9.4 years
since unearthing of
prototype ROM

15.5 years
since release
of Sonic 2 on MegaDrive

1.7 years
since renaming to S2B

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

8:07 AM (UTC)

The Sonic 2 Beta Page

Welcome to S2B. This site is dedicated to the archival and research of prototype versions of SEGA's video game Sonic the Hedgehog 2 made for the Genesis/MegaDrive. Much like a movie, a video game undergoes heavy "editing" before shipping, and significant amount of data is stripped due to time or space constraints. In the case of Sonic 2, several zones were completely cut from the final version. For years, questions have been asked regarding the staggering discrepancies between Sonic 2 and old magazine preview screenshots. Gamers could only dream of being able to play the lost levels first-hand ― until the binary image of Sonic 2 Beta surfaced on the Internet in late 1998... [ more about how the prototypes reached the public ]