Sonic R LOST BITS | Prototypes & Unused Content [TetraBitGaming]

Been a bit since the last Sonic Lost Bits video, but we're back and we're feeling the sunshine today as I finally check out Sonic R! This game has a really cool development history, and thanks to the games lead developer, Jon Burton, we've been able to get an awesome glimpse into some early builds of the game. Lots has changed or been removed from the earlier builds leading up to the final release, there's a really cool prototype of Sonic R that was dumped online and there's even some leftover unused content to boot! Hope you enjoy!

Main Sources:
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Sections:
0:00 - Intro
0:49 - Earliest Prototype Builds
1:36 - Version 0.1 Build
3:36 - Version 0.2 Build
5:46 - Version 0.3/SonicTT3 Build
7:14 - Additional GameHut Videos
8:18 - More Early Builds
11:54 - Playable Prototype Build
18:05 - More scrapped content
19:35 - PC/Gems Collection Version

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[justsomesimplenuclearbirbs]

Something funny about the publicly available prototype is if you look *very* closely at the sole of Sonic's shoes they're gray instead of red which predates Sonic Adventure by a year and one month.

This also marks one of two times Classic Sonic has gray soles as in Sonic Generations 3DS, the higher poly model used for Classic Sonic during cutscenes is also used during the results screen and uses textures from Modern Sonic for some unknown reason. This can easily be seen in-game when clearing a stage with an S Rank.

[VOLATILEVOXELS]

Would you consider doing a lost bits on Rayman? There are some unused objects for Rayman 1, an SNES prototype for Rayman 1, and a prototype for Rayman 2 that would play just like Rayman 1. I’ve recently become obsessed with Rayman and I’d love for some others to get to see its history!

[TheDerpyDolphin]

This is actually one of my favorite 3D Sonic games, despite it having very little content. It's just fun to go back to every once in a while.

[Essu_]

That's not a random employee singing Super Sonic Racing (that's not Can you Feel the Sunshine, either-) for the advertisement.

It's still TJ Davis, just a demo recording.

[firedreadyblocks]

I still play the PC version to this day. Once you get used to the unusual controls, this game is great.

[Hotdoggos-xsdq]

If i had actual game development experience, i wouldnt even hesitate to make a remake of this game.

[zakuronakashima]

I wish we could get those prototype versions of the OST. I love TJ's vocals immensely but I wanna hear that beta version so badly. XD

[OHapybara]

Bruh that prototype is from the DAY I WAS BORN

Same year and everything, it was red nose day that year too

That prototype is just as old as I am, that's wild af

[MatchaFoxx]

Omg, this was so unexpected but I’m so excited! This is one of my favorite games of all time for so many reasons. Not to mention Gamehut gave us some of the absolute best behind the scenes stuff of any game ever imo.

[petergriscom]

Sonic R's music is so good. I wish they could've got TJ Davis to sing for more Sonic games. The end credits theme for Sonic Shuffle always did sound like it was meant to have lyrics.

[Mike]

One cool use that the Fire Shield could've had would be that it could activate unique traps through the course. Y'know, burn wooden bridges so that characters could accidentally fall into the water, or light puddles of oil on fire. Maybe even break some wooden doors or crates blocking short cuts, stuff like that.

[EnergyBurst]

Very cool. My first experience with Sonic R was the PC version and I was pretty young at that time and both me and my brother wound up hating the game for how hard it was to control, however a few years down the line we would wind up getting the sonic Gems collection and tried the game again and found.... that we still didn't like it, but maybe 5 years after that I would wind up playing Gems again and decided to give the game a good hard try and see if I could get the hang of it and found that I actually liked the game for how quick and relatively easy it was to beat once you figured out how to actually play it properly and have loved the game ever since so it was cool to learn about these early versions as well as the scrapped modes and the 4 player online capability.

[BasVoet]

Very nice how John Burton released all this info about these old versions!

[sonicandfridaynightfunkin]

11:21 uh dude the song "can you feel the sunshine" was not added in the build as of yet this is the really version of the song "super sonic racing" the main theme of sonic r

[Echolovania]

11:19 The song is Super Sonic Racing, it had to be hard to hear over the very enthusiastic Japanese fella.

[taylorusedtoxic]

One thing i've never seen mentioned for this game is that in the manual for the PAL release of the game, it states that Knuckles has the ability to climb walls.

I was disappointed as a kid to learn that he cannot.

I wonder if this was cut or just an oversight?

[Electro-Punk-]

that early city map would've been cool to race on in the final game

[NintendistaZueiro]

12:08 oh, so it was here that the grey sole came from

[hedgethewedge]

Finally, a Lost Bits on one of the most underrated Sonic games!

[PureUnoriginality]

I loved that moment when Tails doll said: "It's Racing time" and and overtook Super Sonic from the 1st place