


(And if that didn't scupper the idea of keeping the original save file elsewhere, the fact that there's no copy option in either game might.) The Sonic 3 & Knuckles are kept completely and totally separate from the regular Sonic 3 ones, with only one exception: if you don't have any S3&K saves, the Sonic 3 ones will be imported and saved as S3&K games. Backup your save file to another slot first, of course. I'm not sure if this will work, but you might try putting Sonic 3 in by itself and replaying old levels to collect all of the Sonic 3 emeralds, then put it back in the S&K cart to see if it works. If you purposefully ignore those first automatic flashing rings and go ahead to collect any remaining Chaos Emeralds, you can still be Super Sonic once you have them all - until you go into another giant ring, as they will then all take you to Hidden Palace. The other giant rings in the second half of the game will still lead to normal Chaos Emerald stages if you don't have all the CEs. Any Big Ring in the S&K levels (Mushroom Hill, Flying Battery, Sandopolis, Lava Reef) will transport you to Hidden Palace, where you're emeralds are taken from you and you lose the right to become "Super".FWIW, that's only strictly true of the very first, obvious giant ring on each route. I can't believe the game takes away Super Sonic abilities if u go into the wrong giant ring. I spent days collecting the emeralds and no Super Sonic.Įverything was so simple in Sonic 2: get the emeralds, get 50 rings and jump in the air. So when I finally got them all, I couldn't become Super Sonic even once. Ironically that happened before I even got all 7 emeralds. While I was still collecting the 7 chaos emeralds, I did go into that giant ring in Mushroom Hill, and instead of a special stage, it was that room where the emeralds floated out of Sonic and became big grey super emeralds. Yup, I'm using real hardware, and yes, that must be what happened. Or you're trying to transform with a shield on and you need to lose the shield first.Īlso, are you playing the original games on real hardware or a hacked version on an emulator? I know there's a hack out there that combines S3 and S&K where the transformation doesn't work as expected.

You'll know if this happened if at any point you jumped into a giant ring and instead of the special stage you got teleported to the ring room and all of your chaos emeralds came out of sonic and transformed into the grayed out super emeralds. Then you have to beat all super emerald bonus levels, which may sound sucking at this point, but the good thing is you will be HYPER Sonic then. Maybe you have come to the Hidden Palace zone, where all chaos emeralds are transformed into "shells" for the super emeralds.
