Sonic 3 Oddities, Strange Unexplained Things

I didn't read this thread in its entirety (tl;dr) but I wanted to make sure of one thing

That's odd. The one on the left definitely is a pirate, but the one on the right looks like the real Asian Sonic 3... except the cart uses a US cart shell, not a Japanese cart shell (which all official Asian releases use). I thought most pirates cropped out the MD logo from the inside of the bigger Mega Drive logo?

...on second look, do both cases have the small MD logo inside the Mega Drive logo at the top?

But yeah like Black Squirrel said dump dump dump =P

 

Woah woah woah... Wait a second, so I'm not the only one to have played that version of Sonic 3 or what ever at Epcot. I remember the cart in the Genesis Kiosk they had was just the PCB with no casing either. They also had tons of other pre-release games taht were being made at the time including a number of Disney games.

 

Question to SonicGenesis89: Do you remember anything about the Bonus Stage in this copy?

 

tbh, I think there are earlier prototypes than the ones on here. I've seen an odd sprite for Knuckles on an edge too. It happened while I was locked on to Sonic 2 and I remember it getting garbled right after. He was hunched over like he was doing a mid air crap lol. But, yet again, no proof.
I'm going to look into this more.

 

As a sort-of related note, I used to think there were two editions of Sonic and Knuckles: One with lock-on and one without. I'm sure that I saw a pirate version of it, which caused me to think this.

 

Mine didn't have lock-on and I'm pretty sure it was pirated, we didn't know about S3K until SMC came out, even in the newespaper they said

showing a pic of Knuckles in AIZ.


Anyway while I never seen this game before I thought I'd bring this up here:

When I was young around late 90s, I used to watch a certain British TV show called "Cybernet" about video games to see what's new, I remember around that time there were two games I seen but never heard anything about them ever since, one is Sonic and the other is Yoshi.

The one with Yoshi was fully 3D, if I remember correctly it was on N64, I remember a scene where Yoshi jumps on an item box and breaks it to collect stuff that popped out, now I can't find any news about that game.

The other game is Sonic, sadly I don't know what system it was supposed to be released on since I didn't know English but I remember it was fully 3D and the camera would go around Sonic like in Sonic Adventure while the horizon is foggy like Sonic R.

I Also remember a scene with a boss fight from Sonic 3D Blast, Rusty Ruin Zone Boss only it was from the side not the angle and it was fully 3D, I remember thinking "what's so hard about this boss? you wait for it to descend its hand and jump on it, wait for it to raise its hand and jump on its face" boy how wrong I was, I didn't get to play Sonic 3D Blast on Mega Drive until few years later.

Does anyone know anything about these two games? I'm losing my mind and for many years I been trying to convince myself I was dreaming, but I know what I saw plus an old friend once mentioned that game and I was like "you saw it too?" and he said "yes but I don't know what console it was on"

 

Like this one?

 

How many pirates do you have? o_O No official version of Sonic & Knuckles ever came without lock-on — those without are just pirate copies.

 

I'm 99% sure that it was all a dream.

 

The Sonic game could have been Sonic Xtreme.

 

My Sonic and Knuckles was also pirate as most of the MD games here in Estonia. Back then I did not know they were pirate. I remember the box had same art as the cart:



And my box was similar to this:

thanks to Nineko for uploading them for different place.

But mine did not have the title screen pics on the left. I kept wondering how to get into this desert level and thought I had to do some weird tricks to get there (Like going down some kind of pit what is actually a secret place) I was dumb lol. I also thought I have to get into some weird place to activate the Sonic 2 Hidden song, I also tried out every pit to see maybe one of them leads to a secret place.

Ahh so much memories come with the cart. I remember I always pulled out Sonic 2 and then inserted Sonic 3 in it to get glitched Super Tails and other odd crap. That ofcourse ruined my Sonic 3 game.

 

Loving those Link humping Knuckles pics above.

Or Sonic Mama Cooking with Tails, with such a vague description. =P

 

Don't hotlink from Sonic-Cult. People who don't have those pictures cached are seeing Link raping Knuckles.
Here, I transloaded them for you.

 

Sorry about that. I put them as links.

 

The Yoshi game could have been Super Smash Bros.
I hadn't seen that pirate box before, pretty weird use of the dust hill screenshot. Too bad about that 'Sonic 4 Mystery', huh?
Also lol at the Sonic cult hotlink images, I'd forgotten about those. Flacko, they still link to ohshit.jpeg

 

the sonic one could be sonic jam's sonic world. Or maybe the recently confirmed sonic adventure for sega saturn.

 

1:10 onwards.

 

Off topic a bit yeah,,, Anyone ever see a mine cart in Mystic cave for sonic 2 multi player?