Jackstar

Jackstar is a Beginner Hacker of the Sonic scene, a Beginner Hacker on Sonic Retro, and a moderator on Crossover Rps. He developes "Sonic" hacks, some minor guides, and offers help on the forums where necessary. He has worked without teams on projects such as Sonic The Hedgehog Forces Edition, The Water Hack and Sonic the Hedgehog BETA Hack, as well as working and helping out with multiple people on solo projects.

Jackstar began on a hunt on the internet to find old Sonic related stuff from his childhood, having owned a SEGA Mega Drive in years, he wanted to gain some form of nostalgia from his childhood. He eventually came across screenshots of the Sonic 2 beta levels, and watching tutorials on putting them back into the game, of course, his knowledge on binary ROM manipulation was very limited, and did know about the existence of emulation. One day, using his home computer, he downloaded an emulator and a few Sonic ROMs to play around with on his home computer, with a guide on editing uncompressed art and a hexadecimal editor he had picked up months before, he began editing the art of Sonic in the Sonic 1 Rom, here he had learnt about the tile and palette system, and was on his way to learning more about Sonic hacking and the Mega Drive hardware in general.

After Hours of working with binary ROMs, he was inspired by videos on YouTube of the ever popular Sonic Megamix, after pursuing knowledge on how they managed to make their modifications possible, he had discovered split disassemblies and their potential in Sonic hacking, and got straight to work on putting in the Sonic Hacks (with thanks to the Spindash guide, which contained a lot of information about the animations, mappings, and plc format), and after moderately succeeding, he incorporated his hack onto it and integrated his level artwork. Shortly before obtaining home broadband, he tried to make his hacks in play, featuring a sand Hill Zone, new character Colors, and some new music, which seemed to have impressed many at the time, it encourage him to make Sonic Remixes on his Channel

Of course, things didn't look up too well after a few months of being within the scene, he had offered his help carelessly towards too many people, and was left with far too much work, it was then that he decided to quietly leave the scene. Despite leaving the scene, he continued his work from scratch once again, learning more about the software engine in Sonic 1, and the hardware of the Mega Drive, feeling guilty though about running out on the people he had offered to help, he came back to the scene months later under the alias MeowMeow Games to hide his identity, and released his new hack Sonic The Hedgehog Forces Edition, of course, Jackstar worked Alone, but allowed him to remain anonymous until weeks later when he would reveal his true identity.