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QUICK AND SIMPLE non-glitchy way to farm Big rings attempts ( FASTER THAN GREEN HILL OR CHEMICAL PLANT )

By Felixinius

It's way faster than Green Hill Act 1, and doesn't use any "out-of-bounds" forced glitch.
Legit way to get to a big ring fast.

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Felixinius
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Category: Achievements, Maps or Levels, Secrets, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

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29 Aug, 2017 @ 5:24pm

30 Aug, 2017 @ 3:13am

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Guide Index

Overview

About this guide

Where is it?

Step-by-step

I can't do it!!!

Video guide

Conclusion

Comments

About this guide

As the title says, i've found a legit way to farm big rings that usually won't take less than 20 seconds to reach a big ring on each attempt after you've practiced a few times reaching to it and doesn't require forced glitch neither risk to lose lives.

It's on Studiopolis - Act 1.

PLEASE only suggest another one if you actually found a faster way than 12 seconds. Also check if your suggestion has been already given.

Also, i do realize there's the developer menu. This guide is meant to do it for a LEGIT way, not using any kind of feature that's not supposed for players to use.

Where is it?

As said in the intro, Studiopolis - Act 1

It goes without saying that it's required to finish the game at least once on that save slot, so you can restart on any zone whenever you want.

I'll be showing how to get there using SONIC as he's the hardest one to get to that ring. Either Tails and Knuckles can also be used and it's even easier with them.

Step-by-step

Start off by spindashing / peeling out to the RIGHT until you reach here:

It's important to spindash again to the right from this very area, so you get enough momentum to do what we need to easily.

As you reach this point on the image bellow, QUICKLY PULL TO THE LEFT ALL YOU CAN!

If you do it right, you'll bounce off the bumpers and reach here:

Now just spindash again to the LEFT and let your controller free, and you'll reach here. Now just jump.

There you go. Now go after those stupid UFOs!

I can't do it!!!

I believe some people might have trouble getting enough momentum to pull off the trick to bounce off the top of the bumpers, so here are two more ways to get it.

Follow the guide just as it is until the bumpers part, but lean to the right instead, you'll end up here:

Now you can either use tails to fly across (double jump with UP directional held then jump again to grab his arms, now you control him)

OR you could also do it the crazy way by jumping inside the bumper wheel like this and bounce off to the left once the opening allows you to do so. If you hit that stupid yellow spring, just try again.

Video guide

For those who think this is still too "tricky" to pull it off, RealSonicFan managed to find an even quicker way to get the same ring. honestly it takes TWELVE seconds to get there.

Watch at 0:09 of this video:

Conclusion

I just noticed that i'm horrible on these new special stages even though i'm good enough on either blue spheres or the old half-pipe one from sonic 2. Mostly because i memorized the patterns since childhood though.

So i needed a way to get to big rings fast to spam reattempts. The green hill ones weren't cutting it, so i had to look elsewhere.

Thanks for reading my guide!

55 Comments

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Siffrin (She/They) 17 Jan @ 7:13am

I think they patched this, when you beat the ring now, you just get warped to the ring where you left off

Felixinius [author] 11 Jul, 2024 @ 4:29am

@Sono Simply get the emerald and you'll be warped to the beginning of the level. Then you walk to the same place again, the big ring will still be there. No restarts, no stage beating.

Felixinius [author] 11 Jul, 2024 @ 4:27am

@Wake Up Damn I'll have to do one by myself. thanks for the headsup bro. Didn't expect the guy to private the video

Sono 11 Jul, 2024 @ 12:25am

so u can keep doing the same big ring to get all the emeralds on one slot? Do you need to get one emerald, beat the game again, then do it again from that level? or can you just finish the level and then level select again?