Retro has a table for the Dreamcast version here. *The ranking requirements for each mission were heavily changed in the GameCube version.

The video at right outlines every level appearance of Big in Sonic Adventure 2 and whether or not there's a ring in his spot in the GameCube version. However, the build of the Dreamcast version has the same bug.Īll cameos except Wild Canyon's (Which is partly inside geometry due to changes made between the Dreamcast and GameCube releases) were fixed in the 2012 ports. Why he doesn't appear in stages where this pointer is correct is unknown. The Rings are due to his entry in the object lists for these stages pointing to not Big but Rings, which were used as placeholders during the porting process. This Ring is counted by the game's perfect Ring tally, making it impossible to get the perfect Ring bonus. While his cameos during cutscenes (aside from one) remained, the stage cameos were removed almost entirely in the GameCube version, with many cases only leaving behind an unobtainable ring in his place. Sonic Adventure 2 had various cutscene and stage cameos of Big the Cat, who was a playable character in the previous game.