Someone modded the original Sonic the Hedgehog to include Sonic Boom’s voice acting
Many iconic characters of the 16-bit era did not utter a single word, and perhaps that was for the best. Sonic’s first couple of entries made him a fast yet silent hedgehog, and Sonic Generations hilariously kept that trait for the original Blue Blur.
Modder VAdaPEGA thought it would be funny to take the original Sonic the Hedgehog and add the voice of Sonic from Sonic Boom into the game. The end result definitely proves that less is more, and you can check it out for yourself in the video above.
If you would like to try the mod out yourself, you can click here to download it and then copy it onto any Genesis/Mega Drive flash cartridge. In addition to the SEGA Genesis and Mega Drive, the flash cartridge should work on the RetroN 5 and Cybergadget’s Retro Freak as well!
Via Retro Collect, Sonic Search
I thought the genesis could not play sampled audio and music at the same time
Most games do it actually (although normally only drums are sampled), whether it sounds alright or not depends on the sound engine used by the game though (some did their job alright, some were to put it bluntly outright atrocious giving that scratchy sound we all know).
Dare I watch all 30 minutes of this video? Yes, I dare.
Ok, Rise of Lyric was not that bad with the voice clips.