[TAS] Sonic Advance 2 - Speedrun as Sonic

[@SRUFUS3D]

The Advance Trilogy were truly great games. Thanks for this, Shiro.

[@Solipsismreal]

love you. read umineko tho

[@TioV1NN1]

My favorite is Advance 2 :D

[@playerback7722]

Yep

[@Teri_Merii_]

The only thing DIMPS got right.

[@stardust_sonic]

The Advance and Rush games were great

[@lemillion6926]

Words can’t express how satisfying it is to watch Sonic actually go fast

[@majztic]

use 2x speed and sonic is even faster

[@Randomperc]

Maurice Herndon hi been a while

[@Persac7]

Ikr

[@joshuawilliams5856]

The true speed of sound baby

[@BaePlatinum]

I love it when he goes so fast that the camera can’t keep up. That’s just fantastic.

[@limbokidthedank8746]

imagine playing sonic so optimized that you start looking less like a game recording and more like one of those sprite animations where sonic looks really badass when running

[@PedroHCF37]

A THOUSAND TIMES YES!

[@MilkIsTheOne]

Sonic advance 2 but it's played in a much more powerful device.

[@Coolmar15]

4:57 That is the Egg-Hammer 5:02 That was the Egg-Hammer

[@XerKoro_neo]

And on your right you'll see... On your left... nope uh okay On your.... I give up.

[@bradbailey5481]

God I wish we had more games in the Advance style. Amazing sprite work, great sense of building up speed, fun soundtracks, tiny chao gardens, awesome zones, etc...

[@Kai-lk6em]

The Special Stages in this game are stupidly easy. They're practically giving you the emerald. The hardest part about the Special Stages is just finding the Special Rings to unlock them.

[@zerolel879]

Thats the point cause in advance 1 finding and wining the special stage was way too hard

[@franklinreed7614]

Sonic Advanced 2 was the very first Sonic game, and even the very first Video Game I ever played. I remember one day when I was a kid I was really mad at something and back then my mom tried to keep me away from video games and TV even though my oldest sister, older brother and older sister had video games and TV. But when I was sulking about something, my older brother peeked around from behind the corner with a huge grin on his face. He sneaked me his GBA with this game on it. It changed my life. My mom also walked in on us in his room doing sum stupid shit playing the game and watching TV. She wasn't even mad, she kinda laughed as if saying, "why did I bother trying". Great memories.

[@ModernDayYasuke]

Franklin Reed This might be my favorite thing to read on the internet now, and hey! Sonic advance 2 was my first game as well lol. There’s nothing but good memories tied to this game for me XD

[@thundrr1929]

Good, that's wholesome, we need more of this in the internet.

[@Chocolatechipfac3]

“Why you going so fuckin FAST??” Hits course in under a minute “Whooooaaaaaaaa”

[@amirgarcia547]

Honestly I never really realized ‘till now how similar the Advance games are similar to the Rush games in terms of level design. Must be ‘cause they’re both made by Dimps. Heck, Rush is pretty much Advance but with the boost tbh.

[@skillsharekirby2048]

Advance 1 and 3. Rush and advance 2 have one key difference: this game is very forward based, while rush is mostly timing based. In this game, you don't really have to much besides kind of go forward (nothing wrong with it, a more focused game allows for stuff like... THIS(also not press right to win it has more than that)) while Rush needs much more timing (not like Advance 2 doesn't, it's just that rush has much more of it.) However, yes, they are still quite similar.

[@IceisNice_FollowingChrist]

Rush is just advance 2 but with instant access to boost and because of it the levels can be more creatively designed instead of a downward slope to encourage the player to enter and maintain the boost state like in adv2.

[@astriverofstrengthandknowledge]

Hands down the fastest game in the whole series besides Unleashed. The sense of speed and seeing Sonic’s after images never get old

[@Highzen]

The sonic rush games? I remember those being really fast paced

[@watersomic]

Something immaculate about the way Sonic moves starting at 27:41 to the end of the act. holy shit. more sonic levels should allow for that kind of movement. everything about that was tight.

[@BaePlatinum]

I absolutely love the bits where you go so fast that the camera can barely catch up.

