Sonic Adventure 2 Battle Full pause screen: Pause game play then hold Y + X. Sonic Team announcement: Allow the game to idle at the "Press Start" screen. After several demos, the Sonic Team logo will appear again and Tails will say "Sonic Team!". Hint: Boss time attack mode: Successfully complete either side story to see all the scenes from the side of the story that you chose or you can play the Bosses that you fought in a time attack mode. To get both the Hero and the Dark modes you have to complete both sides of the game. Hint: Last stage: Successfully complete both Hero and Dark side story modes. Enter story mode to access the "Last Stage?" option. Hint: Extra Island level: To get an extra Island level, you must get all the Emblems, including Kart, Timed Boss, and the emblems for all A rating. Once you have them all, which should total 180, the island next to the Green Forest level will have the face of Sonic on it. The new level is a 3D version of the Green Hills Zone, from Sonic The Hedgehog. Hint: Extra costumes: Get A ranks on every mission with the character you wish to get the costume for. Hint: Duplicating Chao: This trick requires two memory cards (with another Sonic Adventure 2 Battle file on the second card), a link cable, and a Game Boy Advance. Put the Chao to be duplicated onto the Chao Transporter. Drop off your Chao to the Game Boy Advance. Then, go to "Move" on the Chao Transporter and transfer your real Chao (not the one in the Game Boy Advance) to a Sonic Adventure 2 Battle file on the second memory card. Next, pick up your Chao copy from the Game Boy Advance and transfer it to the Gamecube. You can now move back your real Chao from the other memory card to the first file you were working with. This trick requires two memory cards. To get two free normal Chaos at one time, put two memory cards in the slots. Transfer all your Chao into one memory card (through the GBA Station). Erase Chao data on the first memory card, transfer the Chaos back, and then you will find two Chao eggs. Note: If you have acquired the Dark and Hero gardens, they will be lost. You have to earn them back again with babies. Also, If all your Chao do not fit on the memory card, either get another memory card, or you will lose them. Use the following trick to copying a Chao with two memory cards and no Game Boy Advance. Put two memory cards into the Gamecube. Next, copy your Sonic Adventure Battle 2 file from the first memory card over to the second memory card. This will delete your Sonic Adventure Battle 2 file on the second memory card if you had one. Next, go to the Chao Garden (it does not matter which one, on which card) and go to the transporter (the big Game Boy Advance), select "Move Chao", and transfer whichever Chao you want from the second memory card to the first. If you do not want the file on the second, delete it. You can do this as many times as needed. Hint: Hero Garden for Chao: Take a Chao and raise it with a Hero so that it will resemble a Hero. Wait until it cocoons into an angel-like Chao (it will have a halo). Then, take the stairs going up at the Chao Lobby to reach the Hero Garden. Hint: Dark Garden for Chao: Take a Chao and raise it with a Dark character. Feed and train it until it cocoons. After it evolves, stairs will appear at the Chao Lobby. Follow them to reach the Dark Garden. Hint: Chao expressions: Your Chao's expressions depend on how many seconds you shake the egg before it hatches. About six seconds results in the V face and ten seconds for no expression face. To get the very wide smile you may have to experiment. Hint: Preview evolved Chao: Get an already evolved Chao. Next, collect the animal you want to use (Dragons, Bears, etc.). Then, feed them to your evolved Chao. This will show you what your Choa will look like when evolved. Hint: Different Chao head: Go to the Black Market and buy a Red Apple or Cardboard Box. Take it to your Chao. When it is mature enough, give it the Apple or Cardboard Box to your Chao. It will be confused at first, then a "!" will appear above its head. It will put it on its head. If u do not want it on its head anymore, throw or punch it and it will pop off. If you want your Chao to have an item on his head, such as a skull or a pumpkin, get a Skeleton Dog (small animal) which can be found on Church Mountain in Pumpkin Hill, as well as some other levels. Go to the Chao Garden and give a Chao the Skeleton Dog. Then, give it the item you want placed on his head. Skulls can be found by digging with Knuckles or Rouge in the Dark Garden; Pumpkins can be found by digging in the Chao or Hero gardens; and other items such as a Cardboard Box can be purchased in the Black Market in the Chao Kindergarten. Hint: Free pumpkins for Chao: Go to any Chao Garden as Knuckles and dig in the ground. You will find pumpkins if you dig enough. Give them to your Chao, and if it is powerful enough, it will put it on its head. Hint: Finding items in Chao Gardens: You can find items such as pumpkins (regular and Hero Garden) and skulls (Dark Garden). As Knuckles or Rouge, go into the Chao world. When you enter the gardens, there are plants that have big green leaves that are usually in corners or against the wall. If you dig in all of them, you should find an item worth 50 coins. Note: This does not work all the time -- wait or return another time and they should be there. Hint: Chao swimming or flying: To get your Chao to swim, give it lots of animals that can swim. To make them fly, give them some flying type animals and bring them to the tallest cliff. Set it by the edge and he/she will walk off and start flying. Note: It may not fly the first time -- keep trying. Hint: Chao band or choir: When one Chao starts to play an instrument or sing, pick up other Chaos and put them next to the singing/playing Chao. It will also start playing. Continue doing this and you will have a band/choir. Note: This works with all activities except for drawing. Some Chao may just sit down to watch and shake their heads to the beat. Hint: Chaos Chao: In order to acquire the immortal Chaos Chao transform a Chao at least two times. This means that your Chao must create a tear-shaped cocoon around it self twice. After this has been accomplished, give your Chao (hero, neutral, or dark) one of each animal. On the third transformation, your Chao will become a Chaos Chao. Note: This will not work if your Chao dislikes you. Raise your Chao's stamina to about level 7 to 15 to send him through his first metamorphosis. Leave the Gamecube on overnight while you are in the garden. It is recommended that the Chao be alone in the garden. Then, check