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News and Updates / Re: TSC's birthday and submission enabling, deletion and praising

« on: October 23, 2014, 05:57:43 pm »

• hfactor66, the allegedly No. 1 fan of Amy whose distracting forum signature had to be confiscated for evidence, beat several 8-year-old ring records in Sonic Rush.

You bet I am & you bet I did :) RA is an interesting category to me cuz it's a question not commonly thought of in Sonic games, "how many rings are there in *insert level name here*?" When I think about it, it makes me want to go find out what the exact max is. It's especially fun when there's random ring monitors, preferably more than one, to keep it interesting, & it keeps you trying to get the higher ring values from them, in the cases of LS1, NC1 & HC2 w/Blaze on Rush my persistence really paid off in the end, all 3 of those ranging from an estimated 80-200+ attempts each to get the right #s from the random ring monitors. Also I figure if speed isn't really my thing on every Sonic game I play, then RA might as well be. I don't really know where my RA skills will take me next... right now I'm doing a Sonic 2 Carnival Night RA for CyberScore, it kinda disappoints me that there's no chart for it here...

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News and Updates / Re: TSC's birthday and submission enabling, deletion and praising

« on: October 23, 2014, 05:45:32 pm »

Happy birthday TSC! Glad I could be here to celebrate with you guys :) Even though I haven't been here long competing has been very fun.

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News and Updates / Re: Submissions Temporarily Halted

« on: October 13, 2014, 09:54:46 pm »

Click

You just need a username, and you should get there instantly.

thanks :)

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News and Updates / Re: Submissions Temporarily Halted

« on: October 13, 2014, 09:51:51 pm »

Looks like there won't be enough people around with stats tonight.

I'll be home at around 9-9:30 PM tomorrow (2014/10/14). I need at least two or three people with multiple stats to submit.

If you're looking for people with stat to submit I've got about 20-30+ stats to submit.

Can you go to #soniccenter ?

where can I find #soniccenter? :/ I'd be happy to help if I can find it

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News and Updates / Re: Submissions Temporarily Halted

« on: October 13, 2014, 09:48:57 pm »

Looks like there won't be enough people around with stats tonight.

I'll be home at around 9-9:30 PM tomorrow (2014/10/14). I need at least two or three people with multiple stats to submit.

If you're looking for people with stat to submit I've got about 20-30+ stats to submit. lol I've been buuuusy...

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News and Updates / Re: Submissions Temporarily Halted

« on: October 12, 2014, 09:53:26 pm »

These

The good news is these duplicated stats were not caused by this issue. There's a known bug where suspending all of a users' stats does not suspend their sitewide score.

I'm going to do a backup of the database, and then re-enable submissions. Hopefully nothing will break. :)

EDIT: Submissions are up. \o/

TO SUBMISSIONS!!!

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Wikkity! / Re: How you came up with your username!

« on: October 08, 2014, 09:47:31 am »

I chose the display name AmyRoseFan cuz well I'm a fan of Amy Rose, (if you really couldn't tell) she's my all time favorite character to play as.
My leaderboard username hfactor66 is the name of my youtube channel, and my original PSN ID before it became Amy_Rose__
a_moustache wins the award for most amusing story, I had to try very hard not to laugh cuz I read this during school time XD

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News and Updates / Re: Submissions Temporarily Halted

« on: October 08, 2014, 09:42:47 am »

I believe I have all of the sitewide rankings fixed. I'll be backing up the DB again and reenabling submissions soon.

In the meantime, check http://www.soniccenter.org/rankings/sitewide - if you see any missing ranking numbers or out-of-order rankings, let me know.

Glad to hear it, I'll be looking forward to that. Like many others I have a lot of new stats I've been waiting to submit for so long now, and the wait is almost over.
:) needless to say, I'm excited.

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General Sonic / Re: What's your favorite zone in sonic?(Any sonic game)

« on: October 08, 2014, 12:45:30 am »

This is a very difficult choice for me, cuz I've never really thought about which zone is my stand alone favorite. I find my favorites are always the watery/snowy ones, cuz I love being around water & snow.

