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Well, the Hyper Versions of Sonic and Knuckles are only in the joined game, Sonic 3 and Knuckles.
You get the Chaos Emeralds, then play with them for a while...
Then, when you reach the first Zone of Sonic and Knuckles, you will first encounter a giant, color-flashing giant ring.
This ring will take you to the Hidden Palace. After that, the 7 Chaos Emeralds will slowly rise out of the character, then spread.
You will then see a short part where the 7 Chaos Emeralds drop onto the 7 spaces all around the Master Emerald. After that, you can jump on one of the nocolored emeralds and you will be transported to a Special Stage, a chance to collect a Chaos Emerald. Well, it works the same way as you collect the Chaos Emeralds, so it doesn't matter who is wrong or who is right!.... Wait a sec... That was a line from Sonic's theme from Sonic Adventure. Here's a link to his theme. http://www.sonichq.org/music/ra/soni...nture/sonic.ra
Underscores. You know the drill... lol Anyways, it's better to finish the whole game of Sonic3 and Knuckles before actually trying to collect the Super Emeralds. Then you can go to the 7th zone, then get the ring, finish the Special Stage, and Restart the game. Then do the same thing over and over until you get all of the Super Emeralds and you would have finished the entire game...! lol.