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Prototype Video

This page is devoted to a find by Bellzeemon. After some spring cleaning he found an old promotional video some magazines used before there were demo CDs, which contains some footage from a prototype version of Sonic The hedgehog 2 playing. An oddity with the video is that they chose to dub in their own music, and at some points their own sound effects. This video is avaliable in the videos section.

The video begins with a small 3D intro of Sonic and the SEGA logo, Sonic taps his toes a few times before it zooms outwards. A forien language then shouts "Y ahora, lo más esperado, ¡Sonic 2! ¡Estreno mundial de mi última aventura! ¡Sube, que te llevo!",
meaning "And now, the much anticipated, Sonic 2! World-wide launch of my latest adventure! Hop in!" [Thanks to Simon Wai and Greg2K for the translation]
The Sonic 2 BETA title, nothing has changed from the BETA flying around the internet, and it's yet to have the options avaliable. The background music is slower than usual, most likely because it's an American/Japanese cart trying to play on an European machine. In the final Sonic 2 EU, the music has been sped up.
Sonic enters Hidden Palace Zone, with his final walking and running spriteset, proving that this is a later prototype. Hidden Palace itself has not changed.
Sonic speeds down the Hidden Palace pipe. At first view it appears that the pipe has the automatic pip code inserted, but in closer inspection Sonic is still off centre from it, so the player just held down in this case.
The Tails monitor is still present, but the player does not try to open it.
The Emerald Hill Zone seems much like the final. All of the final badniks are there, but the Snail robot from the BETA has been removed. Tails is shown here behind Sonic, meaning that the near final Tails code has been implemented. In the BETA, Tails stops behind Sonic, not right next to him.
Sonic's final balancing animations have been added to this version.
2 Player mode in Emerald Hill Zone. Tails now has his own icon, but his name still says Sonic. The score and rings counter for Tails have not been added yet, as they follow exactly whatever Sonic gets.
Tails now has the ability to fly, unlike the BETA version.
Tails has taken a hit from a Coconuts, but he does not effect Sonic's ring count like the BETA.
The first boss is still fairly complete, but now unlike the final, he leaves his cars' carcus behind. Both Robotnik and the leftover car automatically face right as soon as they have split. Robotnik also does not have his 'burnt' animations from when he is beaten.
Sonic in Chemical Plant zone with his final animations. There seems to be a missing item box here which gives you 10 rings, but it's missing.
At the very left is a diagonal piece of Chemical Plant Zone. This piece only appears in the BETA version, meaning they haven't gotten as far ahead in the level as they had with Emerald Hill.
In the final moments is another 3D animation featuring Sonic. some 3D pilons imitating End Zones boss in Sonic 1 appear, with an Orbinaut searching around.
Out of the pilon a T-1000 styled Sonic pops up, destroying the Orbinaut with a laser from his finger. Sonic then becomes solid and coloured.
The video finished with a final copyright message.
This is the front cover of the video. It also included footage of The Terminator, ThunderForce IV, Xenon 2, Splaterhouse 3 and Monaco GP 2.