Switch Balls

Orb Switches are teleporters exclusive to the haunted levels of Sonic Heroes. These switches have 2 different functions in their levels. In Hang Castle and Robot Storm, they flip the teams upside down. However, Mystic Mansion is the only stage that will perform teleport the teams from one room to the other. A light will spread onto the screen once touched by one of the characters of the team. Once they've been transported by these switches, they cannot return to the area where they've left off if they try to touch the switch that already took effect in the previous area.

Due to graphical glitches present on the PlayStation 2 port, the light changes blending causing it to appear translucent brightening the screen at the white point; It will rarely turn opaque making the black edges visible.

Gallery

Renders

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  An effect that engulfs if a switch has been touched

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  The effect in additive appearance by graphical defects on the PlayStation 2 console release.

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  An opaque switch effect rendered by graphical defects on the PlayStation 2 console release.

Screenshots

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  An additive switch effect, caused by a graphical glitch in the PS2 version of Sonic Heroes.

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  A normal switch effect permeating on the screen.

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  Another PS2 bug which forces the switch effect to lose transparency after the additive blending effect. This goes in effect at the wall crossing room using Team Dark.

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  The switch ball becomes darker after transportation from a particular area.