Uploaded January 2012 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour 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 is harder than it looks. Normally, after you land the 8th hit, the electricity has to turn off before he starts exploding, which adds somewhere around .5-1 seconds. However, if you manage to kill him before he even switches into phase 2 to begin with, then the explosion happens instantly. So in other words, by going really fast, you save even more time. The downside to this is there is a really tiny window where you can land the 8th hit before he switches to phase 2, which I'm guessing is around a few frames. This means all 8 hits need to be done near perfectly. After the actual boss fight, going from the arena to the capsule is also tougher than it looks and it took me 93 times getting the fast explosion before I also got the ending down.
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 is harder than it looks. Normally, after you land the 8th hit, the electricity has to turn off before he starts exploding, which adds somewhere around .5-1 seconds. However, if you manage to kill him before he even switches into phase 2 to begin with, then the explosion happens instantly. So in other words, by going really fast, you save even more time. The downside to this is there is a really tiny window where you can land the 8th hit before he switches to phase 2, which I'm guessing is around a few frames. This means all 8 hits need to be done near perfectly. After the actual boss fight, going from the arena to the capsule is also tougher than it looks and it took me 93 times getting the fast explosion before I also got the ending down.
