Dust Hill Zone question

Yeah, the colors on the popular scan are messed up. Check Sonicoloy, they have two different scans.

 

There was a scan from a magazine that had the correct colors. When Sonic has the same colors as in Sonic 1, the scan is correct. However, it is a mock-up.

 

If not Rika and I can answer these following questions, I guess no one can :P

Well, read the Tim Skelly interview you can find here:
http://www.shadowsoft-games.com/sonicdatabase

He tells why zones in general got scrapped

 

Here's the only two existant scanned pictures that make a reference to Dust Hill:





OMG LAWL SURPRISE :blink:

 

No need to argue about anything, as the scans speak for themselves...

Just wanted to inform him about some of the progress the "Sonic research communities" have made in the last 5 years, since he didn't seem to know about that.

 

I don't mean to sound like a know-it-all, but I know "Desert" was meant to be named Dust Hill. ICEknight, you should know that of all people, you were the one that hosted the interview on the web site.

"DESERT WAS DUST HILL"-BRENDA ROSS

I trust Brenda Ross, a person who worked on the game-no, a person who MADE THE LEVEL more than I trust a bunch of people with stupid theories. Seriously, ignoring that is just stupid.

In our beta, Mystic Cave is Dust Hill. That is unarguable. The magazine scans are obviosly from our beta! :huh: Yes, what a surprise!

 

Brenda Ross was being manipulated by the interviewer Deviance since he told her the name was Dust Hill before she answered the question. Or Deviance changed her interview to say Dust Hill so that you people could get a reference of what she was speaking of. Some newbies couldn't understand the name Desert and connect it to the desert mock-up I guess.

 

Oh no! Again...
You can think what you want people, I have my opinion, and I will keep it.

 

NO!

Look at those shots. They show objects and a boss. The MCZ in our beta is almost completley empty.

 

More specifically, they show the hanging vines which, while the graphics are present in our prototype, are actually replaced by switches in our version.

And, yes, the boss. This shows that even later on in development, the level was still referred to as Dust Hill.

 

Here's my attempt at at least informing people of what we know about the Desert Zone's name. I'm not a great writer though so it gets a bit messy towards the end :P

Go ahead and list it you've got my curiosity now

 

I see you don't remember that she later said:

Something that can't be taken out of context in any way, and shows how she was referring to it by the name of Dust Hill just to answer the guys that called it like that. That's why I added that quote to the "background info" of the interview at my site.


Also, none of the developers I asked later about the level referred to it as Dust Hill, something that didn't surprise me in the least.

 

Meh. Oh well. I'm screwed.

 

Well I think it should be put in context!

I have to admit the "sure" doesn't inspire confidence, it's a shame we can't trust the person who designed the level art :P

 

I'm going to stay on the "not-called-Dust-Hill" side of this fence. Dust Hill == Mystic Cave. We have evidence for that. I prefer evidence to tenuous evidence, and the explanation for how it could suddenly flip-flop from Dust Hill being the desert level to Dust Hill being the label for Mystic Cave is fishy.