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			 *** CHAO FINDING FAQ ***


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SECTIONS:

(A) Uh... This one! ^_^'

(B) What's new and update information

(C) The purpose of this guide

(D) Mystic Melody locations for each character:
   I) Sonic
  II) Shadow
 III) Tails
  IV) Robotnik
   V) Knuckles
  VI) Rouge 

(E) Chao locations for each character, and times needed for 'A' Rank:
   I) Sonic
  II) Shadow
 III) Tails
  IV) Robotnik
   V) Knuckles
  VI) Rouge 

(F) Credits and contact info

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B: What's new and update information
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Updates: (dd/mm/yy)

02/07/01
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The FAQ is created, and I realise what I've let myself in for. After
banging my head repeatedly on the desk, I telephone everyone I know and
ask them to help me. Somewhat unsurprisingly, only one sad person 
agrees to help in any way at all. *Note to self: make more friends*

Put in Mystic Melody locations for each character (except Rouge, who
I'll try to get done for the next update). Got all of Shadow's Chaos, 
and most of Sonic's. Done the 'A' rank times for all of the Chaos I've
found with Sonic.


Targets for next update:

Write the Rouge's Mystic Melody guide in more depth, finish off Sonic's
levels, get some more 'A' rank times for Shadow, find more with Eggman.


Update info:

I will try to update this FAQ every week until I have found every Chao
and made a note of the time needed to get that wonderful 'A' rank that
you all want so badly. In general, it will be updated on weekends.

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C: The purpose of this guide
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Well, DUH. If you opened this guide by mistake, then the giant picture
at the top of the file might be a subtle clue as to what lurks inside
the rest of the file, eh? *Tuts* I dunno, kids today...

Anyway, this guide is NOT going to tell you where to find a new Chao
for the Chao Garden. What it is going to do, however, is give you
instructions on how to get the third ('Find the Chao!') emblem on each
stage. Please note, most - possibly all - of the Chaos are 'hidden'
near these small statue things. To get the statue to do something, such
as make a trail of rings appear, you have to get your character to play
'Mystic Melody' on... er, some sort of weird invisible flute thing, so
unless you have found the upgrade for each of the characters, you can't
get to the Chao (although in some levels, there are ways around this).

Oh, and one last thing - I know SA2's camera isn't perfect, so when I
say 'forwards', I mean into the screen, not in whatever direction you
happen to be facing at the time. Ok? Let's get on with it, then! ^_^
 
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D: Mystic Melody Locations
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Where to find the upgrade for each character...
 
I) SONIC
Level: Final Rush

After the fifth checkpoint, grind up the large vertical rail and hit
the spring at the top (you'll remember it from doing the level the
normal way). Then take the rail on the right (the ORANGE one, you
directionally-challenged girly man) and hold 'B' all the way to go as
fast as possible. With a bit of luck, you'll land on a small platform
to the left of another rail; take the rocket on this platform to an
extra life, then jump forward a little bit onto a platform with an
animal and a spring. Whether you take the animal or not is up to you,
but from here you need to use the spring, then the rest is quite
straighforward. ;> 
 

II) SHADOW
Level: Final Chase

After the third checkpoint, you go down the blue square hole, right?
>From then on, make sure that you ride every vertical green-sticky-tube
thing to the top, and soon enough, you'll find it (it's something like
the fifth one).


III) TAILS
Level: Hidden Base

Slightly trickier, this one. Play through the level until you meet some
bomb monkeys at the top of a pulley, then jump off of the pulley to the
right (towrds a green carpet) and you'll see a small opening in the
wall. Shoot through it to blow up some dynamite and make a platform
collapse, then get onto the platform and walk into the middle. In the
distance, you will be able to see a doorway. Hover over to the doorway
(trust me, it's much safer than jumping off of that platform...) and
a group of steel boxes will pop up. Providing you've found the power-up
that enables you to shoot them, destroy the boxes to gain access to a 
new - albeit dangerous - room. Navigate the platforms inside this room
to find it.
 

IV) EGGMAN
Level: Sand Ocean

This one's easy. Get on the rotating platform right at the start of the
level, and stay on it until it goes anticlockwise three quarters of a
full circle. Next, hover over to the canister and you're there! :D


V) KNUCKLES
Level: Wild Canyon

Find the 'Lonely Statue area' (take the wind at the start, then turn
around and just carry on forwards), then climb up the wall that he has
his back turned to. At the top of the wall you'll find one of those
pictures that you can dig through, and upon doing so you'll find
Mystic Melody for Knuckles.


VI) ROUGE 
Level: Egg Quarters

Somewhere in the level is a picture that you can dig through. The one
for Rouge is located somewhere behind that.

