SONIC ADVENTURE 2
for Sega Dreamcast Console
      UPGRADE FAQ

Version: 1.8
by brak2000 <[email protected]>
Last Updated: July 14, 2001
Status: Complete

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Table Of Contents
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1. Introduction
2. Version
3. Quick Reference Charts
4. Locations
   a. Sonic
   b. Tails
   c. Knuckles
   d. Shadow
   e. Dr. Eggman
   f. Rouge
5. Frequently Asked Questions
6. Contributors/Thanks
7. Contact Me
8. Legal Stuff

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1. INTRODUCTION
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I'm creating this FAQ for all those people who love to ask the same
questions.  I know a lot of people will use this FAQ and I'm glad to
make this for you.  This FAQ will list all the Upgrades found in Sonic
Adventure 2, and detailed instructions how to get each item.  Some of
the older upgrades may not be listed yet, but I will get them as soon
as I can. Even if it means I have to run through this game again! Maybe
later I'll make a full FAQ for the game if anyone would like me to.
This FAQ has been made for GameFAQs and brak2000.com  See the Contact Me
and Legal Stuff section if you would like this FAQ up on your site.
This mini FAQ is dedicated to the Sonic Adventure 2 board at GameFAQs.
May their great help and dedication to Sonic Adventure 2 always stay
strong and help newbies in need!  Now enough with the rambling and lets
get on with the Upgrades!

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2. VERSION
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Here is a list of versions.

7/14/01 V1.8 - Quick correction about Rouge.  The boots are not required to
              finish Mad Space.
6/30/01 V1.7 - Corrected mistake in Sonic's Mystic Melody location.
6/29/01 V1.6 - FAQ Completed!  Will only update if there are any errors.
6/28/01 V1.5 - 4th Update..I have no life.  The BIG update.. only one
              location to go (and I WILL update Final Rush)!
6/28/01 V1.4 - 3rd Update today..yikes!  Hero upgrade locations complete!
6/28/01 V1.3 - Tails Bazooka Location Added!
6/28/01 V1.2 - Many more upgrades for the Dark side characters. Still plenty
              to come and I may get another update in later today.  Keep an
              eye out!
6/27/01 V1.1 - Many more upgrade directions completed.
6/26/01 V1.0 - First version of FAQ! Included: Charts, Some Locations

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3. QUICK REFERENCE CHARTS
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Here is a list of the Upgrades avaliable for each character and a quick
chart showing which level they are avaliable in.  I believe there is
an upgrade in each level..but I'm not entirely sure.  Email me any
forgotten upgrades to <[email protected]>

**IN ORDER OF STAGE**

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/ Sonic   \____________________________________________________________________

     Upgrade         Location      What's Needed?     What does it do?
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| Magic Gloves    | City Escape   | Bounce/Flame   | Pick up enemies     |
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| Light Shoes     | Metal Harbor  | Nothing        | Light Dash          |
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| Ancient Light   | Green Forest  | Nothing        | Light Attack        |
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| Bounce Bracelet | Pyramid Cave  | Nothing        | Lets you bounce     |
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| Flame Ring      | Crazy Gadget  | Nothing        | Destroy metal boxes |
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| Mystic Melody   | Final Rush    | Nothing        | Rescue Chao         |
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/ Tails   \___________________________________________________________________

    Upgrade         Location        What's Needed?    What does it do?
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| Laser Blaster   | Prison Lane    | Bazooka        | + Firing Radius     |
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| Booster         | Mission Street | Nothing        | Allows Hovering     |
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| Mystic Melody   | Hidden Base    | Bazooka        | Rescue Chao         |
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| Bazooka         | Eternal Engine | Nothing        | Destroy metal boxes |
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/ Knuckles  \__________________________________________________________________

    Upgrade         Location        What's Needed?    What does it do?
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| Mystic Melody   | Wild Canyon    | Shovel Claw    | Rescue Chao         |
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| Shovel Claw     | Pumpkin Hill   | Nothing        | Allows digging      |
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| Air Necklace    | Aquatic Mine   | Nothing        | Infinite air        |
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| Hammer Gloves   | Death Chamber  | Nothing        | Destroy metal boxes |
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| Sunglasses      | Meteor Herd    | Hammer Gloves  | See hidden items    |
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/ Shadow   \__________________________________________________________________

