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Prerelease:Sonic the Hedgehog (Genesis)/USA Manual Build

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This is a sub-page of Prerelease:Sonic the Hedgehog (Genesis).

The American manual of Sonic The Hedgehog contains pictures of a near-final build. It has small differences such as still having the old background map placement, different placement for the hidden bonus points at the end of the levels, and different Special Stage layouts.

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Title Screen

Prototype USA Manual Final
Huh, no trademark symbol? What's up with the background? There we are!

The only difference remaining in the title screen is the unique background layout per act for Green Hill seen in previous builds. The trademark symbol has been added since last build. It is possible that the 'PRESS START BUTTON' text still showed up, since the picture shows the title screen at a point where the text would be blinking, meaning it would be invisible at those frames, and a picture of the title screen from the same era shows the text while also showing the trademark symbol.

Green Hill Zone

Prototype USA Manual Final
What's up with the background..? Atleast the HUD is good now. There we are!

A bit into act 1, this screenshot shows the different Green Hill background layout from previous builds more clearly. The decision to merge all backgrounds into one hadn't been made yet.

Prototype USA Manual Final
No hidden points for you! That's gonna cause graphical glitches... Much better!

At the end of act 1, the hidden bonus points used to be placed much earlier in the level. It is possible that they were moved further in the final game due to graphical glitches, as they are too far away from the Signpost to make the art get loaded in time, which actually happens in Labyrinth Zone in the final game.

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The period after 'ACT' has been removed in this build.

Labyrinth Zone

USA Manual Final
Why is the background so high up!? There we go!

Consistent with Shinsaku, this screenshot of Labyrinth Zone shows that the background is still positioned higher than normal. It might have been lowered in the final game due to it possibly cutting off at the bottom of act 3 as seen in the Game PV Footage.

Scrap Brain Zone

USA Manual Final
Why is every background like this!?!? Finally!

This screenshot of Scrap Brain Zone might seem like doesn't have any differences at first glance, but it is actually consistent with previous builds, as the background is still positioned higher up. It's also possible the developers already made huge process on Scrap Brain for the GPSGSG Build, and it's also possible Scrap Brain Act 3 and Final Zone got added for said build.

Special Stage

Prototype USA Manual
Gotta get these rings! Huh, I don't remember this layout!

This screenshot depicts a really different layout from what ended up being in the final game and also is mostly different from previous builds. It features unusual placement for rings and items such as the 'UP' and 'DOWN' blocks. Taking into account that Sonic hasn't collected the rings from above nor the rings from the right, Sonic seems to have fallen from the left part of the stage.

An extra life!

In the manual, one of the pictures shown is a cropped screenshot that shows the extra life item in a special stage. These extra life items were not in the final game's layouts, but can be found out of bounds, using Debug Mode.

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