[Aere Alouette]

I was sitting there, listening to the sound test of Sonic 3 (& Knuckles) in sequence. The songs play in order chronologically (the order the zones appear in the game, starting with Angel Island 1), something I knew.

But why is it that the zone Flying Battery got misplaced back as zone 5 (rather than the ingame order's designation as zone 8)? Could be a glitch, but I think this may mean (40% sure) that Flying Battery may have been a former Sonic 3 zone that got switched to Sonic and Knuckles. Here is the total order the sound test puts the zones:

Angel Island 1 + 2
Hydrocity 1 + 2
Marble Garden 1 + 2
Carnival Night 1 + 2
Flying Battery 1 + 2
Ice Cap 1 + 2
Launch Base 1 + 2
Mushroom Hill 1 + 2
Sandopolis 1 + 2
Lava Reef 1 + 2 ("2" also being Hidden Palace)
Sky Sanctuary
Death Egg 1 + 2
Mini-Boss
Robotnik
Doomsday

Any explanation for FB's misplacement?

[njahnke]

yep ... flying battery was yanked from sonic 3 at the last minute. mcdonald's had sonic 3 toys and so on for the release of sonic 3 in the us, and on the happy meal bag was a reference to flying battery. needless to say, i was a very confused child, and nearly resorted to importing a japanese mega drive and sonic 3 cart to play the flying battery zone i was sure was in that version ("the dirty bastards removed it to spite us for nuking them!!" or something, you know).

[Spinballwizard]

Actually, both of the badniks in FB are in the S3 manual as well. :o

[yse]

For the record...

Angel Island 1 + 2
Hydrocity 1 + 2
Marble Garden 1 + 2
Carnival Night 1 + 2
Flying Battery 1 + 2
Ice Cap 1 + 2
Launch Base 1 + 2
Mushroom Hill 1 + 2
Sandopolis 1 + 2

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This is the order that the S3 level select puts the games.

And even better, if you play S3&K, get up to Flying Battery and quit, then take Sonic 3 separately and play it, you'll see Flying Battery on the level select... but it says "Zone 5" above it.

[Spinballwizard]

Really? I should try that. :o

It does that even though the S3 saves and the S3K saves are separate? (Or is it different on non-American versions, in which case I shouldn't bother?)