Off Camera Secrets | Sonic Adventure DX - Boundary Break 

Wow. Final Egg's model is really that massive? I remember when I was a kid I always wanted to explore around the model's area, but as I grew older and figured out games worked, I figured it was just a magnified skybox object. And now I learn that, no, Final Egg really was as big as it looked. Amazing.

You know you played too much Sonic when you recognise every sound in the intro.

there's also an electric chair in Red mountain. That might explain the gravestones.

Dude, that orchestrative Eggman boss music...pure gold.

I'm not sure if anyone else brought this up already, if they did; woops. For the part at 4:15 theres a bit more to the cars / where they go. When I was making a recent video about Sonic Adventure DX glitches, I found that the cars drive along their set course which takes them maybe like 20-30 feet out of bounds, turn, and come back. At some interval certain cars will change model from; for example: Grey 4-Door changes to Yellow Taxi, that sorta thing. They basically swap models, but the cars never stop. Also I found that a section of the Casinopolis area (front entrance / some surrouding walls) can be seen from Station Square, just out of bounds behind the train station building / entrance. For some strange reason that section's texture flickered like crazy, going from brown to a repeating pattern of Knuckles' face.

You said that the circuit texture under the garbage doors weren't used anywhere else in the game and then you showed the egg tower thing and the sonic dolls which had that texture on/next to them :P

Sonic saying 'This ship is too much' was so fitting xD

So... Sonic Adventure technically ends with Sonic drowning himself?!

6:30 Shesez: "This ship is SO massive that in HD you cannot see Sonic anymore" Sonic: "This ship is too much"

so you noticed the graves in Lava Mountain but not the ghosts of dead Prisoners?

5:10 Sonic's running down a building, but he can JUMP, or rather "kick off" of the building, and it draws him back asif it has gravity. I'm no physics expert, but I doubt a building of that size could have it's own microgravity, so I'm going to guess they just flipped the whole scene 90 degrees or something. Sonic also never gets any closer to the ground, which means the building is... infinitely tall? And everything on ground level is infinitely large to compensate? See, this is why I like early 3D games, they are weird :)

Nope! never wearing that shirt again

The dolls in that area appear in e-102's intro stage. They're meant to be used by the e-series as target practice.

“Sometimes the series can get really weird.” Flashbacks to 2006.

robotniks model during egg viper fight: EYE EM TEH ORGMIN.

Can't believe how finished cream's model looks, makes me wonder what if we got a sonic adventure with cream's story instead of big's one

I'm glad u liked sonic adventure as a first time player! I rly liked ur narration in this episode it's a cool series :)

Damn, Amazing intro!

You actually can make it to a lot of these areas legitimately in the game through not-so-elaborate glitches, you can make it to the car garage and Tails' launch pad by clipping through the level. You can even walk around the outsides of the Egg Carrier which surprisingly has a lot of collision for an area you were never meant to go to.

SnooPING AS usual, I see?

I love the animated intros. They're always so funny

7:54 The FF7 HD remake has seen better days.

You forgot about the prisoners in Red Mountain. D:

It almost looks like Dr. Eggman's pants texture is supposed to say EGGMAN but gets cut off/mirrored all over the place. Edit: Never mind, I kept pausing before you said you figured it out to go back and look at it XD

You said that the sonic dolls were there for seemingly no reason... They're there for the training segment with E-102 Gamma which takes place in the same room.

Cool video, but I would have loved to see some boundary breaking on the pinball tables in Casinopolis.

A humongous what? A Hugh Mungus ship.

I got an ad about a guy hating on jews. I know it's not related to the vid, but it's really weird.

Dude, I always wanted to go through that door on Tails' house. So satisfying to finally see haha. Great job as always! This was one of my favorite episodes, so there's too much to comment on! I couldn't believe how crazy the lighting effects on the water got during the Super Sonic segment when you zoom out. The room of circuitry was sick too. Was there anything interesting in the Casino level? I always thought that area might have some craziness going on, especially with the basement section. As something that you missed -- In the car garage, if you take the camera through the wall you can actually see the cars do a little loop around in thin air before coming back out. It's pretty cool! I used to spend a lot of time glitching around in this game, actually. there are lots of places where you can get to that you aren't supposed to that might be interesting to check out if you ever go back to this game. For example, if you go out of bounds in Lost World as Knuckles, you can get to Sonic's part of the level which actually has ENEMIES that aren't present in Sonic's version of it, suggesting you were to go there as Knuckles at one point. There's a ton more like that too, so hit me up if you ever revisit and want some suggestions!!

