Mikel

<forumuser name="Mikel"/> Mikel is a member at the Sonic Retro forums. He is the creator of Sonic Zeta Overdrive, which is a hack of Sonic the Hedgehog 2.

He is an intermediate at Motorola 68000 ASM, although he is currently trying to become an amateur. He has posted guides on how to

extend the music slots in Sonic 1 as well as

adding Wood Zone to the final version of Sonic 2.

History

Early Years (1998-2004)

Mikel became a fan of Sonic the Hedgehog in 1998, when he first watched The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. Five years later, Mikel joined the Sonic scene through Sonic CulT under the name cubakaf on May 15, 2003. He stayed as an active member of the community until his account on SWS2B was deleted, on Febuary 11, 2004.

Following this event, Mikel left the community, only to return through the Sonic Robo Blast 2 Community under the name Mikel93 eight months later.

Return to SWS2B (2005-2006)

After spending some time on the SRB2 message boards, Mikel came back to SWS2B on June 13, 2005. Some time later, he posted with horrid grammar and spelling mistakes.

On November 26, 2005, he posted a level art contest, which ultimately failed; two days later, it was trashed. On December 3, 2005, Mikel was banned from SWS2B for both this childish act and overall inability to interact as a competent member of the forums.

After getting banned from SWS2B, he was later seen on the SSRG forums until the board backup was corrupted in 2007.

Entering the bridge (2007)

Two years after getting banned from the Sonic 2 Beta forums, Mikel joined The Glowing Bridge in April of 2007. When the board was converted to MyBB, he continued to lurk the forums until June 29, 2007, where he released Sonic Zeta DX to the public. The release of his hack started massive amounts of controversy, as it contained stolen music from Sonic Megamix. This ultimately led to him getting banned from The Glowing Bridge the same day.

After getting banned from The Glowing Bridge, Mikel came back to the SSRG four months later under a new name, DarkGhost.

Today (2008-Present)

On Febuary 22, 2008, Mikel came back to the Sonic community through the Sonic Retro IRC channel. After being approached by Tweaker about another chance at membership, he was added to the Trial Members group. On March 9, 2008, he became a full member.

Two months following his approval, Mikel revealed his new hack to the public, Sonic Zeta Overdrive, and entered it in the Sonic the Hedgehog Hacking Contest. Even though his hack didn't win anything, it was well received by many members and praised.

Currently, Mikel plans to make tons of adjustments to his hack in preperation of the next upcoming hacking contest.

Aliases

Mikel has gone through four different names in the past few years.

• Cubakaf
• MikelAngel
• Mikel93
• DarkGhost

Projects

For the past few years, Mikel has been working on a couple of projects (Mostly rom hacks).

• Sonic Zeta DX (Head Director, programmer; Canceled)
• Sonic Zeta Overdrive (Head Director, level designer, programmer; In Development)
• Sonic the Hedgehog: Redemption (Music work)
• Sonic Thrash - (ASM work (Mostly related to music))

Involvement

Since joining the Sonic Community in 2003, Mikel has been a member of these forums since:

• Member of SWS2B/The Sonic 2 Beta Page - (2003-2005)
• Member of SSRG - (2005-Present)
• Member of Sonic Retro - (2008-Present)
• Former Member of The Glowing Bridge - (2007)
• Member of Sonic CulT - (2003-2004; 2009-Present)

Trivia

• He is Cuban on his father's side, Costa Rican, and Italian on his mother's side.
• He is one of the very few Hispanic Users in the Sonic community.

External Links

• Mikel's Profile
• Mikel's Youtube channel, where you can find videos of his hack.
• Mikel's MySpace profile, checks on occasions, send him a friend request on MySpace sometime.