your game and he should be a baby which is good. After that, repeat the first metamorphosis process. Once evolved again, leave it on overnight once more. Now that your Chao is a baby again (for the third time), give it one of every animal. Finally give it a Hero Fruit for Hero Chaos Chao, a Dark Fruit for Dark Chaos Chao, and a Chao Fruit for a Light Chaos Chao. Wait for awhile for your well earned Chaos Chao. Start abusing your Chao with the type of storyline you do not want your Chao to grow up to be. It will transform eventually. Repeat this until it has transformed three times. As you begin the rest of the game, give your Chao each small animal you find and that one Chao. It will turn into a Chaos Chao. Get a fresh egg (white and blue only). Feed it only Chao Fruits and train it nicely with both sides, Hero and Dark, until it evolves once. It will create a cocoon in the shape of the Chao's head. If done correctly, it will be a baby blue Chao again. Repeat the last step until it evolves for the second time. After it has evolved twice (it should still be blue), give it one of every animal. Then, give it a Chao Fruit for a Neutral Chaos Chao, a Dark Fruit for an Evil Chaos Chao, or a Hero Fruit for an Angel Chaos Chao. Hint: Liberty Chao: Use the following steps get the Liberty Chao that can be seen at the start of a race (has a book and is holding a torch). When your Chao is born, only care for it with either good characters or bad characters. This will determine if your Chao is a Hero Liberty Chao or a Dark Liberty Chao. Feed your Chao only one specific Chaos drive color or give it only one special animal (Phoenix, Dragon, etc.) Make sure your Chao earns the Hero or Dark badge depending on what you want your Chao to be. Your Chao can have all the badges desired, but make sure it does not get the opposite badge of what you want it to be. Continue feeding and taking care of it. After your Chao evolves do not give it any animals. Give it exactly the same amount of Chaos drives, one at a time each. This will change its head shape to the star-like effect. Keep doing this until its head changes to the star-effect and wait until it evolves. Make sure its cocoon is pink. When it is born again, it will be a Liberty Chao. Also, if you get the Liberty Chao and have a TV, if the Liberty Chao watches you can see Big the Cat in the show that appears. Note: Make sure you start out with a white and not a colored egg. Hint: Black Chao: To make a black Chao, grab it and keep throwing it to the ground or the walls. Hint: Ultimate Light and Dark Chaos: Once you have transformed your Hero or Dark Chao into a Chaos Chao, give it every animal. Wait a long time. Eventually it will start cocooning. Once it is out of its cocoon, if its an Ultimate Dark Chao it will have a blue flame above its head, horns, and huge wings. If its the Ultimate Light Chao, it will have a bright gold glowing halo over its head, pink glowing legs and arms. Hint: Shiny colorful Chao: Enter the Tiny Chao Garden in Sonic Advance. Press L to buy an egg to get to the shop. Transfer the egg to Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. When the egg comes out, it should be a different color than it was before the transfer. Hint: Flame head Chao: To get a blue flame Chao, raise a red Chao with Knuckles until it grows two spikes on it head. Then, go into Chao World and pet that Chao repeatedly for a long time. It should grow two ears on the top of its head. After that, pet it again repeatedly. A blue flame will appear on top of its head. To get a blue flame Chao, go to the Black Market with a hero character and buy a lime green egg (requires 125 or more emblems). Bring the egg into the Hero garden and hatch it by rocking it (pick it up and hold B). Once hatched, feed it a Sea Monster (from the Hidden Base maze). Then, go back into the Black Market and buy a Chao Fruit. Feed it the fruit, then feed it a Hero Chao Nut. After it finishes, the ball above its head should be a blue and orange flame. To get any type of flame head Chao, raise your Chao to be a Hero, Dark, or Neutral type. When it evolves into one, give it three Green Lagoon Monsters, which can be found as Tails when you have to infiltrate Eggman's base. Give a Chao a couple of Half Fish or a sea monster. You can find them in the Jungle level as Sonic. Hint: Chaos with items on their head: Give your Chao a skeleton dog. Then, give your Chao a skull, trash bag, pumpkin, etc. After a little while, a "!" will appear above its head and it will put it on. To take it off, attack or jump on your Chao. Hint: Chao with rainbow wings: Keep giving a Chao all different color Chao Drives. Do this for a while and your Chao should grow either rainbow wings or rainbow arms. If this does not happen, keep trying. Hint: Skeleton Chao: Get the Fire Ring. Go to the level where you find the Bounce Bracelet. Soon after the part where you find the bracelet, you will see an animal-like thing that you can feed to Chaos in a cage. Roll into the iron box under the cage and it will fall down, leaving the animal-like thing on top of it. Get it. When you go to Chao World, feed it to a Chao. Either their arms or legs will turn into a bone. Hint: Gold Chao: Link the game with Sonic Advance on the Game Boy Advance. Go to the Tiny Chao Garden. Press L and if you are lucky, you will be able to buy a gold egg for 1000 rings. Hint: Silver Chao: Link the game with Sonic Advance on the Game Boy Advance. Go to the Tiny Chao Garden. Press L and if you are lucky, you will be able to buy a gold egg for 500 rings. Get a white metallic Chao and raise it with a Dark character (Shadow, Rouge, Eggman) and it will turn silver. Hint: Shadow Chao: Keep giving a Chao Green Chaos Drives. When it evolves, it will have green stripes on its head just like Shadow. This works best with the normal Chaos that hatch from the white and blue eggs. Hint: Dark Chao: Get every animal two times with a Dark character. It can be either be Rouge, Shadow, or Dr. Eggman. Give every animal two times to the Chao, and when his stamina level is at 7, put him on the flowers. The Chao should be in a Chao head-like cocoon and in a few seconds it should hatch into a Dark Chao. Hint: Super Sonic Chao: Raise a Gold Chao from Sonic Advanced or Sonic Adventure 2 Battle with Shadow. Do not give anything to the Chao besides fruits (Hero, Dark, Round, etc.). When your Chao transforms it, will be a Super Sonic Chao. Hint: Hyper Shadow Chao: Raise a Silver Chao with Shadow. Feed it only fruit and chaos drives (red recommended). When it transforms, it will be a Hyper Shadow Chao. Hint: Crazy Chao: Have a