Sonic 3 & Knuckles - Sonic speedrun in

What is RTA-TB?

RTA-TB stands for Real Time Attack minus Time Bonus. Sonic 3 speedruns are timed using standard real time, but eliminating the time it takes for the time bonus from each act to finish. The reason for this is because you are awarded a 50000 point time bonus whenever you finish an act under a minute, which takes 8.7 seconds. Over a minute and it'll give you 10000 points, which takes 1.8 seconds. So if two runners finished a level with a 0:59 time and a 1:00 time respectively, the slower runner would have the time advantage due to the longer time bonus on the faster player. Raw RTA would encourage intentionally going slow to go fast, which is stupid, so RTA-TB was born.

What console/version of Sonic 3 & Knuckles are you playing?

This is the original Sonic 3 & Knuckles version released back in 1994 played on the Sega Genesis Model 2.

My ultimate goal for this game has finally been achieved. I spent countless hours, months constantly grinding this category to reach the sub 30 mark. Out of all the speedruns that I've done over the past 3 years, this is the one that I'm most proud of. My magnum opus you could say. Small flubs in Flying Battery 2, Sandopolis 2 and a couple of other places, but everywhere else is absolutely clean.

I do Sonic speedrun stuff at:   / joeybaby69