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| − | '''Oerg866''' is a German scener. His only hacking project was {{LinkRetro|topic=9725|title=Sonic The Hedgehog - Oergomized}}, which primarily focused on music and small assembly edits. It won the Lava Reef trophy in the 7th annual Hacking Contest. He is best known for his activities in the demoscene and his music, which has seen public attention as he composed the entire sound-track of the work-in-progress Mega Drive title ProjectMD, by Sik. | + | '''Oerg866''' is a German scener. He is best known for his activities in the homebrew and demoscene, but also as a musician and software developer. He is fluent in 68k, Z80 and ARM assembly, as well as C, C++ and many BASIC dialects. |
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| − | He has been in the community since September 2006 when he first stumbled across [[The Sonic 2 Beta Page|Simon Wai's Sonic 2 Beta page]] after playing around with the [[Sonic 2 Beta]] ROM. However, at that time he was an AOL user, so he couldn't register until an administrator gave him permissions to try and pass the test. Three months later he changed his ISP to 1&1. | + | He joined Sonic Retro in 2006. From 2007 until 2009 he developed a modified version of [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] for the [[Sega Mega Drive]] called '''Sonic 1 Oergomized'''. In 2012 he was promoted to tech membership as a result of his Mega Drive homebrew developments. |
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| − | His first few posts, both in the forums and the IRC, were in his own words "bullcrap". On September 10, 2006, he asked where he could buy a ROM dumper on the IRC, but was given porn links in reply, sparking a {{LinkRetro|topic=7918&st=30|title=small amount of drama on the forums}}. He got banned and he left in early-mid 2007.
| + | From 2010 onward, Oerg866 has worked on Project MD, a Mega Drive game, with Sik. He wrote the entire soundtrack and co-authored the sound driver, [[Echo]]. |
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| − | Around July 2007 he came back, passed the test and also became a full member. After a {{LinkRetro|topic=9422|title=flamewar}} with a member called [[Sith]] over his discovery of a hidden debug menu in Kega Fusion which turned out to do nothing, he was banned again. Tweaker later admitted that the menu is, in fact, real. Although the ban was initially only for a period of one week, [[Tweaker]] decided to turn it into a permanent ban since he considered Oerg to be a "complete asstard". Before the ban, Oerg had {{LinkRetro|topic=9416|title=posted a translation of a German Sonic 1 prototype article}} and contacted the authors, but by the time he received their answer he was already banned and could not post it.
| + | In 2011, together with Jorge Candeias, he released a Sega Mega Drive demo called "MDEM's first", which, even though it was mediocre and did not get much attention from outside, is now seen as the project that started the entire demoscene on this platform. Later that year, he released xm2esf, a tool that takes XM files as input and generates ESF streams for [[Echo]]. |
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| − | Before he came back in December 2007, he had secretly learnt a bit of hacking. There had also been a complete turnaround in his relationship with [[Nineko]], who had previouly hated him - he would later even go on to beta test [[soniNeko]]. Nineko teached him how to use xm3smps. So he was given the ability to register again when he translated a 6-page long Sonic 3 article originally printed in a German magazine. This article was very interesting, as it featured several things that weren't seen before, most notably a mention of a "Help!" item. Because of this he was given [[Trial Member|trial membership]] again. However, he rather unwisely used all 10 posts in one day and got stuck in Pending Approval. After several discussions with Tweaker, he was able to try the Technical quiz, gaining 10 more posts which he spent well by {{LinkRetro|topic=9730|title=posting several translations}} and a thread about his hack. He became a member again. Around that time, he has been editing the Wiki a lot. Mostly in terms of [[:sega:Category:Mega_Drive_Emulators|Sega Mega Drive/Genesis emulation]]. Now he calls himself the inofficial Sonic Retro Wiki Emulator Maintainer. But that's not confirmed. Just a rumor really. Thanks to him every publically released Mega Drive emulator now has an own Wiki article. But, time passed and in January 2009 he got banned from the forums again, after a flamewar about a {{LinkRetro|topic=13690|title=Toy Story MOD player}}.
| + | From its founding in late 2011 until April of 2014, he hosted MDScene and VGMRips. |
| − | In August 2009 he was unbanned yet again. He posted about the new version of {{LinkRetro|topic=17152|title=Sonic 1 Oergomized}} as well as [[xm3smps/oerg]] and enjoys shouting "BITCH" in the Sonic Retro IRC channel as well as helping GerbilSoft with Gens/GS.
