The Cutting Room Floor Sonic 3 Prototype

Video game preservation websites hidden palace and the cutting room floor have uncovered another blast from the past.

The cutting room floor sonic 3 prototype.

This prototype has a research article on tcrf. The second half of the story is its direct sequel sonic knuckles. Sonic 3c 0517 dated may 17 1994. Differs from the other sonic knuckles prototypes in.

Early build of an unreleased version of sonic 3 while many things were still being implemented. Limited edition when this prototype was obtained by drx the file was labeled 3c indicating this was an unreleased version of sonic 3 due to the late development date it s obvious this isn t sonic 3 before it was split into two games. This time it s an early sonic 3 prototype for the sega mega drive this marks one of the first prototypes that have been found for this game. Notice the lack of shoe stripes.

The history of a hedgehog. Sonic 3c 0408 is a prototype for a canceled sonic 3 and sonic knuckles compilation that would have been called sonic the hedgehog 3. The cutting room floor research. Possibly would have been used when falling into lava like in marble zone.

A prototype version of sonic 3 containing features that would never make it into the final build has been discovered. Sonic the hedgehog 3 is the third game in the 16 bit sonic trilogy and the first game with the easily tricked by eggman redheaded echidna knuckles. Just before the limited edition sonic 3 was canceled one last prototype was made. Sonic the hedgehog 3 and sonic knuckles have similar unused sprites.

Sonic and knuckles 0525 dated may 25 1994. While the eproms have a date written on them the header suggests the rom might ve been built sometime in october. From the cutting room floor. This is also present still unused in sonic the hedgehog 2 and the v0 02 prototype of sonic cd.

A black and white death sprite whose purpose is unknown.