Sonic 1 - Emerald Power : By LOst and Fiz

Shibby. I've never received more than 100 rings in any Sonic 1 level. Now to work on my homework in Accounting. S3&K mixed with the accounting cycle. that gives me today to beat the entire game and get snapshots.

 

this hack is one of the best I've ever played. kudos on it ^^

 

I can't believe you actually jumped on the fish to get the red emerald x.x
That shouldn't be possible.

 

Are you talking about labyrith Zone?

 

Yea. Act 1.

 

Shouldn't be, but we know you can do practically anything with a Sonic ROM so there we go.

 

it took a few tries, but hey... what works works :P

 

I know.

 

"SONIC1 EMERALD POWER by Fiz v1.0"

Hmm...what about LOst? :P

ROM heading/name issues aside, this is great. I've only beaten GHZ Act 1, and with two Emeralds (I'm supposed to be doing schoolwork :D ), but I have a feeling I'll be coming back to this for more when I can. In fact, I have a feeling that I'll be coming back for more many, many times. Great stuff.

I've been thinking about the idea of adding the Emerald SFX, or, rather the somewhat technical side to it. I have an idea as to how it's possible for the music to continue playing:

Upon receiving, for example, a 1-up, the game would count (or, rather, already know, since having to count on-the-fly would surely be a bit too much for the Genesis) the length of the 1-up's song data, and then jump ahead that many bytes in the currently playing song. (Volume controls, for fades, aren't considered in this example, but clearly the game knows to throw them in.)

Unless, of course, the music just restarts from where it left off, as opposed to jumping ahead. (You'd think I'd be able to tell the difference after 11 years of playing these games. x_x) In that case, it probably stores the current position in the song somewhere, plays the new music, and then jumps back to where it was. Kind of like how songs can loop without going all the way back to the beginning.

EDIT: Oh yeah...there's still the tiny little problem of lack of knowledge as to how this really works, as I believe was mentioned before. Forgot about that.

 

LOst is in the copyright notice in the header instead of "SEGA".

 

It is absolutely _impossible_ to get the red emerald in MZ1. Sonic can't jump that high...:o

EDIT: Actually, with the help of a Super Jump GG Code.....

 

Well, stand on the hill and jump down on the shield monitor while holding down the jump button. Then whoom up to the red emerald

 

Are you sure? Because if we're thinking of the same place, that's not where the red emerald is...

 

MZ1 = Marble Zone Act 1.

 

Yeah, in my copy of the rom, the red emerald is nowhere near the shield...:o

 

I can verify taht every emerald both exists and is totally obtainable :P

 

Download the ROM again, and it will be there. It was my only mistake when releaseing it before trying MZ1 >.<

 

Just because you took them all. I didn't believe it at first.