Sonic Adventure's cutscenes were made in RPG Maker 

The cutscenes being animated at 60fps double speed and slowed down certainly explains some of the awkward pauses and the characters doing their walking animations for way more time than they should

Many Japanese games to this day are still programmed like this, preset animations and all--once you see it, you can't really unsee it. Yakuza is a notable example

7:33: Eggman: “ I’ll have 2 number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, 2 number 45s, and a large soda.”

I never realized how intricate the cutscenes in SA1 actually were. The fact that they are done in real time but need to be locked to 30fps or else they would move abnormally fast is pretty interesting. It’s also neat how with mods, you can use these variables to create your own cutscenes in-game. I guess that’s how RU-vidrs, like Jehtt make their SA1 styled parody videos with the in-game engine.

7:30 damn eggmans wolfing down those burgers, trying to unleash a water god works up an appetite don’t it?

The way all the cutscenes are essentially acted out through gameplay reminds me alot of machinima and it's weird this is basically a game dev official example of it.

7:29 - Eggman is excited for his Happy Meal. Gamma is taking too long to order.

wow so Sonic Adventure really is Sonic RPG

I like how greatly RPG Sonic Adventure 1 is. With the ambitious story direction with the multiple literally character perspectives of the same events. The Shenmue of Sonic games.

Aside from certain motions, like the police running away from Chaos 0, the general flow of most cutscenes is a lot snappier and better timed at 60fps. I wonder if most of them were animated with 60fps in mind, and then were changed to 30fps at a later point in development simply by slowing them down. It would certainly explain stuff like the absolutely insane shot where Knuckles walks towards Eggman for, like, ten whole seconds while neither of them say anything.

As a kid Sonic Adventure and Sonic 3&K cutscenes were also my favourite. Even though I didn't know anything about programming back then, I could feel that they were happening inside the game in a way SA2 cutscenes didn't. They felt grounded to most of the same rules that governed gameplay, just with the player not being able to move with the controller. As such, the cutscenes and the gameplay felt like they were part of the same world, something I was missing in SA2 as a kid.

2:47 If the pacing was fixed, I would honestly prefer this in 60fps. It doesn’t drag as much in my opinion and is a little more enjoyable to watch. Maybe that has something to do with seeing the original for so long.

THAT IS WHY SONIC AND TAILS BLINK SO MUCH AT THE ENTRANCE TO SKY DECK?! Honestly, I always thought I was the ONLY one to notice this! It bugged me for decades!

I've heard the beta title of Sonic Adventure was "Sonic RPG", so the RPG-like cutscenes definiteky support that idea.

3:17 has the same energy as Metal Harbors rocket launch from SA2 when you get there early lmao

3:38 Some things were off with this edited version, but it actually looked pretty nice when Sonic said "Whats up?" and it actually looked natural with the mouth movements.

So no one is gonna talk about how SonicTeam themselves misspelled Tails as Tales in their own code? 5:20 MilesTalesPrower

You know? This explains why the characters interrupt each other so often in the Adventure games. Not just because of awkward dub timing, but because of the different animation speeds making it harder to splice the audio right.

Sonic Frontiers dialogue for Sage and friends cutscenes also work in a similar way having pre-set animations, these are different from the fully animated cutscenes This kind of cutscene production is very common in the industry, a lot of RPGs do this as well

Eggman fuckin devouring a burger like a feral animal at 7:30 is so funny to me

It does kinda makes sense considering how Sonic Adventure was supposed to be an RPG game.

Not surprising considering it was meant to be an rpg at first

I figured SA1's cutscenes were all done in engine but never knew it went this deep. I kind of want to do something similar one day. Appreciate yet another deep dive into these games!

I really want to see all the cutscenes at 60fps now

Good video, fascinating stuff... but that title is misleading. You had me hoping that there was evidence from the code that these cutscenes were literally made in a modified version of RPG Maker.

it was worth staying up all night just to see a new speepshighway video at 6am

I really want to try to make an easy text-based scripting system for making events, so people can do stuff without having to write C code.

