Sonic Adventure 2 - Pumpkin Hill - m4 - All rings in 2:48.59

For years now, Pumpkin Hill has been an ugly eyesore when it comes to ring runs. Regardless of system, you have a 154 out-of count, and sufficient scouring of every structure in the level will lead to 152 with relative ease. But 152 isn't all rings, and it won't get a perfect. Why has no one found the last 2 rings? Did they even place the rings? Are we faced with rings in two obscure locations outside the level boundaries?

Well, I wouldn't say that no one has found them. I remember a post from years ago on Sonic Team's old Japanese BBS that purported to find the missing rings. When I first tried reading it, it wasn't very clear and I couldn't find any rings from it, but at least it sounded plausible. Then just a few days ago, someone else (brianpso on YT) claimed to have uncovered them as well. He didn't say anything about where, but I took it as sufficient cause to go look up the post again and see if I could make any sense of it this time. Still no luck with that, but armed with a general area to search in, I set out scouring a thick, moving fog of black, brown and white for a single stationary glimmer of yellow. Wouldn't you know it, after about 40 minutes, I found just that.

So the good news for everyone is that they did place the rings, and you don't have to look for two obscure locations outside the level boundaries. You just have to look for one.

Now you want to find them too? Well, let's see if I can explain this:
-The easiest way I found to locate the rings starts with one spot, shown in the image http://soniccenter.org/sm/images/phringsguide.png . That's a pillar on the back side of Ghost Train Mountain. Try to mimic Knuckles' position as best as you can.
-Now jump and glide off the wall. Don't even touch the control stick; it's a slower glide this way but at least you know you're going in the right direction.
-You'll fall down to the updraft plane, amid a sea of emptiness. That's supposed to happen. When you get blown back up, resume gliding, again without touching the stick.
-When you fall close to the updraft plane the second time, look to your right. It's a ring! (Actually it's two rings in the same spot, but all the better for you I guess.)

If you've followed these steps, you've found the missing rings. The next step is to actually get them, which is no easy task considering that they're below the kill plane. There's yet another step, which is to not die, but that's left as an exercise to the viewer. Suffice it to say you'll need a lightning shield to pull that one off.

And when you've done that, maybe you can try incorporating the new rings into the mission 4 time limit like me! It "only" eats up 10 seconds of travel time over a giant, nondescript void each way! And it would be even longer except I chose a path out to the rings that's pretty much completely blind with respect to the stage! How much of your 3 minutes do you really need?

(Oh, and don't forget that you have to find the pieces in that time too.)

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• sonic
• adventure
• two
• sa2
• pumpkin
• hill
• knuckles
• ring
• speedrun

[Zezlemetkun]

double containers what does it mean?

[SadisticMystic]

It means the stack of two boxes near the top of the mountain (although two other pieces, one for each major "mountain", also have the same first hint of "Double containers.")

[GigaBowserNS]

What about the Gamecube version? Do we have those rings there too? Or is the total changed?

[SadisticMystic]

There's no difference in ring positions across versions in any mission of Pumpkin Hill.

[southpark666666]

i think u missed a ring at 2:41 (Church Mountain)

[SadisticMystic]

There are 12 rings up there, and I got 12 rings. I didn't go all the way back to the furthest one, but that's what the lightning shield is for.

[94crazymonkey]

damn i love the song lol

[Cororo96]

a ghost tried to apporach me and got married?

[t2thefox]

I forgot this game had a 'perfect' ring count in each level. I also forgot they were total jerks about hiding them all. I'm gonna have to look at more videos like this and maybe even get out my SA2 again. Very impressive video.

[GigaBowserNS]

Cool. Does there exist a master list of where to find all of the rings in the game? I want to try for some of these perfects.

[drunkhas]

wow a video of you when you actually don't go through walls and stuff like that

[dad3i]

Man. I ought to find that last ring now.