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evilhamwizard, on Today, 01:35 PM, said:

Not necessarily. Froggy's "name" in the Japanese dialogue is kaeru-kun, literally the word frog with the honorific -kun, which is commonly used to describe a close friend. Thus, a possible interpretation of kaeru-kun is in fact, your friend frog. Whoever localized the mission texts probably wasn't privy to the character's name in the English dialogue and just went with a direct transliteration, which got noticed and corrected sometime during development.

Shadow Hog, on Today, 02:33 PM, said:

This. Seriously, my thoughts hearing this were "Why the hell didn't they use this instead of the version which had my ears tired after just one or two minutes?"

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Orengefox, on Today, 01:15 PM, said:

From watching this, ZERO appears to be using menu sounds for his scanning actions... Placeholders or just the wrong sound bank? Also, the reflection on the spikeballs is busted.

Big does indeed seem to start inside the cave area that's a secret in the final game. Maybe this room was going to be the entirety of Big's stage, until they realized they had already pulled that shit with Twinkle Park and tacked on a bit of Sonic's act along with some new geometry to box it in.

From the top of my head:

• Allow displaying the origin point (0,0) on the sprite screen, and to center the camera on either the sprite or the origin.
  
• Easy adding/deleting of tiles to/from the art file while updating all the references automatically.
  
• Allow changing the base offset for any mapping without having to delete it and make a new one starting from the correct tile. Also allow batch offsetting of entire sprite(s).
  
• Animated preview for a sprite animation with support for arbitrary frame set/order and animation speed.

Sonic Adventure had menu voiceovers for all the characters which could be activated by downloading theme files from the official website. There were theme files for all the playable characters, plus Tikal and Eggman, but there wasn't really a way to (de)activate them from within the game. They didn't add a menu in DX, but they were kind enough to change the feature to be dependent on the last chosen character instead (with Super Sonic changing it to Tikal and Metal Sonic to Eggman).

Well duh, everything is more or less possible, depending on the amount of effort you're willing to put in. But I certainly have no intention of raping the game with SA1's broken gameplay design everyone seems to love for some reason.