Special Generator

Special Generators (特別なジェネレーター) are floating gimmicky devices, which have red, yellow and blue color scheme with five-pointed star in the middle of it. It also has two pulleys on each side, which the player is able to hang on. Special Generators have made only appearance in Sonic Rush, where the player has to find them and gain enough of energy on it to get Special Stage.

Description
Special Generators are floating in mid-air in each Zone of the game. The player has to find one of them to get to the Special Stages. Only Sonic the Hedgehog as playable character is able to use them and enter Special Stages to collect seven Chaos Emeralds. When the player finds one, Sonic has to jump on to it, where he grabs to the pulley and hangs on it. The player can let off the pulley on Special Generator by pressing button again.

If Sonic's Tension Gauge is full, then the player has to then hold X/Y button to make Sonic to boost and spin around the Special Generator at the high speed, while he is hanging on the pulley. This creates energy above the Special Generator, that is entrance to the Special Stage. After for while when the portal is fully large enough, Sonic automatically lets go and thus the player has entered one of seven Special Stages.

However if the player has not enough of energy on the Tension Gauge, he/she has to go gain more energy to the gauge. Also if the player lets go from pulley during rotation and gaining energy by button, the player fails to enter the Special Stage. Each of Special Generators in seven Zones, leads to particular one of seven Special Stages and if the player fails to complete it, he/she can try again by getting more energy to the gauge and create the portal again.