Sonic Team announcement
Allow the game to idle at the "Press Start" screen. After many demos, the Sonic Team logo will appear again and Tails will say "Sonic Team!".

Hints & Tips

Dark Garden for Chao
Take a Chao and raise it with a Dark character. Feed and train it until it cocoons. After it evolves, stairs will appear at the Chao Lobby. Follow them to get to the Dark Garden.

Proceed to Pumpkin Hill and find the Skeleton Dog. Leave and do it again until you have maxed the line. Go to the Garden with Knuckles and drop off the Dogs. Exit the garden than go back in with a Dark character. The dogs should still be in there. Keep doing this.

Chao expressions
Your Chao's expressions depend on how many seconds you shake the egg before it hatches. Roughly six seconds results in the V face and ten seconds for no expression face. To get the very wide smile you may have to experiment.

Preview evolved Chao
Obtain an already evolved Chao. Next, collect the animal you want to use (Dragons, Bears, etc.). Then, feed them to your evolved Chao. This will show you what your Choa will look like when evolved.

Extra costumes
Acquire A ranks on every mission with the character you wish to get the costume for in two-player mode.

Extra Island level
To get an extra Island level, you must obtain all the Emblems, including Kart, Timed Boss, and the emblems for all A rating. Once you have all of them, which should total 180, the island next to the Green Forest level will have the face of Sonic on it. The new level is a 3D version of the Green Hills Zone, from Sonic The Hedgehog. This level has no missions, is really simple, and has many varying routes.

Hero Garden for Chao
Take a Chao and raise it with a Hero so that it will look like a Hero. Wait until it cocoons into an angel-like Chao (it will have a halo). Then, take the stairs going up at the Chao Lobby to get to the Hero Garden.

Proceed to Pumpkin Hill and find the Skeleton Dog. Exit and do it again until you have maxed the line. Go to the Garden with a Hero character. The dogs should still be in there. Keep doing this.

Free pumpkins for Chao
Go to any Chao Garden as Knuckles and dig in the ground. You will find pumpkins if you dig enough. Give them to your Chao, and if it is powerful enough, it will put it on its head.

Finding items in Chao Gardens
You can find items like pumpkins (regular and Hero Garden) and skulls (Dark Garden). As Knuckles or Rouge, go into the Chao world. When you go into the gardens, there are plants that have big green leaves that are normally in corners or against the wall. If you dig in all of them, you should find an item worth 50 coins. Note: This does not work every time wait or return another time and they should be there.

Chao swimming or flying
To get your Chao to swim, give it lots of animals that can swim. To make them fly, give them some flying type animals and bring them to the tallest cliff. Set it by the edge and he/she will walk off and start flying. Note: It may not fly the first time so keep trying.

Soon to evolve Chao
Your Chao is close to transforming if it starts to sleep a lot. If you have another transformed Chao, bring the sleeping Chao to the Hero Garden and it will transform.

Different Chao types
You can make your Chao different types (for example, Running, Power, etc.) by giving your Chao a large amount of the same colored Chaos Drives. Pet your Chao with the either a Hero or Dark character. If you give your Chao green Chao Drives, then it will be a Running type. If yellow, it will be a Swimming type. If red, it will be a Power type. If purple, it will be a Flying type.

Different Chao head
Go to the Black Market and purchase a Red Apple or Cardboard Box. Take it to your Chao. When it is mature enough, give it the Apple or Cardboard Box to your Chao. It will be confused at first, then a "!" will appear above its head. It will put it on its head. If u do not want it on its head, throw or punch it and it will pop off.

If you want your Chao to have an item on his head, such as a skull or a pumpkin, obtain a Skeleton Dog (small animal) which can be found on Church Mountain in Pumpkin Hill, as well as some other levels. Go to the Chao Garden and give a Chao the Skeleton Dog. Then, give it the item you want placed on his head. Skulls can be found by digging with Knuckles or Rouge in the Dark Garden, Pumpkins can be found by digging in the Chao or Hero gardens, and other items like the Cardboard Box can be purchased in the Black Market in the Chao Kindergarten.

Ultimate Light and Dark Chaos
Once you have transformed your Hero or Dark Chao into a Chaos Chao, give it every animal. Wait a long time. Eventually it will start cocooning. Once it is out of its cocoon, if its an Ultimate Dark Chao it will have a blue flame above its head, horns, and huge wings. If its the Ultimate Light Chao, it will have a bright gold glowing halo over its head, pink glowing legs and arms.

To obtain the ultamate Light, Angel, and Devil Chao, you must first make sure you Chao has just rebirthed for its second time. Make sure you have not given it any animals yet. Then, give it one of all the twenty one animals to play with in no particular order (Boar, Cheetah, Bunny, Otter, Seal, Penguin, Gorilla, Tiger, Bear, Condor, Parrot, Peacock, Sheep, Racoon, Skunk, Half Fish, Skeleton Dog, Bat, Unicorn, Dragon, Phoenix). For an Angel Chao, use Sonic, Knuckles, or Tails to give all the animals. For a Devil Chao use Dr. Eggman, Shadow, or Rouge to give all the animals. For a Light Chao, use a combination of all the characters to give all the animals. Remember, if you want your Chao to rebirth you must not throw him or her. Pet them and feed them often. To get the best color for your Devil, Light, or Angel Chao, use the eggs that you get when you first entered the Garden. They are white with blue and yellow spots.

