Where to find the Chaos Emeralds in Sonic 2
How to enter Sonic 2’s Special Stages from star posts and collect all seven Chaos Emeralds.
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.
Star posts
Pass a star post (checkpoint) with 50 rings or more. A circle of stars appears above it; jump into the stars to enter a Special Stage.
Special Stages
Sonic and Tails run through a half-pipe. Collect the target number of rings by each checkpoint and avoid bombs, which take away rings. Clear the last target to win a Chaos Emerald.
Seven emeralds
There are seven Chaos Emeralds. You can enter Special Stages from any zone with star posts.
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