[TAS] SMS Sonic the Hedgehog 2 "best ending" by mike89 in

This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see tasvideos.org/...
TAS originally published on 2007-12-08
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the Sega Master System completed with all emeralds. Unlike many Sonic games, acquiring emeralds is done within normal stages rather than
bonus levels, and getting all of them allows you to play the true final level.
Trivia: This game slightly predates the Mega Drive/Genesis version ( tasvideos.org/... ), so it features the official first appearance of Sonic's flying mutant fox friend, Tails ( tasvideos.org/... ).

[@Brown95P]

Man, my ears sure enjoyed this speedrun!
/s

[@superknuckles9567]

What does /s mean

[@botulismsauce]

The score going up sound, rip ears

[@clairebennett9104]

*The Sounds Of Your Wii Crashing*

[@blackdot105]

@@superknuckles9567 I'm assuming it means sarcasm. It's meant to be an indicator, to tell people what the message would contextually be conveying, although it usually confuses me moreso.

[@PrideEepy64]

You can say that again at 5:38

[@JovianCloudfarmer]

Sonic has passed Act Whatever! BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP

[@QuadFactor21]

The only Sonic game where you are guaranteed to get a game over screen regardless of whether you win or lose.

[@IvanFranco120]

Yeah, i wonder if there's an reason for that...?🤔

[@Black__Rose.]

@Ivan Franco I don't know if you're joking or not,but if you're not,then it's because the game.......well, the game is over,like actually,you've gotten all 6 emeralds,you've saved Tails(me,)and you beat Ro-butt-nick and beat all the levels

[@nelsonreyes-alvarez605]

I mean the game is technically over OVER right? Since you finished it….

[@QuadFactor21]

@nelsonreyes-alvarez605 Technically, yes. It's just that I'm more used to seeing a game over screen when I lose a game.

[@Azure30]

Boy they were really gratuitous with that time bonus in this one weren't they

[@Zeoinx69]

No, they just wanted to kill everyones ear's who speedruns or watches a speedrun with a super long high ptich beep.

[@nelsonreyes-alvarez605]

my eardrums are dead

[@JSRphones]

@@nelsonreyes-alvarez605 Sonic 1 for Game Gear does the same thing. The absurdly high time bonus is given if the player completes the given level in 0:20 or less.

[@clairebennett9104]

0:38 *My Wii Crashed...*

[@servedbot7377]

The Game Over track is so dark and creepy, even at its best ending. It makes the listener feel no matter which choice they make, its all going to end the same way.

[@rodrigo-oliveira-86]

I could never understand why Robotnik saved Sonic from lava before the first boss...

[@Ninetails2000]

I always liked to think that it was Eggman being proud and putting the rules of the game above actually killing Sonic. "NO NO NO! You're not going to die by falling in lava like a chump, you're going to die by BEING KILLED BY MY ROBOTS!"

[@IvanFranco120]

@@Ninetails2000 Yeah, its like they want to die without falling into an lame lava pit... 😅

[@greenknight9000]

It turns out there's a _very_ rare glitch that can occur where Robotnik gets caught in the wall for a few moments, preventing him from catching you in time and costing you a life

[@stevenpavelish6017]

All hail our new hero, Dr. Ivo Robotnik!

[@SuperLuigiWorld]

Late reply, but it's because the game's story assumes you already have the first Chaos Emerald, which Robotnik wants. He 'saves' Sonic so he can beat him in the boss fight and safely retrieve the emerald, without risking it being damaged in the lava or enduring the difficulty of trying to retrieve it from there.

[@greensun1334]

This is an absolute masterpiece in the SMS with the smoothest scrolling and without sprite-flickering!

[@Schimnesthai]

I like the old GG Sonic games, yet my first experience was Triple Trouble and it was very hard to go back and play the previous ones. I like that in Sonic Adventure DX Director's Cut there's a hidden multiplayer for the GG games, a good new way to experience those good old games.

[@Gotmilk0112]

The master system/GG Sonic games are hard because the view distance is so goddamn tiny, you can’t see more than 5 feet in front of you.

[@millrrs]

@@Gotmilk0112 View of distance is not a huge problem on Master System, just on Game Gear.
The real issue are frame rate and input latency.

[@Hank_Wolfman]

@@Gotmilk0112 yup. It's especially bad on Green Hills Act 3. The entire act is basically blind jumps. The Master System version is too easy in comparison haha

[@Tom-jw7ii]

@@millrrs I think the number one thing that makes them so hard is the ringless boss fights.

[@Pinkarmada01]

See my first experience with GG game especially this one was on Sega Gems Collections on GameCube. I actually hated this game to a degree but i saw sonic triple trouble on the same Collection i praised that they finally got a normal some what sonic game with the limitations. Gems Collections has this museum feature where after literally hundreds of hours and achievements you can unlock past sonic games but with an objective to beat the final boss under an hour and after you beat the final boss you can still play the entire game but only with the allocated time you had. I found GG sonic the hedgehog, one hour to beat the final boss then after that 8 speedrun as much as i could to get to see other levels before the game booted you back to the museum. Fun times, i spedrun some many final bosses lmao

[@TheOrangeBanjo]

I still think the Game Gear version had the better boss theme, a remix of Metallic Madness.

[@IvanFranco120]

1:57 The first time Eggman helped sonic, instead of tryting of killing him. 😅

[@miymoto128]

Even as a kid I questioned that, if Robotnik wanted to kill him why not leave him.

[@wraithcadmus]

@@miymoto128 Because Sonic has an Emerald, and letting it fall into the lava is *no good*.

[@ridjenite]

Because if anyone's going to kill Sonic, it will be him.

[@JoanSlugXAkaJerkyBogard]

Maybe Eggman though leaving Sonic Fall into the lava would be too boring.

