Sonic the Hedgehog 3C (prototype 0408)/Comparisons/IceCap Zone

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As a Sonic the Hedgehog 3 zone, IceCap Zone has very few differences between the final Sonic 3 and Sonic 3 & Knuckles. The differences listed here are primarily bugs.

Act 1

Sonic 3C 0408

Sonic 3 & Knuckles final

When Tails first descends while playing as Sonic and Tails together, his graphics are screwed up: the snowboard intro overwrites Tails' tiles with the snowboard's, and when the snowboard disappears, Tails' tiles should load. However, Tails' AI doesn't allow this to happen fast enough, and thus proceeds to draw Tails with some of the snowboard's tiles still remaining. Only when Tails lands does the tile swap complete, and Tails return to normal.

Curiously, this didn't happen in Sonic 3 final.

Sonic 3C 0408

Sonic 3 & Knuckles final

The floating icicle spheres in one of Knuckles' routes can hurt Super Sonic, just like they did in Sonic 3.