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Very well done MarkeyJester. I love that feature. It's incredible how different looks a zone when it's reversed

 

Now I know this is a joke hack and all, but on musical terms, I actually like how some of the songs sound backwards for some strange reason, mostly the boss music. plus I also found it to be quite fun after playing just playing GHZ with everything reversed. who would have thought that just a simple change such as this could make things more interesting.

 

Come on, take it all the way! Flip the cheat codes, mirror the level select, oh the missed opportunites!

 

Might have to check this out when I get home. Tried it on my phone with retroarch and the levels were normal. Sega screen title screen and music were reverse though.

 

.. you wonderful bastard. I wasn't expecting the music done too, this is brilliant. Is that actual code changes running the music backwards, or modified by hand?

 

Well done, Markey boy. This is a brilliant joke hack!

PS: I already knew about this before he released it *runs*

 

This is pretty darn cool. I wonder how you pulled this off :V. How's this play on hardware?

 

God damn, Markey, you've blown my mind again.

 

Using the sound driver to play the tracks backwards is too excessively difficult to maintain. If you imagine a channel playing one instrument and then changing to another instrument, you would need to take the flags into account before you got to them, likewise with the notes/timers.

Reprogramming the sound driver to take all of this into account, although not impossible, it would prove to take an excessively large amount of time, something of which I generally don't have. Likewise, doing it by hand proves to take just as long. So, I wrote a tool to do the work for me: RevSMPS. It unpacks the channels individually, reverses them as correctly as possible, and then puts them back together again. I was going to write it to repack the channels again correctly in an optimised manner, but I found that using ValleyBell's SMPSOpt already does what I was going to write anyway, so why waste time...

 

Two years ago I had that idea as well and attempted at doing it myself, but naturally I never finished it because I sucked too hard back then. Actually, I still do.

Cool job in any case! I wish you wouldn't need a monitor to trigger it though, as I would like to play the final boss without cheating or playing through the whole game first.

 

So I'd imagine since they are simply the stock tracks reversed with that program and given the fact that the normal tracks are there (since you aren't using a sound driver mod to achieve any of this, i'd assume you still load the normal tracks as well)... Are you pretty much setting a flag that tells the game to load specific art(or even just set a bit to reverse said art)/music given whatever flag or mode the game is in?

Sorry if the way I worded this all is complicated. =/

 

What about reversing the sound effects? :u

 

make sonic walk backwards! Make the game start at the ending sequence and end at GHZ act 1! Clearly, if you're going to go as far as this, you might as well go all the way!!!

 

Well, Markey just reasserted his dominance.

Seriously, I didn't even know this was technologically possible.

EDIT: Also, the backwards final boss music is really badass,

 

Bow down before your new master, MarkeyJester. I just played through GHZ. Shit is intense. Seriously this is pretty awesome :V Even just playing the levels backwards, it's like playing the game all over again

 

It doesn't play the levels backwards for me...

 

You have to hit a monitor. I think it might have to be a ring monitor as well.

 

Hit a ring monitor, Spanner. Also for the 5 minutes I played this I enjoyed it, you never fail to surprise me.

 

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