[TAS] Sonic Mania as Knuckles "All Emeralds" - Speedrun

[@That0neDude]

Here I come, rougher than the rest of them, the best of them, tougher than leather. You can call me Knuckles, unlike Sonic I don't chuckle. I'd rather flex my muscles. I'm hard as nails, it ain't hard to tell, I break 'em down whether they solid or frail. Unlike the rest I'm independent since my first breath, first test, feel the right, than the worst left. Born on an island in the heavens, the blood of my ancestors flows inside me. My duty is to save the flower, from evil deterioration! I will be the one to set your heart free true, cleanse yourself of them evil spirits that's in you. Streaking lights, loud sounds, and instincts, are the elements that keep me going. I am fighting my own mission, nothing's gonna stand in my way!

[@rosnymathieu7218]

AWESOME

[@gamer64real]

knuckles don't chuckle

[@twinkletounqer_quoncous]

cap

[@hatmahfyah]

Here I come, rougher than Knuckles The best of them, tougher than Knuckles You can call me Knuckles, unlike Knuckles I don't chuckle I'd rather flex my Knuckles I'm hard as Knuckles, it ain't hard to chuckle I break 'em down whether they're Knuckles or Knuckles Unlike Knuckles I'm independent since my first chuckle First Knuckles, feel the Knuckles, than the Knuckle chuckle

[@ljvallot8255]

Knuckles the echidna 3 and knuckles.

[@CallMe_Green]

The thing I love about this tas is that you can really stop for a spindash anytime you want with his glide

[@ireallydontknowifiamhonest]

Makeshift Dropdash

[@neon8292]

Something i always love about tas runs is the programming to do frame perfect dash dancing when it doesnt need to do anything

[@everythingpizzaandknuckles6268]

My favorite one in this video was the one at the end of Green Hill done where he was gliding down switching directions every frame XD Actually, dash dancing the final boss was even funnier

[@iTzKonata]

22:59 that perfectly timed spindash for the explosion was sick

[@upscale9109]

how to make knuckles badass 101

[@constellationmaker135]

How to make Knuckles badass again, 101

[@awildcommenter7240]

Wow whoever this TAS guy is they are pretty good at speed running

[@CSharpDCS]

Plays a lot of games.

[@lowtiertomad4647]

He's the variety content creator we deserve

[@drewskyyy]

Professional gamer

[@sharmat1611]

Wow what an original joke

[@That0neDude]

@@sharmat1611 The only non-original joke here is your comment

[@Biddybud]

He was faster than the rest of them. Some could even say he was the best of them, tougher than leather, even.

[@yeeeee2599]

The best Christmas gift anyone could ask for

[@yeeeee2599]

Sorry I missed the premiere I was asleep imma watch it today though

[@duffman18]

What about a million pounds and a Terry's Chocolate Orange? That (combined) would be a better gift.

[@Snaproductions]

@@duffman18i dont like the terry orange chocolates

[@Fluxuation]

As someone who hasn’t played mania in quite a while, this is very helpful for some time saves!

[@Kaarui]

23:04 THAT WAS CUTE

[@clawcakes2]

i love it when TASes don't have anything to do so they just take a moment to flex. 3:51 look at him schmoovin

[@ABHMughal]

16:35 I was literally saying "Wait... REALLY?!" when I saw those gliders and then you reached to the goal capsule

[@Anaklusmos42]

Same. I mean, that's a huge skip

[@Lanoman123]

It’s a TAS, there’s no “you” in it

[@DaDandyman]

@@Lanoman123 TASes still have players. It's not like an AI was coded to do every level perfectly. TAS means tool-assisted. It could be anything from slowing the game down and using savestates to programming a macro that does everything perfectly.

[@kiributmissing4276]

There is something very amusing about the tas coming from a stand still to a full speed in seconds, and also how it gently passes over the syringes in chemical plant. Great stuff

[@Furtleturtle]

In a theoretical sense, it would make sense for Knuckles to reach this.level of speed like with the movie adaptations. He's trained on angel island for who knows how long, meaning his strength isn't just for his fists. Clearly he's got excellent leg muscle if he were to move at the speeds he can go in this speed run.

