Mad Space level in Dark Story - bugged?

[kal3jdoskop]

First of all - yes, I know that this level is, well, "famous" amongst the whole community, which like to play in games with Sonic & CO and had an opportunity to play in this title. But anyway - I've ended it and had strange feeling, that the radar was not working as it should. I've played in this level probably three times - and during first two attempts I remember, that radar was totally "dead", no matter where I was going. And at the third attempt - it was working perfectly, excactly in the same way as in other levels with Rouge (criminal scum! your place is behind the bars!), so I've ended the feral level in less than 5 minutes.

So I'm wondering - was that my bad luck (but why radar was dead even when I've reached every possible place?), or maybe it's bugged?

[Lon 'Qu the Betta]

I think Knuckles and Rouge levels are the same right? You actually have to travel all over. Get to the mini planets with their gravity, go onto the floating cities, etc. In my experience the game has been pretty consistent in putting one somewhere super difficult to reach. I always get like a C there because I spend a lot of time digging for extra lives.

[Miles.exe]

I got all A ranks on it, it's possible, but it's hell. It's huge, make sure you go to all the platforms at the top to the bottom, and use hints, and pause to decipher them.

[kal3jdoskop]

@Miles & Lon'Qu - it's not about that I can't end this level (because I've made it, and it was surprisingly... easy), but about not working properly radar - I've recently ended two last levels of "searching" with Knuckles (in hero campaign) and I felt the difference in situation, when I had some problems with reaching a couple of places, but I knew that there are some places I haven't been before. But in case I've mentioned in first post it was something completely different - I've reached every possible location and still didn't have any trace of signal (and situation got back to normal when I've made the third attempt to this level).

[Lon 'Qu the Betta]

Well, the main issue I have with their missions is that they expect you to get all of them in order. I've had many a time where the radar wasn't working properly and wound up right under or below one because it was the wrong one. Now that you explained it more, that bug is in the console version too. The bug where the radar isn't functioning properly happened a lot to me in pumpkin hill and that mine shaft area. Also, there are chances of finding secret emeralds that I'm very certain would not have shown up on the radar regardless of the order. With Mad Space I did both versions many times and it's almost always the same result. I spent 30 minutes on said stage when I first did it on the console because of that exact problem. Since then it happens more often in other stages than this one.