Sonic the Hedgehog 2 deleted levels

[@Audi134]

Yes...These stages use the music of: 1. 2p VS Emerald Zone (Wood Zone) 2. Metropolis Zone (Dust Hill Zone) 3. Hidden palace Zone (Had the music, but probably not the stage, unless you find it. The other music in it is when you turn to Super Sonic) 4. Death Egg Zone (The actual music for it. Instead of a whole stage, it was only used as the song before the battle) That's about it. All other stages are in their rightful places. 4.

[@AquadiustH]

I think that's the point, I believe it was originally slated to be the Death Egg Zone and then they changed it to the Chemical Plant. Sonic Team is quoted as saying: "At first this stage was set to appear about after Zone 10. Although there would be fewer Acts this time, we thought having about 18 zones would be good, but having each zone stand out and fit in the story in a way that was easy to follow, in the end it dropped down to 11 zones, and Chemical Plant was placed as the second stage."

[@Broockle]

hidden palace looked pretty cool, and the death egg lvls were basicaly the chem plant just with different background and melody. pretty cool

[@PieManZXY]

I was referring to the origina Beta. In there, all except Dust Hill Zone, (which is Mystic Cave.) and Genocide City are unplayable. Litterally, the code will send you into instant death. The others you can still acess and remotely play.

[@ief014]

You can find the song in the regular Sonic 2 game by going into the Options. It's a song that is unused but can be found in the Sound Test. It's commonly known as the song from the Hidden Palace.

[@Sifer2]

It's actually interesting cause all of these levels concepts seem to be later implemented into Sonic 3 or Sonic & Knuckles. The wood zone being Mushroom Hill an the desert, ice levels were used too. Only big difference is Hidden Palace wasn't much of a zone in S&K. But Lava Reef is close enough I would think.

[@Sonicgott]

Indeed it does. Ever wonder why Death Egg was a ridiculously short stage, and yet it still had its own music? I'm not a hundred percent certain on why so many stages didn't make the final cut. Sad to see such beautiful things go to waste.

[@taa20]

They were not completely forgotten. The music was used in a lot of the versus mode stages (wood zone's music is emerald hill's versus music, for example). Death Egg is Chemical Plant except with a different background. That explains a lot of the bottomless pits at some parts of that level. You weren't falling into poison originally, you were falling into the atmosphere.

[@sonicthehedgehog1196]

2:08 knuckles would be so pissed by that

[@bradleefilsaime3278]

2:08

[@bradleefilsaime3278]

Knuckles must be like: Flexing muscles Sonic breaks the MASTER emerald you Idiotic hedgehog

[@mindman1179]

Just came across this today. Quite the privilege to see these deleted levels from one of my favorite games ever! Great vid, thank you for this.

[@UltChimi]

These are really good! Hidden palace should have been used as the level before you fight knuckles in S3&K.

[@magmablock]

Death Egg was given a new background and music and became Chemical Plant, but they kept a 3-second Death Egg for the final stage. Wood Zone was reworked into Metropolis. The original Dust Hill music was used for Oil Ocean. Also, they used the music from the scrapped zones for the multiplayer versions of the official zones (Genocide City is Casino Night, Wood is Emerald Hill, Dust Hill is Mystic Cave, and Hidden Palace was unused but still in sound test).

[@11chuckles1]

lol some of the music tracks for those zones are in the credits, i never knew what they were until now, and the Death Egg zone is exactly the same as the chemical plant zone.... ??

[@tetrasonic91]

HIDDEN PALACE IS USED ON SONIC 2 ANDROID (Or The Hidden Palace From S2 Beta Proto Palace)

[@Sandheaver]

The Hidden Palace Zone looked like one of the most challenging zones, and I would have loved to play that one.

[@KrazyScruffy9001]

Yep, this is actually a hack called Sonic 2 Long Version. Genocide City in this hack looks like a hellish city when it was really meant to look like The Machine from Sonic Spinball (that actually used the art meant for Cyber City). The ice parts of Dust Hill were also really meant to be a different zone, placed far away enough from Dust Hill so no one would notice they shared art (like Emerald Hill and Hill Top).

[@Prodigal1799]

2:07 It's called hidden palace zone, that rock looks like the master emerald. Coincidence?

[@TolerableDruid6]

Of course it wasn't a coincidence. They cut it out of Sonic 2 because they didn't have enough time to finish it for release, so it ended up being in 3&K instead, albeit much different.

[@OrangeHedgehog1991]

@@TolerableDruid6 boi just boi

[@Alzter0]

I think somebody edited these levels, in the beta, Some levels are unbeatable in the beta!

