
The music mostly consists of early versions of Chaotix tracks. There are no sound effects at all during gameplay and no Badniks to be found, although there are spikes and you lose rings when hitting them (even though you have none). Crackers contains only two proper side-scrolling levels in addition to two overhead levels that did not make it into Chaotix. Like the final game, Sonic can pick up Tails and throw him up to make it easier to reach higher platforms. The game stars Sonic and Tails, held together by Combi rings as seen in Chaotix. Sonic Crackers is composed of different game engines swapped out using RAM coding.


Its name comes from the peculiar ASCII-art title screen that looks like it was thrown together in 5 minutes. Sonic Crackers (referred to as " Sonic Studium" in the ROM header) is a very early prototype build of Knuckles' Chaotix.
