Odd Sonic ads - Beta footage!

Well first of all ads are made way before the final release, so it often happens that we see some proto footage in ads.

Secondly, Sonic 2 was finished in big big rush, the last two weeks were horrible I heard. No wonder this title screen was a last minute change. Makes me kinda wonder what else didn't make it to the final.

Edit: And since you asked, they probably changed it because:

a) the new one was awesome
b) the old one was just... old and felt like the Sonic 1 one too much
c) it was too plain?

 

Wow, I just noticed that LZ thing.

 

Same today. Big Smoke in GTA:SA never had his hat on in any of the adds.

 

This is quite old... But anyway, I think it was Tom Payne who told me that in the last weeks many guys from Japan were brought in to finish everything before the deadline was met. I believe this included the credits, and very possibly the title screen, seeing how it's different even in the instructions manual.

 

Death Egg was rushed because it was supposed to have different 8x8 suppliment like Hill Top does to Emerald Hill, Along with Wing Fortress.

 

I would imagine that whoever drew the final title screen had drawn it a long time before release, but it simply didn't get put in the game until just before the release, due to it being relatively unimportant.

 

In other news you are the master of porting levels.

 

If anyone has that Sonic 1 advert on cassete I will buy it off them.

EDIT: Oh and if Waynes World comes out on HD DVD hopefully we can get some higher resolution rips of the Sonic 1 footage.

 

I can't read if it says Sonic or Tails on the second screen icon. Its clearly a Tails icon, but I'm sure you noticed that. As for sound effects, were the slot machine sound effects just outside sounds put in to go with the game footage? What I heard was different than the final slot machine sounds, but its probably just a generic slot machine sound for the ad. Another thing, there is the beta title screen, but the final version art of CNZ. I'm assuming that this was the version of Sonic 2 between the Sonic 2 Simon Wai beta, and the final version. If this is so, then whatever happened to copies of this particular version?

 

I found some introduction videos to Sonic 2 and 3 that are in Japanese. It would be nice if there was someone out there that could translate them. The Sonic 3 one give an abbreviated history of Sonic in general with those early sketches of character designs. At the end of the Sonic 2 one, there's a cool making of from one of the commercials you can find on the Sonic Jam Saturn disc. Also, I'm not sure if there's any beta videos in this or not. The Sonic 2 one shows a commercial for the Sega Genesis and shows Sonic 1 in a possible earlier version.

Sonic 2 Intro Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIPMhau5GLo...ted&search=

Sonic 3 Intro Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gJwetZpQBg...ted&search=

 

Maybe they changed the title screen because of the Game Gear version? Can't have two same title screens. Meh...

 

In both Sonic 2 videos: Miles text is seen everywhere instead of "Tails." Like in the Special Stage and 2 Player mode. This is obviously a no brainer to see.

I also found in the intro video that at the beginning of CNZ, the ring isn't shaped like a + (the placement is different)



In the intro video, they also clearly show that the bug fix had been implemented. It happens during Hill Top Zone (around 5:10) in which the player loses rings for going on the spikes, and then jumps back onto the spikes afterwards without dieing.

1965 (part of the level code code) is also shown the Japanese subtitle text at 7:34

The ending bit (around 8:30) is pretty sweet as well.

 

That's his birthday, it shows the same for the Yuji Naka part, except his birthday (1965/9/17)

 

Yeah, thought it was something to add. =P

 

This is the best badnik ever put in the game. Pity they took it out.

 

<!--quoteo(post=154237:date=Dec 10 2006, 12:45 PM:name=Quickman)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Quickman @ Dec 10 2006, 12:45 PM)

This is the best badnik ever put in the game. Pity they took it out. [/quote]

I preferred the original 7th chaos emerald before they changed it.

 

I for one was quite glad they changed the S2 title screen, I thought Sonic looked really weird on that particular screen. He looks much cooler and much sleeker on the Final Title Screen.

DJ

 

Not that these aren't cool and all, but why does the Sonic 3 video intorduce itself with video and music from Sonic CD...

 

I love how that video says "Dr. Eggman"-take that, Robotnik faggots.