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Published on 5/9/2005
Super fast bouncing around. Completed without collecting any emeralds, with Sonic and Tails (controlled indirectly by mimicking Sonic's movements).

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Published on 9/15/2006
Super fast bouncing around. Completed without collecting any emeralds, with Sonic and Tails (both controlled by the player).
If you like Genesis Sonic games but dislike level wrapping glitches, this is the TAS that you are looking for.
This movie has an Atlas Map encode of the Wing Fortress zone, which shows the standard encode overlaid on a zoomed out map.

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Published on 4/15/2011
Super fast bouncing around. Completed without collecting any emeralds, with Sonic and Tails (both controlled by the player).
This long-awaited improvement to nitsuja's famous run saves 01:13.07 in real-time and 4418 in-game frames by general optimisation and several long-known additional glitches.

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Published on 5/13/2012
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992) was the game that introduced the Super Dash Attack. The ability, referred to as Spin Dash in later games, has become one of the most beloved features of the series and, indeed, one of the most prominent features of the speedrunning scene as a whole.
In this exhilarating movie, Aglar speeds his way through this classic's varied acts making good use of Spin Dashes to finish them in record time. The author also controls Tails—Sonic's two-tailed foxy buddy—to allow for even faster routes and making shorter work of bosses.
This is an improvement of 00:50.77 seconds over the previous movie, thanks to better routes and general optimization as explained in the author's comments.
This movie has an Atlas Map encode of Mystic Cave zone 1, which shows the standard encode overlaid on a zoomed out map.

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Published on 12/31/2015
This is a version of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 with Sonic & Knuckles locked on it. The title character is replaced by his rival, Knuckles. The levels remain unchanged.
There is more than just an appearance change to this game. Knuckles' abilities remain intact. If you haven't seen Sonic the Hedgehog 2 completed before, you may wish to do so before seeing what a character with a spindash and gliding can accomplish.

Each second link or set of encodes uses a camhack, which forces the camera to focus on Knuckles while keeping the sprites on the foreground layer.

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Published on 2/10/2017
This is a version of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 with Sonic & Knuckles locked on it. The title character is replaced by his rival, Knuckles. The levels remain unchanged.
There is more than just an appearance change to this game. Knuckles' abilities remain intact. If you haven't seen Sonic the Hedgehog 2 completed before, you may wish to do so before seeing what a character with a spindash and gliding can accomplish.
The run is an improvement of 5.9 seconds in-game time over the predecessor movie. The author's comments contain a whole bunch of details.
We also have runs with Sonic and Tails and where Knuckles is going for the max rings challenge.

Each second link or set of encodes uses a camhack, which forces the camera to focus on Knuckles while keeping the sprites on the foreground layer.

Published on 2/25/2017
This game is what you get if you take Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and lock it onto Sonic & Knuckles. As the name suggests, what you get is simply Sonic the Hedgehog 2 with Knuckles the Echidna as the playable character. The levels remain mostly unchanged, save for the addition of a few monitors that can only be reached as Knuckles, whose abilities from Sonic and Knuckles (gliding, climbing walls, and jumping a little lower than Sonic) remain intact.
In this run, you'll see the zones of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (colloquially referred to as West Side Island in the Japanese manual) like you've never seen them before, as Knuckles uses every trick in the book to collect over five thousand rings, with only 11 throughout the game eluding his grasp. (For the time being, anyway...)
We also have runs with Sonic and Tails and Knuckles in this game.

Published on 12/19/2017
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992) was the game that introduced the Super Dash Attack. The ability, referred to as Spin Dash in later games, has become one of the most beloved features of the series and, indeed, one of the most prominent features of the speedrunning scene as a whole.
In this exhilarating movie, Aglar & Zurggriff speed their way through this classic's varied acts making good use of Spin Dashes to finish them in record time. The authors also control Tails — Sonic's two-tailed foxy buddy — to allow for even faster routes and making shorter work of bosses.
This is an improvement of 00:12.90 seconds over the predecessor movie.
We have a run where Knuckles replaces the main characters and finishes the game in record time, and another run where he goes for the max rings challenge.

