Sonic 3 Recomp
What you need: A Sonic the Hedgehog 3 ROM (the Sonic 3 cartridge on its own) for the Mega Drive / Genesis, dumped from your own cartridge.
Sonic 3 Recomp is a native Windows and Linux port of Sonic the Hedgehog 3 for the Mega Drive, made by mstan by statically recompiling the game’s 68000 code into C. It comes from the Sonic3AndKnucklesRecomp project, which builds Sonic 3, Sonic & Knuckles and the locked-on Sonic 3 & Knuckles as separate programs.
It adds widescreen and a Knuckles & Knuckles mod. It is a playable bring-up: Angel Island Zone works, and the rest of the game is still being brought up.
The author says AI tools were used heavily in making it.
The download contains no game data. It needs a Sonic the Hedgehog 3 ROM (the Sonic 3 cartridge on its own), dumped from your own cartridge.
How to set it up
- Download the Windows zip or the Linux AppImage for Sonic 3 Recomp and extract or unpack it.
- Run the program and point it at your Sonic the Hedgehog 3 ROM.
- Turn on widescreen or the Knuckles & Knuckles mod in the settings if you want them.
- The Linux AppImage needs a distribution with glibc 2.39 or newer.
