Late last year, the founder of Traveller's Tales, Jon Burton, had released a patch for a 20 year old game, Sonic 3D Blast. In it, he added back content and improvements that were intended to be in the game originally. Since then, he's taken to a YouTube channel called GameHut, where he talks about prototypes and games that he worked on at Traveller's Tales. Recently, he's been taking a look at a never before seen prototype of Crash Twinsanity, made 9 months prior to the game's release, which shows early level design and an unused music track. Also notably shown off was a level that would later be entirely deleted from the final version called Bug Run. You can see both videos linked below.

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[Deleted User]

Crash Twinsanity gets a fair bit of flak but it'll always have a place in my heart. Always good to find out more about the games you love!

 

[Jayenkai]

Minor timeline correction, he started doing the GameHut channel, and THEN did the Sonic 3D Directors cut!!
Been watching his channel since near the beginning, and as a gamedev myself, I’m finding it full of loads of juicy technical nuggets. Not sure how much of his in-depth stuff is understandable to none-coders, but it sure is a fantastic channel as far as I’m concerned!!

 

[RedoLane]

"HEY HEY HEY! Yeah you! I've been doing this for 10 STINKIN' YEARS! Back and forward, back and forward, AND I'M SICK OF IT! WELL I'M NOT GONNA DO IT NO MORE!"
-Skunk, Crash Twinsanity tutorial segment

Hahaha the good memories from this game

 

[guisadop]

Twinsanity is still my favorite game, despite all the bugs it has..

 

[WiiHomebrew+Snes]

Twinsanity is still my favorite game, despite all the bugs it has..

They removed bug run

I'm pretty sure you're better off than you think, there apparently used to be way more bugs.

 

[pustal]

I would love they'd port this game for the PC.

 

[MaxiBash]

It looks awesome, but...
SEGA,
WHEN WILL YOU REPLY TO HIM SO WE CAN HEAR THE SPECIAL STAGE KNUCKLES THEME FROM S3DB?
IT’S NOW ALMOST A YEAR!

 

[Deleted User]

Who cares about a Crash game that Naughty Dog didn't make.

All garbage.

 

[SANIC]

It looks awesome, but...
SEGA,
WHEN WILL YOU REPLY TO HIM SO WE CAN HEAR THE SPECIAL STAGE KNUCKLES THEME FROM S3DB?
IT’S NOW ALMOST A YEAR!

He did show it. It’s actually Twinkle Park’s theme uncompressed. It was reused in SA.

Who cares about a Crash game that Naughty Dog didn't make.

All garbage.

I like Wrath of Cortex, it’s a pretty good Crash game

 

[McWhiters9511]

love this game. forever one of my all time favorites

 

[Foxi4]

To be perfectly honest, I don't like some of the changes Jon made in his Director's Cut of 3D Blast, particularly some of the palette swaps. It's one of the games that defined my childhood and I always thought it was great as-is, looking at some of the changes was like watching someone messing with your box of treasures, drawing circles on your favourite things with a crayon. I'll all for recovering lost content, but I'd prefer if the original content remained unchanged

 

[MaxiBash]

He did show it. It’s actually Twinkle Park’s theme uncompressed. It was reused in SA.

Wait, so there is no compressed Genesis version?

 

[FateForWindows]

Wait, so there is no compressed Genesis version?

Yeah, demo tapes aren't Genesis versions of themes, they're usually uncompressed and not done on the Genesis sound chip.

 

[MaxiBash]

Oh, nevermind then.