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| − | During 2009, he has developed an intense liking towards Italo Disco, and also started to compose music. Though he was bad at first, he recently, according to other people, became better as he started to make music for the SEGA Genesis. In relation to this, he has a very strong attention to detail. He creates all his own FM-Instruments and PSG volume envelopes himself and he tends to make heavy use of the PCM channel. He published some of his Genesis music on 8bitcollective.org. Lately, he has been a bit inactive on that, but we'll get to that in a second.
| + | Based on this, MDEM started a collaborational project with [http://www.titandemo.de TiTAN] in 2012, however, as other members of MDEM had to pursue other interests, Oerg866 disbanded MDEM and joined TiTAN. The project continued under the name 'ttmd2013' and was supposed to be released at Revision 2013 in April, but it was very rough and unfinished at this point, so the release date was moved to Evoke 2013 in Cologne, Germany in August. After the failed attempt of finishing it at Revision, Sik joined the team. Other estabilished members of the group finally took proper notice of the project, and thus started learning how to code for the system. The development continued with 7 coders in total, 4 of which attended the event in Cologne. After an intense marathon, the demo was released to the crowd as '''overdrive''' and won the first place in the "Alternative Platforms" category. It became a huge success and set the bar for the entire demoscene that has evolved on the Sega Mega Drive since then. It was also the first and only demoscene production to have a cartridge release. |
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| − | He became partners with Tomy, the person behind [[Tototek]] and developed frontends for DOS and Windows specifically designed for easy usage of the MD-Pro, since he found the original software to be "incredibly unusable, buggy and slow".
| + | In March of 2014, Oerg866 released a [http://gendev.spritesmind.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1730 Sega Mega Drive port] of the popular internet game [http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/ 2048]. |
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| − | From March 2010 until July 2010 he was working on SMPSPlay, a [[SMPS]]-Player for the SEGA Genesis with visuals. He released a pack including the source code to it, as well as all of his notes he made while researching the RAM area SMPS occupies to the public. Actually, several people have done this independendly, nobody releasing it to the public before. People have contributed to complete this list.
| + | ==Today...== |
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| − | He is known to attend events about retro computing and gaming. To provide a better connection with the homebrew scene, he shows off some current projects of the scene. At the moment, he is doing that with titles like Project MD by [[Sik]], and TMFPlay by [[TmEE]]. He enjoys talking about technical things (especially Genesis) and tends to test all homebrew ROMs he can get his hands on on real hardware by using a flash cartridge. However, this love to hardware compatibility caused him his position as a judge in the 2009 Hacking Contest, because he flamed about how some hacks weren't compatible and therefore not worth being tested.
| + | ... '''xm2esf''' is still the most sophisticated music tool that generates output usable by software running on the real system. Overdrive's soundtrack was made using it. |
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| − | His most recent development and by far the one causing the most public attention is his involement in [[Sik]]'s homebrew game 'Project MD', where he is working as a musician. Although development was hit by problems several times, the current status of the game is pretty good. Most of the music is already finished and implemented into the gmae. He helped to fix bugs in the sound engine, and made huge progress in providing music tools for the [[Mega Drive]].
