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Oerg866 is a German scener. His main and only hacking project was
Sonic The Hedgehog - Oergomized, an
ASM hack of
Sonic 1. He is active in the demoscene, having participated in numerous events such as Breakpoint 2009 and 2010. He enjoys hanging around and writing code for random stuff whenever he feels like it, and also loves old computers, consoles and video games. He also enjoys making module music and disco-inspired music for the SEGA Genesis. His favourite music genres are 80s Italo Disco and 80s Hi-NRG, favourite artists of his are Divine, Mike Mareen, Ken Laszlo and several others.
He has been in the community since September 2006 when he first stumbled across Simon Wai's Sonic 2 Beta page after playing around with the Sonic 2 Beta ROM. However, at that time he was an AOL user, so he couldn't register until an administrator gave him permissions to try and pass the test. Three months later he changed his ISP to 1&1.
His first few posts, both in the forums and the IRC, were in his own words "bullcrap". On September 10, 2006, he asked where he could buy a ROM dumper on the IRC, but was given porn links in reply, sparking a
small amount of drama on the forums. He got banned and he left in early-mid 2007.
Around July 2007 he came back, passed the test and also became a full member. After a
flamewar with a member called
Sith over his discovery of a hidden debug menu in Kega Fusion which turned out to do nothing, he was banned again. Tweaker later admitted that the menu is, in fact, real. Although the ban was initially only for a period of one week,
Tweaker decided to turn it into a permanent ban since he considered Oerg to be a "complete asstard". Before the ban, Oerg had
posted a translation of a German Sonic 1 prototype article and contacted the authors, but by the time he received their answer he was already banned and could not post it.
Before he came back in December 2007, he had secretly learnt a bit of hacking. There had also been a complete turnaround in his relationship with
Nineko, who had previouly hated him - he would later even go on to beta test
soniNeko. Nineko teached him how to use xm3smps. So he was given the ability to register again when he translated a 6-page long Sonic 3 article originally printed in a German magazine. This article was very interesting, as it featured several things that weren't seen before, most notably a mention of a "Help!" item. Because of this he was given
trial membership again. However, he rather unwisely used all 10 posts in one day and got stuck in Pending Approval. After several discussions with Tweaker, he was able to try the Technical quiz, gaining 10 more posts which he spent well by
posting several translations and a thread about his hack. He became a member again. Around that time, he has been editing the Wiki a lot. Mostly in terms of
Sega Mega Drive/Genesis emulation. Now he calls himself the inofficial Sonic Retro Wiki Emulator Maintainer. But that's not confirmed. Just a rumor really. Thanks to him every publically released Mega Drive emulator now has an own Wiki article. But, time passed and in January 2009 he got banned from the forums again, after a flamewar about a
Toy Story MOD player.
In August 2009 he was unbanned yet again. He posted about the new version of
Sonic 1 Oergomized as well as
xm3smps/oerg and enjoys shouting "BITCH" in the Sonic Retro IRC channel as well as helping GerbilSoft with Gens/GS.
During 2009, he has developed an intense love to Italo Disco, and also started to compose music. Though he was bad at first, he recently, according to other people, became better as he started to make music for the SEGA Genesis. In relation to this, he has a very strong attention to detail. He creates all his FM-Instruments as well as PSG-Voices himself, and uses non-standard PCM samples. He tends to make heavy use of the PCM channel. He publishes all his Genesis music on 8bitcollective.org.
He became partners with Tomy, the person behind Tototek and developed frontends for DOS and Windows specifically designed for easy usage of the MD-Pro, since he found the original software to be "incredibly unusable, buggy and slow".
Since March 2010 he is working on SMPSPlay, a SMPS-Player for the SEGA Genesis with visuals. He had hoped to be able to release the source to it on June 26, but several problems prevented him from actually doing so. On the 30th of June, though, he released all his notes he made while researching the RAM area SMPS occupies to the public. Actually, several people have done this independendly, nobody releasing it to the public before. People have contributed to complete this list.
He is known to attend events about retro computing and gaming. To provide a better connection with the homebrew scene, he shows off some current projects of the scene. At the moment, he is doing that with titles like Project MD by Sik, and TMFPlay by TmEE. He enjoys talking about technical things (especially Genesis) and tends to test all homebrew ROMs he can get his hands on on real hardware by using a flash cartridge. However, this love to hardware compatibility caused him his position as a judge in the 2009 Hacking Contest, because he flamed about how some hacks weren't compatible and therefore not worth being tested.