     Upgrade         Location        What's Needed?    What does it do?
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| Flame Ring      | Radical Highway | Air Shoes      | Destroy metal boxes |
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| Air Shoes       | White Jungle    | Nothing        | Light Speed Dash    |
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| Ancient Light   | Sky Rail        | Nothing        | Light Speed Attack  |
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| Mystic Melody   | Final Chase     | Nothing        | Rescue Chao         |
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/ Dr. Eggman  \_______________________________________________________________

     Upgrade         Location       What's Needed?     What does it do?
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| Laser Blaster    | Iron Gate      | Large Cannon   | Upgrade Attack      |
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| Mystic Melody    | Sand Ocean     | Jet Engine     | Rescue Chao         |
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| Jet Engine       | Lost Colony    | Nothing        | Allows Hovering     |
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| Large Cannon     | Weapons Bed    | Nothing        | Destroy metal boxes |
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| Protective Armor | Cosmic Wall    | Jet Engine     | Upgrade Armor       |
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/ Rouge     \__________________________________________________________________

    Upgrade         Location       What's Needed?      What does it do?
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| Mystic Melody   | Dry Lagoon     | Pick Nails     | Rescue Chao         |
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| Pick Nails      | Egg Quarters   | Nothing        | Allows digging      |
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| Treasure Scope  | Security Hall  | Boots/Melody   | See Hidden Things   |
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| Iron Boots      | Mad Space      | Nothing        | Destroy metal boxes |
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4. LOCATIONS
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Here are descriptions of how to get each item in the game.  I'll try to make
them as descriptive as possible so I dont get as many emails asking.  If a
description isn't descriptive enough, email me at <[email protected]>.
Then I'll have a chance to do my best and make the description easier to
understand and so on.

**UPGRADES IN LEVEL ORDER**

A. Sonic
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Item: Magic Gloves
Location: City Escape
Requirements: Bounce Bracelet, Flame Ring
What It Does: Allows you to pick up enemies and throw them.  Press B when the
             top right corner says "Magic Gloves" to pick up the enemy, then
             press B again to throw.
Difficulty: Fairly Easy

How To Get:  First of all, make sure you have the Bounce Bracelet AND the
            Flame Ring before you attempt to get this upgrade.  Run through
            the level as you would in a normal run until you come to a part
            with 2 enemies shooting at you.  Near them should be a staircase
            going down with a rail and an arch over it.  Right before you go
            down that staircase, there should be 4 metal boxes imbedded in
            the ground.  Do a bounce attack and located down in the ground
            should be the Magic Gloves and a spring.  Grab the Magic Gloves
            and of course, use the spring to get out.

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Item: Light Shoes
Location: Metal Harbor
Requirements: None
What It Does: Allows you to use the EXTREMELY useful Light Dash.  The Light
             Dash (also seen in Sonic Adventure) allows you to dash through
             a line of rings to get over and avoid obstacles under.  This is
             usually used to access shortcuts and occasionally used to
             continue on the normal path.
Difficulty: Extremely Easy - REQUIRED to finish level

How To Get:  Continue through the level as normal until you come to a LONG
            string of rings and no other way across the water.  Stop and go
            into the structure to see one of those things you grab and it
            raises you. I don't know what they are called. Anyways, at the
            top is a platform with the Light Shoes upgrade.  Go down to the
            line of ring to test out your upgrade and continue on your way!

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Item: Ancient Light
Location: Green Forest
Requirements: None
What It Does: Allows you to use the Light Attack.  The Light Attack allows
             you to attack enemies in a quick row.
Difficulty: Medium

How To Get:  Right before the second checkpoint, there should be 2 boosters
            that lead outside the enclosement.  This should be a short
            distance after the open loop. Right before you leave, face
            the camera and you should see an enemy floating.  Do a homing
            attack on the enemy, then do another homing attack on to the
            ledge across.  The reason this is sort of tough is the horrible
            camera angle.  Anyways, the ledge across should have a free life
            and the Ancient Light powerup.

