User:Selbi

<forumuser name="Selbi" /> Selbi is a German scener and a member on the Sonic Retro forums. He is a Pro User on the Sonic Stuff Research Group forums.

History

Beginnings at SSRG (2007-2009)

Selbi's original join date is near the end of 2007. However, at that time he wasn't more than an arrogant kid with incredibly bad English skills. This quickly designed him to be a foolish kid, so he didn't get validated at all, but banned.

Because of that, about half a year later (in June 2008), he joined the SSRG. However, his attitude and English skills didn't really improve to this point, meaning he still was that arrogant kid from Sonic Retro.

This was only proven by releasing a hack called Sonic 1: Project 255 on August 2008. This hack was nothing but a combination of Sonic 1 Harder Levels Version and the very first Sonic Megamix. If the administrators wouldn't had so much mercy (mainly Qjimbo), Selbi wouldn't be here today, because he was banned for two months.

His patience was eventually his pay-off, because when he returned, he was much more careful, less arrogant and also started learning ASM programming for real.

On Sonic Retro (2009)

Selbi holds the official record of validation requests on Sonic Retro (at least from those people, who eventually got approved), with a total of 9 tries split over 5 different accounts. Ban dodging and his general stupidity in the beginnings were the reason.

But on June 2009, which was excactly one year after he joined SSRG, he finally showed to be no longer an idiot and got approved.

Becomming a scener (2009-2011)

With his validation on Sonic Retro, Selbi's way of becomming a good scener was set. He tried to get to know many different people and did his best at creating tools and further improving his ASM skills, eventually creating his own hack, Sonic ERaZor. It recieved a lot of positve and mixed feedback, which is why Selbi continued working on said hack for over two more years.

Selbi never tried to do much in the areas of art and music. He always thought of himself to just not having that certain sense and therefore focused on programming. His main areas were Visual Basic .NET, PHP and obviously ASM. Helping people and creating tutorials was also one of the main things he did at that time. Additionally, he also was (or still is) in a good number of hacking teams, including Team ZX, Harder Project and Masochistic Maniacs.

Today (2011-Present)

With the completion of his hack, Selbi wanted to tone things down a little. He no longer wanted to work on his own hacks, and instead focus more on team projects or homebrew games. Utilities and tutorials are also still on his schedule, as well as giving personal help to people (PM or via IRC).

Originally he wanted to quit ASM programming entirely, because he felt like the entire scene was falling apart due to lack of interest and therefore less people creating new work (he claimed it to be a vicious circle). This however turned out to be wrong and so Selbi stayed.

Selbi is currently on a Sonic scene hiatus because he has a lot of personal life things to deal with at the moment and some issues with recent events and people. It is unsure when or even if he will return.

Projects

Hacks

• Sonic ERaZor (
  
  Forum Topic) - Feature Sonic 1 hack [Winner of the Sonic Hacking Contest 2012]
• Sonic Rape - Joke Sonic 1 hack
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  Sonic MBV - Very short Sonic 1 hack about explosions.

Tools

• Sonic 1 - Text Code Generator - Hacking utility to edit any kind of text in Sonic 1
• Sonic 2 - Text Code Generator - Sequel of Sonic 1 - Text Code Generator for Sonic 2
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  Selbi's Parallax Editor - Generates code for background deformation in Sonic 1 and Sonic 2
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  HEX2ASM - Converts binary files (hex) into a Notepad friendly dc array.

Cancelled

• Sonic 1: Project 255 - His first public hack with stolen content. (See here here)
• Sonic 1 - Hardcore Terror - Discontinued beginner's hack (Link to the only available ROM)
• Sonic Extreme Gore Edition - Attempt to make a Sonic game with blood, violence etc. Cancelled before anything but a few sprites were done. (
  
  Forum Topic)

External Links

• Selbi's YouTube page - Features videos about his hack, Sonic ERaZor and more hacking related stuff.