Game Over: Sonic 3 & Knuckles PC Game Over (same as S3DB5).Ending Music: Sonic the Hedgehog 3 PC: Ice Cap/Sonic 3 Title Theme (near the end of the song.).Level 5: Sonic 3 & Knuckles PC: File Select.Level 4: Sonic 3 & Knuckles PC: Launch Base Act 1 (Different track than Level 1 & 3).
Getting hit leaves you temporarily invulnerable (except against spikes) like other Sonic games, but you can't collect any rings that you lose. The invincibility powerup no longer changes the music nor does it kill enemies when you run into them, it simply protects you from enemies for a certain amount of time, and the lack of a music cue makes it difficult to tell when it wears off. There are numerous enemies ripped from the first Sonic The Hedgehog and Sonic The Hedgehog 3 although they're reduced to moving back and forth in this game. In turn, this makes the Spin Dash in the game rather useless. However, to defeat enemies you can only jump on them instead of spinning into them. Sonic's controls work similarly as they do in Sonic The Hedgehog 2.