What are the BEST mods for s3Air

consistent s3 and extra slot mods

audio overhall 🔛🔝
genuily tho, its really good

Better ring physics (exclusive to gamebanana), original Zone order.

If you want Mecha Sonic to be a respectable boss, this is a must. It's one of my favorite mods ever made for S3AIR.

Sonic 3 D. A. Garden Edition
If you already played a lot of S3&K and wanna new levels and emotions - this mod is for you.
There's a 3 mods to play: Revised (16:9 remastered version of original ROM hack), Classic (4:3 version of the game more like original 2015 ROM hack) and Speedrun (for speedrunners, obviously);
Challenges: Time Attack (beat the level as fast as possible), Time Stone Trial (try to beat the level while stopping the time by collecting Time Stones) and Red Starts (actually it's just a Normal Game, but you can collect red stars, only in Revised Mode);
Many options, compatibility with other mods (not all of them) and more...

But if you want something new in your game you can do other challenges. In 'Achivements Plus' mod.
It recreates 53 achievements from RetroAchivements site and adds it in the game in 'Origins-styled' menu. Also adds Coins (that not actually replaces a lives), new hud in Data Select and Normal Game and options to choose from.

Also, if you wanna new gameplay, not only levels or challenges... Then, welcome to the wonderful world of Extra Slots.
Install 'Extra Slots Unlimited' (you can find it in S3AIRBoards as 'ESU Framework'), install some extra character and put it above 'ESU' and done, now you have new character with his own abilities.
You can put (almost) all of characters you find and they will work (almost all), even though there's only 256 slots for them.

I hope I helped you, so, have fun and sorry for my English

User made levels demo 3. Because there seven forces on, and it very good

I have many mods to recommend so in no particular order:

Sonic 3 complete sprites
Slightly better knuckles (gives him a white crest)
Spring twirl and falling sprites for all
Miscellaneous fixes and tweaks (which will lead to more tweak mods like Minor sonic 3 tweaks, origins parity galore, music cue customization etc.)
Da garden
Sound additions plus (it even adds some new and unique music to some zones like mushroom hill)
Blue glasses egg man and eggrobo mods
And any type of origins mod like the origins special ring animation or extra slot origins Amy
And speaking if extra characters, Extra Slots Unlimited/characters (it adds new characters like mighty and ray without taking up the main trio.)