackass. =\ I guess you never really were that dumb in the first place.

This is rather interesting, though. What does the Japanese at the beginning say?

EDIT: Is there an emulator that doesn't produce all wave-based sound as garbage with this proto? The intro is extremely impressive, but if it's saying something, I can't make it out—not even the SEGA sound.

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Posted 12 April 2008 - 01:42 PM

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I ripped the intro sounds from the ROM. They're encoded unsigned 8-bit mono PCM, 8000 Hz.

http://www.soniccent..._proto/SEGA.wav - SEGA sound [13k]
http://www.soniccent...proto/Intro.wav - Full intro [250k]

EDIT: Bah, I just noticed that Audacity decided to upconvert the WAVs to 44 kHz 16-bit mono, which explains why they were so big. I re-ripped the WAVs. For some reason, FLAC didn't like the SEGA.wav, so I decided to leave them all as WAV this time.
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View PostTrue_Dude, on Apr 12 2008, 05:00 PM, said:

Heh, this is the same prototype that I mentioned a sibling of mine owned back in 2006, though I had absolutely no proof and should have waited until posting.

http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?sho...c=6244&st=0

Wow yeah, you guys are dicks, though yeah that topic was rather messy from the outset.

THIS is why following any possible avenue of a prototype is acceptable. Someone who owns a Sonic 1 beta may turn out to be a total turd after all.

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This is mislabelled. It's not a beta. It's a sample.

While this is interesting indeed, there's a huge difference between buying a sample in Japan and finding a prototype =P

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This reminds me of my friend's friend's friend (ugh, friend much?) giving him a wierd Sonic Advance cart with a different font, blue checkerboard (on the sticker), and it wouldn't hold a save. Upon me disassembling the cartridge physically, I found it had a gloptop with no battery.

Sadly, he took it back, and I have no evidence of this, so I don't expect to be believed.

It was the same logo as shown here, sans tails:

Posted Image
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#14 User is offline drx 

Posted 12 April 2008 - 02:39 PM

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QUOTE (Bibin @ Apr 12 2008, 09:32 PM) [post="188004"]Posted Image[/quote]

Probably a pirate.

#15 User is offline Tweaker 

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Right guys, I've manually overlayed the intro music and made a video: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Jyy9CsdXVfw

I don't know if it's exact, but it should be a pretty good representation of how it would have worked in-game.

Also, according to Ryoga, the scrolling text in the intro reads: "Finally... A supersonic action game... on the neo geo pocket!"
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