Shiny colorful Chao
Enter the Tiny Chao Garden in Sonic Advance. Press L to buy an egg to get to the shop. Transfer the egg to Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. When the egg comes out, it should be a different color than it was before the transfer.

Sparkly normal Chao
At the Black Market, purchase a white sparkly Egg. Buy two Chao Fruits. Give the Chao Fruits to the sparkly Chao and any kind of non-sparkly adult Chao about the same time. As soon as they have an egg, throw it against the wall to hatch it. Note: This trick will only work seldom. It should be born white with blue patches. It looks even better if you evolve it Dark.

Raise your Chao's stamina to about level 7 to 15 to send him through his first metamorphosis. Leave the Gamecube on overnight while you are in the garden. It is suggested that the Chao be alone in the garden. Then, check your game and he should be a baby which is good. After that, repeat the first metamorphosis process. Once evolved again, leave it on overnight once again. Now that your Chao is a baby again (for the third time), give it one of every animal. Finally give it a Hero Fruit for Hero Chaos Chao, a Dark Fruit for Dark Chaos Chao, and a Chao Fruit for a Light Chaos Chao. Wait for awhile for your well earned Chaos Chao.

Start abusing your Chao with the type of storyline you do not want your Chao to grow up to be. It will transform eventually. Repeat this until it has transformed three times. As you begin the rest of the game, give your Chao each small animal you find and that one Chao. It will turn into a Chaos Chao.

Get a fresh egg (white and blue only). Feed it only Chao Fruits and train it nicely with both sides, Hero and Dark, until it evolves once. It will create a cocoon in the shape of the Chao's head. If done properly, it will be a baby blue Chao again. Repeat the last step until it evolves for the second time. After it has evolved twice (it should still be blue), give it one of every animal. Then, give it a Chao Fruit for a Neutral Chaos Chao, a Dark Fruit for an Evil Chaos Chao, or a Hero Fruit for an Angel Chaos Chao.

Black Chao
To make a black Chao, grab it and keep throwing it to the ground or the walls.

Chao with rainbow wings
Keep giving a Chao all different color Chao Drives. Do this for a while and your Chao should grow either rainbow wings or rainbow arms. If this does not happen, keep trying.

Fire-breathing Chao
Give a Chao a lot of Dragons. After that, it sometimes will blow fire out of its mouth. Watch closely, as the Chao will not do it to often.

Skeleton Chao
Get the Fire Ring. Go to the level where you find the Bounce Bracelet. Soon after the part where you find the bracelet, you will see an animal-like thing that you can feed to Chaos in a cage. Roll into the iron box under the cage and it will fall down, leaving the animal-like thing on top of it. Get it. When you go to Chao World, feed it to a Chao. Either their arms or legs will turn into a bone.

Flame head Chao
To get a blue flame Chao, raise a red Chao with Knuckles until it grows two spikes on it head. Then, go into Chao World and pet that Chao continually for a long time. It should grow two ears on the top of its head. After that, pet it again continually. A blue flame will appear on top of its head.

To obtain any type of flame head Chao, raise your Chao to be a Hero, Dark, or Neutral type. When it evolves into one, give it three Green Lagoon Monsters, which can be found as Tails when you have to infiltrate Eggman's base.

Give a Chao at least three Half Fish or a sea monster. You can find them in the Jungle level as Sonic.

Chaos with items on their head
Give your Chao a skeleton dog. Then, give your Chao a skull, trash bag, pumpkin, etc. After awhile, a "!" will appear above its head and it will put it on. To take it off, attack or jump on your Chao.

Shadow Chao
Keep giving a Chao Green Chaos Drives. When it evolves, it will have green stripes on its head just like Shadow. This works best with the normal Chaos that hatch from the white and blue eggs.

Knuckles Chao
Only feed your Chao Red Fruits, and Red Chaos Drives. Do not give your Chao any animals. Your Chao must be a Hero Chao for this to work. Your Chao will have a stem on its head, but when it transforms its sixth time, its head will look like Knuckles.

Green Sonic Chao
Obtain a blue egg from the Black Market. Give that Chao at least 15 Green Chaos Drives. As Sonic or Shadow, keep petting the Chao. Give that Chao the hog at least two times. You can also get a regular color Chao and give the 15 Green Chaos Drives. Then, when it evolves, spend a lot of time with the Chao as Sonic and it will be blue.  Raise a Gold Chao from Sonic Advanced or Sonic Adventure 2 Battle with Shadow. Do not give anything to the Chao besides fruits (Hero, Dark, Round, etc.). When your Chao transforms it, will be a Super Sonic Chao.

Sparkly Gold Chao
Purchase a sparkly yellow or brown egg from the Black Market. If you buy a sparkly yellow egg, buy two Heart Fruits and give one to the sparkly Chao and one to a normal brown Chao. If you buy a sparkly brown egg, buy two Heart Fruits and give one to the sparkly brown Chao and one to a normal yellow Chao. When they lay an egg, hatch it. It should be a sparkly Gold Chao.

Acquire a white metallic Chao and raise it with a Dark character (Shadow, Rouge, Eggman) and it will turn silver.

Dark Chao
Get every animal two times with a Dark character. It can be either be Rouge, Shadow, or Dr. Eggman. Give every animal two times to the Chao, and when his stamina level is at 7, put him on the flowers. The Chao should be in a Chao head-like cocoon and in a few seconds it should hatch into a Dark Chao.

