I guess you could say the mobile remake has a balancing issue

Cybershell: *Posts* "Sonic has a 1 frame animation" *Leaves again for several months*

Okay, you KNOW it's beyond obscure when even Christian Whitehead missed it.

there’s one old sega developer satisfied in the knowledge that the small transitionary sprite he implemented for ledge animations is finally being appreciated.

Cybershell is capable of talking about a single pixel in the background of a level for a half hour and I'd be captivated.

This sprite would be better if it actually lasted more than a frame since it does make the balancing animation look quite fluid

the fact that this sprite wasn't included in the Sonic 2 Bonus Video downgrades it from Cinematic Masterpiece to Unwatchable

Why the hell this obscure, specific and pointless stuff brings joy and meaning to my life?

You know what, I was just going about my day thinking, "Wow, I sure do know about every single sprite from Sonic's ledge animations in Sonic 2." Then here you come in, blowing my mind as usual. I don't know how I managed to go my whole life without knowing this.

Cybershell is going to make a video one day on how one tiny, miniscule pixel in Sonic 3 is slightly off color for a fraction of a second during a specific sequence and I would love it.

Cybershell, you didn't even mention the 5th ledge sprite, the one that plays when you are Super Sonic I can't believe the Sonic lore master forgot about that

I get the impression the sprite was made specifically for when sonic is pushed off with a moving block rather than for general ledges. It feels more fitting in that scenario and if it was programed for that then the regular method would be a side effect.

Honestly, Cybershell gives off a unique vibe with his videos and it makes his videos really rewatch-able and enjoyable. Keep being you, my dude!

Always wondered why no one talks about this sprite myself, and of course it's Cybershell of all people to finally bring it up.

After discovering edge animation in original sonic the hedgehog back when I was a kid I began to check every single 2d side scroller to see if they included similar animation, as if it's some kind of a gold standard. I'm keep doing this to this very day...

We need to raise awareness of this sprite so it'll be added to Origins

I don’t need sleep, I need the most obscure sonic 2 sprite.

wow Cybershill, really running out of ideas aren't we, just admit you aren't a REAL Sonic fan like the rest of us

"iconic impatient foot tap" sounds like something Zach Hadel would say.

This is the hard-hitting Sonic content we need. I love how you make such inconsequential things seem captivating and meaningful. Nothing gets past the Cybster.

He’s still kicking

Telling my future children about this sprite on my death bed

Sprites are more than just animation it can sometimes show you the characters personality like sonic 1 this is his first ever appearance and since he doesnt talk this is where the sprites come in not only does the sprites show how sonic is currently feeling it also shows his personality like how if you leave him standing for too long he will make "cmon hurry" sprite which is very expressive

I know what you're here for, and I can confirm: this wasn't fixed for Origins. Frame 1: Panicked sprite Frame 2: Sonic walks left Frame 3: Opposite direction dangling sprite

Everyone's talking about the most obscure Sonic sprite, and I'm wondering what Silver's name would be if we dyed his fur.

Here’s a fact that makes the sonic 1 2013 edition “unplayable”, for his skidding sprites it uses the CD skidding sprites rather than the original skidding sprites from the original game. I’m shocked and upset from that fact

4:18 LMAO THIS SHIT ALWAYS GETS ME

This is the most “Cybershell” video I have ever seen.

im more interested in what cybershell has to say about sonic pixels, then current world war/drama/politics and new forming laws

I've been playing this mcfreaking game for over 20 years and there will always be something new to learn about it

God damn it, it happened again

Dude the sonic 2 animations are so underrated. That's so fucking cute, he's incredibly expressive. Mario basically didn't emote at all until 64? Sonic is rad for how expressive it is as a series.

Finally after all the waiting we get a cybershell video even if its 5 minutes its 5 minutes of glory

I just want to say that your Chao video has brought me to 100% SA2. Probably my favourite video on this whole channel!

No way he bailed on us again

It reminds me how back then I found those balancing animations as a part of the games' quality, as if it's affecting the imaginary ranks I gave them. Some of my favorite ones were from Rayman 1, Captain Claw (which also included a 'woah' voice sample, extra points) and specifically Omega's animation from Sonic Heroes, which made him say 'danger' in a cute way.

