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'''Oerg866''' is a German scener. His main hacking project is {{LinkRetro|topic=9725|title=Sonic The Hedgehog - Oergomized}}, an [[ASM]] [[Hacks|hack]] of [[Sonic 1]].  
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'''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 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, so that he isn't a so-called "AOL-Faggot".
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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.
  
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.
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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]].
  
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. 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.
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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]].
[[Image:O866.jpg|thumb|Oerg's am.... wait. I'm not going to go all Tweaker on that.]]
 
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]]. 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 membership again. However, he rather unwisely used all 10 posts at the same time 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, but one that was seemingly more respected than before.
 
  
Quite recently, he has been editing the Wiki a lot. Mostly in terms of 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.
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From its founding in late 2011 until April of 2014, he hosted MDScene and VGMRips.
  
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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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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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==Today...==
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... '''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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... '''overdrive''' has surpassed most top-productions of other platforms in popularity, including all but one classic ECS/OCS Amiga demo.
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... Oerg866 is developing a homebrew game for the [[Sega Mega Drive]] called '''BeFire'''.
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==Links==
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[http://xm2esf.mdscene.net xm2esf]
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[http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=61724 Overdrive by TiTAN]
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[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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Latest revision as of 14:36, 15 April 2018

<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