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Hiya Folks / Re: how are all of you doin'?

« on: October 06, 2014, 09:29:59 am »

Thanks for the welcome :)

no problem

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Hiya Folks / Re: how are all of you doin'?

« on: October 03, 2014, 09:25:40 am »

Well hi there, if you can't tell Amy's my favorite character, and I joined very late in August, less than a week before submissions went down. In the meantime I've been gathering upload-worthy stats, including 9 Ring Attack #1s, 4 for Sonic Rush, 5 for Sonic 2. (Ring Attack - playing through a level collecting as many rings as you can) I'm not the fastest, but I find I'm a damn good RAer. Welcome to TSC.

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News and Updates / Re: Submissions Temporarily Halted

« on: October 02, 2014, 06:28:37 pm »

According to Gerbilsoft in TSC chat, the problem is bigger than he realized.

In layman's terms, TSC's original structure came with the capacity to hold exactly a certain amount of stats. At the beginning of September, and until the problem was realized a few days later, players continued submitting stats beyond that limit. TSC's database started going wonky after that, which lead to literally thousands of charts being broken.

The only solution at this point is to go in and correct every mistake that was caused by the overflow, one-by-one. Gerbil needs a lot of time to do that, and time's not a resource he really has right now.

You just have to be patient, because it's literally a huge underground network of ants found underneath a simple ant bed.

oh damn I didn't realize it was that bad...

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Hiya Folks / Re: Hello

« on: September 22, 2014, 09:35:26 pm »

Hey bro, welcome to the community. I've been here almost a month, and I'm waiting for submissions to go back up to submit a lot of new stats, including 4 Sonic Rush RA #1s w/Blaze, I got all of them in the time submissions have been down.

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News and Updates / Re: Submissions Temporarily Halted

« on: September 22, 2014, 09:31:54 pm »

In the meantime it looks like we got a new wave of Sonic Fans to train up.

And training I have been. I've been meaning to download S1, 2, 3 & S&K on my PC emulator to try for some stats on there, but I keep forgetting to do that. I have a Gens32 SEGA genesis emulator & play Sonic ROM hacks on it sometimes.

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News and Updates / Re: Submissions Temporarily Halted

« on: September 19, 2014, 10:47:23 am »

Entering stats is always a fun experience, so I don't blame you for being HYPED for it. :D

yeah I know dat submission hype man, can't wait, I got 3 RA #1s to submit for Sonic Rush, 4 if I can beat HC2's #1 with Blaze before submissions go back up...

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News and Updates / Re: Submissions Temporarily Halted

« on: September 18, 2014, 10:50:49 am »

GUYS I CAN'T WAIT

Be patient, man. I´m sure you´re not the only one who wants to upload your stats. I´ve been waiting for over the week now and rushing them won´t help at all. In fact it might make people like you less, that´s what I learned from the people who rush translators over at Fuwanovel.

True, I know from experience people rushing you to do really anything just adds pressure & you might not do as good a job as you could have done, and I know there's a lot of us out there that want to post our stats, me being one of them, but rushing them to finish fixing problems with the site won't solve anything. Just hang tight & wait until the developers/whatever you wanna call them are done fixing things.

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News and Updates / Re: Submissions Temporarily Halted

« on: September 17, 2014, 11:01:10 am »

I've put lots of stuff I want to submit in a txt file on my computer so I don't forget about it. But take all the time you need for fixing. Better that then it breaking again right away. And thanks for the update! I got a bit worried when I did not hear anything new for about 5 days

I did the same thing in a way, except I wrote down my times that I've done in the past for SA3 on a post it note, and I made an entire page in my iPod's notes for RAing with Blaze on Sonic Rush. Since submissions went down I've gotten 3 Sonic Rush RA #1s with Blaze.