I am legally required to stop what I’m doing for the next 5 minutes

Now that is *actually* too fast for the naked eye

Welp he forgot his password again

4:08 how mfs really be reacting every time any studio releases a Remastering of a game

its like the sprite literally faded out of existence

An obscure video about an obscure Sonic sprite is indeed obscure.

Hey Cyber, there's a situation just like this in Sonic 3 too! When you swing on Mushroom Hill Zone's sideways-spinning bars, there is, for a split second, a frame where Sonic grabs on to the bar with only one hand.

back on the waiting game

I found out about the sprite 3 years ago on casino night zone with the moving blue blocks , I had to record it on my phone to see if wasnt tripping out and I wasn't. After watching this video I felt like an absolute god for knowing something that no one will care about but that didn't stop me from feeling like a king.

I've seen this sprite before on the old Sonic 2 Sonic sheet on TSR (the one you cited) and for the longest time I had no idea where it was used. I also never knew there even was a back-facing balancing sprite for the longest time. It's great to see someone going through and shining a spotlight on these odd little details.

Been chewing on it for 5... Months...

I'm not gonna pretend like I knew about this already. This legit blew my mind, I didn't think there was much more obscure than the pigs never being able to appear in Sonic 2 but there we have it.

It’s amazing to know how much of Sonic 2 is out there. Like the weird casino night monitor, and the leftover level data.

More platformers need ledge animations.

This will have a unbelieveable impact on minimum button presses runs, and what version is 'optimal' for it.

Sonic 2 mobile 2013: missing 1 frame of animation Cybershell: u n p l a y a b l e

My prayers to the Master Emerald were answered. He posted another video before the year was over. 🙏🙏🙏

There’s another 1 frame sprite triggered when moving again after sonic lies down in his idle animation

'From definitive to UNPLAYABLE' literally lol'd at that

It's really unique how they made multiple animations for ledges-- it shows the amount of effort they put into it. Awesome touch everywhere.

I love how your channel is basically just little fun facts about sonic, I like that a lot.

Sonic is supposed to be in the Macy’s thanksgiving parade for 2021. I wonder what chaotic, dastardly plan he is cooking up right now? 🤔

One thing that graduates the 2013 version from UNPLAYABLE to SUPER UNPLAYABLE. If you duck as Sonic in the CPZ boss the chemicals he drops will break on your spines and you don't take damage. They either forgot or didn't know for the 2013 version so it doesn't work.

I think it’s safe to say the best ledge animation is super sonic because he doesn’t even care, he just hangs there like a badass, and they didn’t have to do that yet they did

2:19 this is what you clicked for

This frame isn’t in the Sonic 2 remake? LITERALLY UNPLAYABLE!

It sounds like Cybershell is giving a tutorial on how to preform a super specific glitch in the game, but this is far better

I've played through Sonic 2 a million times and I've never noticed the 'balancing while facing away from a ledge' sprite. Need to hand in my Sonic card.

I feel smarter every day. Thank you Cybershell!

3:30 Funnily enough, the sprite IS listed on the page for the 2013 mobile port.

Actually theres another feature thats missing from the Christian Whitehead Sonic 2 port, during the chemical plant zone boss as sonic, you should be able to duck and be completely immune to robotnik's chemical spill attack, however, in this version the attack still harms you regardless.

This blows my mind, I didn’t even know this, thanks for diving deep into this unknown frame of animation Cybershell.

Dose this mean the mobile sonic is a different sonic? DOSE THIS MEAN THE MOBILE GAMES ARE A DIFFERENT UNIVERSE ENTIRELY?

I don't think I ever knew about this! Cybershell truly is the Sonic lore master.

The world absolutely will not be the same without you. Good shit as usual, Cybershell

i put this video in my favourites about a month ago when i was 5 minutes from falling asleep, thinking it looked interesting but now aware enough to take it in. flash forward and my favourites has filled up with music and pirated episodes of bobs burgers and other nonsense and im listening to some choons and accidentally spill a half rolled spliff on the floor. im on the floor trying to pick up every crumb of weed and this comes on the playlist. maybe i saw that sprite in 1993 or whatver it was, i spent thousands of hours on my megadrive because we had less options back in the olden days when i were a ween. but thankyou for bringing this to my attention and giving me a bit of a moment when i was suffering and picking drugs out of my skanky carpet. love from the UK, Klax0n xxx

Always excited for one of these

This man can make paint drying interesting

Something comparable to this is Mega Man's landing animation in the NES games! Yes, it does exist. It is one 1 frame long, and uses one of his running sprites.

