Sonic and the Black Knight

Developer CommentsMerlina: Here lies the sacred text by folks of a bygone era. Sonic and the Secret Rings LeftoversDark Queen: Foolish pointless leftovers that does nothing but waste precious space on the disc.

Unused Models#

PrimModels#

primModels.one contains basic geometric objects for debugging purposes. Several of these models are also taken from Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic and the Secret Rings, and the SD version of Sonic Unleashed.

Stg901#

Stg901 has a test level that goes around in a loop. It's mostly similar to the unused test level in Sonic and the Secret Rings.

Stg902#

Stg902 contains the entirety of Sand Oasis, the second level in Sonic and the Secret Rings. This was likely used as a placeholder stage during development.

Stg903#

Stg903 features a test level with long dirt roads surrounded by grass and mountains.

Stg904#

Within stg904, there's a test level with multiple different curves and angles. It also has some water for Sonic to walk through.

Stg905#

Stg905 contains a test level that's purely meant to test the width for platforms, shown by the text on the grass.

Silver#

CH.SILVER.gno has a unused model of Silver in his non-armored outfit. Considering you can play as Shadow, Knuckles, and Blaze in their normal attire, the same was likely going to happen for Silver before the idea was scrapped.

Jet/Sir Lamorak eyes#

Jet aka Sir Lamorak actually has eyes under his helmet, which is never seen normally in-game.

Green Fish-One#

There's a green variant of the "Fish-One" enemy type, which is never encountered anywhere in the game.

Number 1 & 2#

Two pillars with the numbers "one" and "two" can be found in water_test.gno and the stg902 folder, which contains Sand Oasis. What makes it odd is that the model cannot be found in the folder that has Sand Oasis in Sonic and the Secret Rings, meaning this was added during Black Knight's development.

Purple Triangle#

Root.gno contains a pretty simple purple triangle. What it was originally used for is currently unknown.

Unused Animations#

King Arthur Camera Test#

"ARTH_CAM_TEST.GND" contains a camera animation meant for testing purposes during the King Arthur boss fight. The camera starts deep into the ground before slowly rising up.

Earth Dragon#

"STG400D_DRAGON_TEST01.GNM" has a test animation for the Earth Dragon, which the model does nothing but sway to the left and right while the bottom half of it is visibly broken.

Unused Cinematics#

e00018.sfd/e0210.sfd#

The movie folder contains two byte-for-byte identical SFD files with different names: e0018.sfd and e0210.sfd. They contain no audio and appear to be a very slightly earlier version of the sixth cutscene in the game, with most of the differences being in colors and closeup details, as well as an uncropped frame (all the "storybook"-style cutscenes in the final game are cropped by 20 pixels at the sides).

Oddly enough, the Japanese subtitles that are part of the movies also refer to Merlina as "Merlin", possibly due to a typo. The final game's cutscenes don't bake in the subtitles, presumably for localization purposes.

Unused Sounds#

Gale Drive#

Sonic's gameplay voice clip directory includes two unused audio files. The first indicates an attack is ready, while the other is Sonic calling out some sort of "Gale Drive" move.

"Blitz" Quotes#

The four main playable characters (Sonic, Shadow/Lancelot, Knuckles/Gawain, and Blaze/Percival) all have unused voice lines referring to "Blitz" status effects. There are six total: Fire Blitz, Thunder Blitz, Ice Blitz, Venom Blitz, Panic Blitz, and Stone Blitz. Each attack's effects are described, sounding like some sort of special enemy or boss would make use of them. There are also sounds for an enemy called the "evilgazer" (e.g. "Synth_SRT_B4_ENEMY_40009_evilgazer_thunder_wav") that matches up with these effects.

Some voice files seem incomplete, reusing previous clips as placeholders or including the voice actors breathing between takes.

Sonic#

Shadow/Sir Lancelot#

Knuckles/Sir Gawain#

Blaze/Sir Percival#

References#