How to unlock Super Sonic in Sonic 2
How to unlock Super Sonic, the good ending and two-player zones in the original Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
Original 1992 16-bit Mega Drive/Genesis release. Manual Tails flight, the restored Hidden Palace and additional playable characters from later remasters are excluded; Sonic & Knuckles lock-on is a separate variant.
Super Sonic
Collect all seven Chaos Emeralds. Then collect 50 rings in any zone, jump and press jump again in the air. Super Sonic is faster and immune to enemies, but loses one ring a second.
Good ending
Beat Death Egg Zone with all seven emeralds as Sonic. Super Sonic appears in the ending.
Two-player mode
Choose 2P VS from the title screen. Its zones are available from the start; there is nothing to unlock.
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