The Music: Included are two SPC -> IT dumps from another beta game: Star Fox 2. Also added a minor secret using the new horizontal poles (Masking is intentional, as I’ve noticed sometimes you just can’t get the height needed). Some things just don’t translate well to JJ2). Only 2 types of enemies inhabit this stage: the ones as close to the Dinobot and Batbot (behavior-wise) as I could find.ĪDDED: I’ve gone in and added some moving spikes (bugs are possible, though. Where the level is supposed to end in a recent hack, a warp has been placed instead, taking you back to the start. Going up the steep ramp near the end will lead you to a warp where the original level is supposed to wrap.

There is no actual end to the level either. Some minor tweaks have been made, mostly in making the ‘blocks’ fit better. This is not a COMPLETELY accurate translation, however. The level (made mostly as a tileset demo level) is a recreation of Sonic 2 Beta’s Hidden Palace Zone Act 1. Due to the sheer volume of tiles necessary even before animation, this is a TSF- ONLY tileset (1,170 before creating any animation).ĪDDED: Horizontal and vertical poles, as well as animating ‘pole end’ tiles (in the colors of some of the background art). All known stage animation is in, and cycling palette art found in the game has been converted to animating tiles. This tileset can build all of the 128×128 ‘blocks’ Sonic 2 uses for its level structure. This ROM image has the most complete version of Hidden Palace known. In early ’99, a person by the name of Simon Wai found the prototype game as a ROM image on a Chinese website.

Before 1999, all we could do was wonder what this level would have been like. However, when the final version of the game was released on November 24, 1992, this stage was conspicuously absent. This level was in magazine preview screenshots in the early parts of 1992 due to its completeness at the time the prerelease cartridge was given to the press. This is a tileset and level made with art from Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (beta)’s Hidden Palace Zone.

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