“I’m tired of running, let’s punch something” is a BIG mood.

so this is where all those sonic flash animations got there sprites came from

I too played this game a ton. Was basically a Sonic RPG...before Sonic Chronicles. Which is interesting since Chronicles references this game.

“And like every kid tossed aside by their parents, he turns to Sonic the Hedgehog.” That’s the truest thing I’ve ever heard

I'm still pissed that Sonic's Smash-Bros-Version, hasn't taken any inspiration from this game. His moveset could have been so much more interesting.

If there's three words burned into my skull after playing this game, it would be: I N I T I A T I N G R E C O V E R Y M O D E

Sonic battle is underrated. This game is actually a prequel to sonic advance 3. Gmerl is a new version of emerl after he dies in battle. The pixel art in this game was unique and it is sadly underrated. Emerls story was actually really good in this game. Also shadow and cream were extremely op and knuckles and gamma were kinda bad.

*KZfaq:* Animal Crossing. *Billiam:* But Sonic, tho.

Oh my GOD I LOVE THIS GAME! Thanks Billiam! 🤩 I've been saying we need a Sonic Battle remake for years! There's literally enough characters to have their own Smash Bros-esque thing!

Oh wow, a Sonic video on Billiam's channel. How very experimental.

E102: "Initiating Recovery Mode." *Player Dies* No wonder we all forgot about this.

Cheese being broken in a handheld Sonic game? I have definitely never heard of that before, especially not in the Sonic Advanced series

In this house, we praise and respect Dimps, the developers of most 2D handheld Sonic games in this era. That being said, Sonic Team did actually do Sonic Battle.

YEEEES. Sonic Battle's movesets need a true carryover into other games. Edit: Cream is more OP than you think. Cream Heal is REALLY GOOD for a thrift heal skill and plus, midair Cream Cracker is ACTUALLY BUSTED. Also, Amy has the fastest first attack in the game. Girl/Maiden Jab can frame lock shit into itself with ease.

The music for Sonic Battle is amazing and memorable for sure too.

I was genuinely disappointed when I realized this wasn't getting a sequel on the DS or 3DS.

For all intents and purposes, Battle is in between Advance 2 & 3.

Never got to play this game, but it’s art-style was cool as hell.

"If you're still upset about that you're just jealous." Unironically a galaxy brain take.

i have had this game's poster on my wall since the day it came out.

"bland grey Eggman robots".... I think you mean "bland grey Eggman's robots" If you're doubting me ask Tails

Fun fact, Etika got his name from this game. There was a cheat code called Ekita, he switched the K and T and the rest is history.

I'll never understand why they didn't pull moves from this game for Sonic's Smash moveset. He's had the same, lame, generic moves since Brawl! Give him his breakdance moves or something!

In this game, Sonic went by the name “Battle Rabbit” and his sidekick was named “Joe Mammal”

Well now that you've played Sonic Battle it's time to play Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood as it does take place after Sonic Battle and explains where Emerl came from. Unfortunately it ends on a cliffhanger and they never made a sequel. But it was fun and the story was interesting. It explains what happened to the Echidna and why Knuckles is alone.

"I'm tired of running. Let's punch something"

the characters art style reminds me of The World Ends with You, somehow...

Overlooked? This is one of the most underrated sonic games bruh

4:21 "HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT, OBAMA?!"

"And like every kid tossed aside by their parents they turn to sonic" Wait wait what!

Finally someone who appreciates my Sonic Battle skills after 16 years... it's been so long...

I will say, it's 1 point on a lose life, 3 on winning after being damaged, and 5 for no damage wins, 10 for each chaos emerald, but even if you get a ton of 3s and 5s grinding stories for quick chaos emeralds for 10 point boosts is still way too necessary

Something is off with the mic your using when you're on the couch. It sounds tinny and kinda muffled.

Wow. I was so sad that no one talked about this underrated masterpiece, and yet magically here is this recent video. Thank you so much.

This game needs a sequel with more characters, moves, stages, and a better story mode.

This is easily one of my favorite stories in the series. It's begging for a remake on less-limiting hardware.

"Like any child tossed aside by their parents, he turned to Sonic the Hedgehog" is now the greatest quote of all time. Fite me

I remember I had this game when I was really young and never realized you could edit Emerl's attacks, so I had to grind and go through the whole game with his defaults

8:30 Um, excuse me, sir. The term is, "Eggman's Robots." Possessive. Whether it makes grammatical sense or not. Respect the canon.

