Sonic Speed Simulator: Beta nd "Legacy" content

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Sonic Speed Simulator is a Sonic the Hedgehog game built in the Roblox engine. It's made by Gamefam under official license from SEGA. It's a sort of 3D platformer akin to the Sonic Adventure games, though the levels, called "worlds," are open-ended with no end goal, with the next world instead being unlocked by meeting certain conditions. It also has no real overarching story, just a bunch of small "excuse plots" to follow in order to unlock things. There was a paid beta period starting on March 30, 2022 before the official free-to-play launch on April 16. It was totally revamped on February 10, 2023 as Sonic Speed Simulator: Reborn. This revamp wiped all players' save data and they had to start over from scratch. The Reborn subtitle was dropped soon afterward, but the game currently runs identically to it.

What's lost here, besides the pre-Reborn player save data? Pre-Reborn everything. All the Worlds and Quests from the beta and Legacy versions of the game were removed. There are some Worlds in the Reborn version that have the same names as Worlds from the Beta and Legacy versions (Green Hill, for example), but they don't use the exact same maps; they're built mostly from scratch (some assets are reused and the layouts of certain areas are similar, but they're not the same). A gameplay feature that was lost completely is the "Obbies" (short for "obstacle courses"). An Obby, whose portal could be unlocked upon leveling up to a specific number, was sort of a short, transitional stage that needed to cleared in order to reach the next World, which in turn had its in portal at the end of its Obby. In the current version, each has a portal leading directly to every other World, and these portals are unlocked by completing a Quest specific to each one (certain Worlds are unlocked by default, without needing to complete a Quest).

I see little hope of this stuff ever seeing the light of day again. I never played this game until after the Reborn relaunch, so I don't even have personal experience with any of the lost content.

Last Edit: Apr 15, 2024 5:10:45 GMT by teridaxxd001

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Sonic Speed Simulator: Beta nd "Legacy" content Apr 14, 2024 19:46:43 GMT

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Apr 14, 2024 0:19:32 GMT teridaxxd001 said:

Sonic Speed Simulator is a Sonic the Hedgehog game built in the Roblox engine. It's made by Gamefam under official license from SEGA. It's a sort of 3D platformer akin to the Sonic Adventure games, though the levels, called "worlds," are open-ended with no end goal, with the next world instead being unlocked by meeting certain conditions. It also has no real overarching story, just a bunch of small "excuse plots" to follow in order to unlock things. There was a paid beta period starting on March 30, 2022 before the official free-to-play launch on April 16. It was totally revamped on February 10, 2023 as Sonic Speed Simulator: Reborn. This revamp wiped all players' save data and they had to start over from scratch. The Reborn subtitle was dropped soon afterward, but the game currently runs identically to it.

What's lost here, besides the pre-Reborn player save data? Pre-Reborn everything. All the Worlds and Quests from the beta and Legacy versions of the game were removed. There are some Worlds in the Reborn version that have the same names as Worlds from the Beta and Legacy versions (Green Hill, for example), but they don't use the same maps; they're built from scratch.

I see little hope of this stuff ever seeing the light of day again. I never played this game until after the Reborn relaunch, so I don't even have personal experience with any of the lost content.

Do you have any relevant links?

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Sonic Speed Simulator: Beta nd "Legacy" content Apr 15, 2024 0:54:19 GMT

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Apr 14, 2024 19:46:43 GMT crumbelivable said:

Apr 14, 2024 0:19:32 GMT teridaxxd001 said:

Sonic Speed Simulator is a Sonic the Hedgehog game built in the Roblox engine. It's made by Gamefam under official license from SEGA. It's a sort of 3D platformer akin to the Sonic Adventure games, though the levels, called "worlds," are open-ended with no end goal, with the next world instead being unlocked by meeting certain conditions. It also has no real overarching story, just a bunch of small "excuse plots" to follow in order to unlock things. There was a paid beta period starting on March 30, 2022 before the official free-to-play launch on April 16. It was totally revamped on February 10, 2023 as Sonic Speed Simulator: Reborn. This revamp wiped all players' save data and they had to start over from scratch. The Reborn subtitle was dropped soon afterward, but the game currently runs identically to it.

What's lost here, besides the pre-Reborn player save data? Pre-Reborn everything. All the Worlds and Quests from the beta and Legacy versions of the game were removed. There are some Worlds in the Reborn version that have the same names as Worlds from the Beta and Legacy versions (Green Hill, for example), but they don't use the same maps; they're built from scratch.

I see little hope of this stuff ever seeing the light of day again. I never played this game until after the Reborn relaunch, so I don't even have personal experience with any of the lost content.

Do you have any relevant links?

