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Sonic The Hedgehog 2 on iOS contains a super-secret beta version of the retooled Hidden Palace level

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Sonic The Hedgehog 2 on iOS contains a super-secret beta version of the retooled Hidden Palace level

You might have to pay attention for a bit here, so I apologise for that in advance. Here goes.

The polished up version of Sonic The Hedgehog 2 on iOS included a level called Hidden Palace. This was a level cut from the original that was retooled for the iOS re-release and stuck into the game.

Previously it had only been available in beta form. And it turns out that it's still available in beta form, locked in the code of the iOS port.

There's a massively convoluted way to get to it, which you can read over on our sister site 148Apps, or see at work in the video embedded at the bottom of this here article.

But if you're a portable Sonic fanatic, and you've got quite a lot of time on your hands, it's going to be interesting to compare how the proto-palace, and the one that made it into the game, actually play.

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Harry Slater
Harry Slater
Harry used to be really good at Snake on the Nokia 5110. Apparently though, digital snake wrangling isn't a proper job, so now he writes words about games instead.