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News and Updates / Re: Submissions Temporarily Halted

« on: September 16, 2014, 05:11:17 pm »

^ You should have received an on-screen notice the moment you tried to submit telling you that the submission system was down, so the news has been available the entire time. This post simply repeats the news in another location.

Yes I know that's how I knew how long it had been down, AKA about 2 weeks, I checked submissions every day ever since it went down.

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News and Updates / Re: Submissions Temporarily Halted

« on: September 16, 2014, 04:45:59 pm »

About time something like this came out, submissions have been down for what 2 weeks now? XD little slow guys... little slow on getting this notice out...
The delayed notice aside, I have been trying regardless to score some new stats for Sonic Rush, I've managed to score 3 RA #1s as Blaze, screenshots on my iPod for all of them. Working on #1 for Huge Crisis Act 1 as Blaze currently, its a WIP, best currently is 529. ? ring boxes were 50-5-50-50-10.

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Hiya Folks / Re: Hey

« on: September 12, 2014, 07:49:52 am »

wtf is this topic lol

I was wondering the exact same thing…
Welcome new member, I'm fairly new around here too, signed up very late in August.

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Hiya Folks / Re: Fairly new to TSC

« on: September 11, 2014, 04:52:45 pm »

Usually when I get to the point of competing for the #1 spot in an RA I start to see how fast I can perform my RA route. It gets boring waiting for the ideal # of rings from ? ring boxes. On LS1 I got bored to the point of where I could hit the first 3 ? ring boxes within 30 seconds.
Also changing my display name to AmyRoseFan, since she's my favorite. :)

UPDATE - Just got 550 rings on Night Carnival 1 w/Blaze on Sonic Rush, screenshot on my iPod. ? boxes were 50-50-50, F**K YEAH XD time to move to a new level. Once again my persistence pays off, didn't take as long as LS1 though, oh god that took at least over 100-150 attempts to just tie 559. NC1 was more like 50-70 attempts to get 3 50s. If 550 isn't perfect for Blaze on NC1 it's gotta be pretty damn close to perfect.

UPDATE 2 - Got 384 rings w/Blaze on Water Palace 1, my god this was the easiest one yet, less than 15 tries to figure out the route & get a 50 from the only ? ring box LMAO #toofuckeneasy

UPDATE 3 - Going for Huge Crisis 1 #1 w/Blaze, best is 529. 50-5-10-50-50. Given my current route I need all 5 ? ring boxes to be 50s to tie SkyLights' 614, UGH... I might just stop once I'm satisfied with my ranking, cuz 5 50s in one run is next to impossible... not that it can't be done, it's just insanely unlikely...

UPDATE 4 - Started trying Huge Crisis 2, I know I can get #1, I just need some good luck with the ? ring boxes, and the fucking rooms full of enemies sometimes just don't play out right... it's frustrating when those rooms don't go how I planned them... best w/Blaze - 355, ? ring boxes - 30-50-10-5-30

UPDATE 5 - Had a problematic run on HC2 where I got 50-10-30-50-10. Got hit several times & lost my rings, but mathematically I calculated the # of rings I would have had if I had not gotten hit, for a total of 387... I know this is a void stat cuz I didn't end the level with 387 but just thought I'd share that. Here's my math.
Hit 1: rings had at time of hit-334. Rings recovered-50.
Hit 2: rings had at time of hit-97. Rings recovered-3.
50 of those 97 were recovered rings from my 1st hit = 47 collected after initial 50 were recovered.
Rings at end of level-9.
3 of those 9 rings were recovered from my 2nd hit = 6 collected after initial 3 were recovered.
334 + 47 + 6 = 387 rings with 0 hits, would be #2 if this stat wasn't void.

UPDATE 6 - HC2 375 w/Blaze, tied #2, still going for #1. 10-50-30-1-30. I'm just using this as a log for my stats now.