Crazy Chao
Have a Dark Chao. When in the Dark Garden give it five Dark Fruits. After that, your Chao will sleep once you whistle. When he gets up, he will have a strange smile and start running around. He will hit other Chaos and knock them down.

Magic Chao
When you enter Chao Karate, if you go to Expert you will see a Chao named Magic. First, pet a Chao often with Sonic, then get one of each animal and give it to the Chao. Then, get roughly eight Skeleton Dogs and give it to the Chao. All the animals should be gone. If not, keep giving him the Skeleton Dog then give it lots of Green Chaos Drives. This requires patience it should evolve when its level get's to 32. Note: If you leave the Gamecube on overnight, the spike on its head will get longer.

Hyper Shadow Chao
Raise a Silver Chao with Shadow. Feed it only fruit and chaos drives (red suggested). When it transforms, it will be a Hyper Shadow Chao.

Tails Chao
Acquire a Purple Chao and raise it with Eggman until it gets a Dragon head (pet it frequently). Then, give it nothing except Purple Chaos Drives and only feed it five Fruits.

Open Chao egg easily
Throw a Chao egg against a wall.

Name Chao yourself
Go to the fortune teller with your Chao. When she offers a name for your Chao and asks whether you like it, answer "No". She will make another suggestion. Answer "No" again. She will then ask if you would like to name the Chao yourself answer "Yes".

Delete animal characteristics from Chao
If you have a Chao with strange animal characteristics, just give it a few Skeleton Dogs. Your Chao will return to normal. If you want to give it an animal and you do not like the outcome, repeat the process.

Get higher Chao ranks
Get the required Animal or Chaos Drive for the type of Chao you desire. For example, the Yellow drive or Sea Otter for swim. Then, give them mostly that color of Drive or Animal. Eventually they will evolve into an adult. When this happens, if you gave them mostly yellow for example, the adult Chao will be a swimming type and if your rank in swim was, for example an "A" rank, it will go up to "S". To improve the letter rank in Stamina, make the Chao a normal type.

Chao status
If your Chao has already evolved and has another tear shaped cocoon around it, it is either being reborn or going to die. If the tear shaped cocoon is gray, the Chao is going to die. If the cocoon is pink, your Chao will be reborn and all stats will be divided by 10.

Avoid Chao race losses
If you are racing your Chao and know you will lose, press Start and select "Exit" and it will not be recorded as a loss.

Waking Chao up
Sleeping Chao are annoying because you cannot feed them. To wake them up, stand next to it and whistle. You do not have to anger them by picking them up during a little nap.

Not worrying about Chao aging
Note: This trick needs a Game Boy Advance, Sonic Advance, and a link cable. If you raise your Chao on the Game Boy Advance, you do not have to worry about it aging. If you are trying to save time, the Chao does not age at all. This is a good way to level up your Chao if it is at its third life (two transformations).

Regular teenage Chao
To keep your Chao from becoming a Dark or Hero Chao before it evolves, rotate between Hero and dark Characters every visit. If the colors of your chao start to change, simply pet the Chao with the other side until it returns to normal.

Quick Chao transformation
Keep petting your Chao and it will eventually transform.

To do this trick, you must not care if you abuse your Chao. To get a Hero Chao, abuse your Chao with a Villain. To get a Dark Chao abuse, your Chao with a Hero. You can tell if your Chao is turning good if it is mostly white and has a blue ball over its head. You will know its turning bad when it is black and most likely has a red collar or a point on its tail. Get the stamina to level 7. Note: If you are transforming a different color Chao (for example, blue, red, shiny blue), its body may not change color, so look at its wings (bat or not), tail (pointed or not), and the ball (red or blue) on its head.

For your Chao to evolve fairly rapidly, you must feed it Coconuts until its stamina is higher than level 10. For a Dark Chao or Hero or Neutral Chao with their head on fire, just give them only Half Fishes. For a Chao with a drill-like head, give it lots of Gorillas and Tigers. For a Dark Jester Chao, give it mostly Peacocks and Condors. For a Shark Chao, give it only Sea Otters, Half Fishes, and Seals. For a Chao with green streaks such as Shadow, mostly raise it on Cheetahs and Unicorns. After its head starts to part differently, feed it until its stamina is at level 11 or above. Note: If you are looking for a Chao that is good in races, raise a Dark Running Chao with mostly Cheetahs and Unicorns. For a Chao that is good in Power Karate, raise a Chao heavily on Gorillas and Tigers. Robotnik's first level, Iron Gate, is the best place to raise a Power Chao.

Hidden Chao transportation
Walk up to the Chao Kindergarten when an item is in your hands and your Chao is at a classroom. When selecting "Pick-Up Chao", if you still have the item in your hands, your Chao will not be in your hands. It will be in the Chao Garden (if your cocoon has hatched go to either the Hero or Dark garden).

Hatching your Chao
If you are having trouble hatching your Chao, hold it for roughly ten seconds then whistle. It should pop out.

For a fast hatching Chao, pick up a Chao egg and throw it against the wall. Note: This may affect your Chao's appearance.

Chao sleeping sitting up
Let a Chao run up to get a fruit. As soon as you hear the sound of it grabbing the fruit, take the fruit away. The Chao should still be eating and after a while a fruit will appear.

Chao in a cage
In the Dark Garden, keep throwing a Chao at the cage and it will go in. Or jump on the tombstone to the left, then jump into the cage from there. To put a Chao in it, you have to be at the very edge of the cage.

