Sonic 3 - The mysterious seat

[KeeperoftheRing]

Still stuck on the second act. I watch this:

Hey! That looks like where you fight big ar-

Shit, I'm NEVER finishing that level.

[Metaknightkirby2]

Nur ne Vermutung, aber ich glaube nachdem der Screen beim Vorboss fest ist und Robotnik hereinspringt, wird an ihm nochmal extra der Sitzsprite angeheftet. Da der Robotnik Sprite nicht spawnt, das Spiel den Befehl, den Sitz an den nächsten spawnenden Sprite dranzuheften aber immernoch drin hat, wird er random an den Knuckles und auch an den Ringsprite geheftet. Wie gesagt, nur ne Theorie. :D

[WildWolfG]

3:10 onward...

Sonic saves the world......

...so he eats some cheese.

[xForgetxMeNot]

I've done something similar, but it was Robotnik's head instead of the seat (I think it was with Tails that his head would pop out instead of the seat)

[TheChowderman]

Sonic: Dat trololol seat

Me: Dat stalker seat

[NIDORAX]

Now that I think about it I've seen this glitch before. The last boss part had me wondering why sonic keeps dropping a card when he is hit. now this explains everything

[TENNSUMITSUMA]

@NIDORAX

card?

[xXxMartin96xXx]

death star FTW?

[PufflePower]

Did anyone notice at some point robotnik's first ship was making Darth Vader sounds?

[SuperJAbros]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! No 3:09 Sonic está comendo o banco! XD

[MercuriusWarrior]

i also did that with my brother, that red thing is actually the seat

[cralosfuentes]

I FUCKIN BEAT THIS SHIT LIKE 27 YEARS AGO BRO... TRU STORY

[Legobeestify]

@cralosfuentes how you beat it 27 years ago when it came 16 years ago

[DaGamer64]

the second phase of the rocket boss appears in sonic generations

[SantaWithHumor]

FAIL KNUCKLES!!!!

[TFWC88]

oh god this is so funny..the look on Knuckles' face when everything started to rumble

[kaas298]

kuckles seems to have it first when he punches u

[12ilovesushi]

hahahaha! knuckles fell in the water! LOLOL XD

[shadonicles]

@2:23 when sonic turns around you can see the Orange "code" "Caramel" box

or

maybe its the Box Sonic keeps all those rings in ;)

[P17Production]

that seat is just coding, for example in game it shows on robotnik seat for when u come near he will pop up, for the rings it will tell the ring to disappear and become a number on top left. also on sonic its telling sonic to look that certain way.

for people who don't know much about games but just play them its basicly saying that the orange thing is our DNA and our body is holding it so it can be accesed at anytime and is not lost. dno if that a good example but yet the concept xD.

[P17Production]

example if anyone uses Adobe flash you will find that in each little bar you can right click and add coding in there which means your using that little bar to hold all the coding and it shows the bar at all times which is basicly what the orange seat does but because its a game you can't have the little bar menu holding it so u have to imprint it into the game so that it stays with the object.

im only learning games development in college atm so i might not be bang on but.......

[P17Production]

If no one as answerd yet its just a piece of coding that triggers the animation for each item.

for example you notice how its on the robotnik chair, rings and sonic when he turning etc.

that orange thing holds the coding to make each thing do what it suppose to.

why is it visable? well u bugged it up but normaly in anygame in development you will need to attach something to the object you wanna animate and make your you be able to see it and use it again.

will keep writing in new post.

[Refort610]

When I played this game, I noticed that when Sonic was flying in the craft that time still continues (as shown in this video), but when S&K is plugged in it stops while he's flying. Has anybody else noticed that?

[Maxitron1]

wie nimmt man sonic?

welche taste(n) drücken?

[KjareGamer345]

lol ganz einfach mit tails über sonic schweben (2x Sprungtaste) tails musste sonic dann automatisch nehmen

[RedDawnJensen]

lol he punches Sonic and giggles

Sonics all like WTF mate I dont have time for this?

[WildDogShadow]

It is probably just a hex address got messed up since the boss before was never actually activated, causing some numerals to shift.

[gamegod9000]

When he lost a ring it looked like gold came out.

Sonic: Oh no! He knocked out my 1,000,000 rings!

[jaysds123]

lol it made that boss easy! but when u complete sonic 3 theres a wired yellow thing that pops outta now where

[abomasnow4]

the seat is a graphics glitch that occurred as a result of destroying eggman's hydrolift chair b4 he had a chance to spawn in.i never encountered this at all, so i'm sorry i wasn't of much help.

[sonicjoshua]

has anyone noticed around 2:56 2:59 the "seat" shows up and when eggman is destroyed

[autosaver]

And by Knuckles's hand

[pokeib15]

i recently got sonic 3 for my wii this week and i encountered this glitch while useing super sonic because i jumped high, when i got hit by eggman on the rocket i always saw the seat thing fly off me

[theodgildark]

as a huge sonic fan, back in the day, when this game was released, they used eggman's real name. Robotnik, he didnt get that stupid eggman name until sonic got on the dreamcast

[daluigi205]

Robotnik had the name "Eggman" ever scence the series was released.

