I have always found weird

Consider this: Hidden Palace might not be the name of the cave, but something to describe it. You could call Angel Island something like Shrubbed Wilderness, but that wouldn't be the real name of the island. What I'm saying is, there could be two Hidden Palaces. Let's call them Cheese and Beans. Cheese is located wherever Sonic 2 takes place (Mobius, is it called?) and Beans is on Angel Island. Unless of course, they are the same Hidden Palace- I've never played the Sonic game that has Angel Island.

 

You've never played Sonic 3? What are you waiting for?! It's way better than Sonic 2!
Download it NOW.

 

Oh, it's in Sonic 3? I knew the name sounded familiar, because I downloaded (and played) Sonic 3 a while ago! I must have forgotten about it. I do know for a fact that I've never seen Sonic 3's Hidden Palace, though. Is it the same map as Sonic 2's?

 

Here's the deal.

Sega made a game that was huge. They would make a lot of money.
Intead, they split that game in half and sold it seperately. They made twice as much money.
The two games were called Sonic 3 and Sonic and Knuckles.

Since Sonic and Knuckles uses "lock-on" technology, you could combine the two games and get something close to the original. So if you are looking for the best game, look for Sonic and Knuckles 3.

About the Hidden Palace.

The one in SK3 has no badniks.
It's layout is nothing like Sonic 2's Hidden Palace.
Neither is it's music.
There is no water in the whole Sonic and Knuckles game.(even though there is a bubble shield)
They both have what looks like a "Master Emereald"
In SK3, you have to fight Knuckles (very fun)
While you're fighting Knux, Robotnik steals the Master Emerald that Knuckles was supposed to be gaurding.
Knuckles, who had befriended Robotnik, realized that Sonic was his real friend, and Robotnik was a back-stabber.
You then leave with Knuckles via transportation ray.

 

I always thought fighting knuckles was pretty cool.

But overall there isn't much action.

If you play as Knuckles there's even less, because you don't have to fight anybody. Sonic never shows up!

 

I personally like S2's HPZ WAY Better, but I want to know...

Why the hell did SEGA cut it? It was such a great level!

 

The world may never know...

 

Hey! I think CNZ rocked hard. So don't say it sucked. If it sucked that much, they wouldn't have made Sonic Spinball. (I've read that it was based on that level, ya know...)

 

Well, other than GCZ WZ HPZ DHZ there was supposed to be one more level (Maybe a few of you know this).The level address is 01 in hex,and there is a Game Genie code that will allow you to see the level (It's REEEEEAALLLLLY Boring) and it has the default EHZ Level layout.The title Card of the level says Labyrinth.Strangly enough this level isn't at all Implemented and it's just like GCZ.Oh yeah the Game Genie code is (I believe this is it) ACLA-ACCY.

 

Oh yea one more thing the Code is for the final and when I mentioned it wasn't at all implemented I meant the beta

 

Oh yea and I almost forgot,you need to activate level select and select EHZ 1

 

Probably because the level artist for the HPZ was an American! And we all know how much Yuji Naka hates Americans (Sonic Xtreme is a fine example).

In my opinion the asstastic Hill Top Zone should have been replaced with the Hidden Palace Zone

 

Oh, and don't forget Sonic X, and SH. Those are perfect examples. I planned on getting SH for Christmas this year, but would you look at the release date? January? And the first level is a stinkin' beach!!! Whoever made this game OBVIOUSLY didn't celebrate holidays while growing up. And Sonic X has about 17 eps already and we didn't get one! And sonicteam.com! What's up with that?! The're index is Japanese for goodness sake!!!! And WE got Sonic FIRST!!! AND HOW 'BOUT DAT SONIC ANIME CRAP!!! Secretive to all America's good children, they were- *thrown in hospital bed; straycoat; screaming* I ask you!!! I- *put in mattress padded room* IT'S NOT FAIR!!!! IT'S JUST NOT FAIR!!! :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r:

 

Why don't you just download them from wherever they're available?

Sonic X-treme was crap, they used 2D sprites in 3D worlds. How dumb is that?
Yuji Naka wanted the first Sonic 3D game to be made by himself, not by someone else.

Casino Night Zone sucked the big one. And Sonic spinball is the dumbest game I've ever seen in my life.

 

In Japanese?!?!?! And there's only Ep. 1 and 2 fansubs!!! Hey, don't diss Spinball just because you don't know how to play. It was a great game. (or atleast I think so...) As for CNZ, we've all got our own opinions for that. Same for Spinball, but they never sucked. If they were that bad, they would've been cut 'n' canned in a heartbeat.