Kogitsune 524 - A Hack that Changed a Young Man's Life Forever

The following anecdote is a fanfiction, it has no direct relation to any real person.
My name is Fumiaki Hino, I'm 17 years old. I'm a 2nd-year student at Ritsumeikan Uji Senior High School.
Sonic ROM hacks are something that has really grown to be my #1 favorite thing in the Internet. Everytime I went online, I usually went nowhere other than Sonic Retro, mostly in search of a new Sonic ROM hack to enjoy on my Sega Mega Drive emulator.
Normally I'd go on threads to see progress of WIP hacks I usually stumbled upon, seeing if they add anything onto them. But one day, while surfing through a thread, I came across what might just be the most astonishing ROM Hack I've ever played in my life: A Sonic 2 ROM hack entitled Kogitsune 524.
I didn't pay attention to the description and straight away downloaded it, knowing it was to be a hack to die for. I started up the emulator, put up the ROM and then it began.
By the time the SEGA logo popped up, I heard a voice saying "A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular", that voice came from the ROM itself. I next saw READYMADE DEVTEAM PRESENTS where it would instead say SONIC TEAM PRESENTS, then the title screen appeared.
A cute title screen that started with a cute-faced sun, after a few seconds, the video pans down to a lake next to a trail, where I saw a fox running in the same fashion as Sonic through the background as the logo and a text reading "スタートボタンを押してくださいよ〜" appeared on the screen. Throughout the game, I was hearing wonderful Mega Drive remixes of Pizzicato Five songs. The closest one I was able to find to the title tune was this.
I pressed start and the screen dimmed to let me hear a sweet remix of I (all about me). The options were the usual Sonic 2 choices: Story Mode (1 Player), Battle Mode (2 Player VS), and Options.
I chose Story Mode, which took me to a cutscene with a Mega Drive version of 1 Janvier. The main character, 524, has a bunny girlfriend named Maki-chan, after a while, Maki is kidnapped by Kodanuki K-Tanu, but 524 doesn't give her up, as he goes on all the way to rescue her as the adventure begins.
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