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Item: Bounce Bracelet
Location: Pyramid Cave
Requirements: None
What It Does: Allows you to do the bounce attack and also allows you to bounce
             off the ground and gain momentum to get to high ledges.  The
             bounce attack is another REQUIRED upgrade to complete the level.
Difficulty: Extremely Easy - REQUIRED to finish level

How To Get: In my opinion, the easiest powerup on the game.  Its located
           DIRECTLY on the path.  Just proceed through the level and you most
           likely will spot it easily.

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Item: Flame Ring
Location: Crazy Gadget
Requirements: None
What It Does: Allows you to break metal boxes allowing you to find more hidden
             animals and coin boxes.  This is a very useful upgrade.
Difficulty: Easy-Medium - REQUIRED to finish level

How To Get:  Right after the second warp pipe type thing and what I believe is
            the third checkpoint, jump down the large step.  You should be
            upside down when you are done with the warp pipe.  Anyways, use
            the gravity switch straight in front of you to turn right side
            up.  Go backwards a little bit and hit one of the two springs in
            the back of the room.  The flame ring should be located behind
            some wooden boxes.

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Item: Mystic Melody
Location: Final Rush
Requirements: None
What It Does: Allows you to play a melody in front of certain ancient shrines
             that unveils new paths that usually lead to the lost Chao.
             These also allow shortcuts occasionally.
Difficulty: Medium-Hard - REQUIRED to get 3rd level emblems

How To Get:  The hardest upgrade to get for Sonic is the Mystic Melody. This
            is hard to explain, but I'll do the best I can.  After the fifth
            checkpoint you should come to a large room with many splitting
            paths.  After you take the long vertical grind, grind down the
            the next platform where it splits.  Grind the left rail on this
            and you should get enough distance at the end to make it on the
            platform with the rocket.  If you take the left path, watch as
            you go down for a platform at the left.  Jump on it if you can
            and it'll lead you to the platform with the rocket. After a few
            tries, you should get it down easily.  Take the rocket to a free
            guy, then continue along the path and eventually you will come
            to the Mystic Melody upgrade.  Play the Mystic Melody at the
            shrine and take the warp to continue on with the level.

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B. Tails
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Item: Laser Blaster
Location: Prison Lane
Requirements: Bazooka
What It Does: Increases the amount of space and firing radius Tails has.  You
             can lock on to enemies with double the radius now.  This is
             another useful item when you are attempting for A ranks on the
             levels.
Difficulty: Easy-Medium

How To Get:  If you've been looking for this and not finding it, it's actually
            a pretty obvious upgrade.  In the final room, make sure you do
            NOT touch the goal ring and look near the back of the room.  You
            should see a metal door with boxes behind it.  Shoot all the
            enemies in the room and the door should open.  If it doesnt, make
            sure you have all the enemies near the ceiling.  Jumping around
            while locking usually works.  Once the door opens, proceed down
            the hall and shoot the 2 guards to open the final gate between
            you and the Bazooka.

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Item: Booster
Location: Mission Street
Requirements: None
What It Does: One of Tails most useful upgrades, this allows you to hover over
             open spaces to make those long, tough jumps.  This is required
             to finish Mission Street and is also required to finish many of
             the other missions with Tails in the game.
Difficulty: Easy - REQUIRED to finish level

How To Get:  Proceed through Mission Street until you come to a large gap in
            the road you can't jump with a line of rings going across.  Turn
            around, and you should see the powerup behind you.  Be careful
            when getting it as the road will collapse, requiring you to fly
            after you pick it up.  Fly over the large gap to continue on with
            the level.

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Item: Mystic Melody
Location: Hidden Base
Requirements: Bazooka
What It Does: Allows you to play a melody in front of certain ancient shrines
             that unveils new paths that usually lead to the lost Chao.
             These also allow shortcuts occasionally.
Difficulty: Easy - REQUIRED to get 3rd level emblems

How To Get:  Walkthrough the level as you would normally until you come up to
            a very large "lower portion" of the level.  This is right after
            you rise up by a crane type thing and shoot all the bomb throwing
            monkeys.  From a distance, a graphic error makes it look as if an
            open passage is on the bottom.  As you get closer you'll notice 4
            metal boxes blocking the opening.  Shoot these 4 boxes and jump
            the easy set of gaps to pick up the Mystic Melody.  Once you grab
            it, play it at the shrine and use the crane to raise yourself
            on the path and to continue the level.

