A Clone of Knuckles:
Play through the game (with all the characters) until you get Super Sonic.
In Super Sonics Adventure, go to the crashed island. There you see
Knuckles and Eggman (Robotnik). After the clip, press A+B+X+Y+Start.
Then choose Knuckles. Go to the same place, and there are two Knuckles!
This works with other characters, too, but it's not as funny.


Aztec Forest Shortcut:
To get to the Frog and the Emerald as Tails in one step do as fallows.
After riding the trolly to the Aztec Forest you should be standing up
high on a platform overlooking the forest. If you stand on the edge and
look down and to the left you will see two trees sticking out of the
canopy that are close together. Fly toward the trees and land next to
the one that is closest to the ledge you jumped from. You should be
standing on top of the canopy. Walk around the first tree until you fall
through the canopy and end up right by the emerald and the frog.


Black Chao:
First you have to be the robot. To get a black chao go into the egg
catcher and go to the bridge. On the bridge you see three doors. Go in
the one with the prison. Open the middle cell by jumping on the peg and
take the egg back to the bridge. On the bridge go behind the chair
Robotnik sits on, behind it is a door with 6 buttons in front of it,
stomp on them in an order that spells E-G-G-M-A-N and the door will open.
While still holding the egg, step into the teleporter in the room, then
you'll be in the egg catcher chao garden, now just hatch the egg.


Change View in Twinkle Park Race:
To change the view in Twinkle Park Race, press UP to toggle between
inside, outside, and far out view. This also works when playing the
first bumper car portion of the level.


Chao to English Dictionary:
When you are at the gardens little expressions will appear above the
chaos head here is a list of what it means.
HEART- its happy with you and you're a good parent.
SWIRL- its angry or upset with you feed it coconuts.

QUESTION MARK- your chao is indecisive, it doesnt know what it wants to do next.
EXCLAMATION- suprised chao, wait to see if it is good or bad.
XX ACROSS THE EYES- very unhappy or angry, feed coconuts.
-- ACROSS EYES- very happy chao
HALFED-CLOSED EYES- tired chao feed it or play with it
WAVING ARMS- your chao wants love. pick it up
FLINGING ARMS- temper tantrum


Clean Pause:
To remove the pause menu, press X and Y together at the pause menu. This
is good if you want to take screenshots.


Drive with Anyone in Twinkle Circuit:
After completing the game with all six characters, you will be able to
race in Twinkle Circuit with anyone. Just select the character you want,
then go to station square. Once your there, go over to the little patch
of grass and weeds by speed highway entrance, and pick up the ticket.
(It will be rotating, and easy to spot.) Then go into the Twinkle Park
building, and instead of entering Twinkle Park, enter Twinkle Circuit.
You will hear a special noise that tells you that the secret is unlocked.
Now just repeat the process for all the characters.

Best racers:

Knuckles
Sonic
Tails
E-102
Big
Amy


Easy Emblems as Knuckles:
If you are having trouble getting the 1 minute emlems as Knuckles, here
is a trick that will make it much easier. Find the first emerald shard,
but don't touch it! Instead, pause the game and restart the level. Now
run to it as fast as you can. Since the shards act as save-points, find
the next one and repeat. Do this until you have all three.


Free Rings:
As Tails, go to any place with grass and look for a dark green weed. Wack
it with your tail. If you are lucky, a ring or extra life will appear.
While playing with Knuckles and have the Silver knuckle gloves, goto a
place where you can dig and in most places (especially places with plants)
you can uncover up to 20 rings.


Golden Chao Baby:
There are two open shops in the part of Station Square with the open
manhole. The golden chao's egg is in one of them. Unfortunately every
time you lift the egg from its pressure sensitive platform, the doors
are barred shut. Go to the city hall area where you fought Chaos 0 and
look near the walls and grass. An egg-shaped rock is here, and you can
put it on the platform in the store. You may now leave freely with the
golden chao egg.


Little Sonic Chao:
If you give a chao about 20 of the pink animals (rabbits, kangaroos, deer)
it will start to look like everyone's favorite hedge hog.


