Sonic Crackers (referred to as Sonic Studium in the ROM header and often identified incorrectly as Sonic the Hedgehog 4) is an early prototype build of the game Knuckles' Chaotix, incorporating many of the elements that would appear in the final game. Its name comes from a peculiar, and clearly quickly made, ASCII-art title screen. Sonic Crackers is thought to be an engine test, composed of various different game engines, which are swapped out using RAM coding.

The game features Sonic and Tails, who, in the main demonstration of its link to Knuckles' Chaotix, are held together by rings that they carry and that are joined by an elastic force. Also, Sonic can pick up Tails and throw him upwards, to make it easier to reach higher platforms. The stages and music are also similar to those in Chaotix. There are no sound effects at all during gameplay. There are no badniks to be found, however there are spikes, and you lose rings when hitting them (even though you have none).

Interestingly, the date on the lower right of the title screen reads "19940401". The 0401, meaning April 1st, lead to some debate on if the title screen, or the ROM was a April Fools joke. With the discovery of the Chaotix protos (especially of Knuckles' Chaotix prototype 1207), this is clearly not the case.

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Stevenpavelish1.. 09-28-15 - 12:01 PM
 LOL Sonic Studium!
baseballer05 04-23-15 - 10:30 AM
 You can move freely while paused.
Megaman.EXE 01-28-15 - 04:43 PM
 it's a beta for knuckles chaotics
mariosonic123 12-28-14 - 10:59 PM
 Looks like a potential sonic game, It's so sad what happened to it later.
GameBoy1023 10-20-14 - 01:31 PM
 Sonic Crackers? Where's Sonic Pancake, Sonic Sandwich, or Sonic Potatoes? Come on, EGGA! We know you can produce another food related game!
mrhello 03-31-13 - 08:04 AM
 i think it said on a wiki that this game was turned into knukles chaotix.
mrkoolnerd 09-10-12 - 10:09 PM
 i'd call this a alpha not a beta but ok
shadic_x 05-04-12 - 07:47 PM
 this bug
supersonicfan77.. 05-01-12 - 10:15 AM
 i like the 3d part
supersonicfan77.. 05-01-12 - 10:14 AM
 good game
SuperSonic780 04-25-12 - 01:47 PM
 ... i always run out of time
sonicfan 03-07-12 - 01:57 PM
 i can fly lol
MangaFan2021 12-17-11 - 06:57 AM
 yup.
cju312 09-20-11 - 05:37 PM
 noheng
3Chris28 07-30-11 - 05:49 PM
 This game is better than Sonic '06.
vizz-whizz 07-14-11 - 02:01 PM
 type in knuckles chaotix after playing this
sabiado 07-11-11 - 08:49 PM
 hi :D this is a prototype of another mysrious game of sonic rk
joseakadaman 06-21-11 - 10:36 PM
 on the "bonus stage" press pause and a to end it.
joseakadaman 06-21-11 - 10:36 PM
 press pause (enter) and you can float around.
joseakadaman 06-21-11 - 10:35 PM
 this game was made into knuckles chaotix. look it up
stacyhedgehog 05-21-11 - 08:36 PM
 this is kind of slow and annoying
sonicxsonicx 05-10-11 - 04:29 PM
 LOL WUT? I WENT TOO I AND I GOT A GAME OVER!
klonoa 04-18-11 - 09:11 PM
 sonic's arm stretches too far
galactic cyrusX 03-30-11 - 09:48 PM
 WTF Is up with the rings, it says I have 0, but when I touch the spikes I lose rings I never had!
rk12 12-18-10 - 09:54 AM
 no offense but knuckles chaotix was better, notice something familiar between Mighty in Chaotix and Chaotix altogether? And the music? (hint: this is Chaotix's prototype)