New Sonic 2 prototype?

[Elusive]

News stolen from UK Resistance :]

Assuming it's not a fake, this looks interesting - it's an earlier version than the .bin that has been floating around the Internet since 1999. From what I can make out, there was quite the sum of money involved in obtaining this - whereas all Simon Wai had to do for the 1999 version was download a .bin from a Chinese webpage

(funnily enough the paedophile that ran Sonic Cult 'found' Sonic Crackers the same way. Now it's on Sega of Japan's game download service - how odd.)

[Genesis Knight]

Thanks for the heads-up. I don't circulate these sorts of sites as much as I should.

[RaveFury]

Holy crap! I've been waiting for this so long, I thought I didn't care anymore. ...but I still do. Time to haunt the Sonic Beta forms again.

[Joe Redifer]

The British spelling of "pedophile" sure is bizarre.

[Mr Smith]

The British spelling of "pedophile" sure is bizarre.

Unlike America we don't remove letters to make words easier to spell.

What's the level select code for this version? It seems odd that they would fiddle around with that at the testing stage.

[Elusive]

Unlike America we don't remove letters to make words easier to spell.

What's the level select code for this version? It seems odd that they would fiddle around with that at the testing stage.

Same as the Japanese Sonic 1: UDDDDU A+Start. It's just another iota of proof that Sonic 2 is built directly off of Sonic 1.

Some clever little things I noticed: Go down the first tube in Hidden Palace, and smack into the step things at top speed. Ouch Also, GREEN HILL ZONE

edit: GK - It's OK, I'm more than happy to serve as the Sega-16 News Desk