In all honesty Sega tends to have some buggy games. Seeing that textures are being displayed on both sides of any given geometry shows the lack of optimization in the game. Most game developers would suggest not doing that. It causes all sorts of problems with performance and even lighting.

7:47 SONIC LORE THEORY: That place expands over the Mystic Ruins and the ruins of Station Square to become EggmanLand from Sonic Unleashed! It makes sense, if you think about it, because near the beginning of the game Eggman says that when he destroys Station Square he will turn it into "RobotnikLand". The architecture between that place and EggmanLand are remarkably similar as well. That would also explain why Station Square and the Mystic Ruins are nowhere to be found in Unleashed, even though you get to see THE WHOLE PLANET.

the ship is hugh mungus in disguise

sad thing is you cant say humungous unironiclly anymore

How does Eggman get this much money to build these things or even how much money in and or material does he have

if you really played the whole game, you would know what the dollsa are for

these video are very interesting :P i do this same thing in dolphin emulator but you appear to be using an external program?

Here's a video idea. Smash 64. In the intro specifically. I don't know if the video is prerendered like melees intro, but if it isn't I would be interested in seeing what developers left in all of the different scene. Great work on boundary break by the way! I look forward to it every time I see it in my sub box!

I really appreciate the intro's to these episodes. Also the Sonic dolls were target practice for E102

6:30 sonic agrees you can hear him in the background, "this ship is too much!"

_So uh... What about Twinkle Park?_

ahh sonic music, the only music that can make something seem cooler than it actually is, I mean listen too "Live And Learn"

amazing intro by the way shout out to chin

The doll things are used in E-102 Gamma's version of Final Egg as practice dummies (Final Egg is Gamma's first stage in his story)

that intro was godlike

6:38 You got that right, Sonic.

I feel like the graves in the volcano probably belong to the prisoners who've died in there. I honestly find it more messed up that prisoners are being locked up inside a volcano, personally.

You put the logo in the thumbnail! Thank you :)

The Sega Dreamcast displays textures on both sides, and the game developers took advantage of that, and that being the reason why SADX renders textures on both sides too. Ports of other Dreamcast games made by Sega do the same too

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"That is a launching bay for Tail's plane...." ... ... ... Sonic:" BETTER GET GOING"

Way past cool! Totally not too slow man! Woohoo!

you don't see a lot of videos like this with fully animated,episode-specific intros! good work on this video and series!

6:22 IS THAT SEXUAL HARASSMENT?!

4:11 - You can actually get inside of there by clipping through a wall and doing a well timed spindash to the inside. Just thought I'd point out that you don't need a camera to see inside :3

On the EGGMAN Base, I think you were meant to run up toward the station tower before hitting a load zone. Best case scenario: as Sonic is running up through the bridge, the camera pans out to see a better image of the base and fade to black if Sonic ran far enough to hit the load zone. Reason for SEGA changing the idea is 1. Player won't see where they're going from the distance of the camera, and 2. It's too long of a segment and will waste time.

I love how it gives a disclaimer in the beginning that it's a Sonic impression lol.

can we talk about how the city is just left in ruins and sonic just... leaves?

I think Sonic Adventure's very concept and idea just keeps me playing this flawed mess. The idea of an open world and a story from various different perspectives just reels me in. If the game was remade ground up or reworked into another title, I would dig it. Especially since when Sonic Adventure gives you access to it's at times fun and beautiful worlds, it gives you full pass. The game just has a certain feeling of dedication and overall effort. It's nice to see Sega at least try their best with a new idea and great concept than rush out a game port for a slowly dieing console. The seemed to learn from the Saturn's rushed mess of Sonic ports and collections. The game honestly is in my opinion a strong level of decent at it's core, but that's actually a more critical look. However, on a personal level, this game holds a pretty strong place in my heart. honestly way more than it should.

At 7:46-9:15 The music is the best robotnic theme i have ever heard. where is it from?

Anyone else really hate the controls for the PC version of this game?

The lava area is actually Hell

Due to how the game was made, you could probably get to the same locations/views from just playing it.

Something that I hadn't noticed until much more recent playthroughs of the game, is that in Ice Cap Zone, when you're at the snowboard section, the avalanche actually chases you through the very beginning part of the zone, which is actually really fucking neat.

You sound like you could be a spiderman actor. Just your attitude.

You should probably find a way to do this with regular Dreamcast Sonic Adventure, DX is kind of a joke

I love your boundary breaks :D

And I thought I hated child actors in movies. child voice actors are even worse

This game had shit hot music not heard it in years

Id like to nominate the guy who did this intro for "Best Boundry Break Opening"

This game has aged so badly, but the music is fantastic.

