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Qjimbo discovered the Sonic Community in 1999, after coming across MIDI files of music from the Sonic the Hedgehog series. These midi files prompted him to type in "Sonic fan site" in Google, and the top result at the time was the Sonic Stuff Research Group.

He became intruiged by secrets sites such as Area 51 and the Pelord ran SWS2B, however he rarely, if ever, posted on messageboards. It was in late 2000 that he started his own site, at the time known Hill Top Zone. He was a frequent reader of Area 51's forum though, and distincly remembers when ICEKnight posted his Hill Top Zone savestate with Ice Cap Zone's palette applied.

Qjimbo's First Post

His first post was on the Sonic 2 Beta Anyboard, on the 27th Feburary 2001, qualifying him for Oldbie status on the Retro forums.

After the fall of SSRG in early 2003, Qjimbo set about integrating the old content from Area 51 into his own site Sonic Research Zone, so that the information wouldn't be lost, and by 2004, the site had reached the design that it still has today.

However, Qjimbo became better known simply for his posts on SWS2B, S2B and Retro. Over the course of the years, he released a few utilities, such as a S2B to S2F music porter, then one of his most famous, the Sonic 2 MP3 Tool, which allowed people to create custom soundtracks for Sonic 2 while using a peticular version of Gens or Gens+ (since it worked using RAM hacking like a Trainer).

Qjimbo's next publicity exposure would be in March 2006, when he posted his Michael Jackson's Sonic 3 video on youtube (link), a documentary that analysized similar music tracks that Michael Jackson released, and tracks in Sonic 3, after [hxc] revealed that Michael Jackson was originally commissioned to do the work. This documentary spread far and wide, appearing on many video game news sites, and even got it's own YTMND page.

However in early 2007, things began to turn sour for Qjimbo. Simon Wai had left the SWS2B forums, leaving it to LocalH and Hivebrain, but LocalH made the controversial choice of appointing Tweaker, as an administrator of the board, which Qjimbo didn't agree with due to Tweaker's actions as a staff member on other boards. Tweaker's administrative style was a lot more direct than Simon's, and to Qjimbo the board's direction seemed to be changing too dramaticly.

Despite all the drama though which ensued because of this, he believes Tweaker hasn't been a bad administrator in terms of what he set out to achieve, and has said that he believes Retro is a great forum for serious discussion and development.[1][2]

Qjimbo has also recently announced a new project involving Nayr that is set to be a more old skool sonic site centered around sonic secrets, incorporating content from Sonic Research Zone[3].

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