Desert Bus in Sonic 1

By Selbi
   

What is Sonic at its core? A game about jumping and running. So why not create a Sonic hack where you do nothing but jumping and running... for 8 hours straight?

The concept and inspiration were obviously taken from the infamous Desert Bus minigame from Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors. Also, a special shout-out to the annual charity event Desert Bus For Hope, which gave me the motivation to even create this hack.

(There's also a mode that compresses the experience down to 8 minutes. Still ridiculous, but it's a nice meditation exercise.)

Credits
  • Selbi – idea and programming
  • amphobius – intro music port (taken from Mega Man X3 intro stage)
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File Type: rom/mega-drive

File Size: 510.17 KB

RobiWanKenobi @ 2025-10-04 04:16:29

But what about 1 hour mode.

In all seriousness, I enjoyed this hack, despite dying many times in it from the bottom of the screenn.

dilworks @ 2025-10-04 11:52:16

Vertical Retrace: The Romhack

Seriously, this is dying to be played on a CRT!

Mostafa @ 2025-10-04 13:22:17

I agree with you :⁠-⁠)

TheInvisibleSun @ 2025-10-04 17:27:18

Comment deleted by TheInvisibleSun @ 2025-10-04 17:30:23