Unreleased Sonic X-Treme Footage

Right, so here's the scoop, dudes.

A few days back, a member by the name Kiroziki made a topic in the General Sonic Discussion forum. This topic involved the publicity and release of a couple of previously-unreleased videos of Sonic X-Treme, produced by Chris Senn, known to be one of the game's developers. Since this video had never seen the light of day before, it was a pleasant surprise; however, it came to light that it was no such good news for Chris Senn.

You see, during about 2006 or so, Chris Senn distributed several videos (including the two in question) to a choice few people. Shortly after, however, he was contacted by Ofer Alon—the designer of the two featured levels—with a request not to publish the two videos. He obliged, and the few people who had recieved the video were sworn to a vow of silence regarding the videos. And for a while, the situation was resolved.

Once these videos got reposted, I was contacted by Sik with a message by Chris Senn regarding the videos. He requested that the videos be taken down, but I was curious as to why, so I sent him an email inquiring as to the situation. Mr. Senn fully explained the situation as I described it above, and after a talk with the forum staff, we happily obliged to his request. Luckily, not too many people had seen the topic, so it was assumed to have been a crisis averted.

Come earlier today, though, I was contacted by resident scener PACHUKA with a YouTube link containing a 15 second clip of the video in question. Intrigued, I forwarded the link to Senn, asking him if there was any point it trying to continue keeping this under wraps. After some delegation between him and some of the Tech Members, it was decided that, since the materials were already going public, that we should go through with a formal release.

So I present to you the videos in question:
New Paths - PC level (YouTube)
New Worlds - Saturn level (YouTube)

(Mirrors and/or re-encodes would be appreciated for these—they're rather large)

You may or may not have seen one of these after PACHUKA's release of the videos for X-CulT. However, the second video was not spread so thin, so this should be new to all of you. Neither of these levels were featured in previous releases regarding Sonic X-Treme content—it's all fresh, folks!

In addition to the release of these videos, Chris Senn himself is going to provide us with specific developmental insight—all the juicy details, bits, and bops about the levels. It's sure to be very interesting.

Anyway, enjoy! I hope everyone can feel humbled to be graced with another piece of lost Sonic X-Treme history.

 

I've added the link to the second video. Check the first post for links.

This totally lacks context. I didn't count on this turn of events at all, so you should in fact be happy—you helped this turn out better than it would have had you made a story on it instantly. Patience is a virtue.

You're free to make a story now if you wish, though!

Considering you started this mess in the first place, you'd do well to avoid it. Chris is going to release everything as he sees fit, so I suggest you back down and let him take care of it.

Your spiteful violation of Chris Senn's trust is not something to be admired—quite frankly, you're a dick for it. You're just fortunate in that you haven't caused any permanent, irreversible damage when it comes to Senn and Alon's personal relations.

I asked him not to make a news story the first time these videos were posted, under the pretenses that it may have severe negative consequences. Now that the distribution is no longer an issue, this no longer applies and he somehow feels cheated because of it. Had he decided not to honor my request, though, I'm betting things wouldn't have worked out this way.

The details aren't what's important, though—the videos are! Let's try and get back properly on topic, please.