I finish the Rival Battle against Shadow. The victory screen freezes. The music loops the same four-second drum fill forever. I wait. One minute. Two.
The health bar glitches. Chaos takes damage, but the bar stays full. Then it drops to zero. Then it fills again. sonic generations xenia
I hold forward anyway. The emulator corrects. Sonic slams back onto the half-pipe like nothing happened. I finish the Rival Battle against Shadow
I press a trigger. The screen shatters —a literal crack of glass across the monitor. A white-hot flash. I wait
End Log.
Perfect Chaos rises from the water. On original hardware, this is a slideshow. On Xenia, it's a slideshow with flashing lights . The water physics break—the tidal waves become jagged origami cranes of foam. Sonic runs up them, his model T-posing for one frame before snapping back into the spin-dash.
Then—the bug .