What am I looking at?

Quote from The General Lee :

What am I looking at?

Look around "Prototype disscussion"

You arseholes. I made a topic about something ****ING AWESOME, and you all killed it.

Thanks.

*I* found it interesting :P

So are prototypes like beta versions of console games before they were released?

Quote from Crashgate3 :

*I* found it interesting :P

So are prototypes like beta versions of console games before they were released?

Kinda.

Fun to play the 0517 Sonic 3C Doomsday Zone, funner and easier.

EDIT: Do you know what my avatar is about? =P

Yes, it's Sonic The Hedgehog...

What he's referring to is a leak of around 1000 development versions of various games for Sega consoles. Of course the thing I'm wondering is why they were in a form that was able to be leaked like that. They're not meant for playing, more for ripping apart with a Palette/Sprite viewer and seeing what you can dig up about the game's development.

An example: Ristar was one of the games that was leaked. The string "CAUTION -RISTAR- IS NOT V O L T !" is found in ROMs going back to the earliest found, which would imply an internal struggle over the naming. It's interesting to see what changes are in each ROM version. It's more for sh*ts and giggles than anything else.

EDIT: @Dalek: Surely you should have used the cross-eyed one

Quote from The General Lee :

Yes, it's Sonic The Hedgehog...

No...
It's Sonic with "Down Syndrome"! Must of been an artwork mistake, seeing that it isn't in the final version of Sonic 3D.