History Headscratchers / SonicTheHedgehogCD

* Why does the ground in Stardust Speedway seem to be partly made out of musical instruments? That always just seemed really random. Is it just to show Little Planet is a weird place (in the same way Collision Chaos is filled with MindScrew nonsense?)

** The first sentence refers most likely to Sonic[=/=]the player, and the second to Eggman. The song is encouraging the player him by telling him that Eggman doesn't stand a chance against him.

*** This is the only game in the series where he doesn't use animals as badnik cores, but FLOWERS. Even the ending animation shows flowers appearing when Sonic smashes the badniks, ergo this question is out of place for this game. And remember this; ROBOTNIK IS AN EVIL MAD SCIENTIST. Enphasis on MAD and EVIL; he's not going to do the practical, sensible thing when he can be a sadist and screw someone or something over to get his way.

* In the boss theme, does the line "Wow, the power you possess is incredible! He doesn't stand a chance!" refer to Sonic or Eggman?

** Probably budgetary reasons. That way he doesn't have to buy expensive batteries to power up his robots. He was probably cool with buying one for Metal Sonic, who was supposed to be his ultimate robot, but not for random mooks. He may have stopped using them in modern games due to batteries becoming cheaper and more efficient.

** According to some sources, it's a copy protection screen that is supposed to show when using a burned disc. Hence it has that scary pic (to "punish" pirates by scaring them) and the "Unlimited fun with Sega Enterprises" message (to promote Sega and incentivate pirates to buy the actual games). However, they decided to make it accessible via a cheat code as well, and that's where most people know it from.

** Probably budgetary reasons. That way he doesn't have to buy expensive batteries to power up his robots. He was probably cool with buying one for Metal Sonic, who was supposed to be his ultimate robot, but not for random mooks. He may have stopped using them in modern games due to batteries becoming cheaper and more efficient.
* When the 2011 remake made the level select menu accessible in normal gameplay (as opposed to being a cheat), as it's the only way of freely selecting levels in that game, why didn't they polish it and make it more user friendly? It's nice that they put Palmtree Panic 3 in the right spot, and removed the WARP, OPENING AND COMMING entries, but it still feels rather unpolished. They could have changed the number of Collision Chaos and later Rounds so that it doesn't skip from Round 1 to Round 3. Or even better, make it so that rather than numbers, it shows the Rounds' names. By contrast, the level select in Sonic 1 underwent a major overhaul for the remake, despite still being just a cheat.

* When the 2011 remake made the level select menu accessible in normal gameplay (as opposed to being a cheat), as it's the only way of freely selecting levels in that game, why didn't they polish it and make it more user friendly? It's nice that they put Palmtree Panic 3 in the right spot, and removed the WARP, OPENING AND COMMING entries, but it still feels rather unpolished. They could have changed the number of Collision Chaos and later Rounds so that it doesn't skip from Round 1 to Round 3. Or even better, make it so that rather than numbers, it shows the Rounds' names. By contrast, the level select in Sonic 1 went a major overhaul for the remake, despite still being just a cheat.

* When did the 2011 remake made the level select menu accessible in normal gameplay (as opposed to being a cheat), as it's the only way of freely selecting levels in that game, why didn't they fix it to make it more polished and user friendly? It's clear that it was originally designed like for testing purposes, and they didn't bother fixing it in the Sega CD version because it wasn't meant to be accessible by the common player, being accessible only with a cheat code. But that's no longer true for the remake, so they could have replaced the 1-1-A, 1-1-B, etc. labels with the actual names of the stages, and fix their order. As it is, the menu is pretty awkward and unpolished, as they levels are labeled with numbers and letters, skip the world 2 (which was a scrapped world), shoehorn the Warp, Opening and some Coming Soon screens between worlds 1 and 3, and places levels 1-3-C and 1-3-D ''after'' 3-3-D.

* [[DistressedDamsel Amy Rose]] [[CaptainObvious is on the Little Planet]]... How exactly did she get there?

* When did the 2011 remake made the level select menu accessible in normal gameplay (as opposed to being a cheat), as it's the only way of freely selecting levels in that game, why didn't they fix it to make it more polished and user friendly? It's clear that it was originally designed like for testing purposes, and they didn't bother fixing it in the Sega CD version because it wasn't meant to be accessible by the common player, being accessible only with a cheat code. But that's no longer true for the remake, so they could have replaced the 1-1-A, 1-1-B, etc. labels with the actual names of the stages, and fix their order. As it is, the menu is pretty awkward and unpolished, as they levels are labeled with numbers and letters, skip the world 2 (which was a scrapped world), shoehorn the Warp, Opening and some Coming Soon screens between worlds 1 and 3, and have levels 1-3-C and 1-3-D ''after'' 3-3-D.

** Apparently it's a copy protection screen that is supposed to show when using a burned disc. Hence it has that scary pic (to "punish" pirates by scaring them) and the "Unlimited fun with Sega Enterprises" message (to promote Sega and incentivate pirates to buy the actual games). However, they decided to make it accessible via a cheat code as well, and that's where most people know it from.

** Probably budgetary reasons. That way he doesn't have to buy expensive batteries to power up his robots. He was probably cool with buying one for Metal Sonic, who was supposed to be his ultimate robot, but not for random mooks.
* When the 2011 remake made the level select menu accessible in normal gameplay (as opposed to being a cheat), as it's the only way of freely selecting levels in that game, why didn't they fix it to make it more polished and user friendly? It's clear that it was originally designed like for testing purposes, and they didn't bother fixing it in the Sega CD version because it wasn't meant to be accessible by the common player, being accessible only with a cheat code. But that's no longer true for the remake, so they could have replaced the 1-1-A, 1-1-B, etc. labels with the actual names of the stages, and fix their order. As it is, the menu is pretty awkward and unpolished, as they levels are labeled with numbers and letters, skip the world 2 (which was a scrapped world), shoehorn the Warp, Opening and some Coming Soon screens between worlds 1 and 3, and have levels 1-3-C and 1-3-D ''after'' 3-3-D.

*** This is the only game in the series where he doesn't use animals as badnik cores, but FLOWERS. Even the ending animation shows flowers appearing when Sonic smashes the badniks, ergo this question is out of place for this game. And remember this; ROBOTNIK IS AN EVIL MAD SCIENTIST. Enphasis on MAD and EVIL; he's not going to do the practical, sensible thing when he can be a sadist and screw someone or something over to get his way.

** Probably an [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OffscreenMomentOfAwesome Offscreen Moment of Awesome]], after all she can handle herself in Sonic Adventure 1. She also could've just hitched a ride on one of eggman's machines, followed Sonic when he was jumping up to Little Planet as well perhaps.

** Metal Sonic was an experiment. I imagine Eggman kept the animals as batteries as a backup plan, because they'd been proven to work time and time again. If it ain't broke, don't fix it, you know?

* Why does Robotnik/Eggman need to go to the trouble of using animals as organic batteries for his robots if he's capable of building Metal Sonic without one?

** Someone in development probably threw that in as a joke.

* Why the hell is that "Fun is infinite" easter egg in a Sonic game?!

* Why is Metal Sonic doing in those projectors?

** Amy supposedly [[http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_CD_JP_Manual read in some Tarot cards]] that she had a 'destined' encounter with Sonic on Little Planet, but then I guess that's more accurately 'why', as for how...er. she climbed the chain?

* Why the hell is that easter egg in a Sonic game?!

* Why is Metal Sonic doing in those projectors?

*** You could be right. The D.A. Garden is probably what it actually looks like and I'd imagine the version of it covered in metal was from concept art or something.