[@dionlackey798]

Originally knuckles was always fast. He was the 2nd fastest in the series second only to sonic until people like shadow showed up then they made him irrelevant to sonic and not only made him dumber but slower as well. Knuckles could in fact keep up with sonic but couldn't surpass him at max speed. However ppl say knuckles is as strong as sonic is fast and if that's true knuckles should just be as fast as sonic if running with his strength

[@brokenman4414]

@@dionlackey798 knuckles’ power is in his arms where sonic’s power is in his legs, that’s what people mean by “knuckles is as strong as sonic is fast”

[@dionlackey798]

@@brokenman4414 Where was that official stated? It may not be canon but I've seen sonic use his arms to make mini twisters in comics and sonic x irrc. If he could use his arms in that matter than so can knuckles use his legs. Sonic is a force of pure speed. Knuckles is strength. Say for whereas sonic could vibrate through matter with just speed alone, knuckles can't do that. However knuckles should be able to use his strength to be able move at a higher speed whereas sonic is that speed.

[@duffman18]

Knuckles' leg muscles aren't as strong as Sonics, which is why he's always had a lower maximum jump height than sonic and tails in the games. Made it a pain in the arse to play Knuckles in Sonic 2 back in the day because the game wasn't designed around that too low jump height, like I remember it made it impossible to beat the final boss robot in death egg zone because of the method I'd come up with for it. The method didn't work with knuckles cos his jump wasn't high enough. So I had to change the whole method. It seemed like I was using quite a bad method anyway compared to how most people defeat the robot, but I was only 7, so it was upsetting to me at first that I kept dying and couldn't beat the boss. But yeah, Tails was always as fast and as high jumping as Sonic because of his tails, where when he ran he uses them as propellors to sort of half-fly or glide along, and when in the air he could use his tails as propellors like a helicopter to jump that high (and then in sonic 3 he gained the ability to actually fly period, for a brief amount of time, not merely able to jump as high). Knuckles is not quite as high jumping as either of the other 2, but us makes up for it by having his wall climbing ability and his gliding ability, which makes him arguably the funnest to play as of the 3 main characters.

[@constellationmaker135]

@@duffman18If you think playing S2 as Knux was painful, just do a no-horizontal run. I'm dead serious here, it's possible. The Death Egg methods are just stupid.

[@romgskn]

Sonic:I'm the fastest thing alive Knuckles:hold my beer 🔴💨

[@spikeythinker7763]

Looks like this speedrun was... **puts on shades** ...rougher than the rest of them.

[@Neokan_n]

the best of them… thougher than leather

[@GSRTHEMID]

Great TAS Shiro I was surprised when Knuckles climbed with nothing. Merry Christmas Eve and Christmas

[@ShiroParadox99]

Thanks and Merry Christmas^^

[@GSRTHEMID]

You're the best man! Thanks

[@jaytheglitch8194]

25:57 Nice beat drop man, that wall snare going crazy

[@GamerSmash64]

That was super Fast, I'm Totally impressed with the Speed!

[@zakwilson2606]

Now I'm wondering how ridiculous this TAS would be with Ray because his gliding ability is insane.

[@CeeKay07]

Sonic Mania, but Eggman stole the Master Emerald instead of the Phantom Ruby.

[@upscale9109]

this perfectly describes what's happening

[@Yorigami32X]

If you for whatever reason want to steal the master emerald you better keep running because every passing moment knuckles is getting closer

[@everythingpizzaandknuckles6268]

I like to imagine that's the case, and the reason Knuckles is going so fast isn't because he's a perfect TAS, but because he's *that* pissed at Eggman

[@RickyRiceB]

Just got this game on Christmas and only really had the time to actually play it a few days ago. Guess I’m a bad player if I thought speedruns of classic sonic couldn’t look this graceful

[@constellationmaker135]

You're not bad at the game, you just need to get used to speedrunning. That's coming from someone who struggles on the Encore mode special stages. (Yes, they're different than the Mania mode ones and yes they're mostly in different spots.)

[@Ecliypse7]

aside from the challenge of finishing the game in a low time and the competitive nature of speed running looking at these are really relaxing Thanks ^_^ and merry Christmas

[@ShiroParadox99]

Merry Christmas ^_^

[@leoandrews792]

​@@ShiroParadox99Christmas is over

[@Venny-jv9wn]

Awesome dude!!!. You must have practiced many hours to achieve such precision and reflexes when making the video. My respects!!!.