Dark Chao. When in the Dark Garden give it five Dark Fruits. After that, your Chao will sleep once you whistle. When he gets up, he will have a strange smile and start running around. He will hit other Chaos and knock them down. Hint: Transparent Chao: Breed a Shiny Chao with a Jewel Chao. Jewel chaos are the ones from Sonic Advanced. The normal egg is not a Jewel Chao, but silver and gold Chao eggs are. When the egg hatches, it will be light green and transparent. Try using the egg that costs 5000 rings and the shiny red Chao. Hint: Change Chao color to white or black with normal egg: After your normal egg hatches, decide if you want the Chao to be white or black. If you want it to be black, get either Sonic, Tails, or Knuckles and use that character to abuse your Chao. It will eventually turn black. If you want it to be white, use Rouge, Shadow, or Eggman and abuse it. Note: Chao will be extremely sad, scream, and run. Hint: Name Chao yourself: Go to the fortune teller with your Chao. When she offers a name for your Chao and asks whether you like it, answer "No". She will make another suggestion. Answer "No" again. She will then ask if you would like to name the Chao yourself. Answer "Yes". Hint: Delete animal characteristics from Chao: If you have a Chao with strange animal characteristics, simply give it a few Skeleton Dogs. Your Chao will return to normal. If you want to give it an animal and you do not like the outcome, repeat the process again. Hint: Regular teenage Chao: To keep your Chao from becoming a Dark or Hero Chao before it evolves, alternate between Hero and dark Characters every visit. If the colors of your chao start to change, simply pet the Chao with the other side until it returns to normal. Hint: Unlimited Chaos: Use a link cable and connect a Game Boy Advance to the Gamecube. Get Sonic Advance and enter the Tiny Chao Garden. Keep transferring Chaos to the big Chao Garden for a free unlimited supply. Hint: Avoid Chao race losses: If you are racing your Chao and know you will lose, press Start and select "Exit" and it will not be recorded as a loss. Hint: Waking Chao up: Sleeping Chao are annoying because you cannot feed them. To wake them up, stand next to it and whistle. You do not have to anger them by picking them up during a little nap. Hint: Chao in a cage: In the Dark Garden, keep throwing a Chao at the cage and it will eventually go in. Alternately, jump on the tombstone to the left, then jump into the cage from there. To put a Chao in it, you have to be at the very edge of the cage. Hint: Quick Chao transformation: Keep petting your Chao and it will eventually transform. To do this trick, you must not care if you abuse your Chao. To get a Hero Chao, abuse your Chao with a Villain. To get a Dark Chao abuse, your Chao with a Hero. You can tell if your Chao is turning good if it is mostly white and has a blue ball over its head. You will know its turning bad when it is black and most likely has a red collar or a point on its tail. Get the stamina to level 7. Note: If you are transforming a different color Chao (for example, blue, red, shiny blue), its body may not change color, so look at its wings (bat or not), tail (pointed or not), and the ball (red or blue) on its head. For your Chao to evolve fairly quickly, you must feed it Coconuts until its stamina is above level 10. For a Dark Chao or Hero or Neutral Chao with their head on fire, just give them only Half Fishes. For a Chao with a drill-like head, give it lots of Gorillas and Tigers. For a Dark Jester Chao, give it mostly Peacocks and Condors. For a Shark Chao, give it only Sea Otters, Half Fishes, and Seals. For a Chao with green streaks such as Shadow, mostly raise it on Cheetahs and Unicorns. After its head starts to part differently, feed it until its stamina is at level 11 or higher. Note: If you are looking for a Chao that is good in races, raise a Dark Running Chao with mostly Cheetahs and Unicorns. For a Chao that is good in Power Karate, raise a Chao heavily on Gorillas and Tigers. Robotnik's first level, Iron Gate, is the best place to raise a Power Chao. Hint: Hidden Chao transportation: Walk up to the Chao Kindergarten when an item is in your hands and your Chao is at a classroom. When selecting "Pick-Up Chao", if you still have the item in your hands, your Chao will not be in your hands. It will be in the Chao Garden (if your cocoon has hatched -- go to either the Hero or Dark garden). Hint: Hatching your Chao: If you are having trouble hatching your Chao, hold it for about ten seconds then whistle. It should pop out. For a quick hatching Chao, pick up a Chao egg and throw it against the wall. Note: This may affect your Chao's appearance. Hint: Raise Chao's stamina: To raise your Chao's stamina easily, when you feed your Chao a fruit, stand behind it. When your Chao throws it, you can pick it up and bring it back. You can do this repeatedly. Use the following trick to get a powerful, young Chao. Either use Chaos Drives, Small Animals, or Chao Fruits. When you raise them, only go in the Chao Garden when you want to raise the Chao and not to play with it. If you still want to play with your other Chaos, put the one you are raising in a separate garden, all by itself. By following this, it is possible to have a two year old Chao with all its stats at level 99 (the highest level). Hint: Double Chao petting: In any Chao garden, put two Chaos next to each other. Start petting one of them and they will both have hearts on their head. Hint: Reuse Chaos Drive or animal: Get a Chaos Drive or animal and go to your garden. Take either one and bring it to your Chao, but do not give it to them. Drop it directly in front of them, very close. They will get the points but they will leave it there to use over and over. Try giving it fruit, then do it so its not moving around. Hint: Big The Cat picture: Go to the Chao Garden and take any Chao to school. If they are learning drawing, leave your Chao there. When the Chao is done, take it back to the garden and wait until he draws. If he draws Big, it will not be a very good picture but can be recognized as Big The Cat. Hint: Extra Chao Karate mode: Note: You either have to complete Hard mode, or all three original modes (Beginner, Intermediate, and Hard). Doing this will unlock the fourth difficulty mode, Super. The Super mode is very hard if your Chao is not strong enough. The order of the Super matches are as follows: Round 1: A Chao with a watermelon on its head Round 2: Wacky, who resembles some type of Sonic Chao Round 3: A gold Angel Chaos Chao Round 4: A blue Devil Chaos Chao Round 5: A Shiny Black (Dark