Credits

Gerbil - Programmer of Sonic HackingWiz Pro II

Hacking information:
Rocket - Founder of SAX Technologies and the webmaster of the Sonic Stuff Research Group
Cyan Helkaraxe - Co-creator of the Sonic 1 Hacking Documents and finder of the Genesis palette format.
Nayr - Creator of the Sonic 2 v1.54 Hacking Guide.
Weath - Creator of the Sonic 1 Game Gear Hacking Documents.
Sparxster, Dr. Ivo - Webmasters of "Cracking the Crackers".
BETA, KojiChao - Gameboy Advance palette format and several palette locations
Everyone else who contributed to the Sonic Hacking Guides.

Suggestions:
Andrew Wolan - Object Toolbar in Special Stage Editors
Rattleman (AIM: MRattleM) - Clear Special Stage button
Aquasmist - "Palette Preview" function (removed in v.0012 due to conflicts)
CautionIAmBoozer - Component switcher in palette editor

Source code:
Sonicblur - Tile Editor (currently unreleased)
Tristan Penman - Sonic 2 Level Editor (built from S.L.E.E.P.)
Reml_6536@hotmail.com - Sonic Crackers hacking utility
David Declerck - The Sonic Codec co-author
All source code submitted has been rewritten to work with SHWP-II.

Other miscellaneous stuff:
Tails151 - Water cycling palettes in Sonic 1.
KojiChao - Over 80% of the palettes included for Sonic 3D.
Cinossu - Over 50% of the palettes for Sonic 2.
LuigiLink - Provided several Sonic Game Gear ROMs.
Cinossu, Sparxster - SHWP-II v.0013's special easter egg

This program was created by Gerbil Software

Click here to go to the GS section of the SSRG.

and developed in cooperation with SAX Technologies.

Click here to go to the SAX Technologies website.

SAX Technologies has provided such resources as the Sonic 1 Hacking Documents, the Sonic 2 Hacking Guide, and the Sonic 3 & Knuckles Hacking Guide. Check out the official SAX Technologies website by clicking the logo above.

SHWP-II uses The Sonic Codec for compression and decompression functions.

The Sonic Codec

Click here to go to the ChaoSax Team website.

The Sonic Codec is written by Gerbil Software and The ChaoSax Team.

And last but not least, special thanks to

Click here to go to the official SEGA website.

for creating Sonic the Hedgehog, the best video game series ever created.