Sonic Mega Collection Plus

Sonic Mega Collection Plus

Developers
	Sonic Team
Publishers
	Sega
Release dates
Windows	March 31, 2006
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Perspectives	Side view
Genres	Platform
Series	Sonic the Hedgehog

Warnings

SafeDisc DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see Availability for affected releases).

Sonic Mega Collection Plus is a side view platform game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega. It is an updated re-release of Sonic Mega Collection previously available on Nintendo GameCube, featuring an emulated collection of 14 Sega Genesis/Mega Drive and 6 Sega Game Gear games.

Some games must be unlocked through gameplay, however they can also be unlocked immediately via editing the game's configuration file. The ROMs used are the inferior 50 Hz conversions. Use Region Mod as a workaround.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		SafeDisc v4 DRM.
Retail		Available in the "Sonic PC Collection" bundle.

SafeDisc DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected releases).

This collection is not available digitally, however some of the games featured in this collection have been released digitally elsewhere.

Essential improvements

Region Mod by Zmiize94

Back up the game's original executable before using this mod.

Allows the option to play between the North America, Japanese, and a fixed European version of this collection, as well as improving the sound quality of the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive emulation in this collection. Details on how to use this mod's features can also be found in this video and the included readme file.

Installing Region Mod
Download the mod here and extract the contents of the zipped archive to <path-to-game>. Replace the default executable with the appropriate ones from <path-to-game>\Modded EXE (U for North America, J for Japan, and E for Europe) and rename it to MegaCollectionPlus.

Ghost Left Input Fix

Fixes Gamepad permanent left input bug

Read-Only has to be turned off to change controls thus Instructions have to be repeated.

Apply gamepad fix[citation needed]
After setting the desired controls go to appdata\SEGA\MegaCollectionPlus\. Open SETTING.INI file with a text editor and delete all entries that contain BTN_AL_. Save and right click go into SETTING.INI properties and set it to Read-Only.

Bypass configuration launcher

Launch the game's main executable by using the SonicMegaCollectionExecFromConfig command line argument

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%APPDATA%\SEGA\MegaCollectionPlus\SETTING.INI

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%APPDATA%\SEGA\MegaCollectionPlus\SAVEDATA

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Supports native 4:3 resolutions, but can be hacked. Resolution must be set in SETTING.INI by changing the value of Mode; 0 for 640x480, 1 for 800x600, 2 for 1024x768, 3 for 1152x864, 4 for 1600x1200. In-order to set a custom resolution, find B0 04 00 00 EB 0A B9, then at offsets 0x7 and 0xC, change 0280 or 01E0 to any width/height.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Uses a constant bilinear filter used throughout the games which cannot be disabled.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Always on by default.
60 FPS		Uses the 50Hz PAL versions of the featured games. Use Region Mod for their 60Hz versions.
120+ FPS		Games in this collection are capped at either 60 (US/JP version) or 50 (PAL version) FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Color blind mode		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.

Input

Esc is used to instantly close the game.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		Mouse is not used.
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		Uses DirectInput.
Full controller support		Requires pressing Esc or Alt+F4 to exit the game.
Controller remapping		D-pad and Left analog stick are bound to movement and cannot be remapped, which can cause problems for XInput controllers.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

PlayStation controllers

Generic/other controllers
Button prompts		References controls based on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive.

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Input prompt override
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Only an option to mute all audio from the configuration launcher.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English				Voice-overs are only heard in Comix Zone with speech bubbles unrelated to spoken dialogue are used throughout the game.
French
German
Italian
Japanese				Use the Region Mod to change the user interface to Japanese. Some of the included games, and a few other elements (such as the comic scans) are not translated.
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9.0c

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Unlock all games instantly

Adding the following to the game's configuration file
Go to the configuration file location. Open SETTINGS.INI. Scroll down to the section under [ETC] and add the following underneath the line DELETE_TEX_LINE: SELECT_ALL_GAMES=1. Save the changes. You should now be able to play all games featured in this collection.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum		Recommended
Operating system (OS)	2000 SP4		XP
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz		Intel Pentium 4 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM)	256 MB		320 MB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	3.2 GB
Video card (GPU)	32 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible		64 MB of VRAM