Tails In Sonic 2 Is a very welcoming ROM hack for the SEGA Master System version of Sonic 2 by Hackwrench. This patch completely swaps Sonic as a playable character for Tails, this also means that now Tails rescues Sonic and the intro has been changed to show this. Other notable changes change ”Sonic Has Passed” to ”Tails Has Passed” and Sonic’s icon to Tails. Tails has his own sprites also.

Hackwrench worked on this hack for 8 years on and off until finally completing it in July 2020.

FEATURES:

• Tails is now playable.
• Tails has his own new sprites.
• Intro screen has been changed to show Tails chasing after Robotnik with Sonic.
• Life icon changed to Tails.
• Hang glider now looks like the Tails hang glider from the title card.
• ”Sonic Has Passed” now says ”Tails Has Passed”
• The ending now shows Sonic running after Tails.
• Checksum is fixed for authentic Master System bios (Very Important).

NOTES: 

Sonic 2 on the Master System is a totally different beast compared to the more famous Mega Drive version of Sonic 2. Sonic 2 on the Master System has different zones, hang gliders, giant bubbles, grinding rail carts, fly wheels and a maze of twisting pipes.

It is often noted as the only Sonic game to not have Special Stages, shields, checkpoints, display emeralds collected and the only one that starts in a non-tropical area.

Sega and Aspect designed the game to work to the console’s strengths and weaknesses. This meant making a totally different game instead of just dumbing down the superior Mega Drive/Genesis version to an 8-bit console.

Green Hills Zone was where the Sonic CD title theme came from ”Sonic You Can Do Anything”.

This Tails patch works with both revisions of this game, it is built off rev0 which means getting 90 to 99 rings and then jumping on a ring item box does not grant you an extra life and if patched to rev1 which fixed this bug, simply overrides this and brings the bug back again.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Inside the ZIP file you’ll find the IPS patch, it is in Lunar IPS format and can be patched to either a Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (E) Rev0 or a Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (E) Rev1 ROM. Been tested to work with both ROMS.

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