Okay, we all know how this worked, but WHY? The combined ROM is only 3MB with all the duplicate data removed, why bother with this logistical nightmare when they could've just waited 8 months and released the full game at once? Maybe even faster since they wouldn't need to test and prototype this meme technology. It's not like Sonic 3 was rushing to reach the stores by Christmas, it came out in February, then Sonic & Knuckles was the same year in October. I just don't get it, was it another one of Naka's dumbass ideas that no one could oppose?
>>12504817McDonald's
>>12504817The Sonic and Knuckles part of the cartidge also served as an adaptor if the Sonic 3 part didn't fit into the console you had. But it was obviously a logistical nightmare that made very little in return since no one else ever did it in the entire industry.
>>12504817They got fucked by the suits McDonald's deal, and not only did this make it possible to get the true full experience but compensate the people for having to pay the price of 2 games with Knuckles in Sonic 2/Blue Sphere, the complete opposite of how the game industry works nowadays
>>12504817poppy diapers
>>12505192Yeah, but the S&K cart was probably much more expensive to produce esp if you add in all the R&D costs.
>>12505215The hypothetical single cart full version also would have been expensive
>was it another one of Naka's dumbass ideas that no one could oppose...And here it is. This is actually decent bait, unlike most other threads in this board, because it at least makes an effort to sound like a serious technical discussion before revealing itself as yet another shitpost.
>>12505251So what you are saying is,.it was another case of SoA fucking up.
>>12504817I wonder why Sega never tried this again.Why not have 8 more levels of Ecco the Dolphin or Toejam and Earl.
Sonic 3 was rushed not because of mcd, but because Sonic Team were developing the abandoned Sonic The Hedgehog 3D with the SVP.The idea of lock-on and adding more levels only appeared at the very end of the development of Sonic 3, which is when they started composing the music for S&K and planning the level order, but yeah Sonic 3 was first envisioned as a full single game.S&K is effectively a direct sequel, not "the second half that had to be cut"
>>12504993>no one else ever did it in the entire industryBehold.
