Submitted by: Rlan

The Sonic Advance 3 Prototype was released on the 21st of March, 2004, months before the actual release date, and possibly made it's way into the history books as one of the biggest blunders of SEGA and THQ ever. The ROM itself was dumped on the 16th of March, and was passed around a small group of people who taunted the rest of the community with it, until it was released through normal groups.

The image is a glitch in Ocean Base Zone, which happens in other levels as well, where characters sometimes just get stuck inbetween a piece of level with no way out. The number above Knuckles is the drown count.

Submitted by: Rlan

The game itself is in a very near completed stage, the only major need to it is to be bug tested, so this version of the game is considered a 'release candidate'. The levels are more-or-less complete, Super Sonic is active, and due to a glitch in the memory, you can play a completed game right from the the first time you start.

Sprite glitches are everywhere in this game, the spikes here are going loco.

Submitted by: Rlan

After the end of some levels, the screen goes all wonky, coming up with a blank red screen until the Mode-7 part is over.

Submitted by: Rlan

Another common part of some of the levitating second character glitch at the end of a zone. Like Tails in these shots, they will begin to do their finishing pose before the've hit the ground. Here Tails also was turned upside down in Cyber Track.