I beat it in about the 18 hours I was home from Dec. 6 - Dec. 8, 2003. It was fairly easy, exploiting a few AI glitches and such... If you stand on the edge of a platform, most of the AI will think that it could hurt you by jumping and air-attacking. That is not the case, so you can sit there and hit them, or heal, or whatever else you want. Another strategy I used in Rouge's ep was to fly and repeatedly kick in the air. You never fall, and anyone that jumps up to hurt you gets kicked right back down. I'm REALLY good at customizing things, so my Emerl's battles were easy. I re-played Sonic's ep once too, just for extra experiance... I got the Ultimate Homing attack thing after beating Shadow in Shadow's ep. Is that scripted, or was it my luck? Anyway, glad to hear you think it was crazy!