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I must admit that I got a little nostalgic when I loaded the Sonic and Knuckles Collection onto my hard drive. After all, I had not played these games since I moved away from home, leaving my brother and his Sega Genesis behind.

Video games have made amazing progress since the late 1980s and early 1990s when 16-bit systems ruled the market. Still, many great games came out during that period, and I fully understand why Sega decided to export these games to the Windows PC.

While these games are replicas of their Genesis counterparts, they obtain a few flaws when they jump to PC. So, while I was happy to be playing these games without driving to my brother's house, I was saddened to see that they were not the perfect games I remembered.

Graphically, the Sonic and Knuckles Collection is an exact match to the old 16-bit Genesis games it compiles -- sometimes. It is really only in windowed mode that the graphics are as sharp as they were on a television screen. Unfortunately, the default window is very small, which makes it hard to play.

If you bump the game up to full screen mode, the graphics suffer. They are grainy and simply do not look like the old games. So, you are left with a choice: play in a small window with good graphics or play full screen with grainy graphics. Either way, it is a disappointment.

The Sonic and Knuckles Collection's sound is a perfect export from the Genesis games. From Sonic's spin to Tails' helicopter tail, the sound is executed flawlessly.

I was amazed to see how enjoyable the Sonic and Knuckles Collection was. I thought I might be above playing old Genesis games, but the Sonic games always had an enjoyable simplicity that made them fun. Still, the challenge was gone, as I had played these games to death back when they were new.

Controls are amazingly simple. All you need is a game pad or joystick and one button. The button does everything. Even if you are forced to go with the keyboard controls, you can play and have fun.

Overall, the Sonic and Knuckles Collection is good for a bit of nostalgia, but it is not going to replace newer games on your Windows system.

Graphics: The graphics are sharp in a small window but grainy in full screen mode. Either choice is disappointing.

Sound: The sound is a perfect port from the original games.

Enjoyment: The game is simple and fun to play. Still, it offers little challenge, even in the bonus rounds.

Replay Value: Replay value is limited, although the game saving feature boosts it somewhat.

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Sonic & Knuckles Collection is a PC compilation of Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Sonic & Knuckles, and Sonic 3 & Knuckles with MIDI music and new compositions for some Sonic 3 levels.

Level Select

Go to Angel Island 1, grab onto a swinging vine, and press Left, Left, Left, Right, Right, Right, Up, Up, Up. A ring sound will play if you did it right. Press Alt + R to reset the game and from the title screen press Up to reveal 'SOUND TEST' and press Enter. Press Numpad 3 to change your character.

The method of unlocking the level select in Sonic 3 & Knuckles apparently works in Sonic 3 alone (a good thing, too, considering it's a lot easier to unlock this way) though debug mode won't be unlocked along with it and you can select any Sonic 3 zone as usual (but not Flying Battery, Mushroom Valley, Sandopolis, or Bonus).

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In Sonic & Knuckles, this method must be done on the pulley lifts in Mushroom Hill Zone.

Debug Functions via S3K.ini

Though you can enter the debug menu code in-game, you cannot use any object placement functions as controls are limited to four directions and a single key for jumping. However, you can properly enable it by creating a file named 'S3K.ini' in your C:WINDOWS directory (where C: is the main partition used for Windows) and typing the following into the file:

Here's what each of these functions do. Note also that generally '1' means the option is enabled, while '0' means that it is disabled:

