Sonic 2: The Lost Beta: Difference between revisions

 

I was playing Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on my Sega Genesis when I decided to see if there were any earlier versions of it. I managed to find a copy of Sonic 2 Beta 4 on eBay.

A look at the cartridge and I thought it was really banged up…well, anyway, "Let's play the game, right? Nothing wrong could happen, now?" I thought. I put the cartridge in the hardware I had installed on my laptop, the Genesis cartridge slot. The title screen came up, same as normal, but a few things were different.

 

 

It was a lot different than the title screen of the normal Sonic 2, but I paid no attention to it and decided to enter the level select option, Up Down Down Down Down Up A at the title screen.

It looked like a cross between Metropolis Zone act 2 and Chemical Plant Zone act 1 from Sonic 2 Final Version. There were no monitors except for the Robotnik monitor, the teleport monitor and the ? monitor, and they were placed in really easy to grab places, making this level excruciatingly difficult, and there was lava and spikes everywhere. The Robotnik monitor makes you lose all your rings, or lose a life, the teleport monitor warps you back to the beginning of the level, and the ? monitor can be either, considering the monitor gives you any item at all, at random. There were also and monitors as well, but they could only be placed using debug mode, and when I tried to hit them, an earsplitting buzzer noise played, like I was pressing a menu option I wasn't allowed to. There wasn't a Ring in sight, so I had to be extremely careful. I waited until a platform rose out of the lava and jumped on it, and then I waited for another one, etcetera until I hit the other side of the lava pit. I then saw a Ring, but it was bright red and glowing, and so I thought to myself "It may be explosive." and jumped over it. I had no rings whatsoever, so I had to be extremely careful. It wasn't TOO hard, as it was just a flat stretch of land that went for about five minutes. There were no enemies, and in their places, were the animals Sonic freed, but they were just lying there. Pretty soon, the animals increased in number, piling on the ground in front of my horrified eyes. On top of that, banjo music was playing in reverse in the background. I couldn't place what the song was, but it didn't matter. A message came up: "We can't make this TOO easy for you, can we?" and all of a sudden, the game threw in spikes at the most random times. I had to time my jumps almost perfectly. I made it to the end of the Zone, and there was a floor gap. I jumped over the gap, thinking that when the signpost stopped Sonic would run to the right, but that didn't happen. I lost control of Sonic, but he looked at the floor gap, and then jumped into it. The screen faded to black and the words "You can't bring back the dead" appeared. The normal game over screen appeared. I remembered I had some continues, but when I pressed start, that earsplitting buzzer noise happened again. No matter how many times I pressed start, A, or B, that earsplitting buzzer noise happened. I returned to the title screen, and everything was normal…until I took a break to use the bathroom. When I came back, I got the biggest shock of my life. The demo screen was playing and when I returned to the title screen...the following happened:

 

 

Tails wasn't there. And Sonic didn't seem to notice. It freaked me out. I deleted my progress and reinstalled the cart. Tails still wasn't on the title screen. I entered the level select code again, but then the game crashed and a single note played infinitely, and it was earsplitting loud.

My heart almost stopped. How could the game have known my name? I started the game. Japanese text appeared:

 

 

ジェノサイド·シティtranslated to "Genocide City Zone." Great. I pondered over why this version had Japanese text. Then I thought: "Crud, I must have downloaded a Japanese rom." I enabled デバッグモー'ド', which as you all know is Debug Mode. I cycled through the objects, and this time my heart did stop when I saw the Tails Doll object. I had to check this out. I placed the Tails Doll object. He was exactly the way Tails looks, except that he had his eyes gouged out and his fur was dark grey, and he was oblivious to all that surrounded him until I exited Debug Mode. Tails and Sonic notice each other. I lost control of Sonic and he ran across the level by himself, and I'm guessing that "Tails" is chasing him. Sonic sees the gap and jumps into it. The screen fades out to black. More Japanese text:

This screen really freaked me out. I didn't even KNOW Tails Doll would be in my game. I texted a picture of it to Brenden and he said "Tails Doll hacked your game." I pondered that for a moment, that it might not be the only hacked version of the game, but then I realized that this game wasn't hacked…it was much more than hacked. It was haunted. I looked the glitch up online when the following error message appeared:

 

 

It took forever to get my computer to turn on. When I got it back on finally, my computer blue screened, then a picture of Tails Doll appeared again at a three second interval, three times

Only thing was, it was really far away when it first appeared, then it appeared again even closer, and then it was so close I could hardly bear it. My computer blacked out, and one final error message appeared:

 

 

All I could do was press yes, and my computer broke.

 

This is a true story.

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