View source for Alter the Ring Requirements in the Special Stages

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NOTE: Thanks to [[User:MarkeyJester|MarkeyJester]] for pointing out to me how to do this.

When [[Sonic & Knuckles]] is locked on to [[Sonic 2]], the amount of rings needed to obtain the [[Chaos Emerald]] in the [[Special Stage|Special Stages]] is reduced. This simple guide will explain how to do the same thing in Sonic 2 alone.

(This guide refers to the [[Disassemblies#Sonic_2_final|Xenowhirl 2007 disassembly]])

You'll find the array of ring requirements for a Sonic ''and'' Tails game at '''Misc_7756''':
<syntaxhighlight lang="asm">
Misc_7756:
	dc.b  30, 70,130,120	; 4
	dc.b  50,100,140,150	; 8
	dc.b  50,100,150,170	; 12
	dc.b  40,100,140,160	; 16
	dc.b  40, 80,150,200	; 20
	dc.b  70,130,200,220	; 24
	dc.b  90,140,180,210	; 28
</syntaxhighlight>
and the array of ring requirements for a Sonic ''or'' Tails game at '''Misc_7772''':
<syntaxhighlight lang="asm">
Misc_7772:
	dc.b  30, 70,130,120	; 4
	dc.b  50,100,140,150	; 8
	dc.b  50,100,150,170	; 12
	dc.b  40,100,140,160	; 16
	dc.b  40, 80,150,200	; 20
	dc.b  70,130,200,220	; 24
	dc.b  90,140,180,210	; 28
</syntaxhighlight>
(If you wish to edit these arrays in raw hex instead of using a disassembly, their offsets are '''$7756''' and '''$7772''', respectively)

Each Special Stage uses 4 bytes, with each byte representing the ring requirement for each section of the Special Stage. This means that the fourth byte is unused, because all the special stages are only 3 sections long.

The Special Stages are stored in the array - as you'd expect - in order from the first to the seventh.

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