Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is a platforming action video game. Developed by Sonic Team and Sega Technical Institute in 1992, it introduces new mechanics to the series, and the lovable young fox known as Miles "Tails" Prower. The massively successful sequel to the original Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic 2 stands as the second best-selling Sonic game in history, and is considered by many fans as the best Sonic game.

A 2-D side-scrolling platformer, you control Sonic, a blue-colored hedgehog that runs pretty darn fast across the stages (zones as they are called in the game). Alternatively, the player can also play as Tails, who either functions identical to Sonic. Scattered throughout the zones are golden rings that Sonic can collect, which allows him to not only take damage, but allow access to special stages. The special stage, which is now a pseudo-3D tube, involves collecting a certain amount of rings and avoiding bombs.

Returning from his previous defeat, Dr. Ivo Robotnik plans world domination once again by kidnapping and converting animals into robots, and collecting the seven Chaos Emeralds. Unlike his previous frenzy with Sonic, Robotnik has built the Death Egg, a giant battle station orbiting the Earth, and intends to conquer with it. Sonic (now followed by Miles "Tails" Prower) set off to collect the Chaos Emeralds and defeat Robonik once and for all.

This is a joke hack of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for Genesis. It's purpose is to incorporate some of the elements common to Sonic games made by developer Dimps. This makes for a game seemingly how it may have been if it had been developed by Dimps. One feature is a homing attack by pressing jump while in mid-air. As with Dimps developed Sonic games the player is actually required to use the homing attack to bounce over pits by bouncing off of enemies. Other features include random speed boosters, uncurling after hitting a badnik or spring, Sonic 4 spikeless Bubbles enemy, Sonic only gameplay, reworked music in Sonic 4 style, boss theme replaced with a unused Sonic the Hedgehog 3D Blast song which was later used as the Sonic 4 boss theme, and small physics tweaks.

The patch is in xdelta format due to shifted data resulting in IPS patches containing original code. The ROM should be in BIN format.

No-Intro Name: Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (World) (Rev A)
(No-Intro version 20130710-102701)
ROM/File SHA-1: 8BCA5DCEF1AF3E00098666FD892DC1C2A76333F9

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