Sonic 2 - All Chaos Emeralds, Part 1

In this classic game challenge, I get all the Chaos Emeralds in Sonic 2 in the Emerald Hills Zone. It's hardly impossible but it's not easy either. You'll need to be familiar with all the special stages because there's very little margin for error. I did this once in my youth and decided to take another crack at it and make these videos, it was a lot harder than I remembered! This is hardly a superplay, so expect me to get hit and do other stupid things.

If you're not familiar with Sonic 2, in order to get the Chaos Emeralds you need to beat the Special Stages. To open the portal to a Special Stage, you need to activate a Star Post (checkpoint) with 50 rings or more. When you leave the Special Stage and return to the zone, you'll have zero rings, but all the rings and powerups (and enemies!) in the zone will be reset. This means I have to backtrack a lot to get the 50 ring requirement. Another mechanic that complicates this is that when you activate a Star Post, all Star Posts before it are activated as well, nulling your chance to open it with a portal if you didn't do so earlier. So it's necessary to hit the Star Posts in the right order if you're trying something like this.

Emerald Hills 1 has three Star Posts and thus three chances to get an Emerald. The first three Special Stages are pretty simple.

Special Stage 1 (blue) is very straightforward and simple, anyone should be able to beat it on their first try.

Special Stage 2 (purple) has a lot more twists and turns, and helps familiarize the player with some basic mechanics of the Special Stages; rings are often on the outside curve of a turn, and the direct center of the halfpipe is often littered with bomb patches. Recurring setups such as these help train you to do the Special Stages by instinct.

Special Stage 3 (orange) is also fairly straightforward but also features a higher ring quota and a lot more bomb traps. You'll have to jump at a few points to avoid bomb loops.

Not too tricky. The real action starts in the next set!

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaY7zKKV0Dk

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[djlowtek]

Never knew you could turn off tails! That is awesome he is a fucking bitch and always screws me up.

[04Sonicthehedgehog]

the 3rd special stage is soooooo hard :S

[SmokeEver]

It's more easy than the Sonic 1 and Sonic 3

[sigma941]

...Now do it with Sonic and Tails. lmao!

[TheHighLife412]

@SergioSource fuck yeah back i the day they mustve been like oh yeah well make a hard ass game and people will love it and itll be so much fun because how hard it is. like crash bandicoot 1 hardest game in the world that game is like ninja gaiden on master ninja

[frantzmemelli]

Man, i never make it without tails, i`m always missing some rings! What should i do?

[blank21121]

@JordanMeAwesome I didn't even know that i could keep him out of the game...now im sitting here yelling at this two tailed asshole for fucking up everything!

[JordanMeAwesome]

god damn, why did I bring tails?!

[dodgersrcool]

aha i havent seen this in 11 years.. ive been playing sonic 2 thought a lot recently, but i totally forgot how to go about getting emeralds aha..

i was 5 btw.

[SergioSource]

this game pisses me off

[DamexRanger]

@djlowtek except on the first stage