UPDATE 7 - HC2 389 w/Blaze, JUST 3 OFF #1!!! 50-10-30-10-50

UPDATE 8 - HC2 404 w/Blaze, 1ST TO BREAK 400 BARRIER! Screenshot on my iPod. 30-30-50-5-50

UPDATE 9 - I tried a fan game called One Girl Army, and I seriously underestimated how hard this game is. I made it to stage 4, the last stage in the game, but I have yet to beat it.

UPDATE 10 - Altitude Limit 1 416 w/Blaze, ? was 50. Hang Glider part is difficult, how you got 437 SDM will forever remain a mystery to me...

UPDATE 11 - Got Sonic 2 along with 1, 3 & S&K on my PC emulator.
RA stats w/Sonic alone so far
Emerald Hill 1 - 296 MAX RINGS #1
Emerald Hill 2 - 285 MAX RINGS #1
EH Zone wasn't that hard to be honest, some rings where I had to jump off a spring to get weren't easy to get but other than that EH Zone was easy to RA, I mean I got 2 #1s on it in one day XD next is CP Zone, and I can tell from my attempts at it so far this won't be as easy as EH Zone.
Chemical Plant 1 - 325 MAX RINGS #1
Chemical Plant 2 - 297 MAX RINGS #1
CP Zone 1 was difficult to figure out, but CP2 I figured out the max rings route in 3 attempts, partially due to the fact I discovered a secret passage to the boss I didn't even know existed until now on accident. Overall somewhat of a challenge but still CP2 was easier IMO than CP1.
Aquatic Ruin 1 - 246 MAX RINGS #1
MORE TO COME

UPDATE 12 - LS1 579 rings w/Blaze NEW #1, FINALLY TOPPED SDM, god I got SO lucky. 50-50-50-30. I'll be sure to include my screenshot of this. I was honestly hoping for a 4th 50 at the end to make the magic moment happen & get perfect, which I believe is 599. Why do I always get these RA records on my way to or from school XD its like there's some kind of good luck charm to my ride to and from school...

UPDATE 13 - RA #1 proofs that I have
http://oi58.tinypic.com/2cypn4p.jpg - Aquatic Ruin 1 246 rings w/Sonic (Sonic 2)
http://oi57.tinypic.com/21ab7k8.jpg - Leaf Storm 1 579 rings w/Blaze (Sonic Rush)
http://oi57.tinypic.com/mll0sg.jpg - Night Carnival 1 550 rings w/Blaze (Sonic Rush)
http://oi62.tinypic.com/wchlz5.jpg - Water Palace 1 384 rings w/Blaze (Sonic Rush)
http://oi57.tinypic.com/ae6url.jpg - Huge Crisis 2 404 rings w/Blaze (Sonic Rush)
http://oi57.tinypic.com/241sb5f.jpg - Emerald Hill 1 296 rings w/Sonic (Sonic 2)
http://oi58.tinypic.com/sz7508.jpg - Emerald Hill 2 285 rings w/Sonic (Sonic 2)
http://oi60.tinypic.com/o9fps4.jpg - Chemical Plant 1 325 rings w/Sonic (Sonic 2)
http://oi61.tinypic.com/9syowj.jpg - Chemical Plant 2 297 rings w/Sonic (Sonic 2)
http://oi57.tinypic.com/2d9z50i.jpg - Green Hill Zone 1 225 rings (Sonic 1)
http://oi62.tinypic.com/2cr0x0g.jpg - Green Hill Zone 2 163 rings (Sonic 1)
http://oi58.tinypic.com/2rmm93n.jpg - Green Hill Zone 3 233 rings (Sonic 1)
http://oi57.tinypic.com/9qa1bp.jpg - Marble Zone 1 132 rings (Sonic 1)
http://oi57.tinypic.com/182nth.jpg - Marble Zone 2 115 rings (Sonic 1)
http://oi60.tinypic.com/989jxu.jpg - Marble Zone 3 102 rings (Sonic 1)
http://oi58.tinypic.com/2e3wwg6.jpg - Spring Yard 1 177 rings (Sonic 1)

