Sonic 3 & Knuckles Glitches (Part One) - Son Of A Glitch - Episode 46
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- In this episode, we head to the third Sonic game in the classic series to see just how glitchy it is. Sonic 3 & Knuckles has a ton of glitches!
Glitches -
1. Move In Angel Island Cutscene Early 0:15
2. Access Knuckles Angel Island Act 2 Section As Sonic 1:03
3. Access Sonic's Angel Island Act 2 Section As Knuckles 1:55
4. Tunnel Eject Sprite Glitch 2:40
5. Meeting Knuckles Angel Island Act 2 3:02
6. Hydrocity Spindash Tunnel Glitch 3:26
7. Hydrocity Background Glitch 3:45
8. Hydrocity Wall Despawn 4:05
9. Hydrocity Knuckles Wall Climb 4:30
10. Hydrocity Level Wrap 5:32
11. Marble Garden Zone Screen Wraps 7:24
12. Marble Garden, Fight Robotnik In Act One 9:38
13. Carnival Night Zone Wheel Glitch 11:28
14. Carnival Night Slope Glitch From Canon 14:26
15. Carnival Night Batbot Glitch 15:04
16. Carnival Night Tails Pushed In Ground 15:19
17. Ice Cap Slope Glitch 15:30
18. Launch Base Wrong Sprites Glitch 17:22
19. Launch Base Infinite Booster Glitch 17:36
20. Launch Base Level Wrap 18:00
21. Launch Base Fight Knuckles Mini Boss As Sonic 18:27
22. Twin Hammer Launch Base Glitches 18:55
23. Launch Base Act 2 Zip 19:57
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11:26
Tails: “You’re really heavy”
Knuckles: “That is because I am 10000% muscle”
wait isnt this a reference to the 2nd movie?
@@trolldecai6874 yep
😂
"Faster, fox!"
Beginning: Ok Eggman where is this hedgehog?
4:47 When I was a child, I accidentally activated this Sonic "golden base form" glitch.
13:48 I remember this too.
I actually did too, but i did it but the cutscene actually worked idk why
Oh I had the "Gold base form" sonic glitch happen several times during the Hydro City boss in Sonic 3.
5:17 I REMEMBER AS A KID HOW I RANDOMLY DID THAT AND THE BOSS THEME FROM SONIC AND KNUCKLES CHANGED (over the years i found out where that song came from) I THOUGHT I WAS CRAZY
You were not
The deranged music playing throughout the whole Carnival Night Zone section really drives home how mindbreaky and arcane this whole thing is. XD
imagine a "wheel glitch" irl. like you can j7st zip into so many areas, or when the sprites glitch &&&𱐕ulw.wbwtu.rwcyiew.8 𱐕5n2𱐕7 8 2t$𱐕9a.h3pnw.-𱐕1py𱐕sm"6𱐕5n𱐕6𱐕jw𱐕d4X7𱐕𱐕𱐕𱐕
I love how you explain why the glitch works, that's the coolest part.
I have no idea what he means, how to do it and it's too complicated for me to ever try, but he speaks with such passion that it's hard not to enjoy every second of it.
+akiflyer That's my favourite part about these videos too. It's like getting a little glimpse into the programming, I love it.
akiflyer, yeah, I really admire how he knows all of this, imagine how long he has to study all of that stuff, I'd go nuts!
MrLorenz l
& Knuckles
Theres a glitch, not mentioned here, that I always made an effort to accomplish as a child.
I call it the Gold Nugget glitch.
I don't know if it works in Sonic3 & Knuckles, but I do know it can be done in Sonic 3.
It's pretty simple. At the end of the last act of Launch Base Zone, before you enter the area where you fight Dr. Robotnik for the first time. Have Tails lift Sonic above and behind where Dr. Robotnik appears.(I always made an effort to touch his seat, though I doubt that actually does anything) When the fight starts, Keep Sonic behind Robotnik and use Tails to defeat him. After the battle the game will continue normally, but whenever you take a hit and lose rings, a small golden nugget (or the back of robotnik's seat from that last battle) will also bounce away. I've always tried to keep the "nugget" on me through the end, and I don't know if it really makes a difference, but when I'd beat the game while still holding the "nugget" It would appear in the final screen.
