Sonic and the Black Knight

Sonic and the Black Knight
Also known as: Sonic to Ankoku no Kishi (JP) Developer: Sonic Team Publisher: Sega Platform: Wii Released in JP: March 12, 2009 Released in US: March 3, 2009 Released in EU: March 13, 2009 Released in AU: March 12, 2009 This game has unused areas. This game has hidden development-related text. This game has unused enemies. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused models. This game has unused cinematics. This game has unused sounds.

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Sonic and the Black Knight is third Sonic title on the Nintendo Wii and the follow-up to Sonic and the Secret Rings. After being teleported to the world of Camelot by a wizard named Merlina, Sonic must go on a journey to become a true knight in order to defeat King Arthur, who's been corrupted by the Scabbard of Excalibur. This leads to Sonic going through medieval lands, meeting new but familiar looking people, and discovering a shocking truth.

While Sonic and the Black Knight wasn't liked by fans and critics at the time for having Sonic wield a sword (which was mocked relentlessly in the media), the game has over time become more appreciated due to its fun gameplay and having some of the strongest writing and themes in the series. Unfortunately though, this would be the last entry in the series to feature Jason Griffith as the voice of Sonic, Shadow, and Jet, as the entire 4Kids voice cast (Except for Mike Pollock as Eggman) would be replaced with the Studiopolis voice cast, starting with Sonic Free Riders.

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Developer Comments Merlina: Here lies the sacred text by folks of a bygone era.

Sonic and the Secret Rings Leftovers Dark Queen: Foolish pointless leftovers that does nothing but waste precious space on the disc.

Unused Models

PrimModels

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  PRIM_PLANEXY.gno

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  PRIM_PLANEXZ.gno

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  PRIM_HALFSPHERE.gno

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  PRIM_CYLINDER.gno

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  PRIM_CUBE.gno

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  PRIM_CONE.gno

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  PRIM_CAMERA.gno

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  PRIM_ARROWZ.gno

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  PRIM_TORUS.gno

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  PRIM_SPHERE.gno

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  PRIM_JIKO.gno

primModels.one contains basic geometric objects for debugging purposes. Several of these models are also taken from Shadow the Hedgehog.

Stg901

Stg901 has a test level that goes around in a loop. It's mostly similar to the unused test level in Secret Rings.

Stg902

Stg902 contains the entirety of Sand Oasis, the second level in Secret Rings. This was likely used as a placeholder stage during development.

Stg903

Stg903 features a test level with long dirt roads surrounded by grass and mountains.

Stg904

Within stg904, there's a test level with multiple different curves and angles. It also has some water for Sonic to walk through.

Stg905

Stg905 contains a test level that's purely meant to test the width for platforms, shown by the text on the grass.

Silver

CH.SILVER.gno has a unused model of Silver in his non-armored outfit. Considering you can play as Shadow, Knuckles, and Blaze in their normal attire, the same was likely going to happen for Silver before the idea was scrapped.

Jet/Sir Lamorak eyes

Jet aka Sir Lamorak actually has eyes under his helmet, which is never seen normally in-game.

Green Fish-One

There's a green variant of the "Fish-One" enemy type, which is never encountered anywhere in the game.

Number 1 & 2

Two pillars with the numbers "one" and "two" can be found in water_test.gno and the stg902 folder, which contains Sand Oasis. What makes it odd is that the model cannot be found in the folder that has Sand Oasis in Secret Rings, meaning this was added during Black Knight's development.

Purple Triangle

Root.gno contains a pretty simple purple triangle. What it was originally used for is currently unknown.

Unused Cinematics

e00018.sfd/e0210.sfd

The movie folder contains two byte-for-byte identical SFD files with different names: e0018.sfd and e0210.sfd. They contain no audio and appear to be a very slightly earlier version of the sixth cutscene in the game, with most of the differences being in colors and closeup details, as well as an uncropped frame (all the "storybook"-style cutscenes in the final game are cropped by 20 pixels at the sides).

