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Sonic Mega Collection Plus

To do:
A prototype was released by Hidden Palace, make a prototype subpage.

Sonic Mega Collection Plus is the multiplatform version of Sonic Mega Collection, adding six Game Gear titles (Sonic 1, Sonic Drift, Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, Sonic Chaos, Sonic Labyrinth, and Sonic Blast), savestates, and completely-redesigned menus as well as having Comix Zone and The Ooze unlockable in all regions (Mega Collection only had them in Japan).

Unused Music#

The credits theme used in Mega Collection. Plus uses a new track.

Unused Text#

text/text_k.utx is an unused and blank Korean language option, only repeating the string (PS2).

Development Text#

Present at 0x2528A0 in SLUS_209.17 in the PS2 version is some text for a debug display.

HEAP 0x%08x/0x%08x
VR   %d
TIME : %d
EE %d[us]
MD EMU : START
GG EMU : L3

(Source: Original TCRF research)

At 80A in default.xbe in the Xbox version is a source directory.

d:\MegaCollectionPlus\project\xbox\Release_LTCG\MegaCollectionPlus.exe
d:\MegaCollectionPlus\project\xbox\Release_LTCG\MegaCollectionPlus.pdb

Oddities#

For whatever reason, even though it came out almost a year later, the North American Windows release uses the same ROMs as the European release which were in 50Hz.