There's a Sonic Speed Simulator Wiki with a category for Legacy content. It's Fandom, which is not always reliable, but it can be corroborated by YouTube videos and stuff like that. Here is a video comparing Lost Valley between the two versions. It's very different. For example, in the Legacy version, you can actually walk on the broken Death Egg Robot, apparently. In the current version, it's way off in the distance out of bounds. The pyramid is also much, much smaller in the Legacy version and can't be entered.

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Sonic Speed Simulator: Beta nd "Legacy" content May 14, 2024 6:19:11 GMT

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There's a few whole areas that are lost:

Snow Valley is World 4 from the Legacy version of the game. Snow Valley was kind of barren, only having a vending machine in its entry area and some platforms with raised paths, and since there were no quests or anything, all you could really do was collect Rings, Chaos Orbs and experience. It also had its own Obby you needed to complete to access it, which, like all the Obbies, is lost.

Chemical Plant is World 6 in the Legacy version based on Chemical Plant Zone from the 16-bit Sonic the Hedgehog 2. There was a Quest here to unlock the Stealth Suit Sonic skin. A non-interactive NPC version of Metal Sonic was also hidden here for a while, charging up in stasis. It was originally present in the Beta version for a while, but it was unfinished, and had no actual entrance; you had to glitch out of bounds to access it. It was removed a few days before the public release, but was eventually finished and added to a later update. The unfinished version had blue skies and fog, unlike the red skies and fog in the finished version.

Pumpkin Hill was a seasonal World available only around Halloween 2022. It was based on Pumpkin Hill from Sonic Adventure 2, but also incorporated sections of Hang Castle from Sonic Heroes. It had two event Quests, Pumpkin Panic and Unleash the Beast. It was probably made inaccessible sometime in November 2022.

There's also Marble Zone, an unfinished world based on the level of the same name from the 16-bit Sonic the Hedgehog. It could be accessed only in the Beta version of the game by glitching out of bounds in Emerald Hill Obby, and was outright removed from the game on April 15, 2022 to make the game run smoother.

All the Legacy Races, like the worlds, are different than in the current game. Green Hill Race (which had two Legacy versions: the original and a redesign), Metal Madness Race and Metal City Race all exist in both versions of the game (though the Legacy version, on one occasion, referred to Metal Madness as "Stardust Speedway"). The latter two are extremely similar in both versions of the game, but the layout of items are different, and there were some hazards in Legacy that are not currently present. The other races from the Legacy version are Lost Valley Race, Emerald Hill Race, Snow Valley Race (no good videos of this one) and Hill Top Race, none of which have a counterpart in the current game (there is one called Hill Top Drag Race, but it uses a different premise than a standard race).

Then there are Obbies. They could be entered via the Worlds. Green Hill had three permanent Obbies that didn't unlock new areas: Green Hill Obby 1, Green Hill Obby 2 and Green Hill Obby 3. The Lost Valley Obby was entered via Green Hill and unlocked Lost Valley. The Emerald Hill Obby was entered via Lost Valley and unlocked Emerald Hill. The Snow Valley Obby was entered via Emerald Hill and unlocked Snow Valley. The Hill Top Obby is entered via Snow Valley and unlocks Hill Top. These transitional Obbies start with the terrain of the World you enter through and end with the terrain of the World you exit into. There was also an unfinished Obby called Lost Valley Obby 1 you could access by going out of bounds in Lost Valley, its terrain exclusively being that of Lost Valley. Then there was the Synth City Obby, accessed from Green Hill, where RB Battles took place. Finally, there was the Firework Festival Obby, also in Green Hill, where the player could buy the Sunshine Trail upon completion. This one was different in that the player wasn't loaded onto a new map for it; it was located in Green Hill's sky and was accessed with a spring.

A game mode that isn't currently in the game is Tag. It's exactly what it sounds like: you tag another player by catching up to them or using Homing Attack on them while they're in range. It was played in twp different areas, both of which are currently inaccessible: Green Hill Cyberspace and New Yoke Tag Arena.

There are a few medium-sized areas known as "Sub-Worlds." They tended to focus solely on one Quest, which were treated as events, but were permanent. They were all located in Green Hill The first of these was Green Reef. It resembles Green Hill, except there are underwater areas to explore, meaning it introduced the drowning mechanic to the game. It was home to the Find Froggy quest.

The second Sub-World was Diamond Terminal. It was an underwater high-security vault, mazelike and protected by laser beams (which can be deactivated with switches), holding jewels. The Rouge's Heist Quest could be done here. It was eventually brought back in the current version of the game as "The Vault" (with a catch; more on that later).

The third Sub-World was Metal City Skatepark. Metal City Skatepark is also in the current version of the game, but as a full-fledged World, meaning the Legacy version is smaller, though the layout and geography is extremely similar to the first area of the current one. It was home to to three Quests: Animal Rescue, Jet's Bets and Freestyle Riders.

