Sonic Adventure 2 - Cosmic Wall - m1 - All rings (479/479)

[JonBethany]

98.5% of this stage is Eggman hovering lol. That is, if you take the short cut passed the plat form places.

[Chaosblue17]

do you skip the rings at the start just to make sure wen u get hit u wont need to start over?

[SadisticMystic]

No, I skip them because otherwise my ring count would be too high to get the rewards I want upon arriving at checkpoints. Once you get to 21 rings, there's no way to pick them all up after a hit, so that won't help to avoid a restart.

[LuigiTailsPrower]

I was wondering when I'd see from you again! And this video was so worth the wait! I always enjoy watching you break out at the rail stations! And the ending was awesome! Final stretch, 50 rings left, miss a bubble and you have to do the whole thing ALL over again! And nice use of Sonic CD music! You are awesome! Keep it up!

[halberdierv2]

but, if you don't mind me asking, what is that song playing in the second half of the vid?

[SadisticMystic]

Did you skip right past 5:27 or something?

[halberdierv2]

impressive, as usual.

[SuperSonicSanctuary]

Man, now matter how i look at it- i never get tired of your SA2 runs.

[CebuLips9]

YAY YOU STILL MAKE THE VIDEOS!!!! that's a relief, seing as you're the best sonic player in the world.

[finalgamer23]

Just curious but were the any rings that could have been grabbed from the chao segment of the level where you grab up the hidden chao?

[SadisticMystic]

No, there's just a 1-up and a small animal.

[sonicdan369]

Truly you are the sonic-jesus. Fantastic vid.

[brianpso]

Hey SM, great job! Many people must be waiting to see this video, 'cause at least for me it was a little tough to figure out the strategy all alone. Another thing: Where's those 5 rings you said below? I don't remember seeing them in the stage, maybe yes but right now i think I've never seen them.

[SadisticMystic]

Is this talking about the description?

If so, they'd be the c4 rings, with the current rewards at 4, 5, and 6 being pushed back to 5, 6, and 7. Without a way to get back from c7, though, they simply don't exist.

[brianpso]

I understood now, it would be awesome if we figure a way to get back from there, since that's the only thing that prevent us from getting the real maximum amount of rings in this stage.

[meirus]

How in the world are you able to just hover forward without dropping down?

[brianpso]

The gravity is too low in this stage, so you can hover for long distances with ease.

[MetaSieg]

Pretty cool stuff you pulled off here.

All I can say is hooray for bad level programing.

[MitsurayKawagatxi]

omfg! someone still posting SA2 vids!

Awsome job as always and it's good to see that some people still enjoy playing this ^^

[shadoweagle89]

great job. definitely would not be able to do that... sucks about the dreamcast though.

[gggaaaaaarrraaa]

nice to see that your alive.

I wouldn't have the patience to do this. Kudos to you

[seventhfonist425]

Hmm, just curious, but would it still say "Perfect" at the results screen for the rings if you get over the limit?

[SadisticMystic]

Yes, but that's not something you can do in Cosmic Wall.

[MarioMastar]

Yeah it does. Forgive me for this, but Action Replay 999 rings and you'll have WAY over the limit, but it'll still say you have PERFECT. Also, in Knuckles' and Rouge's stages where you can dig, you can get 999 in theory. I think Sadistic Mystic will know the stages you can max out the ring counter, but I know that you get perfect if you go beyond the ring limit.

[SadisticMystic]

Diggable rings are just like checkpoint rings: whenever you get them, the out-of total goes up just as much, so they can't be used to get ahead of the count. Even though the out-of can't display more than 999, if you get to 999 in Wild Canyon purely by digging rings, it's really "999/1172", so that line of attack doesn't work either.

Levels where you can exceed the count include City Escape, Green Forest (GC only), Security Hall, and Cannon's Core (DC only unless you warp via a kart stage).

[MarioMastar]

Ah, I see. I'm too used to seeing 999/*some low number*, but I guess it's because with AR, the counter changes to 999, but since it's done all at once before the stage loads, the Ring total counter doesn't rise with it, whereas in stages with infinite rings (or higher amounts) would raise the total counter if you passed the limit via known/checkpoint rings, right?

Ah, and wow, that would be a pain spending hours collecting 999 rings, just to see you needed more than that...

[zmanrwks]

How do you exceed in City Escape?

[SadisticMystic]

Simple--they just set the out-of too low by 16 rings. It doesn't matter which ones; as long as you miss 15 or less you're in good shape.

[Saestrol]

Man. You mast have godly patience to do this. Just flying through specific walls and everything. Nice

[SadisticMystic]

The two big trouble spots are:

-the first long backtrack, to get the 20s from under the floor. Eventually I found that if you aim for distance on the jump before starting to hover, you should be able to conserve enough height to make the lock-on every time.

-the final tunnel. What I did here was refer back to some old tape, to find the timing when each ring box comes into view. With that information down, once I actually got to the tunnel, my eyes were on the clock the whole time.