Hidden Palace Zone (InstanceTopic, 23)

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The Hidden Palace Zone is a zone found in the Sonic 2 Beta. It is the only one of the scrapped zones that is playable AND for the most part, complete. However, the zone is not truly complete, since it lacks a boss battle at the end of Act 2. This renders the zone unbeatable with out debug mode or hacking.

BGM

Supposedly, the BGM for this stage was to be BGM 10 (in the Sound Test. However, in the beta, a different BGM plays. While it could mean nothing, it could also mean the Mystic Cave Zone 2 Player song could've have been the Hidden Palace song at one point. However, it could just as easily have been a place holder until BGM 10 was composed and programmed into the game.

In Sonic 2 Beta

In the Sonic 2 Beta, all of the layout for both acts is complete and fully functional. The object data also seems to be mostly complete, as enemies and even awesome bridges that glow when you walk on them are in the zone, functioning as the should. However, the pipes do not work correctly, and they need to be gotten through with debug mode. However, in one awesome Sonic 2 hack that Chao once played, the Hidden Palace zone was the first zone, and the hacker had fixed all the short-comings, including adding signposts and capsules and making the pipes work.

No....can that be the Master Emerald?!

Of course not, silly. SEGA isn't going to put all of their good ideas in one game, you know. Anyhow, the "Master Emerald" you see in this zone is simply a fancy pipe stopper, blocking entrance into the non-functional pipe it covers.

OMGWTFBBQ Tails moniter!!1

Yes, all of the 1-ups in the stage feature Tails' face instead of Sonic the Hedgehog's. The programmers just left their object data offset reference sheets at home that day.

However, some fucked up people are insane and believe that the whole damn zone means Tails was supposed to be the guardian of the Master Emerald. However, we all know it isn't true, and we all know SEGA would never give Tails such a significant role in a plot, despite our wettest dreams.

In the final Sonic 2

According to the famous Yuji Naka, Hidden Palace was one of the last zones to be cut from the game. However, clever Game Genie and Action Replay hackers have discover that the stage and it's layout in fact DO STILL EXIST IN THE ROM. However, what they did delete was the Graphics data, making it look like an absolute mess (worse than even Genocide City or the early Death Egg). So don't use the code unless you plan on restoring the Graphics data or know the layout of both acts by heart.