Oddly enough, the Japanese subtitles that are part of the movies also refer to Merlina as "Merlin", possibly due to a typo. The final game's cutscenes doesn't bake in the subtitles, presumably for localization purposes.

Unused Sounds

Gale Drive

Sonic's gameplay voice clip directory includes two unused audio files. The first indicates an attack is ready, while the other is Sonic calling out some sort of "Gale Drive" move.

String Name	English Audio	Japanese Audio	Transcript
B3E_SN_VSNE26_ACT01_E24_SN			Ready anytime!
B3E_SN_VSNE30_ACT01_E28a_ok_SN			Gale Drive!

(Source: Unknowni123)

"Blitz" Quotes

The four main playable characters (Sonic, Shadow/Lancelot, Knuckles/Gawain, and Blaze/Percival) all have unused voice lines referring to elemental "Blitz" attacks. There are six total: Fire Blitz, Thunder Blitz, Ice Blitz, Venom Blitz, Panic Blitz, and Stone Blitz. Each attack's effects are described, sounding like some sort of special enemy or boss would make use of them. Some voice files seem incomplete, reusing previous clips as placeholders or including the voice actors breathing between takes.

Sonic

String Name	English Audio	Transcript
ALL04_H08_SN		Whoa, fireball!
ALL04_H09_SN		Lightning strike!
ALL04_H10_SN		Some kind of freeze attack? I bet that'd stop me in my tracks!
ALL04_H10N_SN		Defrost by shaking the Wii Remote!
ALL04_H11_SN		A poison attack? I'll slowly lose all the rings I've gathered!
ALL04_H12_SN		Confusion attack? Getting hit will throw off my moves for sure!
ALL04_H13_SN		A petrification attack? I won't stand a chance against one of those!

Shadow/Sir Lancelot

String Name	English Audio	Transcript
ALL04_H08_SD		Fire Blitz, hm?
ALL04_H09_SD		Thunder Blitz!
ALL04_H10_SD		Ice Blitz will freeze me where I stand. I must be careful.
ALL04_H10N_SD		Ice Blitz will freeze me where I stand. I must be careful.
ALL04_H11_SD		Venom Blitz: it will poison all its strikes and will cause the loss of rings.
ALL04_H12_SD		Panic Blitz, hm? It is said to cause one's mind to play tricks on them.
ALL04_H13_SD		Stone Blitz! I'll be but a memory it it petrifies me.

Knuckles/Sir Gawain

String Name	English Audio	Transcript
ALL04_H08_KN		Fire Blitz flying this way!
ALL04_H09_KN		I must watch out for that Thunder Blitz.
ALL04_H10_KN		I'll be frozen solid if the Ice Blitz hits me; taking damage could mean my demise.
ALL04_H10N_KN		I'll thaw out with a few shakes of the Wii Remote.
ALL04_H11_KN		Venom Blitz? Poison is pretty underhanded; I can't let it hit me.
ALL04_H12_KN		Panic Blitz! I can't let it strike me, lest illusions deceive me and I lose all control!
ALL04_H13_KN		Stone Blitz! Its strike will turn me to stone and spell my doom.

Blaze/Sir Percival

String Name	English Audio	Transcript
ALL04_H08_BZ		A Fire Blitz comes.
ALL04_H09_BZ		Here comes a Thunder Blitz.
ALL04_H10_BZ		A strike by Ice Blitz will freeze me, and the next hit might spell my doom.
ALL04_H10N_BZ		A strike by Ice Blitz will freeze me, and the next hit might spell my doom.
ALL04_H11_BZ		A strike by Venom Blitz will cause a continual loss of rings.
ALL04_H12_BZ		Panic Blitz! Any contact with that, and the battle will go against me.
ALL04_H13_BZ		Stone Blitz? Its petrification effect is fatal.

(Source: Unknowni123)