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This is an interview conducted by [[User:Wetflame|Wetflame]], with [[Brenda Ross]]. It has been reformatted for better readability.

==The Interview==
'''WetflameG''': Hello, Ms. Ross?

'''Brenda Ross''': Hello?


'''WetflameG''': Ah, hello. Could I talk to you for a minute, if you're not too busy? I have a couple of things I want to ask.

'''Brenda Ross''': Sure. How can I help you?


'''WetflameG''': Okay, thanks.

'''Brenda Ross''': And who am I speaking to?


'''WetflameG''': I like your hair by the way. Oh, my name is Leigh Walsh. I'm interested in an interview you did a few years back, well an email you answered. About some art you did for [[Sega]] many years ago. Well, that's the first thing anyway.

'''Brenda Ross''': Okay.


'''WetflameG''': See, a bit of an argument broke out on a message board over the name of the [[Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (16-bit) scrapped levels|Desert Level]]. People always gave it one name.

'''Brenda Ross''': Okay, ask your question.


'''WetflameG''': Yes, people are arguing over the name of the Desert Level.

'''Brenda Ross''': You want to know if there was another name for the Desert Level?


'''WetflameG''': Yep, people say Dust Hill is not correct name and that you said that name, because in a previous e-mail someone had mentioned it and I thought it was a little insulting to presume that happened, so thought I'd double check with you.

'''Brenda Ross''': You know when you're working on a movie, and you haven't yet decided on a name so you use a working name...


'''WetflameG''': Yep?

'''Brenda Ross''': ...Desert level


'''WetflameG''': Was the name Dust Hill ever actually used?

'''Brenda Ross''': The art was never put in the game as you know...


'''WetflameG''': Yep

'''Brenda Ross''': ...Yasuhara the designer really liked it. I also had a [[Winter level]]...


'''WetflameG''': Why did it get the can?

'''Brenda Ross''': ...with Christmas trees and stuff.


'''WetflameG''': Were the trees reused in Hill Top zone? Also, there is a level in ''[[Sonic CD]]'', [[Quartz Quadrant]], which is quite similar. [[Craig Stitt|Craig]]'s level, [[Hidden Palace Zone|Hidden Palace]], which was scrapped, had a background reused in ''[[Sonic Spinball]]''.

'''Brenda Ross''': No because we ran out of time and I was the last artist assigned to the project, so mine was the stuff that was cut - we had no choice.


'''WetflameG''': That sucks! The Desert level is the Sonic community's favourite lost level.

'''Brenda Ross''': Craig must have recycled the art since it wasn't used.


'''WetflameG''': It's really nice art.

'''Brenda Ross''': Yes, Yasuhara and I were not too happy we all worked so hard.


'''WetflameG''': Shame. Oh, by the way if it makes you as Yasuhara happier, the level has been recreated using your edited art from a screenshot in a ROM edit.

'''Brenda Ross''': Oh, cool.


'''WetflameG''': I'll take a pic.

'''Brenda Ross''': Thanks I have to go. I'm in the middle of a bunch of work.


'''WetflameG''': Oh, okay will you be on later?

'''Brenda Ross''': Do me a favor, Leigh?


'''WetflameG''': Yes?

'''Brenda Ross''': Please don't give this IM to anyone.


'''WetflameG''': I won't.

'''Brenda Ross''': Or you'll force me to change it. I only use this for work and I'm busy enough all day long you know it's funny...


'''WetflameG''': I'm sure you are. Sorry if I took up too much time.

'''Brenda Ross''': ...people always ask me and Craig questions about Sonic 2 but they never ask for Tim Skelly.


'''WetflameG''': Yes, because you're the only ones we can contact. [[Tim Skelly]]?

'''Brenda Ross''': He did the bonus rounds.


'''WetflameG''': Oh!

'''Brenda Ross''': I can give you his e-mail he's agreed to talk to you guys.


'''WetflameG''': That would be GREAT. Thanks.

'''Brenda Ross''': He was the art director on the project, I think.


'''WetflameG''': But can you remember is the level may have been intended to call Dust Hill?

'''Brenda Ross''': I think it was, yes. I always called it the Desert Zone or Desert Level.


'''WetflameG''': And it's not just because people flooded you with e-mails asking about "Dust Hill"?

'''Brenda Ross''': Sure.

==External links==
*[http://www.randomsonicnet.org/srz/index.php?page=interviews/br2.htm Original Interview] at Sonic research Zone.

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