Sonic Adventure 2 - Pumpkin Hill - m4 - All rings in 2:48.59

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For years now, Pumpkin Hill has been an ugly eyesore when it comes to ring runs. Regardless of system, you have a 154 out of count, and sufficient scouring of every structure in the level will lead to 152 with relative ease. But 152 isnt all rings, and it wont get a perfect. Why has no one found the last 2 rings? Did they even place the rings? Are we faced with rings in two obscure locations outside the level boundaries? Well, I wouldnt say that no one has found them. I remember a post from years ago on Sonic Teams old Japanese BBS that purported to find the missing rings. When I first tried reading it, it wasnt very clear and I couldnt find any rings from it, but at least it sounded plausible. Then just a few days ago, someone else (brianpso on YT) claimed to have uncovered them as well. He didnt say anything about where, but I took it as sufficient cause to go look up the post again and see if I could make any sense of it this time. Still no luck with that, but armed with a general area to search in, I set out scouring a thick, moving fog of black, brown and white for a single stationary glimmer of yellow. Wouldnt you know it, after about 40 minutes, I found just that. So the good news for everyone is that they did place the rings, and you dont have to look for two obscure locations outside the level boundaries. You just have to look for one. Now you want to find them too? Well, lets see if I can explain this: The easiest way I found to locate the rings starts with one spot, shown in the image http://soniccenter.org/sm/images/phringsguide.png . Thats a pillar on the back side of Ghost Train Mountain. Try to mimic Knuckles position as best as you can. Now jump and glide off the wall. Dont even touch the control stick; its a slower glide this way but at least you know youre going in the right direction. Youll fall down to the updraft plane, amid a sea of emptiness. Thats supposed to happen. When you get blown back up, resume gliding, again without touching the stick. When you fall close to the updraft plane the second time, look to your right. Its a ring! (Actually its two rings in the same spot, but all the better for you I guess.) If youve followed these steps, youve found the missing rings. The next step is to actually get them, which is no easy task considering that theyre below the kill plane. Theres yet another step, which is to not die, but thats left as an exercise to the viewer. Suffice it to say youll need a lightning shield to pull that one off. And when youve done that, maybe you can try incorporating the new rings into the mission 4 time limit like me! It only eats up 10 seconds of travel time over a giant, nondescript void each way! And it would be even longer except I chose a path out to the rings thats pretty much completely blind with respect to the stage! How much of your 3 minutes do you really need? (Oh, and dont forget that you have to find the pieces in that time too.)

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