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redhotsonic (also known by the abbreviation RHS) is a member of various site within the Sonic scene/community. He is named after a fan-character whom he created simply by taking Sonic the Hedgehog and changing his colour from blue to red. redhotsonic the character's birthplace was SSRG, and redhotsonic the member, is a Pro User there. He is also an administrator at RetroHack, and a Tech Member at Sonic Retro (i.e. what you are on now).

Many people in areas of the Sonic community such as SSRG and Sonic Retro have little patience for members who publicise and/or are named after their own fan-characters, as this can be a mark of immaturity and/or an insufficiently serious approach to engaging with a community on a meaningful level. However, RHS, despite being named after a simple re-colour of Sonic, shows that fan-characters and their identities aren’t always fatal and that it's perfectly possible for such members to be talented and make useful contributions. On August 7th, 2012, he was given Tech Member status, thus further proving this point.

redhotsonic gets on with a lot of people in the community. He once went to visit StephenUK for four days and got on really well. RHS is up to meeting anyone as long as he doesn't have to leave the country!

RHS uses his real name for his e-mail. Note that Ben (Benjamin) is his first name and Hazell is the surname. He can be found on Windows Live Messenger every now and then.

Projects

ROM hacks

redhotsonic has worked on two ROM hacks. These are:

Guides

In addition to creating hacks of his own, RHS has created various useful guides to hacking and ASM for others to use. His guides can be found over at SSRG and, more recently, here on Sonic Retro.

The very first one was 'The Lost Levels Guide'. That was shortly followed by the 'Palette Rotation Guide'. Soon, RHS learned ASM and knew that many people can struggle to learn, so he released an 'ASM guide'. Learning ASM and continuing to practice it has led to RHS becoming proficient in finding and fixing bugs or devising new features.

After a period of inactivity following his discontinuation of Red Hot Sonic 2, redhotsonic returned to hacking with his new project, Sonic 2 Recreation, and various guides about adding features to and/or fixing bugs in Sonic the Hedghog 2 and other classic Sonic games on the Mega Drive / Genesis, including a collaboration with Esrael and others to add various fixes to Xenowhirl's 2007 disassembly of Sonic 2.

For information on guides and other writings by RHS, refer to his profile on the Sonic Retro forums, his signature and list of threads, etc.