
When the words ‘Press Button’ appear, enter Up, Up, Down, Down, Up, Up, Up, Up and you’ll hear a ring chime. Thankfully, this is no longer the case and there’s plenty of time to enter it. The level select cheat in Sonic 3 was notoriously difficult because it had to be entered during an extremely short time period.
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Sonic Origins – Sonic 3 + Knuckles level select codeįinally, here’s how to perform the level select code in Sonic the Hedgehog 3 + Knuckles.

If this is too hard to follow, our video guide at the top of the page shows you the entire route to take. This will take you to the Hidden Palace Zone. Instead of pulling the vine to lower the bridge, drop into the pit. Lower the next bridge, jump off the yellow spring that follows and after this you’ll find a pit with a vine over it (as seen in the screenshot above). Keep doing right until you can go no further, then drop down and make your way past the rotating crates. In Act 2 of the Mystic Cave Zone, head right and immediately drop off the bridge, keeping to the low ground. It’s once again available in Sonic Origins, and here’s how to find it. Drop down this pit to reach the Hidden Palace Zone
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However, when Sonic 2 was ported to iOS and Android in 2013, developers Christian Whitehead and Simon Thomley were given permission by Sega to complete the Hidden Palace Zone and add it into the game. Years later prototype versions of Sonic 2 would be shared online, showing the incomplete Hidden Palace Zone. It was originally planned to be one of the stages in Sonic 2, but at some point during development the level was scrapped – not before screenshots appeared in magazines, though. The Hidden Palace Zone was the stuff of legend among Sonic fans for many years.

Sonic Origins – how to find the Hidden Palace Zone in Sonic 2 This won’t be immediately selectable, however, and until it is you’ll need to find the level manually, which we’ll explain how to do below. This will take you to the level select screen, which includes the new Hidden Palace Zone. Then press X (on an Xbox controller), Square (on a PlayStation controller) or Y (on a Switch controller). On the title screen, when the words ‘Press Button’ appear, enter Up, Up, Up, Down, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right. Since the Options menu is no longer in Sonic Origins, the code is instead the same as the one used when the Sonic 2 cartridge was attached to Sonic & Knuckles. The level select code for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on the original Mega Drive game involved entering the Options menu and playing certain music tracks. Sonic Origins – Sonic 2 level select code


On the title screen, when the words ‘Press Button’ appear, enter Up, Down, Left, Right. The level select code for the original Sonic the Hedgehog is the easiest to pull off, and features the most hidden content. Sonic Origins – Sonic 1 level select code With that said, here’s how to perform the level select codes in Sonic 1, Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 + Knuckles, as well as how to access the Hidden Palace Zone in Sonic 2. Notice: To display this embed please allow the use of Functional Cookies in Cookie Preferences.
