Hidden palace zone: acla-atd4

A compilation of the members, achievements, message boards and overall history of the Sonic Secrets Community.

by an equally collaborated effort between several members of the community

Table of Contents

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. Conclusion
XII. Versions
XIII. Credits

I. Introduction

Hello!  I’m Nayr T’nargh.  The Sonic secrets community from it’s “birth”, actually more of a realization by observant eyes, covers nearly a decade worth of history.  Back in the earliest times, history was passed down by word of mouth.  Anyone who has played the game where you tell the person next to you a phrase and then they pass it around the circle knows that when you get the phrase you created back, it’s not quite the same and even quite possibly entirely different.  It wasn’t until history began to be written on paper or some other media of record that history began to stop shifting around as much.  It’s been six years.  In six years, people come and leave the scene (possibly even returning later) and new people come and leave the scene.  The history of our group is rarely mentioned and certainly not recorded.  We are not immortal and unless something is recorded, our history will eventually become a legend which will pass into myth where it is eventually forgotten.  I had realized this for quite awhile, but never took action, feeling that it wasn’t my concern to begin with.  That was until Simon attempted to reclaim his website and message board.  Simon was flamed by many new people.  Only those that had been around since Simon’s era and those who had heard the history (or were just reasonable folk =) seemed to support Simon’s decision.  What finally made this happen was, without quoting exactly and without pointing fingers, when someone said that Pelord maintained the site better than Simon.  While I’m not going to go into issues between this supposed “community split”, I will say that Pelord didn’t just start maintaining S2B, he was asked to by Andy.  At this point I realized that the history of this community was already deteriorating and action needed to be taken!  At this point, it wasn’t long before I contacted Luigi Link...

We both agreed to create a history of the Sonic Secrets Community.  Please note that we are not trying to copy what Pachuka and Rattleman are working on.  This was in planning about two months before they even made that post.  Now sit back and enjoy the history of the Sonic Secrets Community!

II. Dawn -- The Sonic community gains another subsection

To be honest, I’m not sure when it finally broke off from the other sites.  It was certainly on the minds of others, though.  Sites like Virtual Knothole Village, which was in a ring of sites that were “loyal” if you will to Team Artail.  Not much is known about this era.  The real hype, however, was caused when André Dirke announced that he had a copy of the Sonic 2 Beta ROM.... which leads us into our next section.  More will be added here as time goes by.

III. Ethiopia -- The Sonic secrets community gains stature

With the discovery of the Beta ROM, questions flare.  Since levels like Hidden Palace Zone were highly advertised, but never found, Sonic fans had questions about how the level looked.  I hope to have more info at some time from André here.  Meanwhile, with the realization that the Mario hacking scene was incredibly advanced, yet the Sonic hacking scene was nowhere, a kid by the name of Andrew Wolan started a site dedicated to unearthing information in the Sonic the Hedgehog games.  Namely, Sonic and Knuckles.

A. Overall happenings and history

With this, André launched the Secrets of Sonic the Hedgehog in 1998.  The Sonic Secrets scene officially had a home, therefore a new branch of the Sonic community was born.  Pretty soon Sonic Pandemonium, a site owned by Sonique Hedgehog, jumped into the scene as well.  It could easily be argued that the scene started there as well.  Once again, I will search out these people for more info...

On the other side, Andrew Wolan launched Andy’s Sonic Hacking Station.  It became a moderate success.  It was then that Andy met André.  After awhile the two sites fused together into one.  These two sites together were called the SSRG.

1. Secrets of Sonic the Hedgehog

Secrets of Sonic the Hedgehog had everything from what was in Andre’s beta to theories about the beta and hoaxes (though the latter was actually taken from Sonic Pandemonium).  Sonique didn’t like what was happening with André and his site and they never really hit it off too well...

2. Andy’s Sonic Hacking Station

The only early site still out there.  You can find it on Google by looking up Andy Wolan.  It had a moderate amount of Sonic hacking information.  Mainly Sonic and Knuckles info.  After awhile, small amounts of Sonic secret info started showing up.

3. The handshake

In about 1998, SoSth and ASHS shook hands and created SSRG, a site owned by Andy.  They decided to take sites based on secrets and offer them to become a member of this “elite” group of people.  It was invite only, no hiring allowed.  This method worked very well and assured picking out the riffraff.  While it didn’t start out too hot, it started picking up in early 1999.  One of the first sites accepted was Area 51...

4. Area 51

...which was owned by Jan Abaza.  Area 51 was a site that had been out there long before SoSth, but never really got the recognition it deserved.  It had all the weird Sonic screen shots that never made it into the games, thus it was locked away from the public (get it?  Area 51 = confidential?).  The site was quickly invited on, followed by others such as the Fan Games Archive (a site by Ryan Langley [AKA Rlan]), Tom’s Hacking Station, Underground Zone and Organized Chaos)

B. Achievements

It was the beginning of the scene basically, and that was good enough.  However there was one majour breakthrough...

1. The SSRG

The SSRG was the biggest breakthrough.  It represented the Sonic secrets scene as a growing force in Sonic Fandom.  The “hub”, if you will, of the Sonic secrets community.

C. Message boards

I don’t have any idea about the MBs of this era, though I do know that Sonic Pandemonium’s was there.  That’s the only one I know for sure (because I personally made my first MB post at this time as Samantha Clarfet, though if I recall, it was in the next era).

D. Members

Andy / NO CARRIER
André
Stealth
A. J. Freda
Tom
Scott Prower
“Sonniku” Walbank
Tails (Andre’s friend, the current owner of Andre’s two betas)
Sonique / Nique
Jan!
SonKnuck
Dr. Zachary
Rlan
Kulock
?Nemesis?

and many more that I will add when I remember them...

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

Now you’ll get much more info, because this is when I, Nayr T’nargh, showed up with my first name, Samantha Clarfet.  It was later adapted by André and Dr. Zachary after I changed my name to escape the criticism.  Anyhow, the SSC really started taking off at this point.  SSRG invited several more sites on, but no one was ready for some of the discoveries that took place at this time...

      A. Overall happenings and history

Well, we’ve got a lot here, so I’ll just go in order ;)

	1. Sonic 2 beta

Not a member of the community at the time, Simon was and still is the only member who can read Chinese.  He knew about the ROM for the prototype Sonic 2.  When he realized that people on the SSRG were seeking it, he basically showed up and said “here it is”.  This changed the community drastically.  The membership of the community must have grown about 100 times during this period just because of the beta.  Simon was quickly invited onto the SSRG, where he documented continued discoveries of Sonic 2 Beta, hoaxes and the new fake hoaxes.  There is an argument to this day as to whether Simon was the creator of fake hoaxes or whether it was Sonic Pandemonium.  The world may never know ;)

	2. The race for HPZ

The existence of Hidden Palace Zone in the beta drove people to wonder about the final.  Could HPZ still be in there?  A small group of people were wanting to find out.  Tom, Cyan and Damian Grove started randomly going through the ROM.  In the end, Tom found Hidden Palace Zone and told Cyan.  Cyan released the information and got the credit for finding the corrupted version of HPZ in Sonic 2.  This period was very important, though.  While going through the ROM, these guys had picked up a wealth of other info.  Damian documented this in what is now the first hacking guide ever created.  I now include that in here from me to you:

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Sonic 2 Hacking Guide v1.00
Copyright(c) 1999 by Damian Grove
=================================
(Use "Word Wrap" for this file)

Welcome to my Sonic The Hedgehog 2 hackers guide! I will be able to tell you how to choose your lives, levels, edit object mapping (the way the 32x32 sprites are lines up on a single sprite), and more. Right now, my notes are very sketchy. You may not even understand some of it. I am constantly working on this, so expect to see major updates. Oh, and one more thing. If you use Microsoft Developer Studio, you will understand the code pointers well enough. If you use HEX, ignore the first zero. This has confused many people.

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////////CONTENTS\\\\\\\\
------------------------

(1) KGEN/Genecyst Saves
	(01) Startup Data
	(02) Levels
	(03) Tiles
	(04) Acts
	(05) Lives

(2) Sonic 2 Binary
	(01) Mappings
	(02) Object Routins
	(03) Solids
	(04) Music
	(05) Commands
	(06) Extra

-----------------------------------
////////KGEN/Genecyst Saves\\\\\\\\
-----------------------------------

//1-01////////
//////////////
//Startup Data
//////////////

011E8E                 Level Name? (Still studying this) This is sometimes valid depending on the selection.
011E8F                 Level Name/Tiles?
012272                 Music
012273                 TILES/Debug?
012270                 Screen pointers
011EA0                 00 0B B0 00 00 03 00
                                00 = Level
                                   00 = Act
                                      03 = Lives

So, if I wanted to start on Hidden Palace Zone Act 2 with 36 lives, I would have this:
00 0B B0 08 01 24 00

//1-02//
////////
//Levels
////////

#  NAME                # IDENTIFIER
01 Emerald Hill        00
02 Chemical Plant      0D
03 Aqua Ruin           0F
04 Casino Night        0C
05 Hill Top            07
06 Mystic Cave         0B
07 Hidden Palace       08
08 Oil Ocean           0A
09 Metropolice         04
10 Sky Chase           10
11 Wing Fortress       06
12 Death Egg           0E

//1-03/
///////
//Tiles
///////

--(for Sonc 2 Beta)--

Wood                   DC Emerald Hill
Hidden Palace          D4 is the default for all the levels in the full Sonic 2. I tried changing it and I got a blank screen. This tells me that I am getting warmer to getting its art back!

There are a total of 4 levels that were taken out. They are labeled:

???                    01
Wood                   02               43
???                    03
Genecide City          09 <----Level name data still exist!

So actully, there was 16 levels at one time.

//1-04
//////
//Acts
//////

Act 1                  00
Act 2                  01
Act 3                  02

Metropolice Zone Act 3 can also be selected by changing the level number to 05.

