Heck I've gotten so many lives the 10s digit of the lives counter has turned into a completely different font, like the default megadrive system font. so I've got 101 lives by this point, but it's displaying x01, with the 0 in the default very pixelly unadorned font with a black square behind it. (welll,... dark brown really.)
Sandopolis Zone, or: Hey lets make a slow paced desert themed zone in a sonic game which is full of pitfalls and precision timed jumps and tiny platforms to ride on and enemies out of nowhere, and now let's make the SECOND act of this zone rely on rapidly getting through short segments before a door closes AND with ghosts that show up to kill you infinitely if it gets too dark! :D
....oh and let's have arguably the worst music in a sonic game on the megadrive ever. yeah that'll work.
welp!! I just got all 7 super emeralds in Emerald Hill Zone (where you first start being able to get super emeralds at the cost of your super sonic power, so you can get hyper sonic). It's the first zone of the Sonic & Knuckles part of Sonic 3 & Knuckles @_@ gaddang. I am power playing this gam, jeez.
Kinda amazed I still instinctually remember where like, three Special Stage Rings are hidden in the first act of Mushroom Hill Zone (all in fairly close proximity to each other as well). When I had just Sonic & Knuckles on the megadrive (I decided to get S&K first, THEN Sonic 3 for...some reason. Maybe I was worried S&K would be rarer quicker) I managed to fully map out in my head a rapid route that would net me the first three chaos emeralds on act 1 of it, and by Act 2 I'd have like, 5 or 6.
Sonic 3 & knuckles, bad memms, why did I do this oh my god
https://computerfairi.es/media/uZg_XXjQdnN1pRWs0tk
the filename for this is "i spent entirely too long on this why.png"... I think you know why.
Kami: HI
Me: oh hi kitten. how are-
Kami: GONNA LUV U
Me: Okay! Come here and get some pe-
Kami: *walks across keyboard, smacks me in the face with her tail and knocks my glasses off my face, before walking back across the keyboard and settling on my left hand*
Me: ...thanks for that , cat.
Kami: *VIBRATES*
yeah i'm moving over to chitter.xyz now. Soooo go there! I'm there now.