Sonic Adventure™ 2

Sonic Adventure™ 2

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How get the Soap Ads back in City Escape
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Do you miss the old SOAP ads from the Gamecube and Dreamcast version of this game?
   
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Deleting the city escape texture file without the Soap ads
First, you need to find objtex_stg13.pak located in Steam\steamapps\common\Sonic Adventure 2\resource\gd_PC\PRS. Once you find it delete it. The game has a secondary file that didn't replace the SOAP ads[objtex_stg13.prs]. The game also uses .prs files but .pak files are dominant and are used first over a prs file.

The two effects of this guide are:
1) Sonic's face isn't plastered in the stage as much as it currently is(the Sonic Team ads are used instead of the SOAP ads in the pak file)
2) The SOAP ads are back

EDIT:This also works for Radical Highway(objtex_stg14.pak) and Downtown Race(objtex_stg52.pak)
EDIT 2: For anyone on the fence for this, there is absolutely no problem with deleting the .pak files for these stages. Deleting the .pak files simply tells the game to go use the older unedited .prs files.
33 Comments
Knuckles Guy for SA2 23 Nov, 2022 @ 8:10pm 
GITS :FrontiersTails::steambored:
Deathmatchguy12 19 Jan, 2022 @ 1:36pm 
all it does is break the stage select
Rosenkrantz (taintedvisage) 11 May, 2020 @ 10:05pm 
Is there any way to unpack those files and put in your own textures currently? I'd rather make my own signs than have the SOAP ads or the Sonic logos
Euripides'Trousers 23 Dec, 2019 @ 6:24pm 
Mod that does this for you: https://gamebanana.com/textures/5684
You'll want the mod loader too: https://gamebanana.com/tools/6333
Mod loader files go in the game file, NOT in their own folder.
J'mequious Exodus 17 Jun, 2017 @ 10:07am 
you can also restore them in the race stages by deleting "course.pak" though it adds gamecube button prompts.
Bad Fish 1 Nov, 2016 @ 10:30am 
Ronyplay i use to buy soap shoes back in the 90s i miss griding any where i could
Ronyplay 23 Jan, 2016 @ 5:37am 
I wonder if anyone here actually bought the shoes themselves.
Babu Dakar 1 Jan, 2016 @ 9:10am 
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Babu Dakar 1 Jan, 2016 @ 9:10am 
I used to be ten