Hidden Palace Zone: ACLA-ATD4

A documentary that covers the Sonic Scene from its beginning to its "end", written by Nayr T'nargh in 2002. Updates to it are now being added by Nayr T'nargh on a monthly basis starting at the end of 2005.

I. Introduction

II. Dawn -- The Sonic community gains another subsection

III. Ethiopia -- The Sonic secrets community gains stature

A. Overall happenings and history

1. Secrets of Sonic the Hedgehog

2. Andy’s Sonic Hacking Station

3. The handshake

4. Area 51

B. Achievements

1. The SSRG

C. Message boards

D. Members

IV. “The Golden Age” -- The SSC’s finest moments of secret finding emerge

A. Overall happenings and history

1. Sonic 2 beta

2. The race for HPZ

3. Why the heck’d they do that? THEORIES!

4. Hoaxes

B. Achievements

1. Sonic 2 Beta

2. Sonic 1 Beta HOAX

3. Sonic 2 Final’s HPZ

C. Message boards

1. Sonic Pandemonium

2. Secrets of Sonic the Hedgehog

3. Area 51

4. Sonic 2 Beta

D. Members

V. Hackers -- The Sonic community looks to hacking for answers

A. Overall happenings and history

1. “Sonic 2 Hacking Guide”

2. Sonic 1 Beta Hoax

3. The 2nd handshake

4. Debug-o-matic

5. Maze-o-matic

6. Sonic 2 Beta

7. Sonic Hacking Community

8. Simon’s Sayonara

B. Achievements

1. Debug found

2. Sonic 1 successfully hacked

3. First hacking guides

4. First hacking utilities

C. Message Boards

1. Area 51

2. “Sonic 2 Beta”

3. Sonic Cult

4. SHC Boards 1 & 2

D. Members

VI. The Dark Age of Light -- while the hacking scene was thriving, the basis of the golden age had been nearly forgotten

A. Overall happenings and history

1. X-team

2. Sonic 2 Delta HOAX

3. wrapping up loose ends: Nemesis

4. The “Epsilon”

B. Achievements

1. alpha sprite location found

2. alpha sprite art found through location

3. Sonic 2 Delta HOAX

C. Message Boards

1. Area 51

2. Pelord’s “Sonic 2 Beta”

3. Sonic Cult

4. “SHC Boards 1 & 2” / Sonic Cult SHC

D. Members

VII. The Cleansing -- with the realization of the previous age, a return to the golden age is attempted. However old grudges aren’t easily forgotten, driving the community into a Civil War.

A. Overall happenings and history

1. The first death of the SSRG

2. The death of Area 51

3. “The Early Scene”

4. Simon Returns

5. Sonic 2 Beta returns to Simon

6. SSC becomes SSRG

7. Andy hands over SSRG ownership

8. The SSC Civil War

B. Achievements

1. Music hacking

2. Sonic Advance hacking

3. Sonic Secrets Center (“Epicentre”)

4. Sonic Advance 2 Alpha Hoax

C. Message Boards

1. Sonic Classic (Pelord’s “Sonic 2 Beta”)

2. Sonic 2 Beta

3. SSC / SSRG

4. Sonic Cult

D. Members

VIII. A New Start -- a broken community scatters to other boards, namely Sonic Cult. Some, however, drag SSC out of the burning ruins of SSRG in hopes of “righting old wrongs”. (Jan. 29, 2003 -- Feb. 2, 2003)

A. Overall happenings and history

1. SSC re-established

2. Chaos resigns

B. Achievements

C. Message Boards

1. Sonic Classic

2. Sonic 2 Beta

3. SSC

4. Sonic Cult

IX. Deception: The Hacker -- with the twin destruction of SSRG and SSC in one fell swoop, a shadow emerges from the ashes with one intention: destruction.

A. Overall happenings and history

1. SSC destroyed

2. Conspiracy

3. Cult Attacks

4. The message

B. Achievements

C. Message Boards

1. Sonic Classic

2. Sonic 2 Beta

3. Sonic Cult

X. Astray and Confusion Abounds -- after persistent measures taken, the hacker gives up for the time being and retreats into dormancy. Two pinnacles of strength are all that remain of the community...

A. Overall happenings and history

1. Sonic Classic moves

2. The hacker stops

3. Sonic Classic vs. Sonic Cult

B. Achievements

1. Original Sonic 2 hacking document found

C. Message Boards

1. Sonic Classic

2. Sonic 2 Beta

3. Sonic Cult

4. ??SSC??

XI. Armageddon -- The last two towers fade away, bringing the community to a swift end.(mid March -- June 9, 2003)

A. Overall happenings and history

1. New management

2. Sonic Cult shuts its doors... again

B. Achievements

1. Sonic Advance 2 hacking

C. Message Boards

1. Sonic Classic

2. Sonic 2 Beta

3. Sonic Cult

XII. Rebirth -- A dying community is plucked from the jaws of death by an unlikely force and is granted new life (June 9, 2003 -- December 2003)

A. Overall happenings and history

1. The return of SSRG

2. The return of Area 51 message boards

3. The return of the Sonic Cult message boards (SCARAD)

4. A new focus is revealed by senior members of Area 51

B. Achievements

1. Assembly programming: beyond hacking

C. Message Boards

1. Sonic Classic (drifting away from secrets scene to simply "Sonic Scene")

2. Area 51

3. Sonic Cult

4. SSRG

XIII. Conclusion

XIV. Versions

XV. Credits

A similar document, The Sonic Community: More Than A Perfect Existence has been drawn up by RattleMan.