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Leaked Sonic 4 mine cart footage is all yours

by Randy Nelson on Apr 5th 2010 2:30PM

Adding to last week's leaked footage of Sonic 4's Splash Hill Zone is a new clip (embedded after the break) from the downloadable game's Lost Labyrinth Zone. There's more to be seen at the source, but we singled out one clip in particular because it served as the best evidence that Sonic 4 really is drawing a lot of inspiration from the 16-bit era -- after all, how else would you explain a mine cart level? (In case you'd forgotten, they were outlawed by a U.N. resolution passed in 1998.)

So hey, if some random people on the internet can get their hands on Sonic 4, it shouldn't be too long before we can, too. Right?

[Thanks RPK!]

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Tags: dimps, lost-labyrinth-zone, Microsoft, Nintendo, sega, sonic, sonic-4, sonic-team, sonic-the-hedgehog, sonic-the-hedgehog-4, sonic-the-hedgehog-4-episode-1, video, Wii, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (83)

I really hope they cut this level out. One less act is much better than going through something as frustratingly bad as that.

wtf is that TOMBA?!?!?!

Agreed. The rest of the game looks awesome except for this. Just watching it makes me nauseous. Very doubtful they would cut it out though as it seems the game is basically done.

the guys whos playen it is just terrible, he slow down far too often to backtrack or get missed coins

Coins?

@ Skyblaze It is, or Tombi as he was known outside the US.

holy crap my mom bought that game for us years ago... i dunno what happened to it but i HAVE to torrent that as soon as i get home! good times, man... good times...

I wish I could play Tomba again.

The guy playing does sucks ass but I don't think that's the reason why the stage looks so FAIL. Yeah, I think the stage is that bad even if a better guy was playing =/

Yeah, that's agreed. The guy is a major failure. He needs Super Guide.

Why put Sonic in a cart? It's only going to slow him down...

I LOVE YOU TOMBA!!

I just barfed

jesus, brodo you must be gay for chris d.

chris... if you read this stay off the internet!! there is someone who wants to put his male reproductive organ between your buttocks!! save yourself!!

Watching this is frustrating because who ever is playing it is either completely terrible at hand eye coordination, or their minds aren't comprehending what is going on in the game.

They've actually leaked the whole game now, which made some dumb furry named Tweaker flip out on his Sonic themed forum and make talking about Sonic 4 a bannable offense.

At this point, the meltdowns and insane reactions from rabid fans is far more entertaining than the games could ever be.

Also this level looks terrible (but its a Sonic game so thats a given.)

very true

If you search on youtube every ten hours youll see new updated footage of Mad Gear, Casino Street, Lost Labrinth, Splash Hil, Special Stage, Super Sonic, all the bosses but you have to be quick as sega europes on a rampage with copyright

Infact ive even downloaded Sonic 4 Soundtrack most tracks sound the same or similar to Sonic 3D the songs are not as good as sonic 1, 2, 3, knuckles and sonic cd

heres a link http://www.youtube.com/user/oceanunseen?feature=mhw5

It's not right that we have more shakey-cam footage than ACTUAL GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE

It's also worth pointing out that right now we have footage of EVERYTHING in the game before we actually have a release date for it.

I'd ask the question "Why is Sonic in a mine cart?" But this looks pretty cool and fun.

So that it makes it fair for the racers in the other mine carts to- oh! We're done talking about that.

Same as whys Tails in a plain, or sonic in a car

Fun fact: There were three mine cart levels in Donkey Kong 64.

And that vid just didn't look great. Of course, I think the guy playing it sucks as usual.

And that's exactly it. This level is probably ridiculous when it get the cart up to a crazy speed.

SIGH. you* get the cart up to a crazy speed.

Bad grammar Monday.

I liked the mine carts in DK64.

...That was about it. That and the arcade version of the original Donkey Kong.

The difference is that Donkey Kong 64's mine cart levels looked (and were) fun to play. Regardless of how good the player in the video is; its obvious that this level suffers from poor design, awful controls, and irritating physics.

The mine cart levels in Donkey Kong Country (SNES) were fairly fun. All about timing them jumps. I remember I'd think I was about to make it then my cart just falls like 3 pixels short of a ledge/track. Then I hear a balloon POP sound. "F*CK!"

Okay, I understand using LT & RT on an Xbox controller, but shouldn't this level use the SixAxis motion on PS3 and the Wiimote's motion on Wii?

If it's real, it probably does.

i did NOT ask for sonic tilt n' tumble.

i miss donkey kong :[

We all do.

With all that money they have, you'd think Nintendo would be able to come up with the right number of zeros to bribe Microsoft to let Rare develop a new Donkey Kong game.

Microsoft would want a 360 version.

That's just wrong.

for sure, that mine cart level in Country was soooooooo fun.

Why does every single leaked vid star the dude who sucks at playing sonic? Let someone else whos better play and someone without parkinson's hold the damn camera

Your post reminds me of Red Dwarf, the greatest si-fi show of all times. Even Patrick loved it more than Star Trek.

Yea.. this does not look fun.. nice music tho.

Motherfvcker...it wouldn't stop.

I finally bumped the video to the end.

No mine cart level will ever beat the ones in Donkey Kong Country. They were legendary

I disagree. The final cart level in DK64, the one in Creepy Castle, blew everything out of the water.

Played Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie, the Gex games... But I never played DK64. Rather, I think I played it for a half an hour once within the last few years... I don't count that tho.

i agree
most fun was DKC2 where you are in the mine cart race. the haunted ghost chase was also pretty fun.

This is showing us how bad LocoRoco COULD have been if it hadn't been done right.

and/or if LocoRoco were a 360 game.

Someone hasn't played loco roco...

This just makes me want DKC4 that much more...

IIRC in the 16bit games you only rode a bandwagon for a small part of the act with minimal control, you didnt have to spend an entire damn level moving the screen to get somewhere.

Wow lets hope they cut this level out, this just looks terrible.

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