//1-05/
///////
//Lives
///////

000                    00
001                    01
002                    02
003                    03
004                    04
005                    05
006                    06
007                    07
008                    08
009                    09
010                    0A
011                    0B
012                    0C
013                    0D
014                    0E
015                    0F
016                    10
017                    11
018                    12

Etc, etc, etc. This makes it so you can have a max of 255 lives.

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////////Sonic 2 Binary\\\\\\\\
------------------------------

//2-01////
//////////
//Mappings
//////////

0714F0-??????          Sonic
071FF6-07393C          Smoke streams
073AF8-??????          Tails
0748B2-??????          Sega logo
07CD30-07D227          Sonic/Tails logo animation
07D230-??????          Level intro

//2-02//////////
////////////////
//Object Routins
////////////////

0E41FE-??????
	0E4381          Rings Act 1
	0E4382          Rings Act 2
	0E6800          Execute all debug sprites for 00 except rings and end level mark - act 1
	0E6801          Execute all debug sprites for 00 - act 1
	0E6802          Execute all debug sprites for 00 except rings and end level mark - act 2 (buggy)
	0E6803          Execute all debug sprites for 00 - act 2 (buggy)
	0E6810          Execute all debug sprites for 04 except rings and end level mark - act 1
	0E68C0          Random ring loss for 00 - act 1
	0E6980          Blue liquid worms thingies for 00 - act 1 (from 0D)

This is the thing that looks like a color palette when you open it as a RAW file.

//2-03//
////////
//Solids
////////

044E50-??????

//2-04/
///////
//Music
///////

0ED100-??????

//2-05////
//////////
//Commands
//////////

NqNqNqNqNq              Switches to another frame
Sx                      ??????
Nu                      Sprite offsets
UrUrUrUrUr              ??????
init                    C initializer?
HB                      Pixel offsets

//2-06/
///////
//Extra
///////

Graphics are displayed by tile sets. The art in Hidden Palace is not displayed correctly simply because the tile set value is not correct. The tile value is set to display Oil Oceans art. This is because in early beta versions of the game, Hidden Palace actually came before Oil Ocean and when it was removed, Oil Ocean took over that level slot. Hidden Palace still reads this section though. Also, there is a data section that sets witch sections are walls/floors, and which you can go through. I found that out by doing an experiment. I don't know what the section is though. Anyway, this is proof that the Hidden Palace Zone CAN be restored correctly.

S P E C I A L    T H A N K S :

Scott Feeny --------- Extra level editing info
A.J. Freda ---------- Extra screen pointer info

That’s all for now. You can e-mail me at saxman@shentel.net or visit my homepage at www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/6250.

Cyan soon created a Sonic 1 hacking guide.  So did Damian.  Both were hosted on the SSRG until Cyan agreed to combine both sites into one, which became the Sonic 1 hacking document.

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

This era brought about the need of the group for theories.  Unable to contact any of the designers of the games, people had their own ideas about what things were for.  Sonic 2 Beta really made this aspect take off as people started speculating about unfinished levels, especially the absent “Dust Hill Zone” and the infamous stone in Hidden Palace.  In the next release, I will include many of these that were once on SoSth back in the day...

	4. Hoaxes

Hacking was in its infancy, so hoaxes then were very predominant.  Few were made with the intention of fooling people, but rather to get out an interesting idea that they thought would be neat or just to make people laugh.  This also started the “brutality” towards Miles “Tails” Prower, a movement that died off only recently.  The original hoax I still have on an old hard drive and it contains Sonic kicking Tails into a bed of spikes in MCZ.

       B. Achievements

Being the Golden Era, the achievements here were few, but MAJOUR.  Two betas were found during this era, although one is often overlooked...

	1. Sonic 2 Beta

The majour achievement that brought us into the golden age.  This was the community’s number one membership boost and still continues to bring in members.  Although Sonic 2 Beta has just about been picked clean, it has provided a wealth of information over the years.

	2. Sonic 1 Beta HOAX

The proving that Sonic hacking had matured during the race for HPZ.  Unbeknownst to anyone else, Cyan had collected info on Sonic 1 during the race and released the first ever Sonic hacking hoax (arguably, the first ROM hack).  Though unimpressive by today’s standards, it was for a VERY long time beyond anyone else’s capabilities.

	3. Sonic 2 Final’s HPZ

The race for HPZ revealed that the final may have fried most things, but certainly not all of HPZ.  Though the belief at this time was that the art was in another location in the ROM and that the level was completed, it was still known that at least the sprite location array had remained intact as well as the level slot.  It was also discovered not too long later that Wood Zone’s palette survived the blasting.

	4. Sonic Spinball Beta

Though at a transitional period between periods, this was the last boost in the Golden Age.  Found by Elliot Rosenburg on a Chinese site with the name SuperSonicGame, it turned out to be the second and last dumped beta found in the community.  With very few changes and game support lacking in the first place, the recognition quickly died off.

       C. Message boards

Sonic Pandemonium had lost serious membership due to other SSC sites opening up.  The ones that were loyal to Sonic Pandemonium started going to at least the new SoSth board and some to A51’s and S2B’s.  Here we go...

	1. Sonic Pandemonium

I don’t have much info here, because I got scared off the board and sought refuge in S2B for about a year.

	2. Secrets of Sonic the Hedgehog

Ah yes... André and Dr. Zachary noticed that I left and picked up my name posting as me.  It led to a really funny time with wars back and forth between André, Nique, Dr. Zachary, Mecha Tails and “Samantha”.  Mecha Tails even hacked Samantha’s site.  Those two also created a couple additional hoaxes for Samantha.  New people started showing up there as well, which added to the chaos...

	3. Area 51

I really don’t know much about this either, because I never went to A51 until the middle of this period.  Basically just Sonic secrets, but nothing really significant with the exception of hidden sprites being found in uncompressed format with sprite viewer.  This is where the S2B DHZ lamp came from as well as the beta “bored” sprite (which people initially took for a sad sprite...) and the pulling sprite.

	4. Sonic 2 Beta

With the foundation of Sonic 2 Beta, Sonic 2 Beta switched from their original board very quickly to an anyboard one.  The majour events here were a few music discoveries and Sonic 2 Alpha being supposedly found by myself (my first post with my new name.  Yes, I was still in my stupid Samantha stage at the time).  After that fell apart, not much really happened.  Just hoaxes and general zaniness...

       D. Members

Andy Wolan
André Dirke
Damian / Saxman / Rocket
Simon Wai
Cyan Helkaraxe
Jan!
Goon / Tom Moran
Scott Prower
Desmond Castner
Terunaga Matsumoto / Anime Freak
Cracked Knuckle
“Samantha Clarfet”
Dr. Zachary
Mecha Tails
MS Metallix / Mecha Sally
The Nique / Sonique / Allison
SonKnuck
Looney Mike
Pelord
Elliotro / Elliot Rosenburg
Kulock
Wetflame
Kat
Samantha Clarfet / Nayr T’nargh
Local H
A Kid in a Computer Class / Jon Carnuthe
Trystan Poe
IceKnight
Los1
Jacko
Yarharhar
“Sonniku”
Nemesis
Pachuka Dog / Pachuka
Sonysbad
Stealth
Tom
Sonicblur

And a lot more I’ll add as I remember or as they come forth ;)

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

With the observation of the games ending and new information not easily being found, people needed to find another place to go, lest the community die.  For a small while, membership took a huge hit, Sonic Spinball Beta slightly reviving it just enough for hacking to take a firm grasp.  The two eras literally overlapped each other by about four months, so we’ll be starting before the spinball beta...

       A. Overall happenings and history

With the Sonic 1 hacking guide doing well, Damian took his old notes from his text hacking guide on Simon’s site and formed some others, determined to find secrets in hacking.

	1. “Sonic 2 Hacking Guide”

The original text guide became this.  With everything from savestate to ROM hacking, people took this information and started creating the first Sonic the Hedgehog hacks.  The most impressive being ones coming from Cyan and Yarharhar.

	2. “Sonic 3K Hacking Guide”

With the success of Sonic 2’s hacking guide, Damian went on for 3K.  This became a favourite to hack for a long time because of it’s “hackability”.  This revealed quickly that Sonic 3 was indeed not finished and that Sonic and Knuckles was a money making device.

	3. Debug-o-matic

The very first popular hacking utility made by Cyan.  Though the method to implement debug in it was much more complex than what Damian discovered later, it allowed debug to be used for the first time in Sonic 2 beta, letting people see the “water slide” in HPZ and the top portion of Wood Zone!

	4. Maze-o-matic

The first of the majour hacking utilities, this managed to get a site on the SSRG dedicated to hacks made solely with the program.  This allowed savestate hacking of the Sonic 1 special stages.  This event was what led to the discovery of the other special stage formats being discovered...  People tended to hate the registering process, however.  It required you to send in a recording of you saying “Whoa, majour fender bender!” imitating Sonic.

	5. Simon’s Sayonara

At about this time, Simon said he wasn’t going to be around much due to school work.  He was not seen again for two years.

	6. Sonic Hacking Community

Against Andy’s wishes, Damian broke off of the SSRG creating a “sister” site to the SSRG called the SHC, Sonic Hacking Community.  This was the beginning of the tensions that would eventually help bring down SSRG.  The Sonic Hacking Community eventually housed all the hacking information you could think of, but that’s getting ahead of the story!

	7. Sonic 2 Beta Hacking Guide

Seeking the ability to be a member of the prestigious SSRG, I came to Andy with my site, Classified World of Sonic the Hedgehog.  It was a twist between Area 51 and SoSth.  It could have easily been its own webpage, I guess.  Andy and Damian talked it over and decided that they didn’t want it.  They suggested I start a site on the alpha version I almost got or something else.  I knew that I had to get on there.  I then realized a new section on my site that no one else had.  Sonic 2 beta hacking.  I didn’t know about Local H’s site at the time.  It was the first Sonic 2 Beta hacking guide and soon became known for its ease of understanding and wealth of information.  It used to be a suggested link on SHC until I got too arrogant and insulted Damian’s intelligence at the promptings of André and Elliot.  I narrowly avoided a scandal and since then, Damian and I have been on good terms with one another.  

