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Wasn't this just posted recently in this same thread, or was it in another one? I swear I've seen it somewhere before on here... but anyway it's weird how similar the two songs sound alike.

 

Glitching up the S boxes in S3K

1. Start new NO SAVE game, enter Sound Test code, pause and press A
2. Go into Sound Test then go into Mushroom Hill and enter Sound Test code again, pause and press A
3. Go into Sound Test again, hold A and pick a level
4. Shit starts getting weird here, hit A to reverse gravity, hit B to go into debug, C to jump
5. You can mess with some stuff in the game using the S boxes

• If you create EXACTLY 17, 18, or 19 boxes all in the same spot then break them all with one Spin Dash, you will go into the first S&K special stage instead of the first S3 one. Getting the emerald displays the message "SONIC GOT ALL CHAOS EMERALDS," "NOW SONIC CAN BE HYPER SONIC" which actually proves to be true, however special rings still take you into special stages, not give you 50 rings
• If you do the same but with between 20, 21, or 22 boxes, the games controls will lock up and it will appear that the game starts running its demo macro set. If you press START the game will go to the SEGA screen, then load up the Sonic & Knuckles title screen, not the S3K one.
• Make 23 or more and the whole screen glitches up an you need to reset the Genesis

Let me know if same happens for you

 

The general effects of messing around with Super monitors in Mushroom Hill are pretty well known, but I've personally never seen documentation of the exact numbers causing it before.

It seems to result from some overflow causing a bunch of garbage to be written over key RAM addresses - particularly making $FFAE non-zero to set the game mode to S&K and putting a load of nonsense into the emerald vars from $FFD0-$FFDA. If you continue a game that's broken in this way, it'll usually crash late in Hidden Palace because it can't cope with the absurd numbers when trying to display Super Emeralds. You should notice that you're getting Sonic & Knuckles title cards too, even if you don't get back to its title screen, because of the mode being reset.

 

Sonic Heroes has all these little neat visual sets. I discovered one while playing Frog Forest a few months back. The final platform for Team Sonic (the one that has the goal ring) is in the shape of an open crocodile maw, foreshadowing your escape from the swamps of Lost Jungle.

 

I think this goes here. I think. Hey I'm new Ran into a new glitch-ish behavior while playing Sonic 3 & Knuckles in Sonic Mega Collection Plus on PC last night. I was in Flying Battery Act 2. Hit a signpost and into the stars. I should've gone to the Slot Machine bonus stage. Well I got the title card...and the music...and...that was all folks! Game didn't freeze. I simply didn't get past the initial title screen. Anyone ever run into this? I found nada doing a quick search of the boards as well as google. Not even sure if its a glitch in SMCP or in Sonic 3 & Knuckles. I ended up having to go back to my last save state after sitting at the bonus stage screen for a full minute.

 

I knew there was an appearance of Classic Sonic in The Simpsons.
However, I didn't knew there was a second one:


Weird thing is, it's modern Amy, but classic Sonic, with Tails' shoes.

 

Somebody obviously didn't do their research and deserves to be fired.

 

Is that supposed to be a flashback to the 80s anyway?

 

No, I'm betting their research was to type in the character names in Google, and save images from page 1 for reference -- doing this gives a mixture of modern/classic Sonic, but predominantly modern Amy.

 

Ah. I could have sworn I'd read that it was an 80s flashback, which would would make so sense.

 

*goes check*

Also, I've mentioned this before, in Heroes the rings spin one way, then stop, then spin the other way. That's fucking weird.

 

I dunno if anybody's mentioned this, but in competition mode (S3 OR S3K, doesn't matter), even though Sonic has no instashield, pressing a jump button in midair causes the instashield sound effect to play.

What's more interesting, IMO, is that the same sound plays if you're using Knuckles.

 

I'm randomly guessing here, but it might be that 2P Knuckles shares 2P Sonic's object.

 

That is exactly what is happening. 2P Sonic and 2P Knuckles share the same code.

 

Confirmed, I did this last time because the ICZ warp somehow didn't want to work for me.

 

Actually, you can do all that without debug, using the screen scroll glitch. If you look at my gamercard in detail, you'll see that on the XBLA version, I've got the "Complete the game" achievement without getting the "Fast Freeze" achievement. Since Knuckles' boss stuff isn't programmed in at this stage, you just go straight through into Act 2.

It stays as "Act 1", because the score tally hasn't come up yet. The Act 2 music plays upon restarting because you are in the second act level. See: Angel Island (S3 alone).

Also, doing this as Sonic in S3K allows you to fight Knuckles' boss (and make the cave background glow). If you die before you get a checkpoint, you start back in Sonic's Act 2 start.