The bar is emptied whenever damage is taken, downgrading the game’s visuals to less powerful hardware. The bar can be filled up by gathering rings, destroying enemies, and smashing breakable walls. Doing this successfully will “restore” an act, and essentially replaces the chaos emeralds, which can’t be gathered here.
The central goal of the hack is to restore “blast processing” by filling up a blast processing bar in the bottom right of the screen, and keep it from emptying until the end of the level. So, what does Sonic 1 look like without “blast processing”? An 8-bit demake, apparently. Faster CPU aside, however, blast processing was little more than a marketing buzzword, and a key part of this game’s joke.
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It was a fancy marketing term SEGA of America used to highlight the SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive’s CPU speed, which was faster than the Super Nintendo, making speedy games like Sonic easier to make on the machine (SNES devs did eventually figure out how to get around this limitation, but it did plague early games like Gradius 3). An improved version of an April Fools hack released earlier this year, Blastless DX is a technological showcase with a fun premise: Sonic 1 has “lost” its blast processing, and the player needs to restore it.īefore getting into the game, I’ll explain exactly what “blast processing” is, in case you don’t know. I’ve played some true technical marvels over the years, but I don’t think any have impressed me quite as much as Vladikcomper’s Sonic the Hedgehog Blastless DX. I’ve been exploring those for nearly a decade now, on my actual SEGA Genesis, through my Mega Everdrive or SEGA CD, as I’ve always loved the novelty of seeing these games running on my actual, ancient gaming hardware.
Sonic ROM hacks are a different story, however.
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As I’ve never been much of a PC gamer, I never had much inclination to check out PC-only Sonic hacks until I decided to help cover last year’s Sonic Hacking Contest. I’m relatively new to the world of PC Sonic hacks.
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