UPDATE 14 - Sonic 1 RA
GHZ 1 - 225 MAX RINGS #1
GHZ 2 - 163 MAX RINGS #1
GHZ 3 - 233 MAX RINGS #1
Out of all 3 of these acts, act 1 was the most difficult to RA, because of the large group of rings in the air. I did figure out how to backtrack & get the rings I missed that were in that large midair group, and if you think it's not possible to backtrack at that point in the level I will submit video showing how it's possible.
MZ 1 - 132 MAX RINGS #1
MZ 2 - 115 MAX RINGS #1
MZ 3 - 102 MAX RINGS #1
Marble zone wasn't too hard either, the only thing that confused me for a little while was the hidden cache of ring boxes on act 1 that I never knew existed until now.
SYZ 1 - 177 MAX RINGS #1
SYZ 2 - 222 MAX RINGS #1
SYZ 3 - 193 MAX RINGS #1
SYZ 3 confused me in finding the 7 I was missing, same with SYZ 1 with the few rings I couldn't find.
LZ 1 - 110 MAX RINGS #1
LZ 2 - 117 MAX RINGS #1
LZ 3 - 138 MAX RINGS #1
LZ 2 & 3 weren't difficult, in fact got LZ 3 on my first try XD but LZ 1 was frustrating.

UPDATE 15 - Sonic 3 TA
AL single lap - .33 Tails WORLD RECORD http://oi62.tinypic.com/2my9tlu.jpg
AL 5 laps - 11.01 Tails
BP single lap - .71 Tails
BP 5 laps - 5.60 Tails
CG single lap - 5.63 Tails
CG 5 laps - 29.36 Tails
DP single lap - 5.71 Sonic
DP 5 laps - 29.53 Sonic
EM single lap - 7.61 Tails
EM 5 laps - 40.66 Tails

UPDATE 16 - Water Palace 2 477 rings w/Blaze #1 tie w/SkyLights

UPDATE 17 - Sonic 1 Final Boss 1:13 1st try today

UPDATE 18 - Sonic 2 EHZ 1 0:22, can't seem to beat that...
                         Sonic 2 EHZ 1 0:21! Maybe someday I'll get 0:20 or 0:19...

UPDATE 19 - Altitude Limit Boss w/Blaze 1:31.64 CRUSHED YOU ZEUPAR! Sub-1:30 IS POSSIBLE!

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Hiya Folks / Re: Fairly new to TSC

« on: September 11, 2014, 08:13:16 am »

Very true, LS1 wasn't too hard to figure out, it was just luck & persistence. I got Sonic Rush just a few weeks ago cuz I wanted a new game to play & now that I beat it I have this site to give me more reasons to keep playing it XD
I also figured out a route to hopefully tie/top your 538 as Blaze on NC1, I just need to get 3 50s from the ? ring boxes, a feat I've only done once on LS1. My best on NC1 is currently 510 w/Blaze. In the future I do plan to try for more top 5's for most rings as Blaze, one level at a time. I find I'm good at examining a level & finding routes to get me the most rings once I get good at it. Far from the fastest at most levels I consider myself fast at XD I just sit there in envy when I see how the fastest guys do it if they have a video.

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Hiya Folks / Fairly new to TSC

« on: September 11, 2014, 12:37:14 am »

I like to think of myself as a pretty good player at the Sonic games I have. I have the 3 Sonic Advance games on my iPod's GBA emulator, though I play 3 the most, & Sonic Rush for my Nintendo DS. I also have a SEGA genesis emulator & play various Sonic ROM hacks, but I'm considering downloading Sonic 1, 2, 3 & S&K to see if I can get anything upload-worthy on any of those games.
Currently on Sonic Rush I achieved 1:45.96 as Blaze for the Leaf Storm boss, currently in 3rd place. 
I also got 559 rings as Blaze on Leaf Storm act 1, waiting for submissions to go back up so I can submit that, as it is tied for #1 with SpinDashMaster, by the way I had no help from anyone in figuring out the very same route he used to get enough rings to get 559, also required 2 30s & 2 50s from the ? mark ring boxes, easier said than done. I also have a list of Sonic Advance 3 stats I achieved on various levels with the team of Amy & Sonic I wanna submit, Amy as player & Sonic as partner. Sure they might not be anywhere near the fastest time on the site, but all of them are runs I did on my own & all of them are the routes I came up with on my own for the team I use. Amy's my favorite character BTW :) I just love her.

