RingRush | Sonic and the Secret Rings - All Missions, Max Level Tool Assisted Speedrun Compilation @RingRush | Uploaded April 2021 | Updated October 2024, 22 hours ago.
After on-and-off work over the course of almost 2 years, we finally have TASes of all 110 missions in this game using a fully upgraded Sonic.
It should go without saying, but no cheats or game modifications were used in this video. You can do everything shown here on your own console with a wiimote - if you had the inhuman precision to do so.
All levels are optimized for the real time between confirming level selection in the menu and reaching "Mission Complete". This means no level restarts, pausing, or letting boss intro cutscenes play out for an advantage. In certain missions, respawning from a checkpoint can roll back the timer - this too is never used. Time Break is only used in LP12, where it is mandatory, and SO13, where it saves real time. In both cases, time breaks are minimized to optimize for real time instead of the in-game timer. For the total time shown at the end, the in-game level times are used for convenience.
For real time comparisons, you can see the spreadsheet here: bombch.us/C9xk . This tracks my individual mission times; all are world records at time of this upload (though a majority have not had competition in over a decade). Note that times marked with an asterisk are optimized for the in-game timer and may sacrifice real time, unlike the TASes shown here.
Of course, as with every TAS, my understanding of how to optimize the game grew as I worked through this project (which was not done in any coherent level order). If I were to start from scratch now I know more time could be saved, but I'm content to publish this for now. I'll never be able to escape this game so don't be shocked to see a v2 or at least some remastered levels at some point down the line.
Music added (all from the not-so-deep Secret Rings soundtrack): "Purple Pants", "Yellow Sneakers", "Results". I'm sorry, I really am.
If seeing this in your subscription box was a shock to you, you should follow my twitter @RusherOfRings for updates and clips of things I'm working on.
Chapters:
00:00 Evil Foundry
01:15 No Pearls
03:50 Ifrit Golem
04:15 Beat the Clock
08:15 Dinosaur Jungle
09:58 Collect Rings
14:09 Levitated Ruin
15:23 Rampage
20:43 Erazor Djinn
21:20 Head to Head
24:18 Pirate Storm
26:12 Diehard
30:43 Sand Scorpion
31:07 Basic Tutorials
32:58 Night Palace
34:37 Stealth Attack
36:23 Sand Oasis
37:47 Chain of Rings
39:57 Captain Bemoth
40:49 Perfect Challenge
44:13 Skeleton Dome
45:46 Hands Off
49:42 Alf Layla Wa Layla
51:23 Special Tutorials
53:03 Special Challenge
After on-and-off work over the course of almost 2 years, we finally have TASes of all 110 missions in this game using a fully upgraded Sonic.
It should go without saying, but no cheats or game modifications were used in this video. You can do everything shown here on your own console with a wiimote - if you had the inhuman precision to do so.
All levels are optimized for the real time between confirming level selection in the menu and reaching "Mission Complete". This means no level restarts, pausing, or letting boss intro cutscenes play out for an advantage. In certain missions, respawning from a checkpoint can roll back the timer - this too is never used. Time Break is only used in LP12, where it is mandatory, and SO13, where it saves real time. In both cases, time breaks are minimized to optimize for real time instead of the in-game timer. For the total time shown at the end, the in-game level times are used for convenience.
For real time comparisons, you can see the spreadsheet here: bombch.us/C9xk . This tracks my individual mission times; all are world records at time of this upload (though a majority have not had competition in over a decade). Note that times marked with an asterisk are optimized for the in-game timer and may sacrifice real time, unlike the TASes shown here.
Of course, as with every TAS, my understanding of how to optimize the game grew as I worked through this project (which was not done in any coherent level order). If I were to start from scratch now I know more time could be saved, but I'm content to publish this for now. I'll never be able to escape this game so don't be shocked to see a v2 or at least some remastered levels at some point down the line.
Music added (all from the not-so-deep Secret Rings soundtrack): "Purple Pants", "Yellow Sneakers", "Results". I'm sorry, I really am.
If seeing this in your subscription box was a shock to you, you should follow my twitter @RusherOfRings for updates and clips of things I'm working on.
Chapters:
00:00 Evil Foundry
01:15 No Pearls
03:50 Ifrit Golem
04:15 Beat the Clock
08:15 Dinosaur Jungle
09:58 Collect Rings
14:09 Levitated Ruin
15:23 Rampage
20:43 Erazor Djinn
21:20 Head to Head
24:18 Pirate Storm
26:12 Diehard
30:43 Sand Scorpion
31:07 Basic Tutorials
32:58 Night Palace
34:37 Stealth Attack
36:23 Sand Oasis
37:47 Chain of Rings
39:57 Captain Bemoth
40:49 Perfect Challenge
44:13 Skeleton Dome
45:46 Hands Off
49:42 Alf Layla Wa Layla
51:23 Special Tutorials
53:03 Special Challenge
