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<forumuser name="DalekSam" />

I am an idiot and I'm proud of it.

— Sam on himself

DalekSam is a member who is fairly active in the Sonic scene. You can usually find him in #retro, for if you want to chat him up for some sexy time, or to discuss normal things normal people do. In many cases, he goes by many names (You can find the names I'm likely to use on #retro below) though of all he prefers to be called Sam (Which is my name, gtfo). He is especially known for Mobius Adventures and Sonic Thrash, and he also does various remasters of some songs with FL Studio, and these are usually posted in his topic in the Creative Works forum. You can also find many of his imports on the Sega Mega Drive in The Official Genesis Music Thread, also found in the Creative Works forum.

He is also known for his love of Thunder Force IV.

History

Sprite War with Hitaxas

When he was making his hack, he decided to use Chimpo's sprites that were going to be in his hack (with his consent), Dash.

So when Sam decided to release the second release of Mobius Adventures, there was some war to come. Hitaxas was going to use edited versions of the Dash sprites, in his hack, Sonic: Super Deformed.

There was a war between the two over at RetroHack, although it was settled soon after. Hitaxas finally approved Sam being allowed to use Chimpo's sprites, even though they were for public use.

Dalek's Chibi Project

So far, Sam has worked on Sonic's, and Knuckles' sprites. Tails has been done, but has to be redone; it is taller than Tails and also doesn't look like Tails at all.

Music

Learning xm3smps

Sam took awhile to learn how to use the tool, xm3smps, and has made some good songs with it.

His first ever conversion was started off with a MIDI, cut it down to 8 channels, which was the incorrect way. He labeled the channels 1 to 8 in the order of selecting the channels, and picked the boss' voices. It was a beeping mess, but kept going on and on. A few months later, he finally made his first decent song: Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald Champion. It had a screech at the start, but it was fixed with the help of Master3k. This import was a great one in Sam's mind. Then, he moved on to another song: the Boss 2 song in SA2; Egg Golem. It was another successful import: but these 2 imports were helped by Oerg866, by helping him with what channels are what, and with the help of Oerg's instruments. He later redone the Egg Golem song, which had better DAC choices and also imported the Sonic 3 Knuckles song from Sonic and Knuckles collection.

Getting better

When Sam's import of Mecurius from Gundam Wing arrived, it was unnofficially his best at the time. However if it weren't for roxahris's Super Voice Pack, none of this would happened. He later went on to do a large amount of other songs however heavily influenced by guitars; he had been dragged into the Mega Man X craze.

Fruity Loops is awesome

Sam was geared up. He had the tools. FL Studio 8 XLL was in his hands. And yet he didn't know what to do with it. Soundfonts were plucked, songs were made. Shit ones albeit. More soundfonts, more VST plugins, more experience in general and Gimmick Mountain was a fish out of water. Songs were prepared to nine channels for importing. Self-acclaimed, Sam is awesome at music. Except he can't compose to save his life. Oh well. :P

You can check out Sam's VGMs here (in_vgm/foo_gep required to play the files).

Personal Info

Love For Speed

Sam loves motor-sport, and there's nothing more better than a good simulated race on Live For Speed He is S2 Licensed, providing access to all veichles and tracks in the game.

Fasination about Sonic

As well as a fascination for motor-sport, he loves his speed: Sonic the Hedgehog was introduced to him by an elder brother. He owned a lot of Mega Drive games, including Ristar (which Sam did not know about) and Sonic 2. Recently, Sam found a ton of Mega Drive/Genesis games, along with 2 Mega Drive Model IIs. Earlier than this though, when Sam was about 6 or 7, Sonic was introduced. Sonic Adventure 2 was played by Sam, and he enjoyed it. He wanted to watch his brother play these games, as he was amazed and they were apparently cutting edge to him. Later, when he was around 9 years old, Sonic Mega Collection Plus was introduced to him, and he played the 16-bit games and loved them to bits. He got up to Flying Battery Zone on Sonic 3 & Knuckles. When he gave up and went to the toilet, he discovered his younger brother had taken over (no surprise :P). 3 years later, by chance he found Sonic Megamix, and was introduced to the Sonic Hacking Community.

The "Big" Crash

In September, Sam had a new computer installed, and had to wait a week for his old one to be plugged in a different room. That week later, Sam went on his computer and ran Kega Fusion. Now remember, an emulator crash is capable of wrecking a computer: that is Sam's case. He had wanted to backup Mobius Adventures to FileDen, but he was forbidden as he was assured that it was safe, which it wasn't. For now, Mobius Adventures and its sequel are on hold/cancelled until further notice.

Forum Behaviour

Originally, Sam was a complete and utter noob; but growing up was not a difficult task. Allough he wasn't at Pokécharms for a long time, he did learn the ethos of a forum community. He moved on to Live For Speed, and on those forums, he was nurtured to use proper grammar, etc. Upon doing this, Sam had joined the legendary Sonic Retro, armed with enough ammo to strike back on any internet rants (This is a sign of my enormous ego, ignore that statement).

Projects

Sam has worked/ is working on the following projects:

Aliases

Here are some of the many names DalekSam has used over the years, and ones that he uses often in IRC.

  • Rubeyer
  • Oak Jr.
  • RACER
  • Dalek0220
  • DalekSam (Hurr)
  • MagmaDragoon
  • FagmaDragoon
  • PsychoCrusher
  • ScrewCrusher
  • BroCrusher

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