       B. Achievements

Hacking achievements were enormous here and I couldn’t begin to list them all, but here are the majour ones...

	1. Debug found

Debug hacking allowed so much discovery in Sonic 2 Beta it’s not funny.  It was responsible for the water slide being found in the ROM (although André knew about it before that because his beta allowed him to walk up the steep walkway, but even then he never got a good picture of it).  It also allowed people to prove that Genocide City Zone was indeed an empty level and the visiting of Wood Zone’s upper level.

	2. Sonic 1 successfully hacked

Sonic 1 was thought impossible to hack.  It had the least “hackability” of any Sonic game to date and many people had given up on it.  Cyan learned where stuff was in it and learned that the red screen was simply a checksum error, which a quick byte count and changing of a single byte fixed (later Genecyst did this automatically).

	3. First hacking guides

The hacking guides brought this “elite” ability to the normal folk.  Sonic 2 Beta’s tried to make it even more clear to make it so anyone could hack just by reading the guide like a book.

	4. First hacking utilities

Cyan’s hacking utilities brought us to such programs like SonED, Chaos and SHWP.

	5. Sonic 2 Alpha Hoax

The very first Sonic 2 Beta ROM hack.  Though nothing close to impressive, it proved that Sonic 2 Beta was the easiest game to hack, even moreso than Sonic 3K.  This broke wide open the Sonic 2 Beta hacking scene and led into the majour discoveries later by Esrael and Nemesis.

       C. Message Boards

The message boards moved slowly away from anyboard and such and towards EZboards.  See Rattleman’s historical document of Area 51 for more info.

	1. Area 51

Area 51 had a huge identity crisis with Sonic haters, forcing them to move to EZboard where accounts could be used to ensure the people posting were really themselves.  Eventually, a password was made mandatory.

	2. “Sonic 2 Beta”

With the Anyboard S2B slowly dying from Simon’s “disappearance”, fake Simon’s started popping up.  Eventually, a the real Simon showed up very briefly, giving Pelord the password to Anyboard.  Simon then left again for another couple years, when he would show again for good...

Sonic 2 Beta moved to EZboard at this point and slowly moved away from the original community into a new one.  The original S2Bers either stayed there, or spread there horizons to other sites like Moogle Cavern (Kulock’s site) or Area 51.

	3. Sonic Cult

A baby board!  It gained membership after the “death” of S2B and the problems at A51.  The maintainer, Pachuka, emphasized fun, no stupidity and “hard core” Sonic secrets material.  This site was a bit mift still, because Andy did not accept it onto SSRG.  This was another basis for the final fall of the SSRG.

	4. SHC Boards 1 & 2

The old Area 51 MBs were handed to Damian for SHC.  They worked for about four months until the same thing that killed A51’s old board got SHC’s...

        D. Members

Oh boy... I’m sorry if I miss anyone...

* means not that often...

*Andy Wolan*
Damian / Saxman / Rocket
*Cyan Helkaraxe*
Jan
Terunaga
*Mecha Tails*
Sonique
*SonKnuck*
Pelord
*Elliotro / Elliot Rosenburg*
*Kulock*
Wetflame
Kat
Nayr T’nargh
Local H
IceKnight
Los1
Jacko
“Sonniku”
Nemesis
Pachuka
Luigi Link
Rattleman
Dr. Ivo
KojiChao / KojiChan
*Nik the Greek*
*POET (Trystan Poe)*
Hyper Shadow DC
Sonic Sue
Kurairyu
Kurairyukakumei
Hivebrain
*Yarharhar*
Bryn
Renegade Elf / ???? (yes, he had another name, but I was asked awhile ago never to tell)
Sonysbad
Stealth
Johnny UK
Tom
Sonicblur
Sonic McTails
Anthony

And a WHOLE BOATLOAD MORE.  I will be updating these a lot...

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

With all the hacking stuff that had been happening, people got very wrapped up in it making MAJOUR discoveries. Behind the scenes, however, there were numerous scandals and deceit occurring... People were getting way too serious about their work and the shift towards politics began.  The golden age was being forgotten by the newer members...

       A. Overall happenings and history

A lot of good things happened.  All to do with hacking!  Of course, there was one huge scandal that still remains the bane of Nayr’s existence to this day...

	1. X-team

This was the very first hacking group.  Started by Metal X, it was supposed to make hacking faster and better by having several people branch off like a game organization to do separate parts.  It’s just that support was lacking and it slowly died.  While we had betas for every one of our games, none were released and Andy quickly scrapped the site.

	2. Sonic 2 Delta HOAX

Hacker extraordinaire, Esrael L.G. Neto, found all sorts of hacking info and released something which to this day is often referred to as the best Sonic hack of all time.  Sonic 2 Delta had missing art, completed levels, new levels and much more.  Certainly a break through in Sonic hacking.

	3. wrapping up loose ends: Nemesis

Nemesis, who had mostly been lurking all this time (with the exception of a few hoaxes given to SoSth back in the Ethiopia era) finally came in and broke the ROM down into pieces and nearly FULLY MAPPED every Sonic game from Sonic 1 through 3.  He is responsible for much more as well, which will be covered in just a few paragraphs.

	4. The “Epsilon”

Probably the third biggest scandal of the SSRG.  It started when Nayr borrowed a game from Jordan Haddock, a friend of his in Longmont, CO.  On Jordan’s megadrive, the game had what Nayr thought was a new special stage that he hadn’t seen before.  Glitches occurred all over the place.  Nayr, without thinking, posted that he had found a pre-release Sonic game which he dubbed Epsilon (following Cyan’s beta document of the Golden Age era).  When Nayr got home, the game didn’t produce what his friend’s had.  It just had a checksum error.  It still worked on his friend’s, however, so he kept posting about it.  It’s just that the special stage wasn’t glitchy anymore and they got different glitches every time they turned on the game.  It wasn’t long before both Jordan and Nayr figured out that the game was responsible.  This was no beta.  Being scared, Nayr continued to lie about the game for another three weeks before he finally revealed what had happened to Wetflame on ICQ.  The next day, he told the S2B message board.  Nayr has been ridiculed by many for this ever since.  It has now evolved into a “fake beta” post like several others that had occurred.  For the record, this was not the case.

       B. Achievements

The achievements were majour here, all!  Mainly in the area of sprites...

	1. alpha sprite location found

While searching through Damian’s Sonic 2 Hacking Guide, Nayr noticed that two sprite areas were unknown, following the beta HPZ enemies.  Nayr went into the beta’s sprite array and entered in these sprites in place of some HPZ areas.  The two enemies acted remarkably like the alpha enemies were presumed to.  These were thought to be the Tricerabot and Crocodile, which was later confirmed by Esrael...

	2. alpha sprite art found through location

Esrael figured out that the level was loading the wrong art for those sprites and corrected it.  When he did, the two sprites found by Nayr were indeed the Tricerabot and Crocodile.  Esrael went on to discover a three-eyed fish (“Blinky”) and a bubble badnik...

Even later a few other minor ones were found.  All (save the bubble badnik) are included in the delta hoax.

	3. Sonic 2 Delta HOAX

The Delta hoax, discussed earlier, was a majour breakthrough as it showed off the missing alpha art in action.  It also displayed the areas covered in the alpha hoax with more “flair”.

       C. Message Boards

The message boards underwent seriously hard times...

	1. Area 51

The second biggest scandal that had happened, Pachuka took down Area 51 with some friends for “revenge”.  More info on this coming later...

	2. Pelord’s “Sonic 2 Beta”

Became what the scene (other than a few that only visited that MB and a few that visited others) thought was an embarrassment.  It was a more “fun” board: too zany for the Golden Age, yet not serious enough for the “new” scene.  It became an outcast and another scandal almost emerged from it because of Sonic Cult... again.

	3. Sonic Cult

Steadily gaining membership, it was referred to as a disease / virus by A51ers.  Sonic Cult still stuck to its same method, but because of this got in even more trouble... whether it was their fault or not.  They got the “bad boys” label and everything is always blamed on them whether it was them or not.

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

Because of the impostors and stupidity occurring on the Anyboard, Damian moved his boards to Sonic Cult.  This was protested my many at first, but soon people came on over and raised Cult support even more...

        D. Members

* - not very active

*Andy Wolan*
Damian / Saxman / Rocket
*Cyan Helkaraxe*
Jan
Terunaga
Sonique
*SonKnuck*
Pelord
*Kulock*
Kat
Nayr T’nargh
Local H
IceKnight
Los1
Jacko
“Sonniku”
Nemesis
Pachuka
Luigi Link
Rattleman
Dr. Ivo
KojiChao / KojiChan
*Nik the Greek*
Hyper Shadow DC
Sonic Sue
Kurairyu
Kurairyukakumei
Bryn
Sonysbad
Stealth
SSJGoku
Beta
Alexbt
overlord
Ultima
Johnny UK
Tom
Striker
Metal X
Chris Szymanski / likwid lite / grap3fruitman
Rich Rogers
Sonicblur
Sonic McTails
Anthony

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.

Things were quickly becoming too serious and heading heavily towards politics.  Tensions between Sonic Cult and the SSRG came to a peek.  Insults were thrown back and forth.  The first sign that things were going was from Stealth...

       A. Overall happenings and history

The SSRG was not to last... and its first disbandment was just around the corner.

	1. The first death of the SSRG

No one was expecting it.  September 5, 2002, everyone was welcomed by a locked forum and a RIP picture for the SSRG.  It seemed that it was finally over.  Some people started pulling together.  Here I’ve included sentiments from that day from AIM chats...

The discovery...