[@JDaMac815]

nice video showing the deleted levels:hidden palace, wood zone,dust hill zone,death egg (as chemical plant zone but with 2 acts) thanks for showing us and i never knew about those levels except hidden palace and dust hill zone

[@RedBlueSpot]

I've ALWAYS wondered what that song in the "sound test" was for. I never heard it in the game but still it was there. FINALLY!!! 15 years later I get the answer on KZbin.

[@mebrithiel]

@DejaBlue95 They made Death Egg zone first and then decided to make a level on its own and call it Chemical Plant. Note the lack of rising liquid in act 2, which was a mechanic later added to chemical plant.

[@RarefoilB]

Okay, a message to whoever made this game: How dumb do you think I am? "Death Egg Zone Act 1" is obviously Chemical Plant Zone Act 1. The different background isn't even worth mentioning. How did you think anyone would fall for it? What was the reason for copying a level? If this is a ROM hack that "restores" the levels in the full game (which I highly suspect), then why have us play the exact same level twice? I already owned it once, why do I need to prove I'm awesome again?

[@notmorg]

Only kids would fall for it even the Music too

[@OrangeHedgehog1991]

5yo:O WoW lOOK aT tHaT rEmOvEd LeVeLs

[@JeffOfTheMountains]

@MrSonic12367 These are the levels that are in the Beta version of Sonic 2, but got deleted from the game before release.

[@Tkscz]

@SophineW The song is still in the sonic the Hedgehog 2 sound track in the options menu.

[@Rexeljet]

Hidden palace is a load of garbled crap in the final. If you open your sonic 2 rom in ESE (version 1, not 2) and click 'level select text menu' and once the window pops up, exit it. then open your sonic 2 rom and you've got some new levels. Hidden palace is a pile of garbled crap, wood zone uses EHZ's tiles and layout, and has tails' life icon. other unused zones are holographic versions of emerald hill zone. it also has tails' (japanese) life icon.

[@FirestormAudio]

The music it plays when you start Hidden Palace Zone is still in the sound test for Sonic 2. Does it still play that music in the game or were they too lazy to take it out of the sound test.

[@JP317]

@FaunOfTheDevil This. OK so these levels are from a hack, Sonic 2 Delta I think or is it Long Edition I forget which one, which leads me to the question of why didn't you show off Genocide City as I'm sure that was in the hack also. I would've loved the time travel stuff, as it's quite fun to muck around in Sonic CD and Wood Zone > Metropolis Zone would be obvious to anyone who played the real beta, did that last bit make sense?

[@Hemley1]

Why does Dust Hill have the icy and desert sides?

[@Jarttis]

Day and night.

[@Kaiserete]

@pie595 well if it is that how this levels are completely playable ?, in the beta the hidden palace was so bugged

[@vrshowdown]

@DRILLSERGEANT13 I believe all the levels were deleted and was moved over to sonic 3 then again moved over to sonic and knuckles ... wood zone became mushroom hill , dust hill was sandopolis, genocide city became death egg zone , and hidden palace is probably remade to be lava reef with the new hidden palace Zone at the end

[@maxpeg]

Nice, Dust Hill looks awesome! Reminds me of Ice Cap Zone from Sonic 3!

[@SomeFluffer64]

@domdom2600 I don't think you can. I think these levels were found on a prototype cartridge, and were COMPLETELY removed from the final version of the game, which is included in Mega Collection.

[@yuanchanbeats]

@zojapetrov I thought the same. Starlight is one of my favorite zones beside: lava reef, aquatic ruin, sky sanctuary and some others. This space background works better with the chemical plant zone

[@pangeaforever]

what is this 5 frames a second? omg wait WOW deleted levels! awesome! i can't believe that you destroyed that gem. i heard rumors that it was originally going to be the master emerald... guess not

[@Pointysharp]

The death egg to me makes sense because when you beat the level before that you fly into the death egg and just magically appear into a room with the last boss.. not a even a level before it leading to the boss

[@superanimeniac]

@Trogdorbad death egg zone was originally designed as death egg zone....but then they decided to make the death egg just a boss stage, so they gave it a different background, and made it chemical plant zone.

[@EvilDan101]

what? was this some kind of beta and changed all the levels befor it was put out? or a hack to get them levels on it? would like to know cause use to love sonic 2 on sega and if i had of knew that would have prob played it for a yr r 2 more!