Silver) Light Chaos Chao (very difficult) Hint: Rock climbing: When you enter the Neutral Chao Garden, you can climb the mountains to your left. Jump up there and you can get very high in the area. Hint: Plant trees: Win all the Beginner Chao races. You will receive a shovel and water pail for winning the third race in two of them. Go to Chao Kindergarten and press B on the black locker, opening the Chao black market. Buy a seed of any kind of tree you wish to grow. Return to your Chao garden. Once there, give your Chao the seed and in about 30 seconds or so a "!" will appear above its head. It will start digging, watering, then dancing. After a couple of visits to the garden you can give your Chao the kind of fruit that falls from the tree. You can grow five to six trees in the garden. Hint: Easy rings: Go to any Chao Garden and go near one of the trees. When the coconut or fruit falls off, you can sell it at the Black Market. It does not sell for much, but is worth something. You will get 10 rings for the coconuts. Go to the Chao Garden. After your Chao has hatched, take the egg and go to the Black Market. Sell your egg shell for the following prices. Normal egg: 50 rings White egg: 100 rings Red egg: 120 rings Get the Light Dash ability and go to Metal Harbor. Whenever the large rows of rings are ahead of you, use the Light Dash move. This is a very fast and easy way to get rings. Get something that sells for a lot of rings. If you do not have many, get an old pot and use it for this trick. If you have the time, get a Shiny Egg Shell (recommended). You cannot sell the egg -- you can only sell the shell. Go to the Black Market with the egg and you sell it. then. Exit out of the Black Market and while still in the Kindergarten, hold B + Start + X for about two seconds to reset your game (without saving the Chao data but saving the game data). Since the Chao data did not save, the game believes the egg is still there, while the saved game data records that you sold the egg for a couple thousand rings. You will get the egg and the money back. Repeat this (sell the shell, reset game, then go back to the garden) to end up with lots of rings. Play Sonic's first level under "Find The Lost Chao". Keep going through the level without getting the Chao until you get 999 rings, which is the maximum number. Then, get the lost Chao .and it will add 999 rings to your game. This is helpful if you want to get a beanie for your Chao later in the game. On the first level, select the third mission on stage selection screen. Go through the level until you have 999 rings. Then, after you run down the building, do not hit the bouncers and go to the right. Play the Mystic Melody and work your way to the top. Repeat this to get as many rings as needed. In City Escape level, you can get more than 425 rings. This will give you more rings for the Choa Gardens in just one level. You can also get more than 435 rings if you get all the rings, including the Light Dash rings after you break the iron box after the street boarding part at the very beginning of the stage. Unlock the racing game (just route 101 or 280). If you got a "D" or "E" rank on the first mission, it would be easier for you to do mission 2 (get at least 100 rings). If you got "A", "B", or "C" rank, just do mission 1 (get at least 200 rings and also get 2 extra lives). For quick and easy rings, just go to the City Escape level and collect 300 rings every visit. Use the following trick to get 100 rings in any level, especially Rouge's and Knuckle's stages. Collect as many rings as you can, then go to the back ring. You will start the level over with all of your rings, and will be able to recollect them. Go to any level as Sonic or Shadow. Choose the third mission (find the lost Chao) and go through the level collecting rings. Do not get the Chao. Go to the end of the level. When you hit the goal ring, you will be taken back to the beginning of the level. You will have all of your rings and all the rings originally on the course will be back. Repeat this until you have as many rings as needed. Hint: Stocking eggshells: To get a vast amount of eggshells to sell, link Sonic Advance to Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. Take your Chao already in the Tiny Garden and them in the big Garden. When you pull down the shopping window, there is the normal egg for sale for 0 rings. Buy one and transfer to the big Garden. Hatch it and u will have a Chao. Say bye bye to any you do not want. Repeat to get lots of eggshells. Hint: Stocking fruits: To create a large stock of fruits to stay in one place, gather all the fruits somewhere such as on the cliff. Get eggshells, pumpkins, and skulls and place them around the fruits. Note: The fruits may still disappear. After awhile, your Chao will adjust to you putting all the fruits in one place and will know where to find them if they are hungry. Hint: Fruit in the water: To keep other Chaos from getting food, put the food in the water. The Chaos cannot swim to the fruit and eat it. If you have multiple food, you can put all of it in the water and give the last one remaining to your Chao. Then, take the other fruit one by one to the Chao(s) that you wish to feed. Hint: Heart in Chao Fruit: If you look closely at the flat side of a Chao Fruit, there is a heart there. It is almost the same color as the Chao Fruit, so it can be difficult to see. Hint: Kart Racing mini-game: Catch the President with Tails, or catch Tails with Rouge. If you do both, you will unlock versus in two-player mode. Either way will work -- it does not matter which you do first. Hint: New Kart Racing cars: Get all the level emblems with every character. Press Up at any character at the kart race player selection screen to find a new car. Rouge's new car is the robot from Sonic 3D Blast. Hint: Chao race kart: Complete all of Tails' missions with "A" ranks. Hint: Advanced Eggman race kart: Complete all Eggman's missions with "A" ranks. Hint: Eggman Robot race kart: Complete all of Rouge's missions with "A" ranks. Hint: Advanced Knuckles race kart: Complete all of Shadow's missions with "A" ranks. Hint: Advanced Shadow race kart: Complete all of Shadow's mission with "A" ranks. Hint: Advanced Sonic race kart: Complete all of Sonic's missions with "A" ranks. Hint: Run through item selection on races: When racing a long races and you have to select the correct item, if your Chao trips, then he will not select the item and just run through it. Hint: Have opponent finish race on foot: Play a board race with Sonic, Amy, Shadow, or Metal Sonic Have player two stay at the start of the race. Go to where