D.A. Garden

<forumuser name="D.A. Garden" /> D.A. Garden is a member of the Sonic Retro community and is known for creating a Sonic 1 hack called Sonic the Hedgehog - Westside Island. He is also known for using Esrael Sonic Editor II on this hack even though as stated on the wiki, it's old and outdated.

D.A. Garden has been lurking around since 2003 when he was 15 and at his last year of school. He stumbled upon the Sonic scene through SWS2B, while looking for Sonic wallpapers on the internet. He came to realize that he was not the only one who wanted to make their own levels in a Sonic game and that it was actually possible for whole new layouts to be created, among other things.

After the initial release of Sonic the Hedgehog - Westside Island, D.A. Garden decided to turn his attention to asm and working with disassemblies. His first asm project was originally going to be a successor to Sonic the Hedgehog - Westside Island, with the name "Sonic 2 - South Island" and a few level layouts and such were shown to certain members of Sonic Retro, including a redesigned Wing Fortress (Shown here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CerNfYlHmys), but due to a lack of time and ideas, this hack slowly came to a standstill and hasn't been worked on since February 2009 (Discontinued, as of the 8th of June, 2009).

He also released a Sonic 2 Kaizo demo where Mystic Cave Zone was redesigned to be much harder, mimicking the difficulty of the Kaizo Mario hacks.

D.A. Garden was working on a Sonic 1 disassembly shortly after this. It was unknown whether or not this was going to turn into a full hack or not.

As of the 8th of June 2009, D.A. Garden has discontinued work on both his Sonic 2 sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog - Westside Island and his Sonic 1 disassembly and posted what he had done up to this point here - http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=15527. He will return to hacking in the near future.

You can find him in #retro on the IRC chat on a regular basis.