I laughed when billiam said “sonic canon” we all know that’s not real

This game came out at the height of my Sonic love during my youth. I'm glad to see it get some appreciation. :)

That's a cool coincidence, as I randomly had this game as well

Someone besides me and my brothers cares about the Sonic gba games??

The game just takes place after Shadow's true ending, basically.

I loved this game in middle school! I want to play it again...

How would you feel if we got a Sonic Battle remake that ended up shoehorning in Persona characters?

11:52 Something tells me that you'll predict the future.

This video was VERY helpful. You are the only Content Creator I've found who's properly upscaled the source gameplay footage. I've needed some footage for a game prototype I've been working on as part of my university course. Thank you for doing this!

Short answer: Yes Long answer: Kinda... maybe... but probably yes.

The story of this game is really good, and It's a very unique game, i wish there was a Sonic battle 2

"... And like every kid tossed aside by their parents, he turns to Sonic the Hedgehog." Cheers.

I would love to get a new Sonic Riders. I would pay full price for that

I remember beating this!One of my favorites despite its flaws.

As the days go by, the more I think Billiam looks like a young hairy Jim Carrey

“You mostly get 1” Okay lemme break this down, if you complete the fight hitless, then you get 5 points per enemy, if you get hit but don’t die, you get 2, if you die even once, you get 1. Also, fighting gamma is easy, if you are on a ledge above him he will try to arial attack you but it will cancel his jump before he can reach you, and he will do it over and over as long as you’re not too far away, you can then either spam the first attack to juggle him, or charge your green meter to use the first part of the default ground shot to one shot him and run before he explodes. This strategy works on all opponents, but you can’t heal charge for sonic, tails, rouge, cream, shadow, or knuckles, you have to juggle them. I don’t know if it works on chaos, because his fight is so easy I’ve never had to try using it. And don’t bother with special attacks early, the only things you need are a good run, jump, heavy attack, and aim attack, to just hit them back and forth knocking them into the ground.

God I loved Sonic Battle. Had it on the GBA, then even emulated it on my laptop later. Good times.

I own a copy of this game. I'm so glad I gave it a chance. It was hella fun, and the story was quaint, and a bit gut wrenching at times. Also learning abilities always was a great feeling more so when you got one of the super rare ones like the triple sonic wave shot or such. I don't know abouthte difficulty peronly, I did not have any issues with it, but then I did grind simple missions for better cards. Tho I will Agree Gama is a terrible brick wall at times. "Activating Recovery mode." Is a phrase burned into my mind that gives me shudders anytime I hear it.... Tho fun when YOU have it. XD

Is it just me or is the first segment having audio issues (clipping)?

I remember grinding Emera into an unstoppable monster with the best skills in the game. You really needed to grind for certain skills and a high enough Skill Point limit to get anywhere early on... Sonic or Shadow's Speed and Cream's healing, if I recall. I think that there were also Emera specific super-skills that surpassed everything in the game for their given slot, though they might have been postgame unlockables. There were some basically-cheating password skills that turned your special into an unblockable instant-kill flurry of attacks themed around any given character, too. Not all the missions in the game were particularly great. There was lot of monotony in mindlessly beating up the same characters over and over in the same near-identical arenas, especially the gray Gamma clones. I remember one where you just had to run away from Rouge and not get hit by her for 2 or 3 minutes or something, so you just did laps around the edges of the square arena. Gaammeeeplaaaaaay.

I appreciate this video so much! Sonic Battle is one of my favorite games. When I first got the game as a kid I didn't know how to equip new skills to Emerl and I was stuck in the story as I couldn't beat Amy with my basic skills. After I got that figured, the game became extremely enjoyable. I would come back from school, sit on the sofa and play in the Battle Mode as Knuckles and / or Chaos against 2x Gamma until the meal was ready. I've spent countless hours in Tails' special training sessions to farm all the rare skills and even got a couple of ??? skills. Though I could never collect them all. In my opinion the mini-games were not that special, except Shadow's Speed Demon with its AWESOME background sprites! I definitely suggest checking it out! Last, but not least, through Sonic Battle I've discovered the legendary Sonic sprite animations on Newgrounds and was motivated to get into sprites myself. I owe this game so much. :D

"I'm tired of running. Let's punch something." Billiam, 2020

I beat this game without editing emerl's abilities because I was a dumb idiot and somehow missed every dialog that said press R.