you can use attacks. Use an attack that hurts them. It will knock them off their board and they must finish by walking or running the entire race. Hint: Points for cars: In any level with cars, hit them for 20 points. Hint: Speed up Time Stop: In the action race in two player mode, there is a way to speed up the Time Stop attacks. When you see your opponent with any of the Time Stop attacks, hold the Spin Dash. This will make the Time Stop attacks pass by faster. Hint: Jump on objects in Grind Race: If done at just the correct moment, you can jump on to the pyramid or the statues that are found later inside. Hint: Super speed: In two player mode, use a speed up then wait for the little blue light to disappear. Then, get the Super Shoes. The easiest way to do this is to play Shadow's Bridge level. After you fly up the first speed ramp, kill the robot guard then use your speed up. Then, go around the side where the Super Shoes are located. Hint: Boost on snowboarding levels: When you are falling to the ground to snowboard, press Left and Right a few times. If you are playing in multi-player mode, you will boost ahead of the other player. Hint: Quick pole swinging: When you are in a level such as City Escape and Pyramid Cave, you will have to swing pole to pole. To do this faster, when you are swinging on the first one a red line will appear above Sonic's feet. Press A. When Sonic's hands touch the second pole, immediately tap A and he will go from there without swinging. Hint: Easy A ranks: Choose a level and select the second mission. This mission is to get 100 rings. To do this fast and easy, pop as many balloons as possible. This is good way to get all As and a quick way to collect rings to use at the Black Market. Hint: Super Sonic and Hyper Shadow: Successfully complete the Last Stage? Level in story mode to unlock Super Sonic and Hyper Shadow. Hint: Amy Rose: Theme: To unlock Amy Rose's option's menu theme, win at least two emblems that have to do with the Chao races and everyone's mission emblems They do not have to be "A" ranks. Amy's theme will randomly appear in the black market for 20,000 rings. Hint: Dr. Robotnik: Mystic Melody: At the very beginning of the Sand Ocean level, stay on the turnstile until it rotates the entire way around. At that point you will see a glow, which is the Mystic Melody. You must fly over to a new platform to get it. Hint: Eggman: Mystic Melody: In Eggman's Sand Ocean level, go onto one end of the turning platform and stay there until view changes. You will see the Mystic Melody. Hint: Knuckles or Rouge: Finding goals: At any point if you cannot seem to find what they are supposed to look for, intentionally die. You will lose all your rings, but in big stages you will find that it is to the most benefit. Note: Make sure that you have plenty of lives. Hint: Knuckles or Rogue: Extra lives: Enter two player mode and choose Knuckles or Rouge. Keep digging in the stage. After you dig you might get a lot of coins or lives. Keep digging for lives -- you can use them when you try an adventure (Dark or Hero story line). Hint: Knuckles: Mystic Melody: Go to Wild Canyon as Knuckles. Go straight into the windy gust throwing you upward. Look to the left and you should see three small buildings containing four boxes in each one. Ignore them. Go straight past them to find the Lonely Statue. Climb above the statue's head straight up and you should see a strange painting. Dig through it to find the Mystic Melody. Hint: Knuckles: Sunglasses: To get the sunglasses for Knuckles, play through story mode until you get to the Meteor Herd level. This occurs immediately after fighting the "Egg Golem". Look around for a big meteor on a separate floating rock island. Get on it, then get in back of the huge meteor, as far as you can go. Punch twice and then move forward for the Mini-Spiral Upper. If this does not work, try running at full speed and slam into the door in front of you. If it opens, break the metal box located there, then hit the button. Find a spring that takes you up to the top (or climb up), then fall down the newly opened area. You should see a rainbow-colored area with the Sunglasses power-up. Hint: Rogue: Treasure Scope: Successfully complete the Dark story line or get the Iron Boots in the Space level. Then, return to the first level and look for the Egyptian sign that was in Egg-Quaters. You will find Mystic Melody here. Then, go to the Security Hall and find the point of usage for Mystic Melody (there may be two). Follow the bridge that appears and use the Iron Boots on the crates to break them to find the Treasure Scope. Hint: Sonic: Extra points: When playing as Sonic, use the special punch attack after hitting and destroying an enemy to hit another and collect more points. Hint: Sonic: Flair Flip: While on the ground, press B + A + Analog-stick in the direction that you are going. Sonic should jump up and do a flair after flipping. This may require some practice. Hint: Sonic: Jump Flip: As Sonic, stand still and press B to use the flame attack. Then, press A while holding the Analog-stick in any direction to make Sonic do a Jump Flip in that direction. Hint: Sonic: Almost fall off his snowboard: When you do a trick while going off a ramp, pause game play while Sonic hits the ground. If paused at the correct moment, Sonic should be falling off his snowboard. However, once you resume the game, Sonic will still be on it. Hint: Sonic and Shadow: Mystic Melody: The Mystic Melody for sonic and shadow is in their final stages. For Sonic, keep playing through the level until you see a rocket on a platform while grinding on a rail. Jump to it, and use it to go to a different route. Keep playing through this route until you get to the Mystic Melody. For Shadow, there is one part of the level where you can keep spiraling up on magnetic tubes. Eventually you will get to the Mystic Melody. The Mystic Melody is a tool every character can get. To use it, you must find those strange boxes that are in each level. Play the Mystic Melody to unlock a secret passage. The secret passage will usually lead you to the lost Chao you need to find to complete mission 3. Hint: Sonic and Shadow: Flip Attack: While somersaulting, tilt the Analog-stick in the direction you are going and jump. Sonic or Shadow will flip, and if aimed correctly, will destroy the enemy he touches while in the air. Use this move with caution. Hint: Shadow vs. Sonic finale: Extra lives: Get 100 Rings by using Light Dashes. Hint: Tails: Homing Laser upgrade: A weapon not mentioned in the manual is the upgrade for Tails' Homing Laser. After completing the stage