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Item: Bazooka
Location: Eternal Engine
Requirements: None
What It Does: Allows you to break metal boxes.  This is another extremely
             useful upgrade for Tails.  Breaking metal boxes allows you to
             find new paths, shortcuts, and even some animals to raise your
             Chao with.
Difficulty: Easy-Medium - REQUIRED to finish level

How To Get:  Continue through the level as normal until you come to a long
            bridge with a switch at the other end.  Under the switch should
            be a locked door and a floating platform between you and the
            door.  There are 2 ways to make it into the locked door that
            contains the Bazooka upgrade.  First, you can walk across the
            bridge and hit the switch being careful not to blow up the path
            in front of you.  If you accidently blow it up, you'll need to
            fall down to the large platform below.  Near the back of this
            platform should be the switch.  Hop onto the platform nearby to
            ascend back up to the now unlocked door to see an upgrade
            surrounded by a ring of rings.

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C. Knuckles
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Item: Mystic Melody
Location: Wild Canyon
Requirements: Shovel Claw
What It Does: Allows you to play a melody in front of certain ancient shrines
             that unveils new paths that usually lead to the lost Chao.
             These also allow shortcuts occasionally.
Difficulty: Easy - REQUIRED to get 3rd level emblems

How To Get:  Make your way up the Thermal Lift type thing (thats just what
            I call it) and head to the left (or right, depending which way
            you are facing).  Fly over to the lonely statue and way above his
            head is a picture.  Dig through the Oval type shape in the center
            to find a secret room with Knuckles Mystic Melody.  Use it on the
            shrine to create a warp that leads you back to the starting room.

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Item: Shovel Claw
Location: Pumpkin Hill
Requirements: None
What It Does: Without a doubt the most useful upgrade for Knuckles, this
             allows you to dig through walls and floors to find some of the
             pieces of the emerald (or keys depending on which level).
             Without this, you won't make it past Pumpkin Hill.
Difficulty: Extremely Easy - REQUIRED to finish level

How To Get:  Look straight ahead from you and you will see the Shovel Claw.
            All you need to do is fly or walk across the ledge to get over
            to the "island" and pick up this simple upgrade.

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Item: Air Necklace
Location: Aquatic Mine
Requirements: None
What It Does: Another useful upgrade for our little red echidna is the air
             necklace.  The air necklace allows infinite air while swimming
             underwater.  You'll have a VERY tough time beating the final
             level without this item, so I suggest you pick it up on your
             first time through this level.
Difficulty: Medium-Hard - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for final stage

How To Get:  The first thing you need to do for this upgrade is getting the
            water level lowered.  Walk straight forward at the beginning of
            the level, crawl up that central structure (water powered lift),
            and grab the crane lift to get up to the highest floor.  Find the
            level 3 water switch and hit it to make life a little easier.  Go
            down into the level again and look for a long pipe type
            structure with 2 caution signs plastered near the top of it.  Go
            down the pipe and if you see a spring at the bottom, continue on.
            If theres only an opening and no spring, go to the other side of
            the level (should be kitty cornered) and drop down that one.  Hop
            into a water and now is when the fun begins.  As fast as you can,
            swim through the path.  Soon you'll come to a small room with
            some wooden planks at the bottom.  Quickly and carefully swim
            through them and swim through another pipe.  Now quickly swim
            straight up and hope you dont run out of air.  At the top is a
            small room with the air necklace.

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Item: Hammer Gloves
Location: Death Chamber
Requirements: None
What It Does: Allows you to destroy metal boxes.  Destroying the boxes can
             help you find extra rings, animals, shortcuts, and even upgrades
             for some characters.  These are required to complete the level.
Difficulty: Easy - REQUIRED to finish level

How To Get:  At the beginning of the level, use the hourglass to go through
            the door.  Turn to your right in the hallway to see some crates.
            Break through them and located behind are the Hammer Gloves.
            You can now get through the 2 paths with metal crates in the main
            room and continue on with your hunting quest.

