Sonic 2 Prototype Cartridge Found

Well in the back box screen we see a pic of emerald hill 2P, but the title screen has no selection? It cant be hacked cause the copyright is still there.

 

Those might be final pics, and anyway you can get into 2 Player mode by holding the B button.

 

I know the owner said it is. but is it identical to our beta? I would like to see a picture of the level select screen.

 

No, look at the CNZ picture carefully. This is a different prototype, more complete. Those CNZ tiles are filled in more, with less glitches.

In any case, it should be dumped, ASAP.

 

You seem to be mistaken:

 

Oh, right then.

It should still be dumped though.

 

Those also look like screenshots from an RGB monitor to me.

 

Those shots do look surprisingly crisp for a TV shot. I can see individual pixels.

 

No, it isn't...

EDIT: Here.

I had to probe it from your image folder.

 

You can see them on my tv too.





shit, I made them too small.

 

Then their MD is modded, because that's a 60Hz output (no tall borders like on 50Hz PAL). I'm not trying to argue against this or anything, just noting a fact. That game is running at 60Hz, period.

 

I just reply as fast as possible without reading anything! The photos of the television misses the PAL/NTSC border and are mostly done in photoshop or by an emulator/video out. Very high fake factor.

EDIT: Not PAN :P PAL

 

I mean, it cant hurt to get sucked into a hoax every now and then. Lets just go with everything anyone posts and figure out if their a hoax later, not just blast them with "HOAXX!!!?@?!?oneone" Every time someone posts what could be new information. Its all good mate.

 

It's likely his console would be modded, since when I try running Sonic 2 beta on my 50Hz megadrive all the music is screwed up.

 

I never said it was fake, I just said that it was running at 60Hz. Unless you put them in underscan, you don't really see a lot of the border on an NTSC set, so that actually makes it more believable to me. But, like I said, I wasn't aiming to debunk anything, just trying to state some facts. Plenty of European TVs support PAL60, and since the only difference between NTSC RGB and PAL RGB is the frame rate (well, that and a slight level difference at the bottom end, nothing major), essentially any of those TVs could support an NTSC device when fed via RGB.

At the very least, those are pictures of the prototype running on a real Genesis and being fed via RGB to the set. It's extremely difficult to hoax such a screenshot with Photoshop, and I don't think anyone here has the ability to output 15KHz RGB to such a monitor, so that rules out TV-output. (besides, even if that had been possible, there's a good chance the output would be interlaced, which we'd easily know if it was or not, because you'd see a double image and you wouldn't see individual scanlines). It's either a real cartridge (albeit reproduced, since it's a pirate) or the ROM running on a Tototek-style cart, and there really isn't much difference between the two (except for the box art and cart label, I presume the rest is identical).