Every NiGHTS Special Stage mare gives you an emerald

[TehRealSalt]

This is incredibly silly. (Purely visual; doing this would not give you 2+ emeralds for the main game)

 

[Larz T]

I think I know what might be causing the issue but it's just a hunch. Does your NiGHTS level have multiple mares? If so, it might be giving you the extra emerald because you didn't head back to the goal with the first one so the game could be thinking you're still collecting rings for the first mare. I'm only thinking that could be the case because of another NiGHTS level made by QueenDelta doesn't have this issue.

Either way, it's still a visual glitch.

 

[TehRealSalt]

Yes, this is multi-mare, but Dream Hill doesn't have this issue because the orbiting Chaos Emerald only spawns when you're in a NiGHTS special stage, not in normal NiGHTS levels.

Besides which, you can't even get in another mare's track or in another mare's capsule if you aren't on that mare. :p