Clownacy
From Sonic Retro
<forumuser name="Clownacy" /> Clownacy (sometimes mistaken as Clownancy) is a Tech Member of Sonic Retro who joined early in July of 2013, after lurking for some years.
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History
Clownacy first became interested in Sonic hacking after being lead to Sonic Retro by YouTube videos demonstrating modifications of Sonic titles on an assembly level, discovering the SCHG 'how-to' guides not long after. In the years following, he'd eventually join Sonic Retro.
From then, he went on to create several 'how-to' guides, refine the Git disassemblies, and, later on, create an enhanced version of Sonic 1's SMPS 68k sound driver: the Sonic 2 Clone Driver v2, which was a replacement for the aged, but still commonly used, Sonic 2 Clone Driver.
He was promoted to Tech Member on 29th July 2014, just over a year after joining.
In mid-August of the same year, he produced an upgraded version of Project Sonic 1: Two-Eight, sporting a rebase to the modern Git disassembly, bug-fixes, optimisations, and restored debug features. This was uploaded to the Git repository as a branch of the Sonic 1 disassembly.
Around this time, he also joined SSRG, becoming Staff on 6th June 2016.
Today
Clownacy remains a Tech Member on Sonic Retro and Staff on SSRG. He can occasionally be found on the #SSRG IRC channel.
Works
Guides
(In chronological order)
- Port Sonic 2 Clone Driver to Sonic 2 Community Disassembly (note that this guide is faulty)
- Port Mega PCM to Sonic 2 Clone Driver
- Extend Sonic 2's Level Select Menu (SCHG version)
- Port Sonic 2's Level Art Loader to Sonic 1 (SCHG version)
- Port Sonic 2 Clone Driver v2 to Sonic 2 Community Disassembly
- Port Sonic 2's Layout Loader to Sonic 1
- Extend the Sound ID Range in Sonic 2's Sound Driver
- Improve PCM Playback Quality with Sonic 2's Sound Driver
- Make Sonic 2's Sound Driver Good
- Port S1-Friendly Improved Sonic 2 Sound Driver to Sonic 1 Community Disassembly
- Fix Sonic 1's MZ Sideways Stompers
- Fix Sonic 1's "Clusterfuck Bug"
- Fix Sonic 2's Debug Mode Bridge Collision
- Improve the PLC Queue in Sonic 2
- Fix RAM clearing in Sonic 2
Other
- Sonic 2 Clone Driver v2
- Project Sonic 1: Two-Eight continuation
- REV00 and REV02 additions to Sonic 2 Git disassembly
- S1-friendly improved Sonic 2 sound driver