Sorry, I know that this description isn't very helpful, but I forgot
how to get to the picture. I'll find out by the time I update this FAQ.

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E: Chao locations for each character, and times needed for 'A' Rank
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I) SONIC


Level: City Escape

After running down the side of the skyscraper, go back towards the
springs that you are forced onto, then search around there for a statue
in a corner. Play Mystic Melody to make a spring appear, then double-
tap 'A' to home in on each of the enemies in turn (careful though, one
is supposed to be used as a spring, and the one at the top can make
itself electrified through the power of thought alone). At the top, you
do NOT grind on the rail. It is actually a pole, which you are supposed
to swing on. Hold Up as you come down from the pole-jump (get it?! Oh, 
never mind) to land in a small alcove where the Chao is mocking your
gaming ability.

It's definitely possible to get this one without Mystic Melody, but the
method only works about one in every ten attempts! -_-' Anyway, you
just press 'A' once as you're running down the side of the building,
then the second you see an enemy, hold the analogue stick towards it
and tap 'A' again to (hopefully) home in on it and start high up in the
chain of enemies.

<< Time Needed for 'A':  2:30:00 >>

This is quite easy, with a bit of practise you'll be able to get under
2:10:00.



Level: Green Forest

Shortly after the second checkpoint, you'll have to hop through a
series of small floating islands. After bouncing off of the final
spring here, don't continue forwards to the next checkpoint. Instead,
come back into the screen until you see a big green tube on the ground.
Upon seeing this, go left to the end of it and you will find another
small island underneath you. Drop off of your current platform onto the
one you just discovered to reveal the statue. Play Mystic Melody, then
use Sonic's bounce attack (found on the pyramid level, you need it to
finish the game) to gain the extra bit of height required to reach the
second platform. Now go onto the last 'hidden platform' using the same
method and use the homing attack on the two enemies you find to gain
access to the platform with the Chao.

<< Time Needed for 'A': 1:30:00 >>

This time it's a bit tighter. Try hitting the second checkpoint with a
time somewhere between 55 seconds and 1 minute.

BTW, a little side note: Has anyone else noticed how parts of the music
to this level is suspiciously similar to 'Americana' by The Offspring?



Level: Metal Harbor

After you do the light dash along a path of rings (and the planes are
attacking you), go over to the middle of the three warehouses to the
left and use the 'bounce attack' to reach another one containing the
statue. Give your invisible flute a toot, then follow the platforms to
another death-defying Chao.

<< Time Needed for 'A': 0:50:00 >>

A little tough, but if you can get to both the statue and the first
platform in one bound each, it makes it that little bit easier.



Level: Pyramid Cave

Ignore the statue at the third checkpoint, it's a dummy (it works, but
doesn't take you to the Chao). Take the normal route instead until you
find an extra life in the middle of the path (next to a robot that is
stood on the top of a white wall made out of boxes), and through a
difficult timed door at the top of a steep hill. You'll find the 'real'
statue there, when you play Mystic Melody on this one you'll uncover a 
spring. Take it, go through the door on the platform you find, flip the
switch, cross your fingers and go for it! Your mission is to swing on 
each of those bars without dropping off of one... You need to bounce to
get onto the first one, from there it's up to you!

<< Time Needed for 'A': 3:45:00 >>

Well... Grind whenever you can, don't let the ghost stop you, and get
through the 'difficult timed door' I mentioned by holding 'B' then
letting go to whizz effortlessly past it. But above all, DON'T PANIC!
This emblem is actually quite easy once you're used to the route.



Level: Cannon's Core

???

<< Time Needed for 'A': ?:??:?? >>



Level: Final Rush

After the fifth checkpoint, grind up the large vertical rail and hit
the spring at the top (you'll remember it from doing the level the
normal way). Then take the rail on the left (the PURPLE one, you
vertically-challenged leprechaun) and you'll end up more or less dead
in front of the statue for this level. Then what? Well, then you play
the usual Mystic Melody, and follow the platforms, the purple rail, and
finally the last platform in the sequence, the end of which you should
just walk straight off of. Now play Mystic Melody again at the next
statue, use the light dash along the ring trail and follow the rest of
the platforms and rails forwards to add another one to your collection!

<< Time Needed for 'A': 4:15:00 >>

At the first checkpoint, jump off the platform and hold diagonally up
and right. Press 'B' to fall faster. You can land on one of those rails
way down yonder (although the one on the left is preferable, seeing as
you'd have to jump over to it at some point anyway) and cut out a part 
of the level. Other than that, wear a horseshoe around your neck, stick
a few four-leaf clovers down your pants, cross your fingers and you
just might make it. Four minutes exactly is my average time after
writing this.



