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Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992)

Duration: 1:02:54

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A lot of people overstate how much time the original Mania version saves. Sooo I did this V1.03 run, which is the current version at the time of this upload. This is only ~1:43 slower than my original version PB.

Differences on V1.03 that apply to this run include:
+ Green Hill 1 ends earlier if you kill both heads close together.
- You can no longer jump into and walk through the pipe in part of Chemical Plant 2. For me this didn't actually cost any time this run since I BARELY managed to catch the best cycle I've personally ever managed later on.
- You can no longer do a lightning shield jump over the ceiling in part of Studiopolis 1. While it doesn't lose time on its own, it makes getting a lightning shield a lot more costly so I don't bother.
- You can't skip the Studiopolis 1 boss. This SUCKS and costs like twice as much time as every other difference combined. It's an absolutely horrible boss too, there's not really anything you can do to speed it up on your own, it completely depends on luck (AFAIK it doesn't matter when you hit the missiles as hitting them earlier just makes them take longer to hit the boss).
= The glitch in Studiopolis 2 works differently, the level becomes solid again as soon as you jump, and you have to land further to the left on the curved pipe to start it. This was originally fixed on an earlier patch, but then somehow added back in in the current patch... I would expect it to get removed again if there's another patch in the future.
- You can't skip the Press Garden 2 boss. It's pretty quick with a fire shield so it's not too big of a deal.
- You can't fly over the mini robot Sonic section of the Metal Sonic fight. Annoying since it's another heavily luck-based section.
- It's a bit harder to jump through a slope at one point in Hydrocity 2, you have to jump higher up. Costs a tiny bit of time.
- You can't do the glitch at the start of Oil Ocean 2 that makes the stage not solid. Hard to say how much time this loses since the "normal" route gets speed shoes.

This was done on PC, as I don't want to patch the game on my Switch and this is my only alternative. Timing starts at selecting the file and ends when the timer stops on the final level. Using an already completed file is allowed as long as it has no emeralds, so you don't have to deal with the opening cutscene; this means you start with more than 3 lives, but that should never matter in any serious run.

I'm a woman, by the way. The reason I say this is because a lot of commenters assume everyone is male unless you specifically tell them otherwise, and I would rather they did not, so here I am specifically telling them otherwise.

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