As a kid, I felt like I found some super awesome treasure! I didn't know it was a glitch till later. =)
Cool! That name is really cool too! Sadly, I can't play Sonic 3 on the Genesis [This glitch might be patched on the 3DS]
But when I can, I will attempt the glitch.
Sounds like the VRAM of the previous boss wasn't properly cleared, leading to rings being overwritten. The "nugget" makes no difference other than comestics.
@@nogodcansaveyou use kega fusion?
Cool
Can you make a video how the glitch works
Im kinda confused
"the level repeats itself. Creating an area called the Loopback, where no sprites exist" = "A copy of the original map. And this is what we call a Parallel Universe (PU) ... Furthermore, PU's have no objects" lol
"but all the level geometry is still in place" ≠ "and not even any walls" hehe
Sonic was doing Parallel Universes long before Mario was.
Mind Blown.
Marble garden 1 has the easiest loopback
SUCK IT UP MARIO
17:50 I was so freaked out the first time this happened, I thought my console was fried.
I always considered a glitch the unreachable rings inside a wall in Angel Island Act2 , top of the map, on top of a little room with items (Rings+Bubble+Rings), next to the big waterfall. If you look up you can see three rings and the top of a breakable rock barrier tucked into the wall.
noooooo not the cum river
Oh, it has glitches...
...and knuckles.
and Knuckles
and Knuckles
and Knuckles
and Knuckles
and Knuckles....
and Chuckles
Id rather felx my musles
AshtheRam AND KNUCKLES AND KNUCKLES AND KNUCKLES AND KNUCKLES AND KNUCKLES AND KNUCKLES AND KNUCKLES AND KNUCKLES AND KNUCKLES AND MEMES
you forgot about 100 "& Knuckles"
Tails swimming is just too cute.
He looks like a kitty cat
He does
True
No
O look at the little kitty cat- OH RUN I’S A FLYING CAT
True tho
11:14 I actually discovered this glitch by accident. I was just going through Marble Garden normally as Super Knuckles, when I accidentally hit a wall and flew through to Sonic's act 2 boss. I also discovered that ALL of Angel Island act 2 is also loaded in act 1. As Sonic, try to use debug mode to go to Knuckles' area. Sonic will die, but use debug mode to go above Sonic's act 1 boss, as the boss cannot load, you can go into the ceiling above the area, then you can glitch through to act 2, which is loaded entirely, cutscenes and everything. Interesting in my opinion.
7:08 I can't believe Mario stole Parallel Universes from Sonic
?
Trueno car AE86 mario 69 I mean 64
@@smashssf2_ssbc15 Mario 64 has a glitch where if you go fast enough you may end up a featureless universe no texture not even for ground though the geometry is still there (sorry for a somewhat bad explanation)
@@TennitAF oh, I see.
Thanks for trying to explain it
Oh look, my favorite zone. N E N zone
EDIT: IT'S BEEN 5 YEARS, STOP REPLYING TO THIS GOD AWFUL JOKE, IT'S NOT EVEN A JOKE
0:38
I love NeN zone!!!
Sonic is about to smash some Chimera Ants with his NeN Zone
nen
Nein!
Ahhh... The memories. Debug mode was one of the glitchiest things to happen to Sonic.
**COUGH COUGH SONIC 06 COOOOUGH**
Bromaticalpie P ONE of the glitchest, my good friend.
Blonic But you're putting Debug Mode on the same level as Sonic 06?
Bromaticalpie P No, but Debug Mode fucks up your game if you use it the wrong way. Ex: Crashing, reseting, spawning glitched bosses, etc.
Blonic not really fair to call a debug mode glitchy. It lets you do anything and override the program, so of course you can cause glitches. It's only meant to be used by the programmers who know what they're doing. (Or they'd even use it to cause glitches so they can try to fix them.)
Once you've stepped inside the machine, it's expected that you know what you're doing...
This man isn't doing a glitch video, but a video that just helps the sonic community speedrun Sonic 3.
Me: I wonder how that glitch works.
*A+Start explains it*
Me: I regret asking...
Hold left for 2 seconds, hold right for 1.5 seconds, hold left for 3 seconds, hold right for 2 seconds, hold left for 2.5 seconds, hold right for 1 second, hold left for 1 second, hold right for 3.5 seconds, hold left for 0.5 seconds, hold right for 2 seconds.
Jump.
Mike McLaughlin OH WAIT WAIT WAIT it was actually 2.6 seconds for that left sorry... You have to do it all over again...