You see, in Japan, Eggman was ALWAYS his name. I guess they wanted to change it to a more suitable name. I honestly have no idea why they changed it when it was released outside of Japan.

[angryboy2k9]

Erm I know its abit like for babies and Im 13 but the sonic cartoon... I once came across on some child program... Anyways I really liked it and in it he was always called Eggman

[MushroomMario2]

Sonic X? That was made after the name switch in the US. Sonic the Hedgehog (the tv show... known as SatAM to the fans) and Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog both called him Robotnik, I think.

[TTEchidna]

That was Sonic X. In the old days, when Sonic 3 was made, they called him Robotnik. They call him "Eggman" in Sonic X and the games now because they have to match the lip flaps (three syllables vs two). But he's still Robotnik, even in Japan, because of the revelation of his grandfather and cousin, both with that surname.

[SuperSaiyanGoku2868]

Should have an annotation at the end where sonic says "Thank You For Watching !"

(PLEASE NOTE)

[capitalcity1988]

Cool...

[Anonymous171717]

i dont know how, but once on S3&K when i was floating in robotnik's ship, instead of the launch base being there, it said "Launch Base Sonic" and it was spelled with the towers.. that was also a day where i debugged the fuck out of my game.

[hesa1ego]

das ding da was du verlierst wenn du deine Ringe verliertst ist der Sitz vom ersten Boss ... warscheinlich wenn man diesen BUG einsetzt nimmt man den "sitz" mit wie eine art ring nur er wird nciht als ring gewertet ... habe den bug selbst auch scho gefunden vor langer zeit =)

aber trotzdem nice vid 5* ^^

[ChiSportsNut18]

The mysterious seat refers to the fact that Dr. Eggman is supposed to be inside of it and attacking you and the seat is empty. And what is that orange thing?

[relam13]

The orange thing that pops up whenever he loses his rings is the mysterious seat he's referring to.

[Flametix]

@ChiSportsNut18 The orange thing is the mysterious seat.

[zattacks]

Whatever happened to Tails?

[VengeanceDECEIT]

he died then came back as a zombie

[lovesu3]

For Mario

:)

[AZthehedgehog]

Strange, seems to appere everytime something important in the game happens...

[wookums2015]

I don't know why this bug happens, but Sonic 3 alone is glitchier than with S&K locked on. I know u did not use debug here, but S&K alone does not have a debug mode. Trust me, there are many more hilarious glitches in S3 alone to be discovered.

[HyperSonic707]

that weird little orange thing is what hes talking about

[HyperSonic707]

oh, then why do you call the seat that you sit in "mysterious"?

[HyperSonic707]

I think the reason for that orange thing is this:

because you did something the game is not prepared for, it creates that strange orange block. Then the orange block becomes associated with the first object drawn in a new event (rings, the little puff of dust after sonic's slide, and when sonic starts to look up).

[HyperSonic707]

This is really confusing, but if you ask, ill email you an easy-to-understand diagram

[HyperSonic707]

No one here seems to have ever beaten this level before, because that seat you jump into is always there.

[MilesDude32]

I did that on Sonic Jam when I was younger than 5... I remember those days...

[andy120195]

Dankeschön:) Jetzt kenne ich endlich einen Weg, die erste Phase des Endbosses zu besiegen, ohne etwas zu verlieren, oder Supersonic zu werden

[pkthunder3]

wtf?

[SonicVaan]

Das echt gut :) Nur schade, dass ich nur Sonic 1 und 2 für die Mega Drive hatte... Naja, wozu gibts Emus :o)

[Shadow45z]

What did this have to do with a mysterious seat , or is that what the act is called.

[wanttodormir]

that didn't happen to me when i played :S

[fjordur]

ja das war immer geil,unvergessen

[knastbube]

Das ist ein Grafikfehler das kenne ich auch noch von frhüher.

[SonicVaan]

Ich fand das immer lustig :P

[Stairmaster9068]

MAn the sonic 3 ending was way more epic.

[DrButler]

It's not a glitch, it's a feature. Robotnik is stealing Sonic's tasy caramel snacks. See, it's a sub-plot. Sega thought of everything.

[thatsonlyit666]

You mean chili dogs?

[MewEeveeSkitty1]

@DrButler your comment just made my day XD

[EvilMofoShelley]

I remember. Back when I was a kid that would always happened to me. Only my sis and I called it a golden nugget.

[sonicpacker]

freakin awesome actually

[sonicpacker]

HAHA!!! 3:26 ITS TOUCAN SAM!!!!!

[Shadow45z]

HAHAHA! I see it.