I remember figuring out how the story scenes worked as a preteen and it made so much sense why they animated so jankily. It was funny seeing the exact same issue come up in Frontiers with it's optional Memory Token cutscenes, where characters just interpolate between preset poses and it looks terrible in motion

Very informative as always ,glad you are still making these videos.

Watching your videos in an endearing experience for me because they remind me of my sweet childhood days with this game! Thank you!

Man, I knew the cutscenes were unique, but I had no idea it was this unique! I love this game a lot, so it's great to see you really dig your teeth into it.

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Based sa1 enjoyer

Wow thanks so much for making this vid! The first Sonic Adventure is my favorite sonic game of all time (which people are always surprised to hear when SA2 exists, but I don't think SA2 has the same charm as the first game). The inner workings of this game have always fascinated me and to see it put into words here is great.

Wow, the English voice actors sound very similar to their Japanese counterparts.

Pachacamac taking a shower is not something i expected to ever see, but here we are

I always love seeing how games work and SA1 is one of my all time favorite games, so this is a double win for me.

1:21 I mean SA1 was originally supposed to be an RPG at one point in development (don't think it would've been as weird and obscene as the ones you made though)

The best thing about this games cutscenes are the incredibly abrupt music changes

Perfect day to upload another Sonic Adventure video.

In SA2 It is possible to move the characters in some cutscenes using the debug code. One of them is the cutscene that plays right before you start green forest

I’m so glad this channel came back

Wake up honey, SPEEPSHighway just uploaded

Here's my rumour about Amy's bird being in Gamma's death. In Sonic X: Amy was there with her bird when Gamma died, so there's a chance that was supposed to happen in the game aswell, but due to (possibly) time constraints, it didn't happen. Maybe Gamma's story was one of the last stories cutscenes to be worked on, like they wanted to work on the more important stories first like Super Sonic

I always love seeing how games work, and SA1 is onle of my all time favourite games, and I think it kinda makes sense since SA1 was supposed to be an RPG game back when it was first developed for the Saturn before becoming a platformer, and moving to the Dreamcast in 1997 (The Remains of the Saturn Version appeared under the name of "Sonic World" in Sonic Jam in 1997), and I really want to see these cutscenes next in 60fps, but hopefully, this is very informative in my opinion (also happy belated anniversary to the Dreamcast).

This explains quite a bit of the cutscenes' awkwardness

Ive played this game so many times, but only now did I notice that policeman in the background running in place at 3:27!

For anyone trying to look at the modding guide in the description and getting a 404, just replace the "G.." in the url with "Guide"

I love Sonic Adventure. Always happy to learn more about it.

3:17 Cop: lock on target men! re- Everyone else: *gunshots firing*

its incredible the way they worked around limitations back then! while it is similiar to RM Id say its still far above the base tools we get with it. some crazy stuff lol, the fact they even have a bit of li sync based off language is awesome!

the cutscenes of the genesis games are handled almost the same way from memory so its kinda cool seeing that it was adapted for 3D when they moved to adventure :0

7:30 eggman's hitting the griddy

it's ironic but yeah all of the cutscenes in SA1 were used on RPGMaker (way before it's overall app was even released to the public, fun fact also: this was how the FF series became a popular game series as well)

Is it just me or is the lip syncing more accurate once the scenes are 60 fps

ur videos are always so cool. tails standing there the whole time in the back is killing me tho 😭

7:30 Eggman aggressively eating a burger:

1:01 wow he even speaks nihongo with his mouth

Blinks at Sky Deck entrance make a charm to the windy environment anyway so it doesn’t matter if they forgot or bugged to remove the animation.

Honestly, this is a good thing cuz it explains the goofy cutscenes, I certainly still like the cutscenes but also watch jehtt if you wanna laugh like a moron

5:30 no one had noticed Tikal’s father in the casino shower SpeepsHighway made in the background 😂

Watch out, you're gonna crash!

