Double-Death Drowning Bug In The Sonic 3 11-03-1993 Prototype

One of the first things I wondered upon the release of the Sonic 3 prototype by DRX on 11-16-2019 was whether the bug where taking damage as you drowned caused you to die when you hit the bottom of the screen, and thus lose 2 lives, was present. This video shows you that the bug is present (albeit with the use of debug mode due to the level layouts of normal stages seemingly hindering the drowning/double-death process). It also shows you the arithmetic underflow that causes you to go from 1, to 0, and then to 255 lives.

[@NeedleblueOfOhio]

This glitch is actually from Sonic 1 and 2,and it's here because sonic 3 is build of sonic 2(and Sonic 2 is build of sonic 1 as well)

[@DanknDerpyGamer]

Eeyup! Exactly this!

[@austinearle7345]

255 lives boiz

[@DJNeoncat]

The Limit is 255

[@DanknDerpyGamer]

Yep - an unsigned 8-bit value

[@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz9971]

an sonic 2 glitch

[@DanknDerpyGamer]

And Sonic 1 as well. 😁

[@Mr_Nicky229]

The worst Prototype ever

[@bloxxeralex1574]

how

[@DanknDerpyGamer]

lol