Penguin snowbording in Sonic 3

It looks like it, but I'm not necessarily sure if that's what it was intended for. It could've just been extra frames of animation for the sliding penguin, but Sonic Team couldn't find a use for it. And yeah, a good use would've been chasing Sonic.

 

I think you can kind of see those frames through debug mode. I'll have to double check. Anyway, all you have to do is paste that penguin sprite, watch it walk, and when it slides you can see 1 or 2 of the tiles in the frames LOst found. I always wondered what they were, and now I know.

 

Hah, nice find! Those would make a lot of sense in that prototype where Sonic just run down the slope instead of snowboarding.


Have you tried placing those penguins in the mountain? It's possible that Sonic won't be able to attack them in the final version, and the gameplay might mess up when hit, but it would be nice to see them going down the slope along with Sonic.

 

Yeah nice find LOst, went into debug and placed one on the steep mountain side and it used the frame! Only for a split second though :P

 

Take a look at this:

Go down the slope as normal. At the end when you hit the wall, use debug to go back to the end of the slope. Once there, place a Super Sonic monitor and destroy it. Now run up the hill, using debug to get past the ledges. Once at the top, you can run down the slope! Try it out!

EDIT: Fixed picture size

 

Yeah, you can use debug mode to go anywhere...

 

1) Redundant suggestion, thanks alot. You think people on this board wouldn't know that when pretty much everything's been researched through hex and ASM, never mind debug mode?

2) What's with the attached image being so huge when the actual screenshot's so small? Learn how to use paint plz.

This wasn't intended as a flame, just incase I'm misconstrued.

 

Good find, lost!

 

What do you mean by "What's with the attached image being so huge when the actual screenshot's so small? Learn how to use paint plz"?

It's a gif, so it's not huge in the first place, and if you're refering to the black bar at the top....a few kb added, but not much.

Maybe the enormous size? Poeple play double rendered sometimes, it's only 43Kb!

Bah, I dunno, I dun really care, prolly shouldn't 've taken the time to type this, I gotta get to work...

 

When mc1228 first posted the image, there was the actual screenshot in the upper left corner, then a gigantic white space big enough to hold seven more screenshots around it. That's what Syren was talking about. It pissed me off, too.