There's a certain mechanic to the rubber band physics that I like to call the 'leader system.' Basically, if you're holding B, your partner will become the leader, and you will go wherever your partner goes, regardless if you try going to the right or going down, etc.This is useful, as letting go of directional input and holding B after throwing your partner up into the air can allow you to get a lot of height and a ton of speed. up and right, or just left) and letting go of B, your character will throw your partner in the appropriate direction. This will make your character pick up your partner, and by holding a direction (i.e. Alternatively, you can come up to your partner, and press and hold B.You can run either left or right away from your partner to build up speed, then let go and go super fast in the other direction. Holding B will make your partner stand in place and scream 'HOLD' at you.After collecting them all, once you defeat the final boss, you will get to see the good ending. There are 6 in total, making it six Special Stages that need to be beaten.

Once you turn in four blue spheres the second time, you will be awarded with a Chaos Ring. If you run out of rings or fall off the stage, the game will kick you out of the special stage, and you will have to collect another 50 rings and try again. If you reach the goal without enough blue spheres, the stage will loop back, and you will be sent back to the beginning of the section you failed with the amount of blue spheres you had before, as well as whatever rings you have left over.

Your character is also stuck constantly moving forward (like Sonic 3 & Knuckles) and you have to traverse the 3D path while collecting rings and avoiding hazards. After reaching the first goal with four blue spheres, you are tasked with collecting four more. In the first Special Stage, you have to collect four, and in the second you have to collect six, and so on. In Knuckles' Chaotix, you start in a hexagonal 3-dimensional tube, and are tasked with collecting a certain number of blue spheres. Special Stages are in most Sonic games, and are used to collect the Chaos Emeralds for a good ending or to unlock Super Sonic (or Hyper Sonic if you're playing Sonic 3 & Knuckles). If you bring 50 or more rings to the end of a level, you can enter a big ring and start a Special Stage.

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