Weird door in Sonic 2

I've seen that for ages, I guess they decided they liked the other one better. I personally prefer the lost one.

In fact, come to think of it, the lost one looks like a remapping of the regular one, the right column is mirrored.

 

The other door is just the ARZ door using the CPZ art, I think. It just looks like a mappings issue to me.

 

I had no idea that ARZ even had a door.

 

That's probably because it was never used in ARZ.

 

Check ARZ's debug again. It has an unused stone-coloured door. Perhaps they realized "How the hell are ancient ruins going to have automatic opening doors?"

 

but then they relize "there's a blue fucking hedgehog with a two tailed fox running around smashing robots in it...so why the fuck not? Wait no its a bad idea nevermind"

 

QFT.

As I see it, they wanted ARZ to be a more openly spaced area and doors would make you feel closed in, so they took em away.

 

Lol, excellent point.

 

And then there was Shadow the Hedgehog.

(If you're slow or just don't know what I'm talking about, Glyphic Canyon and Sky Troops).

 

Wait a minute. Are you saying a race of aliens that have mastered space travel and floating fortresses made of pretty much solid stone wieghing thousands of tons, can't make a funtioning automatic door?

On topic: I never check much stuff, so I never saw this before.