Nayr Tnargh: what happened to the SSRG?
Luigi Link: check the main page
Luigi Link: after doing this
Nayr Tnargh: yeah, I know
Luigi Link: Andy left the Sonic community.
Nayr Tnargh: what the hell happened?
Luigi Link: Morons and retards pushed him to anxiety.
Luigi Link: So I guess Stealth went on a rage.
Luigi Link: And did this to SSRG.
Nayr Tnargh: why does he want everyone to fall?
Nayr Tnargh: I just don't get it...
Luigi Link: he's very emotionally disturbed
Nayr Tnargh: so am I
Luigi Link: join the club
Luigi Link: this is a sad first day of school
Luigi Link: i could've taken a nap if it wasn't for this
Nayr Tnargh: no joke
Luigi Link: i have tristan's aim name
Nayr Tnargh: oh
Nayr Tnargh: give 'im the scoop
Luigi Link: maybe you would be better qualified, since you're a fellow emuzoner
Luigi Link: it's TSSZNews
Nayr Tnargh: that's his AIM?
Luigi Link: yes
Luigi Link: Is Tristan going to report that it wasn't a hack?
Nayr Tnargh: he isn't entirely convinced
Nayr Tnargh: where's web archive?
Luigi Link: dr. ivo having stealth confirm it was him isn't convincing?
Nayr Tnargh: nope
Luigi Link: search for "Wayback machine"
Nayr Tnargh: got it
Luigi Link: how's the "recovery effort" going?
Nayr Tnargh: pretty well
Nayr Tnargh: if I could contact Navi...
Nayr Tnargh: he's got the damn password needed for uploading...
Nayr Tnargh: I might have to log off and call him
Luigi Link: great
Spreading the new....
dmmcool X: hey
Nayr Tnargh: howdy
dmmcool X: do you know what's the "deal" with the Area 51 mb?
Nayr Tnargh: yes
dmmcool X: was it stealth?
Nayr Tnargh: the SSRG is no more
dmmcool X: figures
Nayr Tnargh: 
Nayr Tnargh: is the new board
dmmcool X: ahh Thanks
Nayr Tnargh: no prob
Nayr Tnargh: the SSRG will be restored in the next 48 hours
dmmcool X: who's gonna restore it?
Nayr Tnargh: me
dmmcool X: ah
Nayr Tnargh: I made an announcement in General Discussion
dmmcool X: I know someone that has most of the stuff from the site
Nayr Tnargh: who?
dmmcool X: or so he says (he's trust worthy)
dmmcool X: Mystic
Nayr Tnargh: Is he online?
dmmcool X: dunno if he has aim
Nayr Tnargh: :/
dmmcool X: but he's in #srb2 (on mysteria)
Pulling together...
ymtx81z: When I get a board...... one of these damn friken days........ I'm only going to have about 1 or 2 admins besides myself
Sasuketea: nayr!
Sasuketea: :-)
Vestpocket has entered the room.
Davdeclerck: Well, now gtg.
Nayr Tnargh: ...
HezMan2000 has left the room.
Luigi Link: Hi Dr. Ivo.
OmegaAlpha86: bye
: goodbye
Nayr Tnargh: i'm scared
ymtx81z: Bye David
ymtx81z: BOO!
First JohnnyUK: lemme be an admin sax! *hides*
Davdeclerck: Allez, tchao les ùecs, à la prochaine !
leprechaunstue: For an Admin you need someone who is dedicated, respected, hardworking and not power hungry. If you dont have any of that then your sure to fail :-)
First JohnnyUK: cya DD1
Sasuketea: lol
Nayr Tnargh: the SSRG is finally gone...
Luigi Link: Erm.
OmegaAlpha86: its ok Nayr
OmegaAlpha86: ill hold you
Davdeclerck: Bye.
Sasuketea: Is Jan still on our side?
: I have a feeling it will be back
Davdeclerck has left the room.
SUperSOnic A51: Dr. IVO! You Will be an Admin at the Replacement Board!
Nayr Tnargh: thanx
Luigi Link: In order to be an admin, you need to worship me.
Sasuketea: and will he share this supposed beta?
Luigi Link: Erm kidding.
First JohnnyUK: =P
SUperSOnic A51: Digi is hosting it
OmegaAlpha86: 8-)
Nayr Tnargh: 
Luigi Link: I modded Area 51 before.
Luigi Link: I'm raitonal.
First JohnnyUK: for abou 6 days?
Luigi Link: You gots ta believes me.
First JohnnyUK: =P
SUperSOnic A51: I'm gonna be a mod prolly
Luigi Link: 'til the end of the ezboard run
ymtx81z: Yes...... but an admin should treat EVERYONE with respect..... even the idiots (unless they do things deliberately)
Nayr Tnargh: I'll admin
Luigi Link: me too
First JohnnyUK: =P
Luigi Link: i want to help the community
SUperSOnic A51: I'd admin
Luigi Link: reunite
Vestpocket: Hi! Where is this replacement board?
SUperSOnic A51: I do a good Job
Luigi Link: and lead to a better future
First JohnnyUK: I would if u would let me. im not gonna say "ADMIN ME OR DIE!" lol
First JohnnyUK: =P
Luigi Link: Paid for by the LL for Admin committee
SUperSOnic A51: ask DigitalZepher
Cooljerk01 has entered the room.
ymtx81z: And if anyone is picking on somebody for no reason, issue a discussion between them.... don't get involved, but simply ask what's going on
Cooljerk01: urgh.... another?
SUperSOnic A51: COOLJERK!
Nayr Tnargh: it'll take more than destroying the main page to destroy the entire community
: it still exists
ymtx81z: Too many people want to be admins!!
ymtx81z: Aaaah
Luigi Link: but seriously folks
Cooljerk01: ?
DigitalZepher: I'm almost done the MB
First JohnnyUK: XD
HappyHappyistAJ has entered the room.
SUperSOnic A51: I can do a good admining job
Cooljerk01: huh?
Cooljerk01: *is lost*
Luigi Link: andy left
Luigi Link: stealth got mad
OmegaAlpha86: a51 is down
SUperSOnic A51: A real good Job
Luigi Link: the end
HappyHappyistAJ: Ugh.
Luigi Link: I'd do a great job, I'm very responsible.
leprechaunstue: I'd admin but I wouldnt want the place to get like Area 51 did, Although if I did it i could guarantee id be a lot more tolerant than some of the people here. Plus people wouldnt want an evil doctor to admin ;-)
OmegaAlpha86: you not so happy
Luigi Link: And I contribute a lot.
OmegaAlpha86: MRhappy
HappyHappyistAJ: Why not just have somebody other than Stealth make a new Area51(somebody who can be trusted) and boom, problem is solved.
SUperSOnic A51: I am VERY tolerent,and Barley Flame
: notes message on archived SSRG
Luigi Link: we are
Luigi Link: would an election work?
: I think you can safely look foreward to good futures for both Organized Chaos and the SSRG itself.- Stealth
ymtx81z: I have HUGE plans for a message board.... whenever I can get one.
Nayr Tnargh: I've been around for five years now
First JohnnyUK: I couldnt care WHO is admin - just as long as they listen to one main admin instead of goin insane.. 
First JohnnyUK: =P
Sasuketea: where's Jan?
Nayr Tnargh: yeah...
First JohnnyUK: The SHaCk!
First JohnnyUK: w00t
Nayr Tnargh: where IS jan?
DigitalZepher:  <there it is
Sasuketea: ya
Luigi Link: He's not having AIM.
ymtx81z: The SHaCk!! =D
Sasuketea: he still own any area51 that comes around, right...?
: is there an IRC room?
Cooljerk01: I told yall
Cooljerk01: I predicted this would happen a year ago
Cooljerk01: Everyone flamed me. Everyone told me I was crazy
ymtx81z: I predicted too...... but didn't know it was going to happen so soon
Cooljerk01: WHO IS CRAZY NOW?!
OmegaAlpha86: everyone perdicted it
: is the sonic fan games site up?
Cooljerk01: I predicted this BEFORE stealth had shut down the board for the first time.
Luigi Link: "failed sending e-mail"
First JohnnyUK: O_o
Luigi Link: UnsupportedSN1: I think you can safely look foreward to good futures for both Organized Chaos and the SSRG itself.- Stealth
: ehh... I see you are using aim 4.7 or below
: it should be  :-\
First JohnnyUK: DAMN IT, WTF IS WRONG WITH ZT NET!?
ymtx81z: Oh well.... I have no pitty for A51 personally...... yes it's wrong that it be hacked, but that's the "only" credit I give to it. I've been sick of it for a long time. First time I left, and second time I was banned....... =P
First JohnnyUK: WE COULD HAVE SHaC NOW!..
DigitalZepher: DO NOT REG YET
leprechaunstue: How so good buddy?
First JohnnyUK: ¬_¬
ymtx81z: TimeMachine
: *switches back to weath in hopes aim works*
PClemTeen1: Woah, I almost hit submit.
Luigi Link: too late
leprechaunstue: Shall we SHaC now or SHaC later?
weathd has entered the room.
Cooljerk01: welp, good ridens, SSRG
First JohnnyUK: later
Luigi Link: shouldn't have given us the link
hostanph@mac.com has left the room.
Cooljerk01: see you in hell.
Cooljerk01 has left the room.
First JohnnyUK: thanks to ZTnet..
First JohnnyUK: sax cant move the domain name
First JohnnyUK: -_-
SUperSOnic A51: We have a board!
Luigi Link: add one more to the people who are happy SSRG are gone
SUperSOnic A51: 
ymtx81z: Later is better...... but you guys can always see the archives if ever needed of course
weathd: true
HappyHappyistAJ: Hmm...I guess I couldn't really care about the A51..I mean I went that for quiet a long time, but slowly started dropping off of it becuase to me it seemed to be loosing it's "edge" I guess. It got kinda weird there I thought.
SUperSOnic A51: 
SUperSOnic A51: 
SUperSOnic A51: JOIN!
Nayr Tnargh: just did
SUperSOnic A51: A new a51 Board has come!
Nayr Tnargh: GAH!!!!
Nayr Tnargh: SSRG
Nayr Tnargh: email
Nayr Tnargh: gone
SUperSOnic A51: no
SUperSOnic A51: aww
Luigi Link: this is a terrible tragedy for many people
Sasuketea: Hey Nayr, do you by chance know what the "The Lounge" the mention is??
Nayr Tnargh: no I did
HappyHappyistAJ: ..That's why you never rely on other people for things like that.
