I woke up this morning just not feelin' it.

Until I saw the inspirational picture. Shit yeah!

The torch has been passed!


I've emailed my savestate to Satsui and SnesGuy. I will begin working on the video at the shared account soon, though it always takes me awhile to complete the annotations.

Satsui, since I've got the first video, I was thinking about creating an opening image that says "Sydlexia Collab" or something like that (similar to my "Preng Presents..." screen on the Mega Man videos). Any objections?

My video is complete. Enjoy!


Some miscellaneous notes:

• Here's a boilerplate that you can use in your video descriptions:

This video is part of SydLexia.com's Sonic the Hedgehog 2 collaboration project. The game was divided into different zones and assigned to participating forumers; these players were to complete their zone, create a savestate, transfer it to the person on deck, and upload their recorded run. The ultimate goal is simply to complete the game, though everyone is free to play under their own individual style. For more information, please see this thread: http://www.sydlexia.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14862

• I'm pretty sure most of us will want to advertise our channels during this project. I put my name in the video tags, but perhaps it would be best to list everyone's channels at the end as a form of credits.

• I started a Tails death count. You don't gotta continue this, but it'd be a good ongoing gag.

• He's always going to be Dr. Robotnik to me.

SnesGuy wrote:

I will never look at Satsui the same way again.

Also, is something currently wrong with YouTube? My video's annotations worked the first night but now aren't showing up. I've gone into the annotations settings multiple times and hit the "publish" button, but that hasn't done anything.

There will be much grumbling if I've gotta do all of that again.

Hey guys, Togdor talked to me awhile ago and I took a peek at his video. There were a few things that were very, very strange looking - I haven't played the genuine console with cartridge method in many years and have no recollection of these occurrences happening - but I was able to reproduce everything that struck me as questionable.

Togdor forwarded me the email where SnesGuy passed on the savestate, which was used for testing.

0:33 - Running through the badnik
Turns out this is actually very easy to do. If Sonic is moving at what I think is his normal maximum speed (fast enough to do the blur-wheel feet animation, like in Togdor's case) then he'll simply move right through the enemy.

1:20 - Column glitching
This one was quite tricky to reproduce, but it ended up requiring maximum speed and a perfectly timed and placed jump. If done properly, Sonic does exactly what happened in Togdor's video and literally gets stuck inside the column. This strikes me as some sort of trick speedrunners would use, but I'm sure that Togdor was just as surprised as the rest of us when it happened.

There were other columns in the stage that I could jump into as well without the aforementioned speed, timing and placement. I'm guessing these tiles aren't programmed as well as they could be.

2:01 - Hammer dodging
It looks like Robotnik hits Sonic - who is plainly standing on the platform between attacks - with his contraption's hammer after his fourth hit. I was able to reproduce this and not take damage. On a different situation, I had Sonic in midair when the hammer came down, and instead of taking damage he simply moved slightly out of place for a quick moment.

I don't know whether or not these glitches could be caused by shortcomings in the actual Genesis cartridge or problems with the ROM, but Togdor isn't to blame for anything. I recommended that he made another video anyways where he tries to avoid the glitches; he may or may not be able to do it, but I think it would be a good way to avoid future suspicions.

I didn't make any recordings of the glitch reproductions but if you try out what I described you should find 'em yourself.

Maybe this entire time I've just been ToGdor's alternate account - created specifically to protect ToGdor from flack, bump his threads, and generally elevate his standing with the SydLexia.com community.