Alright, so this video has been popping off a bit lately and I’m seeing that I either missed or got some stuff wrong:

-Magma Planet is not based on Lava Mountain from Sonic Lost World. It’s from Galaxy Force II

-Steampunk city actually looks waay more similar to Machine Labyrinth from Sonic Rush Adventure

-The mansion in Pumpkin Mansion may or may not be a reference to Night of the Werehog by the animation studio Marza who did the intro for this game too

-and a lot more😅

So I was wondering, would y’all be interested in a follow up video focused on filling up the holes in this  one?
I will be picking and mentioning the comments that helped me find and clarify what I missed.

Let me know👀

The thing about E-Stadium "looking like Sonic" is because the actual physical building when viewed from above is shaped like his head. The game doesn't give us a good view of it, but you can sort of see the idea a little bit during the track intro.

E-Stadium from the outside is actually shaped like Sonic it even has the ears

Naganuma has said that sega owns all the rights to the song and they dont have to pay him as he was employed by sega, not contracted by them

He has no idea why back 2 back is getting removed

26:25 Fun fact: In the Japanese version, she mentions Marine

12:43 Not mentioning the fact that this level is one big reference to "Night at the Museum" is a crime

13:23 Are we sure this isn't based on/inspired by Machine Labyrinth from Sonic Rush Adventure? Death Yard zone is stupposed to be a junkyard, not a steampunk level. It's in the name. I think Machine Labyrinth fits this more cause I don't think they'd renovate a junkyard full of dirty air and toxic sludge into a train station.
EDIT: Oh and fun little fact, Murder of Sonic already references Sonic Rivals with Colosseum Highway zone being shown on an advert on the ceiling in one of the cars.
EDIT 2: Ocean View used You Can Do Anything from Sonic CD for the longest time, not just Sonic Racing. It switches to Sonic Racing in this game on the final lap for a bit though, probably cause they didn't want You Can Do Anything to be actually sung, even though they finally included the vocal version in Sonic Origins.

I think Steampunk City is meant to be inspired by Machine Labyrinth from Rush Adventure since they both are machinery and steam heavy

9:28 it’s not based on Lost World, it’s based on ‘Galaxy Force II’, an old Sega game.

12:42 similar thing here, not an original track, it’s loosely based on Sega’s ‘Two Point Museum’.

24:33 inter-dimensional travel is not required for the IDW series to be directly referenced, the IDW comic series is completely canon and has been since the start. Volumes 1-21 (and the 4 miniseries volumes) take place between Sonic Forces and Sonic Frontiers, and the upcoming Vol 22 takes place between Frontiers and CrossWorlds itself.
The Classic Sonic issues they’ve made, ‘Seasons of Chaos’, the Tails and Amy one-shots, and the Fang the Hunter graphic novel are all also canon, and take place between Sonic Mania and Superstars, while the Knuckles one-shot special takes place after Superstars.

3:15 it's actually not water palace from sonic rush. it's an original track that they changed to be called water palace, but the filename is "Atlantis". much like how pumpkin mansion is "Lah's House" from the sonic unleashed night of the werehog short

I never thought about Steampunk City being set in Death Yard Zone. It definitely fits the aesthetic for the most part. Nice find.
As for Rivals "missing from the timeline", Sega confirmed that any games that weren't added are still canon; they just weren't important to the overall lore to require a mention on the timeline.

So with Sand Road, in TSR 3 tracks would be given an associated zone to pair them with, and Sand Road is straight up said to take place in Sandopolis Zone. It may have a mix of elements from different desert zones, but Sandopolis is where it takes place officially. The same also happens with Sky Road in TSR, officially being in the skies above Rooftop Run (which is way easier to see in the original track, since you actually start and end each lap on the ground level).

The brief track name mention when you got to Dragon Road only reminded me of how inconsistent and annoying the naming is for Sonic Unleashed tracks in this game. First you have Apotos, so you think "Ok, the tracks from Unleashed will be named after the continents", then you get to Dragon Road. "Ok, so maybe only regular tracks get the continent names, while the crossworlds get the level names?", but then you get to Holoska. "Wait, so crossworlds can be either named after the level or the continent? That's inconsistent, but at least the main tracks don't have that problem.", and then you get to Market Street. I get that Market Street is named after what the track was called in TSR, but the actual layout is different, so why not just call it "Rooftop Run" or "Spagonia"? Market Street is just another naming issue I have, because why are tracks sharing names with previous versions from past racing games, if the track's layout is different anyways? It's not like any of the tracks are straight ports, so now you get situations like Sweet Mountain from Colors being named correctly, but Starlight Carnival is just called "Galactic Parade" for some reason. I get that this doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things, but damn dude.

While I think Chao Park being near Station Square is possible, the mountain by the track being Red Mountain makes no sense. In SA1, Red Mountain is implied to be a part of Angel Island (especially since access to it only opens up after Angel Island crashes into the ocean, and the level entry is right by the Master Emerald shrine).

Fun fact, since Donpa Factory takes place in the Donpa Kingdom, it also means the track takes place on a different planet from Earth. It's a bit of a throwaway line, but in TSR, it's stated that Donpa comes from another planet, so yeah, Donpa Factory is alien technically.

39:17 forgot the Motobug

20:02 you know whats funny, in the game files the level is actualy named after the ghost girl from night of the living warehog

02:02 he didn't say it literally but the stage is themed after him

I think this is like the most elaborate video on the stages and where they come from. So thank you for the extra information nobody else gave

Realy??? That’s interesting, roulette road is one of my absolute favorite tracks of all time. Alltho I’m heavily biased towards the GameCube era. Adventure 1-2, heroes, shadow the hedgehog and stuff has my nostalgia in a death grip <3

Not really related to the video but Space colony ark from Shadow gens is called that because it's based off of all of colony ark's levels. The music is from final rush, the green gravity panels are from Shadow 05 and so on

What about the Golden Eggman statue in the beginning of Eggman Expo?

I think that's the one from Eggmanland in Sonic Unleashed.

19:44 is it wrong that I also headcanon the mansion in this track is from the unleashed short "Night of the Werehog"