Go into the options menu.
The cutting room floor sonic mania.
Designed as if it were a sega saturn followup to the genesis era titles sonic mania features a mix of brand new stages and remixed classics with a hearty dose of references to other sonic games other sonic media there s a nod to the ova in here and other sega stuff in general.
A christmas power ballad.
This enables the level select.
This marks one of the first prototypes that have been found for this game.
In the sound test play sounds 19 65 09 17 september 17 1965 being yuji naka s birthday.
Video game preservation websites hidden palace and the cutting room floor have uncovered another blast from the past.
A lot can change during development of a project.
As did the then sonic mania mod sonic legends which has since moved on as a fully featured fan game.
As a result the project s scope had changed drastically and a lot of tracks and zones were cut.
Like the first game sonic 2 has a well known level select.
Press start to return to the title screen.
The cutting room floor sonic.
While the shield moves have not been implemented yet unused code exists for other moves for sonic.
This prototype has a research article on tcrf.
Only sonic can perform this move.
Welcome to the cutting room in these episodes because i ran out of idea s and i need to put a video out i dig through my recorded footage folder to show you.
The response to sega s previous show sonic boom had been kind of mixed i mean mostly positive but some people weren t too sure about the take that sonic boom had but sonic mania adventures is.
This time it s an early sonic 3 prototype for the sega mega drive.
Press and hold up and jump and sonic will instantly spindash when he lands on the floor.
The cutting room floor research.
When the menu appears hold a and press start to bring up the level select screen.
Themajinv as sonic the hedgehog antoine fezzywig and the ghost of christmas future.
After almost 23 years classic sonic gameplay returns in all its 2d pixel perfect glory.
During the early development of sonic mania in 2016 the game was originally known as sonic discovery.
In fact an early title screen from back then still exists in the game s files which shows the full title of the game was sonic the hedgehog discovery.