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Item: Sunglasses
Location: Meteor Herd
Requirements: Hammer Gloves
What It Does: Allows you to see hidden pictures and hidden items.  Required to
             get most Hard Mode emblems (5th emblem for each Knuckles level)
             I recommened you pick up this upgrade right away considering it
             is fairly easy to get and comes very useful. Out of all of
             Knuckles upgrades, this one is the coolest.
Difficulty: Medium - REQUIRED for most Hard Mode emblems

How To Get:  There are actually 2 ways to get this upgrade.  I would suggest
            using the way that seems easier for you.  Straight in front of
            you is a circular type platform (located directly under where
            you fight Rouge in the next level) with 6 doors with red slashes
            on them.  Use the nearby meteors by smashing them into the doors
            to find a metal box with a switch.  The door you need has the
            meteor a fairly large distance away.  You can either:
            A) Get a good start and smash that meteor as hard as you can into
               the door
            OR you can
            B) Softly tap one of the other meteors around and place it as
               well as you can in front of the door.  Then you can smash it
               into the door.
            Either way, once you open the door, break the box and hit the
            switch.  This will remove the floor from the force-fielded walls
            in front of you.  Fly up and over the force field walls and fall
            down into the newly opened area.  On the bottom platform should
            be located the upgrade.  Pop on the sunglasses by using the Y
            button to shuffle through your B list.  Then hit B to put them
            on to see some hidden surprises nearby.

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D. Shadow
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Item: Flame Ring
Location: Radical Highway
Requirements: Air Shoes
What It Does: Since this is the same as Sonic's Flame Ring, I'll just copy
             and paste that definition here. Allows you to break metal boxes
             allowing you to find more hidden animals and coin boxes.  This
             is a very useful upgrade.
Difficulty: Easy-Medium - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED and may be REQUIRED

How To Get:  Near the beginning of the level, you should see a "staircase
            pyramid" type structure leading up to the highway.  Hop up this
            making sure not to shoot the boxes. After walking a little ways
            you'll come up to a highway path you need to "turn" on.  Instead
            of going the way the camera goes, go the other way.  You should
            see a roller that you can spin under.  After this should be a
            line of rings going to another highway.  You should know what to
            do here, if not simply do a Light Dash across the way.  Hit the
            spring on the path and hop into the circle to get the Flame Ring
            upgrade.

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Item: Air Shoes
Location: White Jungle
Requirements: None
What It Does: Allows you to use the EXTREMELY useful Light Dash.  The Light
             Dash (also seen in Sonic Adventure) allows you to dash through
             a line of rings to get over and avoid obstacles under.  This is
             usually used to access shortcuts and occasionally used to
             continue on the normal path.
Difficulty: Easy-Medium - REQUIRED to finish level

How To Get:  Go through the level as normal until you get to a long line of
            rings.  Look around on the island you are on to find a wooden
            box.  Open it up and fall down into the hole to land on a lower
            bit of the jungle mountain.  Look around to see the Air Shoes.
            To get out of this area, spin under the wooden wall nearby and
            use the shoes for a light dash across the ring line.

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Item: Ancient Light
Location: Sky Rail
Requirements: None
What It Does: Allows you to use the Light Attack.  The Light Attack allows
             you to attack enemies in a quick row.
Difficulty: Medium-Hard

How To Get:  Not as hard as it seems. Proceed through the level as normal
            until you get to the first rocket.  DO NOT take this rocket, but
            instead homing attack the enemy over to the ledge with the chao
            box.  Walk over and break the chao box.  Tiptoe over to the edge
            and get as close to the mountain as you can.  A row of baddies
            should appear.  Homing attack them and then homing attack the
            final one with the spring to get to the top of the mountain and
            the Ancient Light upgrade.