Land in cage
As Shadow, enter the Dark Garden and go to the big tree on the right. A cage is hanging on the side that is facing the pool of blood. Jump up and you will land inside it.

Eggman in a cage
Go to the Dark Chao Garden with Eggman and stand on the tomb near the small cage hanging on a tree. From the tomb, jump into the cage and Eggman will be caged. If you then jump, his head will be a skull.

Reuse Chaos Drive or animal
Acquire a Chaos Drive or animal and go to your garden. Take either one and bring it to your Chao, but do not give it to them. Drop it directly in front of them. They will get the points but they will leave it there to use over and over. Try giving it fruit, then do it so its not moving around.

Make a Chao follow you
If a Chao is in its flowers, pick it up and it will follow you for a while. Also, if you whistle now, it will come to you.

Big The Cat picture
Go to the Chao Garden and take any Chao to school. If they are learning drawing, leave your Chao there. When the Chao is done, take it back to the garden and wait until he draws. If he draws Big, it will not be a very good picture but can be recognized as Big The Cat.

Raise Chao's stamina
To raise your Chao's stamina easier, when you feed your Chao a fruit, stand behind it. When your Chao throws it, you can pick it up and bring it back. You can do this constantly.

Use this trick to get a powerful, young Chao. Either use Chaos Drives, Small Animals, or Chao Fruits. When you raise them, only go in the Chao Garden when you want to raise the Chao and not to play with it. If you still want to play with your other Chaos, put the one you are raising in a separate garden, all by itself. By following this, it is possible to have a two year old Chao with all its stats at level 99 (the highest level).

Double Chao petting
In any Chao garden, put two Chaos next to each other. Start petting one of them and they will both have hearts on their head.

Chaos Drive colors

Yellow: Swim
Green: Run
Red: Power
Purple: Fly

Easy rings
Go to any Chao Garden and go near one of the trees. When the coconut or fruit falls off, you can sell it at the Black Market. It does not sell for much, but is worth a little. You will get 10 rings for the coconuts.

Go to the Chao Garden. After your Chao has hatched, take the egg and go to the Black Market. Sell your egg shell for these prices:

Normal egg: 50 rings
White egg: 100 rings
Red egg: 120 rings

Get the Light Dash ability and go to Metal Harbor. Whenever the large rows of rings are ahead of you, use the Light Dash move. This is a very fast and easy way to get rings.

Obtain something that sells for a lot of rings. If you do not have many, get an old pot and use it for this trick. If you have the time, get a Shiny Egg Shell (suggested). You cannot sell the egg you can only sell the shell. Go to the Black Market with the egg and you sell it. Then leave the Black Market and while still in the Kindergarten, hold B + Start + X for two seconds to reset your game (without saving the Chao data but saving the game data). Since the Chao data did not save, the game believes the egg is still there, while the saved game data records that you sold the egg for a few thousand rings. You will get the egg and the money back. Repeat this (sell the shell, reset game, then go back to the garden) to end up with many rings.

Play Sonic's first level under "Find The Lost Chao". Keep going through the level without getting the Chao until you have 999 rings, which is the maximum number. Then, get the lost Chao .and it will add 999 rings to your game. This is helpful if you want to get a beanie for your Chao futher in the game.

On the first level, select the third mission on stage selection screen. Go through the level until you have 999 rings. Then, after you run down the building, do not hit the bouncers and go to the right. Play the Mystic Melody and work your way to the top. Repeat this to get as many rings as desired.

In City Escape level, you can obtain more than 425 rings. This will give you more rings for the Choa Gardens in just one level. You can also obtain more than 435 rings if you get all the rings, including the Light Dash rings after you break the iron box after the street boarding part at the very beginning of the stage.

Unlock the racing game (just route 101 or 280). If you got a "D" or "E" rank on the first mission, it would be easier for you to do mission 2 (get at least 100 rings). If you got "A", "B", or "C" rank, just do mission 1 (get at least 200 rings and also get 2 extra lives).

For fast and easy rings, just go to the City Escape level and collect 300 rings for each visit.

Use this trick to get 100 rings in any level, especially Rouge's and Knuckle's stages. Collect as many rings as you can, then go to the back ring. You will start the level over with all of your rings, and will be able to recollect them.

Go to any level as Sonic or Shadow. Choose the third mission (find the lost Chao) and go through the level collecting rings. Do not get the Chao. Go to the end of the level. When you hit the goal ring, you will be taken back to the beginning of the level. You will have all of your rings and all the rings originally on the course will return. Repeat this until you have as many rings as desired.

Go to the Black Market after you have collected 70 emblems. Buy a Shiny Yellow Egg (7000 rings) and hatch the Chao. His egg shell is worth 1200 rings.

Stocking eggshells
To get a vast amount of eggshells to sell, link Sonic Advance to Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. Take your Chao already in the Tiny Garden and them in the big Garden. When you pull down the shopping window, there is the normal egg for sale for 0 rings. Buy one and transfer to the big Garden. Hatch it and you will have a Chao. Say bye bye to any you do not want. Repeat to get manny eggshells.

Round 1: Crunchy, a Light Green child Chao with a watermelon on its head
Round 2: Wacky, a psycho Light Green child Chao with dragon horns.
Round 3: Crystal, a Gold Hero Chaos Chao
Round 4: Angel, an Aquamarine Dark Chaos Chao
Round 5: Flash, an Onyx Neutral Chaos Chao (very difficult)

Winning in Chao Karate
Your Chao's power has to be above 75. It can now punch and kick harder in Chao Karate. This help can knock Chao(s) off the edge easier.

