Mario and Sonic may be on friendlier terms these days, but once upon a time they were bitter enemies, and the notion of them sharing a game was as unlikely as a Smiths reunion.
Still, you can now rewind time and imagine just what it could have been like had Mario decided to hop, skip and jump out of the Mushroom Kingdom and gatecrash Sonic's Green Hill Zone. Hacker LoneDevil has released a version of the original Sonic the Hedgehog and replaced the blue blur with Nintendo's famous mascot. Everything else in Somari The Adventurer is very much the same, but Mario has introduced a few new moves - such as his spinning jump and double leap.
You can check out the hack in action below, and if you're interested in applying this hack via the Retron 5, you can download it here.
Thanks to Gonçalo Lopes for the tip!
[source forums.sonicretro.org]
Comments 15
After making that video I actually went and played the whole thing to completion! It had been years since I played "Sonic The Hedgehog" from start to finish and having the spin dash in the game is so handy it's almost like cheating.
Well, this is just bizarre... I love it!
My mind still can't comprehend what's happening!
Dorkly's way ahead of ya:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxO8NmDPBZo
Loads better than the "Hong Kong Original" Somari the NES/Famicom got...
Actually, Somari was sold in cartidges for the Famicom back in 1994 and it was a port of Sonic The Hedgehog for the Famicom having a Mario with Tails' shoes as its main character. This is almost certainly based on it.
Surprised you guys didn't mention Somari on the NES in the article.
Somari was originally an unofficial port of Sonic 1 starring Mario, for the Famicom system.
Well this is pretty well made I like it !
And people like to think that the Megadrive sound chip wasn't very good HAAA this game along with Many others just sounded awesome.
Kewl stuff. It's weird to see Mario rolled up in a ball like that O_o
I'm just happy about the reference to the Smiths. Although it probably fell on deaf ears to most people. The World Won't Listen, after all
When Mario jumps, it kinda looks like Knuckles if you let your vision blurr a little bit. Hmmm... curious. Neat little hack though!
As far as rom hacks go, this one is pretty well polished. I can't tell you how many times I've played a texture hack for a game and several frames of animation are either unchanged, missing, or horribly glitched. Good on you LoneDevil!
Not bad!
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