Unlocking hidden games:
You must accumulate 30 hours of game time for each game. When
you are playing a game (for example, Sonic the Hedgehog),
you can go to the sub menu and select "Save Game". Once
you do this, your game save window shows a time (for example,
12:04:15). That time is the amount that you have accumulated.
Once it reads 30:00:00 or above, games will begin to unlock, depending
on which Genesis game it is. Unlocking all games can be done over
a period of only a few weeks. When you start up your first game,
you can if desired leave it at the title screen then allow the
Xbox to idle there for the entire day. The game will still accumulate
the hours, even though it is just running the title screen. When
you need to exit out of the game, make sure to save the game before
exiting. The amount of time accumulated time will be labeled in
the save window. Repeat the process for the rest of the Genesis
games. Note: The Ooze and Comix Zone can be unlocked
by having a saved game file from Sonic Heroes on your hard
drive; or alternately playing all games for a total of 30 hours.
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In-game hints:
Select any game and start it. Allow it to idle while the game
is actually running. After a certain amount of time is accumulated,
you will unlock the in-game hints for that particular game.
Invincibility: Press [Attack] on sounds 3, 12, 17, 2, 2, 10,
2, 7, 7, 11 at the jukebox screen. A voice will say "Oh Yeah"
to confirm correct code entry.
Level select: Press [Attack] on sounds 14, 15, 18, 5, 13,
1, 3, 18, 15, 6 at the jukebox screen. A voice will say "Oh
Yeah" to confirm correct code entry. Select the sound number
that corresponds to desired level and press [Attack].
Hint: Extra points:
Go into exercise mode, wait until you get a Blue/Green bean, and
try not to cover it. When you see a Has Bean come into the dungeon,
put it on top of the Blue/Green bean. This will usually give you
more points.
Bonus picture:
Complete rounds one through ten in under twenty seconds and receive
a perfect score in each bonus round to accumulate over 240,000
points. A picture of a girl in a bikini will appear in the lower
left corner of the screen.
Reveal items: Enter MIEMIE as a password. A silver star will
appear during the game in locations where you can collect a bonus
life, gold star, or treasure.
Extra lives: Accumulate fifty rings, enter the special stage, and
get the emerald. Lose your current life, accumulate another set
of fifty rings, and re-enter the special stage. Give the rings
to the same character used the first time the special stage was
entered. The same stage where the emerald was awarded will re-appear.
Complete the stage for an extra life. Collect 100 rings for another
extra life. Lost your current life and repeat this procedure.
Hint: Tails and Knuckles in Rusty Ruins
Act 2: When you get to the third part, immediate before the
X Mark, go off the nearby cliff. Then, go down where the Bumblebee
Badnik is located. Destroy that little object with the grass under
it. Then, you can get to Tails. On the first part, go to where
the Blue Shield is located, next to the first exit. Collect 50
Power Rings, then Spin Dash into that wall that looks pushed back
slightly. If you won all the Special Stages so far, with six Emeralds
you will get the Last Chaos Emerald.
Hint: Knuckles in Rusty Ruins Act 1: At the last rotating pair of spiked balls, just before
the "X", are two small pillars with a wall that you
can Spin Dash through. Once through, return to a thing that sets
you spinning, then go to Knuckles to break through the pillars
beside him.
Sonic The Hedgehog And Knuckles:
All TVs: Enable the "Level select" and "Debug
mode" codes. About halfway through the very short Hidden
Palace Zone, instead of going straight into the chamber to fight
Knuckles turn Sonic into a ring and go up. You will find one ledge
to the left with several different TVs and another ledge to the
right with two ring TVs and a 1-Up TV.
Sonic The Hedgehog And Knuckles:
Top out Super Sonic power faster: Enable the "Level select" and "Debug
mode" codes. Each time you turn yourself into an "S"
TV and break it, you will add 50 more rings to your total. To
do this quickly, position many "S" TVs on the same spot.
Then, instead of bouncing on the top of them and breaking them
one-by-one, jump and hit them from the side. You will smash them
all at once, turning you into Super Sonic and getting your ring
total up to the hundreds instantly. Do not do this with too many
at a time or the game will freeze.
Sonic The Hedgehog And Knuckles:
Extra lives instantly: Enable the "Level select" and "Debug
mode" codes. Although you are supposed to get an extra life
for every 100 rings collected, when you break "S" TVs
you will not get one until you touch an individual ring afterwards.
To make sure you get an extra life for every 100 rings you add
to your total, plant a pile of rings and "S" TVs beside
each other. Now for every two TV's that you break (100 rings),
walk over to your pile of individual rings and grab a few to cross
another 100 ring threshold and get an extra life every time.