Every second link leads to a CamHack encode that keeps Sonic visible all the time.

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Published on 5/20/2022
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992) was the game that introduced the Super Dash Attack. The ability, referred to as Spin Dash in later games, has become one of the most beloved features of the series and, indeed, one of the most prominent features of the speedrunning scene as a whole.
In this exhilarating movie, the authors speed their way through this classic's bonus stages to collect all 7 chaos emeralds, as well as the varied acts making good use of Spin Dashes to finish them in record time. The authors also control Tails — Sonic's two-tailed foxy buddy — to allow for even faster routes and making shorter work of bosses.
We have a run where Knuckles replaces the main characters and finishes the game in record time, and another run where he goes for the max rings challenge.

Every second link leads to a CamHack encode that keeps Sonic visible all the time.

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Published on 7/13/2023
This is an official version of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 with Sonic & Knuckles locked on it. Here, the title character is replaced by his rival, Knuckles, who has his signature ability of gliding carried over to this version. Other than that, the levels are unchanged. If you haven't seen Sonic the Hedgehog 2 completed before, you may wish to do so before seeing what a character with a spindash and gliding can accomplish.
ShiningProdigy9000, Takz15x, and Zurggriff work together to speed through the bonus stages to collect all 7 Chaos Emeralds and zip through the rest of the stages as fast as possible.
For more Knuckles in Sonic 2, we have a run of him just beating the game as fast as possible without having to collect the Chaos Emeralds and a run where he collects nearly every ring in the game. We also have a 100% run with Sonic and Tails instead.

There are also alternate CamHack encodes that attempts to keep Knuckles visible on the screen as much as possible and over any sprite layers.

Published on 10/29/2023
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992) was the game that introduced the Super Dash Attack. The ability, referred to as Spin Dash in later games, has become one of the most beloved features of the series and, indeed, one of the most prominent features of the speedrunning scene as a whole.
In this exhilarating movie, the authors speed their way through this classic's bonus stages to collect all 7 chaos emeralds, as well as the varied acts making good use of Spin Dashes and tails to finish them in record time. They also manage to save 15.6 seconds over the previous run thanks to new routes and strategies. For more details on that, you can read their notes here.
For more Sonic the Hedgehog 2 tool-assisted speedruns, you can check out this page. It also includes runs with Knuckles, which is possible with a special cartridge lock-on combination.

Published on 11/2/2023
This is an official version of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 with Sonic & Knuckles locked on it. Here, the title character is replaced by his rival, Knuckles, who has his signature ability of gliding and climbing carried over to this version. Other than that, the levels are unchanged. If you haven't seen Sonic the Hedgehog 2 completed before, you may wish to do so before seeing what a character with a spindash and gliding can accomplish.
ShiningProdigy9000 saves 17.5 seconds over the previous run through various stage improvements and optimizations.
For more Sonic the Hedgehog 2 tool-assisted speedruns, you can check out this page.

There are also alternate CamHack encodes that attempts to keep Knuckles visible on the screen as much as possible and over any sprite layers.

Published on 11/21/2023
This is an official version of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 with Sonic & Knuckles locked on it. Here, the title character is replaced by his rival, Knuckles, who has his signature abilities of climbing and gliding carried over to this version. Other than that, the levels are unchanged. If you haven't seen Sonic the Hedgehog 2 completed before, you may wish to do so before seeing what a character with spiked knuckles and gliding can accomplish.
Takz15x and ShiningProdigy9000 save a little over 52 seconds over the previous run thanks to a couple of new tricks and strategies.
For more Knuckles in Sonic 2, we have a run of him just beating the game as fast as possible without having to collect the Chaos Emeralds and a run where he collects nearly every ring in the game. We also have a 100% run with Sonic and Tails instead.

There are also alternate CamHack encodes that attempts to keep Knuckles visible on the screen as much as possible and over any sprite layers.


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