Sound Tests

Sound Test is an feature, where the player is able to listen music and sound effects from the video game. Sound Test is featured in numerous Sonic the Hedgehog games, but originally in earlier games for Sega Genesis, it has been as hidden feature, mostly seen as part of the hidden Level Select.

Like Level Select or Debug Mode, it is able to get by doing cheat code, which has to be done on certain part of the game to make it to the screen. However not every game in the series has Sound Test as hidden feature, as the player has been able to listen music and sound effects from certain options menu of the game, that have been available right at the start.

Overview
One of the first games in the series to feature Sound Test at options is Sonic the Hedgehog 2, while later other games such as Genesis versions of Sonic Spinball and Sonic 3D Blast. As before mentioned games have Sound Test being normally featured, they have been also part of the those games' hidden Level Select menu. In Sonic the Hedgehog CD, if the game has been completed by getting good ending of the game, the player unlocks the feature called DA Garden from the title screen of the game, which includes Sound Test and being able to play Little Planet at the sky background along with other minor objects at the screen. The normal, yet hidden Sound Test can be find from the game by using cheat code.

Later games such as Sonic Adventure, Sonic Adventure 2, Sonic Heroes and Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), the Sound Test has become to extra feature, which can normally found at Options menu of the game. In Sonic Advance it is able to use Sound Test, but in Sonic Advance 2 and Sonic Advance 3, the player has to unlock after clearing the game with certain way.