Level select: Press [Up] two times, [Right] three times,
[Down] six times, [Left] nine times at the title
screen. Select the "Config" option and use [Left]
or [Right] to choose a starting level.
Multi-ball stage: Collect all the rings on a level and use the gate that
appears to be a large shining ring.
Unlimited lives: Locate the barrels in the Toxic Caves stage. Jump in
a barrel and move toward the wall opposite the emerald. Jump out
of the barrel and intentionally lose a life while returning to
that barrel. Sonic will seem to die twice before re-appearing
at the start of the level. The phrase "Launching Extra Ball"
will appear allowing unlimited lives to be accumulated.
Kill yourself until you have one life remaining. Then, locate
the barrels in the Toxic Caves stage. Jump in a barrel and move
toward the wall opposite the emerald. Jump out of the barrel and
intentionally lose a life while returning to that barrel. Sonic
will seem to die twice before re-appearing at the start of the
level. :"Game Over" will appear, but you still will
be able to play. Also, there will be no number of lives displayed
where it normally appears.
Bonus points: Complete Green Hill Zone 1-1 or 1-2 in 29 seconds or
less to receive 50,000 bonus points.
Unlimited lives: Collect the extra life at the very bottom of Green
Hill Zone - Act 3. Accumulate 100 rings to obtain another extra
life. Collect a third extra life located at the top of the loop-the-loop.
Intentionally lose a life and repeat the process.
Special Zone entrance: You can almost always have the Special Zone entrance
open (the giant ring next to the sign at the end of level Acts
1 and 2) by not losing your rings. If you do lose your rings,
when you pass a checkpoint, intentionally die, then continue through
the level without losing any rings. This works about 80% of the
time.
Collect 50 rings and finish the stage. There will be a giant ring.
"Sonic Posts" 10,000 point locations:
Green Hill Zone 1: When Sonic passes the zone, make sure to pass
his body all over the last tree. A "10,000" bonus point
is hidden there.
Green Hill Zone 2: When Sonic passes this zone, make sure to pass
in between the second and third palm tree. The bonus point worth
"10,000" is there.
Marble Zone 1: When you view the message "SONIC HAS PASSED
ACT 1", you should noticed three columns. To the right of
the third column, pass all over the little area to get the "10,000"
point bonus. In order for this to happen, you should use jump
as much as possible to get him to reach the point bonus.
Marble Zone 2: When you view the message "SONIC HAS PASSED
ACT 2", pass his body all over the right side of the screen.
You should get the "10,000" point bonus. In order for
this to happen, you should use jump button as much as possible
to get him to reach the point bonus.
Spring Yard Zone 1: The next "10,000" bonus point is
directly above the sign.
Spring Yard Zone 2: The "10,000" bonus point is just
above the blue post prior to the sign. It is closest to the left
side of the screen.
Labyrinth Zone 1: The "10,000" bonus point is on the
ceiling nearest the right side of the screen.
Labyrinth Zone 2: Although there is a point amount near the zone's
sign post, that is not the "10,000" bonus point. The
"10,000" bonus point is on the top right hand corner
of the screen.
Star Light Zone 1: The "10,000" bonus point is slightly
above the top right hand corner of the screen. When you hit it,
you can just barely see the bottom left hand corner of the point
when you return to the ground.
Star Light Zone 2: The "10,000" can be obtained by having
Sonic jump "on top of" the second lamp post that can
be viewed from the screen. When you return to the ground, you
cannot see the point.
Scrap Brain Zone 1: Under the ground, you will see a series of
pipes that seems to go in this pattern: "l n l". The
"10,000" bonus point is above the first "l"
(pipe). This might be complicated to get.
Scrap Brain Zone 2: No points here.
There are no points in Zone 3 of any of the Zones.
Tails name changed to Miles: Press [Up] three times, [Down] three
times, [Up] at the title screen. A sound will confirm correct
code entry. Tails' name will be changed to "Miles".
Note: The opposite will occur in the Japanese version of the game.
Level editor: Enable the "Debug mode" code. During game
play, press the button configured as "B" on the Genesis.
Sonic should become an object somewhere on the level. Press the
button configured as "C". You can "paste"
that object in the level. Press the button configured as "B"
again to resume game play. Press the button configured as "A"
on the Genesis while editing the level to change the object. You
can also move the object in the air, etc. to truly make your own
challenge. Also, you can move across obstacles and turn back to
Sonic to cut points in the level.
Super Sonic: Enable the "Level select" code. Use the sound
test selection on the options screen. Choose sounds 4, 1, 2, 6
(in that order). Start a stage, collect 50 rings, then jump to
transform into Super Sonic.
