Sonic Heroes - Special Stages

To access the true ending of Sonic Heroes, you need to get the Chaos Emeralds. To do this, you need to access the special stages, gotten by picking up a key in the level to the end of the level without hitting any enemy. You also have to do it in the second stage of each world. Finding the keys can be annoying, so I'm writing this to help you get the keys.

You can get the emeralds with any team in any order. So you can get 5 of them with Team Rose and 2 with Team Chaotix. It makes no difference so long as you get each one once. You can tell if you have gotten the emerald by going to the Challenge page and seeing if there is an emerald icon on the second stage of the world.

This is a work in progress, so please check in later. Currently only Team Sonic and Team Dark documented.

Team Sonic

Ocean Palace

🗝 you will find one key just by walking
🗝 another by going through the turtles
🗝a third after doing triangle jump

Power Plant

checkpoint 1: past the falling weight
checkpont 2: another falling weight
🗝 caged key when you float up
checkpont 3: you go up the pole and then it's there
check point 4: go up the floaty stairs
🗝 literally a key next to it!

BINGO Highway

Bullet Station

🗝 after the loopy bit at the start, next to the two spaceships, the key is in plainview
checkpoint 1 - on train
checkpoint 2 - past the part where you have to flip the two arrows and then its between the two rails with the rhino trains
checkpoint 3 - past the swirly rails you have to choose between fly and speed
🗝 the key 2 is behind the skyhook
checkpoint 4 - after the bobsled and the rail

Lost Jungle

🗝key 1: take the normal route. below the gray spiky guy there is a key past black frog
checkpoint 1: past the first black frog
checkpoint 2: past a bunch of springs and those FLY sections
🗝past one of the black frogs when you defeat a purple enemy and there is a caged bud, turn around
checkpoint 3: past the caged bud
checkpoint 4: past the robot and before a spiny flower
checkpoint 5: before the frog in front of the vine

Mystic Mansion

if you have the team sonic power, you can destroy the impregnable robot

starting from the save state where you have the key, go to the room with the fan and make sure to go back and get the 20 ring. that will give you the team blast

so in the previous room where you have to face the 4 robots, use the team blast and then go to the next room, get in tails mode, and destroy

🗝 in the final checkpoint, climb up the platform and then fly as tails. there is a key in a flying cage. use tails thunder shoot to knock them down.

Final Fortress

Past the golden guy with the laser gate, there is a check point
🗝 fly high and there is a flying caged key
🗝 You can also find a key after the two big robots where you get on the rail and there is a very long horizontal platform.

Team Dark

Ocean Palace 💎

🗝 behind some springs early
checkpint 1: before the first speed gate
checkpoint 2: before a spring
checkpoint 3: on the turtle islands
🗝 on the turtle islands
checkpoint 4: after turtle islands
🗝 in a hidden passage after ascending a jumping platform on the left
checkpoint 5: right before the two wheels. don't use rouge when entering the wheel section - she is too slow and the wheel will hit you before you can even hit the ground

Power Plant 💎

checkpoint 1: after the pole
🗝 in a flying cage

BINGO Highway 💎

🗝 behind a glass floor panel, multiple eggman robots in front
checkpoint 1: after the light dash rings
checkpoint 2: after the dice moving in air and the dice that goes up and down, you'll see a checkpoint behind a jumping pltaform
🗝 underneath checkpoint 2 - you can see it standing on the dice that moves up and down
checkpoint 2: surrounded by rings, before a gong that shoots you out

Bullet Station 💎

checkpoint 1: before a closed door, after the rails
🗝 after checkpoint 1, in front of the big cannon that shoots you out
checkpoint 2: before the rail loop ith a little green train on it
checkpoint 3: beteen 2 green rhinos
checkpoint 4: after a big slab of metal , before a light dash trail
🗝 if you pull the handle underneath the floating slab of metal, you can open the door that reveals the key after checkpoint 4
checkpoint 5: after the bobsled

Lost Jungle 💎

🗝 Under the first black spiked flying guy
checkpoint 1: after the two floating weights
checkpoint 2: after a bunch of springs, before a vine
🗝 after several falling fruits, hidden to the left
checkpoint 3: right after the second key, before a shelf that overlooks a path of rings
🗝 on a platform that you need to light dash to get to. rouge must have flown up to get it.
checkpoint 4: after the large knight
checkpoint 5: before a frog

Hang Castle

🗝 after turning upside down
checkpoint 1: before a locked door
checkpoint 2: after rail
checkpoint 3: ?
🗝 inside the skinny upside down tower on a ledge

Mystic Mansion 💎

🗝 between two short towers after a spiky shield peon
checkpoint 1: on upper ledge after first key
checkpoint 2: after the bobsled
🗝 hidden behind crates in checkpoint 2
checkpoint 3: after you have to fight 4 shielde dpeons and a big guy
checkpoint 4: after another bobsled
🗝 go up on the little towers in front of the checkpoint 4 and turn around. there is a flying key

Final Fortress 💎

checkpoint 1: before a triangle jump session
🗝 near pole under rails
🗝 floating in a cage after the big armored hammer guy and after the lasers
checkpoint 2: after the key but before the big button
🗝 on the ledge under the rail
checkpoint 3: after the 2 hammer guys and the 1 uper hammer guy, a gate lowers