Since the old Mega Collection Plus help topic seems to have now gone AWOL, I was advised in the EVC that I could make a new one.

So yeah, I was rooting through my old Sonic stuff recently - Fleetway and Archie comics, an old fan comic me and a friend did for a while, and of course the games - and I decided I'd finally sit down and unlock everything on my copy of Sonic Mega Collection Plus [PS2], having never bothered to sit there and do it all before. I knew you unlocked things on this game by having other game saves on your memory card and opening games up a set ammount of times, so I checked a site or two on the net to try and find the exact details.

The first thing I noticed was that you unlock The Ooze and Comix Zone by having a save of Sonic Heroes on your mem card, which I promptly applied, and lo, the games unlocked immediately no problem. I then moved on to the unlocks by entering and leaving games, and here is where the errors began...

It seems that no matter how often I enter and leave the games, the extra features simply refuse to unlock. For example, Blue Sphere apparently unlocks after entering and leaving both Sonic 1 and Sonic 3D 20 times each - I'm pretty certain I've accessed both of these games 20 times already, but nothing has shown up yet. And I deliberately sat and opened up each game twenty times yesterday, but still I see no unlock. 'Flicky' is supposed to unlock after playing Robotnik's Mean Beam Machine 30 times, but I tallied no less than 40 times opening that game up, and still nothing!

Can anyone give me any hints on what I might be doing wrong? The site that I found said that the game counts an open as seeing the SEGA logo on screen, so each time I opened a game I deliberately waited until the SEGA logo had dissapeared before quitting and trying again. Also, incase it makes a difference, I'm using the UK release of the game, not the US or Japan. I wouldn't particularly be bothered, as I haven't been bothered to unlock everything all this time beforehand, were it not for the fact that I have a strange hankering to play Knux in the Chemical Plant Zone for some reason and KinS2 is one of the games I have yet to get.

Also fyi, the S3&K unlock seemed to work perfectly fine way back when I bought the game - I actually did that one accidentally without realising how I did it. I didn't enter and exit the games all in one go then though, I unlocked it over the course of several weeks occasionally going on the games in question then turning the PS2 off. That's why I can't figure why the games won't unlock now, as the S3&K unlock surely proves that you don't have to do the entry and exit malarkey all in one go, you can switch the console off and come back to it later. By that token everything should be unlocked by now, as I've certainly entered all the Megadrive games more than 20 times each over the course of my having the game, I'm sure of that.

Any assistance anyone can give would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

~Wraith

EDIT ADDITION: Okay, now that's really wierd! I just booted up the game again today, and to my surprise the moment I accessed the game screen two messages came up saying two of the other games had just unlocked! It might be that the games only unlock themselves the next time you switch on the console, so perhaps if I try the others then reset I'll get them all. If this is the case then this thread is largely defunct.

I'll give it a try, but I would request the Mods that this not be locked/deleted until I've had the chance to try it out, just in case it doesn't work and I need to ask further questions. I'll update when I have more information.

FURTHER EDIT: Okay, after a bit of testing, the reset option does seem to be working. Finally found out what was causing the problem; Mods, this thread can be locked/deleted as willed.