Sasuketea: *they
weathd: cant join
Luigi Link: it's sonic 1 beta music apaprently
TTwistedIllusion has entered the room.
TTwistedIllusion: whoa
Luigi Link: LocalH was right.
HappyHappyistAJ has left the room.
TTwistedIllusion: Hi
Vestpocket: About what?
Nayr Tnargh: what about the lounge?
Luigi Link: If we focus around one place too much, if it all goes away, it'll leave a huge dent.
Nayr Tnargh: there was mention of a Sonic 1 beta...
Nayr Tnargh: but that's all
Luigi Link: sonic 1 beta music
ymtx81z: Huge dent indeed
TTwistedIllusion: This sucks
Sasuketea: just music?
Sasuketea: this SUX
ymtx81z: Which is why several SHaC sections will be globally distributed
SUperSOnic A51: 
SUperSOnic A51: Spread the Word
TTwistedIllusion: Wanna bet one of these people is stealth?
First JohnnyUK: sax:?
SUperSOnic A51: nope
TTwistedIllusion: I cant believe this
Nayr Tnargh: I'm on
TTwistedIllusion: my day was going so well
Luigi Link: so who's gonna administrate
Luigi Link: this was my first day of school
TTwistedIllusion: Can I help?
Luigi Link: the end of an era indeed
ymtx81z: What's confusing or questionable Johnny?
DigitalZepher: Grauh took Stealth's place =P
First JohnnyUK: ymtx81z: Which is why several SHaC sections will be globally distributed
Nayr Tnargh: whoever posts fastest gets to be admin!!! (j/k)
First JohnnyUK: =P
Luigi Link: someone go retrieve the archives from the latest source
Luigi Link: we need those
First JohnnyUK: yea
Luigi Link: before it's too late
TTwistedIllusion: I wish i could
weathd: from what?
weathd: which archives?
Luigi Link: like from the emuzone back up or whatever
weathd: 
weathd: would that be up to date?
ymtx81z: Well.... you remember what I said in the meeting, correct?
Vestpocket: The phpBB archives?
weathd: no it wouldn't
First JohnnyUK: sort of =P
Luigi Link: Forum lineup: FAQ Forum, General Discussion, Everything Else, Archives, (hidden) Lounge,
Luigi Link: Yes, the phpBB archives.
ymtx81z: Many sections will be zipped up and made downloadable on other websites
First JohnnyUK: koji has a log of it
SUperSOnic A51: I am Setting up The new PHPBB
Nayr Tnargh: uh, guys?
First JohnnyUK: oh!
First JohnnyUK: that!
First JohnnyUK: yea
Nayr Tnargh: 
First JohnnyUK: I like tht idea
First JohnnyUK: =)
Nayr Tnargh: BREAKING NEWS: SSRG HACKED!9.5.2002 -First at TSSZ, a developing story on the SSRG enduring a second attack in its history. Full information when we get it here at TSSZ News. 
DigitalZepher: I'm finally doing somthing good
Luigi Link: hacked?
Luigi Link: hmmm...by who?]
Vestpocket: It hasn't been hacked.
TTwistedIllusion: what?
weathd: Breaking news out of the SSRG--an apparently successful hack attempt was made on the Sonic Stuff Research Group. This is the message left at ssrg.emulationzone.org:
TTwistedIllusion has left the room.
Luigi Link: That message is so Stealth though.
Nayr Tnargh: don't point fingers
Luigi Link: We've been pointing them for a while now.
Nayr Tnargh: it sounds like something I'd do back in 8th grade
Luigi Link: I'm in 8th grade, unfortunately :-(
weathd: 
weathd: :-\
weathd: same issue
Nayr Tnargh: oh
Vestpocket: It wasn't hacked!
Luigi Link: We all think it's Stealth, Nayr.
Luigi Link: Though maybe you're right.
Nayr Tnargh: fine...
Nayr Tnargh: I'll ask him
Luigi Link: We shouldn't go pointing fingers.
weathd: either a smart well-planned hack, or stealth is acting wierd
Luigi Link: We need to wait until everything comes in.
Nayr Tnargh: ever heard of "framing"
ymtx81z: tSf gone too?
Vestpocket: It's Stealth. I spoke to him minutes ago.
ymtx81z: Geeze
Luigi Link: someone needs to tell tristan
weathd: does stealth still use Mstealtha?
TTwistedIllusion has entered the room.
Luigi Link: yeah
TTwistedIllusion: I dont think it was hacked
Nayr Tnargh: no can do
ymtx81z: Not hacked?
Nayr Tnargh: his e-mail is gone
ymtx81z: Please give more information Ivo
Vestpocket: He isn't being framed. No, it hasn't been hacked.
Nayr Tnargh: all of the emulationzone acounts are
DigitalZepher: SFGHQ is down?
ymtx81z: So..... it's either Stealth or Andy.....?
weathd: whoever did this is a nasty little son of a bitch
weathd: :-\
TTwistedIllusion: I heard andy left
weathd: no offense
Luigi Link: It's Stealth, Dr. Ivo said.
weathd: I hate to say that about stealth, but where was his right to do that?
SUperSOnic A51: 
TTwistedIllusion: One nice person, just went insane
First JohnnyUK: GRUAH
SUperSOnic A51: What!
First JohnnyUK: PLEASE STOP IT WITH THE MSGBOARD LINKS
TTwistedIllusion: i guess anyone will snap
weathd: I thought the SSRG was a community.. that's why pages couldnt be taken off of it
SUperSOnic A51: I set it up!
First JohnnyUK: we've seen it about 50 times now =P
weathd: it can now just suddenly be shut down
PClemTeen1: I have the highest post count in the new MB so far. =P
ymtx81z: You know what?
First JohnnyUK: what? =P
Nayr Tnargh: I'm talking to Tristan about the SSRG right now...
ymtx81z: I can't stand Stealth........ BUT...... being the person I am, I'm going to talk to him in a 'kind' manner anyway
ymtx81z: I don't know why or how.... but I just feel it's right
weathd: it might not be him after all, just a really good framing
TTwistedIllusion: Saxman is restarting SHaC?
Vestpocket has left the room.
Luigi Link: stealth's on aim right now?
TTwistedIllusion: maybe
Luigi Link: i can't see him and i usually an
ymtx81z: Brb
DigitalZepher: The Backup A51MB is up
Nayr Tnargh: I'll restore the SSRG
Nayr Tnargh: on another server
Luigi Link: yay nayr, you're our hero
TTwistedIllusion: I hope I can be an admin at the A51:Backup
SUperSOnic A51: Mod
SUperSOnic A51: Hows a Mod
TTwistedIllusion: or a moderator
DigitalZepher: =P
Luigi Link: i need a link
PClemTeen1: What's the difference between a mod and an admin?
TTwistedIllusion: I dunno
Luigi Link: here we go
DigitalZepher: I'll explain
weathd: moderator vs admin
Luigi Link: mod can just delete, edit, and close posts/topics
Luigi Link: admins can do board things like adding new forums, changing schemes
DigitalZepher: Admin can set forum settings, even boardwide
SUperSOnic A51: yup
TTwistedIllusion: Oh, well, I hope to be both
DigitalZepher: Admins have Mod powers built in
PClemTeen1: In that case, I could be a moderator for the backup MB. 
SUperSOnic A51: 1 More mod
TTwistedIllusion: I hope I get to be either
First JohnnyUK: =P
Luigi Link: can you make the forum descriptions a bit more "professional?"
SUperSOnic A51: jUK wanna mod?
SUperSOnic A51: Gimme Some Ideas
Luigi Link: i want mod or admin or whatever
Luigi Link: wherever
SUperSOnic A51: ok
Luigi Link: however
TTwistedIllusion: I loved the ssrg
PClemTeen1: I want mod.
TTwistedIllusion: This is twisted
First JohnnyUK: sure I'll mod
First JohnnyUK: =p
DigitalZepher: Not too many mods =P
SUperSOnic A51: ok
DigitalZepher: 2 Max per forum
TTwistedIllusion: Super, can I be a mod
SUperSOnic A51: PC,Twist,Johnny,and LL will Mod
TTwistedIllusion: Cool!
PClemTeen1: :-D
Luigi Link: are there two different boards?
PClemTeen1: three boards
Luigi Link: o.o
DigitalZepher: we can rotate ever so often
TTwistedIllusion: O.o
Nayr Tnargh: I want to mod
Nayr Tnargh: please
Luigi Link: when nayr restores SSRG to another server we need to go and save the archives immediately
Nayr Tnargh: I've never been a mod...
Luigi Link: mods should be forum wide, i think
Luigi Link: and have access to the lounge :-)
TTwistedIllusion: yeah
PClemTeen1: :-)
TTwistedIllusion: it would be nice
Nayr Tnargh: where's the webarchive site?
DigitalZepher: How do you make an admin only board?
TTwistedIllusion: I dont know
SUperSOnic A51: I'll try
SUperSOnic A51: PC is now a mod
PClemTeen1: ^_^
SUperSOnic A51: next up TWISTED!
TTwistedIllusion: oooh, im festive
TTwistedIllusion: lol
TTwistedIllusion: j/k
First JohnnyUK: lol
leprechaunstue: Um SSRG and Area51 have fucked up and all you people are worried about is being Admins on a new board? I dont get it o.o
DigitalZepher: once Jan or LOst regs, I'll hand over the admin's syaff over to him
Luigi Link: caches on google
Luigi Link: useful things
Luigi Link: my the sonic 2 project is in there, though
SUperSOnic A51: JOHNNY UK!
First JohnnyUK: *shits self*
First JohnnyUK: what?!
First JohnnyUK: lol
SUperSOnic A51: It Has come
SUperSOnic A51: Mod
First JohnnyUK: =P
First JohnnyUK: =D
PClemTeen1: His name is still blue.
First JohnnyUK: w00ty.
PClemTeen1: oh nm
SUperSOnic A51: nayr may be an admin Cause he is setting up the new SSRG
Luigi Link: tristan isn't entirely convinced that it wasn't a hack
SUperSOnic A51: LL Sign up
DigitalZepher: John, you don't like the twitchy lips smiley?
Luigi Link: link peas
DigitalZepher: 
TTwistedIllusion: Ok, this is getting good.
TTwistedIllusion: what about beta?!
TTwistedIllusion: thats not good
TTwistedIllusion: his computer...
Luigi Link: i mean supersonic, but thanks digital anyway