[@VTF102]

i noticed something here, one thing i saw or rather heard was the tunes for dust hill zone was that of mystic cave multiplayer and the tune for wood whatever it was sounded like the emerald hill multiplayer, i also saw that the death egg zone was longer, but they became chemical plant in the final release

[@MalamiteLtd]

@jcdenton2k The Death Egg levels look like a different version of the Chemical Plant Zome stages.

[@Kuragari1988]

So that's why there was music I never found in the levels... the song from hidden palace is so beautiful.

[@supersonicdrawer]

i can sort of udnerstand the dust hill zone music, it does have that ice cold feel to it.

[@IlliaRieka]

Same went for death egg zone. Casino Night was pink and frilly and not all the tiles were finished. wood zone was kinda the same. Dont remember on behalf of dust hill. I'll have to check up on it.

[@H3XxMAjiN]

@nexonkartrider309 that'll explain why the last levels of sonic adventure 2 had those tube things like how chemical did. @4:03

[@soniario12]

so hidden palace is part of the deleted levels, but in the sound test of sonic 2 the song is right there? how could that be?

[@kingt34]

@supermariosoniclover Not enough room on the game cartridge. Btw, why do you understand that Hidden Palace zone got deleted? That one was the closest to being actually finished XD

[@PLEYOR]

Hidden Palace has similar music to the S&K version. Is this beta version quite glitchy?

[@XKaiminalX]

Its the other way around, this is the beta form of Sonic 2, Anthrax Zone was made this the Death Egg Zone.

[@MrG6051]

is this orginal songs from those levels or did u add those in urself?

[@wschmrdr]

This is the Sonic 2 Long Version hack. However, the data for Hidden Palace Zone TRULY IS in the final game (although not entirely this game's version).

[@Acechao111]

hmm how u get all them stages? i remember completing this game and going on sound test amnd hearing hidden palace zone i was like wtf i not played tht lvl

[@nuther06]

I swear I've heard this music before, is it used for any other sonic levels?

[@elankrylon]

wow the layout and even the enemies from chemical plant zone make so much more sense now that i that they were supposed to be from space. also 2:20 look at all of those triforces.

[@SuperMSL]

@kingt34 Because it's from Angel Island and it's not supposed to be seen til 3 and Knuckles.

[@chrisvillan88]

Thanks for this video, very informative

[@bigmacchasi]

@lRAND0Ml but is nt there something after u have a 6 choas emarles ?

[@Benjamillion]

what program did you use to record this?

[@puredeath711]

This was originaly ment to be the layout of the death egg zone, but scraped it and put in into chemical plant

[@PlacePlacington]

Naka: As a throwback to our lazy-ass idea of making part f Labyrinth Zone in Scrap Brain of Sonic 1, we were going to originally make an updated Chemical Plant the first half of Death Egg. However, due to having to release the game for the holidays, we just slapped on a few boss robots and called it a day.

[@Keethmoon]

OMG why didnt they just add thee levels on? how did you get to play on them i want a go they look reely good!

[@SonicOverlordUK]

That's because it is. SEGA decided that the Death Egg zones were not needed so they simply changed the music and the background for both levels and Chemical Plant Zone was created.

[@thiagotecnico]

Things are making sense now. loved the chemical plant as death egg (like scrap brain from sonic 1)

[@BrawlX47]

Can I just get something straight? So these are the non completed versions of the games right? So, how did they get here then if they weren't in the game?

[@mynanhasafathead]

how come its got music on the second level from that spooky zone...correct me if im wrong

[@MetroidMaster56]

I see why they left out the Death Egg Zone, looks just like the 2nd area. But why would they leave those levels in the programing and omit them?

[@KhazWolf]

Wait, where are these in the beta version? I found hidden palace just fine, but Wood zone is broken, and the others don't exist!

[@OverruledDood]

@streakization Actually, its a fan hack of Sonic 2 called Sonic 2 Long Version. look it up.

[@pyrix]

Well this explains some of the music I heard in the game's selection that didn't play from the main game.

[@TaiFerret]

And Hidden Palace Zone had different music in the beta in which it still existed. It still had the spike glitch and I don't think it had Super Sonic already. Dust Hill Zone isn't even found in any real beta.

[@Wolfenheim]

"wood zone" lol Very creative name

[@MarcoSchirripa]

They've been interviewed about it. They didn't realize people had gotten so obsessive over it. They apparently don't have the original code or anything for Hidden Palace.

[@nullss9kog]

@algisneblett UUDDUUUU is the (extremely hard to do) Sonic 3 Sound Test code, but the rest is right; do 19650917 in Options, hold A+Start at the Title Screen, and then 04010206 in the Level Select menu.

