Sonic 3 Game Cart

It can't save to a chip most of the times, since you have RAM (which is deleted when the power goes out) or ROM (which is Read Only memory). Unless there's a chip I never heard of.

If a Genesis game is like any other cart, it uses a battery similar to a watch battery. Just open up the cart and see what is inside.

 

It's saved in SRAM...and probably there *is* a battery in there. What type, I'm not positive of, since I never open my cartridges, and I don't have a Sonic 3 cart. If you know what you're doing, take it apart and see. If there's a battery in there, see what type it is, and get it replaced. (If it's soldered, then you need to desolder it, and put the new one in, and resolder that...) - then you put it back together, and hopefully you didn't break anything, and you test, and see if the game saves again.

(Like I said, I'm not positve about the battery in there. I think there is a battery - since I remember playing Pebble Beach Golf Links, and there was an error about a battery backup. So there might be a battery in your cart.)

 

You will need one Sonic 3 cart A, a hammer B and a hard floor C. Place A on C and apply B to A with force.

 

sonic 3 is a good game....

 

Sonic 3 is a pile of unfinished crap. Sonic 3K is a good game.

 

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That RAMTRON chip is the NVRAM chip that holds your save games. As you can see, there's no battery to run out. Though I'm not sure exactly how NVRAM works, I think it's similar to Flash RAM so will never require battery power.

It's possible to get your save games deleted if you run Sonic 3 (or other SRAM games) through an Action Replay or Game Genie cart, or if you insert or remove cartridges without turning the power off first. Happened to me many times!

Oh, how did I open the cart? Not with a hammer - with a pair of pointy pliers and LOTS of patience to undo the screws. Believe me, it was ****** difficult!

 

well the Knuckles theme and mini boss theme in sonic 3 >>>>>>> Sonic and knuckles so much.

 

So are some bits of Sky Sanctary Zone Doomsday , Hidden Palace, and Lava Reef.

 

there different in the sonic 3 cart? :o

 

Only bits, like some tiles. Only Sky Sanctuary loads, but of course, its just a mess of tiles and glitches.

 

um, I thought you where talking about the music.

 

Flying Battary Zone actually has the Mini-Boss (Animal Container One) and Boss. If only the tiles could be restored.

 

Im telling you why the music is there.

 

yeah I read that somewhere, if the tiles can be restored FBZ can be fully playable or something.

 

FBZ is in a semi-complete state in the normal Sonic 3, not unlike Hidden Palace in Sonic 2 final. The enemy sprites, behaviors and graphics are intact - as are the two bosses. In fact it's possible to hack a Sonic 3 savestate so that it doesn't crash when loading FBZ (forgotten how though!), and you can actually fight the two bosses! Shame that none of the level layout is in there, nor anything to stand on when fighting the bosses

Ooh, if emulation had been around when S&K hadn't been released yet, I bet we'd have uncovered these remnants of FBZ, formed all sorts of theories, then found the full version in S&K...

 

"Restored" FBZ Act 1
"Restored" FBZ Act 1 Boss