If you reach the goal without enough blue spheres, the stage will loop back, and you will be sent back to the beginning of the section you failed with the amount of blue spheres you had before, as well as whatever rings you have left over. Your character is also stuck constantly moving forward (like Sonic 3 & Knuckles) and you have to traverse the 3D path while collecting rings and avoiding hazards. After reaching the first goal with four blue spheres, you are tasked with collecting four more.

In the first Special Stage, you have to collect four, and in the second you have to collect six, and so on. In Knuckles' Chaotix, you start in a hexagonal 3-dimensional tube, and are tasked with collecting a certain number of blue spheres. Special Stages are in most Sonic games, and are used to collect the Chaos Emeralds for a good ending or to unlock Super Sonic (or Hyper Sonic if you're playing Sonic 3 & Knuckles). Unfortunately, the 32X is a bit noisy, which is why there's more background noise in this soundtrack than in regular SEGA Mega Drive and Mega-CD soundtracks I've recorded.If you bring 50 or more rings to the end of a level, you can enter a big ring and start a Special Stage. Track titles and order are based on the VGM packs available at Zophar's Domain and Project 2612. All other tracks were recorded from the game's really nice sound test menu. Beta SEGA Sound was recorded using VGM playback on the Mega Drive. All tracks were recorded at 96KHz 24bit using a Sound BlasterX G5 sound card and the and the phono jacks located at the back of the SEGA Mega-CD (Model 1) connected to the Mega Drive.

This soundtrack was recorded from a real SEGA Mega Drive CD 32X (PAL, Model 1, VA4) using a Mega Everdrive X3 cartridge. Soundtrack by: Masato Nakamura, Mariko Nanba, Hiroshi Kubota, Yukifumi Makino, Junko Shiratsu Title: Knuckles' Chaotix Platform: SEGA Mega Drive 32X

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