Live coverage of SEGA prototype launch! [Breaking: Torrent is ready!]
IT's HERE http://www.hidden-palace.org/?
The skypecast is starting now, and it's getting exciting! We will be doing LIVE coverage, so stay around for this live blogging event! We will have all the developments as they happen. Here's the info to be kind to Sonic Retro's servers:
"Sonic Community Radio Broadcast: Prototype Special
Starts Saturday 10pm GMT, 5pm EST
To celebrate drx releasing the SEGA of America Game Tester Archives to the internet, I'm hosting a live radio show streamed over Shoutcast with guests from around the world linked up through Skype (and yes this IS live). To listen, all you need is to either visit this URL:
http://www.randomsonicnet.org/skypecast/
or open Winamp, and listen to the streams:
Primary Gerbilsoft Stream
http://gs_server.gerbilsoft.ddns.info:8080/ 128kbps
Random Sonic Net
http://64.85.160.108:8080 128kbps
http://64.85.160.108:8090 24kbps (Dialup)"
Check out live coverage after the jump!
5:09 PM: They are doing intros, and getting trying to calm every down for a history lesson. Tweaker is taking the floor.
5:10 Tweaker is remembering how exciting the early days are, the first discoveries of zones like Hidden Palace Zone, and Wood Zone
5:11 Now they are talking about the Hidden Palace zone music left over in the Sonic 2 Final, and how people used to wonder what it was for.
5:13 They are discussing the Hidden Palace Zone. They are saying that HIdden Palace ZOne was supposed to be in the final, and seemed to be worked on for a long time, and that it was cut in the last minute. There is still some speculation about this.
5:15 lots of nostaliga going on. This is a great listen for anyone unfamiliar with the "Sonic Secrets Scene". We will try to get a complete Mp3 recording up when it's over.
5:17: Brenda Ross, a reliable source of info? She often said she didn't remember much because it was so long ago.
5:20 Icekinght has managed to get a hold of a lot of concept art by contacting Sonic Team employees. Apparently he has found clues that point to possible Time Travel ideas in Sonic 2, similar to sonic cd
5:23They are speculating about the design process of Hidden Palace Zone, and discussing how chaotic the develpment of the game must have been , with deadlines.
5:30 They are talking about Simon Wai, and how Simon Wai found Sonic 2 beta. Apparently Simon searched for SOinc 2 in Chinese and found it that way, after playing it at a rental shop
5:33 Tweaker is talking about Hidden Palace zone in Sonic 3. In the prototypes, there is an "S" monitor in the level. For super sonic?
5:39 "god is in this conversation" Apparently DRX joined. DRX confirms that the sonic prototypes have bosses, as opposed to Simon Wai's beta.
5:40 how dissapointing, Wood Zone is not in any of the the new protos.
5:44 "Are there huge differences that will make us shit bricks?" "YES"
5:47 Sonic 3 C protos contain lost enemies from the Sonic 3 manual, including a mouse.
5:55 5 minutes to go! Sonic Adventure DX proto on Gamecube has full debug mode, just like on the classic roms. It also is exactly the same as the Dreamcast Version.
5:59 HOLY CRAP IT'S ALMOST HERE. They are playing a medly of all the Sonic 3 music.
6:00 IT"S OUT GO GO GO http://www.hidden-palace.org/?
6:10 Torrent bits are flying everywhere, and there is talk about getting just the sonic roms hosted somewhere, as this is going to take forever. Need more seeders!
6:13 The roms from the SEGA Pico are the first public Pico roms in history!
6:19 typical Sonic Scene, people are arguing in the Skypecast. Also still waiting for mirrors of the Sonic Protos.
6:30 This is "the biggest prototype release EVER"
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
MK said 5:50PM on 2-23-2008
"Sonic 3 C" refers to the complete Sonic 3, what we know as Sonic 3 and Knuckles. They do not have a prototype of Sonic 3 A (what we know as Sonic 3 alone).
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Nick said 5:33AM on 2-24-2008
I've downloaded them, but how do I play them?
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Daniel said 6:02PM on 2-25-2008
Where can I find A torrent of the protos include URL please as long as it donwloads in winzip or something close.
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Daniel said 6:58PM on 2-24-2008
Where can I find A torrent of the protos include URL please as long as it donwloads in winzip or something close.
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