Special Stage Key
Purpose
Entering Special Stages
The Special Stage Key (スペシャルステージキー , Supesharu Sutēji Kī ? ) , also called the Special Key , is an item found in stages of Sonic Heroes and Sonic Advance 3 . It is a golden, sparkling key that allows entrance to a Special Stage once collected.
Game appearances
Sonic Heroes
Special Key in Sonic Heroes .
In Sonic Heroes , the Special Stage Keys can be found in various locations of the Stage where it is usually contained in a Cage . The player can collect the Special Stage Key by simply having the leading character touch it. Once the Special Stage Key is collected, its icon will appear in the HUD on the top-left corner of the screen. After completing the stage, the team is taken to the Special Stage . If the player is attacked (except if the leading character had a Shield upon being attacked) or loses a life (e.g. falling into a bottomless pit ), the Special Stage Key disappears. There are no Special Stage Keys in Super Hard Mode .
Sonic Advance 3
A similar key item called the "Special Key " appears in Sonic Advance 3 , which can be found in certain areas in an act of a zone , when the player has found all ten Chao from the each zone. The player can collect the key, clear the act and then jump onto the locked Special Spring on the hub world to enter the Special Stage . Doing so uses one Special Key in the process.
Trivia
In the early versions of Sonic Advance 3 , the Special Stage does not need to be finished; the players could just exit the stage while retaining the Special Key in their possession.
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Playable characters
Team Sonic
Sonic (Super Sonic ) | Tails (Super Tails ) | Knuckles (Super Knuckles )
Team Dark
Shadow | Rouge | Omega
Team Rose
Amy | Cream | Cheese | Big
Team Chaotix
Espio | Charmy | Vector
Non-playable characters
Dr. Eggman | Metal Sonic (Neo Metal Sonic ) | Chocola | Froggy | Shadow Android | Omochao | Dark Chao | Hero Chao
Stages
1P stages
Sea Gate | Seaside Hill | Ocean Palace | Grand Metropolis | Power Plant | Casino Park | BINGO Highway | Rail Canyon | Bullet Station | Frog Forest | Lost Jungle | Hang Castle | Mystic Mansion | Egg Fleet | Final Fortress | Special Stage
2P stages
BINGO Highway | Casino Course | City Course | City Top | Casino Ring | Egg Fleet | Egg Treat | Frog Forest | Grand Metropolis | Hot Elevator | Mad Express | Pinball Match | Rail Canyon | Road Rock | Seaside Course | Seaside Hill | Special Stage | Terror Hall | Turtle Shell
2P Play Mode
Action Race | Battle | Bobsled Race | Expert Race | Quick Race | Ring Race | Special Stage
Enemies
Bomb Flapper | Cameron | Cannon Flapper | E-2000 | E-2000R | Egg Bishop | Egg Hammer | Egg Knight | Egg Magician | Egg Pawn | Egg Pawn (Casino version) | Falco | Flapper | Gold Cameron | Gold Klagen | Gun Flapper | Heavy-Egg Hammer | Klagen | Laser Flapper | Needle Flapper | Pumpkin ghost | Rhinoliner | Search Flapper | Solid Flapper | Solid Pawn
Bosses
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Moves/ Techniques
Speed Maneuvers
Homing Attack | Jump Dash | Kick | Light Dash | Lightspeed Attack | Propeller Hammer | Rocket Accel | Shuriken | Spin | Spin Jump | Swinging Hammer Attack | Tornado Jump (Black Tornado , Blue Tornado , Leaf Swirl , Tornado Hammer ) | Triangle Jump
Power Maneuvers
Auto Homing | Body Press | Bubblegum Descent | Fire Combination | Fire Dunk | Fire Launcher | Fireball Jump | Forward Power Attack | Hammer Down | Jump Fire Knock | Jump Fireball | Remote Power Attack (Fireball , Fire Knock ) | Spin Jump | Triangle Dive | Umbrella Descent | Wide Power Attack (Big Fishing , Omega Arm , Vector Breath , Volcanic Dunk )
Fly Maneuvers
Ascending Flight | Cheese Attack | Dummy Ring Bomb | Spin Jump | Sting Attack | Thunder Shoot | Quick Ascent
Team Blasts
Sonic Overdrive | Chaos Inferno | Flower Festival | Chaotix Recital | Super Sonic Power
Misc.
Chaos Control | Crouch | Crystal Attack | Grind Step | Grinding
Gimmicks and obstacles
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Objects
Capsule | Car | Casino chip | Castle Key | Cell Key | Chaos Emerald | Chaotix Detective Agency | Check Point | Container (Cage , Case , Steel Container , Unbreakable Container , Wooden Container ) | Emblem | Engine Core | Floating Item Box | Goal Ring | Hermit crab | Item Box (Barrier , Fly Charge , High Speed , Invincible , Rings , Power Core , Team Blast Ring , 1-Up ) | Light spider marking | Power Core | Ring | Special Stage Key | Sphere | Torch
Voice actors
English
Ryan Drummond (Sonic , Metal Sonic ) | Deem Bristow (Eggman ) | William Corkery (Tails ) | Scott Drier (Knuckles ) | David Humphrey (Shadow ) | Lani Minella (Rouge , Omochao ) | Jon St. John (Omega , Big ) | Jennifer Douillard (Amy ) | Sarah Wulfeck (Cream ) | Bill Corkery (Espio ) | Marc Biagi (Vector ) | Emily Corkery (Charmy )
Japanese
Jun'ichi Kanemaru (Sonic , Metal Sonic ) | Chikao Ōtsuka (Eggman ) | Ryō Hirohashi (Tails ) | Nobutoshi Canna (Knuckles ) | Kōji Yusa (Shadow ) | Rumi Ochiai (Rouge ) | Taiten Kusunoki (Omega ) | Taeko Kawata (Amy ) | Sayaka Aoki (Cream ) | Takashi Nagasako (Big ) | Yūki Masuda (Espio ) | Kenta Miyake (Vector ) | Yōko Teppōzuka (Charmy ) | Etsuko Kozakura (Omochao )
Music
Songs
Sonic Heroes | We Can | This Machine | Follow Me | Team Chaotix | What I'm Made of...
