Sonic 3 & Knuckles: All 14 Special Stages (+2, HD)

This took the longest to process, as it&the longest of my 4 Special Stages compilations, so I uploaded it last. -------------- Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Sonic & Knuckles, and Sonic 3 & Knuckles bring back the big Special Stage Rings that were in Sonic 1, and Sonic CD. However, they are much thicker, and instead of finding them at the end of most Acts, they are instead stashed away in hidden areas scattered all over every Zone in the game between Angel Island to Lava Reef. They stop appearing in every Zone after that. If you can find them, you can enter them anytime you want without needing a certain number of Rings. All of the Special Stages in this game take place on very small checkered planets. The goal is to, well... "Get Blue Spheres". Nab them all to beat the Special Stage and get a Chaos Emerald for your efforts. Once you collect a Blue Sphere, it&become a Red Sphere. Don&touch those or you&automatically kicked out of the Special Stage. There&a trick that, if you create a perimeter of Red Spheres in a group of Blue Spheres of 3x3 or more, you&turn the entire group into Rings. If you collect all of the Rings in the Special Stage, you&get a Perfect, which gives you 50,000 points: An instant 1-UP! -------------- As with Sonic 2, if you get all of the Chaos Emeralds, you can become Super Sonic and see the game&Good Ending. If you got them all as Knuckles, you can then become Super Knuckles. HOWEVER, since this is Sonic 3 & Knuckles, you can go further than that. Launch...