Still having this sam problem, making it impossible to get any of the emeralds or pretty much progress at all. Timer moves much faster than real seconds, rings spin around at a ridiculous rate, enemies are much faster as well. If anyone knows of a free on screen video capture program, I could get video for you. Even at the end of the game where the parts of Sonic talking are released the game moves them faster so that they run in with each other, even though the audio itself is the right speed.