Interestingly, despite the labels, not only does the NPDP 2 prototype resembles the (currently-undumped) 10.13 prototype, but certain screenshots in the US GameCube manual appear to match up with what's shown in this build.
In the NPDP 2 prototype, it has no GameCube banner, much like the earlier GameCubeprototypes. However, in the NPDP prototype, it uses a GameCube banner that was previously unused in the GameCube's "Trial Version" demo. The final Japanese version uses a different graphic.
The early CG Theater icons (which were unused before) can now be seen in the CG Theater menu.
Egg Emperor can not be played if the player resumes the story starting with Egg Fleet.
For whatever reason, starting the story mode first crashes the game if there are no stages completed. If any story segment is completed and the player is picking the starting stage, the story mode works fine.
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Yuji Naka
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Takashi Iizuka
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Kazuyuki Hoshino
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Jun Senoue
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Shiro Maekawa
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Nobuhiko Honda
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Masatoshi Shitara
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Andrei Belkin
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Noah Musler
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Yuji Naka
Director
Takashi Iizuka
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Kazuyuki Hoshino
Main Programmer
Tetsu Katano
Main Game Designer
Shiro Maekawa
Sound Director
Jun Senoue
Player Designer
Nobuhiko Honda
Player Motion Designer
Atsushi Saito
Player Programmer
Tetsu Katano
Level Designers
Takashi Iizuka
Eitaro Toyoda
Stage Programmers
Takeshi Sakakibara
Makiko Nishimura
Tomoyuki Naito
Field Art Director
Hiroshi Nishiyama
Field Artists
Yoshitaka Miura
Takahiro Kudo
Michikazu Tamamura
Daizo Kinoshita
Enemy Game Designer
Shiro Maekawa
Enemy Designer
Kazuyuki Hoshino
Enemy Programmers
Masato Nakazawa
Makiko Nishimura
Makoto Suzuki
Tetsu Katano
S-Stage Game Designer
Kenjiro Morimoto
S-Stage Artists
Kaori Hitsuda
Michio Abe
S-Stage Programmers
Shinya Matsunami
Hiroshi Iwasaki
Masatoshi Shitara
Scenario Writer
Shiro Maekawa
Event Scene Artist
Nobuhiko Honda
Story Event Programmer
Takeshi Sakakibara
Menu Screen Programmer
Makoto Suzuki
Menu Screen Artists
Yuji Uekawa
Takeshi Ichimura
Ryutaro Ishihara
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Makoto Suzuki
Multi Platform Artist
Ryutaro Ishihara
Development Support
Yoshitaka Kawabata
Shinya Matsunami
Tomonori Fukazawa
Shun Nakamura
Soosa Kim
CG Movie Producer
Keith Palmer
CG Movie Director
Takashi Iizuka
Story Board Designers
Shiro Maekawa
Kazuyuki Hoshino
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Executive Coordinator
Tatsuya Kouzaki
Lead Music Composer
Jun Senoue
Music Composers
Naofumi Hataya
Yutaka Minobe
Tomoya Ohtani
Keiichi Sugiyama
Hideaki Kobayashi
Mariko Nanba
Teruhiko Nakagawa
Fumie Kumatani
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Jun Senoue
Takashi Endoh
Tomonori Sawada
Tatsuyuki Maeda
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Shigeharu Isoda
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SONIC HEROES
by Crush 40
WE CAN
by Ted Poley
& Tony Harnell
THIS MACHINE
by Julien-k
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by Kay Hanley
TEAM CHAOTIX
by Gunnar Nelson
from the NELSONS
WHAT I'M MADE OF...
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Kazuo Koizumi
Recording Coordinators
Jun Senoue
Atsushi SUSHI Kosugi
(Beat on Beat, inc.)
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Takashi Nagasako
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Yuki Masuda
Youko Teppouzuka
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Chikao Otsuka
Voice Recording Producer
Hiroyuki Inage
(TOHOKUSHINSHA)
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Eriko Kimura
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Akinori Nishiyama
English Voices
Ryan Drummond
William Corkery
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David Humphrey
Lani Minella
Jon St. John
Jenny Douillard
Sarah Wulfeck
Marc Biagi
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Lani Minella
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Rick Bowman
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Keith Palmer
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Miyoshi Takao
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Hisao Oguchi
Consumer Division
Hideki Okamura
Masanao Maeda
Development Division
Toshihiro Nagoshi
Toshiro Nakayama
Yusuke Asano
Marketing
Naoko Ooka
Mariko Takeda
Hideki Youkaichiya
Public Relations
Yasushi Nagumo
Yoko Nagasawa
International Business
Tatsuyuki Miyazaki
Yusuke Suai
Creative Center
Takashi Ando
Kazuyoshi Hara
Ryo Suenaga
Tooru Sasaki
Yuki Kobayashi
Noriyuki Tarumi
Customer Relationship
Yutaka Shoji
Nobuyuki Inoue
TEST Department
Junichi Shimizu
Akira Nishikawa
Akira Terasawa
Satoshi Kuwano
QC Department
Kazuhiko Morii
Yuji Nakamura
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Hideaki Irie
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Yosuke Moriya
Director of PD
Osamu Shibamiya
Sr. Release Manager
Andrei Belkin
Product Manager
Noah Musler
Marketing Consultant
Lori Von Rueden
Advertising Manager
Teri Higgins
Creative Services
Arianne McCarthy
Public Relations Manager
Bret Blount
Director of QA
Deborah Kirkham
Offshore Project Manager
Shawn Dobbins
SEGA EUROPE, LTD.
President and COO
Naoya Tsurumi
Executive Vice President
Jin Shimazaki
Mike Sherlock
Senior Producer
Matt O'driscol
Localization Producer
Kuniyo Matsumoto
Technical Producer
Elliot Martin
Marketing Director
Matthew Woodley
Marketing Manager
Gary Knight
Product Manager
Mathew Quaeck
Translators
Giuseppe Rizzo
Brigitte Nadesan
Marta Lois Gonzalez
Zuzanna Zabkova
Quality Assurance
Darius Sadeghian
David Smith
Roy Boateng
Chris Geiles
Special Thanks
Shinobu Toyoda
Yukio Aoyama
Atsushi Kanno
Masaya Amano
Mizuki Hosoyamada
Sachiko Kawamura
Yasuko Maruyama
Tomomi Silverman
Miyuki Friedman
ESP guitars
LINE 6
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Presented by
SEGA
Original Game [Copyright] SEGA
[Copyright] SONICTEAM / SEGA,
2003
While the staff credits text is a lot further along than thepreviousbuilds (with all of the placeholder names gone), both prototypes still contain differences:
The extra spaces before the credits scroll still haven't been added.
The "SONIC HEROES" text now features the word "STAFF".
Team Rose's stages appear to be the same length as in the final version. This is longer than the other NPDP build, which itself were shorter than in the 10.8 prototype.
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