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Alexj98 wrote: the explanation is that the chaos emeralds went back to the super stages to be recovered to repower the super emeralds Still doesn't explain where the Super Emeralds come from.

I do see why you think that though given it appears Sonic is collecting emeralds in the next seven stages, but I believe that those emeralds simply represent the goal. After all those goal emeralds appear as diamond cut while the previous special stages they appeared dodecahedron in shape (probably because asscher cut emeralds were difficult to render or something, I dunno.)

so why would Sonic need to collect 14 emeralds when after completing a special stage it appears one of the Super Emeralds are powered up? Seems irrelevent cutscene if they are entirely seperate.