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==Features== | ==Features== | ||
* No SEGA Sound | * No SEGA Sound | ||
| − | * | + | * Stage titles |
* No GAME OVER screen | * No GAME OVER screen | ||
* Different sounding music | * Different sounding music | ||
| − | * Only Green Hill, Sparkling, Starlight, and | + | * Only Green Hill, Labyrinth, Sparkling, Clock Works ,Starlight, and Marble work—all other zones cause emulators to stop |
| − | * Level Select has renamed zones | + | * Level Select has 2 renamed zones |
* Final Zone has two stages (neither implemented) and boss has its own stage—Final Fight | * Final Zone has two stages (neither implemented) and boss has its own stage—Final Fight | ||
* Special stage called Special Zone (and not implemented) | * Special stage called Special Zone (and not implemented) | ||
* Sound test unreliable | * Sound test unreliable | ||
* Zones are differently colored | * Zones are differently colored | ||
| − | * Green Hill Zone is at | + | * Green Hill Zone is at early (although the rolling ball) |
* Sonic is differently colored | * Sonic is differently colored | ||
* The end boss works, although the end sequence doesn't. | * The end boss works, although the end sequence doesn't. | ||
| − | {{download|file= | + | {{download|file=Sonic_1_Beta_Hack v0.02 |
| + | .zip|filesize=351KB}} | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
Revision as of 23:22, 25 July 2007
| Sonic 1 Beta Hoax |
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| Last release: 05/10/99 |
| System: Sega Mega Drive/Genesis |
| Original game: [[]] |
| Credits: Cyan Helkaraxe |
To try and stir up a bit more interest in Sonic 1, Cyan Helkaraxe decided to do something which had never been done at that time - create a ROM hack. The resulting hack would become known simply as the Sonic 1 Beta Hoax.
Cyan set to work on the Sonic 1 ROM, researching its internal workings primarily by a trial-and-error process (since there was absolutely no documentation on Sonic 1 available at the time), with the goal of creating a hoax beta - a ROM that mimicked the behaviour of a "genuine" Sonic 1 beta.
Finally, in May 1999, the ROM hack was released to Simon Wai's Sonic 2 Beta page. The ROM was deliberately not listed as a hoax, but rather released under the title "Sonic 1 beta?".
The release of the hoax beta stirred up more interest in Sonic 1, and when it was identified as a hoax, Andy Wolan invited Cyan to the SSRG for his work in creating the ROM hack.
Features
- No SEGA Sound
- Stage titles
- No GAME OVER screen
- Different sounding music
- Only Green Hill, Labyrinth, Sparkling, Clock Works ,Starlight, and Marble work—all other zones cause emulators to stop
- Level Select has 2 renamed zones
- Final Zone has two stages (neither implemented) and boss has its own stage—Final Fight
- Special stage called Special Zone (and not implemented)
- Sound test unreliable
- Zones are differently colored
- Green Hill Zone is at early (although the rolling ball)
- Sonic is differently colored
- The end boss works, although the end sequence doesn't.
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[[Media:Sonic_1_Beta_Hack v0.02
.zip|Download Sonic 1 Beta Hoax]] File: Sonic_1_Beta_Hack v0.02
.zip ("Sonic_1_Beta_Hack v0.02
.zip" is not a valid title) ([[:File:Sonic_1_Beta_Hack v0.02
.zip|info]]) |
External links
Fume Cupboard Facility - Cyan's website. Beta hoax is listed under "Sonic 1 Hoax" in "Coding Capers."