You missed an awesome thing in Sonic's casino level. As you know since you played Sonic's story, you have to collect enough rings to build up to the chaos emerald to beat that level. However, an interesting thing they did for time-saving is only making the chaos emerald an object that triggers the goal ring they placed on a piece of land under the stage. It rises up when Sonic touches the emerald and causes you to beat the stage, which allows them to save time in coding by not programming a chaos emerald with goal ring properties. Speedrunners of the game use an incline on a decoration in front of the hall leading to the emerald room to spin-dash through the transparent ceiling of that hall and get the goal ring prematurely.

If you do end up doing the rest of the game, I suggest the Sand Slide level for Tails, the mirror room for Amy, and Hot Shelter for Big the Cat.

It's nice how much love they put into the scenery.

Awesome intro

The Gamecube port of Sonic Adventure uses the original assets from the Dreamcast version to a large extent. The game engine took advantage of Dreamcast's strengths at the time, which preferred simple frustum culling as opposed to backface culling. As it would have been more work to update the render pipeline to incorporate backface culling, this is why both sides of all polygons are textured. Also, though it's beyond me to prove it, the "polygon strips" method of geometry storage used in Dreamcast games may have also prevented the use of backface culling, as the meshes would have had to be converted. For efficiency and compression, polygon strips are stored in memory and read serially as set pieces. Poking that means poking the whole piece, so once again, so individual backface culling operations.

Could you an episode on Mario 3D Land? If there's camera thing for 3DS yet.

Love, love, love that Sonic 2 music. It's an iconic tune that will forever be burned into my memory. You said Tales living space is...well not good. I think I know why, in order for him to have that theme song of nostalgia goodness, he had to pay Sega a fortune. Unfortunately, Tales made a bad decision and is now living in abject poverty.... If you would like to donate to Save the Tales fund, operators are standing by...;) You talk about Robitnik's trash consisting of different colored sandals. Maybe that's why he's such a bastard, people bring him sandals to cheer him up; completely forgetting that he has no legs. Now he's pissed and everyone is going to pay for their insolence! #IhavenolegsRobotnik

0:28 If that 'Sonic Impression' caption wasn't there, I wouldn't of had any idea that you were actually giving a Sonic impression nor why the camera is so close to Sonic.

That area of Red Mountain is also referred to as, no joke, "the jail of burning hell". Sonic Adventure is weird.

That big shot of Robotnik's tower is awesome!

0:05 When the fourth wall break is just right.

Greatest game of ALL TIME

Was the Cream model imported or already present in-game and left unused?

I really want a part 2 of Sonic Adventure. You forgot to show us the inside of the Tornado's launch bay, the Metal Sonic and Silver Sonic MK2 in Final Egg's "hub", and the 3-headed giant dragon mech mangled somewhere off-camera in Sky Chase 1 (or for that matter Sky Chase itself), Cream's cameo where she's seen flying after you finish Casinopolis for the first time and plenty of other things. Believe me, Sonic Adventure is absolutely full of neat stuff and hidden assets. Also that Final Egg in the distance is just 11/10. _M a g n i f i c e n t._

I love that intro where Sonic runs along minding his own business and then his face slams right into the invisible wall!

11:48 Amy:Wait Sonic,there must be another way,please don`t jump! Sonic:Sorry Amy,but i can`t live with this pain anymore...

don't know if this is the case for the dreamcast/gamecube but the camera can move chao egg shells(when in water)

The creepy dolls are actually supposed to be target practice for the e-series robots to shoot at. When you play as Gamma, you get to do just that. It just adds to the charm about how much Eggman hates those guys enough to make stuff dolls replica for the purpose of destroying them.

There needs to be a gif out of Egg Viper Robotnik. : P

This was awesome but i think you should re do this with the dreamcast version of the game for it has many differences that i think may fascinate you

Ah yes , the worst port of any sonic game ever , Sonic adventure DX

People that pronounce "kame hame ha" like that need to be choked out every other week.

man, old shesez boundary break is such a funny thing love it

You didn't show INSIDE any chaos boss.... HOW DARE YOU!

I was hoping he'd show the Cream the Rabbit Model that pops in and out in some areas

Graves... underground... pumping machine... Dead miners?

The robot maid is a 'The Jetsons' easter egg ^^

10:46 Do you think Eggman's low poly dance can be in fortnite

The dx version is sucks the original in Dreancast is much better