Video of earliest known Sonic R prototype

I wonder, does this guy just have an old hard drive filled with game prototypes? If so, I wonder what other wonderful things he must have on it.

 

Looks like that might be the last remnants of the car-based version of the engine, hastily flipped to be Sonic themed.

Guess we'll find out for sure soon.

 

He's not planning to drop those protos on us or something, is he?

 

I doubt it. It would probably violate some old contract he signed is my guess.

 

Internet is a place where anything can be leaked by anonymous people, just saying!

 

Well, it's a little tough to leak something anonymously when you're the only known person with a copy. :P.

Although I doubt we will ever have our hands on these prototypes, it's nice that he is at least sharing some videos of them.

 

Oh, but there's a lot of crazy hackers out there that go inside other computers and steal stuff, you never know!

 

Only slightly unrelated, but Jon also just put out a video about the Sonic 3D level select screen and why wiggling or bumping the cartridge sometimes triggers it. As someone who once accidentally reached the screen as a kid and could never replicate it, it's a delightful bit of trivia.

 

Ha nice.

Kinda reminds me of Wipeout 2097 from that early build. Which is kinda funny as I bought that instead of Sonic R as they both came out around the same time.



Awesome profile pic, btw

 

That's quite the thing


My gut feeling was that his "favourite building" was used in Reactive Factory, but the designs don't quite match up. The rest looks like it was dragged out of SegaWorld London - the quintessential 1997 experience.

 

Apparently the Wipeout 2097 uses the ManX TT engine. I had originally wondered whether the name Sonic TT was some sort of reference to using said engine, but as more info has come out, it's obviously not.

 

Man. Why does this test level look cooler than any of the tracks that made it into the game?

 

Ah, I see. Makes sense.

Makes me wonder what racing games TT took inspiration from. Seeing as this developer seems willing to share all his proto stuff it would be interesting if a interview in regards to R and 3D could be set up.

 

It's amazing what he's been able to dig up so far. I can't imagine there's anything earlier at this point. I'd love to see later builds of Sonic R but what we have got at this point is more than I ever imagined, so kudos to him to showing us these lost builds.

 

"So I set about trying to write software on the PC to display the old files", he said casually. :O