Light Speed Dash

This has been a huge debate between Sonic fans for years. The Sonic fanbase thinks Sonic can run at the speed of light, but Sonic cannot canonically do this without Chaos Emeralds, Level Up Items or Rings/Wisps/Energy. Plus, the Light Speed Dash is seriously slower than light in the gameplay, despite being called the Light Speed Dash, slow enough that it's more of a Ring Dash, and while Sonic can perform the Light Speed Attack, it isn't light speed due to not being almost instant like actual light. Sonic was at his fastest in Sonic Unleashed, but his top SPD is slightly over 3,500, which when translated to metric meters, based on the game's Japanese development, is over Mach 10/just above hypersonic. Sonic's page says that his unaided top speed is unknown, but however, there is canon proof of what Sonic's unaided top speed is. In Sonic Colors, Sonic was able to outrun a Hyper-Go-On black hole for 30 seconds. Assuming that the black hole is similar to a normal black hole, in which black holes pull non-orbiting mass inward at 30% the speed of light, and since Sonic wasn't using the Boost when outrunning the black hole, Sonic's unaided top speed is around 200,000,000 miles per hour!

See those blue lines with side b? They're going into Sonic.

They don't appear during down b.

Now, here's the light speed dash from SA1.

I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this, but if you don't, I'll explain. I think Sonic's Side special is based on the light speed dash. Thoughts?

I use a mod so that when you do an air cancel near a ring it performs a light speed dash, I kinda feel bad because one side of me feels like it's cheating. (Even though I already beat Sonic Adventure.)

I am not going to insult you. I am not that much of a nuisance.

Here are some of mine

• I didn't realize you can run around a 3x3+ square of blue spheres to turn them into rings

• I didn't know how to do the Light Speed Dash in SA1, so I ended up stuck in the Station Square sewers until I figured it out.

• I was legit lost in the Casinopolis level in SA1.

• I didn't know how to do the Drop Dash until I read the instructions on the wiki

List them down below.

I play Sonic Adventure with Reicast emulator on my phone and I can't get out of the sewer. I tried over 100 times, but I just can't do it. Is there a secret way or something like that to perform Light Speed Dash and exist from the sewer?