considering that the whistle sounds like a typical western trope (whistle from the good, the bad and the ugly') and the scrapped dessert level from sonic two, maybe it was first used for the dessert level

Jason Cameron Marone

3y↑13

The Mega Drive ver. is perfect; this ver. is somehow even more perfect.

Dreizehn

2y↑4

This has to be my fav Masa demo song it just sounds so gorgeous!

Shako_Lamb

6y↑23

Is it known whether Masa had inspiration from Chick Corea's "Spain" for the melody here?
Also is it known what synthesizers and drum machine(s) Masa used for these recordings?

a dumbass account

@Spider7xx going off what the op said

Spider7xx

@a dumbass account the composer copied other music. But how do you know masa wife help him? The dream come true chick isn't his wife

a dumbass account

@Spider7xx Who said it needs to be original?

Spider7xx

@Tarn how do you know this?

Spider7xx

@a dumbass account this is not original

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ze lucas boi

6y↑23

I don't know why, but every time I hear this. It sounds like wind chimes hitting together.

Xity-X Films

4y↑25

Sounds much like a jungle level theme

Black Anonymous Kid

Sounds like a world map from a platformer game or something

Ueda Yuuji Fan

2y↑3

@Silent.Revolution21 Because of the harmonica.

Silent.Revolution21

2y↑1

@Ueda Yuuji Fan Just for 5 notes in the beginning? No...

Ueda Yuuji Fan

2y↑4

Sounds more like a spaghetti western.

Plasmariel

2y↑1

Damn this song is liminal

D. M.

6y↑14

When you reuse the demo version of a song for a horrendous java port of a classic game

tomrow

Sonic 2 was nowhere near as good as Sonic 1 on J2ME

mobiuzilla

1.25x sounds like the final

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2y↑1

0:02 that hits different

Ueda Yuuji Fan

6y↑21

Sounds like someone's digging in the background.

Logan Pettit

4y↑5

I feel like whatever level this song was originally for was going to be a slower paced level due to the fact that if you speed it up to 1.25x speed, which is the normal speed it plays at in-game, it sounds weird and unnatural.

Ghaith Abu-Rub

3y↑4

most of these demos are at a slower tempo than what you hear in-game btw

Astor Pomilio tamargo

1.25 sounds like final version

vaporluck

the synth tho

Silverwolf Lee

6y↑12

This version is so much better although it wouldn't fit the game though.

honeycrisp

3y↑2

@Zakleti Gejmer Are you actually calling people sjws over fucking sonic music?

Ete TGG

3y↑1

@Zakleti Gejmer I wonder.. what's your problem?

Zakleti Gejmer

3y↑1

@Bevin McMoo fucking sjw lol

Bevin McMoo

3y↑3

@Zakleti Gejmer also stfu

Bevin McMoo

3y↑1

I like it faster

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TK C.

11y↑2

Wow this is a great remix! i really enjoyed this video and has now been Favorited :)

Spider7xx

@Mecha Knuckles 2001 please explain

Mecha Knuckles 2001

@GD3 I know these are official demos, I just said that because there are some odd discrepancies present in the music.

GD3

2y↑1

@Mecha Knuckles 2001 it is , it's not likely that it is.

Mecha Knuckles 2001

@Talon Diwisch Most likely.

Talon Diwisch

7y↑15

TK Wolf Not a remix at all. This is the original demo.

l3rvn0

7y↑38

OMG DUST HILL!!

l3rvn0

4y↑3

@RG 96 The song uses the "Wild West Whistle" and Dust Hill was western desert themed.
Also, Mirage Saloon uses both, the Wild West Whistle and Dust Hill as inspiration.

l3rvn0

4y↑2

@glitchhunter09 I don't think that it's this simple.
The original plan had two Rock Zones, one in the Past (the zone we now know as Hidden Palace), and one in the Ruined Present.
Mystic Cave most likely was rock zone from the Ruined Present, while Dust Hill was the Ruined Present Green Hill (since Top Hill was Green Hill in the past, they probably were following a name motif and all of them are in the same spot on the map)
Maybe when they discarded the original Dust Hill plans they recycled the name for the second Rock Zone and later changed it to Mystic Cave

l3rvn0

4y↑1

@Desko Olympus was actually Hidden Palace (the zone we know as Hidden Palace was Rock Zone) or Emerald Isle, but they did recycle its sprites for Aquatic Ruin

Logan Pettit

4y↑3

Ya know, I hope that Sonic Team comes back with the original concepts for Sonic 2 because this game's development period is very interesting and I would've loved to see everything be implemented into the game.

glitchhunter09

4y↑5

for the record it's now confirmed that Dust Hill was indeed the prototype name for Mystic Cave Zone. Sand Shower Zone was supposed to be the desert level exclusively.

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innactive

2y↑2

sounds even more like a desert

Drakkona123

2y↑3

Very likely this was intended for the cut desert level. Aquatic Ruin was originally known as Neo Green Hill so it may have had a theme resembling the original rather than this

Matt Utter

2y↑1

After seeing quite a good video a short while ago, it's possible there were two desert levels intended at one point

ToastGhost

6y↑3

TEMPO CHAAAAAAAAAAANGE

T Simmons

3y↑1

1.1x correct speed

Cristopher Calle

4y↑11

Cumbia versión

Jess

3y↑5

This theme was probably intended for the scrapped Sand Shower Zone

same for Oil Ocean

Connor Scanlan

5y↑7

1.25x for Genesis speed.

TMAOSTH Lost Archive

Yep. I hear it

Piotr Wojciechowski

Somewhere between 1.2x and 1.25x

Big Lui

@Foty829 I care. 👍

Sandu Delcea

2y↑1

So sonic 2 was originally going to have 2 dessert zones, and this music was gonna be used for 1 of them, at least i think...

Flipe267

However, some of the original developers of Sonic 2 said they remember Dust Hill and Sand Shower being the same, so the theory is most likely wrong.

Flipe267

I think Dust Hill became Mystic Cave while Aquatic Ruins got the original zone's theme. Rock World was a winter level, later renamed to Snow Covered Mountain (just like Genocide City became Cyber City and etc.). it shares similarities with Green Hill (the bg mountains, grass, water and the totems), its concept art name was "emerald isle" (Green Hill was most likely changed to Emerald Hill at the same time).
That makes me believe in a theory: Underground Zone from Sonic 2 sms is an remnant of the original Dust Hill. It is an mining site with bricks (Mystic Cave) and has mountains in the bg which look like the prototype Green Hill's bg (Aquatic Ruins).
Mystic Cave probably uses Dust Hill's tiles and assets but reworked with a different bg, and Aquatic Ruins uses the mountais (?) and the music (?)

Krispy Kreme the Rabbit

1y↑1

@Chokun Gaming Interesting, when I 1st saw someone say that Sonic 2 was originally planned to have time travel, my 1st thought was: "Aquatic Ruin must've been the ruined present version of Emerald Hill, because Aquatic RUIN, RUINed present; plus it has grass and hills, so it would work".

Chokun Gaming

1y↑1

@Krispy Kreme the Rabbit in the early concepts where Neo Green Hill (now Aquatic Ruin) was called Dust Hill, Dust Hill (now Mystic Cave) was called Rock World, they swapped the names because there were 2 Rock World zones in those concepts, and that would have been confusing