DeanSatan enters the fray!

Wow, that's pretty interesting! Indeed, the game itself has never had any code associated with these monitors, but one thing that's kind of inconsistent with that description is the fact that, in the game, art remains for the pair of goggles depicted on the goggles monitor, so it'd be reasonable to assume that the goggles monitor would place the goggles on the player. If it was meant as a "show" monitor, though, then how would Sonic have received the goggles? It's kind of confusing.

Also, while the Robotnik-before-a-boss-level deal makes sense, that doesn't explain the monitor with the "S" on it. Do you remember this monitor being placed anywhere in the games' levels at all, and if it served a similar purpose?

 

Hey, my turn for questions.

I'm not sure if you'll be able to answer this, as this might be a question for someone who was designing the game. But do you remember a time in Sonic 2's history where this was still used in the game?

http://sonic-cult.org/dispart.php?catid=6&...d=1&artid=3

I'm talking about when Sonic runs toward a wall at high velocity that he falls back when he comes into contact. During the early stages of Sonic 2, they were considering adding this for some reason. I don't know why exactly they removed it (since it's obvious for this early in development that EVERYTHING needed more work), but I was wondering if maybe you knew who was responsible for the idea?

And something more along Sonic 1. Before the game was finishing development, you could obtain an extra life by collecting 50 rings instead of 100. Were you responsible for these kinds of changes?

Hopefully when you ment working at Sega until 1992 you were still somehow involved with Sonic 2. :\

 

Dean, I can't think of many questions for you, other than "How do you feel about the latest Sonic games?"

However, I mainly wanted to give you another thanks for even coming to these Sonic boards, and telling the "hardcore" fanbase the types of things we've been wanting to know for years. It means more than you can imagine to us -- I feel that I can speak as a whole on this matter -- and I really hope you stay in contact.

The Sonic community is a great community, and it needs people like you, it really does.

 

This makes me happy. I would like to say that we can't thank you enough for your answers to our questions, some of them quite inane. You're awesome.

 

We have the same Keyboard. Just thought that was laugh-worthy.

Anyway, cool stuff, but I wonder how much you'll get for that. Surely many members here would kill for stuff like that. Just from the pictures, it looks pretty cool.

 

I have the same one too =P

Must be a very common one eh?

 

Hi Dean.

Thank you for explaining the big ball's crushing wall ability!

I know you might not be able to answer any more questions about Sonic 1, but it
doesn't stop me from showing this :P

Here is a screenshot from a show called Wayne's World (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105793/):

The planets are rotating, and they don't make much sense at all actually, more than
taking up way too much ROM space, but we can't stop thinking about them!
The pixel art in the corner is taken from some leftover graphics in Sonic 1 Mobile
(official cell phone Java port), too bad it is scaled to fit the cell phone monitors
so it might not be an exact original pixel copy.
Why people want them to be UFOs, I have no idea, I think they are Saturnus planets.
LOL at the planets actually being directly under the clouds!


This screenshot is from a European Megadrive commercial (I know you are an US Sega Genesis guy):

Yet again, it doesn't make sense. The white diamond shaped mark on the red ball
is spinning around the ball in more than one angle, which basically costs way to
much ROM space, probably half the Sonic 1 ROM!
Have you ever seen anything like this before?

Guess not :P
Sonic 1 is full of mysteries.

EDIT: The wiki has this information already. I still think this video is awesome: http://www.dailymotion.com/objectifsega/vi...b-fr_videogames
Is it possible to get it downloaded from somewhere? I want it in my Sonic 1 collection :/

 

I think the mystery of the UFO's are just like the real thing, we will never know

There was something I wanted to ask you last night Dean but I forgot all about it, do you remember any characters called Madonna? Human or hedgehog?

 

<!--quoteo(post=269325:date=Jan 17 2009, 05:35 PM:name=LOst)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (LOst @ Jan 17 2009, 05:35 PM)
Yet again, it doesn't make sense. The white diamond shaped mark on the red ball
is spinning around the ball in more than one angle, which basically costs way to
much ROM space, probably half the Sonic 1 ROM!
Have you ever seen anything like this before?

Guess not :P
Sonic 1 is full of mysteries.

EDIT: The wiki has this information already. I still think this video is awesome: http://www.dailymotion.com/objectifsega/vi...b-fr_videogames
Is it possible to get it downloaded from somewhere? I want it in my Sonic 1 collection :/[/quote]

I thought that it was found to be added animation to the commercial (in addition to the extremely long spring in the Marble Zone clip)?

 

<!--quoteo(post=269342:date=Jan 18 2009, 03:05 AM:name=DeanSatan)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (DeanSatan @ Jan 18 2009, 03:05 AM)
Sure it may just be a cancept art, but you can see how the squares are appearing behind the "marble house" which indicates they are on scroll B.

Also some old screenshots show marble Zone with another lava graphics, and no Flame torches in the background, so placeholder, or testing animated tiles might be a good assumption.

The only thing speaking against it is that the movie that shows the planets in action (Wayne's World), the game looks like it is near final, possibly Release Candiadate. Why have them left for so long when they don't make much sense at all?

If you find this interesting, maybe you have some old contacts that might know more, or remember something interesting?


About the red ball with crazy diamond shape mark rotating animations, I don't understand how it was done, but if it was done by the commercial creators, they were really good clipping sprites!

 

<!--quoteo(post=269351:date=Jan 17 2009, 11:17 PM:name=DeanSatan)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (DeanSatan @ Jan 17 2009, 11:17 PM)

 

The look on Knuckles' face says hotlinking is no good.

 

If you use FlashGot in Firefox, you can download the FLV video of it.

 

<!--quoteo(post=269155:date=Jan 17 2009, 01:26 PM:name=DeanSatan)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (DeanSatan @ Jan 17 2009, 01:26 PM)

im really not claiming sally or anything outside of whats been said. but porker lewis is based on a tv show parker lewis speaking to dated american localization.

this is taken from page 11 sonic bible june 24th 1991:

"sonics main buddies are rabbit, squirrel, pig, flicky the duck, penguin chicken and seal. each comes from a large family and is playful and friendly..." so at that time they didnt have (american) names.[/quote]

Very interesting stuff. Thanks a lot.

You mentioned that you were aware of Sally. Was that just from the SatAM cartoon and the Archie comics, or did you know of her from your time at SEGA? I know it probably wasn't your area, but I'm curious whether you might have any inside knowledge of that sort of thing—how the cartoons and comics came about and SEGA's role in that.