Uploaded January 2012 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
I don't own this video, I only downloaded and uploaded this video to YouTube. The original owner is Paraxade, and the original page can be found here: speeddemosarchive.com/Sonic4Episode1.html
This level has the most boring song ever. Seriously. Other than that, I used a YouTube video by OneWingedJr1020 for the route. The cannons are kinda annoying to aim quickly, and the bit with the flipper is pretty inconsistent. Everything goes well for the most part in this run. There is one improvement I know of; on the very last cannon it's possible to end up air dashing or homing attacking the cannon straight from the enemy chain, which would save half a second at least. It only happened once during practice, so I didn't force myself to get it in the actual run. You could also save a couple more seconds if you loaded from the stage select screen instead of using the retry button, since when you do it that way the level takes longer to load and it changes the universal timers in the level, allowing you to catch the platform at the beginning a bit sooner, but it would have been far too tedious to quit out to stage select every single time, so I didn't use it.
I don't own this video, I only downloaded and uploaded this video to YouTube. The original owner is Paraxade, and the original page can be found here: speeddemosarchive.com/Sonic4Episode1.html
This level has the most boring song ever. Seriously. Other than that, I used a YouTube video by OneWingedJr1020 for the route. The cannons are kinda annoying to aim quickly, and the bit with the flipper is pretty inconsistent. Everything goes well for the most part in this run. There is one improvement I know of; on the very last cannon it's possible to end up air dashing or homing attacking the cannon straight from the enemy chain, which would save half a second at least. It only happened once during practice, so I didn't force myself to get it in the actual run. You could also save a couple more seconds if you loaded from the stage select screen instead of using the retry button, since when you do it that way the level takes longer to load and it changes the universal timers in the level, allowing you to catch the platform at the beginning a bit sooner, but it would have been far too tedious to quit out to stage select every single time, so I didn't use it.