& memes &knuckes
@@dustin202 no
Well I’m less cringey now but I am too lazy to delete it
@@dustin202 Ok.
3:22 "Ah-hah!, I think we need to have words about the bridge trap you just pulled"
*proceeds to almost punch Knuckles*
xD
Lol
knux
Gokuless it's XD
Gokuless Sonic be like: What are you laughing at?
I think he did punch Knuckles. XD Andy just cut it off before he could.
2:18 while it's probably just a glitch, It could be a detail that can't be seen with normal play. Since Knuckles 's adventure takes place after sonic's in Sonic and Knuckles, It could be that is adventure also takes place after Sonic's in Sonic 3 as well. And by the time Knuckles gets there, All the water evaporated because the fire. And I like to think that The airship isn't there cuz it already left. (Even though it's actually just because it doesn't load in the Knuckles section)
1:24 doing this glitch while in act 1 is a bit tricky since it can occasionally bring the death plane upwards but pulling it off successfully allows you to play through all of knuckles act 2. The boss loading trigger doesn't happen but other than that everything works
2:05 THAT JUMP. THAT FREAKING JUMP. I only ever managed to do that exact jump once when I was little and I spent hours and hours trying to do it again but never being able to. Eventually I thought I had just dreamt it up. Thank you for proving it to be real! :D
wo
Cybershell hidden Knuckles animation in Sky Sanctuary much.
I literally needed to use DEBUG MODE for that jump!
At least on the Origins version of the game, if you time your jump and glide just perfectly at the area right before the mini boss for Angel Island act 1, Knuckles will somehow be able to fight Sonic's version of that mini boss without needing either of the former's super forms
I like how all these people are like 'These games are SO broken!' Note how you intentionally do these glitiches actually try. Every game has glitches every single one no game is perfectly programmed. I'm not hating or whatever, I'm just expressing my thoughts
An old comment I know but yeah, I agree. If an average gamer can easily find glitches and not only are they numerous, but also very easily to pull off by accident like in Sonic 06, that's when a game is truly broken. Otherwise, if you have to do insane things that you wouldn't normally do or come across by accident, then it isn't really 'broken'.
What about pong does it have glitches?
Ronald Rojas Yes! Mine broke.
Just like how every show has a animation error
SXDArchive I know right
For that hydro city ending glitch where u skip the boss, I managed to do it without super sonic, so u don’t need super sonic
I did it too in the standalone Sonic 3.
@@gregman642 Yeah, I also got it to work by spindashing into that tunnel and holding right on the D-pad the whole time.
And I had unintentionally softlocked the game 😂
Wow.
Wait i have last glitch
In lanch base zone act 2 the walk go up and down spin dash when you there jump then he jump upside down
17:57 the water turned into milk
True, LOL. 😅
Simply add your chosen cereal, and now you have breakfast zone act 2
0:38 Nen Zone.
BRUH...
Ah yes, N e N zone
yeah
Lol
And nen what?
Wheel Glitch -
Basically Sonic 4 Episode 1 in a nutshell.
+The Sonicraft Studioz It's worse than Sonic 06
***** Sonic Boom
but Sonic 4 is terrible all round, awful level design, horrendous music, and terrible controls
SlidingSilver And they said the physics were inaccurate to the classics...
The Sonicraft Studioz I mean sonic boom rise of lyric is worse then both of those
yoyoyoshio267 and sonic and other things just look .......abnormal
you can get to the capsule in hydrocity act 2 as normal sonic too.Just go to the right wall in knuckles's cutscene and spindash,release it once you hit the floor then quickly grab out of the poles as quick as possible and just take a walk as you pass the boss and head to the capsule.
3:02 I figured out this glitch when I was a kid. I always found it funny that I could stand right now to Knuckles in that section of the stage.
Incredible. Absolutely love how you explained technically what is going on. As a gamedev student it is incredibly interesting seeing how things like camera tracking and memory management were done!
***** thanks dude, I tried to make it as cool as possible :)
@@AStartShow i get recommended the sonic videos of SOAG
Just imagine sonics reaction to the glitches....
Nagron show that meme died years ago
I was doin' that
I bet he’s like: Ah, shit. Here we go again in sonic 06.