[sonicpacker]

lol i kno

[sonicpacker]

awesome

[jakerman999]

if by "weird thing" you mean that orange block that pops up every so often, i think that it's caused my a missing event.

normally, when Eggman takes his place in the battle suit, the game erases the orange block that acts like the back of the chair. here, when Eggman doesn't show up, it doesn't clear the block. now when ever the sprite# that sonic is using is less than the image# of the block, you will see the orange block above sonic.(although this is just an educated guess)(500 characters!!!)

[ReneO93V2]

I remember that glitch. Reminds me of how full of glitches Sonic 3 is, which is why I don't want to play it anymore.

[RikuJerrad]

They only take effect if you look for them

[Leviticus321]

i thought that last boss was harder than the sonic and knuckles last bosses

[Kappatekki]

did you jack his ride?

[Zawicki1]

No. Sonic 3 is meant to do that.

[GreatFox42]

Oh, that thing. Yeah, I've encountered hundreds of times before. An alternate stratedgy is to use Super Sonic, and using that ramp, and land on Robotnik's platform. Then just stand over the machine that Eggman won't climb into. Same effect.

[quarxyz1]

looks more like a dheese wheel to me lollololololololololoolollolol­ollolololololololololooooooooo­ooololooloolollolllollolo'

79/87

[alexsavov]

I tried it and it did work

[mellonindustries]

Lol, i noticed that bug ages ago too, but to be honast i didnt know how i did it i thought my mega-drive was on the fritz. I used to do this little cheat to kill the first boss so i could save my rings for the final one lol =D

[jc1341]

isn't that boss only for knux?

[Criseg18]

Run a Sonic3k savestate in carnival night, later, load the Sonic3K savestate in Sonic 3 and you will se that and more interesting stuff... like hex numbers in Launch Base, Carnival night titlecard in all zones...

[RedlineM203]

Its interesting to see a Sonic boss that doesn't want to get hit.

That, and nice glitch.

[Kn0p3XX]

Cooler bug! ^^

+5 vote

[MarioMastar]

Wow, I used to do that all the time, but I forgot how to do it after so long... I wonder if you can do it in Sonic 3 and Knuckles? I never though of trying it then.

[wesall1]

I want to know how if the death egg was above them in the fight is how it falls all the way that you can see the whole thing fall down???

[lightmana50]

when i was young i thought the death egg was eggman falling i did not know that was the death egg until i was older

[laughingfurry]

Very interesting bug. Then again, Sonic 3 has alot of curiosities in it.

Is there a vid with all the Sonic 3 bugs and glitches?

[Lucario1423]

knuckles was having a lollypop lol

[segasonic623]

and... no i don't get it. that orange thingee? it looks unusual. i didn't get anything in this clip.

[norulzdotpt]

ok this might be just me but is the bug anything other than skipping a boss and that orange thingy at the end?

[hardcoretechnolover]

Gotta love that one ring rule huh?

[CityEscaper]

Yeah i noticed that too, but it was only after i made the video.

The interessting thing is the height. It is aproxiamtely the same height as it would be in the Egg-O-Matic.

[RandomAvatarFan]

first, that bosss only appears in sonic 3 alone. Second most bugs only happen in Sonic 3 alone because in Sonic and Knuckles, they have been fixed. I think I have came across it once before, but I never really cared for it.

And has anyone notcied that it shows up next to Knuckles before he punches Sonic Back?

[thestumpyone]

Best. Final. Boss. Music. Ever. Great video, all the years i played this i never noticed that...

[RuneAddySte]

The same thing happens on the gamecube remake.

[angel2901]

kenne ich auch....

[CityEscaper]

Normaly i use Gens for playing but it doesn't work together with Fraps. Not all Emultors allow fraps to record videos. Use Kega Fusion in fullscreen mode. You should see a frameratecounter when it works.

[JunBugJP3]

How do u record sonic with fraps, I have a sega emulator but I cant figure out how to record the sonic games

[CityEscaper]

How could it be random, when it always happens?

I use Fraps for videos an Kega Fusion for the emulation.

[Psyhcojason]

this is random, but what program did u use to get a clear video?

[rattleman123456]

I just tried this glitch; an invisible wall between "the seat" and the true boss area keeps me from going there. Is this on a certain ROM version, or directly from your Genesis/Megadrive?

[rattleman123456]

Never mind. I figured out what the problem is. This glitch works only on Sonic 3 ALONE, not Sonic 3 & Knuckles. Most people regard Sonic 3 as incomplete and thus play S3K instead. I should have figured it out by Knuckles' theme (which differs S3 -> S3K), but I didn't.

[rattleman123456]

Man, I must be REALLY tired. I should have noticed that you fought Robotnik in his giant hand thing, which again only appears in that location in Sonic 3. I guess I'm just tired. Anyway, my point still stands: Most people play Sonic 3 & Knuckles rather than Sonic 3 alone.