One resurfaced prototype of the game reveals that the tracks for Knuckles, Carnival Night, IceCap, Launch Base, the credits and the competition menu theme were incredibly different from the final tracks in the game.Simon Thomley (the lead developer of the remastered port in Sonic Origins) is not happy about how the port turned out in Sonic Origins, with him going on to criticize the unpolished state of the port and the many bugs that according to him, were not originally there when he and his team submitted the port to Sega, but were introduced as a result of the port getting poorly integrated with the rest of Origins by Sega.Yuji Naka and Takashi Iizuka have both publicly apologized for the infamous "Barrel of Doom" found in Carnival Night Zone Act 2, as seen here.Likewise, coming from the time where SRAM chips are expensive as they are, pirate copies of Sonic 3 often lack an SRAM chip and the corresponding battery, forcing players to start from the beginning every time they want to play the game. This means a huge chunk of content will be unavailable, so even though the game is still fully playable, it's a lot less interesting. Copy Protection: Pirate copies of the Sonic & Knuckles cartridge obviously do not have the lock-on slot.Not helping was Sega's sloppy integration of the port into Origins, which only introduced more bugs that allegedly were not present when Headcanon submitted the port to Sega.
While the port is fortunately still playable when it was released, the rushed nature of the port is apparent as there are plenty of bugs and polish issues to be found within the port.
According to Simon Thomley, the Origins port was made under very strict deadlines and he and his team had no time to properly polish it under the deadlines, with Sega outright shooting him down when he requested more time to properly polish it, citing they don't have the time.
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