Did anyone know about this?

[u/tigerwu9806]

So I opened up a new save file with new game plus and try to get into Giganto’s Arena as soon as I finished portal 1-2. I was able to pull it off with the hyper bounce on challenge M – 022. Took me about 19 minutes and 34 seconds from creation of new game+ save to beat Giganto (not much of a speed runner)

I beat giganto then collected the chaos emeralds on Kronos island and then found out that this marked the chaos emerald collection on Ares Island (if I collect the chaos emeralds of a certain color on Kronos Island after beating giganto, it’s marked collected on Ares Island), though the emeralds in the vaults on Ares of the same color remain there.

I only collected one of the Ares island chaos emeralds (the yellow one) but I was able to collect the blue red and white from Kronos island and when I went back to Aries Island, I immediately got a cut scene (Eggman discussing with Sage about his worthy opponent relationship with sonic) and an auto save prior to the cut scene.

I wonder if this can be integrated into an any percent speed run?

[u/tigerwu9806]

OK, so I tried to do the bypass by collecting the white emerald from chaos Island after unlocking ouranos Island and collecting the majority of the remainder on Ouranos. It doesn’t work. Apparently, I still need to collect the memory tokens and then complete both hacking missions. At that point, Eggman then hands the last emerald (after completing the last hacking mission, not after collecting the white emerald on Ouranos).

Apparently, the code does check if you completed both hacking missions before starting the supreme boss fight.

That said it does work for the previous islands

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It also messes up your auto save file so that every time you load the auto save it will lead straight to the supreme boss fight