[@justyumi4410]

Me and the boys on our way to preorder Spongebob Rehydrated

[@Ruannnnnnnn]

5:48 I cant express how satisfying it is so see Sonic running with this song

[@elhectorxd678]

It is Just like the sonic cd animated intro

[@upsyloownmusic]

I've always seen TAS speedruns as the canon way of playing Sonic games

[@sleepingtablep3]

"Sonic! Wait for me!" *sonic just fucking gunning it*

[@Camerynn10]

Isn’t a sonic speed run just a regular run

[@zemoth941]

This is an *Advance* run

[@randomgamedude9846]

I love how everyone just got this in their recommended

[@miguibaylon9791]

i just noticed the faster you move, the faster the ring in the corner of the screen spins

[@iv689]

Ok this is actually a useful comment

[@jaru4564]

This also happens in Sonic Advance 2.

[@jaru4564]

@@bagelbrain2763 For some reason, I was on a different video, but it had these comments. Strange.

[@Dreamjam31407]

@@jaru4564 That has happened to me a few times too.

[@madokalover]

Zone XX's size is proportional to how much time it takes you to clear it. This TAS reduces XX to its smallest possible size and thus retroactively reduced the cost of its construction, saving Eggman millions of dollars.

[@joobtheboob]

Looks like he saved at least 15% or more of his savings

[@karikora8279]

I never knew about these special stages. I always thought you had to find the big spring to do the space fall snowboard levels to get the emerdoods.

[@fobia3248]

This is in the first game

[@karikora8279]

@@fobia3248 oooh, is it? well shoot.

[@archieakira4237]

@@karikora8279 its balls deep hard to try and unlock all the emeralds and getting the true area 53 stage .

[@s0paipill4spasadas44]

When recess ends at school and you must hurry to get to class on time;

[@mrmysterious3854]

Sethan Wiley no u

[@mrmysterious3854]

Sethan Wiley still no u

[@Orchrestral]

Sethan Wiley r/youngpeopleyoutube

[@joshth647]

@Sethan Wiley r/youngpeopleyoutube

[@bird8129]

@Sethan Wiley r/youngpeopleyoutube

[@duckinstonduckie955]

So many knuckles’s profiles. I didn’t know we all had so many twins.

[@crudalicious]

it is INSANE how cool and useful the air dash sonic has is

[@definitelynotsmart]

Drinking game: 1: take a shot every time they use the air dash 2: die.

[@apteryxciwi]

Vanilla: sonic come over Sonic: uh... Vanilla: Cream isnt home- Sonic:

[@jakavious1611]

This was my GAME growing up. No idea why KZbin recommended it to me but I won't complain

[@RandomPerson28337]

My god brother gave me this game when i was 8. I will never forget the memories this gave me. He died of Covid 19 2 years ago rest in peace and thanks for the game.

[@DubiousDepthsRadio]

Sorry for your lost god bless his soul

[@EACommander]

I so sad sorry bro

[@XRTerra]

Other Tas: Ok so we're going to preform code and hex execution to get to this secret area nobody knows about to trick the game into killing the final boss with the good ending Sonic Tas: *speed noises*

[@slooobs1123]

This is a rare footage of me going to my room after i close the light

[@NafiurRahmanYT]

a speedrun just looks way more impressive if the game already is about speed in general

[@PedroHCF37]

Do you know any other examples?

[@NafiurRahmanYT]

@@PedroHCF37 unfortunaltely not. but i think, many other speedruns for example are quite boring if just the ingame dialogue is the only fast thing and everything else can't be accelarated like sonic

[@PedroHCF37]

@@NafiurRahmanYT Thank you, you are right, but that was not what I meant 😅 I mean, do you know any other games about speed like this with good speedruns?

[@Just_A_Red_Guy]

2:31 sonic: *chukles* im in danger

[@raphaelkelly861]

haha

[@moldyshoess]

funny

[@WinServer-sg3dp]

Knuckles I'm in danger

[@gamerboygaming]

Some would say the first boss was... Creamed. Exit over there? Great. I’ll take my leave.

[@weriolol]

Gamerboygaming gg bro

[@jacoblagat3878]

And don’t let the door hit you on your way out!

