They indicate the actual address of a level. Sonic & Knuckles uses pointers to tell where to look in the ROM in order to find the level The data indicating the tile layout for a level is referenced by a pointer. Levels are made of small tiles, which are 128x128 pixels.

Usefull, if you are tired of having weird numbers.Īnd now, if you want to change the order of the frames in the Sonic animation at startup (Sonicģ & Knuckles only), then go to 004400. It will tell how many rings the player can get. , and write 0000 ! You will not be able to take rings ! Of course, you can set these two bytes to You want to have a new challenge ? Go to 01A5A8 Will hit you, you will lose rings but the rings counter will keep its value ! However, if you don’t have rings, you will die. You’ll have to read the future Sonic 3 hacking guide.Ġ05F82-005F9E - List of Songs for 1P modeĠ05F9E-005FAE - List of Songs for 2P modeĠ080E7-0081AF - Level Names in Level SelectĠ0DB1C-00DB3C - Sonic 3 & Knuckles Data Select StringsĠ4CC36-04DEA1 - Sonic 1 & Knuckles StringsĠ5B730-05BC80 - Credits (for Sonic & Knuckles alone, no effect with Sonic 3 & Knuckles)Ġ5BCD4-05C2D6 - Credits (for Sonic 3 & Knuckles, no effect with Sonic & Knuckles alone)ĠA8720-0A893C - Sonic & Knuckles / Sonic 3 & Knuckles Color Palettes PointersĠA893C-0A9DFC - Sonic & Knuckles / Sonic 3 & Knuckles Color PalettesġE3C10-1E3CD0 - Levels Entry Points (Sonic/Tails)ġE3CD0-1E3D98 - Levels Entry Points (Knuckles)ġE3D98-1E4080 - Pointers for Sprites, Rings, Bonus Stage and Special StagesġE44DA-1FCF2A - Sprites / Rings for Sonic & Knuckles / Sonic 3 & Knuckles LevelsġFCF2A-1FD5CA - Sonic & Knuckles special stages (compressed)Ģ09828-209878 - Palettes for competition main menu (3 palettes)Ģ098C0-2098CE - Menu items tiles selection pointersĢ098CE-2099FC - Menu item tiles (2 bytes header -> multiply by 6 to have the number of bytes)Ģ0A130-20A160 - Tiles Selection for time (numbers and ‘ and ‘‘) -> from 0 to 9, then ‘, then ‘‘Ģ0A55E-20A65E - Palettes in competitions menusĢ0A6E4-20A6E4 - Tiles Selection for selection boxesĢ0C7DF-20? - Sonic 3 Level Previews in Data SelectĢ6A0E0-26D000 - Sonic 3 Special Stages (end at 26C120, the rest is an empty space)ĢA2940-2C3200 - 128x128 tiles animated partsīefore starting big hacking, let’s start by some addresses to patch in order to obtainĠ1A742, or « How to become invincible ». However, if you want to hack Sonic 3 alone, If you hack into Sonic & Knuckles only, ignore them (they are after 200000 ).

I also added the Sonicģ sections which are used by Sonic 3 & Knuckles. This ROM map lists the general sections of the Sonic & Knuckles ROM.

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