[@TheRetroRoar]

This was a bot not a person

[@thepixelartists5756]

@@TheRetroRoar Wait, can you hear that? *woooosh* That's the sound of you missing the joke

[@TheRetroRoar]

@@thepixelartists5756 wow that was so funny that I forgot to laugh 😐

[@lukazgarza4075]

@@TheRetroRoar I laughed

[@Grunts_NIC]

​@@TheRetroRoarwow bro, learn what TAs is

[@newbaggett]

Sonic: WHERE IS HE EVEN GOING!? Tail: To the end...

[@tyler-w7w]

Sonic:OF WHAT?

[@DETahaX]

That backwards leg in the thumbnail does not cease to disturb me.

[@joshuamiller3701]

Three cheers for Shiro Paradox and Sonic Mania as Knuckles "All Emeralds" Speedrun and Merry Christmas 🎄

[@robb6973]

I love the silent slow, just to hype up the eye strain speeds of the Tas

[@tenshi7751]

Mom: dinners ready! Me: 14:17

[@weirdface1846]

your sonic mania speedruns are great! keep it up

[@greatrthansymbol3161]

22:48 Oh god the robots are t bagging they’ve grown sentient

[@clairebennett9104]

*"HERE I COME ROUGHER THEN THE REST OF THEM"*

[@GMKGoji01]

*"THE BEST OF THEM, TOUGHER THAN LEATHER!"*

[@spimbles]

nnnah. 💩

[@ovatails]

@@spimbles?

[@Grunts_NIC]

🤡 ​@@spimbles

[@envyme6275]

Knuckles has become a vessel for a God and literally annihilates egg man at the speed of sound:

[@RockettRevengerr]

Do do do dododo dodo do do, you know me the fighting freak knuckles and we're at pumpkin hill, you ready?

[@nolanlong1979]

Bro the amount of disrespect to just jive while speed running is insane to me

[@emersonfernando2796]

I love your speedruns

[@yousefjoudeh8471]

I've been waiting for this for the last week

[@xdrunic]

He makes it looks like the video is playing at 2x speed by his skills lmao

[@LoqueneAS]

this is the meaning of "gotta go fast"

[@jyotikuber]

44:41 Sonic Mania - Let's Play - How to climb air

[@chilidogsonic6774]

This was so cool you earned yourself a subscriber

[@AonelEchi]

Timestamps: 0:00 The Beginning 0:19 Cutscene 1 (Green Hill) 0:21 Green Hill Zone (Act 1) 0:31 Special Stage 1 1:13 Special Stage 2 1:47 Special Stage 3 2:16 Green Hill Zone (Boss 1/2) 2:39 Green Hill Zone (Act 2) 3:10 Special Stage 4 3:35 Green Hill Zone (Boss 2/2) 3:59 Cutscene 2 (Chemical Plant) 4:00 Chemical Plant Zone (Act 1) 4:21 Special Stage 5 5:00 Chemical Plant Zone (Boss 1/2) 5:29 Chemical Plant Zone (Act 2) 6:47 Special Stage 6 7:23 Chemical Plant Zone (Boss 2/2) 8:35 Cutscene 3 (Studiopoils) 8:37 Studiopoils Zone (Act 1) 9:06 Special Stage 7 9:52 Studiopoils Zone (Boss 1/2) 11:41 Studiopoils Zone (Act 2) 12:41 Studiopoils Zone (Boss 2/2) 13:37 Cutscene 4 (Flying Battery) 13:39 Flying Battery Zone (Act 1) 14:53 Flying Battery Zone (Boss 1/2) 15:17 Cutscene 5 (Flying Battery Act 2) 15:27 Flying Battery Zone (Act 2) 16:47 Cutscene 6 (Press Garden) + Press Garden Zone (Act 1) 18:04 Press Garden Zone (Boss 1/2) 18:31 Press Garden Zone (Act 2) 19:17 Press Garden Zone (Boss 2/2) 19:37 Cutscene 7 (Stardust Speedway) 19:39 Stardust Speedway Zone (Act 1) 20:28 Stardust Speedway Zone (Boss 1/2) 21:00 Cutscene 8 (Stardust Speedway Act 2) + Stardust Speedway Zone (Act 2) 21:42 Stardust Speedway Zone (Boss 2/2) 23:17 Cutscene 9 (Hydrocity) + Hydrocity Zone (Act 1) 24:28 Cutscene 10 (Hydrocity Boss 1/2) 25:00 Hydrocity Zone (Boss 1/2) 25:38 Hydrocity Zone (Act 2) 26:51 Hydrocity Zone (Boss 2/2) 27:39 Cutscene 11 (Mirage Saloon) 27:46 Mirage Saloon Zone (Act 1) 28:41 Mirage Saloon Zone (Boss 1/2) 29:02 Mirage Saloon Zone (Act 2) 29:40 Mirage Saloon Zone (Boss 2/2) 30:32 Cutscene 12 (Oil Ocean) 30:33 Oil Ocean Zone (Act 1) 31:16 Oil Ocean Zone (Boss 1/2) 31:38 Oil Ocean Zone (Act 2) 32:28 Oil Ocean Zone (Boss 2/2) 33:11 Cutscene 13 (Lava Reef) 33:19 Lava Reef Zone (Act 1) 34:54 Lava Reef Zone (Boss 1/2) 35:34 Cutscene 14 (Lava Reef Act 2) + Lava Reef Zone (Act 2) 36:59 Cutscene 15 (Lava Reef Boss 2/2) 37:15 Lava Reef Zone (Boss 2/2) 37:45 Cutscene 16 (Metallic Madness) 37:46 Metallic Madness Zone (Act 1) 38:44 Metallic Madness Zone (Boss 1/2) 39:50 Metallic Madness Zone (Act 2) 40:49 Metallic Madness Zone (Boss 2/2) 41:32 Cutscene 17 (Titanic Monarch) 41:33 Titanic Monarch Zone (Act 1) 42:55 Titanic Monarch Zone (Boss 1/2) 43:24 Cutscene 18 (Titanic Monarch Act 2) + Titanic Monarch Zone (Act 2) 45:59 Final Boss (Titanic Monarch Boss 2/2) 47:32 Good Ending