in which Tails earns the Volcan Upgrade, go back to Prison Lane via the level selection screen. At the end of the level, before touching the goal, look for the cameras. Shoot them down and break the iron boxes in front of the gate (if there are any). The Laser upgrade will be behind two barred doors afterwards. Hint: Tails: Mystic Melody: Get the Vulcan Cannon upgrade (which is a mandatory item that you will eventually get). Then, go to the Egyptian level and play through it until you see a door blocked by iron boxes. Shoot the boxes, go through the door, and collect the Mystic Melody. Hint: Tails: Control speed of tails: Go into the Chao world then jump and hover with Tails. While hovering, rotate the Analog-stick clockwise to make his tails go extra fast. Rotate the Analog-stick counterclockwise to make his tails go extra slow. Hint: Fun with Omochao: To make Omochao angry, pick him up and throw him around. If you throw him at an enemy, he will explode. You can even shoot him with Eggman or Tails while he is flying around your head. As Knuckles or Rouge, go through a wall while you are talking to Omochoa. He will get stuck on the other side and will not be able to get back. The third challenge Chao race is against several Omochaos. As anyone except Tails/Eggman, throw Omochao into an enemy to knock him out. With Tails/Eggman, just shoot him. He will wake up and complain or have amnesia. In Tails' Eternal Engine level, look for the area with a Chao box, a switch to open a door, and Omochao near a space escape door with two dynamite packs on it. Destroy the space door and Omochao will be sucked into space, magically reappear, get sucked out again, and repeat. Go next to Omachao and press B. You can throw it at enemies and can hear him bribe you to let him go and beg for his life. Hin: Omochao's phrases: When you want to have some fun with Omochao, do the following and he will say the corresponding phrases. Note: Omochao never actually does what he says. When picked up "Hey! Stop it! Let me go!" "Hey! Stop it!" While in your hands "Augh! Augh! Help me!" "Please, Help Me!" "Help! It's getting Worse!" "If you don't stop it, I'm gonna tell the Principal on you!" "If you don't put me down, i'll get mad! I'll go tell my mom on you!" "My Energy is low. I need to be wound-up again" "I understand. I promise i'll eat all my Carrots!" "Hey, I'm on Your side, y'know! I can give you hints to help you!" "*sigh* Whatever..." "Now I', getting mad!" "Hey! Why don't you go get yourself a Teddy Bear?" When put down "Stop It. What are you doing? You're making me mad!" "*sigh* i was so scared. What gives? "Thank you for holding me. But... you were kinda rough" "Thanks for saving me! I was scared!" When thrown "Awaaah!" "Stop it!" "Bye Bye!" "Help Me!" When shot or thrown at enemy "Huh? What happened? Who am I? Where am I?" "Owwie! That Hurt! I'm mad at you. I'm not going to help you anymore! Hmph!" "Ouch! Why are you being such a bully? I didn't do anything wrong!" Hint: Omochao theme: If you get over 140 emblems, you can buy Omochao's menu screen theme on the Black Market for 10,000 rings. To get Omochao's options menu theme, win at least two emblems that have to do with the Chao races and everyone's mission emblems. They do not have to be "A" ranks.). Omachao's menu screen will randomly appear in the Black market for 10,000 rings. Hint: Aquatic Mine: Dragon animal: Play the level as Knuckles. Go to level three, and lower the water level with the switch. Next, drop down to level two. Look around until you see the caution sign. Jump over it and drop down the pit behind it. Try not to hit the spring in the pit. Then, go through the short tunnel until you fall in some water. Dive down into it and keep descending. Work your way quickly through the water and underwater tunnels so you do not drown. Near the end of the water there will be a long ascent to the top. Go up as quickly as possible. You will also get Air Necklace the on the way, which allows you breathe underwater. Climb on the walls around you until the Dragon animal is found. Play the level as Knuckles with Sunglasses, Hammer Gloves, Shovel Claws, and Air Necklace. Work your way around the mine and find all three Chao containers. In the last one is the Dragon. One Chao container is in the highest floor behind a pile of wood. The second is in a tunnel with spiked car. The third is in a room with many ghosts, fire breathing skulls, and falling block (in the rafters). Another Dragon is in the room where the Air Necklace is located, hidden in the upper corner. Hint: Aquatic Mine: Seal animal: As Knuckles, at the beginning of the level, fly over the water to the left then swim all the way down to find a seal. Hint: Aquatic Mines: Air Necklace: Go to the Aquatic Mines level as Knuckles. Find the switch that changes the water level to its third setting. (o do this, make sure it is on the first setting and climb the pole in the center of the room. Then, jump to the pulley taking you above. Go to level 2 of the stage and find the a caution sign. Jump in the pit and keep following the path to the item. The Air Necklace allows you to breathe under water for an infinite amount of time. This is especially helpful in the very last level, where you spend virtually the entire time underwater. Hint: Cannon's Core: Get through lasers: As Knuckles, you can get through the lasers that block off the rest of Cannon's Core. Instead of going under the water and hitting the time switch, just glide into the lasers then press B. You should go through the lasers. You can also go through the waterfall with Rouge if you rapidly press A and B (not simultaneously). Hint: City Escape: Disappearing tires: At the end of the level, go over by the recycle bin and touch the stack of tires by just running into it. The tires will sink into the ground. Hint: City Escape: Easy rings and lives: After getting the Mystic Melody, go to the City Escape level. Play the third mission, but do not get the Chao until you have 999 rings and 99 lives. This is useful when you need rings to buy very expensive items. If you just need a certain amount of coins, keep playing this stage until you get that amount. Hint: City Escape: Kill Omochoa: Go to the Omochoa by the pipe. Pick it up, then throw it off the cliff just next to it . It will come back in a short time or not at all. Hint: City Escape: Magic Gloves: Once you get the Fire Somersault Bracelet, return to the first level of Sonic's adventure (City Escape). Go towards the end of the level and look for a spot on the ground composed of four steel crates. Perform the bounce attack on top of them and you