Level: Crazy Gadget

No... Uh, I'll get back to you on this one... ;P (This'll take forever)

<< Time Needed for 'A': ?:??:?? >>





II) SHADOW 


Level: Radical Highway

Go through the level taking the top route whenever the path splits in
two. Eventually, you'll see a golden robot at the top of a bridge
(where Omochao tells you about grinding, just after some cylindrical
platforms like the ones on City Escape). Instead of grinding down the
rail to the right or left in the normal way, go into the screen. Both
rails are just big 'U' shapes, and with either one you have to jump off
at the end to a) avoid dying and b) gain enough height to reach the
platform with the statue on it (it's in the middle of a long, thin part
of the bridge). Anyway, play Mystic Melody, and you know what to do
from there...

<< Time Needed for 'A': ?:??:?? >>



Level: White Jungle

A short while after the third checkpoint, be on the look-out  for one
of those spike enemies in front of a black (weight) 'trap'. It's just
past a golden robot. Go past this trap to a Chao box, then take the
nearby spring up to the platform above the trap. Now instead of going
forwards and grabbing that handle, come into the screen until the much
sought after statue makes an appearance. Whip out your good old
transparent instrument and play the usual tune, then jump onto the
statue to enable Shadders to jump high enough to reach the common-or-
garden invisible platform, then follow the rest of the platforms to the
top. Once at the top, wait a second, an enemy will appear and you can
use it to reach the platform with the... Whatever it is... That will
force you onto another one and up to yet another platform, from which
you can (slowly!) home in on the enemies as they show up one by one.
Careful - we don't want our friend to have an electrifying experience!

<< Time Needed for 'A': 3:20:00 >> 

Relax! This one's quite easy, so just sit back and enjoy the level.
You'll probably do it in under 3 minutes on your first go! With some
practise, it's probably possible to shave an entire minute off of
the target time.



Level: Sky Rail

At the second checkpoint, don't grind down the rail. Instead, smash the
nearby crate to discover the statue, play Mystic Melody next to it and
follow the path of rings that appears. Then use the make-shift lifts
(try saying THAT after 5 tubes of Smarties) to reach to top of Pumpkin
Hill, where the poor little Chao is crying his eyes out because he's
missed today's episode of Coronation Street, and now he'll never know
whether that's Roy Cropper's real hair or not. :P

<< Time Needed for 'A': 1:10:00 >>

It's not TOO hard, but you'll probably have to take a couple of 'test
runs' to learn the route.



Level: Final Chase

Once you've come back up through the blue square-tube-thingy, carry on
across the horizontal spinny-cylinder-thingies until you're at the end,
where you have to use a pulley and ride to the top of a vertical
version of those cylinder things. But try not to hit the spring at the
top (if you do, perform a homing attack into the screen to return to
the cylinder). Instead, stand at the top and press the 'L' and 'R' 
triggers to rotate the camera until you can see another pulley. Take
this pulley to find the statue, but wait for a couple of seconds after
playing Mystic Melody because if you try to do the light dash before
all of the rings have appeared, you'll just end up missing the target
platform and falling to your fiery doom! But whatever, when you're over
there, make sure that you have a few rings and SLOWLY go up the *sighs*
vertical cylinder whatchamacallit to avoid being knocked off by one of
the many obstacles surrounding it. And you'll never guess what's at the
top...

<< Time Needed for 'A': ?:??:?? >>





III) TAILS


Level: Mission Street

Get to the bunch of cylindrical platforms where Omochao says something
about being 'careful not to fall off', then climb about halfway up and
hover in a diagonal forward/left direction. Your target is the single
cylindrical platform in the distance, but go slightly to the right of
that to discover a platform with a statue. And you know what a statue
in the middle of nowhere means... Play Mystic Melody, then go into the
warp you create to end up on the roof of a building. Go forwards, and
try to land on the tops of each of the cylindical platforms in turn.
For some, you have to shoot a robot as you hover, to do so, just keep
hold of 'A' and press 'X'. Watching your shadow and hovering slowly is
a big help for landing here.

<< Time Needed for 'A': 3:25:00 >>

Actually, you won't need any tips for this one - it's embarrassingly
simple! Sonic Team, you have brought shame and dishonour upon your
friends and family! ;P Try setting yourself a target of under 2:25:00
instead. It's possible, you know...



Level: Prison Lane

Ok, about halfway through the level you go up one of those big lifts,
then you see a checkpoint, right? Open the doors just after that part,
then ride the square lift in the nearest corner of the room you just
opened (from the top, you can shoot two containers, one holding some
rins, the other, a sheild). At the top, hover over to the left and land
on the platform you see to find (you'll never guess!) a statue. Play
that Mystical Melody you're probably familiar with by now, then keep
bouncing up and down on the spring you've just created until you've
managed to shoot all of the enemies up there. Now bounce up one last
time, and rescue the naughty A-Life from his cell. The scoundrel. 

