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  1. Mar 26, 2005 #1
    muteKi

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    Here are some odd lock-on codes for S1S&K courtesy of SHWPII.

    Knuckles' Chaotix Lock-On Code:
    1572-1055-5192

    Mean Bean Machine Lock-On Code:
    1471-9408-3479

    Sonic Spinball (proto?) Lock-On Code:
    1117-9929-8007

    Sonic Spinball (J) Lock-On Code:
    2195-0931-9636

    Sonic Stadium ("Crackers") Lock-On Code:
    2693-8927-2359

    Sonic 3D Blast Lock-On Code:
    2347-2717-6700

    Sonic and Knuckles Lock-On Code:
    2046-3541-1244
     
  2. Mar 26, 2005 #2
    Tweaker

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    Hah. You can lock Sonic and Knuckles on to Sonic and Knuckles?

    We now present... Sonic and Knuckles and Knuckles! Availiable now at your local Wal-Mart!
     
  3. Mar 27, 2005 #3
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    Make a stack of S&K carts 4 feet high. And top them off with Sonic 3d Blast. The ultimate game! :D
     
  4. Mar 27, 2005 #4
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    Do these codes actually DO anything?
     
  5. Mar 27, 2005 #5
    Aurochs

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    I think they're the codes to the levels produced when you lock-on those carts.
     
  6. Mar 27, 2005 #6
    muteKi

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    Lock on Sonic-1 to S&K. The codes pretend that you locked on Sonic 3D Blast, Chaotix, etc. which is only possible through emulation.

    Just in time for Easter. Your Easter Egg.

    You can't do this in real life because the Genesis won't process roms above a certain size; I've tried locking-on S3D in real life, and it doesn't work. This "error" doesn't happen on emulators such as Gens, so with a lock-on utility (or your own hex editor, whatever) you can play these impossible games.
     
  7. Mar 27, 2005 #7
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    I thought the Mega Drive could process a game of ANY size, as long as it was a 'power of 2' number in KBytes?

    EDIT - hence how you're supposed to pad out homebrew ROMs with Fs to a fixed size...?
     
  8. Mar 27, 2005 #8
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    RIIIIIIIIIIDGE RACERRRRRRRRRRRR
    Hell yeah!
     

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  9. Mar 27, 2005 #9
    Aurochs

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    The Genesis can't address above 4MB of ROM, just like your vanilla Penitum processor can't address RAM above 4GB. The processor simply doesn't have enough address lines to work with it.

    The padding is done, IIRC, to make sure that the ROM doesn't end at an even address, because the m68k processor doesn't like to have instructions begin at odd-numbered addresses.
     
  10. Mar 28, 2005 #10
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    I remember, "back in the day," my friend bringing his S&K cart over, and locking it onto mine, and then sticking random games on top of that... fun stuff. When you lock on multiple S&K carts, it just plays S&K as if nothing is locked on (assuming no other game is then locked on top of the locked-on S&K cart... [say that 10 times fast]).

    And as for these codes... exactly what do they do?
     
  11. Mar 28, 2005 #11
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    XD @ Tweaker

    Yeah I tried locking Sk with Enternal Champions, and it wouldn't run either.
     
  12. Mar 28, 2005 #12
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    I knew it!
    This should explain it...
     
  13. Mar 29, 2005 #13
    muteKi

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    Yes. As in the following picture. Odd how the stage seems to exist, when it's an "impossible" stage

    SAY...
    How do the codes for these levels work anyway? Why does 1572-1055-5192 define this stage and 1291-7181-5142 not define anything?
     

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  14. Mar 29, 2005 #14
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    That's so expensive!
     
  15. Mar 29, 2005 #15
    Squints

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    *accidental double post*
    Damn 56K! Damn it to hell!
     
  16. Mar 29, 2005 #16
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    What do you mean "impossible"? The code just doesn't bring you to a stage, or what?
    It wouldn't be that expensive now, the problem would be finding four feet of copies of Sonic & Knuckles. The best I could do was $5.99 US for S&K with a missing lock-on port flap
     
  17. Mar 30, 2005 #17
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    It's impossible to find this code through normal gameplay (without emulation) since it won't recognize some of these ROMs. (However, these codes should work on the real locked-on Sonic 1.) Fortunately, emulators don't always have this memory restriction, so it's possible to find this level through emulation.
     
  18. Mar 31, 2005 #18
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    Oh, that's all? I thought you meant that the stage number was invalid or something. BTW, what does the stage number mean, anyway?
     
  19. Apr 4, 2005 #19
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    Many of my friends still have genesis, and I'm gonna ask them if I can borrow S+K (if they have it) and try that. I'll show you a pic of my Genesis, when I do it.
     
  20. Apr 4, 2005 #20
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    What memory restriction are you talking about? I got lost somewhere in your post.
     
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