[@filmmakerzechariah]

Am I the only one who never knew what the special stage looked like because I could never find all the emblems? 😆

[@Teri_Merii_]

Nope

[@Sydney_Angelyt]

Same

[@Sydney_Angelyt]

Then again, I’ve only played a bit on a mobile emulator.

[@thundrr1929]

Not at all I think most of us haven't.

[@AGKaiju]

Even for a TAS, 44:48 was disrespect! LOVE IT.

[@roniyetis3654]

Even sonic himself could not be as fast as you can. Speedrun + no damage + all chaos emerald + all bosses under 10 seconds.. This is PERFECT

[@reshawshid]

In the short period from 27:40-27:48, you managed to time the sound effects of what you were doing with the music. I doubt it was intentional, but it was cool. Also the airdash in this game is interesting. At first it seems really useless, but the more you play around with it you find out it's just about the best asset in the game and all other characters are held back by not having it.

[@BrightAGen]

KZbin Recommendations are acting up, but this is good.

[@Capivaradissimo]

to be honest i got more impressed when the TAS just write "Shiro" at the speed of light, but the entire run was amazing

[@sammythecat2072]

God the music in this game slaps so hard I need remastered versions right this minute

[@dakotatorrez3134]

Watching this is so mesmerizing, the whole sonic advance trilogy were honestly the best compared to other aonic games these held a vibe like no other what sonic truely is meant to be, you truely masterd this game which takes a lot of skill

[@mrcool4698]

I forgot how god tier this game's music is

[@flclkun5479]

Can fall out of orbit, but cant fall down a pit... makes sense

[@azurecalamity600]

Prolly spikes in the bottom of those bottomless pits. Or lava 🤣

[@SoundFantasy]

Man at least the special stages are easy, nice showing off lol. Getting to them is such a chore though. Great Tas

[@corncobjohnsonreal]

I think I spent a billion years playing this as a kid and I had no clue there were special stages

[@garfeltrealtbh]

Now I see how this is a game about speed

[@zerolel879]

This is the real escence of sonic games

[@YoshiEaterX]

Man... Ice Paradise really takes me back to a place...

[@ZoniferConundrum]

Sonic ultimate flash ah good times

[@ZeroYami]

Hell?

[@YoshiEaterX]

@@ZeroYami It wasn't as bad as today. At least when the Gameboy advance was popular, it was easy to make friends. I have no friends today.

[@maxwellmegagamer8535]

I find it funny how he killed the first boss before the 4 hits left music played

[@ihaveseeneverything7030]

I thought it was a fake cause the Ring was moving faster and stopping at times in each level. But later I realized that it was actually Sonic's speed that was altering the rings speed. I haven't played in years. So don't blame me.

[@flamingfire1699]

2:34 A nice game of Jump-Rope with a robot 3:39 Congratulations, you missed a jump!!

[@lgflbrandyascognac]

Ah it makes perfect sense to use him Because Sonic SPEEDrun

[@Leekodot15]

Is this just a TAS's casual playthrough we're seeing? Honestly, it's nice to see what a TAS does during a casual playthrough.

[@Inferno144]

This man has surpassed Mach itself.

[@blame3847]

this mad man passed stage that i couldn't beat for 2 weeks.

[@mixellaneous1298]

This man has reached actual sonic speed on these levels

[@omariwalker1006]

This is the one sonic game I could never 100%. Getting all the medals in these fast paced stages was asking too much. At least I finish advanced 1&3 some how!

[@turnergaming125]

Man this game bring me back.....sigh Sega what happened? Mania can't save you forever

[@SrIgort]

ikr, it's hard to think that this game was made by the same guys that did Sonic Forces

[@noahdavis7406]

@@SrIgort It wasn't though. Sega's regular Sonic Team didn't make this game.

[@archieakira4237]

@@SrIgort they need new people working on the games fans like tax man tee lopes and stealth.

[@JeremyBX]

That would be so cool if you see what's ahead of you

[@pinguin4898]

welcome to 2d my man

[@Blit-X-TVLive]

@Tails' Workshop Master System versions wasn't that bad.

[@Baffle145]

I was shocked to see that the robot you jumped over was actually Zero from sonic adventure!

