
Sonic Championship FAQ
By Ida Kathry (idakathry@aol.com)

1. Introduction
2. Legal Stuff
3. Info on the Game
4. Plot of the Game
5. Playable Characters and their specialties
 a. Sonic the Hedgehog
 b. Miles "Tails" Prower
 c. Knuckles the Echidna
 d. Amy Rose
 e. Espio the Chameleon
 f. Fang the Sniper
 g. Bark the Polarbear
 h. Bean the Dynamite
 i. Super Sonic
6. Boss Characters, their specialties, and moves
 a. Metal Sonic
 b. Dr. Robotnik
7. Arenas
 a. South Island
 b. Flying Carpet
 c. Aurora Icefield
 d. Mushroom Hill
 e. Canyon Cruise
 f. Casino Night
 g. Dynamite Plant
 h. Giant Wing
 i. Death Egg's Eye
 j. Robotnik's Hangar
8. Some stuff on Sonic Championship

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1. Introduction
Sonic Championship is one of my favorite Sonic games 
ever! It's a lot of fun. Since there aren't too many 
web sites that are too interested in the game, I decided 
to make this FAQ to people who haven't play the game or 
never heard of it. Also, it is a Sonic fighting game (which 
a friend of mine said it was a unique idea to make a game 
like this and I agree) and I usually don't like fighting 
games, but it just pulled me to it, and it blew me away, 
although I'm a girl and all, so don't start nagging me. 
Anyway, I hope you enjoy the FAQ. It isn't much, and it's 
pretty lousy (especially with the moves list due to my 
awful memory), but I'm did the best I can do. If you see somewhere 
that I screwed up on, e-mail me at IdaKathry@aol.com.

2. Legal Stuff
Sega, Sonic the Hedgehog and all related characters are 
trademarks of SEGA. This FAQ has no relation to Sega or 
AM2. In other words, hopefully I'm not violating any copyrights 
making the FAQ. Also, please don't take anything from my FAQ
without permission (although some of the info came from some
web sites, so thanks to all of them!).

3. Info on the game
>From what I heard from most sites,  the gameplay is similar 
to Virtua Fighter, only on a much simpler level. The Japanese 
version, which is called "Sonic the Fighters", had a fairly 
wide release across Japan, but here, it almost wasn't 
released at all. Lucky for me, I was able to find it at 
GameWorks. These are some locations I usually go when I'm 
in the mood of going to GameWorks:

Las Vegas (On the Strip, next to the MGM Grand)

Now, here are some other locations just in case you don't 
live near the above areas:

Seattle (7th and Pike)
Dallas (In the Grapevine Mills Mall)
Tempe (In the Arizona Mills Mall)

All right. Back to the FAQ. Sonic Championship was 
supposed to be released on the Sega Saturn in May 1998, 
but the Saturn was old news at that time, so there wasn't 
any market for the game. However, there is a pention at my 
friend's page. You can go to his Sonic Championship page
at http://neon.sega-zone.com/sonic/songames/championship/index.html 

4. Plot of the Game
No sooner has Robotnik's Death Egg been knocked out of 
the sky than the doc begins construction of a superior 
model: the Death Egg II. Tails' transformable reconnaissance 
robot locates the machine in outer space and relays images 
to Tails' base. Our fox buddy throws together a spaceship 
to reach the Death Egg II, but there are a couple of problems: 
the ship requires power from the eight (yes, there are 
eight in this game) Chaos Emeralds to launch, and it only 
seats one. The Emeralds are scattered around the planet, 
in the possession of eight "guardians". One each with 
Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles "Tails" Prower, Knuckles the 
Echidna, Amy Rose, Nack the Weasel, Espio the Chameleon, 
Bark the Polarbear, and Bean the Dynamite. Sonic and Tails 
meet Knuckles on Floating Island to determine the best 
course of action. Knuckles points out that, since there's 
only room for one, only the strongest should go. Of course, 
he decides that he's the logical choice, and demands that 
Sonic give him his Chaos Emerald. Sonic, not being particularly 
fond of Knuckles' methods, prepares to start a fight. Just 
as the two are about to go the rounds, however, Tails interrupts 
the brawl with an idea: they hold a fighting tournament 
to determine the strongest one fair and square.

5. Playable Characters, their specialties, and moves

a. Sonic the Hedgehog
SPECIALTY: Spin Attack

MOVES
Spin Dive
Dizzy Spin Attack
Dodging Spin Attack
Spiral Spin Attack

TIPS ON USING SONIC (by stonevamp@hotmail.com: "Stone Dead")
The air combo's are pretty easy and painful. The best way to 
cheese the game is to (using Sonic) do the spin attack constantly, 
espescially in close. Just keep spin attack up, even if you're losing 
the round, the job will be worth it. In round two, their shield will 
be gone, from the constant spin attacks--when the spin is 
charged in close, it can obliterate the shield with one hit--the 
guard is worn away. So in round two they can 
only sidestep, which the computer doesn't do often.

