Random: Somebody Put Yoshi Into Sonic 2, And The Results Are Amazing

Cool. Very different, but still plays well.

Little non for profit experiments like this are quite awesome, even tho the ''is it okay to do'' line is a little blurry. It would have been a great learning experience and i'd imagine amazing to see it finally working how they wanted.

The special stage is actually from Sonic Advance. This is all really cool! I love video games with communities like this.

Did Nintendolife just link directly to a hacked ROM?

Gotta go Yoshi!

Pretty incredible hack. Amazing.

@Skunkfish : Unless I'm mistaken, that could be a patch.

@Skunkfish Why, yes. Yes they did. Except it's a patch, not a copy of the ROM. It's only a binary file, that's not going to play jack squat in an emulator or third party retro console by itself.

Edit: I thought wrong, it's a patched ROM file alright.

Wait... So does this mean Mario's world is actually Möbius? And he's about the same age as Sonic? And if Tails is too young to fly the plane... who's piloting it!? This raises so many questions... Also, to be fair to Tails, this demotes Sonic, too.

@samuelvictor Except for running on those checkered ribbon loops, though. Yoshi is defying the laws of physics a little too much there.

Wow. Looks great and fun. And as always the music is beautiful

@PlywoodStick I just grabbed it and it is a standalone ROM, just tried it in Gens.

@Skunkfish Oh... NL might want to redact that link ASAP, then. I don't know where they got the link from, but it's supposed to be bad form to hide a ROM inside a binary file for distribution.

I just tried it myself, it is indeed a patched ROM file, instead of just the patch by itself. I guess Damo still needs his morning coffee or something.

There are many hacks or clones similar to this on smartphones. Oh my I forgot just how awesome the music and sound effects are in this game, love it.

@PlywoodStick
Where did u find the rom and what device was u use, which emulator

@NintySnesMan The ROM is actually hidden in the binary file that NL linked to in the article, highlighted by "recently surfaced." Better get it quick if you want it, I doubt this little slip up will last... I tested it using my Android phone and RetroMD.

@PlywoodStick
Thx, got it, will try it later. Do you know of any other cross-over games for emulators, it don't have to be platformers, not too keen on them

One of the coolest ROM hacks I've seen in a long time. I'm genuinely surprised at how well the two franchises have merged together. Slightly gives me hope for a 2D Mario and Sonic game being able to work.

Never heard of this console or game....

It gives a new appreciation for Sonic 2's level design. These early stages could have worked surprisingly well as slowed-down platformers.

That's very cool.

And everyone needs to shut the hell up complaining about this being a ROM hack.

What are you all, Nintendo's frikin' lawyers?

GTFOH!

@impurekind
Lol, I downloaded it straightaway after plywood told me how to get it. I have loads of ROMS and Emulators

@subpopz Christ; I never even put two and two together. lol But, I guess I rarely thought about his real name, to be fair.

Apparently, this isn't the final version yet, seeing as the file is called "s2yoshiwip.bin".

As in "Work In Progress"...

But actually quite a decent job they did there to both insert the character and nearly spot-on physics to match his specific characteristics, so hats off to whoever made this.
EDIT:
Then again, having already been made in 2010 for a hacking contest, I doubt they will ever make another version of it, so it was probably uploaded "as is".

A+

This is absurd. Nintendo life, you have danced around the idea that emulation is fine for a while but now you have crossed the line to actually promoting a rom and giving a download link to it.

What are you thinking? Haven't sites been taken down for this?!

Yoshi doesn't appear to be made of yarn. Perhaps that's some sort of 16-bit armored suit to withstand all the Blast Processing (TM)?

Download quick before Nintendo takes it down!

Inb4 Nintendo issues a DMCA notice, even though it's not their game being hacked.

If anybody were wondering - SEGA is totally fine with rom hacks. Moreover - if you have created an amazing hack, and bought a corresponding game on Steam, you can put the hack in Steam Workshop for everyone to legally download and enjoy. Genesis does what Nintendon't - even after all those years, my lovely people.

@Waninoko You're right, and I do believe Nintendo has been doing substantially better than Sega so...

@impurekind Nintendo Life directly linked to a ROM hack of a game that's available to buy in a way that directly profits Sega (mobile version). That's immoral, they're basically promoting piracy.

It even has fuzzy in it, and when you touch fuzzy you get dizzy!

I always thought the touch fuzzy effects were only possible because of Mode 7 on the SNES. Seems I was wrong.

thats just amazing.

Ha ha, awesome.

@ThePoochyKid I do not care. I do not own shares in Nintendo, nor do I work for Nintendo. I am a gamer, and as a gamer I think it's awesome to see this kind of stuff. And I think we should be celebrating this kind of creativity in this world—not just supporting some corporation's bottom line and making its shareholders even more wealthy than they already are.

