Three Questions

Question 1
Why are there so many unused objects in Sonic games? Looking at Nemesis' listings, I see a great many objects marked as unknown. Easy, sonic team are very lazy people. I still don't see a good reason why they scrapped so many great sprites and objects(personal favorite is the lost eggman cpz sprite)

Question 2

 

Hmm...Well, I know that DEZ loads tiles other than ARZ. I was sure that GCZ did, too...

 

Theres a savestate around that makes GCZ have CPZ tiles in them. Its not a hack or hoax either.

 

All objects that Nemesis has stated in his guide is in use by the engine! Non of them is unused.

Most of them got sub objects as well. The problem is to detect where they're been used, and what graphics they'll use since the graphics is loaded in VRAM by a table, and not by the single objects.

Just to show you the different between Nemesis' guide and the real game:

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You get the idea?

 

Ermmm... what exactly is a child object?

 

I changed it to sub object instead.

Every object has two attributes. The first is the action number. The action number 01 is Sonic, 02 is Tails, 0D is the end sign, etc.

The second attribute is the sub object (actually, I have no other name I can think of that fits that attribute). If we take action number 41 and sub object 00, then we get a red spring facing upwards. If we then change the sub object to 01, then we will get another spring facing in another direction. There are a lot of springs under the same action number.

Child objects on the other hand are objects that can't be put out on the level with a level editor. Those objects apply to the wheels of Eggman's car at the EHZ boss.

Child objects always have a parent object. in the case of the EHZ boss (action number 56). When the boss is created, a lot of boss parts are created as child objects, and they will be executed at different times, so everyone has a handle to their parent object where they can get the current status of the boss.

 

Death egg zone loads the tiles of the title screen. It doesn't even bother loading it's own.

Why?

Likely, SEGA never got to even starting it, but had the idea. Perhaps this is the same thing with GCZ and DHZ. Maybe what we're looking for is a later ROM.

 

Hahaha. :lol:

Yeah, everybody wants an earlier beta, but I doubt we will ever see one. Plus, maybe her art wasn't even implemented. Then again, I could be wrong. To me it seems like our beta was a mid to late beta. So an earlier one might exist.