How Many Chaos Emeralds Are There ACTUALLY?

Any way lore accurately there Are 7

Lets just asume sonic has the 7th in his pocket
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Wait pocket

You forgot the master emerald

Ngl I kinda liked having only 6 emeralds if only there were mods for sonic 2 and 3 to only have 6 emeralds

16?! WHY DOES SPINBALL ISLAND HAVE THAT MANY?!

What if team sonic had one in there possession so they only needed six

My only guess is that there are 16, but to go super 7 is all you need, so Sonic usually only collects 7. Though some chaos emeralds are stronger than others, so depending on how strong the chaos emeralds he gets are, Sonic might only need 5, or need all 16 of them.

Maybe, hear me out, there is more than 7 chaos emeralds. It’s just the minimum for turning super sonic is 7, and only 7 can be active at a time. So that’s why there can be 8 or 16 chaos emeralds: they already existed, but they don’t provide any power.

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Oh, the best bit is that in Sonic Spinball, all sixteen emeralds are the same color. Blue. Like, if you're going to make the chaos EMERALDS the same color...shouldn't they be green?

The 7th chaos emerald was the friends we made along the way

Notice he didn't show sonic turning super. That's because he needs 7. That's why there's 7

I live for sonic spinball.

I can tell sonic the fighters is a pain to get super sonic, win every fight without loosing one (game overs/retries count as a loss) then on metal sonic stage you must win one round! then awaken and you'll be unkillable

What if sonic used all 16 chaos emeralds?

Gotta love no consistency 😂

The original Sonic 1 also only has 6

Erm akshcully there is technically 8 in Sonic Adventure 2 because Tails made an artificial one.

“The 8 bit Sonic 1 had only 6 chaos emeralds”
Ok makes sense, the og also only had 6
“So did 8 bit Sonic 2”
Ok fair enough, that’s strange
“In Sonic Blast, there are only 5”
… why? Where did the sixth one go? What?
“Sonic the Fighters has 8”
WHAT? WHERE DID THEY FIND AN EXTRA?
“Sonic Spinball has 16 chaos emeralds”
EGGMAN YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE NOW THERE ARE 16 OF THESE EMERALDS AT LEAST AND YOU CANT FIND 7 OF THEM??????? WHAT THE HECK!!!!!!!

Edit: I typed 17 instead of 16. Stupid tiny phone keyboard

not to mention 06 where at times there's less than 7 and more than 7 depending on who's time traveled with what emeralds

JESUS CHRIST SPIN-BALL!!!! BIG-SPIN-BACK!

Theyre called CHAOS emeralds for a reason yknow

I think it's probably a space issue

I feel like Chaos Emeralds were original supposed to be some gem species across the world that has a lot of power instead of just seven

Sega really gotta fix this lore…

Maybe the reason sonic couldn’t go supersonic in the first game was because he didn’t have all seven.

Different universes be like:

I think it was implied/retconned somewhere in the Fang The Hunter spin off comic that the 8th Orange Emerald from Fighters, is actually the Warp Topaz gem from the IDW comics.

Well there are all the chaos emeralds, Sonic spinball took em.

I prefer the 7 human souls tbh

If you keep all 7 for no real reason you get mauled by chaos

it's not just the 8-bit version of Sonic 1 that only has six, the 16-bit version does too!

And then, there's the Archies's Sonic comics with a million emeralds.

My math ain't mathing

SONIC LORE IS EVEN MORE CONFUSING THAN FNAF!

Aside from Fighters and Spinball, all those times there were only 5-6 of them were just an excuse to not include super forms.

Not 7 chaos emerald

Wow in orange chaos emerald.

Sonic one 16 bit also has 6

Here is my theory for why in sonic 1 there is only 6 chaos emeralds it could be that sonic didn’t know about the 7th or eggman had it but wanted the rest or the developers just wanted super sonic for sonic 2

7 dragon balls = 7 chaos emeralds

Well. Now we know where the chaos emeralds went. One in sonic the fighters. And the other 8 in sonic spin ball. Don't ask why it has an extra after sending half the emeralds to the games missing them.

In more modern stuff, Shadow is usually shown having one chaos emerald, green. But when its time to collect them all, nobody asks Shadow to give his one up

Sonic 1 their is 6 Chaos Emeralds in Sonic 2 their is 7 and its been the rest BUT my theory for the 8bit games are probably for Hardware Limitations for some consoles

I guess the seventh one isn't necessary, but if you want super, go for it.

I think the reason why only 6 emeralds appear in sonic 1 is because in sonic origins,when you complete sonic 1 there is a cutscene that shows the emeralds heading to west side island and the 7th one coming out from the water

It's a rare gemstone knuckles

sonic 1 16bit had 6 emeralds too

Don't forget about Elise's blue Chaos Emerald

Could be like dragon ball were every planet has a Different System, as in, Namek Dragon balls and Normal Dragon balls, maybe on every Planet in sonic they have their own Chaos Emerald and their own systems