Note: You will need the latest/most up-to-date version of Sonic Mania Decompilation on hand to play this.

"Welcome back to the ancient lava-filled ruins of South Island! Years of neglect has put this purple dungeon into a sorry state, especially in the deeper areas where more plant-life has grown over the ruins. Make sure to take care of yourself, or else you'll either be roasted, squashed, pricked, or all of the above!"

Hey there! This is my take on a remixed throwback stage for Sonic Mania in the form of Marble Zone from the original Sonic the Hedgehog video game. Ever since the game came out, Marble only had one other appearance in the form of race courses in Sonic Drift. There have been a few mods I've seen that feature Marble Zone, most notably in Sonic 1: Almost Remastered by Bones Burger and The Misfits Pack by Jubbalub. Inspired by these two in particular, as well as other mods/hacks that feature this scorching level, I've made my own version of Marble Zone. In case you ask which zone this is placed over, it takes Lava Reef's slot.

Act 1 is pretty much like how it normally looks in Sonic 1, but the foreground is now overall far less boring. Now there's additional lava patches and some bricks are colored green.

Act 2 though? Oh boy, there's loads of foliage growing around the place, and some pine trees have grown. Given it's initial connection to Labyrinth Zone, some of it's foreground assets seem to have spread around here. If you happen to be playing this in Encore Mode... ho ho boy... you'll be in awe, that's for sure.

Issues that I am aware of:

• If you allow the transition cutscene to play, Act 2 will display the wrong colors. To avoid this, you may press the Enter key (or the start button if using a controller) and the level will load just fine.
• Otherwise, the colors will fix themselves when you come out from a Special/Bonus stage, lose a life, or simply restart the level via the pause menu.
• More of a visual issue: The proper zone enemies (BuzzBomber, Batbrain, and Caterkiller) do not show up correctly in-game and instead appear as title card graphics or similar. They do behave normally as intended, but... well... just be careful, mmkay?