Sonic 3 Oddities, Strange Unexplained Things

Thank you, I know there's going to be people who think I'm just bullshiting them but the point of the thread in the first place was just to see if others experienced it too. Because I'm 100% positive on the Tails thing I was at my friends house it wasn't a dream it was clearly something that happened and a memory because it was the day my friend showed me how to do the damn barrel. I used to play at his house all the time he was a huge Sonic fan just like me and we had plushie's we played with together too. It makes me feel good for you to at least say the Credits thing is familiar and that you might have seen it too. I don't know what the hell it was or how it happened all I know is it happened, I know it wasn't a dream whether its my memory being foggy or not it clearly wasn't a dream lol.

I plan to try and draw / paint these scenarios too to try and help describe what I'm saying, maybe it can help people see what I'm talking about better. I won't forget them though, I believe your story because out of all the Classic Sonic games Sonic 3 and Sonic and Knuckles was the weirdest game. I experienced so many strange oddities, glitches, and strange things in those games alone than any other Sonic game. I think I encountered more weird stuff as a kid while playing than I do now and don't even know how to recreate some of the bugs. My favorite though was a mechanical Angel Island Act 2. I've tried researching both of these things I've seen and have no results at all, nothing so far on the net or Youtube seems to give any hints of the two incidents. I know it makes no difference whether I find the truth or not but it's always bugged me, I want some physical evidence and closure.

I'm starting to think the Credits thing was a pirated cart of some sort even a friend mentioned that to me. I'm bringing it up because it bothers me a lot and I wanted to know if other people seen or experienced these two situations as well. Everyone here has played Sonic 3 and Sonic and Knuckles a thousand times so I was wondering if you guys could give me some answers on this. I know it doesn't add any new information to the table but if others experienced it too it would give me some sense of closure because at times I feel like I'm the only one who saw it and I'm going mad. I've been wanting to ask you guys this for the longest time but was kind of afraid to honestly lol.

I know what I saw and I know the Tails thing was a memory and not a dream since I went to my friend Brandon's house on a daily basis and after playing Sonic 3 that same day we played Mean Bean Machine cause I never played it before and he said it was boring lol. I got a insanely good memory and its a gift and a curse at times. I honestly have no logical explanation for the Credits thing it was just a freak thing....I entered the file's complete clear Zone and saw Credits with sprites instead of the ordinary Credits.

Glad to hear dumping won't do any harm to the game because it's my friends and don't feel like borrowing his game and destroying it in the process. If he still owns it I will definitely take pictures and try recording it as well to show you what I'm talking about. How do you dump something because I've never done any of that before.

 

You know how many times I got game overs as Tails in Ice Cap starting with just 3 lives? My friend had to grab the controller and show me how to do it cause it was hard lol. I know that thing is real I believe it with every fiber of my being I've seen it. The Credits thing yeah that can be proven wrong since its not as vivid and I only saw it once but the Tails thing I'm 100% on.

 

That's kind of how it was except you started on the right side of the screen and it was pure ice and not snow, but those icicles and ball obstacles were indeed there. His game saved though, he had the save files like the normal cart. We didn't use level select or anything we did the 1 player game and it was there in the file select menu. I also viewed the normal Credits on his game. It acted like the final regular game just with that Tails segment in it.

EDIT: Thanks so much for posting that though, even though its different from what I experienced its differently on the right track and at least makes me feel like I'm sane and not just imagining things lol. I feel like we're getting 1 step closer and it feels great, I really feel now that the cart with the Credits was probably pirated as well.

 

No not even close they looked nothing like those. It was very Sonic 3 looking from what I can remember but the sprites were custom because I do not recall seeing them in normal gameplay. I didn't see Sonic the Screen Saver till many years later so it wasn't jumbled memories I know what I saw. If anything the sprites were similar to the Special Stage sprites for Sonic 3 but different.

I'm a girl not a guy lol and yeah it is very similar to those pictures of the other pirated cart so perhaps my friend somehow bought a pirated version of Sonic 3 on accident and didn't know it. The portion of the level felt very natural and I always thought it was meant to be there, I first saw Ice Cap at my friends house on that day so when I got to Ice Cap myself on my own games and didn't see it I felt like I missed something. Those pictures that were posted of the pirate actually made me really happy because it at least proves I'm not totally losing my mind and what I saw was real however it was different. Those are the "exact" icicles pointing upwards that I was talking about but they were nicely placed all over the slope so you actually had to jump off the icey slope in some parts in order to not die because there is no rings.

Tails is also in his falling / sliding animation the whole time and starts by falling from the sky. Since there were scenes like that in other levels of Sonic 3 like Hydrocity it didn't seem out of place. I do believe both were pirated games that had some effort put into them with added content rather than a earlier build now more than before. I don't think I'll ever find that strange cart again that had the Credits since it was a Block Buster rented game which has long since been out of business in my town but I'll ask my friend if he still owns his Sonic 3 that had the Tails segment in it and if he still owns it and lets me borrow it I'll gladly send it to you guys to dump it for me. Honestly I'm just happy to see and hear other people have experienced similar things and those two screen shots of Tails has really made me more happy then you can imagine.

Finally a visual even though it is slightly different exists from what I can remember. It really sucks when you remember something that simply doesn't exist anywhere to other people or on the internet. Again thanks for sharing those screen shots it means a lot to me, that's what I was hoping for when making this thread, some answers as to what the heck I saw and where it came from. I wasn't sure if it was a Pre Release and earlier build or a pirate and now I'm really starting to believe it was a pirated version. It's not uncommon back then there was a crap ton of pirated games hell Sonic 2 was a victim of it a lot as well.