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Please remember my name!

I'm doing more pointless trivia about Sonic the Hedgehog for no one to read. If you manage to input the very difficult level select code in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (you need to press up, up, down, down, up, up, up, up at the title screen between the time Sonic appears on screen and when the screen flashes white, which is about half a second), you might notice that Flying Battery is listed, despite not being a level in Sonic the Hedgehog 3, only in Sonic & Knuckles. This is because Flying Battery was originally meant to come between Carnival Night Zone and Ice Cap Zone - the end of level transition in Carnival Night with Sonic being shot out of the cannon would have had him landing on the deck of the Flying Battery, and the end-of-level cutscene of Flying Battery would have led directly to Ice Cap, with Sonic using the door he knocked off the Flying Battery as a snowboard. You can still see the door get knocked off in the final game, but nothing happens to it after that. This con