Sonic 1 - Beginner's Luck/Mobius Adventures

If I recall correctly the first time we heard about the version with the spike bugfix was with Sonic Jam, but right now we know the version included there was probably developed exclusively for Sonic Jam.

Some other random facts:
- Sonic 2 was built from S1 REV01. The header (even the checksum) of the NA proto matches with the rev 01
- S&K lock-on stuff only checks for rev 00 and 01, which means there wasn't a rev02 released by that time.
- The version included in SMC is a damn hack :/ Even the serial has '01' as the revision number (00004049-01)

So, yeah, it's not a real REV02.

 

The games in Sonic Jam weren't reprogrammed from scratch?

 

Well, they were ported from the original source, so I'm assuming spindash and other fixes would have been made AFTER the games were fully ported over; in other words, the "spike bug" was "fixed" within the Saturn port, not before.

 

Oh, well, either from scratch or ported, it means they're Saturn code and not emulated Mega Drive code, right? I seriously highly doubt you can emulate the Mega Drive fast enough in a Saturn.

 

Yes. In short, the code was directly converted to SH2, and then they pseudo-emulated the rest things to make it work. That's it, a relatively quick port.

But I'm not sure about the S1 version with spindash and bugfixes being done after porting it to tell the truth. There might have been an in-house genesis version at some point of the development of Jam.

I remember I tracked down the SH2 spindash code for this version a few years ago, and I don't think it took any advantage of the actual hardware at all, it's perfectly possible that was ported as well.

 

Puplic beta? Does that mean a puppy named beta will come out and lick me if I download it?

 

XDDDDDDDDD

 

LULZ WERE HAD!
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Nah, it means while he was making this, a puppy was licking his balls. =P

EDIT: Disregard that.

 

You are sure hardcore enough to post screenshots in BMP for it!

 

Don't expect any praise for your laziness then, as I simply won't bother with this hack.

 

A few things:

1) The spikes for GHZ's boss do not show up correctly. After a few seconds, they turn into glitchy red blocks like in your first picture.

2) The stage clear music plays again after the score is tallied.

3) The spindash feels weird to me as it focuses the camera down AND Sonic hovers above the ground. Also, he doesn't seem to get much acceleration from it.

4) I'm hoping the beginning of MZ act 1 was a work in progress, as several rising platforms are popping out of the ones that were still there. Also, there's no signpost for the end of the act and the Special Stage ring is nearly offscreen.

edit: Well, Tweaker put it quite succinctly. There are enough hacks of Sonic games that lack effort floating around. Show us what makes yours different.

 

Word of advice: BMP never flies. If you want to post pictures up, track down a tool called Giffy, which will convert those bitmaps into gif images without the the horrible color blurring Paint's known for.

...Or are you "too lazy" to even do that?

 

Hm, a hack od Sonic 1 with SSD's old sprites, which were made by Chimpo? Seriously, do not want.

 

Fabulous !!
Your Sonic sprites looks like so nice. And the easier levels aims your hack to contrary from the mine, that's the Harder one. Hahaha !
You've done an wonderful work with your hack. I love this.

 

Don't jump to conclusions like this too fast. This is similar to the old hex version of my hack. Also, sprites are the same too.

compare the faces of these 2 sonic sprites:

My hack

HIS hack


Eh, whatever... The original chibi sprites were OK compared to the ones I have.