Rare Sonic Art (And restoring it)

God damn do I hate what the digital versions' shading did to the original art sometimes.

King Max looks more like a wireframe model than crystal, Tails' namesakes went from a spinning whirlwind to a plexiglass funnel and the Death Egg looks as flat as a pancake.

 

I'm guessing these wallpapers aren't rare, but I downloaded and extracted them anyway. What I did find interesting is that in the HTML there's some commented text;

Code (Text):

1. <!--
2. <tr>
3. <td align="middle">
4. <img src="xtreme/surfwal.gif" height="144" width="144">
5. </td>
6. <td nowrap>
7. <font size="4">Surfing -
8. <a href="xtreme/surf640.exe">640</a>
9.  
10. <a href="xtreme/surf800.exe">800</a>
11.  
12. <a href="xtreme/surf1024.exe">1024</a>
13.  
14. <a href="xtreme/surf1280.exe">1280</a>
15. </font>
16. </td>
17. </tr>
18.  
19.  
20. <tr>
21. <td colspan="2" align="middle">
22. <font size="5">Sonic X-Treme Tiles</font><br>
23. Right click, save in windows directory.
24. </td>
25. </tr>
26. <tr>
27. <td> <img src="xtreme/skate.gif">
28. </td>
29. <td>
30. Skating
31. </td>
32. </tr>
33.  
34. --->

Presumably those were the previous wallpapers on that page from before the first time it got archived.

Surprisingly the wayback machine archived those files, even though they weren't linked outside of the HTML source, so maybe they've been missed before.

X-Treme Surf Wallpaper

X-Treme Skate Tile:


Edit: I removed the comments and the page displayed as such; maybe these were supposed to be revealed at a later date but never were;

 

Hello everybody! Thanks for the interesting material you posted here.

Here's some pics I had on my PC from different media... Sonic Advance 2, Heroes, CD... Hope they weren't posted already.

 

Having now got my manuals and such from New Zealand, I've scanned my Sonic Drift 2 and Tails Adventure manuals at 1200PDI and extracted the artwork from them.



Now Fang has the little ball on his car, and Fururukov isn't so blotchy!