tim_pkmn89
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Sonic Mania |OT| Dreams Come True
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Pretty much
I'm assuming my guesses were right, so then, how do we know when unlocks are reached? Is there some way to anticipate it or is it at arbitrary numbers of coins? Are the coins worth "points" towards unlocks?
BladeoftheImmortal
Member
I got a 4k TV so PS pro version would be great on it...But I'm also about to take a 6 hour ride on the train in a week so switch version would be great....Why can't this stuff be cross buy?
You only really need to pay attention to the missiles coming towards you, I find it easier to roll into the blue ones than to jump on them
Diablohead
Member
If it's like the other taxman sonic games you can hold up and press jump to make tails start flying, then jump into his hands.
alexbull_uk
Member
How do you do the spin dash on landing?
Ive seen people doing it but Im not sure of the technique.
Ive seen people doing it but Im not sure of the technique.
I THINK the intended solution to that one is to get the first sphere and set of rings while moving backwards. Then you move forward and collecting the other three sets for a Perfect can be done without issue,
I also can't figure this out.
Jump and hold the jump button in air.
You can also let tails carry you if you press up and Jump button.
RiderKairuu
Member
Evoking everything I hate about Sandopolis Act 2 in
is bumming me out lol.
Oil Ocean
I knew the tails thing, that's old school.. still can't figure out the jump dash though. Lol I did it once by accident.
Mr. Smiley
Member
Drop Dash?
Jump.
Then press and hold the jump button again. You'll see sonic rev up.
Then just land
Azure Dream
Member
There is a way. It involves using a cheat code.
Go into the main menu, then back out with B, and before it fades out, hold Y. Keep holding Y on the title screen, wait for Sonic's animation to finish, then while still holding Y press
Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right Left Right B A
UUDDLRLRLRBA
It's the Konami Code, but with an extra set of Left Right.
This takes you to the level select screen. Pick your character (I just accidentally booted it up with Knuckles), then pick the zone after Titanic Monarch, a single act called Egg Reverie.
Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right Left Right B A
UUDDLRLRLRBA
It's the Konami Code, but with an extra set of Left Right.
This takes you to the level select screen. Pick your character (I just accidentally booted it up with Knuckles), then pick the zone after Titanic Monarch, a single act called Egg Reverie.
Just jump and then hold the jump button pressed and it should work.
I haven't beaten it yet but where I'm at now I'm thinking something like:
3K > Mania > CD > 1 > 2
balladofwindfishes
Member
OrbitalBeard
Member
Anyone know which zone offers the quickest way to get to a bonus stage ring after you've finished the game?
NinjaCoachZ
Member
Ice Cap (3 version, Adventure is fine), Carnival Night, and Launch Base can never come back because those are the tracks MJ's team composed.
Generations 3D only had the boss part of Launch Base which was fine because Sega did that theme. Notice that every time they bring back stages or music from 3, those are the ones they never use.
Generations 3D only had the boss part of Launch Base which was fine because Sega did that theme. Notice that every time they bring back stages or music from 3, those are the ones they never use.
RiderKairuu
Member
Mirage Saloon Act 1
plane
Chemical Plant act 1. Take the standard path and then go left while in the tube. It takes about 20 seconds to get from the start of the stage to the bonus stage.
For me, the zone after Flying Battery. It's under the bottom left of the first big rotating cylinder, just like in Launch Base Act 1 in Sonic 3
The PC version of S3K had different tracks for these zones though, could they not be used instead?
balladofwindfishes
Member
Ice Cap zone wasn't written by MJ
You could literally use Ice Cap Zone Act 1 as a karokee version of that song lol.
The real song even sounds like it could properly loop if you wanted!
Nobody has nostalgia for those songs. Launch Base would be really weird for me without the GOGOGOGOGOGGOOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGO
Those three stages are just lost to time.
There's also the S3 miniboss music and the credits music that may be problems, but nobody really cares all that much about those.
Here's a neat remix from the composer of Sonic Mania though, so at least a little piece of Ice Cap kind of exists.
You could literally use Ice Cap Zone Act 1 as a karokee version of that song lol.
The real song even sounds like it could properly loop if you wanted!