| + | ... '''overdrive''' has surpassed most top-productions of other platforms in popularity, including all but one classic ECS/OCS Amiga demo. |
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| − | While working with Sik to improve Echo, a new and free sound engine for the [[Mega Drive]], he wrote xm2esf, which is by far the most advanced music tool available that produces real-time usable output (Echo's format). To enable the user to enjoy the comfort of any XM tracker he is used to, the program takes [[XM]] files as input, and outputs a stream readable by echo. The tool is very advanced as it supports all major XM effects, such as:
| + | ... Oerg866 is developing a homebrew game for the [[Sega Mega Drive]] called '''BeFire'''. |
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| − | * 0xx (Arpeggio)
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| − | * 1xx (Portamento Down)
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| − | * 2xx (Portamento Up)
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| − | * 3xx (Tone Portamento)
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| − | * 4xx (Vibrato)
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| − | * 8xx (Set Panning, hint: only left, center or right)
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| − | * Axx (Volume Slide)
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| − | * Cxx (Set volume, very accurate formulae used to calculate volume for FM and PSG)
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| − | * Dxx (Pattern break, always interpreted as D00)
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| − | He uses this tool now to make all music he does on the Genesis. He posted (at first privately) this small excerpt from the game Project MD. It shows the advanced capabilities of xm2esf combined with smooth FM, PSG and PCM playback of Echo.
| + | ==Links== |
| | + | [http://xm2esf.mdscene.net xm2esf] |
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| − | While in alpha/beta stage, [http://github.net/sikthehedgehog/echo Echo] and [http://github.net/oerg866/xm2esf xm2esf] are publically available on GitHub.
| + | [http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=61724 Overdrive by TiTAN] |
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| − | [[Category:Sceners]] | + | [http://www.titandemo.de/ TiTAN Demo/Art Collective] |
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| | + | [http://megabitesblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/26/titandemogroup/ TiTAN - Overdrive (Making of, unreleased material and interview)] |
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| | + | [http://gendev.spritesmind.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1730 2048 on SEGA Mega Drive] |
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<forumuser name="Oerg866" />
Oerg866 is a German scener. He is best known for his activities in the homebrew and demoscene, but also as a musician and software developer. He is fluent in 68k, Z80 and ARM assembly, as well as C, C++ and many BASIC dialects.
He joined Sonic Retro in 2006. From 2007 until 2009 he developed a modified version of Sonic the Hedgehog for the Sega Mega Drive called Sonic 1 Oergomized. In 2012 he was promoted to tech membership as a result of his Mega Drive homebrew developments.
From 2010 onward, Oerg866 has worked on Project MD, a Mega Drive game, with Sik. He wrote the entire soundtrack and co-authored the sound driver, Echo.
In 2011, together with Jorge Candeias, he released a Sega Mega Drive demo called "MDEM's first", which, even though it was mediocre and did not get much attention from outside, is now seen as the project that started the entire demoscene on this platform. Later that year, he released xm2esf, a tool that takes XM files as input and generates ESF streams for Echo.
From its founding in late 2011 until April of 2014, he hosted MDScene and VGMRips.
Based on this, MDEM started a collaborational project with TiTAN in 2012, however, as other members of MDEM had to pursue other interests, Oerg866 disbanded MDEM and joined TiTAN. The project continued under the name 'ttmd2013' and was supposed to be released at Revision 2013 in April, but it was very rough and unfinished at this point, so the release date was moved to Evoke 2013 in Cologne, Germany in August. After the failed attempt of finishing it at Revision, Sik joined the team. Other estabilished members of the group finally took proper notice of the project, and thus started learning how to code for the system. The development continued with 7 coders in total, 4 of which attended the event in Cologne. After an intense marathon, the demo was released to the crowd as overdrive and won the first place in the "Alternative Platforms" category. It became a huge success and set the bar for the entire demoscene that has evolved on the Sega Mega Drive since then. It was also the first and only demoscene production to have a cartridge release.
In March of 2014, Oerg866 released a Sega Mega Drive port of the popular internet game 2048.
Today...
... xm2esf is still the most sophisticated music tool that generates output usable by software running on the real system. Overdrive's soundtrack was made using it.
... overdrive has surpassed most top-productions of other platforms in popularity, including all but one classic ECS/OCS Amiga demo.
... Oerg866 is developing a homebrew game for the Sega Mega Drive called BeFire.
Links
xm2esf
Overdrive by TiTAN
TiTAN Demo/Art Collective
TiTAN - Overdrive (Making of, unreleased material and interview)
2048 on SEGA Mega Drive
