Destroying Sonic Unleashed's cutscenes with Debug Mode
16Achieved by fucking around with the Oct 14 prototype build of the game in Xenia. A mere one month and 4 days before the NA release the game is still an unstable semi-functioning mess plagued with crashes disc read errors and glitching shaders (though most of these could possibly be attributed to emulator incompatibility as the finished game also crashes on Xenia regularly), but what's more interesting is that the game still runs at an uncapped speed of 60 frames per second. Many (most of the) maps and cutscenes don't load up whatsoever, others crash midway through. That's the reason why you see the same 6ish cutscene turn up during the entirety of this video. These are the only ones that actually work from beginning to end. I checked every single one of them to know what works and what doesn't. I'll include an exhaustive list of my research results at the very end of this wall of text.
Things that I wanted to do, but couldn't due to the aforementioned problems:
Eggman's Mazuri village cutscene, but in Night hub map - Cutscene crashes almost immediately even though the Mazuri hub map actually loads perfectly in every instance
Anything in Apotos Day 2 - the map doesn't work at all
Professor's Lab cutscene during Daytime Lab - Trying to load Daytime Lab either crashes the game or force loads Nighttime Lab
"Mister Monster Guy is back" cutscene in Apotos Day hub - both cutscene and the map crashes
Chocolate Chip cutscene at Apotos Night Hub - same as before
Anything in any of the Shamar town hubs - map crashes in seconds
0:00 This is where the fun begins
0:35 Egg Beetle intro in Empire City Night 1
1:31 First Amy Cutscene, but it's daytime also where's Sonic? I can't find him.
2:35 Dark Gaia cutscene in Empire City Day Act 2, dang I keep forgetting that these models are actually size accurate! :O
3:03 I wonder if the Shamar Hub works
3:16 Assistant's first cutscene in Nighttime Lab
4:10 This is fine
4:43 But what happens if I try to launch multiple cutscenes at once? t h e t r e m o r s h i t
7:43 AND THE LIMITLESS ENERGY HARNESSED FROM DARK GAIA
8:08 Professor Pickle is omnipresent
9:27 Pure Unedited Spagonianarchy
12:04 Isn't there a more efficient way?
15:40 My mind during an average Friday afternoon, 1 hour before the end of my shift
16:01 I don't know anymore
17:11 That assistant sure is a chill guy
17:38 The sound of failure
18:41 Bonus Edited Holoskanarchy
22:24 But what if I have to fight the boss blindly in the background as well?
Cutscenes that work in this build:
0_06 First in-game cutscene
1_01 Crashes immediately on it's own, but for whatever reason actually plays if launched together with another working cutscene
1_03_1 Tails surrounded by Gaia monsters
1_03_2 Sonic? Is that really you?
2_01 Assistant intro
2_03 Professor lab scene
3_01 Eggman's Mazuri village scene, crashes almost immediately
3_02 Egg Beetle! Go!
3_03 Inside Mazuri temple
3_05 A planet sized jigsaw puzzle?
4_01 Eggman Waking that Dark Gaia Thing Up
5_01 Gaia Monsters approaching Eggman's antenna thing
5_02 Second Eggman HQ cutscene
6_01 Adabat Temple Exterior, just another old temple
6_02
6_03 My real name is Light Gaia
7_01 Eggmanland Intro
7_02 Entering Final Temple
7_04 Exiting Final Temple
8_01 Tornado gets shot down
8_02 THE ULTRA HYPER PROTOTYPE ONE
8_03 This gorge will be your tomb!
8_06_2 Dark Gaia hugs Gaia Colossus
8_07 Dark Gaia summons his cloud
8_13 Final Eggman scene, crashes before the end
8_15 Sonic, you must live.
8_16 Ending
s1_04 Dark Gaia Phoenix post-fight cutscene
s1_05 Gaia Temple scene
s2_01 First Amy scene
s2_04 Werehog saves Amy - crashes midway through
s3_03 Dark Moray intro scene
+1 input offscreen - Holoska Gaia Temple scene (?)
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