[@Mastakazam]

@monkscape To me, this would explain why Chemical Plant zone seemed 'too hard' for Act2 compared to how the rest of the game progressed.. (it wasn't 'too hard' of course, I just didn't feel like doing it yet after a pleasant Act1)

[@whyareyoulikethis338]

@zachsims520 No, they were deleted before game release.

[@JCarlito19]

I feel like this video is a fan-interpreted completion of the actual levels because I actually have the real beta version of Sonic 2, and Wood Zone and Hidden Palace Zone were not this complete, and Mystic Cave served as the placeholder for Dust Hill Zone, which had no original data of it's own (much like Genocide City Zone (later renamed Cyber City before being scrapped and made into Metropolis Zone Act 3)).

[@GoldKnightProduction]

I knew there would be more to the death egg than just 5 seconds of level considering the fact that they made a rather long soundtrack for it!

[@nukeallthatfluke]

where in the actual game do they use the music for hidden palace @ 1:22?

[@wokstar34]

whats with death egg zone its exactly the same as chemical plant zone or whatever just a different back ground recycled much?

[@FaunOfTheDevil]

Both hidden palace zone and wood zone are real, (wood zone was scrapped along with a possible time travel storyline) Dust hill Zone never existed, it just comes from what looked like a screenshot of it that was in a magazine, all the fan made levels you see of it come from that. Your death egg zone is Chemical plant. BUT IN SPACE!!! oh noes!!!

[@CaptainDarren82]

I do believe that these levels are from a near completed beta before they were moved or removed. However, the hidden palace zone is alot more complete than any of the betas I have ever gotten. If there is a ROM file or a cheat to get to those levels, please post a link.

[@F4fullpower]

fullmetaldeano yeah your right it is!

[@Helvian]

Death Egg zone can be summarised as Chemical Plant zone in space, if you look closely to the background. (Either that, or i'm blind.)

[@IAmWub]

@sarsgarrs graphic or the design?

[@GeoJad]

@ThePurplepistol not fake they are deleted levels from the beta version

[@kingt34]

@supermariosoniclover That actually had nothing to do with it. They ran out of space on the cartridge and they ran out of time on making the game for a particular release date so they decided to carry over the name of hidden palace zone to Sonic and Knuckles after Sonic 2. They didn't predict the future while making the Sonic 2 Beta and realise "Hey! We're gonna use this in Sonic and Knuckles! We can't use it here!" lol

[@MrTheGamerDude121]

i think the first 3 are true (hidden palace zones's music is in the soundtest) but the last one is chemical plant with space background.

[@sonicgen123]

what did you use that let you even play those stages

[@mattstat716]

I was, i was just using your account for the reply. No offence! :3 Other than that, these levels of sonic are nice!

[@Best1O1]

Or it could be the fact that the original design for Death Egg was supposed to be the Chemical Plant's. Why do you think there is full soundtrack for Death Egg in the first place? Plus the stage looks more fitting in space :p I think the music for the Chemical Plant was supposed to used on another deleted stage, Genocide city or the Desert stage, I forgot which.

[@jsupra]

The music for Hidden Palace Zone sounds so mournful.

[@lRAND0Ml]

@bigmacchasi hidden palace zone appears in sonic and knuckles and looks WAY different.

[@StarVonnico]

It's ironic on how some of the levels such as Dust Hill Zone, Death Egg Zone, and Hidden Palace Zone were in Sonic 3, but more improved.

[@dug73]

is it possible to get those levels on the original sonic 2

[@Giratina87]

I have the Simon Wai beta and the early one you said before, is the Nick Arcade prototype. I think this might be a hack because there isn't an ice level in the prototype.

[@Trogdorbad]

Is it just me, or was Death Egg Zone Act 1 just Chemical Plant Zone, but with a space background?

[@izaakroy280890]

Hidden palace was first featured in sonic 3 and knuckles and that death egg zone us CHEMICAL PLANT with a different background

[@Xexxar]

Only the hidden palace zone actually is a deleted level. The rest i believe were addons or third party mods.

[@666metalsucks666]

this is cool, how'd you get these? are you actually playing or did you just find these videos?

[@SheepyChris]

That is the Sonic 2 hack, Sonic 2 Long Version, because this levels on the beta,is unfinished.

[@Sonicgott]

It was a theory, anyway, that Chemical Plant Zone was originally the Death Egg Zone. Not sure if this ROM is real or not, though, since the beta versions of Sonic 2 that I've come across had incomplete stages.

[@MOUPIMOUPI]

Wood Zone, Hidden Palace Zone, and /little we know of/ Dust Hill are legitimate. They got cut off, tough.