Sonic Chaos by Sega Author: Ice T. Gressa and Panterror Flames Email: djtigresa@classicgaming.com, mcpantera@classicgaming.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Since Tails does not have to collect the Chaos Emeralds, all strategies here are based on if you have played the game with him because everytime Sonic gets 100 rings without possesing all emerads, he will go to the Special Stage and prematurely ends the level. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Story ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From the manual: Could this be the end of South Island? That evil maniac Dr. Robotnik has another twisted idea to take over the world! This time he wants to steal the mystical Chaos Emeralds The Emeralds are the source of vitality for all living thing. But in the hands of rotten Dr. Robotnik, they could be turned into nuclear bombs and laser weapons. The evil Doctor has already snatched the Red Chaos Emerald, causing the other Emeralds to lose balance and fly into a parallel universe. Now South Island is sinking into the ocean. Sonic and Tails will have to use all their super speed and super stunts to stop Dr. Robotnik and restore harmony to the universe! "OK, Dr. Robotnik" Says Sonic, You're charged with contempt of hedgehog. There is no time to lose. Gotta slide, Clyde." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Controls ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 or 2 button = Jump n attack. (also starts game on Master System) Down + 1 or 2 button = Spin Dash mode Up + 1 or 2 = Speed Run (Sonic) or Fly (Tails) Start (Pause on the master system console) = Pause the game Left or Right = run Up = look up Down = Look down or duck Run then press down = roll ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Items ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rings - 100 of these give you an extra life and send you to the special stage if you are Sonic. Their main purpose is to protect you from death when hit. You only need one ring for protection. One more hit without rings and you are a goner. Won't protect you from falls or drowning or time out. Super Ring - worth 10 rings Invincibility - Makes you impervious to damage for a limited time. Won't protect you from falls or drowning or time out. 1-up - gives you an extra life Pogo Spring - You can bounce on these to go places faster until you hit a wall. End of goal - Bluebird get you nothing, other panels gets you a 1-up, continue, or a super ring ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gameplay Tips ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can choose to play as Sonic or Tails. If you choose to play as Sonic, you will begin with three lives and no continues but Tails starts off with five lives and three continues. Sonic can only get the emeralds but this ends the level early. As said before, we use Tails strategy with a little notes if Sonic is needed. There are 6 zones with 3 acts each. You fight the boss at the end of each Act 3 You have 10 minutes in real time to complete a level. If the time goes over 10 minutes then you lose a life. Avoid staying underwater too long, soon a timer will be over your head. If the timer reaches zero then you'll drown and lose a life. When a zone is cleared, your kilometers per hour is calculated then you are greeted to a score tally. You get continues by collecting emeralds or getting 50000 points In the Gigapolis and Mecha Green Hill Zone, there are floors that lean to the side. You have to run across them to avoid falling through them. All the bosses have a pattern that can be used against them to defeat them easily. Some floors and walls are breakable. You can jump through them or spin dash through them. Bottomless pits kill you regardless of rings or Invincibility Fake walls need no breaking. You can go through them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zones ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Turquoise Hill - Speed through oceanside loops and tricky platforms loaded with Rings. Bounce off the Boing-o-Bots' springy noggins for high flying ring grabs. Look out for spike traps and the Lady Bug boss. Gigapolis - Smash through walls with the super spin dash. Watch where you jump or Dr. Robotniks traps will make you a chump! Metal-o-Turtles and bugs are out to get you, Fight the Bead Worm Boss to clear the zone. Sleeping Egg - Bash upward through solid blocks. Make huge spring-loaded mega-hops. Ramps send you siaring. Wierd optical illusuions and Dr. Robotnik's Veg-o-Bots try to do you in. The Bouncy Boss Robot is heavily armed. Watch Out! Mecha Green Hill - Mad mastermind Dr. Robotnik even has Coconut-Bots, so keep an eye on the palm trees. look out for the traps everywhere. Jump to save yourself from the deadly molten metal. Stay on top of the Crawler Boss. Aqua Planet - Dive into an underwater quest with fierce currents and treacherous tunnels. hold