In this level you need to collect 5 Chaos Emeralds before destroying the boss, the Veg-O-Machine. The overall layout of this level is as follows:
| Boss room | |||
| Left elevator | Prison block | Right elevator | |
| Left table | Right table | ||
You start at the bottom in the right table.
Right table[edit]
On the right side of the table, there is a metal wheel with a Chaos Emerald inside. The wheel is constantly turning, and you can only enter it when the entrance pipe is pointing to the lower left. A little display directly above the flippers will show you the wheel's orientation.
If you shoot directly upwards, Sonic will bounce around in a little power room. Hit the power room three times to freeze the wheel, timing your third hit carefully to strike when the wheel is pointing to the lower left corner.
Now the wheel should be frozen, and you can grab the Chaos Emerald inside. You'll then be sent to the right elevator.
If you freeze the wheel in the wrong orientation, hit the power room three more times to make it start spinning again (and then three more times to freeze it again).
Right elevator[edit]
The plungers at the bottom of the elevator shaft will launch you up a bit, onto a platform with a flipper. Keep the flipper button held down to catch and trap Sonic at the bottom of the flipper. Now the elevator platform will rise up. At the top, shoot Sonic to the upper right ledge, then jump onto the moving platform.
The upwards route leads into the boss room. If you don't have all 5 emeralds yet, you'll want to jump into the left funnel instead. You will grab a Chaos Emerald and drop down into the prison block afterwards.
Prison block[edit]
This large room is filled with bouncy bumpers. Each bumper is connected to a prison cell; when a bumper is hit enough times its cell will open and release an animal.
The central prison cell doesn't contain an animal, but a Chaos Emerald instead. Use one of the plungers at the bottom of the room to launch yourself up, and bounce around until the central cell breaks open. The emerald will fall straight down into a pit, ready for you to grab.
Once you've obtained the emerald from the prison cell, leave the prison block using the lower-left tube. You'll land directly on top of another Chaos Emerald before falling into the left elevator shaft.
Left elevator[edit]
The left elevator works similarly to the right elevator: the plungers at the bottom of the elevator shaft will launch you up a bit, onto a platform with a flipper. Keep the flipper button held down to catch and trap Sonic at the bottom of the flipper. Now the elevator platform will rise up.
If you ride the elevator all the way up, you can reach the boss room. But if you don't have all 5 emeralds yet, you shouldn't go there yet. Instead, as you go up the elevator, count the pinball lanes that you pass (indicated by rows of lights). Shoot yourself up the fourth lane, and you'll reach a Chaos Emerald.
Boss room[edit]
The boss room is accessible going all the way up either the left or right elevator, getting on top of the moving platform, and then jumping further up. You'll come across two badnik birds holding up a bridge with ropes. Kill the badnik closest to you, then drop down into the plunger below to be launched to the boss room.
Now it's time to destroy the Veg-O-Machine. Launch yourself up to the electrical beam on either side of the machine, and from there keep bouncing against the overhead pipe until it breaks. Repeat this process to break the pipe on the opposite side of the machine as well.
Once both pipes feeding the machine are broken, get into the machine via the small hole at the bottom. Bounce around inside enough times to destroy the machine.