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The original Sonic 1 ROM is 512KB. The C64’s RAM is 64KB. PHS used a custom variant of LZSS compression to pack the level layouts, art, and sound data. The game streams level data from disk (or memory expansion) in real-time.

When users loaded the disk, they were greeted by a functional title screen. The iconic "SEGA" chant (rendered as a crude, beeping square wave) played. You could press Start. You saw Green Hill Zone. And then… you crashed. Sonic 1 C64

He released one final message on CSDb: "The project is on permanent hold. I cannot discuss why. The demo is all that remains." The original Sonic 1 ROM is 512KB

For a deep dive into the code and hardware interaction, technical discussions and the original project announcement can be found on the Lemon64 forums . The game streams level data from disk (or