[@JenukiDa]

my jaw dropped when you skipped the spider boss thats insane

[@iannkata8449]

This speed run is sick.

[@GSRTHEMID]

Let's go Knuckles and flex your muscles because you need them to beat this game. Time for a Knuckles sandwich

[@dionlackey798]

Knuckles is so underrated and underutilized

[@GustavoHenrickXD]

Good gameplay bro and merry christmas

[@ShiroParadox99]

Thanks, and Merry Christmas too^^

[@GustavoHenrickXD]

Thx ;)

[@MarioMastr]

The fact that I’ve managed to rival TAS times on most of these special stages is fucking nuts.

[@Jgame0701]

3:51 VIBRATE MODE ENGAGE

[@GhaniKeSawah]

that's what she said

[@VinceMouse]

I'd love to see a speedrun where the main goal is to hit Eggman with a Hellfire chain in Puyo.

[@brando9553]

100000 IQ knuckles doing poyo poyo like its nothing

[@Minusbluye]

Pov, you touched the Master emerald.

[@BOILKI]

Nice Sonic Mania Returns On Shiro Paradox TAS Sonic Mania As Knuckles

[@ygbailey22]

I like how some special stage have the bird and fish from the sonic 1 special stages

[@oluwafisayomiomojola1275]

44:42 excuses me sir what are you climbing?!?!

[@ThatOneV]

Oh wow u gotta have a really pro gaming chair!1!1

[@Tailsfan5338]

0:16 oh my god WE GET IT GAME!!! THERE’S AN AUTOSAVE FEATURE!!! once for each player that plays it for the first time is enough. You don’t need to bring this up EVERY SINGLE TIME!!!

[@OneZenDarius]

The funny thing is that Knuckles is the only character that will face all 5 of the Heavies in a single run while Sonic and Tails only face 4 of them. This is because they don't face Heavy King at all until the final fight.🥃

[@DeltaMarlfox]

Knuckles only faces Heavy Rider in the last Robotnik boss encounter and his chances of actually doing so are low

[@OneZenDarius]

@@DeltaMarlfox That is true. I forgot that Sonic and Tails face of against her at the same time Knuckles fight him.

[@BrolySuba]

@@OneZenDarius wait "her"?

[@OneZenDarius]

@Kip_jr Yeah, Heavy Rider is a she along with Heavy Magician. They are both female. Gunner, Ninja, and King are male.

[@duffman18]

@@OneZenDarius do robots even have gender?

[@Fas_Dan]

i was waiting for knuckles, thanks

[@That0neDude]

I was here in spirit, I was watching the whole time! (I was watching it on my TV)

[@RADish-official]

I love how knuck rotates his fist because his sprite model doesn’t have any fingers

[@alphaandrew9985]

hey shiro paradox nice speedrun tas very nice buddy youre awesome

[@real.exotic]

imagine seeing it in 2x speed

[@coolshaunathehedgehog2025]

*Merry Christmas Eve And Merry Christmas!*

[@SmashCrafter321]

Nice TAS man! Kinda wish Knuckles had more unique paths in the base game. Though from what I've heard, there is a mod that does just that, giving knux new paths and reworked stages to better fit his abilities. Any chance a TAS of that comes in the future?

