In the emulation scene, purists and romhack communities created to replicate this hardware lock-on. The wsonic3.bin file is the result of merging Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles into one binary file.
The file Sonic_Knuckles_wSonic3.bin is the combined ROM file required to run Sonic 3 A.I.R. (Angel Island Revisited) sonic knuckles wsonic3bin file install