"I'm tired/I'm stressed...I'll see you next week." lol this is such a good sign off you could say it whenever for no reason in particular and I'd still like it 👌😂

The game actually had a method for determining how many skill points you received after each battle. If you fainted/lost a stock at any point in the battle, you received one skill point. If you completed the battle without fainting/losing a stock, you received two. If you completed a battle against one opponent without getting hit at all, you received 5 and I THINK if you completed a battle against 2 or more opponents without getting hit, you received 6. Chaos Emeralds gave 10. One of the easiest ways for farming skill points was just to continuously beat sonic's episode, as it was fairly quick.

Sonic Battle was an okay Sonic the Hedgehog-related fighting game, but the virtual training was a pain the butt and the only way you can use all of Emerl's ultimate skill cards is by using Game Shark and that sucks. And by the way, Emerl's name is pronounced "ML".

The gba sonic games are really underrated

Yeah, this game can be tough. I spent a lot of time grinding to get the stuff I wanted like Chaos' side splash attack and healing. But, it was cool to have a character that was so customizable. Narratively, it was great to watch Emerl go from barely able to communicate to being able to match wit with Rouge and charisma with Sonic.

im actually really glad to see a video on this game, I really loved this game growing up and i actually found that grinding the grey robots at the beginning of the first story without taking damage (i believe you get more depending on if you didnt lose a life and if you didnt take any damage) was helpful. if i remember correctly you get like 5 or 10 points when you do it this way. either way, Thanks for bringing up a blast from the past.

I really dig the games stylistic look 😁👌

With the amount of games Sonic Team cranked out early on in the old days, I'm surprised they were even able to have games in any finished state. Like, I don't even think Nintendo kept rushing out games like that. Quality over quantity, it's how Nintendo makes games compared to Sega's pump and dump philosophy.

Oh man, I really loved this game as a kid. I remember having Tail's and Cream's Punching abilities combined with Shadows Teleportation for my character, where I can escape to a silent corner and Cream Heal. I loved it.

I played this game when I didn’t know English when I was like 8 and I skipped all the dialog so I didn’t know that I could upgrade my fighting moves so I used the default slow moves for like half the entire story until I accidentally tapped the button to bring up the upgrade menu 😅😅 good times.

favorite game 😁 gald your talking about it

Oh yah for sure. This was honestly one of my favorite sonic games. When I was younger I didn't know you could customize Emerald so I ended up beating the game without ever changing emeralds default moves. It was a nightmare. Lol

Hold up, imma take my win here... When pushed against a wall, tap the direction away on impact. You’ll be able to dash toward your enemy and spike them. Emerl’s basic copies of Sonic’s moves aren’t the worst. The start of Sonic’s ground shot can’t be neutralized by a shot defense, which is an instant K.O. when your power bar is full. Use this often. Rouge’s story isn’t that hard. Just jump and spam B. If you camp near a wall correctly, your enemy will jump up and not be able to hit you. This enables you to heal and charge your power bar. Watch out for Knuckles and Sonic with this, though. Double-pressing the L button rotates the camera. You can double-press it again to bring it back to default. Blocking moves builds your power meter. If you K.O. an opponent with one type of move (i.e. shot), they’ll usually respawn as vulnerable to the other type you have equipped. Alternate between the two when going for instant K.O. moves. Having them run into a trap to see if they’re vulnerable to it, BEFORE using your fully charged power meter, is key. All in all, the game isn’t THAT difficult. You just have to spend 300+ hours grinding for the ultimate abilities and special cards, only to never get all of them, to understand how the game works... ...or just read my post, here. Either one works.

“Sonic didn’t have a real story” Fnaf fans are having a mood

People think Sonic is now a sellout, or “dead”. But in reality... *Sonic is just under appreciated.*

Thank you for making the videos still. Brought me a much needed smile this morning. (But if you need to stop or take a break for your mental health then you gotta put your wellbeing first) take care and thanks for all the joy!

I love this game, but that first chapter where you fight Knuckles 3 times in a row is a complete chore

NOT WEIRD?

