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Sega Smash Pack

System(s): Game Boy Advance

Publisher: Sega (Europe), THQ (US)

Developer: CodeFire

Distributor: Infogrames (Europe)

Game total: 3

Peripherals supported: Game Link Cable

Genre: Compilation

Number of players: 1-2

Release	Date	Code
US	2002-09-23^[1]	AGB-P-A3PE AGB-A3PE-USA
ES	2003-08-01	AGB-P-A3PP AGB-A3PP-EUR
FR	2003-08-01	AGB-P-A3PP AGB-A3PP-EUR
UK	2003-08-01	AGB-P-A3PP AGB-A3PP-EUR
FI	2003-08-01	AGB-P-A3PP AGB-A3PP-EUR

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Sega Smash Pack is a compilation for the Game Boy Advance featuring ports of 3 Sega Mega Drive games: Sonic Spinball, Golden Axe, and Ecco the Dolphin. While the games are a little watered down, they play basically identically to the originals. Golden Axe lacks its cooperative 2-player mode, perhaps due to the logistics involved in implementing this (the games were always single-player only).

Gameplay

Ecco the Dolphin

Golden Axe

Sonic Spinball

The Smash Pack version of Sonic Spinball retains the gameplay of the Mega Drive game, but has a number of key omissions. Most of the music is absent, with the Toxic Caves theme playing across all stages (and bosses). The options screen and bonus levels, meanwhile, have no music at all, and what little music does exist in the game does not loop correctly. Many sound effects are also missing or are used in the wrong place, and the emerald jingle does not stop the main level's music when playing.

Audio as a whole is very inconsistent, with some sound effects playing quieter than others, and many, such as explosions, sounding noticeably distorted.

While the graphics are mostly the same as their Mega Drive counterparts, there are a number of layering issues, with sprites being drawn in the wrong order. Like the other two games in this compilation, Sonic Spinball is not optimised for the Game Boy Advance's smaller screen which makes levels trickier to navigate. This also means that in bonus stages, you are unlikely to see Sonic's friends being rescued, and the whole back screen of the table is obscured from view.

Production credits

Lead Programmer: John Panettiere
Executive Producer for Sega: Scott Hawkins
Producer for Codefire: Daniel Rismann
Project Coordinator: Rick "Maverick" Ribble Jr.
Executive Producer for THQ: Brian Christian
Producer for THQ: Josh Austin
Additional Artwork: Chris Meyer, Patrick Bradford, John Panettiere
Golden Axe for Sega Genesis: Sega Enterprises
Ecco for Sega Genesis: Novotrade International
Sonic Spinball Genesis by: Sega Technical Institute

Sega QA Department

Project Test Lead: Daniel Chang
Testers: Eric Gray, Phoenix Valencia, Patrick Goodspeed, Adam Zehring

THQ QA Department

Lead Tester: George Erwin
Testers: Philip Frantzis, Herman Lee
QA Technician: Mario Waibel
QA Database Administrator: Jason Roberts
QA Manager: Monica Vallejo
Director of Quality Assurance: Jeremy S. Barnes
Special Thanks: Shinobu Toyoda, Michael Williams, Doug Broadhurst, Jack Loh, John Goodale, Heather Hall, Derek C. Smith, Kathy Schoback, Roxanna Hui, Izora Garcia De Lillard, David Rudolph, Judy Jette, Debra Kirkham, Arnold Feener, Mike McCollum, Robert Morgan, Ed Annunziata, Satoshi Okano, Csaba Soltesz, Jerry Markota, Wilco Ibes, Steve Snake, Alex Vaughn, Shinobu Shindo, Makoto Uchida, WOW Entertainment, Ben Briones, Sandy Castagnola, Whitney Pease

Magazine articles

Main article: Sega Smash Pack/Magazine articles.

Screenshots

Game selection menu
Sonic Spinball
Sonic Spinball
Golden Axe
Ecco the Dolphin

Physical scans

Sega Retro Average

Publication

Version

Score

Game Station (UK)

80

^[2]

GameBoy Magazyn (PL)

75

^[3]

NGC Magazine (UK)

PAL

69

^[4]

Nintendo Official Magazine (UK)

PAL

50

^[5]

	69
Based on 4 reviews

Sega Smash Pack

Game Boy Advance, US
Cover
Cart

Game Boy Advance, EU
Cover
Cart

Technical information

ROM dump status

System

Hash

Size

Build Date

Source

Comments

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CRC32	09310fec
MD5	d76d995cef14fce9129d8b7c9f049568
SHA-1	f3f48af79f6ccd3e10123acf87ccaeb4eb1c916d

8MB

Cartridge (EU)

✔

CRC32	5c2e97ba
MD5	763fc686e0e12ddb53e0cf9c0f27854a
SHA-1	612a1a10c769beff1559f4fc81cd71366ee954b3

8MB

Cartridge (US)

External links

Nintendo catalogue pages: US

References

↑ http://www.nintendo.com/games/gamepage/gamepage_main.jsp?gameId=848 (Wayback Machine: 2003-08-14 01:31)
↑ Game Station (UK) (+0:00)
↑ GameBoy Magazyn, "Grudzień 2002" (PL; 2002-1x-xx), page 26
↑ NGC Magazine, "August 2003" (UK; 2003-07-09), page 65
↑ Nintendo Official Magazine, "August 2003" (UK; 2003-07-11), page 80

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[3] GameBoy Magazyn, "Grudzień 2002" (PL; 2002-1x-xx), page 26

[:File:NGCMagazine_UK_083.pdf_p65-4] NGC Magazine, "August 2003" (UK; 2003-07-09), page 65

[:File:NOM_UK_131.pdf_p80-5] Nintendo Official Magazine, "August 2003" (UK; 2003-07-11), page 80

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