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Information Kiosk / Re: Any idea when submissions will be back up?

« on: September 11, 2014, 12:21:20 am »

You should probably have posted this in the other topic explaining what is down and why, instead of making a new topic for it. They'll be up when Gerbil has finished doing whatever he needs to do. Gotta be more patient.

I probably didn't see that topic, and like I said I'm more than willing to wait, I was more or less asking for an estimated date as to when they will be back up & running. I'm simply curious about that is all, I'm not saying Gerbil should work faster, no take however long you need to make things work propey, what I'm asking for is an estimated date as to when submissions will be up again. Thanks.

I'm also fairly new to the site & don't post on forums much, I joined just late last month.

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Information Kiosk / Re: Any idea when submissions will be back up?

« on: September 11, 2014, 12:18:56 am »

You should probably have posted this in the other topic explaining what is down and why, instead of making a new topic for it. They'll be up when Gerbil has finished doing whatever he needs to do. Gotta be more patient.

I probably didn't see that topic, and like I said I'm more than willing to wait, I was more or less asking for an estimated date as to when they will be back up & running. I'm simply curious about that is all, I'm not saying Gerbil should work faster, no take however long you need to make things work propey, what I'm asking for is an estimated date as to when submissions will be up again. Thanks.

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Information Kiosk / Any idea when submissions will be back up?

« on: September 10, 2014, 11:40:38 pm »

I'm not trying to sound impatient but I've been waiting for about a week now for submissions to go back up, I'd just like to know when they'll go back up, if anyone has any idea as to when they will I'd appreciate it. I'm willing to wait but I've been checking every day since it went down to see if they're back up yet with the same result every time & it's driving me crazy.

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Information Kiosk / Re: IMPORTANT: Verify your stats before submitting!

« on: September 09, 2014, 09:58:55 pm »

I wouldn't ever submit a stat I didn't get legitimately, I only play legitly, and I always make sure I didn't get my stats wrong. Once submissions go back up I'll have some Sonic Advance 3 stats up that I've achieved in the past and 2 stats for most rings as Blaze for Sonic Rush.
Leaf Storm 1 - 559 rings as Blaze (will be tie for #1 w/SpinDashMaster)
Night Carnival 1 - 518 rings as Blaze (will be #3 once submitted, trying to get #1 wish me luck)

This site has sparked a competitive passion for playing the Sonic games I have within me, I love this site.

EDIT: Got 550 rings w/Blaze on NC1 on Sonic Rush yesterday, got screenshot at the end of the level with 550 on my iPod.

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Information Kiosk / Re: NOTE: Some stats weren't processed properly recently.

« on: September 09, 2014, 09:11:36 pm »

I believe I have the charts rolled back. Not going to reenable submissions just yet though.

If possible, please look through all the various charts and check if you see anything odd, e.g. "ERR" or "ERROR" boxes. If you find any of these, post them here, along with the URL.

(I'll post the deleted stats later.)

My stats for Leaf Storm 1 on Sonic Rush for most rings as Blaze ended up in an error, but that's fine though, on my way back from school I got a 559 & tied SpinDashMaster, I plan to submit it once submissions go back up. I took a screenshot of my DSi screen by the end of the level showing my ring count, ? ring boxes were 30-50-50-30.

I hope to have #1 on Night Carnival as Blaze for most rings as well, I just have to get lucky enough to get 50-50-50 on the ? ring boxes, I know with the route I developed I can beat #1 but I just need an insane amount of good luck with the ? mark ring boxes XD