[SadisticMystic]

K2J, on 07 December 2011 - 04:15 PM, said:

Apparently you can get a time over in SA1 by hitting 99:59.99. I haven't tried it for myself, or in the early 2000s games; does this sound true to anyone else?

This is patently false. If you let 100 minutes go by, the visible timer simply freezes at 99:59.99, but you can continue to play. In SADX, that's all there is to say about it, but in the original Dreamcast version, the timer continues ticking invisibly, all the way up to 127:59.99 until it too stops with no consequence. That extra time is never fully visible anywhere, but parts of it can be gleamed from the level complete screen, or from the trial mode level selection screen if for some reason that 100+ minute completion happens to be your best time.

SA2 doesn't have anything version-specific there, just a cap at 99:59 and you can continue on your merry way, having lost all semblance of a time bonus more than an hour and a half ago.

But there are some things it does have version-specific, and the reason I came to post here is one of them.

This is what happens when you fill out abandoned object entries with null bytes instead of deleting them entirely. 131 of them all in the same file...quite a collection of discarded data for the team that ported and revamped the levels.

[Espyo]

SadisticMystic, on 09 December 2011 - 05:06 AM, said:

But there are some things it does have version-specific, and the reason I came to post here is one of them.This is what happens when you fill out abandoned object entries with null bytes instead of deleting them entirely. 131 of them all in the same file...quite a collection of discarded data for the team that ported and revamped the levels.

I think I speak for most of us when I say that I had no suitable expression for when I saw you collect that wad of rings. That does mark a new record at TSC, so congrats.

And edge-hog is a term used in Smash Bros. :B

[Metal Man88]

SadisticMystic, on 09 December 2011 - 05:06 AM, said:

This is what happens when you fill out abandoned object entries with null bytes instead of deleting them entirely. 131 of them all in the same file...quite a collection of discarded data for the team that ported and revamped the levels.

Yeesh, and here I thought there wasn't much to find in Sonic Adventure 2: Battle.

Figured everyone found stuff out years ago. But I guess not! Congrats on that weird find.

[GT Koopa]

TOOL ASSISTED DEBUG OH WHAT

[Black Squirrel]

While playing through Taxman's Sonic CD remake, I managed to get stuck in Stardust Speedway Act 2. At first I thought a spring was missing, but no, after consulting the maps, it's like this in the original game too.

oop

[gold lightning]

Does the remake have a suicide button like the original U.S. release (start + A)? Because I'd like to believe that situations like that are exactly why it was implemented.

[Dark Sonic]

gold lightning, on 14 December 2011 - 10:33 AM, said:

Does the remake have a suicide button like the original U.S. release (start + A)? Because I'd like to believe that situations like that are exactly why it was implemented.

No, for some reason the game lacks a retry button. You can go back to the menu though and start over at the beginning of the act.

[Neko Kit Su]

Not as great as some, but!

I was playing Generations and Crisis City; parts of the main melody play the same notes and melody as the verses of Moody Blues' Sun Is Still Shining from To Our Children's Children's Children. Its probably a coincidence here, still interesting.

I'd post examples, but mobile here.

[ICEknight]

Black Squirrel, on 14 December 2011 - 10:15 AM, said:

While playing through Taxman's Sonic CD remake, I managed to get stuck in Stardust Speedway Act 2. At first I thought a spring was missing, but no, after consulting the maps, it's like this in the original game too.

oop

Also, kind of related, I noticed not being able to take at least one of the turns in those tube structures, in the remake.

This post has been edited by ICEknight: 14 December 2011 - 05:02 PM

[Twimfy]

In Sonic CD iOS there's a lot of holes in the roof of the Tidal Tempest levels. I've finished both by running across the top ala Mario Bros style.

[K2J]

According to the most reliable source in the world, this was part of the preorder bonus for the Sega-made Vocaloid game for the PSP. The game itself includes a Sonic costume.

This post has been edited by K2J: 16 December 2011 - 02:31 PM

[Espyo]

GT Koopa, on 13 December 2011 - 04:36 AM, said:

TOOL ASSISTED DEBUG OH WHAT

Aww man... That video I made was so stupid! It only had ONE purpose. To show people that Sonic the Hedgehog's debug code isn't 8 button presses long, just 6. And because I didn't want to make such a video that only lasted 10 seconds, I threw some stupid Tool Assisted goofing around in there.

...Looking at it again... I just went "what the fuck was that shit". Oh boy... Anyway, a decent Tool-Assisted goof with debug mode would be interesting to watch.

[Diablohead]

Twimfy, on 15 December 2011 - 01:32 PM, said:

In Sonic CD iOS there's a lot of holes in the roof of the Tidal Tempest levels. I've finished both by running across the top ala Mario Bros style.

Another difference from console to iOS version is in PPZ with the hidden tunnel which throws sonic through the wall at the end leaving the player shaped hole, on the console version you come out on flat ground, on iOS you come out on hilled ground aka a different tile is used for the floor in that area.

doesn't break the game at all, just different.

[Jaseman]

Also the retry button on mobile ports and differnt colored water.

[GT Koopa]

Eh, you probably know about this one too but I am posting it anyway.