[MK]

You can stand on that corner, even though the spikes are there.

[Quexinos]

really?... huh I didn't even try.

[Sixfortyfive]

Quexinos, on Feb 24 2008, 11:44 PM, said:

Dark Sonic, on Feb 24 2008, 10:33 PM, said:

Tweaker, on Feb 24 2008, 08:26 PM, said:

Haha... that's only the second time I've ever seen that message—the first time being when Squints posted it a couple of years ago.

I still love how they went through the trouble to make alternate text for such a small detail. Stuff like that really made the game shine, IMO.

I've barely seen it myself. I forget, what triggers that phrase in normal gameplay in the normal Sonic 3 and Knuckles?

if you haven't got all the regular Chaos Emeralds with Sonic 3 and Knuckles by the time you reach Mushroom Hill that's the message that appears once you collect them.

Not quite correct.

If you get all 7 Chaos Emeralds before Mushroom Hill:
SONIC CAN NOW BE SUPER SONIC.
KNUCKLES CAN NOW BE SUPER KNUCKLES.
Tails gets no message.

You lose all the Chaos Emeralds you've collected in the cutscene that plays when you go to an S&K special stage for the first time, which is why you can't be Super/Hyper again until you collect all the Super Emeralds.

If you fail to get all 7 Chaos Emeralds before Mushroom Hill but finish collecting them later:
SONIC CAN GO TO HIDDEN PALACE.
KNUCKLES CAN GO TO HIDDEN PALACE.
TAILS CAN GO TO HIDDEN PALACE.

I'm fairly certain that you can still be Super Sonic/Knuckles in the S&K zones as long as you never enter a special stage ring in Mushroom Hill or later, but I'm not 100% sure.

This post has been edited by Sixfortyfive: 25 February 2008 - 12:58 AM

[Quexinos]

so basically it's exactly what I said -_-

[Sixfortyfive]

Quexinos, on Feb 25 2008, 01:00 AM, said:

so basically it's exactly what I said -_-

...Yes.

Somehow I misread that the first time around.

[Quexinos]

we can't take you anywhere.... /end spam

[Quexinos]

I was playing around a little bit more with this today and I found something interesting. Remember the missing ring in Flying Battery?... Well this time around, it was there. I have no idea why it wasn't there the first time.

Anywho, a few more differences. The beta is on the left.

Things were a bit more complicated here.


I posted this before well.. here it is again =D


In the beta you can't see the spring.


And in the beta the sign post is in front of the Egg Prison.

[Billy]

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And in the beta the sign post is in front of the Egg Prison.

That's strange, why would they want it behind instead? There's probably some underlying technical reason.

This post has been edited by Bill: 27 February 2008 - 10:47 PM

[Quexinos]

Beta 606 (left) had a lot more "cheap shots" with those spiked rocks falling down. Several were removed from the final.




I also noticed something about Doomsday:


In the very beginning of the beta stage, it dumps you right in the middle of the meteors. In the final, there's space then meteors. I think what they did was moved the whole level over to the right, though there did still seem to be layout differences.


But I think the coordinates here proves my "moved the stage to the right" theory.

This post has been edited by Quexinos: 28 February 2008 - 04:11 AM

[Flygon]

[Dark Sonic]