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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Sonic & Knuckles, is in fact, Sonic 3/Knuckles, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Sonic 3 plus Knuckles. Sonic & Knuckles is not a gotta-go-fast simulator unto itself, but rather another free (if you download the rom) component of a fully functioning Sonic 3 system made useful by the Sonic 3 bosses, Chao Emeralds and vital level design comprising a full video game as defined by Sega.

Many Sega Genesis users run a modified version of the Sonic 3 system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of Sonic 3 which is widely used today is often called "Sonic & Knuckles", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the Sonic 3 system, developed by Sonic Team.

There really is a Sonic & Knuckles, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Sonic & Knuckles is the expansion pack: the game in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other games that you run. The expansion pack is an essential part of a gotta-go-fast simulator, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete gotta-go-fast simulator. Sonic & Knuckles is normally used in combination with the Sonic 3 gotta-go-fast simulator: the whole system is basically Sonic 3 with Knuckles added, or Sonic 3/Knuckles. All the so-called "Sonic & Knuckles" rom hacks are really rom hacks of Sonic 3/Knuckles.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Sonic & Knuckles, is in fact, Sonic 3/Knuckles, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Sonic 3 plus Knuckles. Sonic & Knuckles is not a gotta-go-fast simulator unto itself, but rather another free (if you download the rom) component of a fully functioning Sonic 3 system made useful by the Sonic 3 bosses, Chaos Emeralds and vital level design comprising a full video game as defined by Sega.

Many Sega Genesis users run a modified version of the Sonic 3 system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of Sonic 3 which is widely used today is often called "Sonic & Knuckles", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the Sonic 3 system, developed by Sonic Team.

There really is a Sonic & Knuckles, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Sonic & Knuckles is the expansion pack: the game in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other games that you run. The expansion pack is an essential part of a gotta-go-fast simulator, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete gotta-go-fast simulator. Sonic & Knuckles is normally used in combination with the Sonic 3 gotta-go-fast simulator: the whole system is basically Sonic 3 with Knuckles added, or Sonic 3/Knuckles. All the so-called "Sonic & Knuckles" distributions are really distributions of Sonic 3/Knuckles.