Then there was Tornado Assault, another "permanent event," which let you fly the Tornado through Green Hill and into Eggman's base to repel an invasion of his Buzz Bombers. This one was also brought back in the current version of the game, but again with a catch (see later).

Last from Legacy, there was World Premiere. This was basically just an outdoor theater where the first episode of Sonic Prime could be watched in-game. It consisted of a small, Green Hill-esque area with a large projector screen where the episode would play. It was removed after December 17, 2022.

??? is from the current version of the game, but it was only available during April Fools' Day 2024. It had a timer that, once it ran out, made the portal to the world disappear. It basically took a bunch of the Obbies from the Legacy version of the game and spliced them together seamlessly into one level. It used Sanic as its mascot (of course) and you could claim two Friends (Sanic and You, which is basically a duplicate of your player avatar) and a Sanic Trail when you got to the end.

Working on more, will come back when I have more time. I may actually edit them into the first post, to "pin" all relevant information in an easy to find place. Then maybe I'll start on an actual article.

Last Edit: May 17, 2024 0:25:09 GMT by teridaxxd001

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Sonic Speed Simulator: Beta nd "Legacy" content Jun 25, 2024 6:08:39 GMT

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A couple updates.

Tornado Assault was brought back temporarily for the Grinding Gears event on April 13, 2024, and was removed after two weeks. It came back again, though, seemingly permanently, during the Chao School event update on May 18, 2024, with its portal being found in Emerald Hill near Tails's woskshop ever since. However, the current version is actually shorter than the legacy version: the segment where you fly through Eggman's fortress is totally removed.

The Firework Festival Obby is back in the game right now, but it's in Emerald Hill rather than Green Hill, and it's part of the 2024 Birthday Bash event, likely meaning it will be removed, once again, when the event ends. Furthermore, reaching the end of this version of the Obby is different in that the final platform simply has a bunch of fireworks crates floating around over it, whereas the original had a Trail vending machine.

As previously mentioned, Diamond Terminal was brought back on March 15, 2024 as part of the Roblox-wide The Hunt: First Edition event. It was called "The Vault" or "The Hunt Vault" (depending on where you read it) during this event. This version had an exclusive quest where you collect 100 Time Shards, which gets you a special badge as well as a Treasure Hunter Knuckles skin. The Hunt: First Edition ended on March 30, and The Vault was rendered inaccessible. It's back in the game right now, though, once again under the name Diamond Terminal, and was brought back for the June 1, 2024 and has the same content as the legacy version (though the "Rouge's Heist" quest is now called "Diamond Heist"). It's explicitly labeled "Limited World," though, and given that it's been available for over three weeks now, it's undoubtedly being removed soon, probably on either Wednesday or Saturday for the next update (updates occur every Saturday, but sometimes there's a mid-week update on Wednesday for special occasions, and even rarer updates may occur on other days, like the 24-hour limited April Fools' Day events).

Last Edit: Jun 25, 2024 6:12:59 GMT by teridaxxd001

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Sonic Speed Simulator: Beta nd "Legacy" content Sept 9, 2024 2:47:34 GMT

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Post by teridaxxd001 on Sept 9, 2024 2:47:34 GMT

UPDATE.

In update v2.86 (August 24) the Legacy version of Emerald Hill (now called "Emerald Hill Classic") was added back into the game, and in update v2.88 (September 7) Chemical Plant, exactly as it appeared in the Legacy version, was re-added. These particular details were "secret" in that they weren't announced ahead of time or mentioned in the update summaries, and the portals leading to them are hidden. Emerald Hill Classic's portal is hidden behind the largest waterfall in the current version of Emerald Hill, and to enter you are required to complete all of the main World character Quests up to Android Shadow Yellow's Quest in Space Colony ARK. Chemical Plant's portal is in New Yoke City, at the end of a hallway inside the Resistance base (which is itself locked until you complete one of the events or quests there; I forget which), and to access it, you need to meet the same requirement as Emerald Hill Classic, plus pay a 1 billion Rings and have a total Character Mastery of 200.

Almost nothing in either of the old Worlds is functional, even if it's present and labeled (Emerald Hill Classic's Enchant area has text floating over it that would normally indicate you can interact with it), so they're really just playgrounds to explore for people who either never played the Legacy version or Legacy players who missed these versions. Interestingly a hypothetical "Green Hill Classic" was apparently skipped, though its eventual addition can't be ruled out. I'm hoping the same will be done for all the Legacy areas (particularly Snow Valley, Green Reef and Pumpkin Hill, which don't even have current/Reborn equivalents). I don't see the possibility of World Premiere returning at all, though.

Also of note is that Diamond Terminal was eventually removed a couple weeks ago, so it's lost again...

