I never owned a Genesis, and I haven't played Sonic 2 since it was released. My cousin had one...
But none of that matters because, in case you didn't know,
I'm a platformer beast!
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Same rules as before for me. No practice, one play and done. I just downloaded the emulator and game today. Googled "sonic 2 controls" and mapped my buttons onto my Saitek P990.
Got to Metal Sonic with x6 lives. He destroyed me.
I never really played the Sonic series so I didn't know any of enemy patterns or any enemy animations... so, yeah, I'm very impressed with myself.
The only things I remember about playing Sonic back in the day were the Casino stage and the air bubbles underneath the water.
The whole time I thought Longo's score was 256something. I could only get 3 chaos emeralds.
So I don't know what to say, man. I'm using an emulator, but I'm not cheating aka step your game up - Marcus PSP.