Sonic 1: WTF LAME

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Sonic 1: WTF LAME
Version: r3
Last release: 2009/07/16
System: Sega Mega Drive
Original game: Sonic the Hedgehog (16-bit)
Credits: GerbilSoft and Sonic 65

Sonic 1: WTF LAME is a 2009 fan-made joke hack of the original Sonic the Hedgehog game for the Sega Genesis. The game plays like the original, but there are special WTF LAME monitors added to each level.

WTF LAME Monitors

A WTF LAME monitor in Green Hill Zone.

Activating a WTF LAME monitor will cause the level to fade out, and then the screen will be filled with a scrolling tl;dr rant that you cannot escape. The scrolling text is achieved by writing character data to the scroll plane every 8 scanlines, resulting in a smooth scroll. (For full details on how this works, see wtflame.asm in the source code archive.)

Once the scrolling rant has finished, a Game Over screen will appear saying "Sorry...you have just lost The Game. Try again." and the game will reset.

Apart from the new monitors, entering a special stage at the end of a level will also trigger a rant and a Game Over.

Downloads

Prior versions

• Sonic 1: WTF LAME r2 (687 KB, released 2009/07/16)
• Sonic 1: WTF LAME r2 (Source Code) (1.37 MB, released 2009/07/16)
• Sonic 1: WTF LAME r1 (687 KB, released 2009/07/16)
• Sonic 1: WTF LAME r1 (Source Code) (1.37 MB, released 2009/07/16)
• Sonic 1: WTF LAME r0 (688 KB, released 2009/07/15)
• Sonic 1: WTF LAME r0 (Source Code) (1.44 MB, released 2009/07/15)

External Links

Sonic 1: WTF LAME, Hack of the Year (Sonic Retro Forums)