Hm, I don't remember seeing that on hardware, and I played through it twice...I'll check again.
Edit: Hmm...I just beat the game and it didn't do that. I know for a fact it didn't do it with all the emeralds, as I beat it both ways. I can see you're using Kega. That's extremely weird. If it doesn't do it on hardware, then the problem is in the emulator, and not the ROM, in 99% of cases.
Edit2: Shit! He's right! It's only one frame, and it appears right when Knuckles jumps. Talk about egg on my face... It only happens when you have 5 or less emeralds, however. If you get the good ending then this garbage does not appear, and I checked frame-by-frame.
This post has been edited by LocalH: 12 September 2005 - 11:36 PM