[W.A.C.]

The fact the electric shield was resist to electricity in Sonic Generations made me want to try something in Sonic 3 & Knuckles.



Turns out the shield is resist to Robotnik's electricity from the Carnival Night Act 2 boss fight. It amazes me how I've replayed this game probably than any other game I have played yet I still discover new things. Sonic 3 & Knuckles is truly an amazing game. If you're wondering why the counter is at 9:59, I'm playing Ravenfreak's rom hack that disables the time limit. [LINK]

This post has been edited by W.A.C.: 01 April 2012 - 08:47 AM

[ICEknight]

W.A.C., on 01 April 2012 - 08:44 AM, said:

Turns out the shield is resist to Robotnik's electricity from the Carnival Night Act 2 boss fight. It amazes me how I've replayed this game probably than any other game I have played yet I still discover new things.

...Also, the fire shield protects you against fire and lava.

[W.A.C.]

Yes, but there isn't a whole lot of electricity in this game so it's less obvious. >_>

Edit-

You know, I'm starting to wonder why it has taken me so long to figure this out.

This post has been edited by W.A.C.: 01 April 2012 - 11:00 AM

[Herm the Germ]

It also works on the charged coil thingies on the Death Egg stages.

[Hendricks 266]

^This. I always get the electric shield in DEZ. It makes it quite a bit easier.

It's new to me that it works on the CNZ2 boss.

[Neo]

Pretty sure it also works for the things that the enemies which zap from floor to ceiling toss at you, but doesn't work for the dildo boss? That's about the extent of electrical hazards in Sonic 3, anyway.

[muteKi]

Neo, on 01 April 2012 - 02:51 PM, said:

Pretty sure it also works for the things that the enemies which zap from floor to ceiling toss at you, but doesn't work for the dildo boss? That's about the extent of electrical hazards in Sonic 3, anyway.

It does work when it's in its retracted position. It doesn't when it's extended (presumably the part that sonic touches is, more than just electrified, also spiky or something; I always figured those grey bits were supposed to be almost like blades at that point).

[Mercury]

It feels like forever since I've added anything to the wiki, and I'm not sure how to add new magazine articles in a new category.

This one is "Birth of a Hedgehog", from Nintendo Power, Jan 2007. It's in honour of the crappy Sonic Genesis for GBA, but it does have some cool info from Rieko Kodama about making the zone art on Page 3.

Page 1 | 2 | 3

(I believe there is supposed to be a 4th page, but I can't find it.)

This post has been edited by Mercury: 05 April 2012 - 07:07 PM

[Hez]

Mercury, on 01 April 2012 - 07:27 PM, said:

It feels like forever since I've added anything to the wiki, and I'm not sure how to add new magazine articles in a new category.

This one is "Birth of a Hedgehog", from Nintendo Power, Jan 2007. It's in honour of the crappy Sonic Genesis for GBA, but it does have some cool info from Rieko Kodama about making the zone art on Page 3.

Page 1 | 2 | 3

(I believe there is supposed to be a 4th page, but I can't find it.)

It's interesting to see they mentioned making Sonic an armadillo. Which seemed to fruit into the character we all know and forget named Mighty :P

[Jaseman]

hey guys Sonic 1 is now available on OnLive. I can't see this being too useful for most of us, unless you play on a bunch of devices and want cloud saves.

Sonic Adventure and Sonic Spinball were put up there too, a while back. All three of these are included in the $10/mo playpack I'm part of.

[Endri]

W.A.C., on 01 April 2012 - 08:44 AM, said:

Turns out the shield is resist to Robotnik's electricity from the Carnival Night Act 2 boss fight. It amazes me how I've replayed this game probably than any other game I have played yet I still discover new things. Sonic 3 & Knuckles is truly an amazing game.

Well, it is written on the manual! I'm puzzled as to why you didn't know that before! IIRC, touching the ball still does hurt you, though.

Mercury, on 01 April 2012 - 07:27 PM, said:

It feels like forever since I've added anything to the wiki, and I'm not sure how to add new magazine articles in a new category.

This one is "Birth of a Hedgehog", from Nintendo Power, Jan 2007. It's in honour of the crappy Sonic Genesis for GBA, but it does have some cool info from Rieko Kodama about making the zone art on Page 3.

Page 1 | 2 | 3

(I believe there is supposed to be a 4th page, but I can't find it.)

404. "THIS IMAGE OR VIDEO HAS BEEN MOVED OR DELETED."

[Mercury]

Endri, on 05 April 2012 - 02:34 PM, said:

404. "THIS IMAGE OR VIDEO HAS BEEN MOVED OR DELETED."

Fudgin' TinyPic. I edited the original post.

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[W.A.C.]

Endri, on 05 April 2012 - 02:34 PM, said:

Well, it is written on the manual! I'm puzzled as to why you didn't know that before! IIRC, touching the ball still does hurt you, though.

Maybe I've never read the manual. At this point, I think I probably just forgot that shield protects me from electricity.

[muteKi]

The weird thing is that the manual implies that ONLY the electric shield has the projectile-blocking property

[Sik]

Endri, on 05 April 2012 - 02:34 PM, said:

IIRC, touching the ball still does hurt you, though.

Which is probably why some people don't know about this, you're very likely to get hurt by the ball before getting to try it.