User Files for Sonic 3 & Knuckles

A play through of Sonic 3 and Knuckles as Sonic and Tails collecting all 14 emeralds along the way.

A play through of Sonic 3 and Knuckles as Tails collecting all 14 emeralds along the way.

Not perfect, not entirely sure how to fix the remaining bugs.

Managed to get the tunnel jump working out of AI2, saving 20f, with everything else in sync

Time was saved in Sandopolis 1, with a level wrap that can be done without using left or right! Some frames were also saved in Lava Reef Act 2.

S3K No Left Right press Sando 1 wrap.

Savestate for [1617] Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles "newgame+" by marzojr in 31:16.15

Savestate for [1617] Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles "newgame+" by marzojr in 31:16.15

I'm hoping there's still time after this has been accepted, but I improved some levels like Carnival Night act 2, Launch Base act 1, and Mushroom Hill act 2.

21:01.1167

Here is my TAS on the white sonic hack in S3K. It was really fun to make, and I hope you enjoy!

No explanation for what happens in this video because its really easy to see whats going on. The only explaining I can really do is saying in this TAS sometimes i was able to noclip through the ground. I think thats all I have to say. See ya!

made by me

strat for hydrocity 1 found by joeybaby69

strat for hydrocity 2 found by Kaan55 and me

DEZ1 - 0:54::30 -> 0:54::29 DEZ2 - 1:39::50 -> 1:36::23 DDZ - 1:36::02 -> 1:34::40

Authors: Takz15x (txr.269), ShiningProdigy, Kaan55 Movie length: 49:51.67

This is a forty-one-frame improvement over my previous attempt!

You can view the video here:

This was a TAS Test I made with the Dolphin Emulator on Linux.

IDK

Saves 14 frames over current published TAS ( http://tasvideos.org/3521M.html ) on S3 special stage 5.

Fast forward to frame 28200.

sorta restarted the project again to make more efficient use of the resources and TASes available to me. all but four of the Sonic/Sonic+Tails any% TASes have some input either pasted in or referenced here (the four that don't are 156M, 1400M, 1595M, and 2741M)

no encode this time, sorry.

An update to last week's TAS: Now it's synced up to the start of Flying Battery 1.

I'm still dedicated to putting this on BizHawk so I'm mainly resyncing the old TAS right now before putting in improvements, though some have been put in.

Reset the development of this TAS to work off a really old TAS by SprintGod that had only 1 zip in Hydrocity 1.

I'm still dedicated to putting this on BizHawk so I'm mainly resyncing the old TAS right now before putting in improvements.

Also, encode is shitty because I forgot to pass it thru VDub first. Only two levels so far I can say I have had to do basically without a pure copy paste of inputs from 331M: Marble Garden 2 and Carnival Night 2, both of which are slower than 331M.

Saves 122 frames over current published TAS ( http://tasvideos.org/3521M.html ) on S3&K special stage 5. Route is 123 frames faster but loses 1 frame on ring bonus.

Fast forward to frame 100000.

A Showcase of Sonic 3 & Knuckles using Debug Mode

Rather curious looking crash which seems to be caused by interrupt handlers being overwritten with more or less random garbage.

First 7200 frames are from currently published TAS. The crash happens on frame 8848.

Credit to marzojr and aglar for their inputs (in Angel Island and Special Stage).

This input leads to a volatile state but does not successfully cause a crash (or lead into "wrong character" glitches).

This is a work in progress of my recent new project, Knuckles glitchless.

This tool-assisted superplay movie plays the levels as it is supposed to be played, showing a more natural gameplay that prohibits major technical glitches that break the game.

Hydrocity 2 needs to be redone because I forgot a shortcut in the first big ramps, the rest is fine.

This is the newgame+ Ring-attack up to Sandopolis ACT 2

Sandopolis ACT 2 starts at frame 243479

Savestate for Gens-rr 11b: Here

Inspired off of Aglar's Sonic 1 "no zips" run (https://www.youtu.be/DK3MCkc7TqA) and IntelOrca's glitchless S3K TASes (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL57EDB0404BAFDFE7), I decided to make a TAS of this masterpiece with no zips or level wraps.

Video:

There are some improvements, but I will iron those out after the whole thing is done.

Current Progress: Sonic 3 levels complete Time taken to TAS: ~9.75hr

Sonic + Tails newgame+ Rings-attack up to Mushroom Hill 2

MHZ2 start: frame 193470 In-game time: 2:48:35 Rings: 718

This is a testrun of Sandopolis 2 Sonic and Tails ring attack.

The movie requires a savestate for gens 11b

This is my first time using the userfiles so I hope this was uploaded the way I wanted it to. EDIT: It didn't. I added a link to the savestate above. I also added a link to the youtube encode below for convenience sake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxhHWC_45HU

Here is the lastest WIP of the "newgame+ ring-attack" (Idk what to really call it) up to LBZ2, Sonic 3 levels are done, I will start with S&K levels now.

This is a LBZ1 Wip showing first 2:12 minutes in-game time

Savestate for Gens 11b is required: Click here

This is a improved version of my previous Knuckles 100%. Tha main improvements is thanks to joojamoi for improved the 14 special stages thanks to a new glitch to save time.

The bad side is the movie desync in some zones and I helped him in this part and luckily I improved some zones.

These are

Sky Sactuary I lost 1 frame because Mecha Sonic has a very unfriendly attack patterns and with the new times the patters changes drastically, so when SSZ start I do micro pauses to manipulate his attack patterns. It's a shame to have lost 1 frame here, but hey, if I had not done the pauses I would have lost 10+ seconds.

Hex edited version of the submission that does not have the savestate dependency; instead, it requires valid SRAM. You can either use this one or generate your own as described here.

I'm still not sure/don't remember if or what the consensus was about the validity of a ring attack-speedrun for a goal in a TAS for this game. I know the Sonic 2 "perfect bonus" run was rejected, even though it was well received, and I understand why, but S3&K doesn't even have a tangible in-game reward for collecting all the rings. I think it's questionable whether you guys would allow it, but if it was done right, and well, I don't see why not. And I believe it's a nice solution to the aspect of S3K runs zipping through much of the core content of the game, which some people don't always like, while still being less arbitrary and difficult to define than something like a glitchless run.

These are the guidelines for it that I'd propose:

-First and foremost, aims to obtain the maximum number of rings (normal + monitor) possible as Knuckles (or whatever character is selected)

-Secondly, aims to do so in the least amount of time required

-Thus, the only way the movie could be obsoleted is if somebody did another recording with either more rings regardless of time, or equal rings in less time

-Since it's a full, single segment playthrough and the only thing that ultimately matters is total rings collected by the end of the game, progress should be measured in terms of rings per zone; rings per act is an irrelevant figure, and it's also ambiguous because there are some levels (AIZ, ICZ) where certain rings overlap and can be collected in either act

-Ignores special and bonus stages, except for rare instances when it's necessary to enter and immediately exit one in order to reset a boundry, and excludes from the eligible ring count for the run any rings that can be obtained through them (RA's including giant rings and/or transformations should be a separate category for everyone, due to drastic ramifications on the overall nature of the gameplay; except maybe Sonic, since he can still use shield jumps without transforming)

-Uses glitches to get more rings, faster

-Uses in-game timing, if possible

This script adds a more accurate in-game timer overlay to Sonic the Hedgehog series games. It displays the subsecond time on the main clock as well as an additional display of the time it actually took to go from the timer starting to the post-stage score screen.

This includes a breakdown of frames added from lag, pausing the game, and most importantly, post-stage actions that delayed the score screen.

Works with the entire main Sonic series.