SUperSOnic A51: 
PClemTeen1: I see Edit, Delete, and IP on everyone's posts. :-D
TTwistedIllusion: me 2
Luigi Link: thanks digital :P
SUperSOnic A51: Same
First JohnnyUK: me 3
First JohnnyUK: =P
DigitalZepher: feel free to look at mine
SUperSOnic A51: I am an Admin
SUperSOnic A51: And mine
SUperSOnic A51: If anyone finds a good skin,lemme know
SUperSOnic A51: or Style
Nayr Tnargh: I have a july 20th 2001 cache of the SSRG
PClemTeen1: I'm gonna make an official spam topic in EE in the new MB.
SUperSOnic A51: YAY!
DigitalZepher: =P!
SUperSOnic A51: PP *shot*
Nayr Tnargh: currently transfering data to my friend to upload
SUperSOnic A51: ok
First JohnnyUK: btw
First JohnnyUK: just so u know
TTwistedIllusion: I gotta go. :-(
SUperSOnic A51: Nayr will prolly be an admin
First JohnnyUK: saxman has gone for dinner =P
Luigi Link: i've been registered for a while now
TTwistedIllusion: bbs(Be back soon)
DigitalZepher: sure
TTwistedIllusion: wait
SUperSOnic A51: LL will become a mod
TTwistedIllusion: you mean sax is gone?
Luigi Link: who are the admins
First JohnnyUK: he'll be back
SUperSOnic A51: It says no Such user Exists
SUperSOnic A51: Me and digi
DigitalZepher: I'm merely holding it
SUperSOnic A51: Nayr will be one soon
TTwistedIllusion: how come PC is the only one in green?
SUperSOnic A51: odd
First JohnnyUK: im in green =P
DigitalZepher: until LOst or Jan come along
TTwistedIllusion: im not
SUperSOnic A51: Im in yeller
First JohnnyUK: cos im U83r *bricked*
TTwistedIllusion: not in the main area
Nayr Tnargh: e-mail now sent to friend... I hope he checks it or I'll be rather P'Oed
Luigi Link: well i guess insighyt and understanding don't cut it for an admin job. oh well, i'm happy
SUperSOnic A51: Well,if you can mod
TTwistedIllusion: Why am i not green?
SUperSOnic A51: You are
SUperSOnic A51: LL I will make thee a mod
OmegaAlpha86: It's not easy being green
DigitalZepher: refresh the page
Nayr Tnargh: Cyan's hacking guide is being restored...
Vestpocket has entered the room.
Luigi Link: Dr. Ivo will be a mod or admin?
SUperSOnic A51: NAYR!
SUperSOnic A51: Admin
DigitalZepher: How's the speed everyone?
SUperSOnic A51: good
SUperSOnic A51: LL your an Mod
Luigi Link: need to clean up the forum descriptions a litle bit
SUperSOnic A51: Gimme Some Ideas
Luigi Link: General Discussion: Come here to discuss Sonic secrets and findings. Also, hacking discoveries may be posted here. Anything off topic will be moved to Everything else.
SUperSOnic A51: ok
Luigi Link: Everything Else: Everything not covered by General Discussion will be talked about here. No spam posts, please.
SUperSOnic A51: No
SUperSOnic A51: Removes the Spam part
SUperSOnic A51: We can Spam here
Luigi Link: Oh. yay.
First JohnnyUK: as long as theres no bandwidth problems..
Nayr Tnargh: was anyone talking to me? I'm getting a few other sites...
Luigi Link: should we have a general sonic forum?
First JohnnyUK: well..
First JohnnyUK: yea
First JohnnyUK: thats what I said since the begining!
First JohnnyUK: it would b better =P
DigitalZepher: you have a staff plan
First JohnnyUK: (IMO)
DigitalZepher: Unlimmed everything
Vestpocket: I'll be back in a bit.
Vestpocket has left the room.
Nayr Tnargh: If Jan doesn't have a copy on his computer, I've got a cache of his site...
Luigi Link: South Island: Talk about anything Sonic the Hedgehog from your favorite games to fanfic releases to why Sonic the Hedgehog the cartoon is better than Adventures of STH.
SUperSOnic A51: Anything Sonic is allowed In GD
Nayr Tnargh: I have X-teams page! XD
SUperSOnic A51: As long as it ain;t spam or Somthing stupid
weathd: is it possible andy took down the ssrg?
Luigi Link: then should we have a hacking forum for releases of hacks and tools and stuff?
SUperSOnic A51: ok
DigitalZepher: if stealth reggs and posts, The first thing he will see is "you are banned from this forum"
SUperSOnic A51: XD
TTwistedIllusion: Maybe, and are you going to put a lounge?
DigitalZepher: need a way to keep normals out
Luigi Link: i don't think we should go that far. it would be nice to see him have to get along with everyone
Luigi Link: as he has no power there, if it DOES become the official forum
SUperSOnic A51: Hacking Forum = Shackers among us
SUperSOnic A51: Stealth's song = Du hast
Nayr Tnargh: SUperSOnic A51: NAYR!SUperSOnic A51: Admin
Nayr Tnargh: what's that mean?
DigitalZepher: you are admin
SUperSOnic A51: You will be an admin for restoring SSRG
Nayr Tnargh: oh
Nayr Tnargh: brb, must finish homework
First JohnnyUK: shall I invite andy? *briked to near-death*
Luigi Link: got no homework
Luigi Link: Andy's nice.
TTwistedIllusion: *bricks ya even more!*
TTwistedIllusion: what if he tells ya
TTwistedIllusion: andy...tells...stealth...
Tomsonic41 has entered the room.
TTwistedIllusion: stealth...hacks...this...
Nayr Tnargh: back
First JohnnyUK: ooo
TTwistedIllusion: NOOOOOOO
SUperSOnic A51: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
First JohnnyUK: hi tom =P
Luigi Link: I assume you saw everything Tom.
Tomsonic41: SSRG files are deleted
Tomsonic41: I just checked
Luigi Link: It's not a hack.
Nayr Tnargh: yup
Nayr Tnargh: I'm bringing them back
Luigi Link: unlike what Tristan thinks
Luigi Link: we need to work in a timely manner
TTwistedIllusion: And if it is, it is one hellova mind control hack
TTwistedIllusion: lol
Tomsonic41: stealth@ssrg.emulationzone.org#] chmod -R 777 ssrg
Tomsonic41: stealth@ssrg.emulationzone.org#] rm -r SSRG
First JohnnyUK: Tom - any idea WHY THE hell that happened?
Tomsonic41: Andy left
First JohnnyUK: so?
Luigi Link: yes
Luigi Link: i've been saying that all day
Luigi Link: Andy left
Tomsonic41: And Stealth doesn't want anything else to do with these lamers on SSRG
Luigi Link: that's why
First JohnnyUK: why does that mean stealth should nuke the SSRG?
DigitalZepher: Johnny, why don't you like that 'twitchy lips smiley?
SUperSOnic A51: Yes
First JohnnyUK: cos it looks gay
First JohnnyUK: =P
First JohnnyUK: its nothign like a person laughing =P
TTwistedIllusion: Maybe stealth is gay and hes mad and andy lived with him and moved out. Ewww
Luigi Link: it's kind of like when someone does something bad and the teacher punishes the whole class
TTwistedIllusion: just a theory
Luigi Link: so the class hates the guy
SUperSOnic A51: Shackers Among us
SUperSOnic A51: XD
Luigi Link: when they just hate the teacher even more
Nayr Tnargh: no making fun of Andy and Stealth
SUperSOnic A51: ok
TTwistedIllusion: sorry
TTwistedIllusion: it was just a theory
Luigi Link: yeah i'm tired of it
Nayr Tnargh: they were the oldest members of the SSRG and it wouldn't exist without them
Luigi Link: they're people too
TTwistedIllusion: true
Tomsonic41: Nobody made fun of andy and stealth!
leprechaunstue: TTwistedIllusion: Maybe stealth is gay and hes mad and andy lived with him and moved out. Ewww
leprechaunstue: :-P
Nayr Tnargh: thankyou
Luigi Link: *adds to the quotefile*
TTwistedIllusion: lol
SUperSOnic A51: Use my Quote
SUperSOnic A51: The one about Stealth
SUperSOnic A51: needing secx
leprechaunstue: i thought that was FoS's
Sonicblr has entered the room.
weathd: hmm, im the only blue user at the new phpBB
SUperSOnic A51: 
dust hill guy has entered the room.
TTwistedIllusion: hmm
DigitalZepher: o.o
SUperSOnic A51: 
SUperSOnic A51: I Picked 3 mods and 1 admin
Luigi Link: there needs to be a lounge, zepher
DigitalZepher: How to keep normals out?
Tomsonic41: Invite only
Luigi Link: i think you just assign forum rights to the mods and admins
Luigi Link: and invite them
Luigi Link: what tom said
TTwistedIllusion: but...
Tomsonic41: I wonder if stealth will ever see the error of his ways and put the board back from the tape backup
Luigi Link: tom was a mod on the old board
TTwistedIllusion: maybe
Sonicblr: Stealth lives in Calfornia. He doesn't have access
Luigi Link: custom titles?
TTwistedIllusion: Why no lounge?
DigitalZepher: custom titles smpe people will get them
Tomsonic41: I'm not flying out to MI to restore form the tape!
Sonicblr: No, not you. :-P
Tomsonic41: Particularly with Sept 11 so close
Sonicblr: AJ Freda lives in MI....
TTwistedIllusion: Creepy
Tomsonic41: He could go and break into the server room
Luigi Link: how do you enter in your pictures?
Sonicblr: Heh... No. Maybe Andy will fix it when he get's home from work
dust hill guy has left the room.
weathd: really.. um, why am I showing up blue instead of green/
weathd: ?*
weathd: is that self-identity?
SUperSOnic A51: You arent a mod
weathd: oh, so im the only on the board right now who isnt a mod
TTwistedIllusion: Ill be back later
TTwistedIllusion has left the room.
Pikachu623 has entered the room.
Tomsonic41: Stealth _might_ give back some sites to people on a CDROM
Luigi Link: bullshit
Sonicblr: Bah... He'll charge you for it
Tomsonic41: Nobody saw this coming though so you wouldn't have a chance to back up