b. Miles "Tails" Prower
SPECIALTY: Propeller Dash

MOVES
Propeller Dash R
Propeller Dash L
Kiddy Punch
Spin Attack
Airplane Drop

c. Knuckles the Echidna
SPECIALTY: Knuckle Glider

MOVES
One-Two-Uppercut

d. Amy Rose
SPECIALTY: Magical Hammer

MOVES
Hey! What's that?
Hammer Dive
Head Sliding
Hammer Spin
Hip Attack

e. Espio the Chameleon
SPECIALTY: Tongue Attack

MOVES
Tongue Toss
Long-range tounge
Espio Chop
Whirling Attack (Espio Spin Attack)

f. Fang the Sniper
SPECIALTY: Popgun

MOVES
Rapid Shoot
Great Popgun

g. Bark the Polarbear
SPECIALTY: Throw

MOVES
Triple Squash Punch
Holding Punch
Giant Swing
Bark Strike

h. Bean the Dynamite
SPECIALTY: Bomb Attack

MOVES
Rapid Peck
Shoot Bomb
Throw Bomb
Power Uppercut
Terrific Peck Attack

i. Super Sonic
SPECIALTY: Super Spin Attack
NOTE: Super Sonic is only accessable in Round 2 against 
Metal Sonic. Before that can happen, you have to deafeat 
every single opponent without losing a single round.

MOVES
Unknown

6. Boss Characters and their specialties
a. Metal Sonic
SPECIALTY: All
NOTE: Like Dural from the Virtua Fighter series, Metal Sonic 
has the moves of every character in the game at his disposal. 
To top that off, he takes off alot more damage, and can 
attack from a distance with a laser from his stomach.

MOVES
Unknown

b. Dr. Robotnik
SPECIALTY: None
NOTE: Robotnik is the final bonus round. He has no special 
attacks at all outside of a PPP combo and a throw. The 
catch: you have to beat him in under fifteen seconds if 
you want the good ending. Otherwise, Robotnik wins and you just get a 
"Game Over".

MOVES
Unknown

7. Arenas

a. South Island
Difficulty: Easy
Opponent: Knuckles
Chaos Emerald: Red

b. Flying Carpet
Difficulty: Easy
Opponent: Amy Rose
Chaos Emerald: Pink

c. Aurora Icefield
Difficulty: Medium
Opponent: Bark
Chaos Emerald: Yellow

d. Mushroom Hill
Difficulty: Medium
Opponent: Espio
Chaos Emerald: Dark Purple

e. Canyon Cruise
Difficulty: Medium
Opponent: Tails
Chaos Emerald: Orange

f. Casino Night
Difficulty: A little harder than the first 5
Opponent: Fang
Chaos Emerald: Light Purple

g. Dynamite Plant
Difficulty: Medium
Opponent: Bean
Chaos Emerald: Green

h. Giant Wing
Difficulty: Most of the time medium
Opponent: Sonic
Chaos Emerald: Blue

i. Death Egg's Eye
Difficulty: Hard
Opponent: Metal Sonic
Chaos Emerald: None

j. Robotnik's Hangar
Difficulty: Not extremely hard
Opponent: Robotnik
Chaos Emerald: None

8. Some stuff on Sonic Championship
There is a OST that has the music of the aracde game. 
The tracks are:

1. Advertise (K.I.Y.O.) 
2. Character Select (Get Into The Wave 2)
3. Game Start (Are You Ready?)
4. South Island (Lovers)
5. Flying Carpet (Back To Soul)
6. Aurora Icefield (Black Bed)
7. Mushroom Hill (Come On, Mr. Sonic)
8. Canyon Cruise (Blue Garden)
9. Casino Night (Here We Go)
10. Dynamite Plant (Try Again)
11. Giant Wing (Fire Stone)
12. Chaos Emerald (Emerald)
13. Death Egg's Eye (Never Let It Go)
14. Death Egg's Hangar (Hurry Up)
15. Mission Complete (Egg's Fanfare)
16. Super Sonic (Everything)
17. Sonic vs Knuckles (North Wind)
18. You Are Winner (Winner's Fanfare)
19. Name Entry (What's Your Name?)  
20. Ending Theme (Take Me Away)
21. Continue (Continue)
22. Game Over (Game Over)
23. Character Select (Bonus Track 1)
24. Sunset Town (Bonus Track 2)

Bark and Bean appeared as hidden characters in the Saturn 
game "Fighters Megamix".

Believe it or not, due to the game's lack of popularity, 
I decided to make a fan cartoon called "Wacky World Adventures" 
staring the characters of the game (except Metal 
Sonic and Robotnik). You can find more info on it at 
http://www.angelfire.com/anime/wacky/index.html. 
And while you're there, please sign my guestbook and my 
SlamBook. ^_^

Track 24, "Sunset Town" is for a level that didn't 
make it in the game.

In the opening sequence, Robotnik's name is spelled "Robotnic".

Well, that ends the FAQ. If you have any comments or anything 
at all, e-mail me at IdaKathry@aol.com.

