olaf Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 For those of you who don't know, a very early version of Sonic X-treme has been released. The version is a well-known tech demo that was, as the story has it, stolen from a Sega employee's car and sold to a collector(s). Following that, that person(s) sold it to some other collector who in turn, released it on the Internet earlier this month. The tech demo only features one level (an early version of what was to become Jade Gully -- which has been seen in later demonstrations of Sonic X-treme). There is very little roaming room in this one "level" demonstration -- but it's nice to play a piece of history. I'm not telling you where you can download this release -- but this is a friendly notice that it is out-and-about on the Internet now. Hopefully, in the coming years, we'll see a later and more complete version of Sonic X-treme released. I haven't tried it on an emulator, but I did burn it to a CD-R and play it on my actual Sega Saturn. With this and the Sonic 2 Beta and Alpha finally released -- all I need now is a later Sonic X-treme and I can die happy. P.S.: If you manage to find a release, make sure you scan it for viruses... there was an early one with a virus tagged to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mooney Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 Looks cool! I remember a story from 06 where a guy bought the demo for $2500. I wonder how he feels now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iq_132 Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 mind posting the crcs/sizes for the bin you've got? Looks like there's a lot of junk out there for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devia Eleven Posted July 19, 2007 Share Posted July 19, 2007 SSF runs it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olaf Posted July 19, 2007 Author Share Posted July 19, 2007 Looks cool! I remember a story from 06 where a guy bought the demo for $2500. I wonder how he feels now...That's the guy I was talking about above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucandrake Posted July 19, 2007 Share Posted July 19, 2007 I didn't even know, this game was in the making and canceled, I didn't know ANYTHING about a Sonic X-treme. It looks, awesome!! I wanna play!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olaf Posted July 19, 2007 Author Share Posted July 19, 2007 I didn't even know, this game was in the making and canceled, I didn't know ANYTHING about a Sonic X-treme. It looks, awesome!! I wanna play!!Welcome to the club, I've been waiting my whole childhood... and that's over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Posted July 19, 2007 Share Posted July 19, 2007 Besides the history of how this game finally got dumped ... The music sounded great, but everything looked graphically unimpressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olaf Posted July 19, 2007 Author Share Posted July 19, 2007 Besides the history of how this game finally got dumped ... The music sounded great, but everything looked graphically unimpressive. This is the alpha... and it's a Sega Saturn game -- not Sega Dreamcast or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cominus Posted July 19, 2007 Share Posted July 19, 2007 This level is awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olaf Posted July 19, 2007 Author Share Posted July 19, 2007 This level is awesome. Yeah, that's basically the third build of Sonic Xtreme. The first build was a demonstration on the 32X... just to give fellow developers/higher-ups an idea of what a 3D Sonic game could be. The "tech demo" I discussed above is the second build for a 32-bit demonstration -- and then there's the more complete build (from the link you provided), which was what the game would've probably ended up being with only more level additions/spiff-ups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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