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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?
[[File:Sonic_2_Delta.jpg|thumb|Sonic 2 Delta Title Screen]]
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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.
One look at the level select screen and I noticed two things were different: One, it was the Sonic 1 level select; and there were four added levels: Wood Zone, Hidden Palace Zone, Dust Hill Zone, and Genocide City Zone…weird. I selected Green Hill Zone Act 1. Green Hill Zone loaded, exactly like it was from Sonic 1. The only thing different was that it was really glitchy. My explanation of this could only be that the physics for Sonic 2 were really off when Sega was creating it, and eventually stuck to Sonic 1, although it was a new code altogether. It was a garbled mess, and it took me around sixteen tries just getting through Act 1. I eventually got to the boss though, which was even more of a garbled mess and when I thought I hit it, it was just an illusion. When I beat the boss, I thought to myself, "Ok, Emerald Hill Zone is bound to be next, right?
I collected fifty rings and decided to try my luck at the special stage; Success. Although when the results screen came up, there was no "Now Sonic can be Super Sonic!
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.
[[File:Sonic_2_Beta....jpg|thumb]]
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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.
I reset the game. Tails still wasn’t on the title screen, but what good can I do to him now? I started the game. Genocide City again, but this time there was a few rings and less lava pits. I managed to scrape together fifty rings and try to get a chaos emerald. There were no Rings, but wave after wave after wave of bombs came after me. It started with about three at a time, so those were easy to dodge, but then four at a time, seven at a time, twelve at a time…eventually, there were twenty at a time and I couldn’t dodge them. I tripped and hit a bomb and static played for twenty seconds. The results screen played with that familiar text, but this time "You can’t reverse your mistakes.
"You will avenge
"You cannot fix what you have
No matter how many times I tried to jump, messages like that came up. I just gave up and went to the end of the level. I jumped over the gap and passed the sign post, and this time I did the trick that let you control Sonic (run so Sonic isn’t onscreen and then jump a couple of times) and sure enough, this time Sonic didn’t jump into the pit. Then the words "That won’t bring him back.
"黙って、まだであること あなたが彼を殺した ただ静かに あなたは、あなたが何をやったかを知っている 泣いてはいけない 彼はあなたが彼を救うことができなかった知っている カレブは、右? あなたはテイルスを救うことができなかった」ことを、ソニックと夢中だ。 テイルスは今あなたを嫌っている'.
I don’t understand Japanese, so I went to my trusty translator, and this came up in the results screen:
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"In silence', that it is still You killed him Just quietly You know what you've done
Do not cry He knows it was you that could not save him, not Sonic Right, Caleb??
You were so crazy about Sonic, that you were not able to save Tails Tails hates you now.
My heart almost stopped. How could the game have known my name? I started the game. Japanese text appeared:
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[[File:CAN_YOU_FEEL_THE_SUNSHINE.jpg|thumb|CAN YOU FEEL THE SUNSHINE???]]
ジェノサイド·シティtranslated to "Genocide City Zone.
私は神です。もう一度あなたの小さな青の友人とプレイすることになることはありません。It translates into "I am God.
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.
[[File:HA.jpg|thumb|Error Message]]
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