Rock climbing
When you enter the Neutral Chao Garden, you can climb the mountains to your left. Jump up there and you can get very high in the area.

New Kart Racing cars
Get all the level emblems with every character. Press Up at any character at the kart race player selection screen to find a new car.

Finish all of a character's missions on any rank to get a much faster kart.

Rouge's new car is the robot from Sonic 3D Blast.

Chao race kart
Finish all of Tails' missions with "A" ranks.

Fruit in the water
To keep other Chaos from getting food, put the food in the water. The Chaos cannot swim to the fruit and eat it. If you have multiple food, you can put all of it in the water and give the last one left to your Chao. Then, take the other fruit one by one to the Chao(s) that you wish to feed.

Heart in Chao Fruit
If you look closely at the flat side of a Chao Fruit, there is a heart there. It is almost the same color as the Chao Fruit, so it can be difficult to see.

Kart Racing mini-game
Catch the President with Tails, or catch Tails with Rouge. If you do both, you will unlock versus in two-player mode. Either way will work it does not matter which you do first.

Advanced Shadow race kart
Finish all of Shadow's mission with "A" ranks.

Advanced Sonic race kart
Finish all of Sonic's missions with "A" ranks.

Super turn on kart races
Start a kart race as normal. When you have a turn, press A(2x's) and you will turn very far. To stop this, go straight for awhile. Note: This will slow you down.

Run through item selection on races
When racing long races and you have to select the correct item, if your Chao trips, then he will not select the item and just run through it.

Advanced Eggman race kart
Finish all Eggman's missions with "A" ranks.

Eggman Robot race kart
Finish all of Rouge's missions with "A" ranks.

Advanced Knuckles race kart
Finish all of Shadow's missions with "A" ranks.

Super speed
In two player mode, use a speed up then wait for the little blue light to disappear. Then, get the Super Shoes. The easiest way to do this is to play Shadow's Bridge level. After you fly up the first speed ramp, kill the robot guard then use your speed up. Then, go around the side where the Super Shoes are at.

Boost on snowboarding levels
When you are falling to the ground to snowboard, press Left and Right a few times. If you are playing in multi-player mode, you will boost ahead of the other player.

Quick pole swinging
When you are in a level such as City Escape and Pyramid Cave, you will have to swing pole to pole. To do this quicker, when you are swinging on the first one a red line will appear above Sonic's feet. Press A. When Sonic's hands touch the second pole, immediately tap A and he will go from there without swinging.

Have opponent finish race on foot
Play a board race with Sonic, Amy, Shadow, or Metal Sonic Have player two stay at the start of the race. Go to where you can use attacks. Use an attack that hurts them. It will knock them off their board and they must finish by walking or running the entire race.

Points for cars
In any level with cars, hit them for 20 points.

Speed up Time Stop
In the action race in two player mode, there is a way to quicken the Time Stop attacks. When you see your opponent with any of the Time Stop attacks, hold the Spin Dash. This will make the Time Stop attacks pass by faster.

Jump on objects in Grind Race
If done at just the right moment, you can jump on to the pyramid or the statues that are found later inside.

Maria's Theme
You must have all 180 emblems and above 300,000 rings. Use a link cable to connect to a GameBoy Advance with Sonic Advance. Trade a Chao to tell the game that it is connected. Then, go to the Black Market and the last item there should be Maria's Theme for 30,000 rings.

Dr. Robotnik: Mystic Melody
At the very beginning of the Sand Ocean level, stay on the turnstile until it rotates all the way around. At that point you will see a glow, which is the Mystic Melody. You must fly over to a new platform to get it.

Eggman: Mystic Melody
In Eggman's Sand Ocean level, go onto one end of the turning platform and stay there until view changes. You will see the Mystic Melody.

Easy A ranks
Choose a level and select the second mission. This mission is to obtain 100 rings. To do this quick and easy, pop as many balloons as possible. This is good way to get all A's and a fast way to collect rings to use at the Black Market.

Super Sonic and Hyper Shadow
Finish the Last Stage? level in story mode with 180 emblems to unlock Super Sonic and Hyper Shadow.

Amy Rose's Theme
To unlock Amy Rose's option's menu theme, win at least two emblems that have to do with the Chao races and everyone's mission emblems They do not have to be "A" ranks. Amy's theme will randomly appear in the black market for 20,000 rings.

Knuckles: Mystic Melody
Go to Wild Canyon as Knuckles. Go straight into the windy gust throwing you upward. Look to the left and you should see three small buildings containing four boxes in each one. Ignore them. Go straight past them to locate the Lonely Statue. Climb above the statue's head straight up and you should see a strange painting. Dig through it to find the Mystic Melody.

Knuckles: Sunglasses
To get the sunglasses for Knuckles, play through story mode until you get to the Meteor Herd level. This occurs right after fighting the "Egg Golem". Look around for a big meteor on a separate floating rock island. Get on it, then get in back of the huge meteor, as far as possible. Punch twice and then move forward for the Mini-Spiral Upper. If this does not work, try running at full speed and slam into the door in front of you. If it opens, break the metal box there, then hit the button. Find a spring that takes you up to the top (or climb up), then fall down the newly opened area. You should see a rainbow-colored area with the Sunglasses power-up.