So I wanna help a bit with the game mechanic with Emerl, basically this game rewards you for how good you are in fight, if you manage to do a no damage fight you get 10pts, you get 5 if you can do a no live lost through a fight and 1 if you just play normally and lose so yeah camping strats are a big thing if you wanna get buff quickly which will not happen quickly at all also you can farm these point with every chapter basically replaying a short chapter is the best way to do it like a chapter where you can get an emerald fairly easily or without too much fighting would be the sonic chapter but also it's a good place to farm some shadow cards before the shadow chapter (since this mofo doesn't reappears before his own chapter). During the last story there are code to enter at the highway location to get one shot moves you can find the codes online too so it's not too hard tho they are special move that take many sp. So yeah this game is heavy on the grind so if you wanna play this game I'd highly suggest you do so on emulagor with a cheat code that bring your SP to the max and maybe all cards if you don't like farming for character moves

Pro Tip on this game. Grind Sonic's Story and also do active sparring with Tails before you do any other story. You get a lot of skill points on this story and for early game, you do get a fair range of skills. You also have to deal with Gamma as Emerl less. Plus, Gamma's and Tails' healing are busted until you get cream's. I also recommend using Tails' standard combo since it's at least a step up from the basic stuff. After that, it will snowball in a way where you can have something a bit more reasonable. The second best place to grind is Rouge's story. Mostly because her story battles with Emerl mostly are mission based when it's centered around her plus you get bursts of high gains on skill points if I remember correctly.

Great content home slice. My nostalgia glands are always working hard watching these videos

I totally agree. Leveling up Emerl is such a drag. And not even mention farming to get all the skills and Ultimate skills. But it's so satisfactory to land a combo with the final hit dunking the other one to the ground

Don't worry Billiam, we'll give the videos a chance

11:00 Me who's actually good at sonic battle: "FINNALY someone recognizes my genius"

emerl is a good robot baby boy and deserves the world.

That totally sarcastic not sarcastic remark went on for a little too long to not be sarcastic. A highlight. Can't wait for the experimental stuff. Thank you for all your work!

definitely an overlook classic. I remember unlocking all the best movesets in this game and all my friends who has this game is shocked and impressed how i got such strong movesets

You will never know the feeling of getting all you friends as a kid together and playing this on the game cube with the game boy attachment with four controllers on Christmas 2004

This man is digging up all of my childhood and I'm happy in not alone

9:40 i'm sorry for being very very late but i have to explain people this because it's a very unknown fact about emerl's skill points : you get more or less skill points depending on how you perform in the fight and not depending on the opponent which means : you get 5 skill points if you don't take a single damage you get 2 skill points if you take damage but don't get KO'd and you get only 1 skill point if you get KO'd 1 time or more

I like this game and I'm also good at it. And I realized in Knuckles chapter that I had to farm skill points by completing Sonic's chapter. Yeah, that was a chore but with it for the following chapters.

That's now how the camera works! Yes you can freely move the camera during healing but *that's* temporary. It's just to help you see peek around while you're behind the corner, waiting for the opponent. To fully change it 180 degrees, you double tap *L.* You can double tap it again to return it to normal.

Skill points were earned based on how well you did in the fight ranging from 5, 3 and 1. If I remember correctly you got 5 by beating your opponent without getting hit once, 3 if you got hit and didn't die, and 1 if you just won the fight

For those curious about "timeline stuff", Battle takes places sometime after advance 2, but directly before advance 3

This is my favorite sonic game! I got it at a flea market for my sixteenth birthday and NEVER lost it so I'm super glad to see somebody else knows this game exists! LoL

Watching this video almost a year afterwards, to bring back the positive memories of a game I never forgot about. Or in other words... *INITIATING RECOVERY MODE*

I used to love playing this game growing up and I would go as far as to say it's my favorite sonic game! I'm glad I was able to get it again recently, especially just for five bucks! If there's any sonic game that should get some kind of HD remake of some kind it's definitely this one for sure.

If I remember correctly Emerl skill points goes up by 5 if you win a fight without taking a hit, by 2 if you went a fight without losing a Round, and one if you couldn't do the previous. His skill points goes up by 10 if he gets a Chaos Emerald. On the plus side every time you finish a story that allows Emerl to get a chaos Emerald he gets 10 skill points regardless if you already finished the story, so you can repeat stories you like the most over and over again to get his skill points high enough to be able to equip better moves before going into harder stories.