Sonic the Hedgehog (SNES) is a hack of Speedy Gonzales in: Los Gatos Banditos.
Overview
Sonic the Hedgehog's Gameplay. Note the imprisoned Mario and the glitched background.
The game was originally a hack by the Peruvian sceners Twin Eagles Group, before some pirates got hold of the rom and decided to release it in cartridge form, titled "Sonic the Hedgehog 4." The hack itself replaces Speedy Gonzales with Sonic and the imprisoned mice with Mario. There is some voice acting in this hack, with Mario yelling "Sonic, Sonic!" and "Mario!," the latter of which is when he's rescued. He works as a checkpoint. The cheese pieces have been replaced with coins, although Sonic has a health metre as indicated by the hearts at the bottom left of the screen. The backgrounds are glitched, being rendered in a red gradient which makes them look disjointed. However, they're not glitched during boss fights. The game can crash on the third level after hitting a switch (a glitch which is present in the original Speedy Gonzales ROM if played on an emulator,) although it can be bypassed. Much of the music and some of the levels were removed from the original game, with the missing levels only accessible through save state hacking. Strangely, the pirated cartridge versions of this hack still credit the people who made it themselves.
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