Locations of all powerups:
SONIC:
1) light speed shoes- go to station square after defeating egg hornet and
   go to the area previously blocked off by police go down manhole and
   jump up to the ledge that says "exit" to get the light speed shoes

2) crystal ring- after getting the light speed shoes go into the hotel
   and up the stairs and do the spin till he sais "ready?" and then walk
   on the button that opens the door to the elevator and the one that
   does the rings (this one may take some practice)

3) sacred light- after you beat "ice cap" continue down the cave till you
   come to the end and go down the hill till you get to the end it is on the
   flat rock

TAILS:

1) jet anklets- at the twinkle park entrance there is a stream coming in
   from the ocean follow it into the sewer fly up the hole in the celing
   enter the room to the left and they will be on the bench

2) rhythm badge- when you get to the echidna city go to the wall to the
   left of where you start and search up and down the wall

KNUCKLES:

1) shovel gloves- go to the hill where you fought the egg hornet go up
   the stairs to tailses house walk around it untill you see the emblemon
   the ledge under the ledge there is a cave go in it and to the left
   there will be a branch the wall will close behind you get the gloves
   dig by the shiny flying thing and bring the object to the monkey and
   put it down to get back out

2) battle gloves- in the aztec forest (present) fly from off the ledge to
   the right and climb the wall till you get to the other ledge by big's
   houseand on that ledge the gloves await

AMY:

1) warriors feather- beat eggmans high score in "hedgehog hammer"

2) long hammer- beat your high score in "hedghog hammer"

E-102 "BETA":

1) jet booster- when robotnick tells you to go to the ammunition room in
   egg hornet

2) lazer gun- after the egg hornet transforms go to the sewage room

BIG:

1) power rod- go to big's house lift up bed hop in

2) lures- they are all obvious except for the one in the cage room amy
   was held in

3) Lures- all of these lures are easily found axcept for the one in the
   room where they held amy hostage in the egg carrier


Metallic Chao Baby:
To get the one-of-a-kind metallic chao baby, go to the waterfall near the
subway and look to the right of it. You will see a sort of platform. Go
to it and push it. A metallic egg will fall down the waterfall and into
the pond. When it reaches the land pick t up and bring it to the nearest
Chao sanctuary. Throw it and it will hatch.


One-and-a-Half Play:
When you are playing Sonic's action stages and Tails is on the screen, a
second player can control Tails with a second controller. Any rings Tails
collects will be added to Sonic's totals. Be careful to not make Tails
break open any shields, invincibilities or One Up item boxes as those
will not be added to Sonic and will be wasted.

This feature may seem trivial to most people, but you'd be surprised how
much fun it can be trying to outrun player one (who's playing Sonic) when
you're controlling Tails. ;)


PC Wallpaper:
If you insert your Sonic Adventure game disc into a PC CDROM drive, you
will have access to a directory called "extras". Inside you'll find a
number of Sonic Adventure desktop wallpapers you can decorate your PC's
desktop with.


Secret Chao Puzzle Game:
After you start up the Sonic Adventure game, place a controller into the
D port on your Dreamcast and have a VMS in the controller. A hidden Chao
Puzzle game will appear on the VMS screen. It is a tile based puzzle game
where you have to use the Dreamcast's controller to move the pieces of a
moving picture around to win. After every five puzzles you solve, a little
animation will play on the VMS screen.


Sonic Tokens:
You can get 5 Sonic Tokens from Chao Race. Just raise a chao then go to
the Chao Race chose the first choice and then the place where your chao
is. Then chose a crystal and win each one then a 5th one will appear and
chose it. If you have trouble finding levels you have beat and want the
tokens go to the main options at the chose the second option. You can go
to any level you have beaten with out running around for it. This is good
if you need to collect more tokens and it tells you which ones you have
gotten and where. There are Tokens hidden around the world which shouldn't
be to hard to find. I have 114 tokens and missing 6 with Sonic.


Sonic's Snowboard Select
Just before entering the snowboarding part of the ice stage, press X to
get Sonic's blue snowboard (previously seen in Sonic 3 and Sonic Triple
Trouble). Press B to get Sonic's yellow board (only seen in Sonic
Adventure.)


Sonic's Special Super Speed Shoes:
In the Station Square, head towards where you first faught Chaos (0.)
Instead of going in the park, go to the hole in the ground. Fall in,
then follow the path. You will find a rainbow colored area, step in.To
get out, speed until Sonic says "Ready?" and keep holding down the speed
button. press the button with the star on it and let go of the speed
button.

Patrick Hofmann <ph@dlh.net>