On the other hand, entering the goal area in the real level will knock X out and allow you to finish).

This can lead to unwinnable situations as levels are only beatable in their normal version (the ending turnstile is not present in the Dark World, but the screen will still lock you in the end zone if you approach its position while in X's world, leaving you with no way out.

After you escape once, the timing of subsequent warps is random. When a level begins, it takes 12 seconds and a half for the level to warp to X's world. Jump Scare: Either getting a game over or even getting through all of the available zones will result in this as you're greeted with the 'I am god' face from the games.This means that you could be closing in on one of them, only for the game to warp you to the Dark World, causing it to vanish, and instead have you risk starting the whole act over again should you die from anything there. Checkpoint Starvation: In the Dark World, where both the checkpoint lampposts and the goal turnstile are gone.Eggman plays the same role he did in the original game (conquering South Island and turning the animals into Badniks), while X appears periodically to drag Sonic into a Dark World and chase him. Once you enter the goal area in the normal world or defeat Eggman in the third act, the game won't switch to the Dark World in order to prevent a Kaizo Trap from occurring.There are also more monitors in general in the hack compared to the original Sonic 1, including in the fights with Eggman, because the author said that the game would've been Unwinnable by Design otherwise, but he also stated that the additional amount that was put in wouldn't end up making the hack 'too easy'. The reason for this is so that Sonic will always have a way to temporarily return his world to normal and prevent Sonic.exe from killing him. However, he confirmed that he is working on a complete version of the game, two years after its original release. Unfortunately, the author was unable to complete the game before the contest deadline, so Star Light Zone and Scrap Brain Zone are Dummied Out. In this game, Sonic.exe invades the game and targets the genuine article. An Ordinary Sonic 1 ROM Hack, is a crossover ROM hack of the original Sonic the Hedgehog video game, released at Sonic Hacking Contest 2013.

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