Kinda amazed I still instinctually remember where like, three Special Stage Rings are hidden in the first act of Mushroom Hill Zone (all in fairly close proximity to each other as well). When I had just Sonic & Knuckles on the megadrive (I decided to get S&K first, THEN Sonic 3 for...some reason. Maybe I was worried S&K would be rarer quicker) I managed to fully map out in my head a rapid route that would net me the first three chaos emeralds on act 1 of it, and by Act 2 I'd have like, 5 or 6.
@Nine but that's how you play games, sqnk
@Efi i feel like maybe the idea was for you to net maybe one or two during an Act at most?? Not sure they expected someone to be able to nab pretty much all the chaos emeralds within the first two zones. ^^;
...then again Sonic 2 had this great glitch where you could farm Chaos Emeralds in Emerald Hill Act 1, and have super sonic for the entire game.
@Nine well, if it can be done, the devs probably knew about it
you don't just remove all the unintended stuff from a game
sometimes, if it's hard enough to figure out and fun enough to do, the glitch can become a feature =3