The Sonic 3D Beta topic

IFAIK, nobody had thoroughly searched the S2 final ROM for beta remenants (or anything else, for that matter) until the S2 beta showed up. This beta cart could provide the catalyst for examining the final.

 

So... what's the latest with the prototype? When will the dumping commense, and afterwards, will the hunt for new beta material be on full force?

 

The last 2928 bytes are free, check them. If you compress all the uncompressed graphics and make Sonic 3D to load the graphics and decompress them in real-time, you'll win a lot of space, believe me. Even if the decompression isn't big, most of the in-game graphics are uncompressed, and a bit in an image turns into a lot if you think.

 

I'm probably going to be very wrong on this, but since its a ROM file, can't you jack it up to about any size you want, or is the game just coded to not allow you to expand past 4 mb? I'm well aware that 4 mb is the Genesis cartridge limit, but if there was no limit on the size it could be so long as it was kept on a computer, it wouldn't matter, would it?

 

I'm surprised this topic didn't got a pin.

 

Though I'm probably late on this comment, Nice find! I can't wait for this to be dumped.

I'm also one of the few people to like 3D Blast. (I also liked Spinball and Sonic R, though by saying that, over half the board will hate me.)

-Nick O.

 

Or you could use the SSF2 banking method and expand it up to a theoretical maximum of 32MB (64 512KB pages). It may not work on emulators currently if their support for this banking is limited to SSF2, but it would provide impetus for the support to be generalized. It would also run on hardware if one figured out the PCB wiring necessary to support the larger amount of data. The only banking restriction is that bank 0 ($000000-$0FFFFF) is alwasy locked as bank 0, due to the 68k vectors being in the first $100 bytes. All other banks can be moved around as one likes.

 

....MK Trilogy hack?

This I might wanna play...

Where can I grab it?

 

http://umk3.hacking-cult.org/

 

we get teh beta plz?

 

Don't worry about that. They still put up with me, and the others who play Shadow the Hedgehog—often—and enjoy it.

The few. The proud. The ShtH fans.

 

Hmm, this is quite the interesting find. I do hope to see the ROM dumped sometime soon so we can get more in-depth looks at this; there's probably more down in the ROM itself that's not in normal play, which I'd very much like to see.

By the way Squintz; Shadow the Hedgehog? My cousin is obsessed with that game... then again, she's a big fan of anything Shadow or Manic. I'm more of a Sonic Riders person myself; Sonic Riders is like Sonic R, but with air boards and a storyline.

 

Well, it's the E3 demo, so I'd almost guarantee there would be something that was cut from the final.

 

My thoughts exactly, however I highly doubt we'll find anything as big as Hidden Palace Zone or Wood Zone, but still there's most likely to be some interesting little tidbits hidden deep within the blossoming layers of the game's deeper contents.

 

IMO, finding lost objects is just as big as finding lost levels.

 

Yes, you do bring up a very excellent point there. Lost objects of any kind would be a very excellent find; perhaps unused tiles or sprites.

And I just realized I used up three entire posts in the same topic in one night... I need to be more careful.

 

So... what's up with this?