More stages we don't have!

Without even looking at them, I can almost guarentee they're all fakes. Why? Because savestates are definately not guarenteed sources of data. I remember when I used to do hacking a long time ago, I had a Death Egg palettized Emerald Hill with the Death Egg itself marching around. That was pretty cool, but also absolutely false.

Savestates are just RAM images. Editing them lets you alter anything you want... temporarily. (eg. until you die)

However, just for curiosities sake, the savestates are kind of cool looking...
It'd be more valid if one could say that it was only a simple trick somehow to get them to load this level data, such as an accurate outline of the Sonic ROM and pointing to where corrupt/unpointered level data exists in flow with other level data.

 

Those are all hacked... Sorry. Looks like whoever did it just changed random values too...

 

Yup, after checking out a few of them, I can see some patterns to it. Mostly what they seem to have done is taken a savestate in the middle of the process of a zone "loading" (decompressing its guts from the ROM) and then overwrote the data inside the savestate with new information (usually from another level). There was that one named "Mrr Aol" which was functionally Hill Top save for incorrect BGM and a bad tileset among a few other features.

So yes, bad hacks is all they are.

 

Chances...? I see nothing wrong with you. ^ ^

 

n00bs don't get much chances at me, but your nowhere near a turd.

 

No problem, don't worry about it :P

 

Right, it's better to debunk things early before rumors start, yes?

 

pffffft, I never said that was really the zones. I just called them that cause the value I replaced was the value of that zone.

And EXCUSE them for being bad hacks but they are what? 5 years old? maybe even more...

 

Those are from early '99, if I remember correctly.

That would make them more than 5 years old, yeah.

(It also means I've been around for five years and a half. Gah. :shock

 

Yeah, must be early 99'

 

Well to be honest, it would be very nice if any of these stages actually existed. I mean, what are the odds after all? It could be hidden deep within the crevices of the game and we wouldn't know until we find it.

 

Vaguely possible, but the question would then be, why would Sega have broken it? Except possibly to keep some things covered up until final release... OR because the level format had changed somewhere in development and only the levels they were to show off were converted?

 

Well, Sega's business likes to keep a lot of things hidden. This, would be one of them. Like all the other games found about the Internet, there's got to be a pre-release of this Sonic 2 game with these stages in it. Like the seemingly buried game, Dust Hill Zone. And like Wood Zone, accept with the left over pallete, they just have to be located. There might be something left over from these stages, however. If you use SonED, you could run into some interesting Sprite Combonations. Like there was a sprite I discovered in Sonic 3, that when you hit it, it would restart the game. I thought it was cool. Also, messing with the pointers in certain stages can possibly lead to the left over information of any of these stages, just like how Wood Zone's pallete was discovered back (way back) when Area 51 was around.


BTW, you can really tell those stages are fake. =P Sorry for late notice, I just finally decided to look at them. Just glance though, they were either pallete hacked, Glitched to hell, or both.

 

Yes that is entirely true. What if it were possible though, inside our little beta, that we're able to find even the slightest left over information about the "Dust Hill" zone? Besides that picture of the uncentered sonic we've held for quite some time?