<!--quoteo(post=181164:date=Feb 25 2008, 11:46 PM:name=GeneHF)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (GeneHF @ Feb 25 2008, 11:46 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=181164"><img src="public/style_images/retro/snapback.png"></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=181061:date=Feb 25 2008, 05:48 PM:name=Dark Sonic)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Dark Sonic @ Feb 25 2008, 05:48 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=181061"><img src="public/style_images/retro/snapback.png"></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->(snip) Special Stage 2 leads you to an unused Super Emerald Stage. Essentially it's just a giant maze, which has no rings by the way, although for some reason you don't get a Perfect. It gives you a Super Emerald. Only Super Emerald stage that's playable in the game I believe.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> Push A+Start and reselect it. There are six other special stages, some of them reused in Sonic and Knuckles. Stage 4, for one, is definitely a S&K level. <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> I am pretty sure the 3rd is very similar to the <a href="http://info.sonicretro.org/Game_Secrets:Sonic_3_%26_Knuckles" target="_blank">Ninth Special Stage</a> Maybe at a some stage of deployment they are planning different special stages from the ones from Sonic & Knuckles for the Super Emeralds?