Sonic Chaos strategy
Sonic Chaos FAQ
by: Tony Clark (tony_clark@mentorg.com)
Q: Do you have any info on Sonic Chaos?
Special Stage One: Break the Sonic monitor and fly right. At first, stay on
the line where the small rings appear, because you can clear
two lines of the large rings with one pass, and these are
usually the lines with the highest ring density (there's
more rings on these lines).
Special Stage Two: Go to the right, jump on the rightmost plartform. Board the
spring, and look for the side which has the highest platform
to the side of it. If you move to the extreme right and
left with your spring, you will see platforms above you to
the right and/or left. When Sonic is at the highest point
of the spring jump, jump up and to the side you're on and
you'll end up on the next platform. Keep repeating this,
until you're on the platform with the emerald. If you need
time, there is at least one clock monitor which halts the
time left clock for a few seconds near the top of this
stage.
Special Stage 3: Go into the tube to your right by breaking the
invincibility
monitor. If you press up for the rest of the stage, you'll go
into the room with the emerald. Explanation: you go through
the same thing several times, with the crisscross tubes, and
then after several of these, you'll notice the pattern
changes. If you look to your right before the tube goes
upward, you'll see the emerald for a split second. The tube
then curves to the left, and you'll come up on an intersection
where you can continue to the left or go up. You want to go
up.
Special Stage 4: This one doesn't leave much time to spare. The emerald is on
a high platform which you can't jump onto at the rightmost
point on the stage. One way to do it is to run and jump as
fast as you can to the right. Jump as far as you can,
avoiding the recesses , ending up on a point about as high as
you are. Try running or using the combination down+1 to get
some speed, and then jump at the end of the platform. At one
point you'll reach a downward sloping towards the right
platform, followed by a high sheer platform. You have two
options. Either you can do a down+1 then jump to get on the
platform, and use the rocket shoes monitor there to fly right,
or you can break through this hill. When you can't break any
more walls, jump and you'll break the one below you, then
break the walls to your right again, repeat. At this point
you can run right and pick up a clock monitor to stop time.
You'll want to either continue right and then back up and pick
up some rocket shoes, or backtrack and pick up an earlier
pair. From here, rocket shoes are pretty much required to
save time. You will go from shoes to running & jumping for
short periods of time several times. Usually you have to back
up and get a pair. If you end up running on a row of tiles at
the bottom of the screen whichcrumble from under your feet,
you've gone too far, and need to back up for the final set of
shoes. These are the only way I know of to reach the platform
with the emerald on it. This is one big-@ss level, sorry I
can't give a more detailed explanation. Some tips: if your
reach an area where there's a diagonal line of the stationary
plunger thingys to you're right, you want to scale this hill,
by jumping just to the left the plunger on the level you want
to land on. If you reach an area where there's one plunger on
the lower left, one on the lower right, and one on the upper
right, I THINK you want to backtrack.
Special Stage 5: Last one, and it's a nastier version of the third. You can
pick up a bunch of time monitors on this level by diverting
from the default path (straight) at intersections. This one
isn't as bad as Stage 4. Sorry, no direct set of moves here.
Suggestion: pause the game every so often to look at the area
around you when you're in the tubes. Take the side paths.
The 5th emerald is in a room which is hard to locate, because
it's so small. The room is on the left side of the level, and
is approachable from the inside of the level. Look for an
intersection where one of you're options is a tube that leads
into a room with a plunger which is ready to shoot you back
where you came from. If you look, you'll see that there's a
clear path just above the plunger thing. Jump and use the D
button to avoid being thrown back out, and take the path above
it. The emerald is down this path.
Robotnik &
Level 3 Electric Egg Zone: On level 3, run to your right down the slope, and
jump to the other side. Then jump back onto the
platform to your left, and use it to launch yourself
into the tube above. Press down when you do this, so
you can go into a side tube and get the 10 ring
monitor. Immediately press right to continue
towards robotnik. Ride the elevator platform you
land on, and go to the right. Best way to kill
robotnik #1: stay on the right side of the screen
and attack robotnik to the left, flying back to the
right after bouncing off him. This way when you get
shot, you can get the ring back without robotnik
standing on it. For robo #2, stay low. When the
ship appears, and then goes off one side of the
screen, sonic shoot yourself to the opposite side of
the screen so he doesn't kill you when he reappears.
After a few times of this, you can see his pattern
and then jump on top of him once to kill him.
Q: In Sonic Chaos when you continue a game, do you still have all of the
emeralds you picked up? I won by continues, and there wasn't a real ending
sequence, I just chased robotnik for a few seconds, and that was it. If you
let him go for awhile, do you get something other than the ending sequence?
When you continue, you still keep all the emeralds you had before. The only
difference with sonic real ending and the one without the credits is that
without the chaos emeralds Sonic falls on his face. The real ending shows:
Sonic chasing Robotnik for the rings. Robotnik drops the rings. Sonic gets the
rings and next thing you see sonic is inside the Chaos Emerald running a 360 and
then the credits roll. Nothing really spectacular of course.