• DebugMode - '1' will fully enable debug mode. When you load up any of the games, you'll start at the level select screen instead of the Sega logo. From there, just select any level and it'll be turned on automatically. As with the console versions you get unlimited time, a coordinates display, a sprite counter, and invincibility. When debug functions are enabled, the numeric keypad is mapped to the three buttons on a Mega Drive/Genesis controller, so make sure you have NumLock turned on.
  • Press Numpad 1 to reverse gravity.
  • Press Numpad 2 to toggle object placement mode.
  • In object placement mode, press Numpad 1 to move forward one object.
  • In object placement mode, hold Numpad 1 and press Numpad 3 to move backward one object.
  • In object placement mode, press Numpad 3 to place the selected object.
• EnableFrameDrop - Sonic & Knuckles Collection is unplayable in windowed mode on computers with a CPU faster than 350 MHz because it lacks a speed-limiting feature in this mode. However, the timings used by full screen mode are based on the monitor's refresh rate, so the game can be played at the correct speed at a 60 Hz refresh rate on any modern system. Set this to '1' and you can play in windowed mode at a perfectly playable speed.
• MukaiDropFrame - Basically functions in the reverse fashion of EnableFrameDrop. Leave this one turned off.
• ShowFrameCount - Displays the FPS in-game when enabled. This will obstruct the game screen, but if debug mode is turned on then the game screen will be shifted down the window to allow the FPS counter to display without covering anything up.
• EnableFrameCapture - '1' allows you to take a screenshot of the game screen at any time by pressing F9. Screenshots are saved as 'Cap(5-digit_number).bmp' in the game's directory.
• UseModeX - Toggles Mode X on or off.
• NoSoundEffect - Toggles whether or not sound effects will be disabled.
• CDCheckEnable - Toggles whether or not the game will check for the S&K Collection CD-ROM. '0' will allow you to play without having to insert the CD!
• SonicGameMode - Specifies which game will be loaded if 'SONIC3K.exe' is directly launched in Windows. '0' loads Sonic 3 & Knuckles, '1' loads Sonic & Knuckles, and '2' loads Sonic 3.
• BGMMode - Specifies which music setting will be used. '0' disables music, '1' uses FM synthesizer music, and '2' uses general MIDI music.
• GameMode - Specifies which mode the game will start up in. '0' is the full version, '1' is demo mode, and '2' is trial mode.
  • In demo mode, all controls are disabled so only the title screen and rolling demos can be viewed. Used for demonstration purposes.
  • In trial mode, only the single-player mode of Sonic 3 & Knuckles can be played, and only Angel Island Zone is playable without saving. After clearing Act 2, the game ends with a dialog message, then returns to the title screen.
• LangMode - Specifies what language the game will use. '0' is English, '1' is French, '2' is German, and '3' is Spanish.

Knuckles in Sonic 3

Sonic 3 had leftover code for Knuckles, who was planned to be a playable character in the game, but when he was selected you controlled Sonic instead. Because the PC version of Sonic 3 has the S3&K coding (including fixes to bugs that were originally present in the Genesis version of Sonic 3), Knuckles is fully playable in Sonic 3 alone!

To play as him, you need to use an external save editor (like this one) to modify 'SONIC3K.bin' and create a save file in Sonic 3 with Knuckles as the chosen character, then you can play as him in Sonic 3. Because Knuckles (and Flying Battery) was planned for and still has existing data in Sonic 3, he is a selectable value in editing saves.

Unfortunately, because only the Sonic/Tails boss triggers are in place, Knuckles cannot finish Angel Island 2 and Launch Base 1...but his bosses for Angel Island 1 and Marble Garden 2 are in place (they weren't there in the Genesis version). As Knuckles' Launch Base 2 bosses are absent, he must glide over to the Sonic/Tails boss area from his own and fight the final bosses.

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After defeating the bosses and watching the Death Egg explode, the game will crash since Knuckles never had an ending programmed for Sonic 3 alone.

Flying Battery Zone in Sonic 3

Like with Knuckles, Flying Battery Zone is playable in full form and you can access it. Use an external save editor to make a Sonic 3 save which is set to start at 'Zone 5' – Flying Battery, complete with the unused Sonic 3 data select icon.

Flying Battery is the same as Sonic 3 & Knuckles, but in Sonic 3 it's sort of an odd stage, because once you clear it and reset, the game will advance you to the 'true' Zone 6, which is Ice Cap. Continuing to play the game after this will allow you to play through the remaining Sonic & Knuckles zones in Sonic 3 mode starting with Sandopolis. Clearing these zones will give the player the normal Sonic 3 & Knuckles credits/ending based on how many Chaos Emeralds you have, but when you get back to the data select screen, the palettes turn pink for some reason, and the save file you used will be redirected to Marble Garden for some stranger reason.

Furthermore, once you beat Flying Battery, it can't be accessed again unless you create another file that can access it.

Unused Music

Track #44 in the sound test, which is normally reserved for the Sonic 3 minibosses in the Genesis version, plays an entirely different song that isn't used anywhere in the game (this version of Sonic 3 uses the S&K miniboss theme).