your breath and grab air bubbles to survive. Countdown numbers appear over your head to warn you that you're running out of air. The Sphere'o Bot awaits Electric Egg - Breakaway floors, laser guns, and indestructible booby traps are lurking dangerously in the final zone. Converyer belts make for slippery progress. The laser walker can get you with its bouncy shots +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Turquoise Hill Zone +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Act 1: Run right and get rings and go up the lift. Go left and if you are Sonic then the Rocket Shoes will be here. There will be a super ring instead if you are Tails. As Sonic, rocket slightly under the top of the screen and so you can be blocked by another Rocket Shoes and ou can use these new ones to rocket along a line of rings. Now just move through two loops and a corkscrew, bounce back up and move onto the exit. Act 2: Get the Sneakers and drop down. Go left and jump over the spikes and spin dash through the wall for a 1-up then head back. Hop over the spikes and keep going straight. Use the spring to get on the ledge and hop across two others while killing a rocket enemy then when down, hop over some Boing-o-Bots and some spikes on top of the loop and get some rings then bounce off two more springs to go through a fake wall and it will lead to more rings then the exit. Act 3: Go right and jump onto the spring and watch for the spikes. Go through the corkscrew for three rings. ------ Boss Fight: Big Lady Bug You cannot jump on it or it will bounce you high into the air. Just spin dash into it five times and it is down for the count. ------ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Gigapolis Zone +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Act 1: This level can be made easier (especially if you are Tails since 100 rings aren't necessary) by just staying at the lower parts of the level. Run right and roll your way through most of the level and get lots of super rings on the way. You'll g through a corridor and have to spin dash through a wall. But watch out for the spring. If you spring up the platform ahead then drop back down and spin dash through the walls here. We advise you to move slower to avoid two sets of spikes. After you go uphill, the exit is just to the right. Act 2: Just hold right and leap or roll into the beetle and hop over the large spike pit. Just like the previous act, stay low. There are times where springs bounce you out of nowhere especially one that send you into the rings above. Jump forward a lot if you are unsure of yourself. When you are at the lowest level, a parade of springs bounce you to a super ring then spring you up. The exit is to the right. Act 3: Go left for a super ring then go right and bounce off the spring then around the loop through a corridor ------ Boss Fight: Bead Worm Just aim for its head. It's pattern consists of lobbing its bottom segment, shooting the middle section straight along the ground, then lobbing the last section before regrowing its body and repeating its pattern ------ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sleeping Egg Zone +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Act 1: Go right and use springs to break the upper walls and go left. Hop up to the pogo spring and jump off of it to the right for a 1-up. Run up the hill and get a Super Ring and jump off to the right for more super rings. There is a hopping enemy nearby. Dispatch it as you get the rings. Use the spring below for leverage to the next platform above ride the bar to the right and ignore the rings then jump off at the end. The ground crumbles beneath you. Jump over the spikes and keep running and watch for a hopper. Jump across the walls and at the end, just keep running to the exit. Act 2: Get to the top of the screen any way you can then start staying at the top as much as you can but watch for crumbling platforms. If all goes well it'll take less than a minute to finish this level. Act 3: Take the low road and get a super ring then jump over a gap and run all the way right and face the boss. ------ Boss Fight: Bouncy Boss Robot The best way we could fight this gu is to take the hits and catch a ring in midair and nail him in the process during temporarily invincibility from being hit till he's finished. ------ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mecha Green Hill Zone +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Act 1: Run right quickly to avoid the falling bombs in the palm tree. Run across the slaneted floor and take a lift to the upper ground, For Sonic, a rocket shoe box would be here. Continue right and roll into spring beetles and avoid two sets of palm bombs. Take two sid springs and the exit is straight ahead. Act 2: Dig a hole in the beginning on a certain part of the floor then fall down. The oil here is deadly if you sink all the way down. Go left if