Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Here's a game I never expected to run. I... still don't quite know why I did. Randomly got the urge to play this, and just decided to learn the run.

So let's talk about what makes this run interesting. It won't take too long:

Going through most of the stages is self explanatory, complete the table by beating the boss. Only Amy's stage takes place on the NiGHTS board, every other board is basically the same, but with different music. So hit that loop, hit the hole, kill eggman. Repeat, a lot.

The Tails stage has some neatness too it, as it asks for a points value. You get 10 mil per boss kill and he asks for 15 mil, so it does take a decent amount of skill to get the extra 5 mil in good time before it transitions to the next board.

Given Tails and Amy are right near the start, it makes the first 6 minutes or so of this run actually alright. Then you fight Metal Sonic, and it sucks. You have to repeat the same board 7 damn times. Not only that, you simply can't skip the minute long "clear bonus" after every stage, *and* you can't do anything meaningful during the time either. In fact, I found it's slightly faster to actually do nothing and just hold the ball, just to avoid the occasional lag frame. At least you get all the fun of the Sonic Advance soundtrack, and even a bit of Sonic R (just with none of the fun of actually playing it!)

Then Eggman is basically 'get 30 million' except it doesn't stop when you reach it like Tails does, it's a timer. So the only meaningful thing here is to once again minimise the amount of boards. In this case, to 2. Doing so requires a little bit of risk, since you want to get a lot of the clear bonus points, but don't want it to actually end, so you want to defeat the boss in secret base with right on 1 minute left, in order to get enough points without it actually progressing. Because of this, I mess around for a few minutes before doing so.

I actually think it's possible to do Eggman in one board, if you set off multiball and spam the shit out of the jackpot. But doing so is insane, given the camera doesn't track the balls during multiball (wtf???) so you have to do it blind. Not for my human hands, but a TAS could do it.

Anyway, that's the game. I didn't even bother making splits cause I ain't gonna play this again lol. Enjoy, I guess.

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