weathd: you can get them online anyways
Luigi Link: nayr is backing it up as we speak, i think
SUperSOnic A51: I put up a locked forum
Tomsonic41: He can't, the files have been removed
SUperSOnic A51: It will be the lounge
Sonicblr: I always have a local copy of my sites....I've got a local copy of all 500+MB of Mp3's on radio.emulationzone.org. :-P
Sonicblr: (And most mp3's arent' even mine)
PClemTeen1: If the lounge is locked, how can you post in it? O.o
Tomsonic41: TSSZ still reckons the SSRG has been hacked
Luigi Link: Nayr restored Cyan's hacking guide.
DigitalZepher: Grauh, your messing things up
Luigi Link: Dr. Ivo talked with Stealth and confirmed it was Stealth.
Tomsonic41: I'm not going to the new board yet!
Luigi Link: That won't convince Tristan.
SUperSOnic A51: ok
Tomsonic41: We'll take this one back by force if we have to
Pikachu623: No, Tristan is offline now. Talked to him earlier
DigitalZepher: I found the setting
Tomsonic41: I could restore the entire board with a couple of mouse clicks but I don't want to interfere with admin decisions
weathd: Pikachu = ?
Nayr Tnargh: this is horrible...
Luigi Link: jan is in charge of the board
Luigi Link: stealth ruins board
Tomsonic41: Does Jan have AIM?
SUperSOnic A51: no
Luigi Link: jan didn't decide this
Sonicblr: I dont think so...
SUperSOnic A51: He has ICQ
Luigi Link: stealth didn't ask jan if he could do it
Tomsonic41: Logically it should be Jan's decision
Sonicblr: I've got his ICQ number, but he hasn't used in in at least a year
Pikachu623: SonicAD. Changed my name awhile ago but usually use this since I'm more known by it
Luigi Link: restore the board so we can get the archives
Tomsonic41: Ask him whether he wants the board reopened
Luigi Link: then shut it back down :P
Tomsonic41: The A51 board is in a different directory.
Tomsonic41: I'm backing it up now
Tomsonic41: (then deleting it *evil laugh*
SUperSOnic A51: THE LOUNGE IS UP!
Sonicblr: I got a better idea! Let's flood stealth's e-mail...erm.... wait....
SUperSOnic A51: THE BOaRD IS COMPLEATED!
Luigi Link: but i can't see it
DigitalZepher: can't see lounge?
Nayr Tnargh: I'm making a universal post right now
Tomsonic41: I'm gonna back up the A51 board onto my Linux machine
Nayr Tnargh: you'll see it soon
weathd: what linux distro?
Tomsonic41: Then I can mess around with it without having to screw up
Tomsonic41: Debian r3
weathd: always feel like asking :-)
Sonicblr: DAMN! Gotta run. :-(
First JohnnyUK: lounge???
Sonicblr has left the room.
Tomsonic41: If I screw the board on my Linux box it won't matter. (rm -r a51board)
First JohnnyUK: I see no lounge =P
Tomsonic41: If I screw it on the SSRG server, that's a different matter
Tomsonic41: Lounge is only for admins I think
weathd: I saw it earlier
First JohnnyUK: GAH
SUperSOnic A51: o
weathd: it had a lock icon
First JohnnyUK: =P
Luigi Link: there's only two admins
SUperSOnic A51: Now it Dunt
Luigi Link: why would you have a lounge for only two people
SUperSOnic A51: It is set for mods
SUperSOnic A51: not admins
Tomsonic41: Who wants a backup of the Sonic 2 Beta site (Simon Wai)?
First JohnnyUK: I see nothing =P
weathd: refresh your webbrowser
weathd: =P
Tomsonic41: I have it on CD
Luigi Link: he gave you a CD?
First JohnnyUK: I still see nothing =P
PClemTeen1: I refreshed my browser, still no Lounge.
Tomsonic41: No, I DLed it to CD before this happened
leprechaunstue has left the room.
SUperSOnic A51: odd
SUperSOnic A51: Lemme Look at dis
Luigi Link: try 
Luigi Link: it's the link on s2beta board
First JohnnyUK: ok, I'll brb.. in about an hour =P
leprechaunstue has entered the room.
SUperSOnic A51: now try
Sonik Studios has entered the room.
Sonik Studios: WTF IS UP WITH AREA51?! I finally return and ... ...
OmegaAlpha86: uh oh
OmegaAlpha86: someone tell him
PClemTeen1: 
Tomsonic41: I keep getting 'failed sending email' when I try to register on the new board
SUperSOnic A51: 
Luigi Link: there's a very small chance that this is a plot to take down the site for a while then come back with a redesign
Luigi Link: and that it was all staged
Tomsonic41: No, its not
Luigi Link: but very small
DigitalZepher: a bug
Tomsonic41: I can still see the forums
Tomsonic41: (admins can, hehehe)
DigitalZepher: I'll use my ISP's mail
Tomsonic41: Stealth says he's fed up and he's closing everything
Luigi Link: we peasants can't
Luigi Link: he should give the SSRG to someone else
weathd: its his apparently
weathd: not the communities
Tomsonic41: Will I be able to become a mod/admin on the new board? ;-)
weathd: communitys*
Luigi Link: this is the last straw
Luigi Link: :-(
SUperSOnic A51: Tom is an Admin
SUperSOnic A51: He will help fix things
DigitalZepher: proceed
Sonik Studios: GOD DAMMIT! I FINALLY RETURN TO FIND THIS?! Just my luck...
weathd: 
Luigi Link: it happened today
Tomsonic41: 404 error on that link
Luigi Link: it's your lucky day
weathd: i know
Luigi Link: this is my first day of school too
weathd: posted it wrong
SUperSOnic A51: 
Tomsonic41: Anyone know when it happened?
OmegaAlpha86: yesterday was mine
Luigi Link: today
SUperSOnic A51: Today
Tomsonic41: No, when as in time
OmegaAlpha86: half day
Luigi Link: evening
SUperSOnic A51: around 4 here
SUperSOnic A51: It changed with a refresh
Tomsonic41: I'm admin on the new board now but theres no 'go to admin panel'
Tomsonic41: Ah wait, there it is ;-)
Luigi Link: Sonique says in response to this whole thing: "Stealth rocks XD"
DigitalZepher: This new board was purely my idea =D
Tomsonic41: Chat dying
PClemTeen1: So this new MB is just a backup for now?
Tomsonic41: yep
Luigi Link: we need jan
SUperSOnic A51: unless it Becomes a true board
Tomsonic41: Jan, Jan, where are you, man?
Sonik Studios: I'm tired of this, I'm not returning to Area51 when it gets restored...
Luigi Link: we can sort it out
Luigi Link: we can sort it out
DigitalZepher: when Jan and LOst regs I'll leave my administrative status
Luigi Link: think of what we're saying
Luigi Link: we can get it out and still you don't think that it's alright
DigitalZepher: ok Tom?
Tomsonic41: yep
Tomsonic41: Tonight I won't be able to sleep because of this thing that's happened with the existing board
Vestpocket has entered the room.
PClemTeen1: No avatars on this MB?
Luigi Link: it's giving my cramps cramps
SUperSOnic A51: You have to put in your own
Luigi Link: hello dr. ivo
PClemTeen1: I went to the Profile page, and the avatar option isn't there.
Tomsonic41: Gah, the PHP scripts for the board don't work on my Linux box :-(
SUperSOnic A51: odd
DigitalZepher: I'll enable them
Vestpocket: Hi!
Sonik Studios: Things will never change, it's gonna happen over and over again... I've always come back because I thought it would work that time... But no... I give up on Area51..
Tomsonic41: Can't you make stealth see the error of his ways and reopen SSRG?
Luigi Link: most of these things have happened because stealth was in charge
Luigi Link: and he shuts down things because of his personal problems that he can't control
Tomsonic41: Give SSRG to my control
Luigi Link: i won't give up the fight
SUperSOnic A51: nor Will I
Tomsonic41: Let me be the big boss and I'll keep everything going
SUperSOnic A51: ok
DigitalZepher: 200X200 is th max sizr for avitars ok?
SUperSOnic A51: Ok
SUperSOnic A51: 200X200 Is good
Tomsonic41: All your SSRG are belong to stealth
SUperSOnic A51: WRONG!
SUperSOnic A51: I'll run the A51 boards along with Digi
Tomsonic41: Y'know, I _could_ de-admin Stealth on the old board...
DigitalZepher: All your Non Stealth A51 are belong to me
SUperSOnic A51: And me
DigitalZepher: yeh
DigitalZepher: and Tom
DigitalZepher: =P
Sonicblr has entered the room.
Nayr Tnargh: I need to go. I'll let you know in awhile how the restoration is going.
Nayr Tnargh: I have someone to call
Commencing reconstruction...
SUperSOnic A51: Nayr,you Restore SSRG
Nayr Tnargh: I'll try
SUperSOnic A51: We have restored a51mb
Nayr Tnargh: I'll contact a friend I know
Nayr Tnargh: I'll put it on GSRC.org
SUperSOnic A51: ok
SUperSOnic A51: cool
SUperSOnic A51: Link a51 to 
Nayr Tnargh: which is my site (Gaming secrets research centre)
Nayr Tnargh: it may take awhile
SUperSOnic A51: ok
Nayr Tnargh: I currently contacting a friend named Navi Narem
SUperSOnic A51: ok
Nayr Tnargh: I'm going to make a universal post to try and restore the SSRG in a few minutes... I have an idea to get everything back as quickly as possible
SUperSOnic A51: ok
SUperSOnic A51: Wow
SUperSOnic A51: We all Cannot Be Defeated
Nayr Tnargh: true
Nayr Tnargh: they can knock out a site, but that won't stop the fans
SUperSOnic A51: True
SUperSOnic A51: This is like 9/11
Nayr Tnargh: Tristan's treating that way too ;-)
SUperSOnic A51: Many were killed,but they standed strong
SUperSOnic A51: SSRG was killed,We are Rebuilding
Nayr Tnargh: yup
Everything was going great until...