[@justswift5369]

Thank you KZbin Recommended, very cool.

[@lockout5731]

Years later i will be playing this and advance 1 and 3 myself taking my time and enjoying its fantastic gameplay

[@RiverOfTheHeart]

I haven't noticed before how awfully close the camera is zoomed in on your character in this game.

[@gargaduk]

GBA screen is tiny.

[@SuiteBid]

It's one of the main flaws, tbh. It's not as bad for the older games, but with how fast you can go in Advance, the screen being so close hurts the gameplay. I still love the Advance series, but it still has issues despite that.

[@PhredLevi]

It’s why Advance 1 being as slow as it is was probably for the best and why caving to negative reception and making 2 so fast you constantly run into stuff probably wasn’t a good idea.

[@heathplayz7826]

I still dont understand how they managed to get 999 rings in every single one of the special stages whereas during my playthrough I barely managed to get 300. Amazing gameplay.

[@MidnightXxMelodii]

Because it's a tool assistant speedrun friend.

[@kavehgaming546]

Great gameplay i love sonic advance 2 & 3 special sonic advance 3 its so nostalgic to me i love it so much...thanks sega/sonic team for making our days and rested peace in home...

[@itsnotdiddums6017]

Wow this is the first speed run I’ve ever seen and you were going d So fast that in music plant I could see the background of the stage start to glitch out

[@cri4921]

This is a tool assisted run. This run is "nearly" impossible for a human to do

[@Kowen1991]

Sonic: Alright, i've pulled my legs long enough.

[@stoneapollyon8313]

the only good boost formula that nobody, not even sega, will ever use again.

[@A.Z.296]

soo true, I mean this boost formula when done correctly had absolutely no downsides and they also never used the trick system to gain extra speed.

[@A.Z.296]

also this version of boost looked cool as shit

[@AGKaiju]

In a nutshell: Jump + -> -> For all the speed.

[@rezkii9835]

Sonic got nerf in advance 3

[@riocheng0205]

Imagine screwing up once then you have to do the whole thing again. Good job mate I didn’t even know you can play like this.

[@That0neDude]

no he's not playing it, it's TAS. they're the best at speedruns

[@akidfromacrosstheinternet3056]

He is the fastest thing alive proven here

[@GMKGoji01]

10 times faster than that slowpoke Captain Falcon!

[@akidfromacrosstheinternet3056]

Captain falcons needs *machinery* and *technology* to acheive fast. Nature's version of the ultimate life form doesn't need *pollution* to acheive fast

[@SuperDoreg]

4:36 damn sonic

[@QuasarDgames]

Everyone here is from like an hour ago I wasn't expecting that.

[@CiTVNostalgia]

16:03 Playing on time in a music-themed level

[@c1oudsky]

respect for preview if you made it - looks real pretty, good idea

[@edwynbrownart9410]

The run on Hot crater 2 was a thing of beauty 🤩

[@sonicsaver2138]

Sonic in the cartoons be like:

[@AdamSTMplays]

Shiro is the goat for Speed Running in Sonic Game's 💙💙💙

[@Magical_Mic]

This video makes me want to play the advance trilogy, thanks for showing this, Shiro

[@ThatSmartYoutubeUser]

Me and the boys going to mcdonalds

[@Shinobi_ibby]

Cardboard Box good luck

[@RancidKari]

Lmao

[@troll4life662]

Nah you're too slow!

[@segasonicchoas]

Brings a tear to my eye i rememeber playing 1 2 and 3 and sonic battle on my SP back in the day long live that era 😭😎🤙

[@nathanboreman5971]

Sonic battle so underrated!!

[@dozlan6423]

Just so the people in the comments know, [TAS] at the start of the video title means Tool Assisted Speedrun.

[@archieakira4237]

So what tool is he using to do this not all tools are the same ... Or is it?

[@dozlan6423]

@@archieakira4237 (TAS) is generally defined as speedrunning a game in an emulator, generally with various tools at a player's disposal like programming a sequence of buttons to perform a set of actions, slow-downs and going frame-by-frame to create a theoretical perfect speedrun.