Knuckles or Rogue: Extra lives
Enter two player mode and choose Knuckles or Rouge. Keep digging in the stage. After you dig you might get a lot of coins or lives. Keep digging for lives you can use them when you try an adventure (Dark or Hero story line).

Rogue: Treasure Scope
Finish the Dark story line or get the Iron Boots in the Space level. Then, return to the first level and look for the Egyptian sign that was in Egg-Quaters. You will find Mystic Melody here. Then, go to the Security Hall and find the point of usage for Mystic Melody (there may be two). Follow the bridge that appears and use the Iron Boots on the crates to break them to find the Treasure Scope.

Sonic: Almost fall off his snowboard
When you do a trick while going off a ramp, pause game play while Sonic hits the ground. If paused at the correct moment, Sonic should be falling off his snowboard. However, once you resume the game, Sonic will still be on it.

Sonic and Shadow: Mystic Melody
The Mystic Melody for sonic and shadow is in their last stages. For Sonic, keep playing through the level until you see a rocket on a platform while grinding on a rail. Jump to it, and use it to go to a different route. Keep playing through this route until you get to the Mystic Melody. For Shadow, there is one part of the level where you can keep spiraling up on magnetic tubes. Eventually you will get to the Mystic Melody. The Mystic Melody is a tool every character can obtain. To use it, you must find those strange boxes that are in each level. Play the Mystic Melody to unlock a secret passage. The secret passage will normally lead you to the lost Chao you need to find to finish mission 3.

Sonic and Shadow: Flip Attack
While somersaulting, tilt the Analog-stick in the direction you are going and jump. Sonic or Shadow will flip, and if aimed right, will destroy the enemy he touches while in the air. Use this move with caution.

Shadow vs. Sonic finale: Extra lives
Get 100 Rings by using Light Dashes.

Sonic: Extra points
When playing as Sonic, use the special punch attack after hitting and destroying an enemy to hit another and collect more points.

Tails: Mystic Melody
Obtain the Vulcan Cannon upgrade (which is a mandatory item that you will eventually get). Then, go to the Egyptian level and play through it until you see a door blocked by iron boxes. Shoot the boxes, go through the door, and collect the Mystic Melody.

Tails: Control speed of tails
Go into the Chao world then jump and hover with Tails. While hovering, rotate the Analog-stick clockwise to make his tails go extra fast. Rotate the Analog-stick counterclockwise to make his tails go extra slow.

Tails: Homing Laser upgrade
A weapon not mentioned in the manual is the upgrade for Tails' Homing Laser. After finishing the stage in which Tails earns the Volcan Upgrade, go back to Prison Lane via the level selection screen. At the end of the level, before touching the goal, look for the cameras. Shoot them down and break the iron boxes in front of the gate (if there are any). The Laser upgrade will be behind two barred doors afterwards.

Aquatic Mine: Dragon animal
Play the level as Knuckles. Go to level three, and lower the water level with the switch. Next, drop down to level two. Look around until you see the caution sign. Jump over it and drop down the pit behind it. Try not to hit the spring in the pit. Then, go through the short tunnel until you fall in some water. Dive down into it and keep going down. Work your way swiftly through the water and underwater tunnels so you do not drown. Near the end of the water there will be a long ascent to the top. Go up as swiftly as possible. You will also get Air Necklace the on the way, which allows you breathe underwater. Climb on the walls around you until the Dragon animal is found.

Play the level as Knuckles with Sunglasses, Hammer Gloves, Shovel Claws, and Air Necklace. Work your way around the mine and find all three Chao containers. In the last one is the Dragon. One Chao container is in the highest floor behind a pile of wood. The second is in a tunnel with spiked car. The third is in a room with many ghosts, fire breathing skulls, and falling block (in the rafters). Another Dragon is in the room where the Air Necklace is located, hidden in the upper corner.

Aquatic Mine: Seal animal
As Knuckles, at the beginning of the level, fly over the water to the left then swim all the way down to find a seal.

Fun with Omochao

To make Omochao angry, pick him up and throw him around. If you throw him at an enemy, he will explode. You can even shoot him with Eggman or Tails while he is flying around your head.

As Knuckles or Rouge, go through a wall while you are talking to Omochoa. He will get stuck on the other side and will not be able to get back.

The third challenge Chao race is against several Omochaos.

As anyone except Tails/Eggman, throw Omochao into an enemy to knock him out. With Tails/Eggman, just shoot him. He will wake up and complain or have amnesia.

In Tails' Eternal Engine level, look for the area with a Chao box, a switch to open a door, and Omochao near a space escape door with two dynamite packs on it. Destroy the space door and Omochao will be sucked into space, magically reappear, get sucked out again, and repeat.

Hin: Omochao's phrases
When you want to have some fun with Omochao, do the following and he will say the corresponding phrases. Note: Omochao never actually does what he says.

Omochao theme
If you get above 140 emblems, you can purchase Omochao's menu screen theme on the Black Market for 10,000 rings.

To get Omochao's options menu theme, win at least two emblems that have to do with the Chao races and everyone's mission emblems. They do not have to be "A" ranks.). Omachao's menu screen will randomly appear in the Black market for 10,000 rings.

City Escape: Disappearing tires
At the end of the level, go over by the recycle bin and touch the stack of tires by just running into it. The tires will sink into the ground.

