
The Dark Story's scene select has the option to start the game at the second Sonic boss. According to the original file name, itemp_randomring, this would have given the player a random amount of rings. There is a capsule graphic of a ring with a question mark on it as opposed to a 5, 10, or 20.

It would have been located next to the objective's radar and flashed when the robots were nearby.

According to an unused line from Omochao, this was a radar for Egg Quarters that was planned to detect the beetle robots patrolling the stage.
