Proto:Shadow the Hedgehog/Beta 4/Audio Differences

This is a sub-page of Proto:Shadow the Hedgehog/Beta 4.

To do: Japanese cutscene voice lines / prompts from characters / soundtrack / cutscenes.

Cutscenes

With a handful of exceptions, almost every cutscene audio file has slight differences from the final game, let that be audio balancing, Black Doom's missing warped voice or missing sound effects. Not everything is here, as a good chunk of the cutscene audio files were not able to be dumped properly.

The following cutscene audio files are byte-by-byte identical to the final game:

• sng_EV4301_E.adx
• sng_EV4301_J.adx
• sng_EV5301_E.adx
• sng_EV5301_J.adx
• sng_EV6303_E.adx
• sng_EV7511_E.adx
• sng_EV7611_E.adx
• sng_EV7611_J.adx
• sng_EV7811_E.adx
• sng_EV7811_J.adx

The following cut off abruptly due to the bad disc burn, but are identical to the audio heard in the final game:

• sng_EV4111_E.adx
• sng_EV6301_E.adx

English

File Name	Prototype / Final	Notes
sng_EV1101_E.adx		There's no footstep sound effects when the soldier walks away. The audio doesn't fade out.
sng_EV2001_E.adx		Black Doom's voice is missing his voice background effects. There's no sound effects when Shadow walks through the door.
sng_EV2211_E.adx		There's no tick sound effect near the end of the cutscene.
sng_EV2301_E.adx		The president's notification system is 3dB louder.
sng_EV4202_E.adx		Black Doom's voice is missing his voice background effects. There's beeping noises when the doctor appears. There's a throwing sound effect near the end.
sng_EV4411_E.adx		Black Doom's voice is missing his voice background effects.
sng_EV5001_E.adx		The lazer beam plays a second later. Black Doom's voice is missing his voice background effects. His voice is also a bit louder. The swipe sound effect plays a second later. The warping sound effect starts a bit later and the cutscene fadeout is shorter.
sng_EV5201_E.adx		The music is quieter and the fadeout is longer.
sng_EV5211_E.adx		The first 12 seconds has no sound effects or music. Omega does talk however. Various sound effects are completely absent. Eggman's and Shadow's speeches are quieter. There's no fadeout and the music lasts longer for a second.
sng_EV6001_E.adx		There's no elevator or door sound effects. All the speeches are 4dB quieter. There's no swipe sound effect. There's no gun reload sound effect. The professor's speech doesn't have any echo to it.
sng_EV6101_E.adx		The music is 2dB quieter. There's no loud thud when Black Doom appears. Black Doom's voice is missing his voice background effects. The track lasts 2 more seconds, even though nothing happens that extra time.
sng_EV6103_E.adx		The music is 2dB quieter. All of the character speeches are 4dB quieter. Black Doom's voice is missing his voice background effects. Some of the speech's audio mixing is slightly different from final. The track lasts 2 more seconds, even though nothing happens that extra time.
sng_EV6104_E.adx		The music is 2dB quieter. All of the character speeches are 4dB quieter. Black Doom's voice is missing his voice background effects. Some of the speech's audio mixing is slightly different from final. The track lasts 2 more seconds, even though nothing happens that extra time.
sng_EV7011_E.adx		There's more electric piano sounds. They start a bit earlier than in final. The fadeout lasts a bit longer.
sng_EV7111_E.adx		There's more electric piano sounds. They start a bit earlier than in final. Black Doom's voice is missing his voice background effects. Shadow's line "With the power of these emeralds..." is 2dB quieter.
sng_EV7211_E.adx		There's more electric piano sounds. They start a bit earlier than in final.
sng_EV7411_E.adx		There's more electric piano sounds. They start a bit earlier than in final.
sng_EV7701_E.adx		All speech is 4db louder. The music is 2db louder. The fadeout is slightly shorter.
sng_EV7711_E.adx		Shadow's speech is 4dB louder.
sng_EV7911_E.adx		Shadow's speech is 2dB louder.
sng_EV8002_E.adx		All of the character's points in which their speeches start are different. Shadow's speech is 4dB louder. There's electric piano sounds not present in final. Black Doom's voice is missing his voice background effects. There's a pulling sound effect. The fadeout lasts longer as there's an extra bit of guitarplay.
snd_EV8004_E.adx		Black Doom's voice is missing his voice background effects. The track lasts 1 more second, even though nothing happens that extra time.
snd_EV8006_E.adx		All of the character's speeches are 4dB quieter for the first 20 seconds. Knuckles' grunt noise plays twice. Some of the music is 2dB louder. Black Doom's voice is missing his voice background effects. Some of the character's voices at 0:56 are missing and play in a different order. There's less flashback talking. There's no breaking noise.
snd_EV8101_E.adx		Black Doom's voice is missing his voice background effects. Shadow's speech is 2dB louder.
snd_EV8106_E.adx		Black Doom's voice is missing his voice background effects. Black Doom's line "Shadow is already in my control..." starts a few miliseconds later. Shadow's speech is 2dB louder.

Music Differences

• Almost Dead by Powerman 5000 and Never Turn Back don't exist in the game at this point, their filenames (sng_vox02.adx and sng_vox06.adx, respectively) are occupied by an unlooped full version of I Am... All of Me that doesn't exist in the final game.

File Name	Prototype / Final	Notes
sng_vox03.adx		Waking Up by Julien-K. Instrumental only, different mixing and some parts are different.
sng_vox04.adx		Broken by Sins of a Divine Mother. Was originally supposed to play in the Hero ending, but didn't make the cut because Jun Senoue couldn't track one of the band's members. Was eventually reworked into The Chosen One.
sng_vox05.adx		All Hail Shadow by Magna-Fi. Most likely a demo recording, different instrumentation, different lyrics in some parts and different vocal performance.