City Escape: Easy rings and lives
After getting the Mystic Melody, go to the City Escape level. Play the third mission, but do not obtain the Chao until you have 999 rings and 99 lives. This is useful when you need rings to purchase very expensive items. If you just need a certain amount of coins, keep playing this stage until you get that amount.

As Sonic, go past the first point marker. You must have between 60 and 80 rings to get the first extra rings. At the first turn, hit the boost pads, flair flip, and grab the magnetic shield, Then, flair flip up the ramp to get an extra 30 rings. Keep the magnetic shield on until you get to the Gun truck that chases you. Go down in this order: right, then turn left, and run down the path. Get the coins, then turn right at the first turn to get some rings. On the next turn, turn right to get a lot of rings then go left to get all the rings.

City Escape: Kill Omochoa
Go to the Omochoa by the pipe. Pick it up, then throw it off the cliff just next to it . It will come back in a short time or not at all.

Aquatic Mines: Air Necklace
Go to the Aquatic Mines level as Knuckles. Find the switch that switches the water level to its third setting. after you do this, make sure it is on the first setting and climb the pole in the center of the room. Then, jump to the pulley taking you above. Go to level 2 of the stage and find the a caution sign. Jump in the pit and keep following the path to the item. The Air Necklace allows you to breathe under water for an infinite amount of time. This is especially helpful in the last level, where you spend virtually the whole time underwater.

City Escape: Stop on the run down building
Get to the place where you are running down the big building. You must be running on the building, not falling. While you are running down, hold B and you will now be in a spinning ball stopped on the building. Note: You can turn around on the building and go upwards.

City Escape: Tires
At the start of the level you will be riding on a snowboard. Then, you will hit a tram before you lose your snowboard. Look closely to see all of the wheels come off. You can also throw them at an enemy.

Cosmic Wall: Unicorn animal
After you reach the second point marker, hover up to the next platform. Look to your right and you will see another platform with a pyramid on it. Hover over to it. Break the pyramid and play the Mystic Melody at the Ancient Shrine. A spring will appear. Bounce from the spring. Hover up two times more. There will be two springs on the second platform. Bounce on one of them and you will reach a platform with another pyramid. Hover to the left around the building and reach one more platform. Look at the edge and you will see the Unicorn.

City Escape: Run on foot
At the start of the City Escape level, instead of landing on the ground with the board, scrape the roads on the board. When on foot run full speed at a wall and get knocked down. Pause the game if you fall after hitting the wall. Choose to restart the level to run on foot and not on the board.

City Escape: Go up the building
When you are running down the building, you can use the Spin Dash to go up the building.

Crazy Gadget: End of level
As Sonic, reach the final sequence when you hit the switch before you get the goal to launch the missile. Use the first switch then instead of using the second switch. Use the bounce attack to go higher to the red platform and move to your left. Hit the switch to go down. Step off the purple platform to find the switch. Use the bounce attack to get high enough to reach the gravity switch. Once you do, just jump to hit the switch. The next part is tricky. Use the homing attack to hit the spring near the goal and do not press anything. You should end up back where you started use the first switch to go up. Repeat the procedure, except use the switch that is straight ahead. When you get down, fire the missile to acquire the goal.

After you pass through the door, you will see a gravity switch like all the others in the level. Flip it. You will then be upside down on a purple platform. Follow the path and kill the enemy using the Homing Attack. Keep going forward and you will see a switch that points left. Do not press it it is a trap. Instead, go to the rail and you should see a red platform. Jump off and you will land on it. Next, you will see one of those weird blue robots, except this one shoots in every direction. Use the Homing Attack and it will die. Do not go backwards and flip the switch. If you did go down, just jump on the boxes behind you to find a springboard. Jump onto this to go back to where you came into this part of the level. Next go left and flip the switch. You will be on top of the purple platform. Go backwards then right and you will reach the edge of the purple platform. You should see a blue and yellow platform. Jump to the yellow platform. Kill the blue robot and go to the right to get a green shield. Then, go back to the left and flip the switch. Go onto the springboard and hold Down. Follow the yellow path until you are at the red rail. There should be a springboard here. Go onto it and you will grind the rail to the green platform. Follow the green path while avoiding the electric robots. Go onto the springboard and you will go to the purple platform. Go to the end of the path and you will see some rings. Use Light Dash and you will go to the blue platform. Get the rings and flip the switch. It will lead you to the purple platform. Follow the path and you will see the missile switch, and a gravity switch. Run into the missile switch and flip the gravity switch. It will bring you back to the red platform. Now you can flip the down switch and you will see a missile. Step on the button and the missile will get rid of the green stuff and the goal ring will be there.

City Escape: Unicorn animal for Chao
Acquire all the Chao containers. The third container will have the unicorn inside.

City Escape: Finding the lost Chao
You will need the Mystic Melody for Sonic. After you run down the side of the building, there will be bounce springs. Do not go on them. Near the tree is a Mystic Melody platform. Use Mystic Melody and bounce on some springs. Kill some robots to get to the top. If you see an orange pole, go on it and launch yourself up. Go in the room to find the lost Chao.

Cosmic Wall: Extra life
As Dr. Robotnik. While trying to get up one of the giant holes by jumping from platform to platform, you will see two platforms really close together. Shoot all the boxes there to reveal a 1-up item which raises your life bar, so you can sustain more attacks before dying.

Green Forest: Beating Shadow
Use the Bounce attack and keep bouncing up and down. Shadow cannot get you, and you will easily beat him.

