Sonic Mega Collection Plus

Sonic Mega Collection Plus

Developers
	Sonic Team
Publishers
	Sega
Release dates
Windows	March 31, 2006

Warnings

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

Key points

Esc is used to instantly close the game.

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.

No option to disable the bilinear filtering used across this collection.

The ROMs used are the inferior 50 Hz conversions. Use Region Mod as a workaround.

General information

MobyGames entry

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.

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

Audio settings

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
French
German
Spanish
Italian

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

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