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Discussion in 'General Sonic Discussion' started by McGuirk, Jan 10, 2007.

  1. Jen

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    I've seen that screenshot before, with a bunch of others, inside the UK "Sonic Yearbook" from 1992:

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    I've just taken a quick photo of it on my phone, but if we don't have it archived anywhere then I'm happy to provide a scanned version at some point:

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  2. Black Squirrel

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    I don't think we have that book scanned in full.

    You should scan that book in full :eng101:



    Mind you there are a lot of shots with the "RING" HUD, probably because that specific prototype was shipped off to publications and they took their own photos. It appears to have been a lot more widespread than our Wai Sonic 2 build ever was - such a tedious thing nobody's found it yet.
     
  3. BinBowie

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    That screenshot was taken directly from the back of the Brazilian Sonic 1 box.

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  4. shilz

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    at any rate, this means something. possibly a few early screens.
    EDIT: Actually, the special stage image looks a bit like A mockup to me. see how all those blocks are yellow? wouldn't they change color?
    at least, I've never seen any area like that without the color changing.
    that, or I'm just pulling shit out of my ass.
     
  5. Herm the Germ

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    With the way the colors of those blocks are cycling, it's not IMPOSSIBLE to capture a shot like that with all-yellow blocks - the timing for that to happen is just highly improbable. :v:
     
  6. Black Squirrel

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    I've seen quotes like this a few times recently - mockups are pretty rare things to see and are usually painfully obvious. That shot isn't a mock-up.

    We've had all yellow block shots before - I'd say it's probably more of a timing issue rather than a lack of animation.
     
  7. Darth Taco

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    Hey look a Sonic Steam sale!

    http://store.steampowered.com/sale/sonic/

    woo
     
  8. Ravenfreak

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    So I've been messing around with Sonic Labyrinth a little bit lately, and came across this "Select" text. I don't think it appears anywhere in the game does it? I also came across the word "Stop" in the options screen, written in the same font as the "Normal Game", "Time Attack", and "Config" fonts. Again I think it went unused.
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  9. RibShark

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    I know the "Select" text is placed under the logo on the title screen after the level select has been activated. As for the "Stop" text, it looks to me like it is actually the upper half of the letters for the word "Start". Still, I'm not sure where that was used in game.
     
  10. Black Squirrel

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    "Race you to level ten"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbtoO-ibvTo
     
  11. Blue Blood

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    That's not even one of those good awful adverts from the 90s.
     
  12. LocalH

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    Agreed. Between the two havles, I see the letters "STARCONFIGGME". Why they wasted two tiles on a second G is beyond me.
     
  13. Jason

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  14. TimmiT

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    Pretty sure there is. The first half of the article is just them recounting what is already known, but the second half seems to have a lot of new details. Also a definitive confirmation, if there wasn't one yet:
    The rest of the article is details we didn't know yet.
     
  15. Dark Sonic

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    Can finally put the nail in the coffin on that story. Confirmation finally, and from such an unexpected source.

    If only we knew who made each song though...
     
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  17. muteKi

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    Does anybody know anything about how emblems are awarded in Sonic Heroes? There are about 20 fewer emblems than there are total stages, and I wanted to know what the specific conditions for getting an emblem are

    I was testing the assumption that 85 of them were used for the main story-mode stages (levels and bosses, including last story -- 7*(2 acts + 1 boss)*4 teams+1 final boss = 84+1 = 85) for each character and that the other 35 would be spread out over the remaining 56 stages, meaning 5 emblems per 8 stages, which I figured would be one emblem for each team's extra missions per level (I.e., you get an emblem only after beating the time attacks for Seaside Hill and Ocean Palace as Sonic) with one more for fully completing all the missions per 2 levels. That doesn't seem to be the case. How the heck do they award them?
     
  18. Jimmy Hedgehog

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    I thought I had an idea of how it works, so I checked what I thought and it turned out I was right. Not every team gets an emblem for beating a boss. I just went through Seaside Hill/Ocean Palace + Egg Hawk with both Team Sonic and Team Dark, and ended up with 5 emblems. So the way it seems to work is 28*4 (2 missions for each stage, 4 teams), +7 bosses, then +1 for the final boss. So 112 + 7 + 1 = 120. You don't seem to get individual rewards for story completion/A rank completion, the reward for the A ranks is just the Super Hard mode.
     
  19. Adamis

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    Does anyone know where this Robotnik artwork comes from ? I remember that article from MegaForce (a French magazine I used to read as a kid).

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  20. Overlord

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    Looks vaguely familiar. Sonic 1 promo artwork?