Sonic 3 Complete

That's a pretty nice solution. I hadn't thought of that. I might see if I can put that together sometime.

This is definitely on my wanted list.

Number two is deliberate and has been done to all zones. It's not so noticable in the Sonic 3 half because you only got a brief (and rather pointless IMO) burst of the zone music, which Sonic 3 alone never had to begin with. Mushroom Hill is the only one where I still think twice about having removed it because it's quite a long scene, but ultimately I preferred to keep it consistent, as S3K never was - some zones still never had the post-complete music added (LBZ2 for Knuckles, SSZ for Sonic, and LRZ3 had it on a long delay for no obvious reason.)

Numbers one and three I've confirmed are the same in the original game. I kept doing this while I was testing actually - I'd notice something off and think "Oops, did I do that?" only to realise it was there all along and I hadn't noticed it.

This was a perfect example of the above - I always used hyper sparingly in the original, and I did a lot of testing for the speedup music change in MGZ due to nearby invincibility, speed shoes and a lot of rings in MGZ1... well, anyway, suffice it to say I had to go back and check this was in the original because I hadn't seen it before, or I'd forgotten it if I had.

I'm guessing there's some major engine nastiness causing this, with the crushing ceiling magic not being completely cleared before the boss. The simplest solution might be just to slow Sonic down - something like a spinning top to the right of a starpost that you need to have break an additional barrier into the next section perhaps?

I've yet to read even one single thing about object layout editing, so it'd certainly be a while before I get around to such a thing.

It's not exactly this, but a patch for the next version will allow the S&K miniboss theme to be retained for all minibosses and the Sonic 3 miniboss theme to be used for only the Knuckles fight. It wouldn't take too much more to do it this way either, though.

To use all of them, or a larger number than I'm already doing, there would need to be some more slots allocated for music. I don't know how to do it already, but I've no doubt it's possible, and there should be enough spare slots at the end of the list to accommodate everything.

If you only wanted to use one of the Sonic 3 miniboss or Sonic & Knuckles miniboss themes, you could reallocate track $18 to something else - vanilla S3K doesn't use this at all apart from resuming from a drown timer during a boss (which is a daft idea anyway since the way it retrieves the correct music outside of a boss also works perfectly well during a boss). If you based it on my version you'd have to swap out the two places I changed to use $18, which is for the FBZ2 Wing Fortress reprise boss and Eggman's master emerald theft.

<!--quoteo(post=389713:date=:name=)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->IMO I'd stick with the S3 miniboss theme, but use the S&K Knuckles theme for the Knuckles fight. If it wasn't for having to add an extra sound test number, I'd be doing that right now.[/QUOTE]The problem with using the S&K Knuckles theme in combination with either the S3 Knuckles or miniboss themes is that they both want to use DAC samples B2/B3, which are different between the two games. If you don't mind the clap instrument sounding a bit strange in one or the other though, it should be fine. Other than that, I don't know if there might be an unused DAC entry somewhere that could be repointed to the other version of the sample, so that one could then edit one of the tracks to look for the new entry.