will fall into a secret room. Once there, you can bounce and destroy more crates to find the Magic Gloves. They will allow you to turn an enemy into a miniature throwable version. However, you have to get very close, making it not all that useful. First, get the Bounce Bracelet, then play the City Escape level. Shortly after you run down the building you will notice four steel containers in the ground. Break them with the bounce attack, defeat the three enemies that are down there, then jump over the fence and grab the Magic Glove upgrade. Press X when close to an enemy and magic hands will appear in the action window. You will be able to throw enemies at other enemies. Hint: City Escape: Run on foot: At the start of the City Escape level, instead of landing on the ground with the board, scrape the roads on the board. When on foot run full speed at a wall and get knocked down. Pause game play if you fall after hitting the wall. Choose to restart the level to run on foot and not on the board. Hint: City Escape: Stop on the run down building: Get to the place where you are running down the big building. You must be running on the building, not falling. While you are running down, hold B and you will be in a spinning ball stopped on the building. Note: You can turn around on the building and go upwards. Hint: City Escape: Tires: At the start of the level you will be riding on a snowboard. Then, you will hit a tram before you lose your snowboard. Look closely to see all of the wheels come off. You can also throw them at an enemy. Hint: City Escape: Unicorn animal for Chao: Get all the Chao containers. The third container will have the unicorn inside. Hint: City Escape: Finding the lost Chao: You will need the Mystic Melody for Sonic. After you run down the side of the building, there will be bounce springs. Do not go on them. Near the tree is a Mystic Melody platform. Use Mystic Melody and bounce on some springs. Kill some robots to get to the top. If you see an orange pole, go on it and launch yourself up. Go in the room to find the lost Chao. Hint: Cosmic Wall: Extra life: As Dr. Robotnik. While trying to get up one of the giant holes by jumping from platform to platform, you will see two platforms extremely close together. Shoot all the boxes there to reveal a 1-up item which increases your life bar, so you can sustain more attacks before dying. Hint: Cosmic Wall: Unicorn animal: After you reach the second point marker, hover up to the next platform. Look to your right and you will see another platform with a pyramid on it. Hover over to it. Break the pyramid and play the Mystic Melody at the Ancient Shrine. A spring will appear. Bounce from the spring. Hover up two times more. There will be two springs on the second platform. Bounce on one of them and you will reach a platform with another pyramid. Hover to the left around the building and reach one more platform. Look at the edge and you will see the Unicorn. Hint: Crazy Gadget: End of level: As Sonic, reach the last sequence when you hit the switch before you get the goal to launch the missile. Use the first switch then instead of using the second switch. Use the bounce attack to go higher to the red platform and move to your left. Hit the switch to go down. Step off the purple platform to find the switch. Use the bounce attack to get high enough to reach the gravity switch. Once you do, just jump to hit the switch. The next part is tricky. Use the homing attack to hit the spring near the goal and do not press anything. You should end up back where you started use the first switch to go up. Repeat the procedure, except use the switch that is straight ahead. When you get down, fire the missile to get the goal. After you go through the door, you will see a gravity switch like all the others in the level. Flip it. You will then be upside down on a purple platform. Follow the path and kill the enemy using the Homing Attack. Keep going forward and you will see a switch that points left. Do not press it -- it is a trap. Instead, go to the rail and you should see a red platform. Jump off and you will land on it. Next, you will see one of those weird blue robots, except this one shoots in every direction. Use the Homing Attack and it will die. Do not go backwards and flip the switch. If you did go down, just jump on the boxes behind you to find a springboard. Jump onto this to go back to where you came into this part of the level. Next go left and flip the switch. You will be on top of the purple platform. Go backwards then right and you will reach the edge of the purple platform. You should see a blue and yellow platform. Jump to the yellow platform. Kill the blue robot and go to the right to get a green shield. Then, go back to the left and flip the switch. Go onto the springboard and hold Down. Follow the yellow path until you get to the red rail. There should be a springboard located here. Go onto it and you will grind the rail to the green platform. Follow the green path while avoiding the electric robots. Go onto the springboard and you will go to the purple platform. Go to the end of the path and you will see some rings. Use Light Dash and you will go to the blue platform. Get the rings and flip the switch. It will lead you to the purple platform. Follow the path and you will see the missile switch, and a gravity switch. Run into the missile switch and flip the gravity switch. It will bring you back to the red platform. Now you can flip the down switch and you will see a missile. Step on the button and the missile will get rid of the green stuff and the goal ring will be there. Hint: Egg Quarters: A rank: To get an A rank for Rouge in Egg Quarters, get the three keys in 4:30. Usually you have to get it in 1:30. Hint: Final Rush: Extra lives: As Sonic, after the first grinding rail, land on the first platform. Take the lower of the two rails. At the end of the rail, jump to the platform and use the only rail, on the ground. At the end of that rail, there is a platform with speed panels. At the end of the platform there is a bomb robot over another platform. Destroy it and use the rail off of the platform it was over. At the end of that rail is a check point with a small gap afterward. Jump the gap and go all the way down the big drop. At the bottom is a rail on the left side. It will take you to a platform with a ring box and a life box. Get the life and then choose "Exit" from the "Start" menu. Re-enter the level and you should have the same number of lives you had when you exited the level. Repeat this as many times as needed. If you stay in a place too long or if Shadow or Sonic gets too