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#Sonic mania blue spheres original password
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The Cameo: After completing a stage, the difficulty of that stage is displayed.

Anti-Frustration Features: Rings are counted downwards rather than upwards like the Sonic 3 & Knuckles Special Stages, which makes getting a Perfect easier since you'll always know how many Rings are left on the stage.

Not to be confused with Star Ocean: Blue Sphere. Additionally, the standalone unlockable version of Blue Sphere, taking cues from a "Blue Spheres 2" proof-of-concept created by Mania co-developer Simon "Stealth" Thomley, adds Green Spheres and Pink Spheres: touching a Green Sphere turns it into Blue Sphere, and touching a Pink Sphere teleports you to a corresponding Pink Sphere elsewhere on the grid.įinally, included alongside the Retro Engine rebuild of Sonic 3 & Knuckles created for Sonic Origins are two different versions of Blue Sphere: the original version returns with Tails being Promoted to Playable and some of Mania's improvements (albeit still stuck in 4:3), and new to this release is New Blue Spheres, a realization of Stealth's "Blue Spheres 2" concept, complete with Green Spheres, Pink Spheres, and thousands upon thousands more stages to test your skills at. This version is designed to look like its 16-bit counterpart, though with a few liberties taken to make it look a bit more modernized such as smoother sprite animations and a 16:9 aspect ratio. Since the "Catch the UFO!" stages are already used for Chaos Emeralds, Blue Sphere is instead used for collecting Medallions, which are required for unlocks.

#Sonic mania blue spheres original plus

It also appears as its own game option in Sonic Mega Collection, Sonic Mega Collection Plus (which gave the minigame an official name for the first time), Sonic & Knuckles Collection for the PC, and Sonic Origins (another Compilation Rerelease for The Ninth Generation of Console Video Games).īlue Sphere makes a return in Sonic Mania as the Special Stage format for Star Posts. It is playable in Sonic Jam by simulating the lock-on procedure with the Sonic & Knuckles cartridge in the menu.

#Sonic mania blue spheres original password

Upon completion of the stage, you'll be given a twelve-digit password for use when you play the game with the original Sonic the Hedgehog or the aforementioned Compilation Rerelease locked into the top slot of S3&K. Grids of Blue Spheres larger than 3 by 3 cells can be turned into Rings by collecting the Blue Spheres that make up the perimeter of the grid, and only those spheres. Rings can be found on the stage as well collecting all Rings in a stage is required alongside getting all the Blue Spheres for a "PERFECT". Yellow Spheres jump you five spaces forward. Star Spheres are bumpers that will send you moving in reverse in the direction you came from until you move forward or make a turn.

Red Spheres are to be avoided touching one results in a Game Over. The object is to collect the Blue Spheres scattered throughout the wrap-around stage. Not that you'd even be able to get that far without passwords, anyway. note Reportedly, recycled levels start showing up after stage 128,016,000. If, however, you do this with the first Sonic game or Sonic Classics 3 in 1, you'll have access to a whopping 134,217,728 stages. note Some of the larger Genesis games, specifically ones larger than 2MB, are incompatible and just result in you going to Sonic & Knuckles instead. The vast majority of Genesis cartridges you can do this with only give you a single stage. It is playable when you place (almost) any Genesis cartridge other than Sonic the Hedgehog 2 or 3 into S&K's lock-on slot and press the A, B, and C buttons at the same time. The misleading disclaimer in the Sonic & Knuckles instruction manual.īlue Sphere, also sometimes officially named Blue Spheres, is a hidden minigame included on the Sonic & Knuckles cartridge, based on the Special Stages of Sonic 3 & Knuckles.