Uploaded October 2018 | Updated September 2026, 20 hours ago

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TL;DR: I found a skip that saves 6-7secs in Chun-Nan Act 3 in this specific version of the game and I'm using a new emulator(J2ME Loader on my phone). Uploads coming soon.


How to do: Go to the specific vine in the video and pause roughly where I paused, then simply restart. If done correctly, you should restart the stage to the right of the vine and the timer will be reset.

(This has on been tested in this version of the game, the 240x320 N73 and E65 version of the game.) I doubt that the trick works in the 2011 touch-screen re-releases, and it certainly doesn't work on the inferior mobile version. Heck, this trick might only work on this specific version of the game.


Backstory: I thought that I wasn't going to upload anything as I am on holiday. But I found something while I was messing around in SU Mobile and it is interesting enough to show.

So first, the new emulator. J2ME Loader on my phone runs way faster than pspkvm on PPSSPP and so has become my preferred emulator of choice.

Now for the skip. I'm trying to route Chun-Nan act 3 and have figured out a route that works for me. When I was jumping off the vine, I would ocassionally land back on it. Then I saw this happened when I paused and restarted and found it was surprisingly consistent. I went and tested it out on multiple emulators to check that it wasn't an emulator bug. It passed that test so now we are here. Expect uploads sometime soon in the future.

If you wanted to know any other effects of the glitch, pausing and restarting in different places on the vine can make sonic spawn way above the stage.