Sonic Adventure 2 Cut and Unused Content, Differences, Test Stages, Betas, Demos, Prototypes, Trivia and Secrets
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Music:
Sonic 30th Anniversary Symphony – Chao Garden Intermission
Sonic Adventure 2 – Dive Into the Mellow …for Aquatic Mine
Sonic Adventure 2 – Fly in the Freedom
0:00 – Intro
1:20 – Development
11:25 – Trivia
25:26 – Important Info & Outro
33 Comments
First here
frick Cmg708, he beat me here
Babe wake up, Cifesk uploaded
11:31 cifesk? really? 😭
13:33 you know Cifesk this is also happened to Sonic and Shadow having thier Own Drowning animations like Rouge and Knuckles when you Managed to Hacked the Game to Play Sonic and Shadow in Aquatic Mine Zone
And sa2 is still a great game even today, I’m glad you covered every contents of this game and it’s really fun watching them, keep up the good work for more sonic contents 👍🏻
5:52 You might be the first SA2 facts video I've seen to at least acknowledge that the "refection of" definition of Terios is unsourced. Everyone else just repeats that line, but never elaborates from which language.
I think it's similar to the Mr. Needlemouse situation. A common misconception within the English fandom that went unquestioned for many years.
3:37 Please don't use "prequel" like that, it's wrong. A more appropriate word here is predecessor. A prequel is a "pre-sequel", i.e. a sequel with a story that chronologically takes place before that of its predecessor. Since Sonic 1 is not a sequel to Sonic 2, it cannot be its "prequel".
Apart from that, great video as usual!
Some of the author comments made things more clear to me in ways I didn't expect.
I hope frontiers 2 has similar vibes
FUCK I LOVE SA2
ohh the audio fix mod is amazing
LET'S FREAKING GO 🙌
Sonic Adventure 2 is such a weird game. The last Sonic game on a SEGA console, and a sequel to the ever-beloved Sonic Adventure. However, SA2 has faced much more debate over if the game is truely “good” or not. I don’t like the game personally, but I like to see how the game was developed and its history, to better try to understand the game and love this game like how some fans do. I hope that some day, I truely will learn to love SA2. Your videos are a stepping stone to finding that love. Thank you for another amazing video!
Here before this blows up
Great video as usual.
I was wondering if you’ve been thinking about making a video about Frontiers,I noticed that there aren’t a lot of videos about its beta content or its development.
Awesome video. Glad I subscribed, keep up the good work. 😎👍
11:54 This is false, I tested the game on a burned CD and this never occurred. I believe what happened in this footage is either a damaged disc or corrupted sector. The game itself has no GD rom checks.
the dreamcast fucking sucks lmao
If I remember correctly, you can also use the Chao Key glitch to access to other stages. You had to play multiplayer, set the number of battles to 3 and then proceed to win, after that you do the glitch and it transports you to the last played stage in multiplayer, I used to do that a lot on the GameCube version with the Crazy Gadget key
There was also a way for it to transport you to Finalhazard but that I don't remember
Nice video!
Regarding the Debug Room wrong warp, the Tails and Knuckles versions only work on steam and only if you have the right resolution (16:9?)
Also Shadow has one similar to Sonic's, but on White Jungle. However, the checkpoint isn't near the chao create, so its a rush to get there in time.
I think Eggman had one too, but I forget the details.
Can you make a video about SA2 next?
Pages like you don’t get enough love you can you actually try and put tremendous amount of work into your videos keep it up subscribed ❤
I definitely wanna know about this, the final game seems like it could've used at least two more years in the oven.
Did he imply every video essay takes place in 1991? What timeline are we in?
Money
Just saved you 26 minutes
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38 is a number that commonly shows up in the samba de amigo series. In japanese 3 can be read as san and i believe 8 can rarely be read as ba, which creates the wordplay "sanba"
ANOTHER KINO UPLOAD!!!
I remember being able to drown as Tails in the Chao Garden, but I've always wondered why they added a drowning animation for him despite none of his levels having Water, or him being able to leave his Mech at all. That always gets me thinking about the fact that only Knuckles and Rouge every interact with water in this game, and if Sonic had water in his stages, would he get a drowning animation too?
Awesome video! This game is my whole life and i love looking into glitches!
Ayyy my bois Hoppy & Shaddatic got noticed at the end LET’S GOOOO 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
I’ve seen a few comments on why Tails has a drowning animation. Here’s a quick explanation for that.
SA2 has an animation file called “plcommtn.prs” (Player Common Motion). This is universally used for all characters, except for Mechs and Eggman. This means that all ground characters can drown! This is also a way of how Sonic Team were able to optimise the game, by reducing how many (separate) animations per character are stored in RAM.
It’s also another reason as to why everyone’s arms are detached from the body to make these common animations look more natural.
Innovative for the vanilla release! For modded SA2, this is a nightmare to deal with 😭
Not to nitpick, but you confused me and probably others when the Stage select segment had Trivia written while the segment was about development. I'd suggest to review your video before uploading, since I see that you can make mistakes every video.