Stuck in Sonic 3

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 10:46 pm

That is what I've been trying to tell everyone!

chriscaffee · Post by **chriscaffee** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 11:26 pm

It was freaking simple. There are only two possible options. Jumping, which obviously doesn't work and pressing up and down.

I beg to differ. I alternated jumping with Sonic and Tails for about a minute until I could get by the barrel. That was what I thought you were supposed to do until my friend passed it in about four seconds. I felt like such a dumb ass. It turns that the up/down shit is actually in the instructions under the Carnival Night Zone section, but who reads those?

Cuckooguy · Post by **Cuckooguy** » Thu Aug 19, 2004 11:57 pm

Another way to get past that barrel is taking advantage of the form of Super Sonic. Make sure you have all seven chaos emeralds and 50 rings when you get to that barrel point (don't change to Super Sonic yet), and bounce up and down until you think it's bouncing up and down enough, and while the barrel is down enough, do a small jump and change to Super Sonic and he'll be stationary in place during the transformation sequence while the barrel zooms pass up him.

I used to do that all the time. I still don't know how to easily go pass that barrel without Super Sonic, although I've done it the non-Super Sonic ways a couple of times.

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 12:29 pm

How did you alternate jumping with Sonic and Tails? Were you using two controllers?

Lakwren · Post by **Lakwren** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 12:47 pm

You can press 'mode' to make Tails jump or fly and carry sonic around.

Chaos Control · Post by **Chaos Control** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 1:12 pm

Lakwren wrote:You can press 'mode' to make Tails jump or fly and carry sonic around.

Sweet! I didn't think of that, either.

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 1:26 pm

Mode?

j-man · Post by **j-man** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 1:29 pm

It's like the Select button for rapidfire MegaDrive controllers. I think. Some arse broke my Logic Pro RapidFire 6-Button pad when I was a kid so I haven't used it in about 7 years.

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 1:37 pm

Oh, I only had the standard 3 button ABC controllers with Start. I would just have my friend control Tails. It made that one boss a lot easier. Marble Garden Zones' boss if I remember correctly. The 3rd boss of Sonic 3.

Chaos Control · Post by **Chaos Control** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 2:16 pm

WhoopA wrote:Didn't those cylinders make a return appearance somewhere?

Casino Paradise. Zone 3 in Sonic Advance.

WhoopA · Post by **WhoopA** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 2:18 pm

That's what I thought.

Chaos Control · Post by **Chaos Control** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 2:26 pm

Well, you thought right!

chriscaffee · Post by **chriscaffee** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 8:21 pm

Yes two controllers.

Post by **Segaholic2** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 10:04 pm

You can use the Mode button to control Tails?

Lakwren · Post by **Lakwren** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 8:27 am

That you can. I've done it before, because before I found out how to move the cylinders I just pushed every single button, and found out by accident.

EDIT: I just played the game again, and my mode button wasn't doing anything... What the hell? I swear to god that it did last time. Then again, there is no other button that CAN do it... maybe my mode button isn't working or something. Unless Tails moved exactly when I pressed Mode, which is very unlikely, or it was another button. Man, I screwed that up.

Can anybody check to see if I was right about that?

C can move both of them, but when I try to fly up Sonic keeps jumping out of Tails' hands, so it couldn't be C.

Brazillian Cara · Post by **Brazillian Cara** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 3:39 pm

I still thik it's simpler to go up the barrel and press up & down timely.
Ponto final.

Chaos Control · Post by **Chaos Control** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 2:45 pm

Say, who is cooler, Shadow or Tails?

gr4yJ4Y · Post by **gr4yJ4Y** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 3:52 pm

I used to find a water bubble to save before I got to that point. When I got up to the barrels I'd use a turbo controller to help bring the barrel down. I remember screaming in pain as I accedently got hit and land into a checkpoint pole and lose my bubble having to start the level all over again.

I think that barrel is the reason I own a Game Genie... not that it ever helped me get around the stage.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 4:08 pm

Say, who is cooler, Shadow or Tails?

Tails, obviously. He can fly, and he's more unique. Every single fucking heroic character you can name has an evil twin - but not many have a mechanically gifted, mutated, little boy for a sidekick.

Post by **Delphine** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 4:08 pm

Chaos Control wrote:Say, who is cooler, Shadow or Tails?

That's like asking which is cooler: lukewarm water or warm water?

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 4:20 pm

Lumewarms? Don't those burrow into sand holes on the fifth planet of the Tatooine system?

Post by **Delphine** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 6:12 pm

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 11:01 pm

Cheater!

Chaos Control · Post by **Chaos Control** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 9:35 am

Maybe this was a bad idea! (I'm full of 'em.)

Sz · Post by Sz » Sun Aug 29, 2004 12:57 pm

I figured the barrel thing out when I was 8, but only after running into the old 10:00 barrier twice...