[@ShiroParadox99]

If that mod has for decomp version

[@VinceMouse]

Even with the power of the emeralds, you must respect... the bumpers.

[@nachoguy707]

I saw the mean bean machine part was a bit of a struggle. If you need help with Puyo, an easy way to make a quick 3-5 chain is with the stair stacking method. Here’s a quick video about it if you need it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hn7Mn6mubLZ7hdE Also, amazing TAS as usual my man.

[@abeerabf321]

21:06 POV:you missed the school bus but don't want to tell you parents 23:29 POV:you turned into jesus cuz you hate swimming😂

[@Devoradordemares]

Im not bilíngue,but this speed thats magnificent

[@constellationmaker135]

27:06 WAIT, THAT'S A THING?!

[@cameronzeferino6938]

Hard to believe it's been 5 years

[@maysahelo6483]

55:1 was so calm and nice deserved a sub🥶🥵😎

[@fireyfan54]

Dreams been mighty quiet since this dropped

[@blackgamerxyt3219]

Woah your speedrun first time to see that ⚡👍

[@GLVMR64]

These tickle my brain in the best way

[@GMKGoji01]

Merry Christmas, Shiro!

[@ShiroParadox99]

Merry Christmas too!

[@Tails_Z]

Merry Christmas, as well!

[@AndrewBlechinger]

Man. All emeralds is 3 minutes slower with Knuckles than Tails? Dang.

[@ovatails]

ok that climbing trick ive never seen before congrats

[@CaptainOfTheLeviathan]

Knock Knock It's Kunckles

[@CompulsingFate]

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE EVERYBODY!

[@YT-.-X12]

Heya! So shiro could you do a armadillo speedrun?

[@ShiroParadox99]

After 15th September

[@YT-.-X12]

@@ShiroParadox99 okey dokey ツ

[@death_sh3ll]

apparently you can outrun pollution

[@everythingpizzaandknuckles6268]

Politicians: WRITE THE DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN

[@Lol_itsAdrian]

Now, we'll just wait to move onto plus for mighty, then ray, and possibly encore mode.

[@_G.C]

Ray would be so fun to see a speedrun of

[@ovatails]

rays glide will make him beat levels in possibly 30 seconds because of how broken it is

[@theoverseer1775]

3:46 ok but that bm on Robotnik tho

[@Lean_droxzy]

9:08 knuckles was about to say: oh no

[@JamesLewis2]

The Puyo segment seemed sub-optimal, but maybe starting a chain with a row of four yellows would not have ended the fight early

[@GJ28630]

I loved your tas skilz. So how to conent libtas into sonic maina

[@ShiroParadox99]

I used decomp-linux version

[@Darkcallan]

so I was playing it wrong this whole time!

[@oluwafisayomiomojola1275]

21:09 speed

[@jaytheglitch8194]

They don't call it Stardust Speedway for nothing!

[@idkfn]

Also there’s some OOB glitches with super knucks so yeah. Good TAS bot

[@J4WSH1E]

What type of controller did you use? and What platform did you do this run?

[@ShiroParadox99]

I used decomp version for LibTAS. Controller? I just used gaming keyboard.

[@chilidogsonic6774]

Dat spindash tho 😂😂😂 LOL

[@SuperSaiyawolf]

Bro really just put the "speed" in Stardust Speedway.

[@duffman18]

He really just put the anic in titanic monarch

[@mohammedaqibnishad2405]

0:32 How did he manage to move so fast without losing momentum in Special Stages?😮

[@LJLMETAL]

I could never get the 3D stage trick to work, correctly. What is the secret?

[@charlesmcclure8000]

i dont understand what is happening in the special stages. i hated catching the ufo and this guy is all blip bloop done

[@Devoradordemares]

Wtf this speed

[@canaldeabestado6385]

Omg it's a new speed run 30 seconds it's a all esmerald

[@Bamdioco]

Bro used the glitch technique for special stages

[@DubKun]

nice TAS

[@bonosgameslegal]

your uncle will touch you

[@jacobhirsh1986]

16:23 eggman: hmm knuckles should be near by now 16:37 WHAT THE FU