For that Lily part bit it seems that in some points Amy would have seen Gamma die. We already know that Sonic X used scrapped ideas for SA2's story. Now i believe it happened with SA1 as well. What they couldn't achieve in the games,they used it in the anime.(excluding the anime's humans of course)

best clickbater i've ever known. The sonic adventure expert.

7:33 eggman is so angry that he starts eating

I like that you used DX Sonic for the thumbnail.

SONIC: the Adventurous

0:10 I'd say "classic"

7:40 i wonder what eggmans eating?

Cutscenes are sometimes created in this way in recent games. It's easy and fast to make.

Is their a mod that adds the NPCS that are missing during the cutscenes sometimes the NPC disappear during a cutscene and then reappear once it's over

I think this explains stuff like Tails continuing to move after he stops in Super Sonic's story, or Eggman walking in place in Gamma's story as shown in the video.

Knuckles just dies at the end lmao

Man, I need to toy around with this and try

I understood very little of this but was intrigued anyway

The legend is back

hey speeps, can you add blinking to the active mouht mod? as fast as that is, i still think it looks pretty nice

This is really interesting and explains a lot about why the cutscenes are so strangely unique. I didn't see any on gamebanana but is there any mod elsewhere or in the works that restores the original intent of the cutscenes (restoring the broken animations, effects, and character placements as well as a framerate fix that would probably need some animation tweaking)? I think it would be a great way to do what current sonic modding has already done to the gameplay to the cutscenes in making it faithful to the original but enhanced.

I wish you hasnt lied in the title bc this is a fascinating video with cool information of its own merit.

Pretty cool

Fun Fact: Sonic Adventure was originally going to be an RPG, which explains the cutscenes, NPCs, key quests, and interconnected hubworlds.

It makes sense, this game was originally an RPG

The way you described how animations here makes total sense when you look at SA1's animations. They don't look animated by anything, it's just actions in-game. Reminds me of machinimas or Gmod.

This honestly explains a lot of what went wrong with Sonic Boom. It had in-engine cutscenes too, it seems, but waaaaaaaaaay more janky.

Really, the cutscenes are better at 60 FPS. Faster pace(That also mostly hides that some characters just stand around when they should move in to potentially win the confrontation) and less overly long pauses. Heck, even tho animations go too fast, some of them look better fast, they actively look like they are in slow motion for the reaction the character should be having. There should be a mod to fix these double speed-versions to get rid of the jank and we are golden...comparatively speaking, anyways. Of course, the cutscenes themselves aren't great, but that's argubly overscope. 8:18 Why was this even removed? 8:43 Bugged/Improperly set details that are actually kinda cool. 9:00 Wait...so this ISN'T internal dialogue? Man, cutscenebugs making stuff harder to understand even before SA2B did it... 9:26 They remove ONE upgrade that Tails isn't supposed to have? Nevermind that you cannot have that one yet, he really should have none of them because this is a flashback to before the game, but weird choice by the devs.

Nice ImpressBT text font haha

Is there anything that explains 8:50's sharp return to default face?

The mismatched framerates explain the rigid and slow action flow of cutscenes. I'm guessing some of the cutscene content was made at 60fps and some was made at 30, making it impossible to get a perfect version of them.

Any mods that restore or fixes these cutscenes

Nice to know.

The bird's in Gamma and Beta are the siblings of Birdie, that's why Birdie would have appeared at the end of Gamma's story

7:29 eggman the glizzy gobbler

An engine that wouldn't be out for 9 years

yno, ive always wondered why eggman walked in place for so long after talking to gamma in that one scene...

SA1 has awkward graphic, but is a nice game. I had lots of fun when i played it.

Might use this kniowledge is make an sonic adventure abridged mod

3:03 The 60fps is top fast

Just a question... How many code lines are in the game?

“this isnt what youre aski- EUGH” 4:21

as a person currently working on my own rpgmaker game, ok