[@WinServer-sg3dp]

Or Tool Assisted Superplay

[@dozlan6423]

@@WinServer-sg3dp This is correct also :)

[@Stewwit]

Tas should stand for totally accurate sonic because of how fast it is

[@miwiki6]

This is the best comment i've seen

[@sonicwithdasoapshoes8351]

3:06 OMG, IS THIS SPECIAL STAGE CLOCK GONNA GO ANY SLOWER!?!?

[@joshuaellis2887]

This music brings back deep memories

[@Sessho_Setsuna.]

Tatsumaki senpukyaku.😄12:13 12:27 12:35 12:44 15:28

[@MrTron2008]

Speed run: Gonna needlessly jump over this bot in the chaos emerald section

[@areono460]

For me as a young lad the hardest part was finding all the medals and I could never find them all for the space level and I accidentally found all of the them for the fire level

[@randomgamedude9846]

"There are no accidents" -Master Oogway

[@SpeedHomeAttack]

This man bought the game and returned it an hour later cause he already beat it 😳

[@100jecs]

Did anyone realize he could of took advantage of the homing attack?

[@lithiumwyvern_]

-There was no homing attack in the Advance games- wait, there really was one in Sonic Advance 2. Not in Advance 3 though.

[@DJKmoneydog]

@@lithiumwyvern_ there is a homing attack

[@lithiumwyvern_]

@@DJKmoneydog Oh huh, there really is. Got it confused with Advance 3, I think. At least Advance 2 doesn't force you to use the homing attack, unlike, well... Sonic 4.

[@thundrr1929]

We are all commenting in a video that's 1 year old...

[@ccaskeytheepicgamer8956]

Yep

[@PrinceRobin1su2]

Wow this game looks amazing. I never knew about it

[@N0rlight]

When you're so fast the bg can't even process.

[@Zadamanim]

might be an emulation glitch

[@calebdouglas7622]

I never knew you could get all seven special rings in one act

[@SuperSonic68]

Wait. Isn't that the only way to even attempt to obtain a Chaos Emerald?

[@gmcubed]

SuperSonic68 I never even saw the special stages I don't think

[@xlegendaryblade]

It was so hard to find them

[@calebdouglas7622]

SuperSonic68 The way I always did it was you collect a certain amount in one act and a certain amount in the other act. I just didn’t know you can collect all seven in one act

[@archieakira4237]

@@calebdouglas7622 that method would have been better to unlock the special stage instead of getting them all in one act infact if sucka the most with sonic because he can fly and backtrack like the other characters so everything needs to be timed and the mechanics need to be mastered I'm not counting any because getting all rings doesn't unlock anything for her.

[@chu-pay]

First of all...AMAZING! I could never find any emerald chips! Second, how are you playing the game? Is it on an emulator? If so what kind of controller are you using?

[@Alice47103]

This is a TAS, or Tool-Assisted Speedrun. It means that they were telling the game what to do every frame, instead of playing it normally.

[@robertolebron2296]

Who am I ?! That includes the jump rope with Zero, LOL

[@chu-pay]

Who am I ?! Ohhh lmao that’s cool!

[@omniscientomnipresent5500]

I just realised they used the same trick than in FF in the special stages to make them look 3D.

[@NickRightAtYa]

Nobody: Moms in mobile game ads:

[@WinServer-sg3dp]

Dads in Mobile game ads: Poop Dads in real life:

[@saubersditchedaccount5513]

Nobody: Reddit users making this the same unfunny joke:

[@samdilophosaur9787]

I gave up trying to get the chaos emeralds but I’m watching this to live vicariously 😂

[@samiraenthusiast3609]

Collect the SP rings is way more harder than the special stage itself

[@IceisNice_FollowingChrist]

ikr

[@brandonwilliams6119]

Finding 7 Special Rings in sometimes odd locations in a game about going fast doesn’t go well together especially since this is on the GBA and the screen is shrinked. Advance 1 did it better with the Special Springs.

[@Storm725]

I really want this game not gonna lie

[@GEObandicoot]

It's easy to download

[@memezabelle]

You can get it with an emulator

[@otaviousmckenzie9297]

You are good at this speed run

[@WindWerehog]

Sonic Advance needs more than 8 Numbers to calculate that score Jesus Christ