Sonic CD - Ending Scene Comparison

Описание: As some of you may know, Sonic Origins includes Sonic CD, and interestingly the FMVs on there, got some touch ups and visual improvements over prior iterations. This made me curious to compare every single version of this ending scene that we have access to, and the results are certainly interesting.

The 96 PC version, is the only version where any real effort was made to sync up the footage to the Mega CD original, although it likewise runs at 15 fps and in a much smaller screen.

Sonic Jam, Sonic Mega Collection and Sonic Origins, all appear to use the source tape master that SEGA has, with only minor differences between them like Sonic Jam's version being much more compressed and at a lower framerate, Mega Collection having some fade in effects as a result of being mixed in with other scenes, and Origins being the highest quality version available, with a notable effort to remove the ghosting.

Sonic Gems Collection is interesting, because it's the only version following the 96 PC port, to omit the R2 level scene, it also consistently appears to be the slowest version for the post 96 PC releases.

The 2011 rerelease has a fade in effect at the start, not on any other version, and appears slightly faster than Gems Collection, but other than that I don't have much to say there.

Worth noting is that the MCD original, 96 PC port, 2011 rerelease and Sonic Origins, all had a portion of the credits in a much smaller window alongside the text scroll, and so they had to all be zoomed in accordingly for comparison's sake.

Finally, I should note that every single version of this scene has ghosting in one form or another, even the Mega CD original isn't safe from it surprisingly enough.

Credit goes to vanilla and Smash45 for the 1996 PC port footage and Sonic Gems Collection respectively.

P.S for those asking about this specific track, I have uploaded a video of it, with even a FLAC file attached in the description.
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