And feel free to go pirate my games, bring some balance to The Force, if it makes you feel better:

http://www.inceptional.com/inceptionals-games/

@NintySnesMan Me too; and they are frikin' awesome. I couldn't sit here and tell you that Mother 3 is one of the greatest and most important games of all time otherwise:

http://www.inceptional.com/2015/05/11/mother-3-is-brilliant/

Just as an example.

Wait, were did all my chili dogs go?!?

shloop YUM!Bum.

@GravyThief the Genesis/Mega Drive could manage some cool effects like that. It's more common, I think, to see the wavy effect horizontally like Thunderforce 3. Mode 7 is a great feature, but it gets credit for a lot of effects when it wasn't used. One of the most common misconceptions is that throwing foot soldiers at the screen in Turtles in Time is Mode 7, which it is not.

@impurekind
What's this inceptional stuff, is it your game studio. The last Galaxy was right up my street. Also I looked at favourite games and it was great to see fantasy zone and the awesome Sega rally which I still have for my saturn, I also have Exhumed for it which was a ace shooter for saturn. Shame lobotomy software dissappeared

Really impressive and cool

Also lol at the naive people on here who think that Nintendolife is going to get shutdown, or that a bin file is shady for a genesis rom (all of them are bins), or that Nintendolife are some kind of terrible criminals. Loosen up. If you don't want it don't download it, i really appreciate this article and so do a bunch of others.

@subpopz
oh....... my....... WOOOOOOOOORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mind blown. Childhood enriched.

@Kevlar44 It's true that a binary file is generic, and could be anything. And I have no qualms with DLing a patched ROM (although I prefer to apply patches onto vanilla ROM's myself). However, as per NL's own community guidelines, users may not link to any working ROM file. So it seems hypocritical for staff to be able to do so, unless we can do so too. (Also, it's typical for MD/Genesis titles to have their file extension changed to .SMD or .GEN when they're dumped to distinguish them from other binary files.)

That file being just a patch or a ROM plus a patch can make the difference between prompting a takedown notice or not. For example, Pokémon Prism was taken down by Nintendo in the form it was originally distributed- the base Crystal ROM plus the Prism patch. However, the main site where Pokémon Prism is currently being curated and distributed has received no takedown notices, because they are not supplying ROM files, only patches and updates.

So yeah, the "don't like it, ignore it/don't use it" cop out doesn't work here.

I've always been hoping Smash Bros would do this, let you play as a character in another character's game. Doesn't have to be the full game, a level or dungeon would do. For instance, Samus (or any other characters) in Dungeon 1 of the original Legend of Zelda.

@impurekind You must be misunderstanding what I'm saying. I think this mod looks amazing and I kind of want to try it out. However, I also believe that people, large corporations included, should be properly compensated for their products.

I've already bought Sonic 1 in two different ways that directly compensated Sega (Sonic Classics collection on the DS and on the App Store, so I'd be fine with downloading this.

However, there's billions of potential people who could look on this site who haven't played Sonic 1 and could download a ROM directly linked on this site. That's my problem.

@ThePoochyKid Sega's already made its money back tenfold on this game, and sold it multiple times over to many consumers. And, regardless, I still don't care about Sega's or whatever corporation's profits when it comes to people using whatever to create something of artistic merit and then NOT selling for any kind of money/profit whatsoever.

@NintySnesMan iNCEPTIONAL is the label I use for my own games and other stuff. It's also the name of my blog, obviously.

I don't think I'd ever heard of Exhumed until now; it actually looks pretty cool.

that jumping noise is awful, also noticed lots of small little bugs like at the end when it says you got through act 1, it briefly changes to say act 2 right before it transitions to the next level.

The Sonic Advance 3 Special stages bring back so many memories, because that was my 1st GBA game. Never did get the last chaos emerald due to not being able to find the last 2 chao. Lol

@Kevlar44 This is about Nintendo life explicity advertising something that Nintendo does not approve of, after telling us we can't link to roms.

@Kalmaro Chill out it's just a rom. So what NintendoLife is advertising it, it's their site not yours. As if it's really hurting Nintendo's sales in the process. People have been using Nintendo roms for years and Nintendo hasn't gone bankrupt yet, because of it.

@AlwaysGreener
Lol hey dude, just to clarify your mistake but sonic 2 isn't a Nintendo rom it's a Sega one, someone patched Yoshi into it or something like that

Everyone uses rom. Let's not lie.
Every collector of games or anyone who enjoys games plays roms by the tons.
For me personally I play the roms and keep the games boxed especially the snes n64 etc.
Mega drive games is a favourite.
Out run. Streets of rage 1-2-3. Golden axe 1-2-3. Shnobi. Ghouls n ghost. Flicky. Fatal fury

@samuelvictor Indeed it is.

I still own Sonic 2.

