Completed without collecting any emeralds, with Sonic alone.
I got hit a few times throughout the game:
Marble Garden 1 - Spikeball was in the way and I didn't want to wait for it to move.
Launch Base 1 - Needed to lose the Lightning Shield to beat the boss faster.
Sandopolis 2 - Let a ghost hit me so I could land on top of a rock without breaking it. The extra height makes it possible to reach the platform above by bouncing off the ring boxes, avoiding a really long wait for the sand to catch up.
This was mostly recorded at 6% speed so I could perform spindashes at full power in the shortest time possible, and so that jumps could be timed perfectly to gain the most height and/or speed. On many occasions I tried each jump several times, timing it a frame or so earlier or later just to find the optimal position :)
I can't see this run being improved by much without some additional shortcuts being found and used...
There's not much else to say, except that 118631 is a very big number :P
The individual level times are as follows:
| Zone Name | Act 1 | Act 2 |
|---|
| Angel Island Zone | 0:45 | 1:21 |
| Hydrocity Zone | 0:47 | 1:28 |
| Marble Garden Zone | 1:05 | 1:45 |
| Carnival Night Zone | 0:44 | 1:56 |
| Icecap Zone | 1:41 | 0:46 |
| Launch Base Zone | 1:52 | 1:11 |
| Mushroom Hill Zone | 0:50 | 1:03 |
| Flying Battery Zone | 1:45 | 3:08 |
| Sandopolis Zone | 2:03 | 2:15 |
| Lava Reef Zone | 1:42 | 3:02 |
| Hidden Palace Zone | 0:27 |
| Sky Sanctuary Zone | 1:53 |
| Death Egg Zone | 1:40 | 2:56 |