Super Tails and Super Sonic: Enable the "Level select", "Debug",
and "All Chaos Emeralds" codes. Then, start any level
and get 50 rings. You can use the "Turn into a ring and give
them to Tails" trick. When you turn into Super Sonic, use
debug mode to turn into a television. It should be a "switch"
television from versus mode when you place it. If you break it,
you will see a brief glitch, which will not effect the game. You
will see everything return, with one small difference. You will
still have Super Sonic's appearance, but he plays like Sonic with
regular speed, normal jumps, etc. Tails, however, has Super Sonic's
power and cannot be "hurt". This will last for however
many rings you had when you hit the television; start when you
have at least 100 rings. Then, hurt yourself so that you lose
all your rings and you will lose Super Sonic's appearance. Then,
use the trick to get fifty rings again and jump. You should now
have Super Sonic and Super Tails.
Mega Sonic: Collect fifty rings and jump after becoming Hyper Sonic
for even more speed and higher jumps.
Unlimited speed shoes: Begin game play in two player vs. mode and hit as many
item boxes as possible until you get the speed shoes. Then, intentionally
lose your life while you have them (getting squashed is the easiest
way). You will return to the start of the level or the last Star
Post that you hit, but you will now have the speed shoes in effect
for the rest of the stage.
Unlimited lives: Enable the "Level select", "Super Sonic",
and "Debug mode" codes and enter any stage. Get fifty
rings and turn into Super Sonic. Change Sonic into the television
monitor. Change Sonic back and have him jump to turn into Super
Sonic. Jump on the television monitor to have Tails become invincible.
Then, turn into an enemy and put it right on tails while he is
invincible. Continuously place the robots there, and they will
be destroyed because Tails is invincible. You should get lots
of points, which add up to extra lives.
Super Sonic sign: Get all of the Chaos Emeralds and transform into Super
Sonic. Try to have at least fifty rings when you finish the level.
After completing the level, run off screen and wait until the
end-of-level sign shows Sonic. When it does, transform into Super
Sonic. The sign will show Super Sonic for one second, then show
blue Sonic again.
Starry Super Sonic: Get all the Chaos Emeralds and collect fifty rings,
but do not transform into Super Sonic yet. Find an invincibility
monitor and spin (do not jump) into it. Then, transform into Super
Sonic. If done correctly, the stars will surround Super Sonic
until he runs out of rings and transforms back into blue Sonic.
Note: This does not improve Super Sonic's performance
Stronger Super Sonic: Enable the "All emeralds", "Level select",
and "Debug mode" codes. Go to Oil Ocean (either act).
Become Super Sonic, then stand on one of the green/yellow colored
cylinders. Jump on it, but as soon as you hear it break, go into
debug mode. You should be thrust upward, even in your debug state.
Then as soon as you regain traction, exit debug mode. You should
now be able to jump twice as high and fast.
Bonus points: For extra points, pass any zone in a certain amount
of time. For the best bonus, enter the "Debug mode"
code. The clock will stop and you will always score a 50,000 bonus.
Time
Points
0:30
50,000
0:45
10,000
1:00
5,000
1:30
4,000
2:00
3,000
3:00
2,000
4:00
1,000
5:00
500
Wing Fortress shortcut: In Wing Fortress, move with some rings as far to the
right as possible without climbing. When blades appear to block
your way, hit them. As soon as you are invincible, walk through
them. Jump on the platforms to the right and half the level will
be completed.
Flames follow Sonic: Enable the "Debug mode" code. You can also
enable the "Super Sonic" code, if desired. Go to Death
Egg Zone and defeat the two bosses. When you defeat the giant
egg robot, turn into a ring instead of running all the way out.
Go into the area where flames appear. Go back to where you battled
the egg robot. Flames should follow you where ever you go.
Level select: Quickly press [Up] two times, [Down]
two times, [Up] four times, after the Sega logo fades and
Sonic starts to appear, and before the screen flashes white. A
chime will confirm correct code entry. Press [Up] at the
title screen to access level select and sound test options.
Extra lives: Set off the first alarm on the first level of the Launch
Base Zone. Wait in the middle of the alarm and perform Spin-Dash
attacks on the Flybots. The value of the Flybots will eventually
increase to 10,000 points as they continue to attack. Accumulate
points and lives at this location.
Sonic And Knuckles
music: In the 2nd Zone and 3rd Act, before fight Dr. Robotnik,
allow your character to almost drown, then put your head back
up in air (touch the starpost but down jump in it).
Speed boost: To instantly get a speed up, jump when Sonic is a little
over halfway on the loop.
Many rings: On Act 3 of the Icecap Zone, turn into a ball at the
end before you reach Robotnic and fly off a ramp onto a purple
trampoline. Look up to see a large number of rings. Bounce high
enough to find another whole set of rings. Go to the right far
enough to find a big ring.
