Mikel
From Sonic Retro
<forumuser name="Mikel" /> Mikel is a member at the Sonic Retro forums. He is the creator of Sonic Zeta Overdrive, which is a hack of Sonic the Hedgehog 2.
He is a beginner at ASM, although he is currently trying to become an intermediate. He has posted guides on how to extend the music slots in Sonic 1 as well as adding Wood Zone to the final version of Sonic 2.Contents
History
Early Years (1998-2004)
Mikel became a fan of Sonic the Hedgehog in 1998, when he first watched The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, five years later. Mikel joined the Sonic scene through Sonic CulT under the name cubakaf on May 15, 2003, although he only posted in the community untill his account on SWS2B was deleted, on Febuary 11, 2004, Mikel left the community, only to return through the Sonic Robo Blast 2 Community, under the name Mikel93 eight months later.
Return to SWS2B (2005-2006)
After some time on the SRB2 message board, Mikel came back to SWS2B on June 13, 2005. Some time later, he posted with horrid grammar, and some spelling mistakes, on November 26, 2005, he posted a level art contest, which failed, and two days later, it was trashed, on December 3, 2005, Mikel was banned from SWS2B for his childish act, and retardedness, after getting banned from SWS2B, he was later seen in the SSRG until the board backup was corrupted in 2007.
Entering the bridge (2007)
Two years after getting banned from the Sonic 2 Beta forums, Mikel joined The Glowing Bridge on April, 2007. When the board was converted to MyBB, he continued to lurk the forums until June 29, 2007, where he released Sonic Zeta DX to the public, after releasing his hack, it started controversy for stealing music from Sonic 1 Megamix, on the same day, he was banned from The Glowing Bridge, after getting banned, he came back to the SSRG four months later under a new name, DarkGhost.
Today (2008-Present)
On Febuary 22, 2008, Mikel came back to the Sonic community through the Sonic Retro IRC channel, after coming back, he was added to the Trial Members (Research) group, on March 9, 2008, he became a full member, after two months, he revealed his new hack to the public, and entered the hacking contest, even though he didn't win anything, his hack received praise, and currently, he is going to make tons of adjustments to his hack for the next hacking contest.
Aliases
Mikel has gone through four different names in the past few years.
- Cubakaf
- MikelAngel
- Mikel93
- DarkGhost
Trivia
- He is Cuban on his father's side, Italian on his stepmother's side, and Costa Rican on his mother's side.
- He is one of the very few Hispanic Users in the Sonic community.
External Links
- Mikel's Profile
- Mikel's Youtube channel, where you can find videos of his hack.