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If a game with a cartridge's memory size larger than 2MB is attached, the console will not run the lock-on game but booting up the standalone Sonic & Knuckles game instead. ↪️

The Sonic & Knuckles cartridge usually reads the second half of the attached ROM. As the ROM header is placed in the first half of the attached cartridge, it will not recognize it as a valid game. ❌

🧵 7/7

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Don't trust anyone or anything in Sonic 2, not even the 1-Up-boxes. ☝️

The hell of Wing Fortress Zone cost me all my lives and 4 continues I gained until this point. Although I managed to beat the level, there were not enough lives left to beat the final bosses. So the casual playthrough of the game is postponed. 📆

Thanks to @ozoned, @notify, @nico198x@linuxrocks.online, the lurkers and boosters for joining the stream. ✌️

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If the player inserts almost any other Mega Drive cartridge into the slot adapter, again a screen with Sonic characters and a scrolling text "No Way" appears. ✋

This time after pressing the A, B and C button at the same time the player gets to play only a single Special Stage without the password ability based on the serial number of the cartridge's ROM header data. 🔢

🧵 6/x

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Attaching Sonic 1 to Sonic & Knuckles unlocks the Blue Sphere mini game, a collection of Special Stages in the same style of those in Sonic 3 & Knuckles. ⬇️

After starting the console a screen with Sonic characters and a scrolling text "No Way" appears. 🚫
While this screen is visible, pressing the A, B and C button at the same time opens the Blue Sphere menu. 🎮

Blue Sphere has 134,217,728 levels and a password feature. 🔢

🧵 5/x

Not 100% sure and don't want to spoil myself before the next stream, but I think I reached the last level of Sonic 2 in the second try of yesterdays stream before getting game over.

I really like the game so far.
The levels and boss fights are very fair and entertaining, besides of the Eggman fight in the pinball machine in Casino Night Zone 2.
This one seems quite random and therefore caused the game over during my first try of the stream. ☠️

Daily Sketch 02-22-2025

Occasionally I revisit my old styles for Sonic. This is a stumpy, short limbed version of my "Between the Sequels" style for a short-lived fan web comic. It featured a story arc about Tails getting a cell phone and Knuckles suddenly gaining fingers.