*WHY AM I IN A WALL?*
@@thecannedslap because... Speed runners Men... Speed runners :/
4:56 interesting, you can also see sonic's name in golden and glowing, like his form and those little fire-like figured in said color and state too
I got a glitch in Carnival night where tails was on a barrel and went offscreen, then when he came back on screen, he just stood in midair, no animations playing, until the barrel went back to pick him up again. Best part was I encountered this while playing at night in a dark room.
EldTrainboy Music That’s probably the same reason as the Flying Battery glitch in the second video
that is with Tails as second player right??? there are many fun glitches with the barrel and tails...i got some on this video:
czcams.com/video/jw9zYTUTCdE/video.html
17:27 Confirmed that this works in Metropolis Zone in Sonic 2
10:40 I love the flying Cs
+Jesús Fernández also tails is doing something weird, again.
And Knuckles
Jesús Fernández Same XD
@@condoslime776 nope, It's SANIC doin' the weird thing. idk anymore... 😐
The other day I discovered that if you're soloing as Sonic and you jump from Tails early before he sets you down in the beginning of Carnival night he'll land and continuously jump instead of flying away, same thing in Mushroom Hill
10:48 as a kid i did this on the Sonic Mega Collection by accident.i think i just happened to get the inputs right. funny thing is, i had no idea it was a glitch, as that wasnt a concept i knew about (i was really young, and unpopular in elementary, so no one told me these things).
I love this game. Now I'm going to replay it and try these glitches out like I usually do. :D
I love being a shadow. :^)
You watch this too? Cool! We might as well be the same person at this point
Haedox
These glitches are tight TOO.
holy crap haedox actually like something this is big news guys
alot of you probably know (probably from betabytes) that Ice Cap was intended to have sonic running down the mountain but was changed to him snowboarding correct?
well if you have sonic get on the snowboard and essentially start the act then use debug mode and exit out then sonic will be running down the mountain normally, or as normal as he can be (his snowboard sprite will still be in effect but will be labeled behind sonic.)
but in order to keep it that way the entire time you'll need to make sure to jump over all the parts where sonic will quickly swurve left then right again which will return sonic to a sub par normal state.
sorry this was so long...
to sum it up just go into the act give it a few seconds, enter & exit out of debug and make sure to jump over the swurve areas.
cw bunks hey that's pretty good!
Your super old videos are being recommended to me, and I'm rewatching them for the first time since I was in elementary school.
I love how you find glitchs, and this is my favorite sonic game
I'm glad you decided to revisit this game! It was definitely worth the wait, one of the best episodes yet my friend.
You've come a long long way, you deserve all this success :)
MikeyTaylorGaming thanks dude :)
You 2 help me find glitches in games I thought had not that much glitches.
MikeyTaylorGaming & Knuckles
& knuckles
MikeyTaylorGaming I
You must have got A+'s at computer science if you know all of this! Oh wait, your channel name
& Knuckles
This guy ... is A+Start, not A+!
I don't think a computer scientist would say "intiggers".
Krystal Kastle call me immature, but the word ‘nincompoop’ is funny
@@abomasnow4 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
oooh the fact that you're in the team who is remastering these classics is so amazing to me
The wheel glitch when i saw it i was thinking of the CD intro XD
17:50 Sonic turns water into milk, confirmed for Hedgehog Jesus!
milk?
I had this video glitch out in the right moment so in the beginning i only heard SUCKLES.
Sonic x knucle
Pfft suckles 😂
@Vsus Here no
@@canofraidantandroachspray8415 SAY SIKE RIGHT NOW 🔫😠
Suckles
LOL
Knuckles long lost cousin
I like tht u put the button inputs on screen. No one does that and I'm glad someone finally did
Ah yes, NEN Zone…one of my favorite zones in the sonic franchise 😂 anyway, great video! Keep up the good work!
Despite the amount of glitches there is, this is actually my favorite Sonic game!
I don't know if anyone else noticed this, but at 3:26 it looks like sonic was gonna punch knuckles, i know it was just his walking animation, but that's still pretty funny.
LOL
Sonic: How dare you break the bridge!
Knuckles: Hey, its my job.
Lmoa
Lmao
4:36 I did this as normal sonic
This happened in Sonic 3, it was fixed in S3&K
I know it's been over 20 years, but I'm still amazed at all the detailed glitches.