Nobody has nostalgia for those songs. Launch Base would be really weird for me without the GOGOGOGOGOGGOOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGO
Those three stages are just lost to time.
There's also the S3 miniboss music and the credits music that may be problems, but nobody really cares all that much about those.
Here's a neat remix from the composer of Sonic Mania though, so at least a little piece of Ice Cap kind of exists.
Sonic 3&K > Sonic 2 > Sonic Mania > Sonic CD > Sonic 1
Mania could've ended up being my favorite if it was all new zones, so I do hope the team behind it will get to work on their own Sonic game next.
Azure Dream
Member
Apparently if you enable
mode, then use the code I posted above to play Knuckles in the final stage, you unlock
Act 2 wasn't totally comfortable for me. I ended up rushing through that level, and it was a little hard to keep track of the action there.
& Knuckles
a goofy extra ending. Just a still, but funny.
Stardust Speedway
There's 2 like in less than a minute in Green Hill act 1.
balladofwindfishes
Member
Just so we're clear, this is the Ice Cap Zone music on the PC
And this is Ice Cap Zone everywhere else
I can't possibly imagine how disappointed the fan base would be if the first zone was used.
I do wonder if they could remix the songs so much that they're recognizable without infringing rights, though. Just having the beat from Ice Cap might be enough to invoke the same sort of feeling and it's just a genericish pop beat that they could get away with using.
And this is Ice Cap Zone everywhere else
I can't possibly imagine how disappointed the fan base would be if the first zone was used.
I do wonder if they could remix the songs so much that they're recognizable without infringing rights, though. Just having the beat from Ice Cap might be enough to invoke the same sort of feeling and it's just a genericish pop beat that they could get away with using.
Rapscallion
Member
I unlocked Super Peel Out, but how do I use it? Same goes for the
. Don't see the option to turn them on...
knuckles and knuckles mode
ice cold
Dead End Irony
Member
Awesome! Thanks for the response!
I wonder if it's one of the Michael Jackson made tracks that mini boss song sure is in original Sonic 3. Dunno about the others.
NinjaCoachZ
Member
Beaten to it, but Ice Cap's music is one of the most famous and beloved in the whole series. There would be riots in the streets if it showed up without it. The PC collection is so obscure compared to the originals and even at the time people were scratching their heads wondering why they changed the music.
The downside of Sonic zones being so associated with their music is that when legal nightmares like this happen, it throws a wrench into a whole bunch of things. Since then Sega have been much more careful about dealing with guest musicians and ensuring they own all tracks whenever possible.
Yeah, MJ himself didn't compose Ice Cap, but Brad Buxer (one of his producers) cribbed it from one of his band's unreleased songs.
The other songs believed to be composed by MJ and/or his producers (aside from the zones listed above) were the 3 credits theme, Knuckles' theme, and act 1 mini-boss. All of the latter three were replaced in Sonic and Knuckles.
SomewhatGroovy
Banned
How many zones left after the
stage?
desert
I look forward to them delivering some new content, however I would be enjoying this game significantly less without throwback zones.
balladofwindfishes
Member
Knuckle's theme, the mini boss theme and the credits music have all always been suspect. Note that all three were changed in Sonic and Knuckles. They also changed in the PC version I believe?
Ice Cap is one we know was 100% not done by Sega since we have the original song.
Launch Base and Carnival Night were also changed on the PC, and both sound very MJ-like, so they've always been thrown in as suspect as well.
I'd love to hear the original songs for all of these, like Ice Cap Zone.
Sonic 1's and 2's music aren't exactly clean either, but I guess at this point Sega has worked the rights out for some songs from that game. Or they haven't and that's why Chemical Plant Zone appears in everything instead of some other stages.
robot
Member
Highlight No Save in Save Select and press X
Confused Cheeseburger
Member
This game is even more gorgeous with the CRT soft filter on switch handheld.
RiderKairuu
Member
There's a few examples a couple posts up on this page.
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
Cold as ice
Hard times
Well it's not actually MJ's but yeah
Shame it probably my favourite level and music in the series
Well Sonic 3+Knuckles is just God like even compared to Mania
It's a bit confusing with Sonic 3 it's never been released digitally on it own but the Mega Drive Collection was made available and is still available even digitally.