[Master System] Marble Zone music found in Sonic 1!

Interesting! I wonder if the Master System/Game Gear version of the game was originally planned to have the same zones as the Mega Drive version. They included GHZ after all, maybe its possible that they started on MZ next before replanning the 8-Bit version.

 

Waaaaaaa? Amazing find! To think this was there all this time.....great work!

 

Brilliant stuff, well done mate!

 

Damned impressive! I wonder what other hidden goodies lie within this game?
Also, VGM rip?

 

I wonder if there are any remnants of Spring Yard Zone or Star Light Zone as well? I do find it interesting. I wonder why it didn't have identical zones... other than perhaps trying to be a somewhat original experience... but then why replicate half of the zones?

 

Mother of God... I love the sound of it in 8-bit. Please tell me there's more!!

 

....Why hasn't this man been made insta-member yet?!?!

Wow shit man nice find, how did we skip over this? is their just not enough research done on the SMS/GG version of Sonic 1?

 

It's good to know there's someone here making a complete disassembly of this game, mine was rather shitty. :v: Now this is pretty cool never really got too far into hacking this game but judging by your past activity on the wiki page for it you've done some impressive work. It would have been cool to see the 8 bit version have Marble Zone as it is one of my favorite levels in the game.

 

That seems to be the case.

 

I always thought it was suspicious that Bridge Zone's background was similar to Marble Zone...

 

What's the offset in the original ROM where the song can be found?

 

Is there a .sgc file for Sonic 1?

 

Not quite a .vgm rip, but it's certainly a VGM rip. Recorded from a real Mega Drive.

FLAC. Don't break my monthly bandwidth plzkthx.

 

I would've never thought that Marble Zone could sound so awesome on the MS.
Here is a .VGM rip.

It's at 0xCD0A, that's between the Green Hill and Jungle Zone songs.

 

Wow, this is incredible! Aside from the Basaran/Batbrain graphics found only in the Game Gear version of the game, I wasn't aware of any indication that Marble Zone might have been intended for the Master System version of the game at some point. Congratulations on the amazing find, Kroc! Sonic 1 on the Master System is a game that I've always had a soft-spot for, as my brother's Master System II with the built-in version of Sonic 1 was the first mainstream games console that we ever owned.

I wonder what other secrets this game holds...

That reminds me, does anyone know if the built-in version of Sonic 1 has ever been dumped? I can only think of one difference when compared to the emulated versions I've played since then - it didn't display the graphics of Sonic singing into the microphone that the cartridge version shows over the end credits, instead showing the overview of South Island that appears on the intermission screen between levels. That's stuck in my head very clearly - I remember my brother describing the "Singing Sonic" to me when we first completed the game, as he was surprised not to see it given that he'd previously seen it on his friend Rob's copy of the game, which was the cartridge version.

 

Yep, it's on SonAR as "European_SMS_BIOS_(Sonic_the_Hedgehog)_(E)_[!]"

 

I added the info to the wiki: Game Secrets:Sonic the Hedgehog (8-bit). Feel free to add more info as you get it.

 

Holy shit!!! This is the best discovery I've seen in a long while ( and we have not been short of amazing research results lately...). Sonic 1 and 2 for the Master System are my favourite Sonic Games, and finding something like this is...wow. Great job there!!!