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Knuckles' infinite jump is a glitch present in version 1.0 of Sonic Boom: Ryse of Lyric. It is only possible to perform it with Knuckles and in order to perform it, Knuckles must first jump, press the Y button, then the player must pause the game and unpause, which will allow Knuckles to perform another jump and, if done in succession, allow infinite jumps and skip large portions of levels / entire levels.

Origin

On November 11, 2014, Sega released Sonic Boom: Ryse of Lyric for the Wii U. It is a spin-off of the main Sonic series and is part of the Sonic Boom series. The game, similar to Sonic 2006, was released with a number of bugs, including an exploit that allows Knuckles to jump infinitely.

Spread

The first instance of the glitch being seen on YouTube was on November 12th, 2014, by YouTuber DarkspinesSonic, in his video called "Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric (Wii U) – Infinite Height Exploit (Sequence Breaks Are Doable)". In it, he showed how Knuckles could jump infinitely. The video has racked up more than 260,000 views in 10 years.

Knuckles Infinite Jump Glitch

6 days later, on November 18, 2014, after the glitch was published by DarkspinesSonic, the youtuber Scykoh uploaded a video called: Sonic Boom: Knuckles Infinite Jump & More! – Glitchfest. In this video, he showed the glitch with Knuckles in more detail and also the variant with Sonic, which, unlike Knuckles, allows Sonic to accumulate speed and launch it directly to go faster. This video accumulated 1.5 million views in 10 years.

Knuckles Infinite Jump Glitch by Scykoh

On January 21st, 2015, YouTuber Ruki185 uploaded a video called Knuckles Jump Glitch Is Canon – Sonic Boom. The video is a short cutscene from the Sonic Boom series and shows Knuckles jumping infinitely and off the ground, using an edit where the Sonic Boom menu appears, making a reference to how Knuckles can jump infinitely in the game.

Knuckles Infinite Jump is canon

On February 7th, 2015, the same user uploaded a video to his channel called: Knuckles Infinite Jump Patch Is Can(n)on – Sonic Boom, which was a parody similar to the previous video only here Knuckles hit the ceiling and fell, and the video and the title itself showed that the glitch was patched and can only be replicated if the game is on version 1.0 (activating the update, opening the game, pausing the game on the Wii U, going to the download manager and deleting the update).

Knuckles Infinite Jump is can(n)on

Appearance in Sonic Frontiers

On November 8, 2022, Sega released Sonic Frontiers for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series S/X. Like the previous one, Sonic Frontiers is a 3D game.

On September 28, 2023, the youtuber 4G LTE would upload a video called: Knuckles' infinite jump glitch is back in Sonic Frontiers: The Final Horizon. In it, he shows how it is possible to execute infinite jumps with Knuckles, but in a different way than in Sonic Boom.

Knuckles Infinite Jump is back in Sonic Frontiers