Sonic The Hedgehog 1 & 2

This is a hack for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for Sega Genesis. It combines the levels of Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 to make one large game. Special stages from both games are accessible and are entered via each game’s special stage original entry method. This means Giant rings at the end of stages when retaining 50 rings in Sonic 1 and jumping into a circle of stars after passing checkpoints with enough rings in Sonic 2. There are 6 Chaos Emeralds in the Sonic 1 special stages and 7 in the Sonic 2 special stages. Super Sonic is not available until all Chaos Emeralds are obtained from both kinds of special stages. Progress is saved automatically to SRAM.
Pressing Start and the A button while playing any stage will return the player to the title screen. Also, level select is available by holding A button then pressing Start at the title screen.
Arena mode is playable which has time challenges that can be completed to increase the players ranking. Higher rankings are obtainable in harder levels and have shorter time limits.
Some features of this game were later incorporated in flamewing’s Sonic Classic Heroes hack.