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An option to toggle the Spin Dash ability (which is absent from the Mega Drive release) was added, and like later games, clouds of dust are created when Sonic skids to a halt.

The original Sonic the Hedgehog sees the most obvious changes in its transition to the Saturn, being built on the later REV01 revision of the game, complete with extra scrolling with the clouds in Green Hill Zone and extra water effects in Labyrinth Zone. The ability for music to fade in and out is also removed in Sonic Jam, however as there is no longer a need to share audio channels, sound effects cannot interfere with music playback. While players can still charge Spin Dashes, the pitch of spin noise no longer rises when doing so. Many sound effects have been sampled at a lower quality (or seemingly replaced, as is the case with many explosions), while others are missing, such as the sound for transforming into Super Sonic. This is particularly noticeable when collecting Power Sneakers, as rather than speed up the music already playing, a different, faster version of the tune is swapped in (and subsequently swapped out), with the track restarting each time (it can also cause results screen music to start playing for a second time if an extra life is obtained). Some of the audio in Sonic Jam is different from the original Mega Drive versions, with most music tracks having a slight delay before playing (likely due to CD loading times). As an example, more platforms were added in Sonic 2's Chemical Plant Zone to reduce the chances of the player drowning in the level's second Act - it means on the whole, 'Normal' is easier than 'Original', but harder than 'Easy'. 'Normal' Acts as essentially a bug-fixed version of the original game, though some layout changes were made to address concerns with the original releases. Skipped levels were not made easier for this mode, so if the player attempts to access one through a level select code, they will just get the Normal mode layout (and rules). Knuckles the Echidna in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles use the same Easy levels as Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Sonic the Hedgehog 3/ Sonic & Knuckles, respectively. A notable omission includes Wing Fortress Zone which is missing entirely in Easy Sonic 2. It is not known how much thought was originally given to the chosen Zones in Easy mode while one might expect Easy mode to stick with the first Acts, if not just because these lack bosses, a mixture of Acts 1, 2 and where applicable, 3 are used. In this mode, many levels are skipped, any encountered bosses only take three hits, and much of the level design is tweaked for easier play, be it the removal of obstacles, or the addition of more helpful objects such as monitors. The Easy mode dramatically reduces the difficulty across the four Mega Drive titles so as to help less experienced players.

Unique to Sonic Jam are the additions of 'Easy' and 'Normal' difficulty options (in addition to an 'Original' mode which plays identically to the Mega Drive originals), both of which change the placement of obstacles and fix numerous bugs present in the original versions.

Sonic World is said to have been the basis for Sonic Adventure. At the time of Sonic Jam's release, this game was a selling point as gamers were eager to see Sonic in 3D for the first time.

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A 3D adventure world with many buildings containing art, history, music, movies and character profiles is contained within, plus the mission mode where the player must complete certain missions in the quickest time. It is also possible to disable Time Overs and allow the player to spend more than 10 minutes in a level.ДЄnother addition to Sonic Jam is 'Sonic World', which is accessed at the title screen menu. The game also sports Time Attack modes, and an option to play each Special Stage in succession for each game.

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The North American and Japanese instruction manuals for each of the games are also included in a digitised form. This means Blue Sphere, Knuckles the Echidna in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles are also playable. It is especially beneficial to PAL users, as the games have been optimised for 50Hz refresh rates (the original PAL versions perform 17.5% slower than their NTSC counterparts and contain borders, as little optimisation work was done between the two versions).Д®ach of the games benefit from the Lock-On Technology introduced in the Sonic & Knuckles cartridge. Unlike later compilations, Sonic Jam does not emulate Mega Drive hardware - the games have been re-written for the Saturn, though behave almost identically to their original counterparts.

2.3 Sonic the Hedgehog 3/ Sonic & Knuckles.