15:28
I encountered a simlilar glitch, but with knuckles, not Tails. I managed to get him stuck in a messed up sprite mayhem and only got to leave when the counter was a second shy of ten minutes. Unfortunately, I don't remember the specific steps, but the general idea. I was either Super or Hyper Knux (still in Carnival Night) so he couldn't take damage from spikes. At one point in the level, there were spikes, a wall to their right, and a barrel moving up and down against the wall. I made Knuckles glide into the lower corner of the wall where it met with the spikes as the barrel was about to crush me. I was in the wall for a second, then I think I pressed LEFT and then Knux was catapulted to the right and into a similar glitchy area, but just with many lined up platforms with no escape. Once again, I don't remember too much, not even the Act number, but I did want to share it anyway.
Another home run, thank you sir, looking forward to the next part already
I managed to turn sonic into a red sonic
Tbh he kinda looks like mighty
All I did was just screwing around and it happened
mighty is in segasonic the hedgehog totally is 3 player game for sonic i guess every 3 player 2 player 1 player i guess
Aaand knuckles :)
To pull that off, you have to have the level select and debug mode. Enter Knuckles' Sky Sanctuary and beat the boss. Now use debug during the cutscene that plays and when it finishes and the plane goes off screen, go out of it and you will have a red sonic. He will start light blue for a second and then he will be red. Place objects to stay up there since there is no floor.
Okay
5:16 I found that glitch when i was messing with the game once
Wow! That was an epic episode by itself. And there's going to be a part 2!? Can't wait :)
David Ward sure is :)
Looking at all the button presses and the trail and error, you must go through to find these, i can just picture you raging at your screen, with a few dozen energy drinks at your desk.
Andy: Break, damn you! *game glitches* F*ck yeah! *Breaks controller, uploads video*
9 days before this videos 5 year of age,
This brings back a lot of memories
I activated so many of these glitches as a kid. A source of great frustration for me
I guess you could say that Super Sonic glitch in the Hydrocity boss fight turns him from Super Sonic into "Pretty Good" Sonic.
"Above Average but still meh" Sonic
I like how It's already 20 minutes and it's only Part 1
LaurieDeBeaver Rothly 21
I just think its so cool that sonic and knuckles section of angel island are not conpletely seperated as different levels but actually in the same location
I've done most of these with Debug Mode but it's neat to hear the science behind it. It actually makes a lot of sense. Even as a kid, I knew the stages were repeated like that but I didn't know the scientific specifics of it.
WAIT WAIT WAIT. YOU MISSED A GLITCH THAT FRUSTRATED THE HELL OUT OF ME AAS A KID.
In carnival night act 2 after knuckles turns off the lights there is a point before the water with the water shield. more often than not bouncing off that shield monitor will send me flying up around the loop above it and into an inescapable wall clip. that means either a reset or a time over and lost life.
Oh my god! I forgot about that glitch. It used to happen to me Every time I played that zone. To this day, I hate it.
Great video I love gliches thank you
My kids were watching this today on the TV (remote YT) and I couldn't help but feel nostalgic not just the games but the video format itself. I thought to myself "man this video reminds me of old school CZcams" checked when it was released and holy moly 8 years ago??
Ah, happiness. Thank you for making me have a good childhood :)
I used to do that bridge glitch to see knuckles as a kid 😆
17:39 Sonic the Hedgehog has turned into Sonic the Peacock (kinda)
Sebastian Perez 17:39
& Chuckles
I really enjoy having Tails follow me in Carnival Night despite having chosen just Sonic. It really changes things up.
Of course, he *could* just get stuck.
Now that Andy is working on Origins, I wonder if they got his opinion on some of those glitches. Imagine if they hid some sort of bonus for doing some of those glitches, like getting to Knuckles after he drops the bridge or beating Robotnik to the capsule in Hydrocity.
A+Start+Knuckles
B+Select
A+Start &Knuckles
Very Nice video!
Misterious X thanks dude :)
love the content and passion please keep it up!
as soon as i saw the upside-down sonic on the plane...
i knew this was gonna be a good one.
You can also glitch the eggman encounter in sonic's act 1 in launch base by staying far enough to load eggman but far enough to not trigger the eggman's escape. Use tails to hit eggman 256 times and then the boss defeat animations starts, and if you hit him AGAIN the sprite will disapear, will give you 100 points and release an animal
great job man this was the best episode so far! proud of ya! but remember every youtuber has a limit dont stress yourself out k?
Samuel Vasa mines over 9000 ;)
ITS OVER 9000!?!?!
