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Right, so here's the scoop, dudes.
A few days back, a member by the name Kiroziki made a topic in the General Sonic Discussion forum. This topic involved the publicity and release of a couple of previously-unreleased videos of Sonic X-Treme, produced by Chris Senn, known to be one of the game's developers. Since this video had never seen the light of day before, it was a pleasant surprise; however, it came to light that it was no such good news for Chris Senn.
You see, during about 2006 or so, Chris Senn distributed several videos (including the two in question) to a choice few people. Shortly after, however, he was contacted by Ofer Alon—the designer of the two featured levels—with a request not to publish the two videos. He obliged, and the few people who had recieved the video were sworn to a vow of silence regarding the videos. And for a while, the situation was resolved.
Once these videos got reposted, I was contacted by Sik with a message by Chris Senn regarding the videos. He requested that the videos be taken down, but I was curious as to why, so I sent him an email inquiring as to the situation. Mr. Senn fully explained the situation as I described it above, and after a talk with the forum staff, we happily obliged to his request. Luckily, not too many people had seen the topic, so it was assumed to have been a crisis averted.
Come earlier today, though, I was contacted by resident scener PACHUKA with a YouTube link containing a 15 second clip of the video in question. Intrigued, I forwarded the link to Senn, asking him if there was any point it trying to continue keeping this under wraps. After some delegation between him and some of the Tech Members, it was decided that, since the materials were already going public, that we should go through with a formal release.
So I present to you the videos in question:
New Paths - PC level (YouTube)
New Worlds - Saturn level (YouTube)
(Mirrors and/or re-encodes would be appreciated for these—they're rather large)
You may or may not have seen one of these after PACHUKA's release of the videos for X-CulT. However, the second video was not spread so thin, so this should be new to all of you. Neither of these levels were featured in previous releases regarding Sonic X-Treme content—it's all fresh, folks!
In addition to the release of these videos, Chris Senn himself is going to provide us with specific developmental insight—all the juicy details, bits, and bops about the levels. It's sure to be very interesting.
Anyway, enjoy! I hope everyone can feel humbled to be graced with another piece of lost Sonic X-Treme history.
A few days back, a member by the name Kiroziki made a topic in the General Sonic Discussion forum. This topic involved the publicity and release of a couple of previously-unreleased videos of Sonic X-Treme, produced by Chris Senn, known to be one of the game's developers. Since this video had never seen the light of day before, it was a pleasant surprise; however, it came to light that it was no such good news for Chris Senn.
You see, during about 2006 or so, Chris Senn distributed several videos (including the two in question) to a choice few people. Shortly after, however, he was contacted by Ofer Alon—the designer of the two featured levels—with a request not to publish the two videos. He obliged, and the few people who had recieved the video were sworn to a vow of silence regarding the videos. And for a while, the situation was resolved.
Once these videos got reposted, I was contacted by Sik with a message by Chris Senn regarding the videos. He requested that the videos be taken down, but I was curious as to why, so I sent him an email inquiring as to the situation. Mr. Senn fully explained the situation as I described it above, and after a talk with the forum staff, we happily obliged to his request. Luckily, not too many people had seen the topic, so it was assumed to have been a crisis averted.
Come earlier today, though, I was contacted by resident scener PACHUKA with a YouTube link containing a 15 second clip of the video in question. Intrigued, I forwarded the link to Senn, asking him if there was any point it trying to continue keeping this under wraps. After some delegation between him and some of the Tech Members, it was decided that, since the materials were already going public, that we should go through with a formal release.
So I present to you the videos in question:
New Paths - PC level (YouTube)
New Worlds - Saturn level (YouTube)
(Mirrors and/or re-encodes would be appreciated for these—they're rather large)
You may or may not have seen one of these after PACHUKA's release of the videos for X-CulT. However, the second video was not spread so thin, so this should be new to all of you. Neither of these levels were featured in previous releases regarding Sonic X-Treme content—it's all fresh, folks!
In addition to the release of these videos, Chris Senn himself is going to provide us with specific developmental insight—all the juicy details, bits, and bops about the levels. It's sure to be very interesting.
Anyway, enjoy! I hope everyone can feel humbled to be graced with another piece of lost Sonic X-Treme history.