[@IvanFranco120]

@@JoanSlugXAkaJerkyBogard Perpahs, The devs decided to give Eggman at least one chance to be an hero, instead of always an villian. 😅

[@Gabowsk]

No, man, my Game Gear's speakers are fine. Look, I can even hear hospital sirens, so realistic.

[@ericdanielski4802]

Nice TAS.

[@canalsoundtest]

I remember first playing this, at the end of the Underground Zone boss, after being astonished seeing Eggman saving Sonic, I remained still and alert when the flying container apperared, because I thought it was a second boss. It took me some seconds to note it won't move.

[@reshiexe286]

Never clear a act
*EVER AGAIN!*

[@bytesandbikes]

I forgot how obnoxious the sped-up score counter was! Great run anyway

[@yanu5067]

Pretty sure that's not the right sound effect 😉

[@Tom-jw7ii]

@@yanu5067 The Game Gear version has a different-sounding score tally.

[@yanu5067]

@@Tom-jw7ii that makes sense, had the GG version in mind ,,😀

[@bytesandbikes]

@@yanu5067 I remember that was the sound on a UK game gear, but only if you pressed a button to speed up the counter

[@Tom-jw7ii]

@@bytesandbikes Oh yeah, I forgot about that. In that case it’s probably the same.
Edit: Never mind. Just checked and the GG version is different.

[@autumnshinespark]

I spent so much time on the Game Gear version trying to reach the Sky High emerald...

[@EdinMike]

The bosses in this game were so fun !

[@ilovemybeard3394]

The only Sonic game that was different from the rest with unique enemies 👍

[@eatingmage603]

Grabbed this game for the Analogue pocket, but this is way more entertaining that playing it myself.

[@underscore319]

why did the gems collection have to use the game gear versions instead of the SMS ones?

[@ikewagner]

Damn, he sure beat that level fast
(By level 3)
Please stop beating the levels so fast, my ears can't take it

[@NinjaCacodemon_IsSus]

10 SECONDS AND TIME BONUS 300000 SCORE !? then 0 seconds for 9999999999999999999999 score

[@GLEclipseGaming]

I could never beat the second stage as a kid. Like how the hell do you use the glider?

[@Edlandish]

It was something really bizarre and unintuitive like pressing left and up. Been a long time since I played but it was really weird and I couldn’t use it properly either

[@stevenpavelish6017]

Press left to go up, press right to go down.

[@user-iy6dt4xp5o]

That’s the neat pat, you don’t

[@samdilophosaur9787]

I love short stack ankha

[@bayzul7405]

Man this looks playable vs Game Gear screen crunch

[@omfgbunder2008]

I forgot how laggy this was on the game gear.

[@BronyumHexofloride]

never seen anyone cheese those bosses soo hard before

[@jondnz]

Yeah the last, one. How in the word did they do it so that there was no lightning or those balls that normally come out

[@hidden3880]

the score tallying up literal sounds like a dying wii

[@Archetype000]

Never made it past Sky High Zone 2 on the original Game Gear, goddammit, I hate hang-gliding

[@DarkBluefire91]

*Warning headphones user's you been warned*

[@Effectx87]

World war 2 flashbacks come when score:

[@krisorgan]

Nice bit of showing off on the first boss battle. Its safe to say ya good at the game.

[@JSRphones]

I don't know why, but if you manage to beat an act in 20 seconds or less, the game gives you an absurdly high time bonus. Same applies to the Game Gear version of Sonic 1. I don't know anyone who would ever encounter this in normal gameplay though.

[@JONATHANP1619]

"Sonic has passed"....oh wow..

[@Atlink]

This speed run does wonders for my tinnitus!

[@quanquin3822]

beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

[@1murigno]

1:57 Nobody kills the hedgehog, nobody except me

[@Mikewee777]

I remember playing this on game gear but the speaker pitch depth was deeper by a whole note.

[@user-fu9sx3fw2e]

As I remember, the original sega saturn gameplay wasn't this smooth..
Is the Fps enhanced or was it this smooth originally?

[@cay7809]

Saturn? This was on Sega Master System

[@user-fu9sx3fw2e]

@@cay7809Oh thank you sir my memory has being failing me since my aging.. Yes I think I meant what you are saying

[@snukka]

1:57
"Fine! I'll do it myself"

[@jordanpeterson5038]

I do wonder what it would be like if this was on genesis or even the saturn instead. Would it have been easier or just the same ?

[@Tom-jw7ii]

Too bad we’ll never know what Sonic 2 on the Genesis would’ve been like. :(

[@jordanpeterson5038]

For what it is the game did have a shocking bad ending. I'm sure you know what I mean

[@IvanFranco120]

@@Tom-jw7ii Unless, someone makes an Sonic 2 MS Genesis Remake, as an fanmade game... 😅

[@chackbro1]

I love the Eggman flagpole strats

[@braddevon1283]

He saved him so sonic has to do level 2 sky high zone 😂

[@romalapin8648]

0:36
Why that's too many time scores?

[@YSBunny573]

ow oof owie my ears

[@danilodanilo3406]

Go at the final and you see that the both died and became a star
That looks a Terrible ending

[@tomrees82]

The record without being TAS is 12:47.
How is this slower?

[@steved8193]

wester's speedrun uses in-game times (i.e. clock stops when the timer stops and doesn't take account of score tallies, level intros). If that's done here this run is 12:31.

[@millrrs]

Now make the bad ending.

[@EliezerDeMB2]

Doutor robotnik está mais diabólico

[@Megameansbusiness]

sonig

[@jondnz]

18:32........I smell a rat. How in the world did you stop all the things coming out that Robotnik attacks you with

[@colonthree]

Why is Ankha so thicc? ;w;