Sonic 3 Special Stage Editor

The S3 Special Stage Editor allows you to edit Sonic 3 style special stages, which are found in Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles.

To activate the level select editor: Click the S3 Special Stage Editor icon on the SHWP-II Editor toolbar (it looks like a blue sphere). You will see something like this.

To edit the special stage, simply click & drag across the special stage map. Use the object toolbar to select an object type to place. Possible objects are:

Eggman - Deletes objects.
Blue Sphere - Get all blue spheres to beat the level.
Red Sphere - Hit this and you lose the level.
Yellow Sphere - Hit this to jump over 5 spheres.
Star Sphere - Bounces you backwards.
Ring - Get 50 rings to get a continue.
Arrow - Click this to set Sonic's starting position & direction.

There are three other buttons in the toolbar, and they are as follows:

X - Clear the current stage.
Export Stage - Exports the current special stage as an S3S file. There are two formats available: S3S v2.00 (default) and S3S v1.00. Use S3S v1.00 if you want your special stage to be backwards compatible with SHWP v3.00 and earlier, although S3S v2.00 files are 128 bytes smaller than S3S v1.00 files.
Import Stage - Imports a special stage from an S3S file. The editor automatically determines the format of the S3S file.

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