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Item: Mystic Melody
Location: Final Chase
Requirements: None
What It Does: Allows you to play a melody in front of certain ancient shrines
             that unveils new paths that usually lead to the lost Chao.
             These also allow shortcuts occasionally.
Difficulty: Easy-Medium

How To Get:  Continue through the level as normal until you get to the part
            where you are continuously running up gravity pipes and jumping
            onto platforms with those annoying Chaos type guys attacking you.
            At the top of one of those you will be able to see in the
            distance another gravity pipe with an entire electric field
            around at one point.  Jump at the pipe so you land above the
            electric field and then follow up the pipe for a platform and
            the Shadow's Mystic Melody upgrade.

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E. Dr. Eggman
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Item: Laser Blaster
Location: Iron Gate
Requirements: Large Cannon
What It Does: Increases the amount of space and firing radius Eggman has.  You
             can lock on to enemies with double the radius now.  This is
             another useful item when you are attempting for A ranks on the
             levels.
Difficulty: Easy

How To Get:  Continue through the level as normal until you get to the 2nd
            checkpoint.  In front of you should be a hallway blocked by metal
            boxes.  Simply shoot the boxes out and continue through the
            "trashy" hallway to get this upgrade.  See..that wasn't so hard
            now, was it?

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Item: Mystic Melody
Location: Sand Ocean
Requirements: Jet Engine
What It Does: Allows you to play a melody in front of certain ancient shrines
             that unveils new paths that usually lead to the lost Chao.
             These also allow shortcuts occasionally.
Difficulty: Easy - REQUIRED to get 3rd level emblems

How To Get: At the beginning of the level, hop onto the spinning platform
           shortly in front of you.  Wait on the end of it until it comes up
           to the platform on your left.  Jump and hover over and walk down
           the short path to find the Mystic Melody at the end.  Play it at
           the shrine to create a warp and continue on your way.

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Item: Jet Engine
Location: Lost Colony
Requirements: None
What It Does: One of Eggman's most useful upgrades, this allows you to hover
             over open spaces to make those long, tough jumps.  This is
             required to finish Lost Colony and is also required to finish
             many of the other missions with Eggman in the game.
Difficulty: Easy-Medium - REQUIRED to finish level

How To Get:  When you get to the large room that appears to be a never ending
            circle and fairly dark, look around until you see a staircase
            made of the unbreakable metal boxes.  It should be the only
            completed staircase that you can actually walk up in this level.
            This will allow you to hover to the other platforms and exit the
            room which is why it is required.

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Item: Large Cannon
Location: Weapons Bed
Requirements: None
What It Does: This is a weapon upgrade for Dr. Eggman that allows him to break
             metal boxes.  Breaking metal boxes in SA2 is extremely helpful
             and required in finishing some missions or finding hidden rings
             and animals.
Difficulty: Easy - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED and possibly REQUIRED

How To Get:  Head past the large stock of enemies at the beginning of the
            level and keep an eye out on the left side for 3 doors.  One
            should be open while the other two are closed with dynamite packs.
            Open the center door or the left one with dynamite in it to find
            the upgrade tucked away.  Sometimes Sonic Team can be so sneaky!

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Item: Protective Armor
Location: Cosmic Wall
Requirements: Jet Engine
What It Does: Obviously, the Armor upgrade upgrades your armor allowing you
             to take more hits from the baddies!
Difficulty: Medium

How To Get:  This is a fairly obvious one, but I will still explain it.  After
            the second checkpoint, there will be a free fall coming up.  As
            you fall, look for a platform with a rocket on the left side.
            Land on the platform and launch the rocket to blow up some
            "hidden" crates.  Hover over to the hidden platform located
            directly below the other platform.  It's tough to see but you'll
            need to try to land right between them.  If you can manage that,
            you'll get this upgrade.

