Sonic Overloaded is a heavy modification of Sonic 1 that features a lot of new and exciting asthetics, new Sonic sprite, new level layouts, changed colour palette plus backgrounds, different music and much longer and harder boss fights. It was made by Axel and Team Overloaded in the year 2020 and was originally just uploaded as a simple file sharing link through Youtube. One of the team members (The Dark Paradox) has hinted at a newer, polished v5.0 to be made in some older posts and a 1 minute Youtube video exists of this newer build, however there is no download link to it and no information since has surfaced whether 5.0 ever got finished?

What’s In This Sonic 1 ROM Hack:

• New Sonic sprite.
• Super peel out added.
• Spin dash added.
• Sonic CD camera style.
• Sound effects have been completely changed.
• New level layouts.
• Chaos Emeralds are placed in different areas of the Special Stages.
• Badniks have a new look.
• Item boxes are now containers.
• Some badniks move extremely fast.
• Playlist of music has been changed.
• Dr. Robotnik now takes 30 odd hits to destroy making the game much more challenging!
• Sonic 2 style level select cheat screen added.
• Works on real hardware 100% Tested and confirmed.

ZONES: 

1. Tropical Coast Zone

2. Roman Temple Zone

3. Pinball Street Zone

4. Frozen Ruins Zone

5. Starry City Zone

6. Metal Reactor Zone

NOTES:

1. After inputting the cheat code on the title screen UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, then A and Start together, If the level select halts to a black or white screen, just press the C button and the level select will show. (It’s a bug that was never fixed, many hacks that use this Sonic 2 level select screen have the same problem).

2. Certain badniks move very fast across the screen and the crabmeats are nearly impossible to kill without losing your rings. Better have a shield handy.

3. A lot of badniks are placed in poorly put areas making the level layouts hard and dickish at times.

4. Bosses take 30 hits to kill.

5. The soundtrack has a nice mix of tracks from other Mega Drive/Genesis games while still retaining the original Sonic 1 & 2 drum kit samples, (Power Rangers and Shadow Dancer are among a few game tracks featured).

6. Art is quite nice, a lot of Sonic CD’s art is featured here.

7. The ROM hack patch here is listed as ”Complete” on the page meaning it can be played from start to finish in a full playthrough of 6 zones continuously and with no crashes/soft locks and other game stopping bugs. The original creators may see the project as a whole as ”incomplete” meaning at least one other build was meant to surface but never got finished.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Inside the ZIP file you’ll find the IPS patch, it is in Lunar IPS format and simply needs to be patched to the Sonic 1 ROM (Europe/USA).

Have a nice day!