Sonic 1 Jap Disassembly

This certainly is interesting, and it's good that we now have a disassembly of the Rev01 version. Although, some cleanup would be useful such as labeling routines rather than leaving them as Offset_0x*, as well as support for asm68k. Keep it up. I wonder if it would be possible if this, along with your other disassemblies could be added to the SVN server. This would be ideal, since others can do more with them and submit them.

 

Also would be easier than relabeling everything.

 

There's already a tutorial available to port the effects over, so I don't think will have any significant impact in that regard.

Interesting idea—I definitely think this possibility should be explored.

Great job, Esrael! Nice to see you're still working on ripping apart as many Sonic games as possible.

So, with that covered, I'm interested—what other differences are present in the Japanese release compared to the US one? I'm aware of the background effects and the fact that the blocks in Marble Zone now bob up and down slowly in lava, but does the code indicate any other specific changes? It'd be nice to have a more precise list of changes from one revision to the next, if only for the sake of posterity. Anyone up to the challenge?

 

Hm, very interesting. I might actually use this!

 

Awesome! Thanks for taking the time to document all those changes, Hivebrain.

So, who wants to be the first to put it on the wiki? =P

 

Sonic the Hedgehog (16-bit)
I'm still working on it, such as providing links to the code on the web SVN, other than that it seems to be fine.

 

I don't think you need to make a false namespace for it; just put it into the main article.

 

Okay, I added the contents to the main article. I thought that it would look better if it had its own page, but whatever.

 

I've recently been looking at this since I haven't been doing any assembly properly for a good year or two now, I was just wondering how do you compile everything to make the Rom.

 

I want to add some corrections to this. It's not the actual score, but the score that will give the player an extra life that is set (and since the displayed score is 10x the score stored in RAM, it means it's "50000"). Also, it's set not only when entering a stage from the level select, but also when simply pressing Start on the title screen: the value is set in PlayLevel, which is called in both situations. What may have confused you is the fact that the location used to store this variable was simply holding a copy of the score in REV00.

 

So these are all the changes from our eu/us build to the japanese one, more then I expected from it.

Is there any reason why the score shown in game is 10x the score which is behind the scenes?

 

I would guess because the last digit in the score doesn't matter, as you can't get a single point, the least you can get is 10 points from the bumpers in Spring Yard. Not storing the extra digit saves some space, while making the score look bigger.