Oh, and a crossover event with Gamefam's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Roblox game happened over the summer, with a new Race called TMNT Race. Instead of being based on a Sonic level, it was based on a real-life place, New York City (where the Turtles are from), and started out on the city streets briefly before going down into the sewer. It's been gone now for a couple of weeks and, given that its use depends on the license for another franchise, it may never come back (though it's not impossible as long as Gamefam still holds licenses for both games).

Last Edit: Sept 9, 2024 3:01:30 GMT by teridaxxd001

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Sonic Speed Simulator: Beta nd "Legacy" content Sept 14, 2024 19:16:00 GMT

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New update, the Legacy Lost Valley was secretly re-added as "Lost Valley Classic" today. Hopefully they keep this up!

Edit: What's more, the Lost Valley Obby, Emerald Hill Obby and Snow Valley Obby are all present (out of bounds) in Lost Valley Classic's map! Unfortunately, if you glitch out of bounds, you can't enter them because they have collision in the air over them, so although you can see down inside them, you walk on an invisible barrier.

Edit 2: And so is the unused Lost Valley Obby 1. And unlike the others, you can go inside this one!

Edit 3: And so is Lost Valley Race!

Last Edit: Sept 15, 2024 4:41:43 GMT by teridaxxd001

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Sonic Speed Simulator: Beta nd "Legacy" content Oct 5, 2024 21:01:09 GMT

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Post by teridaxxd001 on Oct 5, 2024 21:01:09 GMT

Hill Top Classic was added in today's update (though it's a huge pain to get to) and they're teasing the return of Pumpkin Hill (no indication whether it'll be the same map as in the Legacy version or a new map like the main worlds, though Diamond Terminal seems to be the same in both).

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Sonic Speed Simulator: Beta nd "Legacy" content Oct 12, 2024 16:34:09 GMT

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Pumpkin Hill was finally added today, and judging by the fast the travel menu lists it after Space Colony Ark (World 11) as "World 12" it looks like it may be permanent this time and not seasonal. However, If you actually go to the ARK, the Next World portal is still black, blocked off and says "???" on it, so this isn't a guarantee.

The layout of the map is apparently exactly the same. However, the textures were updated (finding the old textures is theoretically possible, but very time consuming, I may elaborate on that later). There are also some new additions that don't interfere with the map itself, like a Main Quest podium hosted by and unlocking Vampire Sonic as well as an Upgrader, Fusion Machine, Mastery Machine, and Fast Friend Upgrader. There are also Hidden Musical Notes added that will unlock tracks in the music player and an easter egg on the tallest mountain of a golden Sonic Statue surrounded by two Boos and a Boom Boo (which, unlike others of their kind, can't actually be interacted with).

Last Edit: Oct 13, 2024 7:28:41 GMT by teridaxxd001

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Sonic Speed Simulator: Beta nd "Legacy" content Oct 29, 2024 17:37:12 GMT

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Apr 14, 2024 0:19:32 GMT teridaxxd001 said:

Sonic Speed Simulator is a Sonic the Hedgehog game built in the Roblox engine. It's made by Gamefam under official license from SEGA. It's a sort of 3D platformer akin to the Sonic Adventure games, though the levels, called "worlds," are open-ended with no end goal, with the next world instead being unlocked by meeting certain conditions. It also has no real overarching story, just a bunch of small "excuse plots" to follow in order to unlock things. There was a paid beta period starting on March 30, 2022 before the official free-to-play launch on April 16. It was totally revamped on February 10, 2023 as Sonic Speed Simulator: Reborn. This revamp wiped all players' save data and they had to start over from scratch. The Reborn subtitle was dropped soon afterward, but the game currently runs identically to it.

What's lost here, besides the pre-Reborn player save data? Pre-Reborn everything. All the Worlds and Quests from the beta and Legacy versions of the game were removed. There are some Worlds in the Reborn version that have the same names as Worlds from the Beta and Legacy versions (Green Hill, for example), but they don't use the exact same maps; they're built mostly from scratch (some assets are reused and the layouts of certain areas are similar, but they're not the same). A gameplay feature that was lost completely is the "Obbies" (short for "obstacle courses"). An Obby, whose portal could be unlocked upon leveling up to a specific number, was sort of a short, transitional stage that needed to cleared in order to reach the next World, which in turn had its in portal at the end of its Obby. In the current version, each has a portal leading directly to every other World, and these portals are unlocked by completing a Quest specific to each one (certain Worlds are unlocked by default, without needing to complete a Quest).

I see little hope of this stuff ever seeing the light of day again. I never played this game until after the Reborn relaunch, so I don't even have personal experience with any of the lost content.

I recommend contacting the leakers such as SonicLeaks and or SssLeakers or SSSNewsAndLeaks Etc they might help

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