Albums
Complete Trinity: Sonic Heroes Original Soundtrax | Triple Threat: Sonic Heroes Vocal Trax | Sonic Heroes Official Soundtrack | Sonic Heroes Original Soundtrack 20th Anniversary Edition
Other
Armored train | Dummy Ring | Egg Bazooka | Egg Fleet | Egg Gun | Egg Spear | Fly Type | Formation Change Gate | Health Gauge | HEXAeco | Moon | Orca | Palm Plants | Power Type | Rank | Sonic Heroes Puzzle | Shuttle loop | Speed Type | Super Hard Mode | Team Blast Gauge | Tornado 2
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Playable characters
Sonic (Super Sonic ) | Tails | Knuckles | Amy | Cream | Cheese
Non-playable characters
Eggman | Vanilla | G-merl (Ultimate G-merl ) | Chao | Omochao
Zones
Route 99 | Sunset Hill | Ocean Base | Toy Kingdom | Twinkle Snow | Cyber Track | Chaos Angel | Altar Emerald | Nonaggression | Special Stage
Enemies
Akatento | Aotento | Ape | Bu-bu | Buzzer | Clam | Condor | Gaogao | Gekogeko | Ginpe | Guards | Guruguru | Hariisen | Jousun | Juggling | Kamaki | Kyacchaa | Marrun | Minimole | Muugaden | Spina | Takkon | Uutsubo | Yadokka | Yukigasen
Bosses
Egg Hammer 3 | Egg Ball No.2 | Egg Foot | Egg Cube | Egg Chaser | Egg Pinball | Egg Gravity | Hyper Eggrobo | Ultimate G-merl
Moves/ Techniques
Regular moves
Amy Dash | Big Hammer Attack | Boost Mode | Bound Attack | Chao Attack | Chao Ball Attack | Chao Spinning Attack | Dash Climb | Double Mid-Air Glide | Double Punch | Drill Claw | Fire Sliding | Flying | Floating Fall | Grinding | Hammer Attack | Hammer Jump | Hammer Propeller Flying | Head Slide | High Propeller Flying | Hip Drop | Homing Attack | Jump Dash | Leap | Mid-Air Dash Glide | Propeller Flying | Mid-Air Chao Attack | Mid-Air Chao Ball Attack | Mid-Air Chao Spinning Attack | Mid-Air Glide | Mid-Air Hammer Attack | Mid-Air Hammer Jump | Skid Attack | Spin | Spin Dash | Spin Jump | Super Sonic Boost | Spinning Hammer Attack | Spiral Upper | Tag Action | Tail Spin Attack | Tail Swipe | Tornado Attack | Upper Spin | Wall Climb | Wind Attack
Mid-Air Trick Actions
Big Air (Happy Spring , Hop Jump , Petit Step ) | Long Wind Jump (Humming Top , Sweet Roll , Window Jump ) | Stop 'n' Slam (Bound Attack , Spinning Hammer Attack , Propeller Descent , Hip Drop )
Gimmicks and obstacles
Balloon | Bungee Rope | Dash Panel | Flywheel | Grind Rail | Gymnastic Bar | High-speed warp tube | Iron ball | Jump Panel | Minecart | Platform-raising Wheel | Pole | Pulley | Propeller Spring | Seesaw | Snowblower | Special Spring | Switch
Objects
Act Ring | Box (1-Up , 5 Ring Bonus , 10 Ring Bonus , Confusion , Invincibility , Minus Ring , Maximum Speed , Mosaic , Random Ring Bonus , Ring Magnet , Shield , Slow , Swap , Transparency ) | Capsule | Chaos Emerald | Checkpoint | Factory Ring | Goal Medal | Ring | Special Key
English voice actors
Ryan Drummond (Sonic ) | Deem Bristow (Eggman ) | William Corkery (Tails ) | Scott Dreier (Knuckles ) | Jon St. John (Announcer) | Jennifer Douillard (Amy ) | Sarah Wulfeck (Cream )
Japanese voice actors
Jun'ichi Kanemaru (Sonic the Hedgehog ) | Chikao Ōtsuka (Eggman ) | Ryō Hirohashi (Tails ) | Nobutoshi Canna (Knuckles ) | Taeko Kawata (Amy ) | Sayaka Aoki (Cream )
Other
Angel Island | Chao Playground | Corkscrew loop | Fly Type | Freeze | Mini-Games | Power Type | Shuttle loop | Sonic Factory | Speed Type | Time Attack | Tornado 2