If I take screenshots of what happens when you collect all emeralds and make them an animated gif to prove that they aren't fake, will you believe me when I say that those are their real names and that it's useless to give other new ones for characters that will never (or haven't) appear again?
How many times must I state this. I HAVE PLAYED THE **** GAME, I HAVE GOTTEN THE SUPER EMERALDS, I KNOW WHAT APPEARS. I am saying that it is the name of the form itself though. I usually take what Sega (or another company says) over the games itself, (like in KH II) as they made the games and all. That said, I would GREATLY appreciate that gif, that would rock. Besides, you have to remember that I don't even think the hyper forms are canon, (since the ending doesn't change, and Sonic 3 and Knuckles was originally meant to be one game, not two, so they would not have had 14 Chaos Emeralds.
Hyper forms can't drown. However, "Super Tails" can, even though he's powered up with the Super Emeralds.
Thank you for that, I never drowned with the super forms or hyper forms, so I didn't know if you could.
As for his name... obviously, nothing's official, but maybe fans could refer to him as "Sub-Super Tails". Or, if the Super Emeralds were brought back in a future game, maybe Sega could change the name of Tails's Super form with the birds into "Hyper Tails". Doubtful, though, since the Super Emeralds still have yet to make a return. And finally, about the Super Emeralds fitting into the storyline, I think they did. Don't know if this info was made up by GHZ, or actual info from the Japanese instruction booklet, but as you see when you first enter those rainbow rings for the first time, the Super Emeralds are the Chaos Emeralds when they syphen energy from the Master Emerald, resulting in their true form. They might still be in their "true forms" in the Adventure games, given their appearance, but Sega's always been inconsistent with the Chaos Emeralds before Adventure (there's 6, there's 7, there's 8, there's no white one, there's no light blue one, there's no pink one, they're all blue, they're cone-shaped, they're hexagonal, etc.). But in Sonic Adventure 2, the Chaos Emeralds were used while combining the power of the Master Emerald, and Sonic didn't turn Hyper (though, there is a possibility that when Biohazard absorbed the emeralds' energy, it took away whatever energy the Chaos Emeralds had syphened from the Master Emerald).
Biolizard did not use the Chaos Emeralds AT ALL (He [like Shadow eventually]) can use Chaos control without the emeralds, had Biolizard used the energies, they would have been black like the end of Adventure 1. Going further than that, when Knuckles got the emeralds back in Adventure 1 and had them right by the completed Emerald they were still normal, and they were HUGE before the Master Emerald were brought to them in SA2. Not to mention, Knuckes can fit the entire Master Emerald in his hand (in Adventure 2)
I don't think there were ever 6 ( I know there were 6 in Sonic 1, but you didn't go super, so I just think you don't find one of them) as for being 8, I think the one in fighters may have been fake. The same colors (all blue, or all green, depending on the game) were just to make it easier, NOW as for the Emeralds changing color and shape, I got NOTHING. Which is why I believe this.
Sonic The Hedgehog through Sonic R does not equal Sonic Adventure series(SA1, SA2, SH, ShTH, S Battle, SAd1-3, S Riders, Sonic the Hedgehog 2006, S Rivals, and [most likely] Sonic Wildfire.
So, we have the Sega universe (before the Dreamcast) and the Adventure Universe. If you can find ANY other way to make sense of these, than shoot.
1 Emeralds changing
2 Super Emeralds gone
3 Angel Island moving
4 Humans
5 Morphius in Sega, Earth in Adventure
6 Eggman not being evil anymore
7 No more Hyper forms
8 the different looking Super Sonic
9 The different [possibly] looking Super Knuckles and Tails in Heroes.
10 Metal Sonic Shape Changing
11 No Badniks
12 All the characters who are gone now (except Chaotix, who have we seen who is from the old series)
13 Princess Sally-Amy
As for the Super form Tails can acquire in debug mode, probably just a glitch that wasn't meant to be. And it is debateable whether Tails and Knuckles turned Super at the end of Heroes, but if he did, I don't quite know what to make of that. The way I see it is that back in the day, they didn't allow Tails to power up with Chaos Emeralds. The Super Emeralds were probably Sega's way of compensating to the players who had to go through all that trouble with Tails (Super Emeralds require even more effort than Chaos Emeralds). However, since this is his first power-up, he's only considered "Super", not "Hyper". But even if it's just a Super form, for all the trouble of getting the Super Emeralds, they certainly couldn't make Super Tails as dull as Super Knuckles (just slapping on a glow and invincibility). So, as further compensation, they gave Super Tails birds that could hit any enemy on the screen, therefor making him seem just as rewarding as a Hyper form. Now, if Tails just turns Super with the Chaos Emeralds, you can expect him to pretty much be the same minus the birds.
Sorry, in a game as glitchy as Sonic 2 (how many are there, 3, 4 hundred glitches in that game) I am supposed to believe that Super Tails (who does not glitch the game at all, and looks nothing like Super Sonic, but looks like Super Tails should look) was not meant to exist in this game? He has all the things a super form should have, I just think he was taken out at the last moment for some reason. If you consider Turbo Tails a super form, he is FAR AND AWAY the best Super Form, the Super Flickies just rock so hard. Yeah, Super Knux sux.
Edit, I am (finally) officially of the opinon that Tails and Knuckles went Super in Heroes. I watched it again, payed attention to it to a tee. The fact that the emeralds circled all 3 of them and that they can fly when Sonic is not leading them, makes me think they just did not want to have Knuckles go pink for super again (or for Tails to get circled by birds perhaps). But yeah, Knuckles and Tails (IMO) undoubtably went super form (their Adventure version) in Sonic Heroes.
. Point is, that people live and die by these 4 names