548,238 people all watched a 5 minute and 4 second video on a single frame of a sonics ledge animation, let that sink in

You've got something special mate. Seriously. A feckin sprite! I still remember getting Sonic 2 a few weeks after it came out. Was just out of this world. And I was similarly blown away by Sonic 3 and Knuckles. All the amazing work done by people digging through the betas and all has given me so many hours of nostalgic joy. As you have. You really research your topics, you are funny, engaging and interesting and you bring loads of great content and with them a slew of wonderful nostalgia. Keep kicking ass mate 👍

Wait three months for a five minute video about a sprite that only lasts for 1 frame This is why I'm subscribed

Another obscure fact: There's a Perfect bonus score for collecting ALL rings in the levels and the Special Stages, it's that it's just very difficult to perform due to the rings having scattered loose patterns on the Special Stages, and I don't think players have patience to collect all rings on the levels lmao. It's explained in another Cybershell video, but I bring this up just in case.

I’ve only played like 3 total sonic games for about fifteen minutes combined, so this is pretty much the only thing I know about sonic other than that he goes fast. Thank you for this integral knowledge.

Need more cybershell content

see you in like 8 more years

It takes a very special kind of youtuber to get me interested in the most niche and obscure subject matter. And cybershell is one of them.

Fun Fact: This sprite exists since the Aug 21, 1992 prototype. The other 2 previous prototypes had the original Sonic 1 balancing sprites.

Always excited for your videos man, happy to hear from you!

It’s always a good day when Cybershell posts a new video

I always found this funny, because it was always there in every sprite sheet but you barely ever see it. And then one day I DID see it in-game and it was hilarious to me

Thank you for speak up. I may not grew up with Sonic 2, but ever since emulator is a thing, I was able to pauses frame to see this obscure detail which unfortunately doesn't applied in Mobile version of Sonic 2.

I was just thinking “it’s been a minute since Cybershell uploaded” and here we are!

6 months... he died again?

it hurts when you're gone

I was binging all your videos before you posted this one, great now i have to watch them again

I actually remember another sprite like this one that more closely resembled the one from Sonic 1, & I saw it more than 10 times throughout the years of playing Sonic 2. I just saw it as a way to tell me that I'm too close to a ledge, & I might die if I go a little further. Heck, I think one time I actually saw it happen for like, 10 seconds, or so. Yeah, sometimes that 5th animation won't be a 1-frame transition, but its own animation that just stays as that with about like, 2 frames, with 1 frame per 1 second. I'm probably the only one who's had that happen before, & it might be a glitch that is one of the hardest to get in ANY video game ever. Or maybe the version included in the Atgames consoles is somewhat bizarre in that sense. Or perhaps the Mandela effect. Or maybe it's only in earlier copies that Atgames got ahold of. Who the heck even knows? EDIT: Corrected it realizing that the sprite he's talking about isn't the same one that I encountered multiple times while playing Sonic 2.

This is great😂 even in the hundreds of hours I played this game as a child and my teens, I've NEVER noticed this

fun fact : that balancing sprite is in the ACTUAL definitive way of playing sonic 2. *Sonic 2 absolute*

oh man this brings back some weird nostalgia, I remember finding that single frame in slomo debug mode! Probably after hours of slowing down the MegaDrive with 10000 rings on screen

This is definitely new to me, and it reads like an in between with such short timing it might as well not exist It would look just fine if it lasted at least 3 frames longer. But regardless, does not go unappreciated

DON'T LEAVE AGAIN 🙅👬👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨

Thank you for acknowledging it because like I was actually also questioning about what was this supposed to be used I also thought it was supposed to be like early animation of Sonic almost falling off the edge

now I can't play sonic 2 without constantly thinking about this, THANKS MAN