far ahead, they will use their Chaos Control. To avoid this, you need to jump and swerve quite a bit. You will reach a further distance and will not lose any rings. Hint: Green Forest: Hidden rings and life: On the part where you go down on a vine-like a bungee cord and bounce back up, hold A to go faster and bust through. You should get an extra life and some rings. Make sure to hold A until you come back up. If done correctly, you will get 1000 points. Hint: Green Forest: Half-Fish/Nematoad animal: When you get to the part where you can smash boxes to go to a secret bottom section, run around the boxes shaped like an "L". Look on the inside of the shape to find the green Half-fish/Nematoad. Hint: Hidden Base: Half Fish animal: When playing as Tails, there is a hidden green sea monster in the small maze. It makes your Chao's color turn green. After you land off the second vine, there will be three boxes in an "L" shape. Stand beside them and change the camera angle. You will find a Half Fish animal. Hint: Hidden Base: Interesting statue: In the Hidden Base level as Tails, go to the pulley where, at the top, there are five to six Kiki's throwing bombs at you. In that area is a headless statue of a nude woman, holding her cleavage. Hint: Homing Laser upgrade: To get the Homing Laser upgrade for the Eggwalker, on the first stage of the Dark story line, find a hall blocked by iron containers. Shoot them with your Vulcan cannon (needs to be upgraded first). You will find the homing laser upgrade at the end of the hall. Hint: Iron Gate: Laser Blast: First, find the Cannon in the Weapons Bed level, then play the Iron Gate level again. Go to the location where you find the most coins and two gas pipes. Blast those gas pipes. You will now see a way leading to a hall. The Laser Blast is inside, glowing green light. Take it. It makes it easier to lock-on to more opponents. Hint: Iron Gate: Special Dragon Animal for your Chao: To get A Special Dragon for the Dark story line, get all three Chao boxes in Iron Gate as Dr. Eggman. Be careful -- one of the boxes is near the goal. Hint: Mad Space: Phantasy Star Online items: In the Mad Space level as Rouge, you can find items from Phantasy Star Online lying around -- the boxes rather not items themselves. For example, you can find green and blue boxes from the game. Hint: Metal Harbor: Shortcut: Near the beginning as Sonic, after doing the loop-de-loop there is a robot you can home-attack, which will take you to a faster route. After completing this much faster route, simply finish the rest of the level as fast as you can without taking detours. Also try to go straight all the way on the street board at the end-- do not zig-zag. Hint: Mission Street: Phoenix animal for Chao: Play as Tails and go about halfway through the level. You will see a barred box with a bird inside. Use the Bazooka Blaster to break through the iron boxes behind the barred box and hit the missile switch. It will fire at the box and break it. Walk over and get the Phoenix. Hint: Pumpkin Hill: Early lives: When starting Pumpkin Hill as Knuckles, go to the left rocket that takes you to Church Mountain. Then, take the rocket that leads to Pumpkin Mountain, which is somewhere in the graveyard area. While falling down from that rocket, quickly glide forward to the flying "island" in front of you. If done correctly, you should grip to the floating chunk of land and be able to go forward to get the extra life. This can be useful for people who are collecting Skel-dogs, because you can get it in the graveyard place before you take the rocket. There is also an extra life buried where the digging claw things used to be -- so this can double as an unlimited lives trick. Note: Skel-dogs are useful for people who are raising running Chao because they remove the boar's ugly features, and provide a running improvement of up to 16, without subtracting from other stats. Hint: Pumpkin Hill: Extra lives: As Knuckles, go to the place where you got the digging tool. In the area with the circle where the digging tool was located, jump up and use the Dig attack. You will get an extra life. Hint: Pumpkin Hill: Easy "A" rank: As Knuckles, play "Find the Lost Chao". To get an easy "A" rank, turn around at the start. Fly to the next platform and there will be a rocket there, leading to Pumpkin Mountain. There is a place to play the Mystic Melody. Play it and go through the floating platforms. Hint: Pumpkin Hill: Extra Skeleton Dogs: As Knuckles, go to Pumpkin Hill and get the extra life that is buried where the Shovel Claw was located. Then, go to Church Mountain and look around one of the graves closest to the wall. You should find a Skeleton Dog there. Restart the Level and do the same thing over again until you have as many as needed. The last time you do that, find a Chao Key and finish the level. It is easier to do this if you are on the 100 Ring mission or the Find The Chao mission. Hint: Pumpkin Hill: Ghosts: As Knuckles, from Pumpkin Hill to the rest of the game you can find ghosts in certain places. Note: They just pop out and knock you down. Hint: Pumpkin Hill: Safe from fall: When you fall for a while, glide then do the Spinning Dig move and hold it down. You will bounce back up and be able to glide to safety. If you do not make it, repeat until you do. Hint: Pyramid Cave: Skeleton Dog/Mutant Cow animal: After going a bit in the level, you should see a cage with the Skeleton Dog/Mutant Cow in it. There should be a wooden box next to it. Destroy that, and then under the cage there should be a metal box. Destroy that to free the animal. Note: This requires the Fire Bracelet. Also, if you want this animal, make sure you do not get too many more animals or Drives. Too many will knock the special animal off your inventory. Hint: Pyramid Cave: Save Bounce Bracelet: Note: This trick requires at least one memory card. After complete the Hidden Base level as Tails, go to Pyramid Cave. In the middle of the level, after you have the Bounce Bracelet, turn off the game with the memory card inside one of the slots. You still have the Bounce Bracelet even when you did not save after finding it. Hint: Radical Highway: Fire Ring: As Shadow, after the second highway you spring to, go backwards instead of forwards. You will see a rollie object that you need to somersault through to a new route. The new route leads to the Fire Ring that allows you to break steel crates. Note: You need the Light Shoes or you will not be able to get it. Hint: Radical Highway: Got Ring? Blimp: There is a blimp with the message "Got Ring?" in the level. Hint: Radical Highway: Stop at the top: