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<div><forumuser name="Alexbt" /><br />
'''Alexbt''' has been an active member of the [[Sonic scene]] since February 2002. He participated on a smaller scale since the Sonic 2 Beta Anyboard in December 2000. Alex was a driving force overseeing many changes behind the scenes at [[Sonic Classic]], and the early days at [[Sonic Retro]]. He now considers himself retired from the online Sonic scene, but pops in every now and then.<br />
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==Community Status==<br />
===Former Positions===<br />
*Maintainer of the [[SSRG]] Documents Archive<br />
*Technical Administrator of [[Area 51]]<br />
*Founder, [[Sonic Music Center]]<br />
*Founder, [[Sonic 2 Beta Music]]<br />
*Co-Founder, Technical Administrator - [[SSonicNET]] (2002-2005)<br />
*Radio Reporter - [[TSSZ]] (2004-2005)<br />
*Administrator - Sonic Retro Wiki (2004-2006)<br />
*Technical Administrator - Sonic Retro (2006)<br />
*Technical Administrator - [[Sonic Classic]] (2007-2008)<br />
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[[Category:Fansite owners]]</div>Alexbthttps://info.sonicretro.org/index.php?title=User:Alexbt&diff=172371User:Alexbt2011-06-15T07:45:45Z<p>Alexbt: </p>
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<div><forumuser name="Alexbt" /><br />
'''Alexbt''' has been an active member of the [[Sonic scene]] since February 2002. He participated on a smaller scale since the Sonic 2 Beta Anyboard in December 2000. Alex was a driving force overseeing many changes behind the scenes at [[Sonic Classic]], and the early days at [[Sonic Retro]]. He now considers himself retired from the online Sonic scene, but pops in every now and then.<br />
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==Personal Life==<br />
Alex Tirrell is a recent graduate of Rhode Island College with a BA in Music, having studied voice, piano, jazz, and musical theatre. A versatile musician, Alex has a strong background as a music director, keyboardist and singer, as well as experience in technology–audio engineering and video editing.<br />
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An avid music director for the past eight years, Alex has worked on many local and regional productions in the New England area, including the world premieres of The Clockwork Waltz and Nightsong, regional premieres of Les Miserables, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Rhode Island premieres of RENT and 13.<br />
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Recent projects include The Threepenny Opera with Trinity Rep/Brown Consortium and he soon will be starting Hair with New Bedford Festival Theatre.<br />
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When not working in theatre, Alex is keyboardist/vocalist for the award winning pop/rock band Shryne.<br />
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==Community Status==<br />
===Former Positions===<br />
*Maintainer of the [[SSRG]] Documents Archive<br />
*Technical Administrator of [[Area 51]]<br />
*Founder, [[Sonic Music Center]]<br />
*Founder, [[Sonic 2 Beta Music]]<br />
*Co-Founder, Technical Administrator - [[SSonicNET]] (2002-2005)<br />
*Radio Reporter - [[TSSZ]] (2004-2005)<br />
*Administrator - Sonic Retro Wiki (2004-2006)<br />
*Technical Administrator - Sonic Retro (2006)<br />
*Technical Administrator - [[Sonic Classic]] (2007-2008)<br />
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[[Category:Sceners]]</div>Alexbthttps://info.sonicretro.org/index.php?title=User:Alexbt&diff=172273User:Alexbt2011-06-11T19:23:15Z<p>Alexbt: /* Personal Life */</p>
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<div><forumuser name="Alexbt" /><br />
'''Alexbt''' has been an active member of the [[Sonic scene]] since February 2002. He participated on a smaller scale since the Sonic 2 Beta Anyboard in December 2000. Alex was a driving force overseeing many changes behind the scenes at [[Sonic Classic]], and the early days at [[Sonic Retro]].<br />
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==Personal Life==<br />
Alex Tirrell is a recent graduate of Rhode Island College with a BA in Music, having studied voice, piano, jazz, and musical theatre. A versatile musician, Alex has a strong background as a music director, keyboardist and singer, as well as experience in technology–audio engineering and video editing.<br />
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An avid music director for the past eight years, Alex has worked on many local and regional productions in the New England area, including the world premieres of The Clockwork Waltz and Nightsong, regional premieres of Les Miserables, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Rhode Island premieres of RENT and 13.<br />
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Recent projects include The Threepenny Opera with Trinity Rep/Brown Consortium and he soon will be starting Hair with New Bedford Festival Theatre.<br />
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When not working in theatre, Alex is keyboardist/vocalist for the award winning pop/rock band Shryne.<br />
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==Community Status==<br />
===Former Positions===<br />
*Maintainer of the [[SSRG]] Documents Archive<br />
*Technical Administrator of [[Area 51]]<br />
*Founder, [[Sonic Music Center]]<br />
*Founder, [[Sonic 2 Beta Music]]<br />
*Co-Founder, Technical Administrator - [[SSonicNET]] (2002-2005)<br />
*Radio Reporter - [[TSSZ]] (2004-2005)<br />
*Administrator - Sonic Retro Wiki (2004-2006)<br />
*Technical Administrator - Sonic Retro (2006)<br />
*Technical Administrator - [[Sonic Classic]] (2007-2008)<br />
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[[Category:Sceners]]</div>Alexbthttps://info.sonicretro.org/index.php?title=User:Alexbt&diff=148627User:Alexbt2010-05-24T06:14:28Z<p>Alexbt: </p>
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<div><forumuser name="Alexbt" /><br />
'''Alexbt''' has been an active member of the [[Sonic scene]] since February 2002. He participated on a smaller scale since the Sonic 2 Beta Anyboard in December 2000. Alex was a driving force overseeing many changes behind the scenes at [[Sonic Classic]], and the early days at [[Sonic Retro]].<br />
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==Personal Life==<br />
Alex is a recent graduate of Rhode Island College ('10) in Providence, RI having pursued a Bachelor of Arts in Music; Concentration in Voice, Piano, and Musical Theatre Music Direction.<br />
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In his spare time, Alex enjoys music--participating in theatre, RIC Chorus, RIC Chamber Singers, and Jazz Combos. <br />
He is also the keyboardist and a vocalist for the multi-award winning Rhode Island-based modern pop/rock band Shryne.<br />
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Through his six years in college, he was employed as a Troubleshooter for User Support Services at Rhode Island College, providing technical assistance to faculty and staff throughout the campus. He was also Technology Director and Webmaster for four years at The Anchor, the student newspaper of RIC.<br />
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Alex is currently employed as a Resident Music Director at the Courthouse Center for the Arts in West Kingston, RI, a professional theatre and fine arts center. He is also Vice President and Resident Music Director for the East Providence Community Theatre.<br />
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==Community Status==<br />
===Former Positions===<br />
*Maintainer of the [[SSRG]] Documents Archive<br />
*Technical Administrator of [[Area 51]]<br />
*Founder, [[Sonic Music Center]]<br />
*Founder, [[Sonic 2 Beta Music]]<br />
*Co-Founder, Technical Administrator - [[SSonicNET]] (2002-2005)<br />
*Radio Reporter - [[TSSZ]] (2004-2005)<br />
*Administrator - Sonic Retro Wiki (2004-2006)<br />
*Technical Administrator - Sonic Retro (2006)<br />
*Technical Administrator - [[Sonic Classic]] (2007-2008)<br />
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[[Category:Sceners]]</div>Alexbthttps://info.sonicretro.org/index.php?title=User:Alexbt&diff=148626User:Alexbt2010-05-24T06:11:52Z<p>Alexbt: /* Personal Life */</p>
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<div><forumuser name="Alexbt" /><br />
'''Alexbt''' has been an active member of the [[Sonic scene]] since February 2002. He participated on a smaller scale since the Sonic 2 Beta Anyboard in December 2000.<br />
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==Personal Life==<br />
Alex is a recent graduate of Rhode Island College ('10) in Providence, RI having pursued a Bachelor of Arts in Music; Concentration in Voice, Piano, and Musical Theatre Music Direction.<br />
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In his spare time, Alex enjoys music--participating in theatre, RIC Chorus, RIC Chamber Singers, and Jazz Combos. <br />
He is also the keyboardist and a vocalist for the multi-award winning Rhode Island-based modern pop/rock band Shryne.<br />
<br />
Through his six years in college, he was employed as a Troubleshooter for User Support Services at Rhode Island College, providing technical assistance to faculty and staff throughout the campus. He was also Technology Director and Webmaster for four years at The Anchor, the student newspaper of RIC.<br />
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Alex is currently employed as a Resident Music Director at the Courthouse Center for the Arts in West Kingston, RI, a professional theatre and fine arts center. He is also Vice President and Resident Music Director for the East Providence Community Theatre.<br />
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==Community Status==<br />
===Former Positions===<br />
*Maintainer of the [[SSRG]] Documents Archive<br />
*Technical Administrator of [[Area 51]]<br />
*Founder, [[Sonic Music Center]]<br />
*Founder, [[Sonic 2 Beta Music]]<br />
*Co-Founder, Technical Administrator - [[SSonicNET]] (2002-2005)<br />
*Radio Reporter - [[TSSZ]] (2004-2005)<br />
*Administrator - Sonic Retro Wiki (2004-2006)<br />
*Technical Administrator - Sonic Retro (2006)<br />
*Technical Administrator - [[Sonic Classic]] (2007-2008)<br />
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[[Category:Sceners]]</div>Alexbthttps://info.sonicretro.org/index.php?title=Sonic_Classic&diff=54372Sonic Classic2008-03-02T09:19:46Z<p>Alexbt: </p>
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<div>''For information the actual community rather than history, see [[SClassic Subculture]].''<br />
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'''Sonic Classic''' is an online community made up of, among other things, ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' fans. In its heyday, it was a wide-encompassing board with over 700 members and growing. It originally existed as [[Sonic 2 Beta (site)|Sonic 2 Beta]] and changed its name to Sonic Classic later in its life.<br />
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==Early History==<br />
===The Beginning===<br />
On January 3rd 1999, [[Simon Wai's Sonic 2 Beta]] Page was born, dedicated to the prototype version of this great game. The very first edition of the site had an animated gif of the title screen, and featured white text on a blue SONIC/MILES morphing background. <br />
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The discovery of ''[[Sonic 2 Beta]]'' [[ROM]] marked a significant point in the Sonic Secrets scene. Before the ROM was available, groundless speculations were made based on some poorly scanned pictures, and lots of faith was required in order for many theories to stand. After the ROM was discovered, investigations were made by means of "hacking" the savestates or the ROM directly. Hacking is now a foundation for new theories, which brings the Sonic community as a whole another step closer to the truth of what ''Sonic 2'' was intended to be. It is unknown who dumped the ROM found by Simon Wai, but it was found on a Chinese web site after a thread in the newsgroups about it. The wide-spread circulation of this ROM file soon followed.<br />
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==The ezBoard==<br />
===Simon Wai's Departure===<br />
In early 2000, [[Simon Wai]] decided to put his focus towards college, and left the Sonic 2 Beta as an archive, soon to be deleted. A member of the message boards, [[Pelord]] archived the site and rehosted it on the original [[Sonic Stuff Research Group]] in May of 2000. Sonic 2 Beta's focus was more on game theories, and general Sonic interest; the actual hacking and discoveries were usually posted on [[Area 51]] and [[Tom's SoStH Page]]. Although the actual site received few updates, one section — the [[mailbag]] — was very popular, and it was the original origins of several jokes such as "[[I wod lick a Sonic 2 ROMS]]"<br />
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On March 24, 2001, Pelord created the [[ezBoard]] edition of the Sonic 2 Beta Messageboard, a switch from Simon's AnyBoard creation. Time passed, and the need for moderators became apparent. [[LocalH]] and [[Terunaga]] were chosen. [[Sonic Sue]] became the first administator on Sonic 2 Beta after winning a hoax contest. During the ezBoard era, [[Terunaga]], [[Bryn2k]], [[Ashura2k]], [[LOst]], and [[TStodden]] served as moderators.<br />
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As time passed, Sonic 2 Beta found itself drifting away from Sonic research, becoming outpaced by the quickly-growing [[Sonic CulT]] and the prime days of [[Area 51]]. Thus, too, the mood of the forums started to drift toward Sonic information compilation, with things such as manual translations from Japanese Sonic games, and became more of a social center for those in the scene.<br />
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===The PACHUKA Incident===<br />
In July 2002, Sonic 2 Beta administrator [[Sonic Sue]] returned from a month's absence, due to computer woes. Upon her return, she noticed that the forums were different than when she had left, but she saw no reason not to do her job as she had been instructed to. About a day after her return, member [[Kilometers Prower]] posted a 'discovery' in the Sonic 2 Beta Discussion forum about an area in Labyrinth Zone (of ''Sonic 1'') that could be reached via debug mode. A member known as [[Sonique]] said in a not too pleasant way that it was already known and posted about at other boards.<br />
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Sue asked Sonique not to flame other users (per Pelord's rules), and told her that members of Sonic 2 Beta had obviously not seen the discovery, and since some members do not visit other boards.<br />
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The next day, the first thing Sue heard when she got online was an IM from a member known as [[MangoMan]], telling her that the Beta Discussion forum was under attack by a member named [[PACHUKA]], who was spam-bumping tons of old topics using images with offensive references and language (Note: Pelord always had a no swearing rule.) and that she was being flamed also. PACHUKA was online at this time, and so Sue gave him a number of reasonable warnings asking him to stop. (She recalls about ten of them. Other members tried convincing him to stop as well.)<br />
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The inital warnings were ignored, and Sue warned that if he continued spamming, he would be banned. It did continue, and she backed up her warning by actually banning him. She was the only admin online at the time, and could not let the forums get more disrupted than they already had.<br />
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Approximately ten to fifteen minutes after the ban, PACHUKA replaced his avatar with a message saying "Sonic Sue is a cunt", and posted some unpleasant things on his website. Within days, people who had never been seen on the forums before had started coming over to Sonic 2 Beta messageboard to flame her for being ban-happy, even though PACHUKA was the second person she ever banned.<br />
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===Simon Wai's Return===<br />
In late 2002, Simon Wai returned from seemingly thin air to announce his return to the community. Simon recreated Sonic 2 Beta the way he wanted it, and told [[Pelord]] he wanted the name Sonic 2 Beta back. Pelord agreed to the terms, and Sonic 2 Beta became known as Sonic Classic. Simon said that Sonic 2 Beta Message Board could remain open, but they must change their name. One of the few names put on the table was 'Sonic Classic', which was the name of Pelord's old Sonic-related website. The name stuck and it became official in December 2003. (At the time of the switch, Sonic Classic was located at pub10.ezboard.com/bsonic2beta). The current ezBoard link is http://go.ezboard.com/bsonic2beta<br />
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==SSonicNET==<br />
===Leaving ezBoard===<br />
[[Image:sclassic5.gif|frame|right|Sonic Classic "5" Logo, used during the SSonicNET years.]]<br />
Although [[ezBoard]] had served Sonic Classic's hosting needs for years, the ever rising price of [[Gold Community]] forced the staff to move. Free hosting for a message board the size of Sonic Classic, however, wasn't something easily found. A small hosting site for Sonic-based web pages, named [[SSonicNET]] was run by members of the communty [[Sonic McTails]] and [[Alexbt]]. It had opened in July of 2002, offered free hosting to Sonic based sites, and had hosted a backup of [[Area 51]] and a few other sites. [[Pelord]] eventually decided upon SSonicNET for hosting. Shortly after hearing this news, SSonicNET moved to [[Invision Power Board|Invision Power's]] Hosting, and was redesigned. <br />
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The first beta version of this new board was installed in November of '02, at http://projectnemesis.ibforums.com/sclassic (later moved to http://projectnemesis.ibforums.com/sclassic/forums ). It was at this time that Sonic McTails and Alexbt became full-time technical administrators on Sonic Classic staff. Alex, specifically handled the daunting task of fully implementing the ezBoard look-and-feel into the Invision Power skin design.<br />
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Invision Board 1.1 Final was installed, and was upgraded to 1.2 before going [[ILVE]] on February 16, 2003, and has remained on [[SSonicNET]]'s hosting through March 18, 2005. Sonic Classic was SSonicNET's largest site, using 4-10GB of bandwidth monthly.<br />
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===Bumpy Beginning===<br />
The beginning of the new board was arguably characterized by its friction with Sonic CulT. Many arguments erupted and many members left for a variety of reasons; however, SClassic moved on. During this friction, hackers obtained Alexbt's password to the ezBoard. All of the topics in Dust Hill Zone, the staff forums, were made public for all to see, and at a point soon after that, the ezBoard was entirely reskinned to look like Sonic CulT. A quick cry of help to ezBoard gave the power back to its rightful owners, but at that point a great deal of damage was done, leading to the entire board being wiped with no archives.<br />
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===SSS===<br />
In August of 2003, there were several security breakins to Sonic Classic through various backdoors and password thefts. Pachuka and TurboKiller/BorisZ turned out to be major players in these hackings. Pachuka always insisted that L0st and LocalH had a hand in these hackings, which was unlikely as they were both SClassic staff. LocalH's account was among those that were broken into by Pachuka, along with his AIM account, which is why he was able to place the blame so easily. Other involved parties included EveryNameWasTaken and AJ.<br />
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==Sonic Classic Moves On==<br />
===sclassic.net===<br />
[[Image:sclassic6.png|frame|right|Sonic Classic "6" logo.]]<br />
In March 2005, newly adminned staffer [[Scarred Sun]] made an offer to Sonic McTails to purchase SSonicNET. McTails declined the offer, and a plan to move Sonic Classic and SHIT went ahead. <br />
On Friday, March 18, 2005, after hosting was finally granted, SClassic and SHIT made an impromptu switch.<br />
[[SHIT]] was the first site on the new Sonic Classic to fully make the transition. Delays to the Sonic Classic forums were a day long due to a large database. The forums were brough back online in the evening on March 19th. <br />
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Initally, the Sonic Classic Cooperative had two main sites — the Sonic Classic forums and SHIT — and was planning to launch a third site, ASPRS, before the end of 2005. ASPRS, a Sonic news collective, was a novel idea but extremely time consuming, and never really made it off the ground.<br />
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On May 1, 2005, Sonic McTails was attempting to restore Shadow255's user account and accidentally overwrote the creator names of a month's worth of posts. Any strange lingering posts that are credited to Shadow255 may be this way for that reason.<br />
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On May 12, 2005, [[Borisz|Turbokiller/BorisZ]] decided it would be fun to hack the board in celebration of his birthday. This resulted in massive downtime as McTails tried to repair the forums. This also interfered with repairs from the overwritten account creator issue. Forums were finally reopened on May 20.<br />
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==A Retro Endeavor==<br />
===Sonic Retro===<br />
On May 1st, 2006, Sonic Classic administrators shocked many sceners by unveiling a new fundamental website, [[Sonic Retro]]. Outgrowing its former image and legacy, [[Scarred Sun]] & [[Alexbt]] (along with other staff members) planned out a new site that would take bits and pieces of Sonic Classic to form a bigger, better, and more organized site, including tight integration with the Wiki. Sonic Hot Dimensions was also included in the forum move.<br />
Sonic Classic Forums remain much like they were, but are now located within Sonic Retro Forums.<br />
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====New name, new hacking====<br />
Following his earlier trend, Turbo decided to mess with Sonic Retro/Classic on his birthday (approx May 12, 2006), and leaving Sonic Hot Dimensions open.<br />
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On July 14th, [[The Virus]] decided to abuse his global mod permissions and wipe the forums. [[Scarred Sun]] announced her resignation to the staff, and [[Alexbt]] became Interim Server Adminstrator.<br />
The forums were restored to a June backup on July 17, 2006 at approx. 3:00AM EST.<br />
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====Stripping Down====<br />
Sonic Hot Dimensions was tired of the clashing and left Sonic Retro Forums. Sonic Classic Forums then merged itself with the rest of Sonic Retro and became exclusively Sonic Retro Forums.<br />
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Scarred Sun later resumed her duties as Server Admin in later July/Early August.<br />
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====More hackings?====<br />
On August 5th, the site was the latest victim by what has been called an epidemic hacking spree by a group of Turkish crackers going under the alias of the "Turkish Defacer". The only part affected were the forums. They were restored quickly the same day, only to be brought down again and again.<br />
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==Back in Black==<br />
Following the random Turkish hackings and a minimal attempt to restore the forums, moderator [[UltraVR]] offered to move the forums to his server and run them on VBulletin, a more secure forums package. <br />
The move happened in mid-December 2006. In doing so, the forums effectively became Sonic Classic again. [[Scarred Sun]] stepped down from head administrator, and [[Ashura2k]] was elected her replacement for the future of the board. The site has since abandoned the old name and theme and went by the name [[PixelTanker]], in honor of pre-PlayStation era gaming. The new board used a black and red color scheme, deviating from the usual blue based scheme. Plans were in works for expansion of the forums into a larger site, but it never had much more for features other than Flash games and a news page.<br />
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==To be Classic Again==<br />
With the apparent disappearance of [[UltraVR]], and the death of his server, PixelTanker was no more. As a result, [[Alexbt]] revived Sonic Classic once more under its original name. It now runs on a Simple Machines forum, using a skin based on the ezBoard version. It remains as a meeting place and general forum for the frequent visitors of the previous SClassic incarnations, with the name ''Sonic Classic'' mostly acting as a moniker to identify the community. It is, in essence, no longer a forum that concentrates on Sonic as a subject of discussion, though it does still have a Sonic discussion forum for nostalgic purposes. This new incarnation of Sonic Classic launched on October 8, 2007.<br />
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==Press Start==<br />
On February 28th, 2008, it was announced by staff that Sonic Classic would be transitioning back into a classic gaming site and forums. The new site is called [[Press Start]].<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.sclassic.info/ Current address of Sonic Classic]<br />
* [http://sonic2beta.yuku.com/ Backup Forums on Yuku (formerly ezBoard)]<br />
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[[Category: Sites]]</div>Alexbthttps://info.sonicretro.org/index.php?title=User:Ashura2k&diff=54194User:Ashura2k2008-02-25T21:35:02Z<p>Alexbt: </p>
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<div>'''Ashura2k''' is the current administrator of [[Sonic Classic]] and all around super awesome dude.<br />
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==History==<br />
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He entered the Sonic community May 25, 2001, marking his first post on the Sonic 2 Beta Message Boards (on [[SSRG]]). Ashura was a member of the [[SET ARK]] group and eventually made moderator of Sonic 2 Beta. Upon which, he contributed to the mailbag section (spawning the coinage of "I wod lick a Sonic 2 ROMS"), and ran Sonic 2 Beta Radio. He stayed with the Sonic 2 Beta staff through it's move to [[Sonic Classic]]. In 2003, controversy marred Ashura2k's reputation when he was caught leading a movement to overthrow most of the staff of Sonic Classic (whom at the time, he saw as incompetent and unjust). Other than that, Ashura2k is generally an easy going, spontaneous dude who is generally well received by fellow members of the community. Sometime in 2004 he started a popular segment called "Ask Grandpappy Ashura" where he would take seemingly heartfelt questions from submitters and address them as humorously and nonsensically as he could. He continued on with Sonic Classic through its various moves and evolution into [[Sonic Retro]]. In early December 2006, [[Scarred Sun]] stepped down as head administrator of the forums, the community shifted to [[UltraVR]]'s server and was reborn as [[Pixel Tanker]] with Ashura2k as an elected administrator.<br />
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==Stuff==<br />
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In real life Ashura2k's name is Rees. He likes music and drives a fucking sweet dodge caravan. He loves Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Wonder Showzen, and Upright Citizens Brigade. He proudly owns a pair of Heelys and has been accused of being a communist. Ashura is also a huge Devo fan, keeping an energy dome in his car at all times.<br />
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[[Image:LickRom.gif]]<br />
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* [http://www.pixeltanker.com/classico/index.php Pixel Tanker Forums]<br />
* [http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ashura2k YouTube Channel]<br />
* [http://lord-slashstab.livejournal.com/ Livejournal]<br />
* [http://www.myspace.com/conspiracy_a_go_go lol myspace]<br />
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[[Category:Sceners]]</div>Alexbthttps://info.sonicretro.org/index.php?title=User:Alexbt&diff=54193User:Alexbt2008-02-25T21:32:48Z<p>Alexbt: </p>
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<div>==Alexbt==<br />
If it were AlexBT, don't you think it would look like that?<br />
Alex has been an active member of the [[Sonic Scene]] since Feburary 2002.<br />
He participated on a smaller scale since the Sonic 2 Beta Anyboard in December 2000.<br />
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===2003-Present===<br />
*Technical Administrator - [[Sonic Classic]]<br />
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===Former Positions===<br />
*Maintainer of the [[SSRG]] Documents Archive<br />
*Technical Administrator of [[Area 51]]<br />
*Founder, [[Sonic Music Center]]<br />
*Founder, [[Sonic 2 Beta Music]]<br />
*Co-Founder, Technical Administrator - [[SSonicNET]] (2002-2005)<br />
*Radio Reporter - [[TSSZ]] (2004-2005)<br />
*Administrator - Sonic Retro Wiki (2004-2006)<br />
*Technical Administrator - Sonic Retro (2006)<br />
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[[Category:Sceners]]<br />
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See also:<br />
[[User:Alexbt]]</div>Alexbthttps://info.sonicretro.org/index.php?title=Sonic_Retro&diff=54173Sonic Retro2008-02-25T05:21:23Z<p>Alexbt: /* History */</p>
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'''Sonic Retro''' (formerly known as '''SSonicNET Database''', '''Sonic the Hedgehog Information Treasury (SHIT)''' and the '''Sonic Retro Info Wiki''') is a free content encyclopedia written collaboratively by contributors from around the world. It attempts to form a complete knowledge base for everything to do with Sonic the Hedgehog. The site is a wiki, which means that anyone can edit articles, simply by clicking on the "edit this page" link. It's the site you're looking at right now. The site currently has {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles.<br />
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==History==<br />
In mid-2004, scener [[LocalH]] brought up the idea of having a scene database similar to the [http://noname.c64.org/csdb/ Commodore 64 Scene Database], but for the Sonic hacking and research scene, to the staff of [[Sonic Classic]] and [[SSonicNET]]. On September 14, 2004, the SSonicNET Database was founded by [[Alexbt]] as a possible test project for Local H's vision. At that point, MediaWiki sites were not as common as they are today, and there were few if any Sonic-related wikis. With the early effort of some Sonic Classic staff members, the site grew into "SHIT" (Sonic the Hedgehog Information Treasury).<br />
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In March 2005, newly adminned staffer [[Scarred Sun]] made an offer to Sonic McTails, then-head of SSonicNET to purchase SSonicNET because of a series of disputes the two had concerning the running of the SSonicNET Database. McTails declined the offer, and a plan to move the Sonic Classic forums and SHIT off McTails' server went ahead. On Friday, March 18, 2005, after hosting was finally granted, SClassic and SHIT made an impromptu switch to http://www.sclassic.net (now defunct.) SHIT was the first site on the new Sonic Classic to fully make the transition. <br />
<br />
In May 2006, SHIT, Sonic Classic, and [[Sonic Hot Dimensions]], the three main hostees of sclassic.net, were combined under the "Sonic Retro" moniker in order to help promote crosstraffic. After two months, due to infighting between the staffs of SClassic and SHD, the merger dissolved, and because of differing interests, Sonic Classic and SHIT went their separate ways in fall 2006. With that, SHIT absorbed the Sonic Retro name and became simply "Sonic Retro."<br />
<br />
==Awards and Accolades==<br />
In 2005, Sonic Retro was nominated for several [[Sonic Site Awards]], winning the ''Most Evolved Website'' award. At the time of the awards, Sonic Retro had gone from non-existence to over 1,000 articles.<br />
<br />
[[Image:06-evolved.gif]] <br />
<br />
[[Category:Sonic Retro| ]]<br />
[[Category:Sites]]</div>Alexbthttps://info.sonicretro.org/index.php?title=Sonic_Classic&diff=54172Sonic Classic2008-02-25T05:14:19Z<p>Alexbt: /* To be Classic Again */</p>
<hr />
<div>''For information the actual community rather than history, see [[SClassic Subculture]].''<br />
<br />
'''Sonic Classic''' is an online community made up of, among other things, ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' fans. In its heyday, it was a wide-encompassing board with over 700 members and growing. It originally existed as [[Sonic 2 Beta (site)|Sonic 2 Beta]] and changed its name to Sonic Classic later in its life.<br />
<br />
==Early History==<br />
===The Beginning===<br />
On January 3rd 1999, [[Simon Wai's Sonic 2 Beta]] Page was born, dedicated to the prototype version of this great game. The very first edition of the site had an animated gif of the title screen, and featured white text on a blue SONIC/MILES morphing background. <br />
<br />
The discovery of ''[[Sonic 2 Beta]]'' [[ROM]] marked a significant point in the Sonic Secrets scene. Before the ROM was available, groundless speculations were made based on some poorly scanned pictures, and lots of faith was required in order for many theories to stand. After the ROM was discovered, investigations were made by means of "hacking" the savestates or the ROM directly. Hacking is now a foundation for new theories, which brings the Sonic community as a whole another step closer to the truth of what ''Sonic 2'' was intended to be. It is unknown who dumped the ROM found by Simon Wai, but it was found on a Chinese web site after a thread in the newsgroups about it. The wide-spread circulation of this ROM file soon followed.<br />
<br />
==The ezBoard==<br />
===Simon Wai's Departure===<br />
In early 2000, [[Simon Wai]] decided to put his focus towards college, and left the Sonic 2 Beta as an archive, soon to be deleted. A member of the message boards, [[Pelord]] archived the site and rehosted it on the original [[Sonic Stuff Research Group]] in May of 2000. Sonic 2 Beta's focus was more on game theories, and general Sonic interest; the actual hacking and discoveries were usually posted on [[Area 51]] and [[Tom's SoStH Page]]. Although the actual site received few updates, one section — the [[mailbag]] — was very popular, and it was the original origins of several jokes such as "[[I wod lick a Sonic 2 ROMS]]"<br />
<br />
On March 24, 2001, Pelord created the [[ezBoard]] edition of the Sonic 2 Beta Messageboard, a switch from Simon's AnyBoard creation. Time passed, and the need for moderators became apparent. [[LocalH]] and [[Terunaga]] were chosen. [[Sonic Sue]] became the first administator on Sonic 2 Beta after winning a hoax contest. During the ezBoard era, [[Terunaga]], [[Bryn2k]], [[Ashura2k]], [[LOst]], and [[TStodden]] served as moderators.<br />
<br />
As time passed, Sonic 2 Beta found itself drifting away from Sonic research, becoming outpaced by the quickly-growing [[Sonic CulT]] and the prime days of [[Area 51]]. Thus, too, the mood of the forums started to drift toward Sonic information compilation, with things such as manual translations from Japanese Sonic games, and became more of a social center for those in the scene.<br />
<br />
===The PACHUKA Incident===<br />
In July 2002, Sonic 2 Beta administrator [[Sonic Sue]] returned from a month's absence, due to computer woes. Upon her return, she noticed that the forums were different than when she had left, but she saw no reason not to do her job as she had been instructed to. About a day after her return, member [[Kilometers Prower]] posted a 'discovery' in the Sonic 2 Beta Discussion forum about an area in Labyrinth Zone (of ''Sonic 1'') that could be reached via debug mode. A member known as [[Sonique]] said in a not too pleasant way that it was already known and posted about at other boards.<br />
<br />
Sue asked Sonique not to flame other users (per Pelord's rules), and told her that members of Sonic 2 Beta had obviously not seen the discovery, and since some members do not visit other boards.<br />
<br />
The next day, the first thing Sue heard when she got online was an IM from a member known as [[MangoMan]], telling her that the Beta Discussion forum was under attack by a member named [[PACHUKA]], who was spam-bumping tons of old topics using images with offensive references and language (Note: Pelord always had a no swearing rule.) and that she was being flamed also. PACHUKA was online at this time, and so Sue gave him a number of reasonable warnings asking him to stop. (She recalls about ten of them. Other members tried convincing him to stop as well.)<br />
<br />
The inital warnings were ignored, and Sue warned that if he continued spamming, he would be banned. It did continue, and she backed up her warning by actually banning him. She was the only admin online at the time, and could not let the forums get more disrupted than they already had.<br />
<br />
Approximately ten to fifteen minutes after the ban, PACHUKA replaced his avatar with a message saying "Sonic Sue is a cunt", and posted some unpleasant things on his website. Within days, people who had never been seen on the forums before had started coming over to Sonic 2 Beta messageboard to flame her for being ban-happy, even though PACHUKA was the second person she ever banned.<br />
<br />
===Simon Wai's Return===<br />
In late 2002, Simon Wai returned from seemingly thin air to announce his return to the community. Simon recreated Sonic 2 Beta the way he wanted it, and told [[Pelord]] he wanted the name Sonic 2 Beta back. Pelord agreed to the terms, and Sonic 2 Beta became known as Sonic Classic. Simon said that Sonic 2 Beta Message Board could remain open, but they must change their name. One of the few names put on the table was 'Sonic Classic', which was the name of Pelord's old Sonic-related website. The name stuck and it became official in December 2003. (At the time of the switch, Sonic Classic was located at pub10.ezboard.com/bsonic2beta). The current ezBoard link is http://go.ezboard.com/bsonic2beta<br />
<br />
==SSonicNET==<br />
===Leaving ezBoard===<br />
[[Image:sclassic5.gif|frame|right|Sonic Classic "5" Logo, used during the SSonicNET years.]]<br />
Although [[ezBoard]] had served Sonic Classic's hosting needs for years, the ever rising price of [[Gold Community]] forced the staff to move. Free hosting for a message board the size of Sonic Classic, however, wasn't something easily found. A small hosting site for Sonic-based web pages, named [[SSonicNET]] was run by members of the communty [[Sonic McTails]] and [[Alexbt]]. It had opened in July of 2002, offered free hosting to Sonic based sites, and had hosted a backup of [[Area 51]] and a few other sites. [[Pelord]] eventually decided upon SSonicNET for hosting. Shortly after hearing this news, SSonicNET moved to [[Invision Power Board|Invision Power's]] Hosting, and was redesigned. <br />
<br />
The first beta version of this new board was installed in November of '02, at http://projectnemesis.ibforums.com/sclassic (later moved to http://projectnemesis.ibforums.com/sclassic/forums ). It was at this time that Sonic McTails and Alexbt became full-time technical administrators on Sonic Classic staff. Alex, specifically handled the daunting task of fully implementing the ezBoard look-and-feel into the Invision Power skin design.<br />
<br />
Invision Board 1.1 Final was installed, and was upgraded to 1.2 before going [[ILVE]] on February 16, 2003, and has remained on [[SSonicNET]]'s hosting through March 18, 2005. Sonic Classic was SSonicNET's largest site, using 4-10GB of bandwidth monthly.<br />
<br />
===Bumpy Beginning===<br />
The beginning of the new board was arguably characterized by its friction with Sonic CulT. Many arguments erupted and many members left for a variety of reasons; however, SClassic moved on. During this friction, hackers obtained Alexbt's password to the ezBoard. All of the topics in Dust Hill Zone, the staff forums, were made public for all to see, and at a point soon after that, the ezBoard was entirely reskinned to look like Sonic CulT. A quick cry of help to ezBoard gave the power back to its rightful owners, but at that point a great deal of damage was done, leading to the entire board being wiped with no archives.<br />
<br />
===SSS===<br />
In August of 2003, there were several security breakins to Sonic Classic through various backdoors and password thefts. Pachuka and TurboKiller/BorisZ turned out to be major players in these hackings. Pachuka always insisted that L0st and LocalH had a hand in these hackings, which was unlikely as they were both SClassic staff. LocalH's account was among those that were broken into by Pachuka, along with his AIM account, which is why he was able to place the blame so easily. Other involved parties included EveryNameWasTaken and AJ.<br />
<br />
==Sonic Classic Moves On==<br />
===sclassic.net===<br />
[[Image:sclassic6.png|frame|right|Sonic Classic "6" logo.]]<br />
In March 2005, newly adminned staffer [[Scarred Sun]] made an offer to Sonic McTails to purchase SSonicNET. McTails declined the offer, and a plan to move Sonic Classic and SHIT went ahead. <br />
On Friday, March 18, 2005, after hosting was finally granted, SClassic and SHIT made an impromptu switch.<br />
[[SHIT]] was the first site on the new Sonic Classic to fully make the transition. Delays to the Sonic Classic forums were a day long due to a large database. The forums were brough back online in the evening on March 19th. <br />
<br />
Initally, the Sonic Classic Cooperative had two main sites — the Sonic Classic forums and SHIT — and was planning to launch a third site, ASPRS, before the end of 2005. ASPRS, a Sonic news collective, was a novel idea but extremely time consuming, and never really made it off the ground.<br />
<br />
On May 1, 2005, Sonic McTails was attempting to restore Shadow255's user account and accidentally overwrote the creator names of a month's worth of posts. Any strange lingering posts that are credited to Shadow255 may be this way for that reason.<br />
<br />
On May 12, 2005, [[Borisz|Turbokiller/BorisZ]] decided it would be fun to hack the board in celebration of his birthday. This resulted in massive downtime as McTails tried to repair the forums. This also interfered with repairs from the overwritten account creator issue. Forums were finally reopened on May 20.<br />
<br />
==A Retro Endeavor==<br />
===Sonic Retro===<br />
On May 1st, 2006, Sonic Classic administrators shocked many sceners by unveiling a new fundamental website, [[Sonic Retro]]. Outgrowing its former image and legacy, [[Scarred Sun]] & [[Alexbt]] (along with other staff members) planned out a new site that would take bits and pieces of Sonic Classic to form a bigger, better, and more organized site, including tight integration with the Wiki. Sonic Hot Dimensions was also included in the forum move.<br />
Sonic Classic Forums remain much like they were, but are now located within Sonic Retro Forums.<br />
<br />
====New name, new hacking====<br />
Following his earlier trend, Turbo decided to mess with Sonic Retro/Classic on his birthday (approx May 12, 2006), and leaving Sonic Hot Dimensions open.<br />
<br />
On July 14th, [[The Virus]] decided to abuse his global mod permissions and wipe the forums. [[Scarred Sun]] announced her resignation to the staff, and [[Alexbt]] became Interim Server Adminstrator.<br />
The forums were restored to a June backup on July 17, 2006 at approx. 3:00AM EST.<br />
<br />
====Stripping Down====<br />
Sonic Hot Dimensions was tired of the clashing and left Sonic Retro Forums. Sonic Classic Forums then merged itself with the rest of Sonic Retro and became exclusively Sonic Retro Forums.<br />
<br />
Scarred Sun later resumed her duties as Server Admin in later July/Early August.<br />
<br />
====More hackings?====<br />
On August 5th, the site was the latest victim by what has been called an epidemic hacking spree by a group of Turkish crackers going under the alias of the "Turkish Defacer". The only part affected were the forums. They were restored quickly the same day, only to be brought down again and again.<br />
<br />
==Back in Black==<br />
Following the random Turkish hackings and a minimal attempt to restore the forums, moderator [[UltraVR]] offered to move the forums to his server and run them on VBulletin, a more secure forums package. <br />
The move happened in mid-December 2006. In doing so, the forums effectively became Sonic Classic again. [[Scarred Sun]] stepped down from head administrator, and [[Ashura2k]] was elected her replacement for the future of the board. The site has since abandoned the old name and theme and went by the name [[PixelTanker]], in honor of pre-PlayStation era gaming. The new board used a black and red color scheme, deviating from the usual blue based scheme. Plans were in works for expansion of the forums into a larger site, but it never had much more for features other than Flash games and a news page.<br />
<br />
==To be Classic Again==<br />
With the apparent disappearance of [[UltraVR]], and the death of his server, PixelTanker was no more. As a result, [[Alexbt]] revived Sonic Classic once more under its original name. It now runs on a Simple Machines forum, using a skin based on the ezBoard version. It remains as a meeting place and general forum for the frequent visitors of the previous SClassic incarnations, with the name ''Sonic Classic'' mostly acting as a moniker to identify the community. It is, in essence, no longer a forum that concentrates on Sonic as a subject of discussion, though it does still have a Sonic discussion forum for nostalgic purposes.<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
* [http://www.sclassic.info/ Current address of Sonic Classic]<br />
* [http://sonic2beta.yuku.com/ Backup Forums on Yuku (formerly ezBoard)]<br />
<br />
[[Category: Sites]]</div>Alexbthttps://info.sonicretro.org/index.php?title=Sonic_Classic&diff=54171Sonic Classic2008-02-25T05:13:28Z<p>Alexbt: </p>
<hr />
<div>''For information the actual community rather than history, see [[SClassic Subculture]].''<br />
<br />
'''Sonic Classic''' is an online community made up of, among other things, ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' fans. In its heyday, it was a wide-encompassing board with over 700 members and growing. It originally existed as [[Sonic 2 Beta (site)|Sonic 2 Beta]] and changed its name to Sonic Classic later in its life.<br />
<br />
==Early History==<br />
===The Beginning===<br />
On January 3rd 1999, [[Simon Wai's Sonic 2 Beta]] Page was born, dedicated to the prototype version of this great game. The very first edition of the site had an animated gif of the title screen, and featured white text on a blue SONIC/MILES morphing background. <br />
<br />
The discovery of ''[[Sonic 2 Beta]]'' [[ROM]] marked a significant point in the Sonic Secrets scene. Before the ROM was available, groundless speculations were made based on some poorly scanned pictures, and lots of faith was required in order for many theories to stand. After the ROM was discovered, investigations were made by means of "hacking" the savestates or the ROM directly. Hacking is now a foundation for new theories, which brings the Sonic community as a whole another step closer to the truth of what ''Sonic 2'' was intended to be. It is unknown who dumped the ROM found by Simon Wai, but it was found on a Chinese web site after a thread in the newsgroups about it. The wide-spread circulation of this ROM file soon followed.<br />
<br />
==The ezBoard==<br />
===Simon Wai's Departure===<br />
In early 2000, [[Simon Wai]] decided to put his focus towards college, and left the Sonic 2 Beta as an archive, soon to be deleted. A member of the message boards, [[Pelord]] archived the site and rehosted it on the original [[Sonic Stuff Research Group]] in May of 2000. Sonic 2 Beta's focus was more on game theories, and general Sonic interest; the actual hacking and discoveries were usually posted on [[Area 51]] and [[Tom's SoStH Page]]. Although the actual site received few updates, one section — the [[mailbag]] — was very popular, and it was the original origins of several jokes such as "[[I wod lick a Sonic 2 ROMS]]"<br />
<br />
On March 24, 2001, Pelord created the [[ezBoard]] edition of the Sonic 2 Beta Messageboard, a switch from Simon's AnyBoard creation. Time passed, and the need for moderators became apparent. [[LocalH]] and [[Terunaga]] were chosen. [[Sonic Sue]] became the first administator on Sonic 2 Beta after winning a hoax contest. During the ezBoard era, [[Terunaga]], [[Bryn2k]], [[Ashura2k]], [[LOst]], and [[TStodden]] served as moderators.<br />
<br />
As time passed, Sonic 2 Beta found itself drifting away from Sonic research, becoming outpaced by the quickly-growing [[Sonic CulT]] and the prime days of [[Area 51]]. Thus, too, the mood of the forums started to drift toward Sonic information compilation, with things such as manual translations from Japanese Sonic games, and became more of a social center for those in the scene.<br />
<br />
===The PACHUKA Incident===<br />
In July 2002, Sonic 2 Beta administrator [[Sonic Sue]] returned from a month's absence, due to computer woes. Upon her return, she noticed that the forums were different than when she had left, but she saw no reason not to do her job as she had been instructed to. About a day after her return, member [[Kilometers Prower]] posted a 'discovery' in the Sonic 2 Beta Discussion forum about an area in Labyrinth Zone (of ''Sonic 1'') that could be reached via debug mode. A member known as [[Sonique]] said in a not too pleasant way that it was already known and posted about at other boards.<br />
<br />
Sue asked Sonique not to flame other users (per Pelord's rules), and told her that members of Sonic 2 Beta had obviously not seen the discovery, and since some members do not visit other boards.<br />
<br />
The next day, the first thing Sue heard when she got online was an IM from a member known as [[MangoMan]], telling her that the Beta Discussion forum was under attack by a member named [[PACHUKA]], who was spam-bumping tons of old topics using images with offensive references and language (Note: Pelord always had a no swearing rule.) and that she was being flamed also. PACHUKA was online at this time, and so Sue gave him a number of reasonable warnings asking him to stop. (She recalls about ten of them. Other members tried convincing him to stop as well.)<br />
<br />
The inital warnings were ignored, and Sue warned that if he continued spamming, he would be banned. It did continue, and she backed up her warning by actually banning him. She was the only admin online at the time, and could not let the forums get more disrupted than they already had.<br />
<br />
Approximately ten to fifteen minutes after the ban, PACHUKA replaced his avatar with a message saying "Sonic Sue is a cunt", and posted some unpleasant things on his website. Within days, people who had never been seen on the forums before had started coming over to Sonic 2 Beta messageboard to flame her for being ban-happy, even though PACHUKA was the second person she ever banned.<br />
<br />
===Simon Wai's Return===<br />
In late 2002, Simon Wai returned from seemingly thin air to announce his return to the community. Simon recreated Sonic 2 Beta the way he wanted it, and told [[Pelord]] he wanted the name Sonic 2 Beta back. Pelord agreed to the terms, and Sonic 2 Beta became known as Sonic Classic. Simon said that Sonic 2 Beta Message Board could remain open, but they must change their name. One of the few names put on the table was 'Sonic Classic', which was the name of Pelord's old Sonic-related website. The name stuck and it became official in December 2003. (At the time of the switch, Sonic Classic was located at pub10.ezboard.com/bsonic2beta). The current ezBoard link is http://go.ezboard.com/bsonic2beta<br />
<br />
==SSonicNET==<br />
===Leaving ezBoard===<br />
[[Image:sclassic5.gif|frame|right|Sonic Classic "5" Logo, used during the SSonicNET years.]]<br />
Although [[ezBoard]] had served Sonic Classic's hosting needs for years, the ever rising price of [[Gold Community]] forced the staff to move. Free hosting for a message board the size of Sonic Classic, however, wasn't something easily found. A small hosting site for Sonic-based web pages, named [[SSonicNET]] was run by members of the communty [[Sonic McTails]] and [[Alexbt]]. It had opened in July of 2002, offered free hosting to Sonic based sites, and had hosted a backup of [[Area 51]] and a few other sites. [[Pelord]] eventually decided upon SSonicNET for hosting. Shortly after hearing this news, SSonicNET moved to [[Invision Power Board|Invision Power's]] Hosting, and was redesigned. <br />
<br />
The first beta version of this new board was installed in November of '02, at http://projectnemesis.ibforums.com/sclassic (later moved to http://projectnemesis.ibforums.com/sclassic/forums ). It was at this time that Sonic McTails and Alexbt became full-time technical administrators on Sonic Classic staff. Alex, specifically handled the daunting task of fully implementing the ezBoard look-and-feel into the Invision Power skin design.<br />
<br />
Invision Board 1.1 Final was installed, and was upgraded to 1.2 before going [[ILVE]] on February 16, 2003, and has remained on [[SSonicNET]]'s hosting through March 18, 2005. Sonic Classic was SSonicNET's largest site, using 4-10GB of bandwidth monthly.<br />
<br />
===Bumpy Beginning===<br />
The beginning of the new board was arguably characterized by its friction with Sonic CulT. Many arguments erupted and many members left for a variety of reasons; however, SClassic moved on. During this friction, hackers obtained Alexbt's password to the ezBoard. All of the topics in Dust Hill Zone, the staff forums, were made public for all to see, and at a point soon after that, the ezBoard was entirely reskinned to look like Sonic CulT. A quick cry of help to ezBoard gave the power back to its rightful owners, but at that point a great deal of damage was done, leading to the entire board being wiped with no archives.<br />
<br />
===SSS===<br />
In August of 2003, there were several security breakins to Sonic Classic through various backdoors and password thefts. Pachuka and TurboKiller/BorisZ turned out to be major players in these hackings. Pachuka always insisted that L0st and LocalH had a hand in these hackings, which was unlikely as they were both SClassic staff. LocalH's account was among those that were broken into by Pachuka, along with his AIM account, which is why he was able to place the blame so easily. Other involved parties included EveryNameWasTaken and AJ.<br />
<br />
==Sonic Classic Moves On==<br />
===sclassic.net===<br />
[[Image:sclassic6.png|frame|right|Sonic Classic "6" logo.]]<br />
In March 2005, newly adminned staffer [[Scarred Sun]] made an offer to Sonic McTails to purchase SSonicNET. McTails declined the offer, and a plan to move Sonic Classic and SHIT went ahead. <br />
On Friday, March 18, 2005, after hosting was finally granted, SClassic and SHIT made an impromptu switch.<br />
[[SHIT]] was the first site on the new Sonic Classic to fully make the transition. Delays to the Sonic Classic forums were a day long due to a large database. The forums were brough back online in the evening on March 19th. <br />
<br />
Initally, the Sonic Classic Cooperative had two main sites — the Sonic Classic forums and SHIT — and was planning to launch a third site, ASPRS, before the end of 2005. ASPRS, a Sonic news collective, was a novel idea but extremely time consuming, and never really made it off the ground.<br />
<br />
On May 1, 2005, Sonic McTails was attempting to restore Shadow255's user account and accidentally overwrote the creator names of a month's worth of posts. Any strange lingering posts that are credited to Shadow255 may be this way for that reason.<br />
<br />
On May 12, 2005, [[Borisz|Turbokiller/BorisZ]] decided it would be fun to hack the board in celebration of his birthday. This resulted in massive downtime as McTails tried to repair the forums. This also interfered with repairs from the overwritten account creator issue. Forums were finally reopened on May 20.<br />
<br />
==A Retro Endeavor==<br />
===Sonic Retro===<br />
On May 1st, 2006, Sonic Classic administrators shocked many sceners by unveiling a new fundamental website, [[Sonic Retro]]. Outgrowing its former image and legacy, [[Scarred Sun]] & [[Alexbt]] (along with other staff members) planned out a new site that would take bits and pieces of Sonic Classic to form a bigger, better, and more organized site, including tight integration with the Wiki. Sonic Hot Dimensions was also included in the forum move.<br />
Sonic Classic Forums remain much like they were, but are now located within Sonic Retro Forums.<br />
<br />
====New name, new hacking====<br />
Following his earlier trend, Turbo decided to mess with Sonic Retro/Classic on his birthday (approx May 12, 2006), and leaving Sonic Hot Dimensions open.<br />
<br />
On July 14th, [[The Virus]] decided to abuse his global mod permissions and wipe the forums. [[Scarred Sun]] announced her resignation to the staff, and [[Alexbt]] became Interim Server Adminstrator.<br />
The forums were restored to a June backup on July 17, 2006 at approx. 3:00AM EST.<br />
<br />
====Stripping Down====<br />
Sonic Hot Dimensions was tired of the clashing and left Sonic Retro Forums. Sonic Classic Forums then merged itself with the rest of Sonic Retro and became exclusively Sonic Retro Forums.<br />
<br />
Scarred Sun later resumed her duties as Server Admin in later July/Early August.<br />
<br />
====More hackings?====<br />
On August 5th, the site was the latest victim by what has been called an epidemic hacking spree by a group of Turkish crackers going under the alias of the "Turkish Defacer". The only part affected were the forums. They were restored quickly the same day, only to be brought down again and again.<br />
<br />
==Back in Black==<br />
Following the random Turkish hackings and a minimal attempt to restore the forums, moderator [[UltraVR]] offered to move the forums to his server and run them on VBulletin, a more secure forums package. <br />
The move happened in mid-December 2006. In doing so, the forums effectively became Sonic Classic again. [[Scarred Sun]] stepped down from head administrator, and [[Ashura2k]] was elected her replacement for the future of the board. The site has since abandoned the old name and theme and went by the name [[PixelTanker]], in honor of pre-PlayStation era gaming. The new board used a black and red color scheme, deviating from the usual blue based scheme. Plans were in works for expansion of the forums into a larger site, but it never had much more for features other than Flash games and a news page.<br />
<br />
==To be Classic Again==<br />
Since the apparent disappearance of [[UltraVR]], and the death of his server, PixelTanker was no more. As a result, [[Alexbt]] revived Sonic Classic once more under its original name. It now runs on a Simple Machines forum, using a skin based on the ezBoard version. It remains as a meeting place and general forum for the frequent visitors of the previous SClassic incarnations, with the name ''Sonic Classic'' mostly acting as a moniker to identify the community. It is, in essence, no longer a forum that concentrates on Sonic as a subject of discussion, though it does still have a Sonic discussion forum for nostalgic purposes.<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
* [http://www.sclassic.info/ Current address of Sonic Classic]<br />
* [http://sonic2beta.yuku.com/ Backup Forums on Yuku (formerly ezBoard)]<br />
<br />
[[Category: Sites]]</div>Alexbthttps://info.sonicretro.org/index.php?title=Sonic_Classic&diff=44540Sonic Classic2007-01-24T03:28:27Z<p>Alexbt: /* To be Classic Again */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Outdated}}<br />
''For information the actual community rather than history, see [[SClassic Subculture]].''<br />
<br />
'''Sonic Classic''' is an online community made up of, among other things, ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' fans. Today, it is a wide-encompassing board with over 700 members and growing. It originally existed as [[Sonic 2 Beta (site)|Sonic 2 Beta]] and changed its name to Sonic Classic later in its life.<br />
<br />
==Early History==<br />
===The Beginning===<br />
On January 3rd 1999, [[Simon Wai's Sonic 2 Beta]] Page was born, dedicated to the prototype version of this great game. The very first edition of the site had an animated gif of the title screen, and featured white text on a blue SONIC/MILES morphing background. <br />
<br />
The discovery of ''[[Sonic 2 Beta]]'' [[ROM]] marked a significant point in the Sonic Secrets scene. Before the ROM was available, groundless speculations were made based on some poorly scanned pictures, and lots of faith was required in order for many theories to stand. After the ROM was discovered, investigations were made by means of "hacking" the savestates or the ROM directly. Hacking is now a foundation for new theories, which brings the Sonic community as a whole another step closer to the truth of what ''Sonic 2'' was intended to be. It is unknown who dumped the ROM found by Simon Wai, but it was found on a Chinese web site after a thread in the newsgroups about it. The wide-spread circulation of this ROM file soon followed.<br />
<br />
==The ezBoard==<br />
===Simon Wai's Departure===<br />
In early 2000, [[Simon Wai]] decided to put his focus towards college, and left the Sonic 2 Beta as an archive, soon to be deleted. A member of the message boards, [[Pelord]] archived the site and rehosted it on the original [[Sonic Stuff Research Group]] in May of 2000. Sonic 2 Beta's focus was more on game theories, and general Sonic interest; the actual hacking and discoveries were usually posted on [[Area 51]] and [[Tom's SoStH Page]]. Although the actual site received few updates, one section — the [[mailbag]] — was very popular, and it was the original origins of several jokes such as "[[I wod lick a Sonic 2 ROMS]]"<br />
<br />
On March 24, 2001, Pelord created the [[ezBoard]] edition of the Sonic 2 Beta Messageboard, a switch from Simon's AnyBoard creation. Time passed, and the need for moderators became apparent. [[LocalH]] and [[Terunaga]] were chosen. [[Sonic Sue]] became the first administator on Sonic 2 Beta after winning a hoax contest. During the ezBoard era, [[Terunaga]], [[Bryn2k]], [[Ashura2k]], [[LOst]], and [[TStodden]] served as moderators.<br />
<br />
As time passed, Sonic 2 Beta found itself drifting away from Sonic research, becoming outpaced by the quickly-growing [[Sonic CulT]] and the prime days of [[Area 51]]. Thus, too, the mood of the forums started to drift toward Sonic information compilation, with things such as manual translations from Japanese Sonic games, and became more of a social center for those in the scene.<br />
<br />
===The PACHUKA Incident===<br />
In July 2002, Sonic 2 Beta administrator [[Sonic Sue]] returned from a month's absense, due to computer woes. Upon her return, she noticed that the forums were different than when she had left, but she saw no reason not to do her job as she had been instructed to. About a day after her return, member [[Kilometers Prower]] posted a 'discovery' in the Sonic 2 Beta Discussion forum about an area in Labyrinth Zone (of ''Sonic 1'') that could be reached via debug mode. A member known as [[Sonique]] said in a not too pleasant way that it was already known and posted about at other boards.<br />
<br />
Sue asked Sonique not to flame other users (per Pelord's rules), and told her that members of Sonic 2 Beta had obviously not seen the discovery, and since some members do not visit other boards.<br />
<br />
The next day, the first thing Sue heard when she got online was an IM from a member known as [[MangoMan]], telling her that the Beta Discussion forum was under attack by a member named [[PACHUKA]], who was spam-bumping tons of old topics using images with offensive references and language (Note: Pelord always had a no swearing rule.) and that she was being flamed also. PACHUKA was online at this time, and so Sue gave him a number of reasonable warnings asking him to stop. (She recalls about ten of them. Other members tried convincing him to stop as well.)<br />
<br />
The inital warnings were ignored, and Sue warned that if he continued spamming, he would be banned. It did continue, and she backed up her warning by actually banning him. She was the only admin online at the time, and could not let the forums get more disrupted than they already had.<br />
<br />
Approximately ten to fifteen minutes after the ban, PACHUKA replaced his avatar with a message saying "Sonic Sue is a cunt", and posted some unpleasant things on his website. Within days, people who had never been seen on the forums before had started coming over to Sonic 2 Beta messageboard to flame her for being ban-happy, even though PACHUKA was the second person she ever banned.<br />
<br />
===Simon Wai's Return===<br />
In late 2002, Simon Wai returned from seemingly thin air to announce his return to the community. Simon recreated Sonic 2 Beta the way he wanted it, and told [[Pelord]] he wanted the name Sonic 2 Beta back. Pelord agreed to the terms, and Sonic 2 Beta became known as Sonic Classic. Simon said that Sonic 2 Beta Message Board could remain open, but they must change their name. One of the few names put on the table was 'Sonic Classic', which was the name of Pelord's old Sonic-related website. The name stuck and it became official in December 2003. (At the time of the switch, Sonic Classic was located at pub10.ezboard.com/bsonic2beta). The current ezBoard link is http://go.ezboard.com/bsonic2beta<br />
<br />
==SSonicNET==<br />
===Leaving ezBoard===<br />
[[Image:sclassic5.gif|frame|right|Sonic Classic "5" Logo, used during the SSonicNET years. This logo is still used on the SClassic 5 forum skin, still popular today.]]<br />
Although [[ezBoard]] had served Sonic Classic's hosting needs for years, the ever rising price of [[Gold Community]] forced the staff to move. Free hosting for a message board the size of Sonic Classic, however, wasn't something easily found. A small hosting site for Sonic-based web pages, named [[SSonicNET]] was run by members of the communty [[Sonic McTails]] and [[Alexbt]]. It had opened in July of 2002, offered free hosting to Sonic based sites, and had hosted a backup of [[Area 51]] and a few other sites. [[Pelord]] eventually decided upon SSonicNET for hosting. Shortly after hearing this news, SSonicNET moved to [[Invision Power Board|Invision Power's]] Hosting, and was redesigned. <br />
<br />
The first beta version of this new board was installed in November of '02, at http://projectnemesis.ibforums.com/sclassic (later moved to http://projectnemesis.ibforums.com/sclassic/forums ). It was at this time that Sonic McTails and Alexbt became full-time technical administrators on Sonic Classic staff. Alex, specifically handled the daunting task of fully implementing the ezBoard look-and-feel into the Invision Power skin design.<br />
<br />
Invision Board 1.1 Final was installed, and was upgraded to 1.2 before going [[ILVE]] on February 16, 2003, and has remained on [[SSonicNET]]'s hosting through March 18, 2005. Sonic Classic was SSonicNET's largest site, using 4-10GB of bandwidth monthly.<br />
<br />
===Bumpy Beginning===<br />
The beginning of the new board was arguably characterized by its friction with Sonic CulT. Many arguments erupted and many members left for a variety of reasons; however, SClassic moved on. During this friction, hackers obtained Alexbt's password to the ezBoard. All of the topics in Dust Hill Zone, the staff forums, were made public for all to see, and at a point soon after that, the ezBoard was entirely reskinned to look like Sonic CulT. A quick cry of help to ezBoard gave the power back to its rightful owners, but at that point a great deal of damage was done, leading to the entire board being wiped with no archives.<br />
<br />
===SSS===<br />
In August of 2003, there were several security breakins to Sonic Classic through various backdoors and password thefts. Pachuka and TurboKiller/BorisZ turned out to be major players in these hackings. Pachuka always insisted that L0st and LocalH had a hand in these hackings, which was unlikely as they were both SClassic staff. LocalH's account was among those that were broken into by Pachuka, along with his AIM account, which is why he was able to place the blame so easily. Other involved parties included EveryNameWasTaken and AJ.<br />
<br />
==Sonic Classic Moves On==<br />
===sclassic.net===<br />
[[Image:sclassic6.png|frame|right|Current Sonic Classic "6" logo.]]<br />
In March 2005, newly adminned staffer [[Scarred Sun]] made an offer to Sonic McTails to purchase SSonicNET. McTails declined the offer, and a plan to move Sonic Classic and SHIT went ahead. <br />
On Friday, March 18, 2005, after hosting was finally granted, SClassic and SHIT made an impromptu switch.<br />
[[SHIT]] was the first site on the new Sonic Classic to fully make the transition. Delays to the Sonic Classic forums were a day long due to a large database. The forums were brough back online in the evening on March 19th. <br />
<br />
Currently, the [[Sonic Classic Cooperative]] has two main sites — the Sonic Classic forums and SHIT — and is planning to launch a third site, [[ASPRS]], before the end of 2005.<br />
<br />
On May 1, 2005, Sonic McTails was attempting to restore Shadow255's user account and accidentally overwrote the creator names of a month's worth of posts. Any strange lingering posts that are credited to Shadow255 may be this way for that reason.<br />
<br />
On May 12, 2005, [[Borisz|Turbokiller/BorisZ]] decided it would be fun to hack the board in celebration of his birthday. This resulted in massive downtime as McTails tried to repair the forums. This also interfered with repairs from the overwritten account creator issue. Forums were finally reopened on May 20.<br />
<br />
==A Retro Endeavor==<br />
===Sonic Retro===<br />
On May 1st, 2006, Sonic Classic administrators shocked many sceners by unveiling a new fundamental website, [[Sonic Retro]]. Outgrowing its former image and legacy, [[Scarred Sun]] & [[Alexbt]] (along with other staff members) planned out a new site that would take bits and pieces of Sonic Classic to form a bigger, better, and more organized site. Sonic Hot Dimensions was also included in the forum move.<br />
Sonic Classic Forums remain much like they were, but are now located within Sonic Retro Forums.<br />
<br />
===The Fun Continues===<br />
Following his earlier trend, Turbo decided to mess with Sonic Retro/Classic on his birthday (approx May 12, 2006), and leaving Sonic Hot Dimensions open.<br />
<br />
On July 14th, [[The Virus]] decided to abuse his global mod permissions and wipe the forums. [[Scarred Sun]] announced her resignation to the staff, and [[Alexbt]] became Interim Server Adminstrator.<br />
The forums were restored to a June backup on July 17, 2006 at approx. 3:00AM EST.<br />
<br />
Scarred Sun later resumed her duties as Server Admin in later July/Early August.<br />
<br />
On August 5th, the site was the latest victim by what has been called an epidemic hacking spree by a group of Turkish crackers going under the alias of the "Turkish Defacer". The only part affected were the forums. They were restored quickly the same day.<br />
<br />
==To be Classic Again==<br />
Following random hackings, moderator [[UltraVR]] offered to move the forums to his server and run them on VBulletin, a more secure forums package. <br />
The move happened in mid-December 2006. In doing so, the forums effectively became Sonic Classic again. [[Scarred Sun]] stepped down from head administrator, and [[Ashura2k]] was elected her replacement for the future of the board. Plans are currently in works for expansion of the forums into a larger site.<br />
<br />
[[Category: Sites]]<br />
[[Category:SClassic Stuff|*]]</div>Alexbthttps://info.sonicretro.org/index.php?title=Sonic_Classic&diff=44539Sonic Classic2007-01-24T03:27:21Z<p>Alexbt: /* To be Classic Again */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Outdated}}<br />
''For information the actual community rather than history, see [[SClassic Subculture]].''<br />
<br />
'''Sonic Classic''' is an online community made up of, among other things, ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' fans. Today, it is a wide-encompassing board with over 700 members and growing. It originally existed as [[Sonic 2 Beta (site)|Sonic 2 Beta]] and changed its name to Sonic Classic later in its life.<br />
<br />
==Early History==<br />
===The Beginning===<br />
On January 3rd 1999, [[Simon Wai's Sonic 2 Beta]] Page was born, dedicated to the prototype version of this great game. The very first edition of the site had an animated gif of the title screen, and featured white text on a blue SONIC/MILES morphing background. <br />
<br />
The discovery of ''[[Sonic 2 Beta]]'' [[ROM]] marked a significant point in the Sonic Secrets scene. Before the ROM was available, groundless speculations were made based on some poorly scanned pictures, and lots of faith was required in order for many theories to stand. After the ROM was discovered, investigations were made by means of "hacking" the savestates or the ROM directly. Hacking is now a foundation for new theories, which brings the Sonic community as a whole another step closer to the truth of what ''Sonic 2'' was intended to be. It is unknown who dumped the ROM found by Simon Wai, but it was found on a Chinese web site after a thread in the newsgroups about it. The wide-spread circulation of this ROM file soon followed.<br />
<br />
==The ezBoard==<br />
===Simon Wai's Departure===<br />
In early 2000, [[Simon Wai]] decided to put his focus towards college, and left the Sonic 2 Beta as an archive, soon to be deleted. A member of the message boards, [[Pelord]] archived the site and rehosted it on the original [[Sonic Stuff Research Group]] in May of 2000. Sonic 2 Beta's focus was more on game theories, and general Sonic interest; the actual hacking and discoveries were usually posted on [[Area 51]] and [[Tom's SoStH Page]]. Although the actual site received few updates, one section — the [[mailbag]] — was very popular, and it was the original origins of several jokes such as "[[I wod lick a Sonic 2 ROMS]]"<br />
<br />
On March 24, 2001, Pelord created the [[ezBoard]] edition of the Sonic 2 Beta Messageboard, a switch from Simon's AnyBoard creation. Time passed, and the need for moderators became apparent. [[LocalH]] and [[Terunaga]] were chosen. [[Sonic Sue]] became the first administator on Sonic 2 Beta after winning a hoax contest. During the ezBoard era, [[Terunaga]], [[Bryn2k]], [[Ashura2k]], [[LOst]], and [[TStodden]] served as moderators.<br />
<br />
As time passed, Sonic 2 Beta found itself drifting away from Sonic research, becoming outpaced by the quickly-growing [[Sonic CulT]] and the prime days of [[Area 51]]. Thus, too, the mood of the forums started to drift toward Sonic information compilation, with things such as manual translations from Japanese Sonic games, and became more of a social center for those in the scene.<br />
<br />
===The PACHUKA Incident===<br />
In July 2002, Sonic 2 Beta administrator [[Sonic Sue]] returned from a month's absense, due to computer woes. Upon her return, she noticed that the forums were different than when she had left, but she saw no reason not to do her job as she had been instructed to. About a day after her return, member [[Kilometers Prower]] posted a 'discovery' in the Sonic 2 Beta Discussion forum about an area in Labyrinth Zone (of ''Sonic 1'') that could be reached via debug mode. A member known as [[Sonique]] said in a not too pleasant way that it was already known and posted about at other boards.<br />
<br />
Sue asked Sonique not to flame other users (per Pelord's rules), and told her that members of Sonic 2 Beta had obviously not seen the discovery, and since some members do not visit other boards.<br />
<br />
The next day, the first thing Sue heard when she got online was an IM from a member known as [[MangoMan]], telling her that the Beta Discussion forum was under attack by a member named [[PACHUKA]], who was spam-bumping tons of old topics using images with offensive references and language (Note: Pelord always had a no swearing rule.) and that she was being flamed also. PACHUKA was online at this time, and so Sue gave him a number of reasonable warnings asking him to stop. (She recalls about ten of them. Other members tried convincing him to stop as well.)<br />
<br />
The inital warnings were ignored, and Sue warned that if he continued spamming, he would be banned. It did continue, and she backed up her warning by actually banning him. She was the only admin online at the time, and could not let the forums get more disrupted than they already had.<br />
<br />
Approximately ten to fifteen minutes after the ban, PACHUKA replaced his avatar with a message saying "Sonic Sue is a cunt", and posted some unpleasant things on his website. Within days, people who had never been seen on the forums before had started coming over to Sonic 2 Beta messageboard to flame her for being ban-happy, even though PACHUKA was the second person she ever banned.<br />
<br />
===Simon Wai's Return===<br />
In late 2002, Simon Wai returned from seemingly thin air to announce his return to the community. Simon recreated Sonic 2 Beta the way he wanted it, and told [[Pelord]] he wanted the name Sonic 2 Beta back. Pelord agreed to the terms, and Sonic 2 Beta became known as Sonic Classic. Simon said that Sonic 2 Beta Message Board could remain open, but they must change their name. One of the few names put on the table was 'Sonic Classic', which was the name of Pelord's old Sonic-related website. The name stuck and it became official in December 2003. (At the time of the switch, Sonic Classic was located at pub10.ezboard.com/bsonic2beta). The current ezBoard link is http://go.ezboard.com/bsonic2beta<br />
<br />
==SSonicNET==<br />
===Leaving ezBoard===<br />
[[Image:sclassic5.gif|frame|right|Sonic Classic "5" Logo, used during the SSonicNET years. This logo is still used on the SClassic 5 forum skin, still popular today.]]<br />
Although [[ezBoard]] had served Sonic Classic's hosting needs for years, the ever rising price of [[Gold Community]] forced the staff to move. Free hosting for a message board the size of Sonic Classic, however, wasn't something easily found. A small hosting site for Sonic-based web pages, named [[SSonicNET]] was run by members of the communty [[Sonic McTails]] and [[Alexbt]]. It had opened in July of 2002, offered free hosting to Sonic based sites, and had hosted a backup of [[Area 51]] and a few other sites. [[Pelord]] eventually decided upon SSonicNET for hosting. Shortly after hearing this news, SSonicNET moved to [[Invision Power Board|Invision Power's]] Hosting, and was redesigned. <br />
<br />
The first beta version of this new board was installed in November of '02, at http://projectnemesis.ibforums.com/sclassic (later moved to http://projectnemesis.ibforums.com/sclassic/forums ). It was at this time that Sonic McTails and Alexbt became full-time technical administrators on Sonic Classic staff. Alex, specifically handled the daunting task of fully implementing the ezBoard look-and-feel into the Invision Power skin design.<br />
<br />
Invision Board 1.1 Final was installed, and was upgraded to 1.2 before going [[ILVE]] on February 16, 2003, and has remained on [[SSonicNET]]'s hosting through March 18, 2005. Sonic Classic was SSonicNET's largest site, using 4-10GB of bandwidth monthly.<br />
<br />
===Bumpy Beginning===<br />
The beginning of the new board was arguably characterized by its friction with Sonic CulT. Many arguments erupted and many members left for a variety of reasons; however, SClassic moved on. During this friction, hackers obtained Alexbt's password to the ezBoard. All of the topics in Dust Hill Zone, the staff forums, were made public for all to see, and at a point soon after that, the ezBoard was entirely reskinned to look like Sonic CulT. A quick cry of help to ezBoard gave the power back to its rightful owners, but at that point a great deal of damage was done, leading to the entire board being wiped with no archives.<br />
<br />
===SSS===<br />
In August of 2003, there were several security breakins to Sonic Classic through various backdoors and password thefts. Pachuka and TurboKiller/BorisZ turned out to be major players in these hackings. Pachuka always insisted that L0st and LocalH had a hand in these hackings, which was unlikely as they were both SClassic staff. LocalH's account was among those that were broken into by Pachuka, along with his AIM account, which is why he was able to place the blame so easily. Other involved parties included EveryNameWasTaken and AJ.<br />
<br />
==Sonic Classic Moves On==<br />
===sclassic.net===<br />
[[Image:sclassic6.png|frame|right|Current Sonic Classic "6" logo.]]<br />
In March 2005, newly adminned staffer [[Scarred Sun]] made an offer to Sonic McTails to purchase SSonicNET. McTails declined the offer, and a plan to move Sonic Classic and SHIT went ahead. <br />
On Friday, March 18, 2005, after hosting was finally granted, SClassic and SHIT made an impromptu switch.<br />
[[SHIT]] was the first site on the new Sonic Classic to fully make the transition. Delays to the Sonic Classic forums were a day long due to a large database. The forums were brough back online in the evening on March 19th. <br />
<br />
Currently, the [[Sonic Classic Cooperative]] has two main sites — the Sonic Classic forums and SHIT — and is planning to launch a third site, [[ASPRS]], before the end of 2005.<br />
<br />
On May 1, 2005, Sonic McTails was attempting to restore Shadow255's user account and accidentally overwrote the creator names of a month's worth of posts. Any strange lingering posts that are credited to Shadow255 may be this way for that reason.<br />
<br />
On May 12, 2005, [[Borisz|Turbokiller/BorisZ]] decided it would be fun to hack the board in celebration of his birthday. This resulted in massive downtime as McTails tried to repair the forums. This also interfered with repairs from the overwritten account creator issue. Forums were finally reopened on May 20.<br />
<br />
==A Retro Endeavor==<br />
===Sonic Retro===<br />
On May 1st, 2006, Sonic Classic administrators shocked many sceners by unveiling a new fundamental website, [[Sonic Retro]]. Outgrowing its former image and legacy, [[Scarred Sun]] & [[Alexbt]] (along with other staff members) planned out a new site that would take bits and pieces of Sonic Classic to form a bigger, better, and more organized site. Sonic Hot Dimensions was also included in the forum move.<br />
Sonic Classic Forums remain much like they were, but are now located within Sonic Retro Forums.<br />
<br />
===The Fun Continues===<br />
Following his earlier trend, Turbo decided to mess with Sonic Retro/Classic on his birthday (approx May 12, 2006), and leaving Sonic Hot Dimensions open.<br />
<br />
On July 14th, [[The Virus]] decided to abuse his global mod permissions and wipe the forums. [[Scarred Sun]] announced her resignation to the staff, and [[Alexbt]] became Interim Server Adminstrator.<br />
The forums were restored to a June backup on July 17, 2006 at approx. 3:00AM EST.<br />
<br />
Scarred Sun later resumed her duties as Server Admin in later July/Early August.<br />
<br />
On August 5th, the site was the latest victim by what has been called an epidemic hacking spree by a group of Turkish crackers going under the alias of the "Turkish Defacer". The only part affected were the forums. They were restored quickly the same day.<br />
<br />
==To be Classic Again==<br />
Following random hackings, moderator [[UltraVR]] offered to move the forums to his server and run them on VBulletin, a more secure forums package. In doing so, the forums effectively became Sonic Classic again. [[Scarred Sun]] stepped down from head administrator, and [[Ashura2k]] was elected her replacement for the future of the board. Plans are currently in works for expansion of the forums into a larger site.<br />
<br />
[[Category: Sites]]<br />
[[Category:SClassic Stuff|*]]</div>Alexbthttps://info.sonicretro.org/index.php?title=Sonic_Classic&diff=44538Sonic Classic2007-01-24T03:26:57Z<p>Alexbt: /* The Fun Continues */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Outdated}}<br />
''For information the actual community rather than history, see [[SClassic Subculture]].''<br />
<br />
'''Sonic Classic''' is an online community made up of, among other things, ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' fans. Today, it is a wide-encompassing board with over 700 members and growing. It originally existed as [[Sonic 2 Beta (site)|Sonic 2 Beta]] and changed its name to Sonic Classic later in its life.<br />
<br />
==Early History==<br />
===The Beginning===<br />
On January 3rd 1999, [[Simon Wai's Sonic 2 Beta]] Page was born, dedicated to the prototype version of this great game. The very first edition of the site had an animated gif of the title screen, and featured white text on a blue SONIC/MILES morphing background. <br />
<br />
The discovery of ''[[Sonic 2 Beta]]'' [[ROM]] marked a significant point in the Sonic Secrets scene. Before the ROM was available, groundless speculations were made based on some poorly scanned pictures, and lots of faith was required in order for many theories to stand. After the ROM was discovered, investigations were made by means of "hacking" the savestates or the ROM directly. Hacking is now a foundation for new theories, which brings the Sonic community as a whole another step closer to the truth of what ''Sonic 2'' was intended to be. It is unknown who dumped the ROM found by Simon Wai, but it was found on a Chinese web site after a thread in the newsgroups about it. The wide-spread circulation of this ROM file soon followed.<br />
<br />
==The ezBoard==<br />
===Simon Wai's Departure===<br />
In early 2000, [[Simon Wai]] decided to put his focus towards college, and left the Sonic 2 Beta as an archive, soon to be deleted. A member of the message boards, [[Pelord]] archived the site and rehosted it on the original [[Sonic Stuff Research Group]] in May of 2000. Sonic 2 Beta's focus was more on game theories, and general Sonic interest; the actual hacking and discoveries were usually posted on [[Area 51]] and [[Tom's SoStH Page]]. Although the actual site received few updates, one section — the [[mailbag]] — was very popular, and it was the original origins of several jokes such as "[[I wod lick a Sonic 2 ROMS]]"<br />
<br />
On March 24, 2001, Pelord created the [[ezBoard]] edition of the Sonic 2 Beta Messageboard, a switch from Simon's AnyBoard creation. Time passed, and the need for moderators became apparent. [[LocalH]] and [[Terunaga]] were chosen. [[Sonic Sue]] became the first administator on Sonic 2 Beta after winning a hoax contest. During the ezBoard era, [[Terunaga]], [[Bryn2k]], [[Ashura2k]], [[LOst]], and [[TStodden]] served as moderators.<br />
<br />
As time passed, Sonic 2 Beta found itself drifting away from Sonic research, becoming outpaced by the quickly-growing [[Sonic CulT]] and the prime days of [[Area 51]]. Thus, too, the mood of the forums started to drift toward Sonic information compilation, with things such as manual translations from Japanese Sonic games, and became more of a social center for those in the scene.<br />
<br />
===The PACHUKA Incident===<br />
In July 2002, Sonic 2 Beta administrator [[Sonic Sue]] returned from a month's absense, due to computer woes. Upon her return, she noticed that the forums were different than when she had left, but she saw no reason not to do her job as she had been instructed to. About a day after her return, member [[Kilometers Prower]] posted a 'discovery' in the Sonic 2 Beta Discussion forum about an area in Labyrinth Zone (of ''Sonic 1'') that could be reached via debug mode. A member known as [[Sonique]] said in a not too pleasant way that it was already known and posted about at other boards.<br />
<br />
Sue asked Sonique not to flame other users (per Pelord's rules), and told her that members of Sonic 2 Beta had obviously not seen the discovery, and since some members do not visit other boards.<br />
<br />
The next day, the first thing Sue heard when she got online was an IM from a member known as [[MangoMan]], telling her that the Beta Discussion forum was under attack by a member named [[PACHUKA]], who was spam-bumping tons of old topics using images with offensive references and language (Note: Pelord always had a no swearing rule.) and that she was being flamed also. PACHUKA was online at this time, and so Sue gave him a number of reasonable warnings asking him to stop. (She recalls about ten of them. Other members tried convincing him to stop as well.)<br />
<br />
The inital warnings were ignored, and Sue warned that if he continued spamming, he would be banned. It did continue, and she backed up her warning by actually banning him. She was the only admin online at the time, and could not let the forums get more disrupted than they already had.<br />
<br />
Approximately ten to fifteen minutes after the ban, PACHUKA replaced his avatar with a message saying "Sonic Sue is a cunt", and posted some unpleasant things on his website. Within days, people who had never been seen on the forums before had started coming over to Sonic 2 Beta messageboard to flame her for being ban-happy, even though PACHUKA was the second person she ever banned.<br />
<br />
===Simon Wai's Return===<br />
In late 2002, Simon Wai returned from seemingly thin air to announce his return to the community. Simon recreated Sonic 2 Beta the way he wanted it, and told [[Pelord]] he wanted the name Sonic 2 Beta back. Pelord agreed to the terms, and Sonic 2 Beta became known as Sonic Classic. Simon said that Sonic 2 Beta Message Board could remain open, but they must change their name. One of the few names put on the table was 'Sonic Classic', which was the name of Pelord's old Sonic-related website. The name stuck and it became official in December 2003. (At the time of the switch, Sonic Classic was located at pub10.ezboard.com/bsonic2beta). The current ezBoard link is http://go.ezboard.com/bsonic2beta<br />
<br />
==SSonicNET==<br />
===Leaving ezBoard===<br />
[[Image:sclassic5.gif|frame|right|Sonic Classic "5" Logo, used during the SSonicNET years. This logo is still used on the SClassic 5 forum skin, still popular today.]]<br />
Although [[ezBoard]] had served Sonic Classic's hosting needs for years, the ever rising price of [[Gold Community]] forced the staff to move. Free hosting for a message board the size of Sonic Classic, however, wasn't something easily found. A small hosting site for Sonic-based web pages, named [[SSonicNET]] was run by members of the communty [[Sonic McTails]] and [[Alexbt]]. It had opened in July of 2002, offered free hosting to Sonic based sites, and had hosted a backup of [[Area 51]] and a few other sites. [[Pelord]] eventually decided upon SSonicNET for hosting. Shortly after hearing this news, SSonicNET moved to [[Invision Power Board|Invision Power's]] Hosting, and was redesigned. <br />
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The first beta version of this new board was installed in November of '02, at http://projectnemesis.ibforums.com/sclassic (later moved to http://projectnemesis.ibforums.com/sclassic/forums ). It was at this time that Sonic McTails and Alexbt became full-time technical administrators on Sonic Classic staff. Alex, specifically handled the daunting task of fully implementing the ezBoard look-and-feel into the Invision Power skin design.<br />
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Invision Board 1.1 Final was installed, and was upgraded to 1.2 before going [[ILVE]] on February 16, 2003, and has remained on [[SSonicNET]]'s hosting through March 18, 2005. Sonic Classic was SSonicNET's largest site, using 4-10GB of bandwidth monthly.<br />
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===Bumpy Beginning===<br />
The beginning of the new board was arguably characterized by its friction with Sonic CulT. Many arguments erupted and many members left for a variety of reasons; however, SClassic moved on. During this friction, hackers obtained Alexbt's password to the ezBoard. All of the topics in Dust Hill Zone, the staff forums, were made public for all to see, and at a point soon after that, the ezBoard was entirely reskinned to look like Sonic CulT. A quick cry of help to ezBoard gave the power back to its rightful owners, but at that point a great deal of damage was done, leading to the entire board being wiped with no archives.<br />
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===SSS===<br />
In August of 2003, there were several security breakins to Sonic Classic through various backdoors and password thefts. Pachuka and TurboKiller/BorisZ turned out to be major players in these hackings. Pachuka always insisted that L0st and LocalH had a hand in these hackings, which was unlikely as they were both SClassic staff. LocalH's account was among those that were broken into by Pachuka, along with his AIM account, which is why he was able to place the blame so easily. Other involved parties included EveryNameWasTaken and AJ.<br />
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==Sonic Classic Moves On==<br />
===sclassic.net===<br />
[[Image:sclassic6.png|frame|right|Current Sonic Classic "6" logo.]]<br />
In March 2005, newly adminned staffer [[Scarred Sun]] made an offer to Sonic McTails to purchase SSonicNET. McTails declined the offer, and a plan to move Sonic Classic and SHIT went ahead. <br />
On Friday, March 18, 2005, after hosting was finally granted, SClassic and SHIT made an impromptu switch.<br />
[[SHIT]] was the first site on the new Sonic Classic to fully make the transition. Delays to the Sonic Classic forums were a day long due to a large database. The forums were brough back online in the evening on March 19th. <br />
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Currently, the [[Sonic Classic Cooperative]] has two main sites — the Sonic Classic forums and SHIT — and is planning to launch a third site, [[ASPRS]], before the end of 2005.<br />
<br />
On May 1, 2005, Sonic McTails was attempting to restore Shadow255's user account and accidentally overwrote the creator names of a month's worth of posts. Any strange lingering posts that are credited to Shadow255 may be this way for that reason.<br />
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On May 12, 2005, [[Borisz|Turbokiller/BorisZ]] decided it would be fun to hack the board in celebration of his birthday. This resulted in massive downtime as McTails tried to repair the forums. This also interfered with repairs from the overwritten account creator issue. Forums were finally reopened on May 20.<br />
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==A Retro Endeavor==<br />
===Sonic Retro===<br />
On May 1st, 2006, Sonic Classic administrators shocked many sceners by unveiling a new fundamental website, [[Sonic Retro]]. Outgrowing its former image and legacy, [[Scarred Sun]] & [[Alexbt]] (along with other staff members) planned out a new site that would take bits and pieces of Sonic Classic to form a bigger, better, and more organized site. Sonic Hot Dimensions was also included in the forum move.<br />
Sonic Classic Forums remain much like they were, but are now located within Sonic Retro Forums.<br />
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===The Fun Continues===<br />
Following his earlier trend, Turbo decided to mess with Sonic Retro/Classic on his birthday (approx May 12, 2006), and leaving Sonic Hot Dimensions open.<br />
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On July 14th, [[The Virus]] decided to abuse his global mod permissions and wipe the forums. [[Scarred Sun]] announced her resignation to the staff, and [[Alexbt]] became Interim Server Adminstrator.<br />
The forums were restored to a June backup on July 17, 2006 at approx. 3:00AM EST.<br />
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Scarred Sun later resumed her duties as Server Admin in later July/Early August.<br />
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On August 5th, the site was the latest victim by what has been called an epidemic hacking spree by a group of Turkish crackers going under the alias of the "Turkish Defacer". The only part affected were the forums. They were restored quickly the same day.<br />
<br />
==To be Classic Again==<br />
Following the Turkish Hacking events, moderator [[UltraVR]] offered to move the forums to his server and run them on VBulletin, a more secure forums package. In doing so, the forums effectively became Sonic Classic again. [[Scarred Sun]] stepped down from head administrator, and [[Ashura2k]] was elected her replacement for the future of the board. Plans are currently in works for expansion of the forums into a larger site.<br />
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[[Category: Sites]]<br />
[[Category:SClassic Stuff|*]]</div>Alexbthttps://info.sonicretro.org/index.php?title=Sonic_Classic&diff=44537Sonic Classic2007-01-24T03:25:14Z<p>Alexbt: </p>
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''For information the actual community rather than history, see [[SClassic Subculture]].''<br />
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'''Sonic Classic''' is an online community made up of, among other things, ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' fans. Today, it is a wide-encompassing board with over 700 members and growing. It originally existed as [[Sonic 2 Beta (site)|Sonic 2 Beta]] and changed its name to Sonic Classic later in its life.<br />
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==Early History==<br />
===The Beginning===<br />
On January 3rd 1999, [[Simon Wai's Sonic 2 Beta]] Page was born, dedicated to the prototype version of this great game. The very first edition of the site had an animated gif of the title screen, and featured white text on a blue SONIC/MILES morphing background. <br />
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The discovery of ''[[Sonic 2 Beta]]'' [[ROM]] marked a significant point in the Sonic Secrets scene. Before the ROM was available, groundless speculations were made based on some poorly scanned pictures, and lots of faith was required in order for many theories to stand. After the ROM was discovered, investigations were made by means of "hacking" the savestates or the ROM directly. Hacking is now a foundation for new theories, which brings the Sonic community as a whole another step closer to the truth of what ''Sonic 2'' was intended to be. It is unknown who dumped the ROM found by Simon Wai, but it was found on a Chinese web site after a thread in the newsgroups about it. The wide-spread circulation of this ROM file soon followed.<br />
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==The ezBoard==<br />
===Simon Wai's Departure===<br />
In early 2000, [[Simon Wai]] decided to put his focus towards college, and left the Sonic 2 Beta as an archive, soon to be deleted. A member of the message boards, [[Pelord]] archived the site and rehosted it on the original [[Sonic Stuff Research Group]] in May of 2000. Sonic 2 Beta's focus was more on game theories, and general Sonic interest; the actual hacking and discoveries were usually posted on [[Area 51]] and [[Tom's SoStH Page]]. Although the actual site received few updates, one section — the [[mailbag]] — was very popular, and it was the original origins of several jokes such as "[[I wod lick a Sonic 2 ROMS]]"<br />
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On March 24, 2001, Pelord created the [[ezBoard]] edition of the Sonic 2 Beta Messageboard, a switch from Simon's AnyBoard creation. Time passed, and the need for moderators became apparent. [[LocalH]] and [[Terunaga]] were chosen. [[Sonic Sue]] became the first administator on Sonic 2 Beta after winning a hoax contest. During the ezBoard era, [[Terunaga]], [[Bryn2k]], [[Ashura2k]], [[LOst]], and [[TStodden]] served as moderators.<br />
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As time passed, Sonic 2 Beta found itself drifting away from Sonic research, becoming outpaced by the quickly-growing [[Sonic CulT]] and the prime days of [[Area 51]]. Thus, too, the mood of the forums started to drift toward Sonic information compilation, with things such as manual translations from Japanese Sonic games, and became more of a social center for those in the scene.<br />
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===The PACHUKA Incident===<br />
In July 2002, Sonic 2 Beta administrator [[Sonic Sue]] returned from a month's absense, due to computer woes. Upon her return, she noticed that the forums were different than when she had left, but she saw no reason not to do her job as she had been instructed to. About a day after her return, member [[Kilometers Prower]] posted a 'discovery' in the Sonic 2 Beta Discussion forum about an area in Labyrinth Zone (of ''Sonic 1'') that could be reached via debug mode. A member known as [[Sonique]] said in a not too pleasant way that it was already known and posted about at other boards.<br />
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Sue asked Sonique not to flame other users (per Pelord's rules), and told her that members of Sonic 2 Beta had obviously not seen the discovery, and since some members do not visit other boards.<br />
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The next day, the first thing Sue heard when she got online was an IM from a member known as [[MangoMan]], telling her that the Beta Discussion forum was under attack by a member named [[PACHUKA]], who was spam-bumping tons of old topics using images with offensive references and language (Note: Pelord always had a no swearing rule.) and that she was being flamed also. PACHUKA was online at this time, and so Sue gave him a number of reasonable warnings asking him to stop. (She recalls about ten of them. Other members tried convincing him to stop as well.)<br />
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The inital warnings were ignored, and Sue warned that if he continued spamming, he would be banned. It did continue, and she backed up her warning by actually banning him. She was the only admin online at the time, and could not let the forums get more disrupted than they already had.<br />
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Approximately ten to fifteen minutes after the ban, PACHUKA replaced his avatar with a message saying "Sonic Sue is a cunt", and posted some unpleasant things on his website. Within days, people who had never been seen on the forums before had started coming over to Sonic 2 Beta messageboard to flame her for being ban-happy, even though PACHUKA was the second person she ever banned.<br />
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===Simon Wai's Return===<br />
In late 2002, Simon Wai returned from seemingly thin air to announce his return to the community. Simon recreated Sonic 2 Beta the way he wanted it, and told [[Pelord]] he wanted the name Sonic 2 Beta back. Pelord agreed to the terms, and Sonic 2 Beta became known as Sonic Classic. Simon said that Sonic 2 Beta Message Board could remain open, but they must change their name. One of the few names put on the table was 'Sonic Classic', which was the name of Pelord's old Sonic-related website. The name stuck and it became official in December 2003. (At the time of the switch, Sonic Classic was located at pub10.ezboard.com/bsonic2beta). The current ezBoard link is http://go.ezboard.com/bsonic2beta<br />
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==SSonicNET==<br />
===Leaving ezBoard===<br />
[[Image:sclassic5.gif|frame|right|Sonic Classic "5" Logo, used during the SSonicNET years. This logo is still used on the SClassic 5 forum skin, still popular today.]]<br />
Although [[ezBoard]] had served Sonic Classic's hosting needs for years, the ever rising price of [[Gold Community]] forced the staff to move. Free hosting for a message board the size of Sonic Classic, however, wasn't something easily found. A small hosting site for Sonic-based web pages, named [[SSonicNET]] was run by members of the communty [[Sonic McTails]] and [[Alexbt]]. It had opened in July of 2002, offered free hosting to Sonic based sites, and had hosted a backup of [[Area 51]] and a few other sites. [[Pelord]] eventually decided upon SSonicNET for hosting. Shortly after hearing this news, SSonicNET moved to [[Invision Power Board|Invision Power's]] Hosting, and was redesigned. <br />
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The first beta version of this new board was installed in November of '02, at http://projectnemesis.ibforums.com/sclassic (later moved to http://projectnemesis.ibforums.com/sclassic/forums ). It was at this time that Sonic McTails and Alexbt became full-time technical administrators on Sonic Classic staff. Alex, specifically handled the daunting task of fully implementing the ezBoard look-and-feel into the Invision Power skin design.<br />
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Invision Board 1.1 Final was installed, and was upgraded to 1.2 before going [[ILVE]] on February 16, 2003, and has remained on [[SSonicNET]]'s hosting through March 18, 2005. Sonic Classic was SSonicNET's largest site, using 4-10GB of bandwidth monthly.<br />
<br />
===Bumpy Beginning===<br />
The beginning of the new board was arguably characterized by its friction with Sonic CulT. Many arguments erupted and many members left for a variety of reasons; however, SClassic moved on. During this friction, hackers obtained Alexbt's password to the ezBoard. All of the topics in Dust Hill Zone, the staff forums, were made public for all to see, and at a point soon after that, the ezBoard was entirely reskinned to look like Sonic CulT. A quick cry of help to ezBoard gave the power back to its rightful owners, but at that point a great deal of damage was done, leading to the entire board being wiped with no archives.<br />
<br />
===SSS===<br />
In August of 2003, there were several security breakins to Sonic Classic through various backdoors and password thefts. Pachuka and TurboKiller/BorisZ turned out to be major players in these hackings. Pachuka always insisted that L0st and LocalH had a hand in these hackings, which was unlikely as they were both SClassic staff. LocalH's account was among those that were broken into by Pachuka, along with his AIM account, which is why he was able to place the blame so easily. Other involved parties included EveryNameWasTaken and AJ.<br />
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==Sonic Classic Moves On==<br />
===sclassic.net===<br />
[[Image:sclassic6.png|frame|right|Current Sonic Classic "6" logo.]]<br />
In March 2005, newly adminned staffer [[Scarred Sun]] made an offer to Sonic McTails to purchase SSonicNET. McTails declined the offer, and a plan to move Sonic Classic and SHIT went ahead. <br />
On Friday, March 18, 2005, after hosting was finally granted, SClassic and SHIT made an impromptu switch.<br />
[[SHIT]] was the first site on the new Sonic Classic to fully make the transition. Delays to the Sonic Classic forums were a day long due to a large database. The forums were brough back online in the evening on March 19th. <br />
<br />
Currently, the [[Sonic Classic Cooperative]] has two main sites — the Sonic Classic forums and SHIT — and is planning to launch a third site, [[ASPRS]], before the end of 2005.<br />
<br />
On May 1, 2005, Sonic McTails was attempting to restore Shadow255's user account and accidentally overwrote the creator names of a month's worth of posts. Any strange lingering posts that are credited to Shadow255 may be this way for that reason.<br />
<br />
On May 12, 2005, [[Borisz|Turbokiller/BorisZ]] decided it would be fun to hack the board in celebration of his birthday. This resulted in massive downtime as McTails tried to repair the forums. This also interfered with repairs from the overwritten account creator issue. Forums were finally reopened on May 20.<br />
<br />
==A Retro Endeavor==<br />
===Sonic Retro===<br />
On May 1st, 2006, Sonic Classic administrators shocked many sceners by unveiling a new fundamental website, [[Sonic Retro]]. Outgrowing its former image and legacy, [[Scarred Sun]] & [[Alexbt]] (along with other staff members) planned out a new site that would take bits and pieces of Sonic Classic to form a bigger, better, and more organized site. Sonic Hot Dimensions was also included in the forum move.<br />
Sonic Classic Forums remain much like they were, but are now located within Sonic Retro Forums.<br />
<br />
===The Fun Continues===<br />
Following his earlier trend, Turbo decided to mess with Sonic Retro/Classic on his birthday (approx May 12, 2006), and leaving Sonic Hot Dimensions open.<br />
<br />
On July 14th, [[The Virus]] decided to abuse his global mod permissions and wipe the forums. [[Scarred Sun]] announced her resignation to the staff, and [[Alexbt]] became Interim Server Adminstrator.<br />
The forums were restored to a June backup on July 17, 2006 at approx. 3:00AM EST.<br />
<br />
On August 5th, the site was the latest victim by what has been called an epidemic hacking spree by a group of Turkish crackers going under the alias of the "Turkish Defacer". The only part affected were the forums. They were restored quickly the same day.<br />
<br />
==To be Classic Again==<br />
Following the Turkish Hacking events, moderator [[UltraVR]] offered to move the forums to his server and run them on VBulletin, a more secure forums package. In doing so, the forums effectively became Sonic Classic again. [[Scarred Sun]] stepped down from head administrator, and [[Ashura2k]] was elected her replacement for the future of the board. Plans are currently in works for expansion of the forums into a larger site.<br />
<br />
[[Category: Sites]]<br />
[[Category:SClassic Stuff|*]]</div>Alexbthttps://info.sonicretro.org/index.php?title=Talk:Adventures_of_Sonic_the_Hedgehog&diff=40200Talk:Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog2006-06-24T06:34:33Z<p>Alexbt: </p>
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<div>This article is VERY confusing, and seems to have wrong information.<br />
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It talks too much about SatAM too.<br />
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The timeline seems wonky, and the SatAM article states there are two full seasons of SatAM.<br />
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-Alex</div>Alexbthttps://info.sonicretro.org/index.php?title=Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(16-bit)&diff=39756Sonic the Hedgehog (16-bit)2006-06-15T00:07:35Z<p>Alexbt: /* Also Released On */</p>
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<div>{{Bob|bobscreen=Sonic1_title.png|publisher=Sega|developer=Sonic Team|system=Sega Genesis|europe=June 23, 1991|usa=June 23, 1991|japan=July 26, 1991|genre=2D Platform|seealso=Sonic the Hedgehog (Game Gear)}}<br />
==Introduction==<br />
'''''Sonic the Hedgehog''''' was the video game that started off the career of [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] and [[Sonic Team]].<br />
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The first version of the game lacked parallax scrolling, moving clouds, rippling water, and other minor details. The newer Japanese version included the details, and the "JP2" version in ''[[Sonic Mega Collection]]'' was an officially hacked ROM that fixed the "[[Spike Bug]]".<br />
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This game was the first game to really propel the Genesis into mass popularity in North America. After it was released, it eventually supplanted ''Altered Beast'' as the bundled game with the console.<br />
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''Sonic the Hedgehog'' added the element of speed to the standard platform formula, and introduced other unique elements as well, such as the loops and springboards now permanently associated with the game series.<br />
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In the game, Sonic has to prevent [[Doctor Ivo Robotnik|Dr. Robotnik]] (Doctor Eggman in [[Japan]] and in later games) from collecting the [[Chaos Emerald]]s in an attempt to rule the world - canonically this is Earth, but for a lengthy period of time was commonly believed to be [[Mobius]], due to outside sources using the name.<br />
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There was also a version of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (Game Gear)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' released for the [[Sega Master System]] and the [[Game Gear]], which loosely followed the design of the Genesis version, although with some different zones and a level map.<br />
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The main villain, Doctor Eggman, has always been called that in the Japanese titles. However, in the European and American versions, his name is localized to Doctor Ivo Robotnik, and has stayed that way until ''[[Sonic Adventure]]'', where he's been known as Eggman as well. Also, the name Robotnik was later used in the Japanese version of ''[[Sonic Adventure 2]]''.<br />
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Although its Genesis counterpart was extremely popular in the United States, ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' only received lukewarm responses in Japan. Sonic wouldn't catch on in that locale until ''[[Sonic Jam]]''. Because of its popularity, it later replaced Altered Beast as the pack-in for the Mega Drive.<br />
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==Features==<br />
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The game that started it all, it featured many novel elements, utilising the parallel processing capabilities of the Genesis, which contributed to its popularity and helped to promote the uptake of 16-bit consoles.<br />
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===Gameplay===<br />
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The gameplay centers around elements that exploit the increased performance of the [[Sega Genesis|Genesis]] console. It is notable for being both simplistic and engaging for players.<br />
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The game was arguably the one of the fastest platformers that had yet been released. Sonic could run, jump and roll at significantly higher speeds than most platformers of the time. Unlike other platformers, the game's levels were designed to encourage the player to progress quickly. Springs, slopes, high falls and loop de loops were all available to both boost and challenge the player to reach high speeds. This was all accomplished without any slowdown in frame rates, adding to the experience.<br />
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Sonic's method of attack was also novel. As a [[hedgehog]], he could curl up into a ball, by either jumping or by rolling along the ground, a state in which he could damage enemies by simply colliding with them. This was a change from most other platform games, where a the player could only damage enemies by shooting, attacking or jumping on top of them. While rolling along the ground Sonic could roll down slopes, gaining speed as he did so. Most slopes were irregular, as opposed to the fixed angles seen in older titles, and the game had physics to match. Sonic's acceleration down a slope depended on its steepness; he could run around 360-degree loops, if travelling fast enough; and he suffered from drag under water. <br />
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Sonic could collect rings to protect himself. As long as Sonic had at least one ring he would not die when injured. Instead he wou<br />
ld lose all of his rings, which sprayed out and could be collected again. There were also [[shield]]s available which allowed Sonic to be hit once without losing rings. However, neither shields nor rings could protect against instant death, brought on by crushing, drowning or falling off the map.<br />
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Progress through the game was made easier by special [[checkpoint]]s called lamp posts. When Sonic passed a lamp post, changing its colour, he could restart from that point - rather than the beginning of the level - when he next lost a life.<br />
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The games featured no passwords or game saves. The player had to start from the beginning every time he ran out of continues or reset the console.<br />
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===Graphics===<br />
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The game's 16-bit graphics were impressive for its time. Colours were lush and varied, taking advantage of the [[Genesis]]' enhanced colour [[palette]], and the [[sprite]]s were richly animated. Flowers moved, rings spun, lights blinked, and water shimmered in the background. Destroying an enemy robot produced a puff of smoke as a small animal flew or hopped away from its prison.<br />
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Leaving the game idle for more than a few seconds made Sonic tap his foot impatiently.<br />
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===Sound and music===<br />
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The game took full advantage of the onboard [[Zilog]] [[Z80]] and [[Yamaha]] synthesizer sound chip. The game was filled with sound effects, with chimes, bops and beats following the player through the levels. Many sounds played on top of one another and most of the games sounds were unique and of higher quality than earlier 8-bit sounds.<br />
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The music of the game affords special attention, with many fans proclaiming it to be the most memorable feature. The music used 8-bit stereo sound, and was very rich and detailed. The music for [[Green Hill Zone]] in particular is a very well recognised tune, by many fans of the series and by other gamers. Many MIDIs and remixes of this track, and of other tracks in the game, can be found online.<br />
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The music was composed by [[Masato Nakamura]], a member of then-popular J-Pop band [[DREAMS COME TRUE]].<br />
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Each Zone featured three "acts" or levels each following the same theme as the last.<br />
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==Sonic 1 Manuals==<br />
*[[Sonic 1 US/EU Manual]]<br />
*[[Sonic 1 JP Manual]] (translated)<br />
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== Levels ==<br />
*[[Green Hill Zone (S1)|Green Hill Zone]]<br />
*[[Marble Zone]]<br />
*[[Spring Yard Zone]]<br />
*[[Labyrinth Zone]]<br />
*[[Star Light Zone]]<br />
*[[Scrap Brain Zone]]<br />
*[[Final Zone]]<br />
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==Differences between beta and final==<br />
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For general information on unused Sonic 1 items, see [[unused objects]]. For level-specific differences, check the individual level page.<br />
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==Also Released On==<br />
* ''[[6 Pak]]'' for the [[Sega Genesis]]<br />
* ''[[Sonic Compilation]]'' for the [[Sega Genesis]] (1995)<br />
* ''[[Sonic Jam]]'' for the [[Sega Saturn]] (1997)<br />
* ''[[Sega Smash Pack Vol. 1]]'' for the [[Sega Dreamcast]] (2000)<br />
* ''[[Sega Smash Pack]]'' for the [[Game Boy Advance]] (2002)<br />
* ''[[Sonic Mega Collection]]'' for the [[Nintendo Gamecube]] (2002) <br />
**NOTE: ''Sonic Mega Collection'' has the World release, Japanese revision and "JP2" (spike bugfix hack) available to play.<br />
* ''[[Sonic Mega Collection Plus]]'' for the [[Sony Playstation 2]] and [[Microsoft X-Box]] (2004)<br />
* ''[[Sega Genesis Collection Volume 1]]'' for the [[Play TV Legends]] (2004)<br />
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==Production Credits==<br />
Game Planner: [[Hirokazu Yasuhara]]<br/><br />
Sound Producer: [[Masato Nakamura]]<br/><br />
Programmer: [[Yuji Naka]]<br/><br />
Sound Programmer: "Jimita", "Macky"<br/><br />
Design: [[Jinya Ito|"Jinya"]], [[Reiko Kodama]]<br/><br />
Character Design: [[Naoto Ohshima]]<br/><br />
Special Thanks: Papa, [[Fujio Minegishi]]<br />
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==Scoring==<br />
Hitting bumpers: 10 points for each of the first ten hits on any given bumper; after that no more points can be gained from that bumper<br />
Hitting enemies: ''(a chain refers to all enemies destroyed until the next time Sonic lands on some form of ground)''<br />
*First enemy in a chain = 100<br />
*Second enemy in a chain = 200<br />
*Third enemy in a chain = 500<br />
*Fourth through 15th enemies in a chain = 1000 each<br />
*16th and all subsequent enemies in a chain = 10000 each<br />
*Destroying a [[Dr. Eggman]] boss robot: 1000 points<br />
*Ring bonus at end of level: 100 points for each ring held<br />
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Time bonus at end of level:<br />
*Game clock reads 0:29 or less = 50000<br />
*Game clock reads 0:30 to 0:44 = 10000<br />
*Game clock reads 0:45 to 0:59 = 5000<br />
*Game clock reads 1:00 to 1:29 = 4000<br />
*Game clock reads 1:30 to 1:59 = 3000<br />
*Game clock reads 2:00 to 2:59 = 2000<br />
*Game clock reads 3:00 to 3:59 = 1000<br />
*Game clock reads 4:00 to 4:59 = 500<br />
*Game clock reads 5:00 or more = 0<br />
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End-of-level flags: On the screen where the goal post stands, there are sometimes flags you can trigger. These flags are hidden, but if you hit them they will appear and show either 100, 1000, or 10000. The flags that say "100" are really only worth 10 points each, but the 1000 and 10000 flags report their values accurately.<br />
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Special stage: 100 points for each ring held<br />
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'''''Note: in cheat codes, a + signifies that the buttons should be pressed simultaneously.'''''<br />
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== Cheat Codes ==<br />
=== World Version ===<br />
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''From title screen''<br />
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*Zone Select: U D L R A+Start, select zone<br />
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*In-level Functions: C C C U D L R A+Start, hold A until Sonic appears<br />
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*Zone Select + In-level Functions: U D L R U C C C U D L R A+Start, select zone, hold A until Sonic appears (the extra U is to force the cheat detection code to reset itself)<br />
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On all codes containing C's, the C's can be input anywhere during the sequence.<br />
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=== Cheat Codes, Japanese Version ===<br />
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''From title screen''<br />
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*Zone Select: U D D D L R A+Start, select zone<br />
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*In-level Functions: C C C U D D D L R A+Start, select zone, hold A until Sonic appears<br />
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*Zone Select + In-level Functions: U D D D L R U C C C U D L R A+Start, select zone, hold A until Sonic appears (the extra U is to force the cheat detection code to reset itself)<br />
<br />
*Hidden Japanese Credits Screen: C C C C C C U D D D L R, hold Down+A+B+C while demo starts<br />
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On all codes containing C's, the C's can be input anywhere during the sequence.<br />
<br />
'''In-level Functions, all versions:'''<br />
<br />
''Debug''<br />
<br />
Press B to toggle normal and debug mode.<br />
<br />
Press A to advance forward through the debug object list.<br />
<br />
Press A+C to advance backwards through the debug object list.<br />
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Press C to place the selected object at the current coordinates.<br />
<br />
Current coordinates are designated by the top line of hex digits in the HUD. <br />
<br />
Viewport coordinates are designated by the bottom line of hex digits in the HUD.<br />
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''Slow-motion/Restart''<br />
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During pause press A to fade to black and restart from the "SONIC TEAM PRESENTS" screen.<br />
<br />
During pause press and hold B to enable slow-motion (this proceeds at half-speed, or 15fps, for as long as you hold the B button).<br />
<br />
During pause press C to advance one frame.<br />
<br />
=== Game Genie Codes ===<br />
{|width="100%"<br />
! Code||Description<br />
|-<br />
|AE3T-AACL<br />
|You start with 1 life.<br />
|-<br />
|AY3T-AACL<br />
|You start with 5 lives.<br />
|-<br />
|AE0T-CABE<br />
|Once you gain Invincibility, you stay invincible until the stage ends, or when you die.<br />
|-<br />
|SCRA-BJX0<br />
|Each ring is worth 2.<br />
|-<br />
|SCRA-BNX0<br />
|Each ring is worth 3.<br />
|-<br />
|SCRA-BTX0<br />
|Each ring is worth 4.<br />
|-<br />
|SCRA-BYX0<br />
|Each ring is worth 5.<br />
|-<br />
|SCRA-B2X0<br />
|Each ring is worth 6.<br />
|-<br />
|SCRA-B6X0<br />
|Each ring is worth 7.<br />
|-<br />
|SCRA-BAX0<br />
|Each ring is worth 8.<br />
|-<br />
|GJ6A-CA7A<br />
|Infinite lives.<br />
|-<br />
|AJ3A-AA4G<br />
|Access to the Level Select menu. <br />
|-<br />
|AY3T-BA4R<br />
|Start with 5 Chaos Emeralds in possession. <br />
|-<br />
|DDLT-AAGL<br />
|Jump higher than your regular jump.<br />
|-<br />
|KDLT-AAGL<br />
|Jump lower than your regular jump.<br />
|-<br />
|BDLT-AAGL<br />
|Jump VERY high and "float" in the air.<br />
|-<br />
|AEOT-CABY<br />
|Once you gain Speed Shoes, you keep them until the stage ends, or when you die.<br />
|}<br />
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==Miscellaneous==<br />
===The Ribbon, Ring, and Stars===<br />
The distinctive "ribbon, ring, and star"-styled title screen used in the very first Sonic the Hedgehog game (and many installments <br />
in the series afterward) was actually based on the title screen from the 1988 Sega arcade game [[Wonder-Boy III: Monster Lair]].<br />
<br />
[[Image:Wb3_title.png]] [[Image:Sonic1_title.png]]<br />
<br />
===GoodGen Versions===<br />
*Sonic the Hedgehog (W) (REV 00) [!] - The standard first release of Sonic 1.<br />
*Sonic the Hedgehog (W) (REV 01) [!] - Japanese-only version of Sonic 1, with bugfixes and enhancements.<br />
*Sonic the Hedgehog (W) [p1][!] - Pirate version of Sonic 1, with copyrights, logos and serial number removed.<br />
*Sonic the Hedgehog (W) [p2][!] - Pirate version of Sonic 1, with copyrights and logos removed.<br />
<br />
==Resources==<br />
===Sonic 1-Specific Hacking Utilities===<br />
<br />
(For more standard tools such as [[ESE II]] and [[SonED]], see ''[[Sonic Hacking Utilities]]''.)<br />
<br />
===Disassemblies===<br />
<br />
Disassemblies are like source codes. You can modify them how you want, reassemble them, and play it. Even though the rom will be shifted, it will work because of labels. There are two types of disassemblies.<br />
IDA are the ones for research. You can export an asm file from that as well.<br />
Split ones have all data split in categories and separate files, easier to modify. (courtesy of [[Hacking CulT]])<br />
<br />
*[http://www.hacking-cult.org/download/s1ida.rar Sonic 1 Disassembly, IDA Format] by [[drx]]<br />
*[http://www.hacking-cult.org/download/S1split.rar Sonic 1 Disassembly, Split Format] by [[Hivebrain]]<br />
<br />
===Hacking Guides===<br />
* [[SCHG:Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic Community Hacking Guide/Sonic the Hedgehog]]<br />
* [[SCHG:Nem s1|Sonic Community Hacking Guide/Nem s1|Nemesis' Sonic 1 ROM Hacking Guide]]<br />
* [[SCHG:Nem s1ss|Sonic Community Hacking Guide/Nem s1ss|Nemesis' Sonic 1 Savestate Hacking Guide]]<br />
* [http://shadowsoft-games.com/ssrg/guides/sonic1_cyan/index.htm Cyan and Saxman's Sonic 1 Hacking Guide] (broken link)<br />
* [http://shadowsoft-games.com/ssrg/guides/Sonic1_esrael/sonic1i.htm Esrael's Sonic 1 Hacking Guide] (broken link)<br />
<br />
===Original Sound Version Recordings===<br />
See [[Sonic the Hedgehog OSV]] for a download page.<br />
<br />
===Box Art===<br />
(Via [[Sonicology]])<br />
<gallery><br />
Image:Sonic1_box_us_nfr1.jpg|US Not for Resale Cover<br />
Image:Sonic1_box_eu.jpg|EU Cover<br />
Image:Sonic1_box_jap.jpg|JP Cover<br />
</gallery><br />
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{{SonicGenesisGames}}<br />
[[Category:Genesis Games]]</div>Alexbthttps://info.sonicretro.org/index.php?title=Sonic_Retro:Search_Plugin&diff=39547Sonic Retro:Search Plugin2006-06-08T20:39:57Z<p>Alexbt: </p>
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<div>[[Image:shitplugin.png|right]]<br />
The '''Sonic Retro Search Plugin''' allows users to install a Mycroft search engine plugin for [[Sonic Retro]]. This allows users to search Sonic Retro or go straight to a specific page without having to go to the Sonic Retro homepage first. The plugin works with the following web browsers:<br />
*Mozilla Suite<br />
*Mozilla Firefox<br />
*Camino<br />
*Netscape 7+<br />
*Beonex Communicator<br />
*Safari<br />
*Galeon (?)<br />
<br />
To install the plugin on your local browser, click [http://shit.sclassic.org/plugin.html here].<br />
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[[Category:Sonic Retro]]</div>Alexbthttps://info.sonicretro.org/index.php?title=Sonic_scene&diff=39546Sonic scene2006-06-08T20:31:12Z<p>Alexbt: /* Index of major sites */</p>
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<div><br />
The '''Sonic scene''' is a collective of multiple websites and message boards with Sonic information, and has been around in some form since the mid 1990s, although the hacking side really took hold in 1999.<br />
<br />
Please add whatever you can to this section. Due to the likely size of the page, I'm linking the sceners list to a separate page, this especially needs to include everyone who actually does stuff for the scene. This is also currently just a framework to help spurn people to add information, I myself actually remember very little of the specifics, which is one reason I want this section as complete as possible. The C64 scene had nearly 2 decades to catch up with once their database was opened, so we shouldn't be too bad off =P. - [[User:LocalH|LocalH]] 02:02, 21 Sep 2004 (MDT)<br />
<br />
===History===<br />
<br />
* [[Hidden Palace Zone: ACLA-ATD4]]<br />
* [[The Sonic Community: More Than A Perfect Existence]]<br />
<br />
===Index of major sites===<br />
<br />
*[[Area 51]]<br />
*[[Hacking CulT]]<br />
*[[Random Sonic Net]]<br />
*[[Secrets of Sonic Team]]<br />
*[[Sonic 2 Beta Site]]<br />
*[[Sonic Classic]]<br />
*[[Sonic CulT]]<br />
*[[Sonic Retro]]<br />
*[[SSRG]]<br />
*[[SWS2B]]<br />
*[[The Green Hill Zone]]<br />
*[[The Sonic Stadium]] (=TSS=)<br />
<br />
===Sceners===<br />
''See [[:Category:Sceners]]''.<br />
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[[Category:Sonic Scene|*]]</div>Alexbthttps://info.sonicretro.org/index.php?title=Sonic_Retro&diff=39545Sonic Retro2006-06-08T20:30:31Z<p>Alexbt: </p>
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<div>'''Sonic Retro''' , or the project you're looking at right now. <br />
<br />
==Sonic Retro==<br />
===News===<br />
<br />
===Archive===<br />
The archives are expected to be based on [[ASPRS]].<br />
<br />
===Info===<br />
The Sonic Retro Info Wiki was founded on September 14, 2004 as the SSonicNET Database. After a short while, it became [[SHIT]], which stands for '''S'''onic the '''H'''edgehog '''I'''nformation '''T'''reasury. Following the merge into Sonic Retro, it became the Info Wiki. It attempts to form a complete knowledge base for everything to do with [[Sonic the Hedgehog]].<br />
It uses a [http://www.mediawiki.org/ Wiki] system to update itself, meaning any user can edit almost any article at any time. This system has its own specialized shorthand tags to make common tasks (such as linking to another page within the Wiki) easy to do.<br />
<br />
===Forums===<br />
The forums are a central location of Sonic Retro, featuring the Retro Commons. Also at home at the Retro Forums are [[Sonic Classic]] Forums, and [[Sonic Hot Dimensions]] Forums.<br />
<br />
===Art===<br />
<br />
<br />
==Awards and Accolades==<br />
In 2005, Sonic Retro was nominated for several [[Sonic Site Awards]], winning the ''Most Evolved Website'' award. At the time of writing, the Sonic Retro Info Wiki had gone from non-existance to over 1,000 articles.<br />
<br />
[[Image:06-evolved.gif]] <br />
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[[Category:Sonic Retro|*]]<br />
[[Category:Sites]]</div>Alexbthttps://info.sonicretro.org/index.php?title=Sonic_Classic&diff=39544Sonic Classic2006-06-08T20:22:42Z<p>Alexbt: Sonic Retro</p>
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<div>''For information the actual community rather than history, see [[SClassic Subculture]].''<br />
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'''Sonic Classic''' is an online community made up of, among other things, ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' fans. Today, it is a wide-encompassing board with over 700 members and growing. It originally existed as [[Sonic 2 Beta (site)|Sonic 2 Beta]] and changed its name to Sonic Classic later in its life.<br />
<br />
==Early History==<br />
===The Beginning===<br />
On January 3rd 1999, [[Simon Wai's Sonic 2 Beta]] Page was born, dedicated to the prototype version of this great game. The very first edition of the site had an animated gif of the title screen, and featured white text on a blue SONIC/MILES morphing background. <br />
<br />
The discovery of ''[[Sonic 2 Beta]]'' [[ROM]] marked a significant point in the Sonic Secrets scene. Before the ROM was available, groundless speculations were made based on some poorly scanned pictures, and lots of faith was required in order for many theories to stand. After the ROM was discovered, investigations were made by means of "hacking" the savestates or the ROM directly. Hacking is now a foundation for new theories, which brings the Sonic community as a whole another step closer to the truth of what ''Sonic 2'' was intended to be. It is unknown who dumped the ROM found by Simon Wai, but it was found on a Chinese web site after a thread in the newsgroups about it. The wide-spread circulation of this ROM file soon followed.<br />
<br />
==The ezBoard==<br />
===Simon Wai's Departure===<br />
In early 2000, [[Simon Wai]] decided to put his focus towards college, and left the Sonic 2 Beta as an archive, soon to be deleted. A member of the message boards, [[Pelord]] archived the site and rehosted it on the original [[Sonic Stuff Research Group]] in May of 2000. Sonic 2 Beta's focus was more on game theories, and general Sonic interest; the actual hacking and discoveries were usually posted on [[Area 51]] and [[Tom's SoStH Page]]. Although the actual site received few updates, one section — the [[mailbag]] — was very popular, and it was the original origins of several jokes such as "[[I wod lick a Sonic 2 ROMS]]"<br />
<br />
On March 24, 2001, Pelord created the [[ezBoard]] edition of the Sonic 2 Beta Messageboard, a switch from Simon's AnyBoard creation. Time passed, and the need for moderators became apparent. [[LocalH]] and [[Terunaga]] were chosen. [[Sonic Sue]] became the first administator on Sonic 2 Beta after winning a hoax contest. During the ezBoard era, [[Terunaga]], [[Bryn2k]], [[Ashura2k]], [[LOst]], and [[TStodden]] served as moderators.<br />
<br />
As time passed, Sonic 2 Beta found itself drifting away from Sonic research, becoming outpaced by the quickly-growing [[Sonic CulT]] and the prime days of [[Area 51]]. Thus, too, the mood of the forums started to drift toward Sonic information compilation, with things such as manual translations from Japanese Sonic games, and became more of a social center for those in the scene.<br />
<br />
===The PACHUKA Incident===<br />
In July 2002, Sonic 2 Beta administrator [[Sonic Sue]] returned from a month's absense, due to computer woes. Upon her return, she noticed that the forums were different than when she had left, but she saw no reason not to do her job as she had been instructed to. About a day after her return, member [[Kilometers Prower]] posted a 'discovery' in the Sonic 2 Beta Discussion forum about an area in Labyrinth Zone (of ''Sonic 1'') that could be reached via debug mode. A member known as [[Sonique]] said in a not too pleasant way that it was already known and posted about at other boards.<br />
<br />
Sue asked Sonique not to flame other users (per Pelord's rules), and told her that members of Sonic 2 Beta had obviously not seen the discovery, and since some members do not visit other boards. It was a simple, polite request not to flame.<br />
<br />
The next day, the first thing Sue heard when she got online was an IM from a member known as [[MangoMan]], telling her that the Beta Discussion forum was under attack by a member named [[PACHUKA]], who was spam-bumping tons of old topics using images with offensive references and langu<br />
age (Note: Pelord always had a no swearing rule.) and that she was being flamed also. PACHUKA was online at this time, and so Sue gave him a number of reasonable warnings asking him to stop. (She recalls about ten of them. Other members tried convincing him to stop as well.<br />
<br />
The inital warnings were ignored, and Sue warned that if he continued spamming, he would be banned. It did continue, and she backed up her warning by actually banning him. She was the only admin online at the time, and could not let the forums get more disrupted than they already had.<br />
<br />
Approximately ten to fifteen minutes after the ban, PACHUKA replaced his avatar with a message saying "Sonic Sue is a cunt", and posted some unpleasant things on his website. Within days, people who had never been seen on the forums before had started coming over to Sonic 2 Beta messageboard to flame her for being ban-happy, even though PACHUKA was the second person she ever banned.<br />
<br />
===Simon Wai's Return===<br />
In late 2002, Simon Wai returned from seemingly thin air to announce his return to the community. Simon recreated Sonic 2 Beta the way he wanted it, and told [[Pelord]] he wanted the name Sonic 2 Beta back. Pelord agreed to the terms, and Sonic 2 Beta became known as Sonic Classic. Simon said that Sonic 2 Beta Message Board could remain open, but they must change there name. One of the few names put on the table was 'Sonic Classic', which was the name of Pelord's old Sonic-related website. The name stuck and it became official in December 2003. (At the time of the switch, Sonic Classic was located at pub10.ezboard.com/bsonic2beta). The current ezBoard link is http://go.ezboard.com/bsonic2beta<br />
<br />
==SSonicNET==<br />
===Leaving ezBoard===<br />
[[Image:sclassic5.gif|frame|right|Sonic Classic "5" Logo, used during the SSonicNET years. This logo is still used on the SClassic 5 forum skin, still popular today.]]<br />
Although [[ezBoard]] had served Sonic Classic's hosting needs for years, the ever rising price of [[Gold Community]] forced the staff to move. Free hosting for a message board the size of Sonic Classic, however, wasn't something easily found. A small hosting site for Sonic-based web pages, named [[SSonicNET]] was run by members of the communty [[Sonic McTails]] and [[Alexbt]]. It had opened in July of 2002, offered free hosting to Sonic based sites, and had hosted a backup of [[Area 51]] and a few other sites. [[Pelord]] eventually decided upon SSonicNET for hosting. Shortly after hearing this news, SSonicNET moved to [[Invision Power Board|Invision Power's]] Hosting, and was redesigned. <br />
<br />
The first beta version of this new board was installed in November of '02, at http://projectnemesis.ibforums.com/sclassic (later moved to http://projectnemesis.ibforums.com/sclassic/forums ). It was at this time that Sonic McTails and Alexbt became full-time technical administrators on Sonic Classic staff. Alex, specifically handled the daunting task of fully implementing the ezBoard look-and-feel into the Invision Power skin design.<br />
<br />
Invision Board 1.1 Final was installed, and was upgraded to 1.2 before going [[ILVE]] on February 16, 2003, and has remained on [[SSonicNET]]'s hosting through March 18, 2005. Sonic Classic was SSonicNET's largest site, using 4-10GB of bandwidth monthly.<br />
<br />
===Bumpy Beginning===<br />
The beginning of the new board was arguably characterized by its friction with Sonic CulT. Many arguements erupted and many members left for a variety of reasons; however, SClassic moved on. During this friction, hackers obtained Alexbt's password to the ezBoard. All of the topics in Dust Hill Zone, the staff forums, were made public for all to see, and at a point soon after that, the ezBoard was entirely reskinned to look like Sonic CulT. A quick cry of help to ezBoard gave the power back to its rightful owners, but at that point a great deal of damage was done, leading to the entire board being wiped with no archives.<br />
<br />
===SSS===<br />
In August of 2003, there were several security breakins to Sonic Classic through various backdoors and password thefts. Pachuka and TurboKiller/BorisZ turned o<br />
ut to be major players in these hackings. Pachuka always insisted that L0st and LocalH had a hand in these hackings, which was unlikely as they were both SClassic staff. LocalH's account was among those that were broken into by Pachuka, along with his AIM account, which is why he was able to place the blame so easily. Other involved parties included EveryNameWasTaken and AJ.<br />
<br />
==Sonic Classic Moves On==<br />
===sclassic.net===<br />
[[Image:sclassic6.png|frame|right|Current Sonic Classic "6" logo.]]<br />
In March 2005, newly adminned staffer [[Scarred Sun]] made an offer to Sonic McTails to purchase SSonicNET. McTails declined the offer, and a plan to move Sonic Classic and SHIT went ahead. <br />
On Friday, March 18, 2005, after hosting was finally granted, SClassic and SHIT made an impromptu switch.<br />
[[SHIT]] was the first site on the new Sonic Classic to fully make the transition. Delays to the Sonic Classic forums were a day long due to a large database. The forums were brough back online in the evening on March 19th. <br />
<br />
Currently, the [[Sonic Classic Cooperative]] has two main sites — the Sonic Classic forums and SHIT — and is planning to launch a third site, [[ASPRS]], before the end of 2005.<br />
<br />
On May 1, 2005, Sonic McTails was attempting to restore Shadow255's user account and accidentally overwrote the creator names of a month's worth of posts. Any strange lingering posts that are credited to Shadow255 may be this way for that reason.<br />
<br />
On May 12, 2005, [[BorisZ|Turbokiller/BorisZ]] decided it would be fun to hack the board in celebration of his birthday. This resulted in massive downtime as McTails tried to repair the forums. This also interfered with repairs from the overwritten account creator issue. Forums were finally reopened on May 20.<br />
<br />
==A Retro Endeavor==<br />
===Sonic Retro===<br />
On May 1st, 2006, Sonic Classic administrators shocked many sceners by unveiling a new fundamental website, [[Sonic Retro]]. Outgrowing its former image and legacy, [[Scarred Sun]] & [[Alexbt]] (along with other staff members) planned out a new site that would take bits and pieces of Sonic Classic to form a bigger, better, and more organized site.<br />
Sonic Classic Forums remain much like they were, but are now located within Sonic Retro Forums.<br />
<br />
[[Category: Sites]]<br />
[[Category:SClassic Stuff|*]]</div>Alexbthttps://info.sonicretro.org/index.php?title=User:Alexbt&diff=39540User:Alexbt2006-06-08T20:09:18Z<p>Alexbt: /* 2004-Present */</p>
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<div>==Alexbt==<br />
If it were AlexBT, don't you think it would look like that?<br />
Alex has been an active member of the [[Sonic Scene]] for over four years, with roots going back over six years.<br />
<br />
===2003-Present===<br />
*Technical Administrator - [[Sonic Classic]]<br />
<br />
===2004-Present===<br />
*Administrator - [[Sonic Retro Info Wiki]]<br />
<br />
===2006-Present===<br />
*Administrator - Sonic Retro<br />
<br />
===Former Positions===<br />
*Maintainer of the [[SSRG]] Documents Archive<br />
*Technical Administrator of [[Area 51]]<br />
*Founder, [[Sonic Music Center]]<br />
*Founder, [[Sonic 2 Beta Music]]<br />
*Co-Founder, Technical Administrator - [[SSonicNET]] (2002-2005)<br />
*Radio Reporter - [[TSSZ]] (2004-2005)<br />
<br />
[[Category:Sceners]]<br />
<br />
<br />
See also:<br />
[[User:Alexbt]]</div>Alexbt