During the time before this build surfaced, prototypes of all the other 16-bit Sonic games were discovered, dumped, and shared with the public. Long considered a holy grail by the Sonic community, a Sonic 1 prototype was sought after for around two decades. It also features a plethora of interesting content that was previously only seen in grainy magazine screenshots and raw gameplay footage, like the rolling checkered boulder in Green Hill Zone, the UFOs in Marble Zone, and Spring Yard Zone when it was still called 'Sparkling Zone'.

This build reveals a game that was originally tuned more for traditional platforming and exploration rather than for speed, which would eventually become the hallmark of the Sonic series. Many stages cannot be completed due to the lack of signposts and bosses some (like Clock Work Zone Act 3 and Final Zone) haven't been started at all, or are obvious placeholder designs (like the Special Stage). It depicts the game midway through development. People are just trying their best to rip what they can but I know its not a very easy process because of the complicated approval feature here and that is why not many people like contributing here all the time but this site should deserve serious improvement to make submitting easier and faster for most of us sprite ripping folks honestly.A prototype of Sonic the Hedgehog was released by Hidden Palace at Midnight (GMT) on January 1, 2021. Calling anyone here selfish is rude and disrespectful to the community in general here.

Of course the makers of this game didn't have their loyal customers and fans alike ripping their stuff in mind but at least if they could have used the background decoy as individual sprites instead of part of the background would be heck of a lot easier for fellow sprite rippers to divide the trees, bushes, rocks, the ufos, and so on in organized categories instead of like I said part of said Also think twice before you say something to people who are not.

This is just too bad and while its not really the fault of the rippers here, I can only blame the ones who did the sprites for this game. My bad! I went to see if its possible to rip those decorations off the backgrounds but it looks like they are stuck on the background! :(

Sonic 1 sprite sheet smooth