New Sonic 1 proto footage

It's nearly impossible guess what is in that BackGround, The picture is REALLY Blurry. (look at Sonic!) If you're saying about that "Big Blue Spikes", now I see, it looks like a Sunken Ship. (looking in Horizontal)

And the Bottom of The Background is much similar of the final.

[EDIT] IF you're talking about that two blurry white lines, Looks more falling water than chains.

 

If you ask me, they look like some remnants of a building. Ruins perhaps?

 

1. Getting extra life at 50 rings.
2. Blinking rings counter (visible/disappearing).
3. Wrapping in Labyrinth is not masked correctly (leaves garbage in foreground, tiles disappearing).
4. Collision maps are not correctly set in Star Light Zone (Making Sonic run inside walls at some slopes).


But the most interesting for me is the backgrounds. Since Naka had problems with the backgrounds until the very last minute, that's whare you can find the most stuff:

Green Hill Zone only has two different moving layers (clouds-top mountains/waterfalls-water). No line scrolling water making it 3D.

Star Light Zone is probably a static bg image. No star field line scrolling (I can't be completely sure since the quality of this video sucks).

 

Wow. interesting. Where is this from?

 

Sorry folks, but the rings counter is flashing red. I'll have a pic up shortly to prove that (it is, however, difficult to notice, given that it'd be red on a dark yellow surface... with the compression, it looks like it's disappearing).

 

He's right. I can clearly see a smudge of red on the part where Sonic's sliding down in LZ.

Also, isn't that Andy Dick? It sure as hell looks like him to me.

 

Yeah, it is. "I'm Andy Dick!"

That old LZ BG looks a lot better than the shit we were given. This cut one makes the level feel bigger, and more like a labyrinth, as it is called.

 

I'm trying to see if I can track down who did the ad campaign pre-WELCO/METOT/HENEX/TLEVEL (I found this page talking about the WELCO/METOT/HENEX/TLEVEL campaign, but nothing prior.

 

I noticed that the TM wasn't next to the Sonic intro banner, but would that be there at this point in time?

 

Sega is not trademarked in Japan or Europe. Changing the region will give you the same effect.

 

Yeah, but this is a US commercial. Which means to me that Sega recorded the footage and sent it to the production house, rather than allowing the production house to generate their own video with a Genesis and a proto cart. Because, if the US-based production house had used a standard US Genesis, it would have the TM there (unless they hadn't added it yet, but Sega was trademarked long before this was produced, I'd assume, so it wouldn't be a last-minute change).

 

Here is something else I found on the page with the commercial.

 

No, the TM marks are only removed when the country code is set to Japanese, both at the Sega screen and the title screen.

 

You won't see much because you can only see small details when the movie is playing. if you pause it you will just see MPEG garbage

That's why me and LocalH tried to talk to the guy who found this video to see if we can get one in a better resolution. We did the request at SClassic before and it slipped through before SClassic went hacked.