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¤ Last but not least, Possibly the Most Complete Sonic Emulation section you'll ever see, including the Likes of Sonic Jam, Sonic R (Saturn), SA1&2, the megadrive series, the Advance/DS series, And possibly with luck, even the GC/XBOX series. Due to some demand, there may also be downloads for the PC versions of the games. | ¤ Last but not least, Possibly the Most Complete Sonic Emulation section you'll ever see, including the Likes of Sonic Jam, Sonic R (Saturn), SA1&2, the megadrive series, the Advance/DS series, And possibly with luck, even the GC/XBOX series. Due to some demand, there may also be downloads for the PC versions of the games. | ||
| + | == The Rise and Fall of RetroHack == | ||
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| + | [[PsychoSk8r]] got lucky, and signed a contract with an old accomplice for Web Hosting, and got it at a cheap rate (£15 per month) for 1tb space and bandwidth. This helped his plans toward making a hacking website. | ||
| + | The name '''RetroHack''' was thought of off the top of [[PsychoSk8r]]'s head, he didn't want [[Sonic]] in the title, as he wanted it not just to be a sonic-based hacking community, but to be open to other hacks too. | ||
| + | '''RetroHack''' started as a PHPBB based forum, and attracted a few members. After a fortnight of being up, due to the software, the board was spammed. This led to the decision of Switching to IPB. | ||
| + | Once '''RetroHack''' was switched to IPB, it gained a better look and feel, and opened up more forums for members to talk about things other than hacking. After a good 5 months, the server failed. | ||
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| + | == The Ressurection == | ||
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| + | After 9 days of downtime, [[PsychoSk8r]] had got together with the host, to talk about what could be done. After the discussion, plans of moving to a new server were put into immediate action. After a few days, the hosting was back. | ||
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| + | [[PsychoSk8r]] wasn't too pleased with the idea of a complete restart, so after hunting through 500gb of data, he found minor pieces of the old '''RetroHack''', and decided to completely restart, only bringing back certain things from the old '''RetroHack'''. | ||
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| + | [[RetroHack]] reopened on the 12th February 2008, at 5:30pm GMT, supporting a new, sleek design, with subtle references to the old '''RetroHack''' theme. Shortly after reopening, a favorite skin among members, "[[SGMC]]-like" had returned, with the approval of [[OrdosAlpha]]. | ||
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RetroHack is a small-time ROM hacking community created by PsychoSk8r. It provides hosting to certain ROM hacking projects, and strives for a user-friendly approach to Sonic ROM hacking. It has a community mostly full of members from the SGMC; however, it also has a small, unique memberbase. It intends to become a bigger name in the Sonic ROM hacking community, and provides many services that help it to achieve that goal.
At the end of January 2008, the server died & RetroHack was down for 2 weeks. RetroHack re-opened on the 12th February, at 5:30pm GMT, after been restarted from scratch, although there are plans for the site. Plans for the website include:
¤ A Mini-Wiki (Possibly), where members can post a download/screenshot/page about their hacks. The better hacks from the Mini-Wiki will be given either their own RetroHack "Featured Hack" Page, possibly even their own subsite, if the creator is willing to put in the effort.
¤ A breif history section of each of the Sonic Games, where PsychoSk8r will give his own opinion on each of the games, and provide screenshots, cheats etc
¤ Artwork from a Chosen Artist at RetroHack
¤ This one's just a concept at the moment, but a Music Archive, MP3 Format.
¤ Lots and Lots of Sonic Hacking guides, some PsychoSk8r will personally be writing, even be writing about the tricks he uses to create new features in Sonic 1. To put simple, a way of thinking.
¤ A FrontPage, every site's gotta have one, this is where the News will be kept, for you forum addict's who've never seen a frontpage =P
¤ A breif personal review of some unmissable hacks.
¤ 200mb webspace for the hack's that look promising, only for the people who will be bothered to update their site.
¤ Last but not least, Possibly the Most Complete Sonic Emulation section you'll ever see, including the Likes of Sonic Jam, Sonic R (Saturn), SA1&2, the megadrive series, the Advance/DS series, And possibly with luck, even the GC/XBOX series. Due to some demand, there may also be downloads for the PC versions of the games.
The Rise and Fall of RetroHack
PsychoSk8r got lucky, and signed a contract with an old accomplice for Web Hosting, and got it at a cheap rate (£15 per month) for 1tb space and bandwidth. This helped his plans toward making a hacking website. The name RetroHack was thought of off the top of PsychoSk8r's head, he didn't want Sonic in the title, as he wanted it not just to be a sonic-based hacking community, but to be open to other hacks too. RetroHack started as a PHPBB based forum, and attracted a few members. After a fortnight of being up, due to the software, the board was spammed. This led to the decision of Switching to IPB. Once RetroHack was switched to IPB, it gained a better look and feel, and opened up more forums for members to talk about things other than hacking. After a good 5 months, the server failed.
The Ressurection
After 9 days of downtime, PsychoSk8r had got together with the host, to talk about what could be done. After the discussion, plans of moving to a new server were put into immediate action. After a few days, the hosting was back.
PsychoSk8r wasn't too pleased with the idea of a complete restart, so after hunting through 500gb of data, he found minor pieces of the old RetroHack, and decided to completely restart, only bringing back certain things from the old RetroHack.
RetroHack reopened on the 12th February 2008, at 5:30pm GMT, supporting a new, sleek design, with subtle references to the old RetroHack theme. Shortly after reopening, a favorite skin among members, "SGMC-like" had returned, with the approval of OrdosAlpha.