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F. Rouge
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Item: Mystic Melody
Location: Dry Lagoon
Requirements: Pick Nails
What It Does: Allows you to play a melody in front of certain ancient shrines
             that unveils new paths that usually lead to the lost Chao.
             These also allow shortcuts occasionally.
Difficulty: Easy-Medium - REQUIRED to get 3rd level emblems

How To Get: In the starting room, look around for a picture to crawl through.
           It should look like the ones you ran across in Egg Quarters and
           Knuckles' Death Chamber levels.  Anyways, there should be 2
           pictures in the room you start in.  One is uncovered while the
           other is hidden behind some boxes way up on the top.  Find the
           uncovered one which is a little bit lower than the covered one.
           Once you find it, crawl in and grab the Mystic Melody.  Play it
           on the shrine to create a warp and continue on through the level.

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Item: Pick Nails
Location: Egg Quarters
Requirements: None
What It Does: Without a doubt the most useful upgrade for Rouge, this allows
             you to dig through walls and floors to find some of the pieces
             of the emerald (or keys depending on which level). Without this,
             you won't make it past Egg Quarters.
Difficulty: Easy-Medium - REQUIRED to finish level

How To Get:  At the start of the level, go forward through the hallway while
            watching out for the beetle robot.  When safe, continue through
            the next room with 2 robot enemies and through another hallway.
            When you get to the room with the rocket, set the rocket off and
            go through the wall it opens up.  Located at the far end of the
            room is the upgrade.  Please be careful as there is a trap in the
            center of the room waiting to crush you if you dont go around it.

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Item: Treasure Scope
Location: Security Hall
Requirements: Iron Boots, Mystic Melody
What It Does: Allows you to see hidden pictures and hidden items.  Required to
             get most Hard Mode emblems (5th emblem for each Knuckles level)
             I recommened you pick up this upgrade as soon as you get the
             Boots and the Melody, because it comes in handy.
Difficulty: Easy-Medium

How To Get: The first thing you'll need to do is get on the Yellow floor which
           I believe is floor B and the center floor.  Anyways, run to the
           end nearest the beginning and you should see a Shrine.  Obviously,
           play the Mystic Melody and a line of platforms will appear walk or
           jump across these into the door and continue to find the Treasure
           Scope.  Put it on by cycling through your B list with the Y button
           and you will see a free life in the corner of the room you found
           it.

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Item: Iron Boots
Location: Mad Space
Requirements: None
What It Does: Allows you to destroy metal boxes.  Destroying the boxes can
             help you find extra rings, animals, shortcuts, and even upgrades
             for some characters.  These are required to complete the level.
Difficulty: Medium-Hard - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

How To Get:  This one is tough to explain, but I'll do the best I can.  Here
            is a short walkthrough on getting it from beginning to end.  At
            the beginning, go to one of the 3 connected platforms with the
            switch.  The switch puts a rocket on a platform above.  Climb up
            and use the rocket to get on a big green asteroid.  Look around
            for a smaller asteroid (still rather large) that looks sort of
            like the moon.  Fly down to it and look in the enclosement in the
            center of the asteroid to find the upgrade.

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5. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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Q: I picked up an upgrade, but when I started my game later, I didn't have it.
  Why don't I have it anymore?
A: You'll need to finish the level or finish some level so the game saves
  before you turn off the game or your upgrades will not save.

If you have any questions, please submit them to <[email protected]>

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6. CONTRIBUTORS/THANKS
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Thanks to Sega for making a wonderful game!

No Thanks to Sega for canning Dreamcast though.

No Thanks to Dogma: Special Edition for pulling me away from this FAQ!

Thanks to everyone at the SA2 board at GameFAQs for being great people and
helping everyone with their problems.

Thanks to [email protected] for providing the info on the Flame Ring in my
charts.

Thanks to [email protected] for pointing out a level error.

Thanks to [email protected] for Tails submission.  Even though I
didn't use it, I appreciate the help.

Thanks to Brent B for giving me Rogue locations.  Even if I didn't use them
I still highly appreciate the thought of the submissions.

Thanks to Brian B for correcting the small mistake I made in Sonic's Mystic
Melody location.  Indeed the platform is on the left and not on the right.

Also thanks to isv666, Icelight and TapamN for helping me with the Laser
Blaster info for Tails.

Kudos to isv666 also go out for helping me find some of the obvious locations
to refresh my memory.  I guess this makes up for him annoying me while
writing this FAQ.  Thanks man.

Thanks a lot everyone!

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