watching a video of someone trying to play the beta sonic 2 green hill zone and I looked at the ring counter and my inner UTDR fan said to me "that's an undertale reference right there"
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Oh im even more delusional i didnt even think of the currency i saw the censored text around the G and thought 'holy shit its ding gaster the royal acientist'
What's actually happening here is: At this point in development, Green Hill had been converted into a split-screen/two-player stage, seemingly to test the engine. Due to two-player made requiring more VRAM (space for the art to be stored), the few bits of object art that remained...
[tbc]
...had to be shifted around. In this case, the purple rocks were moved into the position the HUD was loaded in, overwriting it permanently as the HUD art is only loaded once. The red debug text is simply a holdover from Sonic 1's palette format, that red formerly being where a white was located.
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What's actually happening here is: At this point in development, Green Hill had been converted into a split-screen/two-player stage, seemingly to test the engine. Due to two-player made requiring more VRAM (space for the art to be stored), the few bits of object art that remained...
[tbc]