Unused Graphics

This is a sub-page of Sonic Mega Collection.

Sonic CD Menu Items#

Sonic the Hedgehog CD was planned to be included in Mega Collection, but all that remains in the final game (and the prototype from August 15th) is a crude placeholder graphic with "ソニック CD" (Sonic CD) written in it found in sonic/data/gameselect.tpl, and the game's European manual found in sonic/data/manual/z_toc##.tpl (## followed by numbers 00 to 69), z_socdb0.tpl and z_socds0.tpl.

Two differing reasons have been provided for Sonic CD being cut:

In an interview with GameSpot, Yuji Naka attributed its exclusion to "space constraints".
According to a former Sega of America tester, the developers could not get Sonic CD running well within the Sega Genesis/CD emulator they were using because they wanted to use the ADX format for the audio, and did not have time to rewrite the emulator before the deadline.

Sonic CD can be found in the Games and Manuals sections (with a description) in a prototype from August 15th, though it's not playable. Selecting the game results in Sonic the Hedgehog booting up instead. Sonic CD would eventually be included in Sonic Gems Collection, which used a port of the 1996 PC version rather than emulating the Sega CD original.

Demo Graphics#

A number of assets related to a playable Japanese demo version of the game can be found in sonic/demo. While a demo version of the game was playable in Gekkan Nintendo Tentou 2002.12.1, it just recycles the same menus as the final game, leaving these graphics unused. Some things of note:

The title screen uses the same visuals found in a prototype from August 15th.
For the title screen images, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is blanked out, while Sonic the Hedgehog 3 isn't. In the playable demo, this is the exact opposite, where Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is playable, but Sonic the Hedgehog 3 isn't.
The final screen after the demo ends (next.tpl) differs from what is used in the playable demo version. Even though next.tpl had its text altered, that demo also leaves this file unused in favor of demo_next_taiken.tpl.

logo.tpl#

title.tpl#

Japanese title screen, similar to the English prototype.

"Press Start" prompt. — "*Press Start*" prompt.

gameselect.tpl#

Background for the game selection screen.

Scrolling film reel. This graphic is used for the credit sequence.

Title screen for Sonic the Hedgehog 2, blanked out.

Title screen for Sonic Spinball, blanked out.

Title screen for Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, blanked out.

A message that reads "Sorry, but you can't play this yet."

next.tpl#

Ending screen. The text translates to "Thank you for playing! Look forward to lots more to play in Sonic Mega Collection, planned for release this winter!" — Ending screen. The text translates to "*Thank you for playing! Look forward to lots more to play in Sonic Mega Collection, planned for release this winter!*"