Sonic for Rocket shoes or jump across the oil and jump over a spring and hop over a gap. Use the spring on the Boing-o-Bot to reach higher ground and use another spring that is past the slanted ground above. Hop a spring then run across the slanted floor and if you fall, a Boing-o-Bot will bounce you back up. The exit is ahead to the right. Act 3: Use the hanging platform to get across and stay low. Use the pogo spring to get up past the slanted floor. There is a Super Ring on the platform above the next slanted floor. Get it and jump to the right and face the next Boss. ------ Boss Fight: Tree Crawler This is an easy fight. Wait for the boss to get low enough then hop on top of its head and hold right to continuously bounce off of its head as it rises and falls. ------ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Aqua Planet Zone +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Act 1: This zone as a whole is the easiest in the game. We don't even know why to bother helping you here. Just run and jump your way to the end of the level in no time flat. Just remember not to stay underwater too long. You can skip across the water too. Act 2: Slightly harder with more but if you stay at the top of the level, you will beat this level faster than the last level. You may want to take your time and get the super rings galore while you are at the top of the level. Act 3: As Tails, fly to the top and get the super Ring. As Sonic, go through a spring parade then get the invincibility, and spin dash through the wall and you will spring up to where the super ring is. The boss is to the right. ------ Boss Fight: Sphere-o-Bot Kill the ducks with two hits each then when the boss comes down, lure it to the right and jump when it gets there and you'll continuously bounce off of it without having to touch the controller or landing. The boss will rocket up and lose its top half and shoot rockets. Avoid the six rockets then when the bottom half comes down, hit it once to defeat it. ------ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Electic Egg Zone +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Act 1: Run to the right and spin dash through walls and through some tubes. You'll run past some lasers but once you past some zoomers, you'll land on a trove of super rings. Make your way up and to the right to reach the exit anyway you can. Act 2: Fall to the left tube and get and invincibility and go back up and hold right at the intersections till you are forced up. Take a couple elevators and a slide which you must jump off qickly and the exit is to the right. Act 3: Take the slide and jump into the tube and hold down for a super ring then hold right to proceed. Take the elevator back up and go right to face the last boss. ------ Last Boss Fight: Robotnik Bounce on top of him but stay to the left of him so he will not fire his ricochet shots which he'll do if you are behind or directly above him. After enough hits, he'll retreat and starts trying to ram you with help of the Red Emerald. He'll kill you instantly regardless of rings if he harms you. One hounce on top of him will due him in. If you are Sonic and have the other five emeralds, the red one will fall to you and you get the good ending. Fail, and you get the bad ending. ----- =============================================================================== Special Zones =============================================================================== Only Sonic can go here and get the emeralds. Stage 1: Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder can do this one. Get the rocket shoes and just stay in one spot. You can get the rings if you want. You'll fly into the blue emerald. Stage 2: Go all the way right and use the pogo springs to get to the top and get the orange emerald just to the left of the part where you use one pogo spring on two platforms. Stage 3: Just ride the tubes and get invincibility boxes which serve no purpose and after you start going down a long tube, hold up and you'll be spat out with the freen emerald on the left. Stage 4: Get the rocket shoes and fly as far as you can then burrow all the way to the right and once out, get the stopwatch and go up and left for another rocket shoes. You'll pass another one during flight so go back for it. Once done, jump past the slanted spring and get the rocket shoes below, then run back for one more rocket shoes and the black emerald is at the very top. Stage 5. Get the time stop and ride the tube and just keep holding down to go through two intersections, and hop over a spring and get the last emerald. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Codes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stage select: up, up, down, down, right, left, right, left, Start Sound test: down, down, up, up, left, right, left, right, Start Fireball: activate sound test and move the controller: down, down/right, right and press 1.