Hello again!

Sonic 3 & Knuckles Battle Race is a 2-player only ROM hack, where the goal is to outrace your opponents, and get the most points before the level ends. You will die if you go offscreen. You can also play some minigames, which have their own rules. Here is a quick summary of each minigame:
* AIZ2: Your mission is to avoid the missiles coming from the sky. You lose if you die. Sometimes, monitors will pop off the ground, and you can pick them up. Eventually, they will be destroyed. As time goes by, more explosions will fall from the sky at once.
* CNZ1: Your mission is to get rings. As you get rings, you are able to use the bubble shield, to destroy the ground. Try to make your friend fall in, but avoid falling in yourself. You lose if you die. The more rings you have, the more bounces you can use. Robotnik monitors can't kill you or make you lose rings, but can be annoying and could knock you into a pit.
* LBZ1: Your mission is to destroy more badniks than your friend. At each location, some enemies will come down, which you will have to defeat before advancing. If you die, you lose.
* SSZ & DEZ2: This is like Battle Race, but there is no goal. Instead, you have a set amount of time to get most points. The layout loops and your spawn position is randomized.

Many of you might know Sonic 2 Battle Race. It's quite a popular hack, but for anyone that has played it a while, you might be aware it has some bugs and other issues. While for its time, it was an awesome hack, we thought that we could do better and learn from its mistakes. We decided to create this hack; Sonic 3 & Knuckles Battle Race! We spent quite a while planning the system to make it as fair as possible. A lot of minute details had to be worked out and resolved, and not to mention tonnes of bugs of the original game (In fact - most of the development time was spent on endless testing and bugfixing...) The project ended up taking us much longer than we anticipated, hence we started adding additional features and details. And yet, we want to add some more to it. If you have any ideas for good additions, or if you find any bugs, be sure to let me know.

We would like to thank the following persons for their contributions to the hack.
* ColinC10: For creating the Sonic 2 Battle Race hack.
* redhotsonic: The bounce feature from Sonic Bash.
* FoxConED: For some additional music
* Vladikcomper, redhotsonic, VAdaPEGA, Clownacy, Ozaleto, Jorge, Qiuu and LazloPsylus: Testing the hack and providing feedback.

Some notes about the hack:
* This hack is a 2-player only hack. This does mean, that you must play with your friends.
* KEGA Fusion is recommended if you wish to play with someone over the internet. There are probably other emulators that can do it as well.
* This hack does not work on Gens, or any Gens-derivative emulators. Unfortunately, we were not able to work around these limitations, and you should use another emulator, or real hardware.
* This hack is going to see updates in the future. As it is not complete, there will be missing features and there may be some unforseen bugs. Please be patient while we create the final version.

Hope you enjoy the hack!