+Fluid you mean...
*goku baby face picture moves in*
?
3:17 oh look its the *red laughing animal*
this video reminded me of a couple of my favorite playthroughs of this game, both by the same person i believe, which was blue knuckles and red sonic. they glitched the game in a way to make the game display the sprites of one character, but the color of another. they had to get creative because the game registered blue knuckles as sonic and red sonic as knuckles, so some places were impossible to get through because you lacked the intended character's skill set yk? i think they mightve had debug enabled or something so they could cheat a little at impossible moments, i forget how it worked.
How on the holy mother of god do people find these glitches?
Knowing that the camera works the way it does, people can test
***** well yeah, but back then when people weren't commonly hacking and exploiting games, did they still find these bugs?
I'm gonna say smashing random buttons in random places.
+jekblom123 By doing this: sjehdsuvdsgfyuddhucsjndfhhymndxmjsejsadfjyguxf78xfud lkjadxfucx,hjm zmxdfhxdioc uczfxuicxiuczxvsd That was me slamming my face into the keyboard I think you get the idea
+jekblom123 Speedrunners with a lot of time and a little luck.
17:50
_That's not water_
"Left edge"
Sonic: OW,THE LEFT EDGE,IT HURTS
Glitches are just so fascinating. :)
This reminds me of Sonic 3 & Knuckles Glitches & Oversights. Ahh the memories!!!
anybody else have no thumbnails in their sub box?
Kaptain Kappa Time will heal that wound.
Grim Bonkers Nicely said xD
Kaptain Kappa yea
Kaptain Kappa Yup. CZcams being CZcams again.
Kaptain Kappa Well son of a glitch! See what I did there?
Speedruns of this game must be crazy
Awsome thanks for going over this game in terms of its glitches also I've encountered that super sonic glitch in hydrocity before in sonic 3 on my acutal copy of it on my gensis very interesting glitch I must say when I frist encountered it I didn't realize that super sonic moves much more faster then regular sonic so when I was fighting the boss for said zone as super sonic I went to far to the animal capsule stepped on the button and when the level was done and over with the cutsence to go to marble garden zone didn't happen I was very confused and also concerned thinking i broke the game I then reset the console and everything returned to normal just wasn't awere of that happening to me while playing that game
Yay! long vid! better get my snacks!
19:52 looks like it would be in sonic cd
In Sonic 3 alone, if you exit a bonus stage in the burnt half of AIZ 1, Act 2's music will play
I remember being in The Loop Back when i was doing an all emerald run. Idk how I got in it, but it was really cool for the 7 minutes i stayed there
Man, Sonic 3 and Knuckles had a lot of rapping... Wait a minute!
:o
HERE I COME, ROUGHER THAN THE REST OF EM, THE BEST OF EM, TOUGHER THAN LEATHER. *cough cough cough* auwgh shet mah throat
Cough
What do you mean Cough
Proto L why the wait a minute
Son of a Glitch & Knuckles
In sonic origins' version of 3k, you can reach Sonic's route in angel island act 1 as knuckles because of how the physics are slightly different.
🤔
2015 goddamn time be flyin by still a goated vid remember doing this stuff on ps2
On the early animal capsule glitch in hydro city zone, does it work on sonic 3 (by itself)
Idk
You should have said, "Son of a Glitch... & knuckles"
No, the into is sacred.
I found a glitch that I dub the 'Ring Sonic' Glitch.
First you need to have Debug enabled when you enter Launch Base Act 2. Complete the act as normal until you reach the Big Arms Boss. Ensure that when you are in debug that the ring is selected. Let Eggman grab you while you are in debug with no rings. He can still hurt you in debug in this boss, which is how this glitch works. When you get let go of to let Eggman do other attacks, exit debug mode. You'll notice that Sonic is now a mix of HUD and ring graphics. If you want to continue the fight as 'Ring Sonic', you will want to enter debug mid-death, then exit once more. After that, continue as normal. It works in S3 Complete, so it also works on S3&K. Don't worry, the cutscene and victory don't stop the glitch as those are glitched out, too! Sadly, when you enter Mushroom Hill, Sonic's sprites reload and the glitch is fixed... It was fun while it lasted! I wonder if someone will turn 'Ring Sonic' into an OC like Ashura did in Sonic 2.
That reminds me the Super Sonic bug in alone S3...🤔
im so glad you credited ORKAL....