Hidden Base: Half Fish animal
When playing as Tails, there is a hidden green sea monster in the small maze. It makes your Chao's color turn green.

After you land off the second vine, there will be three boxes in an "L" shape. Stand beside them and change the camera angle. You will find a Half Fish animal.

Hidden Base: Interesting statue
In the Hidden Base level as Tails, go to the pulley where, at the top, there are five to six Kiki's throwing bombs at you. In that area is a headless statue of a nude woman, holding her cleavage.

Egg Quarters: A rank
To get an A rank for Rouge in Egg Quarters, get the three keys in 4:30. Usually you have to get it in 1:30.

Final Rush: Extra lives
As Sonic, after the first grinding rail, land on the first platform. Take the lower of the two rails. At the end of the rail, jump to the platform and use the only rail, on the ground. At the end of that rail, there is a platform with speed panels. At the end of the platform there is a bomb robot over another platform. Destroy it and use the rail off of the platform it was over. At the end of that rail is a check point with a small gap afterward. Jump the gap and go all the way down the big drop. At the bottom is a rail on the left side. It will take you to a platform with a ring box and a life box. Get the life and then choose "Exit" from the "Start" menu. Re-enter the level and you should have the same number of lives you had when you lrft the level. Repeat this as many times as desired.

If you stay in a place too long or if Shadow or Sonic gets too far ahead, they will use their Chaos Control. To avoid this, you need to jump and swerve often. You will reach a further distance and will not lose any rings.

Green Forest: Half-Fish/Nematoad animal
When you get to the part where you can smash boxes to go to a secret bottom section, run around the boxes shaped like an "L". Look on the inside of the shape to find the green Half-fish/Nematoad.

Homing Laser upgrade
To get the Homing Laser upgrade for the Eggwalker, on the first stage of the Dark story line, find a hall blocked by iron containers. Shoot them with your Vulcan cannon (needs to be upgraded first). You will find the homing laser upgrade at the end of the hall.

Iron Gate: Laser Blast
First, find the Cannon in the Weapons Bed level, then play the Iron Gate level again. Go to the location where you find the most coins and two gas pipes. Blast those gas pipes. You will now see a way leading to a hall. The Laser Blast is inside, glowing green light. Take it, It makes it easier to lock-on to more opponents.

Iron Gate: Special Dragon Animal for your Chao
To get A Special Dragon for the Dark story line, obtain all three Chao boxes in Iron Gate as Dr. Eggman. Be careful one of the boxes is near the goal.

Pumpkin Hill: Extra lives
As Knuckles, go to the place where you got the digging tool. In the area with the circle where the digging tool was at jump up and use the Dig attack. You will get an extra life.

Pumpkin Hill: Easy "A" rank
As Knuckles, play "Find the Lost Chao". To get an easy "A" rank, turn around at the start. Fly to the next platform and there will be a rocket there, leading to Pumpkin Mountain. There is a place to play the Mystic Melody. Play it and go through the floating platforms.

Radical Highway: Stop at the top
As Shadow, do the spin move by holding B and go over the first loop on the left side. For some reason you will stop in the center and find yourself standing atop the loop. Any movement will cause you to fall. This is an interesting way to get a look around.

Radical Highway: Got Ring? Blimp
There is a blimp with the message "Got Ring?" in the level.

Sky Rail: Ancient Light
As Shadow, skip the rocket and use the spring. Hit the bouncy propeller object until you get to the limit. You will see an enemy robot that you need to kill. Following him is a string of robots that you attack until you get to the Ancient Light for Shadow. It does the same thing as the Ancient Light for Sonic.

Sky Rail: Find the lost Chao
The Mystic Melody and Light Speed Dash are needed. At the second checkpoint there will be rail. Do not go on it. Instead, turn to the left and you should see the Mystic Block. Play the Mystic Melody and rings will appear. Do the Light Speed Dash and there will be a lot of bouncy things. Bounce up a few and at the top you will see the lost Chao. Go up a few more bouncy things to reach it.

Sky Rail: Shortcut
There are places in the level where you can jump as Shadow from the rail you are on to a rail you are going past that you normally would not get to until futher in the level. This method saves time, and it is easy. Be careful do not jump to a rail that will take you back, adding time. Additionally, on the last rail, take the rail on the right versus the left. The one on the right slopes straight down to the goal. Also, crouch at the very beginning to go faster.

Security Hall: Alternate shield color
Play as Rouge in the Security Hall under the hard difficulty setting. The shield robots will be holding black shields instead of red ones.

Security Hall: Cut through lasers without losing rings
As Rogue, get a running start and glide as swiftly as you can. If you are quick enough, when you touch a laser you will hear a spark but will not get hurt. You can only do this on lasers that are high. This is best done in the higher room with the switches.

Security Hall: Fast completion
In this stage you play as Rouge the Bat and are given 5 minutes to finish it. This can prove to be quite difficult. If you have enough lives you can do this trick. If you cannot seem to find the Emeralds, you should die. You will keep the existing Emeralds that you have gathered. You will begin at the start of the level and the Emeralds will move to different places. This is the fastest method for finishing the level if you are having trouble.

Security Hall: Extra rings
As Rouge, hit the Mystic Melody shrine that does not make platforms appear. An extra 40 coins will appear in front of you.

Tails or Eggman: Extra health
To gain a little health for Eggman or Tails, hit an enemy. When you see a Chaos Driver, get it. Your power bar will rise slightly higher.