From: bunny@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (Laura Kozma)
Subject: Re: Sonic 2 on GameGear - hints & tips please
Organization: AT&T, Piscataway, NJ
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:59:06 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.151728.30789@watson.ibm.com> joao@watson.ibm.com writes:
>
>As the title says, I'd like to get any hints and tips
>people may have accumulated about Sonic 2 on the Game Gear
>(eg how to defeat bosses, location of chaos emeralds, any
>secret level select codes, secret rooms, ... anything really :-)
>
>I've just got into these games & even the first boss (at the
>end of scene 3 in the underground zone) totally defeats me :-( !

The first few times I played this round I thought that I was
supposed to hit the lobster monster.  You don't have to 
do this.  Just stay away from the balls.   Still, I think that
this is one of the hardest bosses, believe it or not!

(I'm up to the boss stage of Gimmick Mountain (5th zone).  The
easiest boss so far was the one for Aqua Lake.  I'd say that
the boss for the Green Hills Zone was the worst.  The boss itself
wasn't too bad, but getting there was a pain.)


Here are some ways to get free guys and chaos emeralds for stages 
one through four (I can't remember if I've found anything in stage 5):

Zone I, act I.  I've found two free Sonics here.   You can reach
one of them fairly early.   If you see a vertical line of rings,
take the plunger, and go to your left.  It's a secret platform.
Go to your left. 
The other one is found by staying on the top level the entire time. It
will towards the end of the act.
Zone I, act II.  I can only think of one free Sonic here.  It's
through one of the secret walls (the ones that have four tiny
bricks that make up one big brick).   The chaos emerald is towards
the end of the screen on the upper right.

Zone II, act I.  There's a free Sonic to the right of the first 
plunger.   There's also one on the left.  You can reach this
one by jumping to the left when you're at the topmost 
free standing plunger.  A nice way to build up Sonics!
Zone II, act II.  There's a free Sonic to your lower left.  Someone
else posted a spoiler for reaching the emerald.  I only got this
emerald once -- and it was a happy, unrepeatable accident!

Zone III, act I.  Again, I can only think of one Sonic monitor here, but
I think there may be more under the water.  This Sonic monitor is
reached by breaking through one wall, and then jumping onto the top of
the wall up above.   The final panel may not be in an area you'd
expect.
Zone III, act II.  You reach the chaos emerald by pressing left
when you come to the second maze.  When you get the emerald, press right
and you'll eventually get a free Sonic.    This round has a part
that was tricky for me.  You'll get to a point where it's pretty
obvious that you have to go up, but there's no transportation
(and crabs and lobsters obviously treat hitchhikers very poorly!).
What you'll have to do is stay in the previous bubble.  When you
get towards to the top of the previous bubble, don't let it pop.
Rather, slow it down and move to the left.
Zone III, act III.  I think that this round is not too difficult,
and I can't think of any spoilers.

Zone IV, act I.  You can get loads of free Sonics on this round!
There's two free Sonics at the beginning.   There are loads of
rings, too!  I'm pretty sure there's another Sonic at the end
(although I may be confusing this with act II).
Zone IV, act II.  There's a free guy on top of a loop, and 
also one towards the end.  Get the chaos emerald towards
the end.  You'll see a few plungers up above that you
won't be able to get to.  Get there by jumping to the right when
you're jumping on the plungers to the left.   Once you get to
the correct plungers, jump to the right.
Zone IV, act III.  Bleck!  I don't know if I can really supply
any spoilers here, except to say that this round is a pain
and is largely a matter of trial and error.  Make sure to
stock up on guys from act I. :-)

Zone V.   Like I said, I can't remember if there are any
free Sonics here.  I haven't found the chaos emerald.
Two spoilers, though:  One is that you may not always want to
get off a rail cart if you're done with your first trip, and
the other is that the transporters may come back.

Hope this helps.

Laura
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Laura Kozma
AT&T, 30 Knightsbridge Rd                
Piscataway, NJ   att!attmail!lkozma