@impurekind
Great. Do you only release your games on mobile or have you plans for other devices. Exhumed plays like Doom and Metroid Prime rolled into one, always having to revisit places you had been before but opening new areas with a new ability you found, it was powered by the SlaveDriver engine built for the Saturn up by lobotomy software. 3D Realms were so impressed with the engine they asked them to use it to make the Saturn version of Duke Nukem 3D and same with ID software for saturn Quake. Exhumed was called powerslave in USA. Lobotomy released it first on PC using 3D realms Build engine, but the weaker hardware of saturn forced them to make the SlaveDriver. Anyways if you like Duke or Doom old school shooters then you need this game, also a game called BLOOD and shadow Warrior even Heretic was ace

Who's the dumbpoopybutt playing this? If you're going to demo something in a video do it in such as way as to demonstrate everything. That's the point... of a DEMO!

We barely got to see Yoshi using the eggs for example. What happens when they connect with an enemy of item? The person played this like they were doing a speed run. Poor poor poor.

WHAT. HOW. WHAT.
I NEED THIS. GIVE IT TO ME

@NintySnesMan I know it's a Sega rom, but the reason I brought Nintendo into this is because Kalmaro states that roms in general shouldn't be allowed just because Nintendo doesn't allow them. NintendoLife has the right to show off fan made roms, even if someone see's it as morally wrong.

@AlwaysGreener No, I will not 'chill out'. Roms are not approved according to Nintendo and this site should know better than to just advertise them and even link people to them. Nintendo life may own their site but that does not mean they should do whatever they want with it. How can they claim to be supportive of Nintendo and the advertise and display material Nintendo is against?

@Kalmaro The new Sonic Mania game that is coming out originated because a guy was doing romhacks of Sonic games and Sega decided to hire him.

Sure Nintendo didn't give permission to use Yoshi this way, but Sega is really open to romhacks.They even allow people to upload romhacks to be freely downloaded and played with their steam version of the game.

Someone could probably share this there legally with no complaints from Sega.

Let NintendoLife make their own decisions please.

@WillTheLion Something doesn't stop being wrong just because someone unrelated says it's okay. Nintendo has been clear on their stance about this, so it is odd Nintendolife is advertising a romhack and linking to it.

@NintySnesMan Yeah, my games are just on mobile, other than The Last Galaxy.

I'd really like to play Exhumed, but I find it a total chore even trying to figure out how to get old Saturn games working on the likes of emulators.

@impurekind
No worries, the Saturn emulators lag to much, but if you have a decent psx emu then you can get it for that. It plays OK but it does run better on saturn cause the engine was built with the Saturn in mind. Hope you enjoy it

I've got no problem with people downloading the ROM file and checking it out. Are Sega bothered? Perhaps not...

But directly linking to a ROM file and therefore making it downloadable via the site is against the law. Will Nintendo Life get sued for it? I doubt it. Will anyone get arrested? Probably not.

But it could severely damage the reputation of the site. Would a software publisher give a site that distributes 'warez' (as these things were called back in my day) early access to games, interviews and want to be associated with them? Would they want to advertise on the site.That is the problem...

I'm sure nothing will come of it, but it's certainly not good practice on Nintendo Life's part. What if they were to provide a download link to some classic Nintendo ROMs like Yoshi's Island, Super Mario World, Mario 64? Would that be fine?

(and this is speaking as someone who ran a ROM site in his youth)

SOMEBODY had to save Sonic.

This will be a ROM hack available on Steam within a few days.

Yoshi being able to jump without a platform in the chemical bath is cheating!

I uploaded a video of this mod on my Youtube channel, it's such a fun mod, the best I've ever played!

Nice! Sonic can finally give his feet a rest.

@impurekind Pretty simple actually. The people who come on threads like this and talk about legal matters generally 1) enjoy Nintendo IP and Nintendo's rights to its IP, and 2) have real jobs and know what it's like to produce something in exchange for money. On the other side we have the people who produce nothing, are either too young or too lazy to have real jobs, and think that everything should be given to them for free.

That file isn’t here any more
Someone might have deleted the file or disabled the link.

Oops...

@kokirii You actually believe it's that simple and black & white.

@impurekind is it simple and black and white that I'm wrong or is there some gray where I might also kinda be right?

@kokirii There's almost always grey.

@kokirii
What about the ones that work for 40 plus hrs a week of hard graft but still want things for free, just saying

Amazing

@impurekind
Why isn't last Galaxy on smartphone

@NintySnesMan I got bored of making stuff for mobile; it's just so restrictive and unrewarding. And, unless you're like in the top 0.00001%, it's penniless too. Also, fitting the controls to a touchscreen would be a major hassle, and I have no idea how to and can't really be bothered figuring out how to make it work on controller peripherals for the various mobile devices either. So, a few reasons really.

@impurekind
OK, yeah it sounds laboures, so maybe switch or psvita. The game looks cool and perfect for analogue controls and my Vita needs a game like this lol. Also have u made any games like Doom, I noticed it on your list

@NintySnesMan I only wish I could make a game like Doom, but I don't really have that level of programming knowledge/skill. I am about to get a new PC and an Oculus Rift to see if I can start developing for VR though, which will also require me learning 3D stuff in Unity, so an fps game wouldn't be out of the question. I do have a couple of ideas for this.

Heh