Sonic 3 & Knuckles - All Emeralds Glitchless Speedrun with Sonic (100%) in

I've been working on this on and off for a bit over a year. Had way more fun with it than I thought I would. There's actually way more depth to the special stages and routing to this run than I expected. I changed my emerald path a few times over the course of doing attempts, and changed strats in the special stages a few times as well. There's even some more faster strats in the special stages that I don't go for...yet, given the difficulty vs time save ratio gets pretty bad.
Anyway, happy to get a pretty nice run. HC2 and MG1 were my worst stages - they seldom go well, but I did lose significant amounts of time in both. Very happy with the time overall though.
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My glitchless ruleset: pastebin.com/L...
Tl;dr: Everything is banned, even if slightly marginal.
Because I am using my own personal, and stricter ruleset for glitchless and not any community one, it would be silly to refer to this as a "World Record", but it is still the best time.
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This run is timed in Real Time, as the routing elements of when to get emeralds make the Time Bonus relevant (i.e. If you ignored the Time Bonus it would be faster to skip the second emerald in AI1 and get it in HC2 instead. However, unlike in any% runs where "going slower to get a lower time bonus" is silly, in this case it is routing and should not be ignored)
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[@Werster]

As mentioned in the description, given I am using my own stricter ruleset for "Glitchless", I am not labelling this as a "WR", because really I would just be competing with myself, and I think that would be rather self indulgent. This is however, my best run.

[@TonightStarfall]

Good record though

[@tswan137]

As someone who grew up with S3&K, this is exactly how i would beat the game near daily. (Obviously not like THIS). But all emeralds, as fast as I could.
Gotta love hypersonic, and gotta love Werster. Cheers, bro this run was insane.

[@didgeridude8430]

Wow those Special Stages are giving me a headache. I'm most impressed by how you managed to navigate through the Red Spheres. Kudos Werster.

[@theancientsam]

i like how knuckles seems to be helping eggman as a joke, he tries to trip sonic up and cant even keep a straight face lmao

[@JoeJaJoeJoe]

Those special stage routes are WILD! Really creative pathing and super tight jumps over red spheres

[@Ryzarck]

looooooooooove the movement in this run. So many tight windows on platform cycles its insane. Great job dude.

[@MWregi]

came to see impressive S3&K gameplay, got hooked by impressive blue spheres gameplay.

[@HyperSonicXtreme]

43:36
*AND THIS…IS….TO GO….EVEN FURTHER BEYOND!!!*

[@josh1234567892]

Kind of interesting to actually see the level design on this game for once lmao

[@AonelEchi]

Timestamps:
0:01 Title
0:07 Angel Island Zone (1/14)
7:17 Hydrocity Zone (2/14)
12:19 Marble Garden Zone (3/14)
19:46 Carnival Night Zone (4/14)
23:40 Ice Cap Zone (5/14)
26:58 Launch Base Zone (6/14)
32:15 Mushroom Hill Zone (7/14)
44:28 Flying Battery Zone (8/14)
49:46 Sandopoils Zone (9/14)
54:35 Lava Reef Zone (10/14)
1:00:11 Hidden Palace Zone (11/14)
1:01:36 Sky Sanctuary Zone (12/14)
1:03:39 Death Egg Zone (13/14)
1:08:43 The Doomsday Zone (14/14)
1:10:33 Ending

[@byronnelson9551]

This was very satisfying to watch. Thank you Werster.

[@tafkajimmyfish]

These ost's slap so hard, I wish they had gone with something longer than 4 seconds for the super sonic theme

[@hectorsuper]

used theme of speed o the super Theme prototype used sonic 3 complete and sonic 3 Air

[@Shyguy71588]

Good stuff Werster

[@iurk0_streaming]

I didn't even know that the bonus stages could be optimized to that level

[@domikarus5237]

54:00 I once died to this boss as Hyper Sonic when the stones returned

[@Ahamkeira]

the hydro city 2 route is so cool

[@MrSparkle404]

When did Werster start TASing these game?

[@megabit95]

29:32 Shadow!? O.o

[@Convergant]

Is there any significance to the order you get the super emeralds in?

[@theancientsam]

i never thought the super sonic theme song would get repetitive but damn xD

[@Andyw00Hall]

There should have been an option to revert the music to normal level music when in super/hyper sonic

[@theancientsam]

@@Andyw00Hall 100%

[@그녀는용-n2x]

your respect

[@damin9913]

I still play sonic 3&knuckles the game had so much fun too it

[@AonelEchi]

you forgot the 4th chaos emerald in angel island act 2

[@gattomeccanico6943]

Why there sonic gear 5th in thumbnail

[@antant6217]

I greatly prefer glitchless. Screen wrapping is very boring when it's done so many times.

[@theancientsam]

the story in sonic 3 and knuckles is literally better than most AAA games today lmao god when will the dark age of gaming end

[@Crohbar]

The only true competition is against the self. King shit.

[@AllThisOverASliceOfGabagool]

I love the absolute sheer disrespect in the special stages. A few of them I was just pissing myself laughing because the skill on show was insane! I've tried so often to jump over rows of red spheres and every time I die. Frankly, the whole thing is crazy and to have the stamina to put it together in a 70 minute run is equivalent to playing three of Beethoven's most complex piano sonatas back to back without any noticeable mistakes. Absolute artistry and shows off Sonic 3 & Knuckles at its best.

[@theancientsam]

how come knuckles doesnt use his tower destroying bombs in any of the future games lol

[@PedroMasiero]

I feel like this is as we were watching Sonic himself storming through the levels. Fucking amazing!

[@theancientsam]

1:04:49 lol sonic wyd

[@notsoawesomeone]

Alright... now with all perfect blue spheres lol

[@uyhawirt]

My childhood, beautiful game 😭

[@norfairaffair]

19:53 perfect silence

[@sheepay99]

Isn't a bit strange how a straightforward punch from knuckles is able to make Super Sonic regress back to blue Sonic?

[@Chad_Thundercock]

As evident by the beginning of Angel Island, Knuckles is stronger than Super Sonic. Canon.

[@MangG0d]

43:28 🐐Legend🐐

[@YourMomsHousehold]

I liked it when the hedgehog went fast, nice speedrun