<< Time Needed for 'A': ?:??:?? >>



Level: Hidden Base

???

<< Time Needed for 'A': ?:??:?? >>



Level: Eternal Engine

???

<< Time Needed for 'A': ?:??:?? >>





IV) EGGMAN


Level: Iron Gate

Straight after 'breaching' security door 3, go straight forwards (the
camera rotates if you don't go fast enough, but you know the direction 
I mean) and hit the spring at the end of the pipe that you presumably
just walked across. Break open the steel crate to unveil another spring
which will shoot you up onto a platform (you may need to hover a bit).
You should trust the middle spring on this platform, and not bother to
try hovering. If you do try to hover, then you're likely to overshoot
the pipe and die. Once on the pipe, follow the trail of rings by slowly
hovering around the corner, then land on the pipe at the end and jump
off to the left, to land on the platform that hosts this level's statue
for you to play your wonderful melody to. Do so, then jump up the three
platforms that you made appear. WHen you're at the top, turn around to
find the fourth platform, from which you can access a pulley that will
take you up to a secret room. Jump and hover off of the pulley to the
right, then follow the room around to find another statue. Play Mystic
Melody a second time and follow the platforms that appear to find the
Chao, and no, I have absolutely no idea how he got there to start with!

<< Time Needed for 'A': 2:00:00 >>

Try to do everything up to security door 3 as quickly as possible, then
you don't have to worry about the difficult bits. ;>



Level: Weapons Bed

???

<< Time Needed for 'A': ?:??:?? >>



Level: Sand Ocean

???

<< Time Needed for 'A': ?:??:?? >>



Level: Cosmic Wall

???

<< Time Needed for 'A': ?:??:?? >>



Level: Lost Colony

???

<< Time Needed for 'A': ?:??:?? >>





V) KNUCKLES


Level: Aquatic Mine

Glide forwards from the start of the level, then go up the pillar as
far as you can to find a pulley that takes you to the room with the 
water level 3 switch. The statue is also in here, and playing Mystic
Melody will open a door in the room, but after that I don't know what
to do, you're on your own!

<< Time Needed for 'A': ?:??:?? >>



Level: Pumpkin Hill

>From the start of the level go forwards and left to find a rocket that,
when activated, will ferry you across to Church Mountain. Once you're 
on top of there, look around and you'll see another rocket, which will
take you to Pumpkin Mountain. Press and hold forwards and 'A' as soon 
as this rocket explodes to glide into a high-up floating island, then 
climb to the top and just glide forwards to find a scared little Chao!

(Or just find your own way to the top of Pumkin mountain and play that
Mystic Melody if you want, but my way's guaranteed to bag you an 'A')

<< Time Needed for 'A': 1:00:00 >>



Level: Wild Canyon

???

<< Time Needed for 'A': ?:??:?? >>



Level: Death Chamber

Well, the statue is in the 'main' room (where you take on the ghost
boss, 'King Boom Boo'), on the floor. Playing Mystic Melody makes the
trapdoor to the side of it open up, but after that I haven't got a clue
although I do reckon that it's somewhere underwater around there.



Level: Meteor Herd

???

<< Time Needed for 'A': ?:??:?? >>





VI) ROUGE 

*** I haven't found ANY with Rouge, but I haven't really been looking.
Anyway, I decided that there isn't much point in listing her levels.***

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F: Credits and contact info
===========================

This guide was both written and posted at www.gamefaqs.com by me,
Richard Davies (AKA 'Annoyboy'). Although I seem to be naturally good
at finding Chao, I'm not too hot at finding character upgrades. So
without the help I've had from Chris Bunclark (who also found the Chaos
on Iron Gate and Sky rail before me, which saved us a lot of time), I'd
be limited to giving you the locations for Sonic and Shadow! o_O; So,
thanks, Chris. And you guys should look out for his character upgrades
FAQ, which should be available at gamefaqs any time soon. He's almost 
found something on every level, so the other FAQs I've seen are missing
a LOT of info... But anyway, I suggest that you take a look at it,
because it would be a very useful accompaniment to this FAQ, seeing as
for some Chao you need to dash along paths of rings, or maybe break
steel crates, which you couldn't do without the necessary equipment!

Sooo... If you have any questions or comments regarding this guide,
please e-mail me at annoyboy@annoyboy.co.uk, or visit my website at
http://www.annoyboy.co.uk and leave a message on the message board. ;>

Or if it's just to ask if you can put it on your website or message
board, feel free, but please don't modify the contents of this file.

Until next time,

- Annoyboy