Still looking for Unreleased Sonic Xtreme Builds.

Jade Gully Act 2-4





Breakable wall, Hidden room!

Jade Gully Act 2-5

 

Wow, that's really cool. Looks like they did actually get going on some full fledged levels! I wonder if there's breaks in the level for loading or if that was just gonna be a quick black screen.

 

Yeah I'm betting 5 minute load times after 5 seconds of running threw the stage.
I remember Chris saying that music would change depending on where sonic was at in a level. or something along them lines.

 

Lol, I mean between Act 2-1, 2-2 etc. since they are different maps to load, right? So when sonic gets sucked in after pressing the switch, I'm wondering if there'd be much load time before the 2-2 sequence through the river starts. I guess they're fairly simple sequences, I'm sure they could have got it loading fairly quick I suppose.
Oh nice, they really did have a lot of plans for this game. Really curious how that would have sounded.

 

haha, I knew what you meant, and my response was sarcastic sorry, I was being sarcastic with the 5 minute load times, but it may have been a possibility! Any kind of load times would have been very annoying. but a fact of life on Saturn if it were finished for Saturn. Even on the PC there would have been a short load time even with the small areas.

 

Well Saturn had better loading times than Playstation usually, like in Sonic 3D Blast, when the 3D special stage was loaded in, they got away without a loading screen and it doesn't seem like a long wait at the black screen. Going back to the 2D maps was a different story mind you..
Damn this Jade Gully find is too cool, I'm just imagining how it would have played out in the fish eye engine

 

While this is highly unlikely, the idea of having Sonic pass through areas to trigger a load sequence gives me the impression that at least this concept was recycled for Adventure, though it's probably just coincidental. As for how long any disc accessing between sub-levels might have been, I suspect you'd only need to seek for new geometry and collision data (plus the new music, of course), with the majority of textures being retained from the last section - isn't that usually where most of the waiting comes from? I reckon a little optimisation and clever file placement on the disc could have reduced any pauses down to a few seconds at the very most... Sadly, we may never know for certain.