	2. The death of Area 51

I was not expecting this.  I was terrified.  Here’s the reaction...

SUperSOnic A51: Hello Are you there?
Nayr Tnargh: yes
Nayr Tnargh: I am
SUperSOnic A51: I am Planning to Take over Jan's Spot on A51
SUperSOnic A51: He left
Nayr Tnargh: *cough* WHAT?!
SUperSOnic A51: So I am Gonna ask Tom If I can Run A51
Nayr Tnargh: Jan left too?!
Nayr Tnargh: Is this a conspiracy?
SUperSOnic A51: Yes
SUperSOnic A51: I dunno
SUperSOnic A51: It was on the cult
SUperSOnic A51: I will NOT let a51 Die!
Nayr Tnargh: all the original guys except Cyan, Tom, and Rlan, and I have left!
Nayr Tnargh: oh and rocket...
SUperSOnic A51: I am Gonna help out
SUperSOnic A51: Make Good Decisions
SUperSOnic A51: No Stupid Mistakes
Nayr Tnargh: =)
SUperSOnic A51: Those Mistakes Caused us 3 Boards
SUperSOnic A51: 3 FUDGING BOARDS!
SUperSOnic A51: That is too many
Nayr Tnargh: this is kind of sad that all the original guys are gone...
Nayr Tnargh: *sniff*
SUperSOnic A51: Yup
SUperSOnic A51: I Stole your Sonic 2 Epsillion *shot*
SUperSOnic A51: XD
Nayr Tnargh: Nah, it was my friend's in Longmont, CO
SUperSOnic A51: I remember when they thought you had a beata~
Nayr Tnargh: I remember when I thought I had a beta o_o
SUperSOnic A51: When The New A51 Goes up,the Staff list stays as same
SUperSOnic A51: But nemesis and SMT As mods
Nayr Tnargh: k
SUperSOnic A51: *White Reflection From Gundam Wing Plays*
SUperSOnic A51: Tis' a dawn of a new Revolution
SUperSOnic A51: I sense it
Nayr Tnargh: if only some the original guys were there to do it with us =(
SUperSOnic A51: Yes
Nayr Tnargh: I must go
SUperSOnic A51: Cya
Nayr Tnargh: I'm heading to a friend's house
SUperSOnic A51: ok
Nayr Tnargh: the same one who was going to upload SSRG
SUperSOnic A51: Ahh
SUperSOnic A51: Good
Nayr Tnargh: of course, we have nothing to worry about now, right ~_^
SUperSOnic A51: Yes
Nayr Tnargh: bye
SUperSOnic A51: bye nayr

That just about explains it all.  Jan announced that he was finished.  In fact, this announcement started a chain.  Several people left.  The SSRG french translator, Cyan Helkaraxe and several others.

	3. “The Early Scene”

SSRG soon was restored by Andy.  He transfered ownership to Tom, but soon just took it over himself.  On other boards, however, Luigi Link started a topic that many felt was very important.  The topic was called “The Early Scene”.  It was asking how the early hacking scene was.  It soon turned into a nostalgic topic, where Nayr had a strange idea... could it be possible to get things back to how they were before?  This was the beginning of an attempt to pull the SSC out of the downward spiral it was taking.  Little did Nayr know, but someone was here to help that along...

	4. Simon Returns

Incredibly enough, Nayr mentions he can’t get in touch with Simon.  A few posts later, Simon posts.  Simon was now back with the announcement that he didn’t intend to abandon us again so quickly.  It wasn’t long before Simon did what everyone (except the official message board) had been hoping for...

	5. Sonic 2 Beta returns to Simon

Simon announces that he wants to moderate S2B again and start his own MB again.  Pelord willingly handed over the site, but the other MB members were divided.  Some headed to Simon’s new board, some remained on the old one (the name changed to Sonic Classic).  You can find Simon’s new site and board at http://sws2b.dyndns.org:1124/

	6. SSC becomes SSRG

Though subtle, this is very important.  Andy has the board’s name changed to SSRG.  A committee is formed for decision making for the community.  Politics had finally taken the community.  Luigi Link once put it SSC: 99% politics, 1% secrets and hacking.  Andy seemed to want control.  As my history teacher says “No one willingly gives up power.”  This was very obvious now.  Yet Andy seemed to break this law.  He was giving up ownership to someone who wanted to take it over.  He would review the applications and see who was best fit for the job...

	7. Andy hands over SSRG ownership

Andy did it.  He handed over ownership to someone named Chaos.  It seemed all was going to change.  That was, of course, until Sonic Cult (Pachuka as the representative) wanted to call a truce between SSRG and Sonic Cult...

	8. The SSC Civil War

Who could have thought that a three letter word could split a community and destroy the oldest Sonic Secrets site?  Chaos said yes.  With the announcement, Andy came back and ripped authority from Chaos.  Andy promptly destroyed the SSRG and ever since has been trying to destroy Sonic Cult.  While Andy had some reason to be angry with Sonic Cult, he had given up power.  Pachuka saw this opportunity and has been trying to turn the entire community against him, thus making Pachuka seem as a savior or martyr.  The corruption continues...

       B. Achievements

Believe it or not, some good came during this period... here we are.

	1. Music hacking

Saxman did this single handedly.  He figured out how all the music worked and how to port outside music into the games.  Very intriguing...

	2. Sonic Advance hacking

Yes, it finally happened.  A hacking guide was put together for Sonic Advance.  I don’t know much beyond that...

	3. Sonic Secrets Center (“Epicentre”)

The Epicentre / SSC was the majour achievement of this era.  It proved that a community could pull back together quickly and orderly.  We should learn a lesson from that and try to do it now.

	4. Sonic CD Hoax

At the very end of this era, it happened.  People thought another beta had been found.  Of course, it was actually a simple, yet clever hack by Nemesis.  Another breakthrough in the scene, as this is the first non-megadrive Sonic game to be hacked to this degree...

       C. Message Boards

The message boards all took a majour hit, except (strangely) Sonic Classic and Sonic 2 Beta.  Perhaps Sonic Classic’s ridicule and “exile” if you will managed to make them a tad more stable than the other “political” boards.  Sonic 2 Beta was an attempt to get back to basics and ignored the downfall all together.  It remains the only secrets based site out there to survive this disaster unscathed.

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

The same zaniness as ever.  It brought forth new ideas as the board adopted another “mascot” in Megaman.  This group is the last one to move away from EZboard technology.

	2. Sonic 2 Beta

Classic old school fun with a unique attitude (something like a modernized Golden Age attitude), this board is the only thriving Sonic Secrets board right now.  Hoaxes, realizations, even theories, this is becoming a haven for those who want to go “back to basics”.

	3. SSC / SSRG

The site was in a state of disaster as it was finally deleted with the SSRG.  Membership has been dropping rapidly.

	4. Sonic Cult

With the “false savior” effect, Sonic Cult has gained incredible amounts of popularity and is quickly making its way to becoming the new SSRG.  The message board, becoming the new SSC.

D. Members

*Andy Wolan*
Damian / Saxman / Rocket
*Jan*
Simon Wai
Terunaga
Sonique
SonKnuck
Pelord
*Kulock*
*Kat*
Nayr T’nargh
Local H
IceKnight
Los1
Jacko
Nemesis
Pachuka
Luigi Link
Rattleman
*Dr. Ivo*
KojiChan
Nik the Greek
Hyper Shadow DC
Sonic Sue
Kurairyu
Kurairyukakumei
Bryn
Stealth
SSJGoku
Beta
Alexbt
overlord
Ultima
Johnny UK
Tom
grap3fruitman
Sonicblur
Matthew
Redlocks
Sonic McTails
Digital Emperor
SuperSonicA51
Cyberplauge
Sonic Master
Anthony
Mercedes / ML55XGamecubemon
Shadow
Neo
SaLuS
dust hill resident
Turbo Killer
Friend of Sonic
Grauh / Damu Ketsu / Arcane
Jen
Sonic Hacker 2000
Jacko
SMTP
Catweed
Follow
Rabid
Sting
Epicenter
Spitfire
Gerbil
Muttfox
Scarred Sun
Esrael
The Lurker

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”.

Just as the above states, it’s happening.  While Sonic Cult is gaining popularity through a bias, one-sided view of the facts (even though Andy is more at fault than Pachuka here), survivors are dragging SSC out of the ruins of SSRG with the hopes of creating a SSRG like site with a better system (more like it was in the beginning).  The question is will it be a fun based site like the original goal was, or will it be made better through a political constitution with its serious attitude?  Or something entirely different...

       A. Overall happenings and history

Not much here so far, it’s only been a couple weeks, all...

	1. SSC re-established

The SSC was re-established not long after it fell.  While that’s good, it can’t recover from the bias that Pachuka is throwing at it.  Since SSC is associated with Andy, it has been ridiculed ever since.

	2. Chaos resigns

The former “owner” of the SSRG finally leaves.  A sad notice at the door.  He has left the restoration attempt in charge of Tom, the last of the members from the beginning.

       B. Achievements

Nothing.  Absolutely nothing.  The community is no longer secrets based and because of this, everything is falling apart.  No more discoveries are being made, because everyone is too pre-occupied with politics.  What started out as a community for fun has become a huge political debate.

       C. Message Boards

The message boards... how many will be left by the next period?

	1. Sonic Classic

They’re moving any day now.

	2. Sonic 2 Beta

Still the same classic secrets info.  If anyone survives, this will be the site.

	3. SSC

Though out of the fire, it is not known yet if it will survive its wounds.  Though the head has been replaced, the blood is quickly flowing to Sonic Cult... thanks to Andy.

	4. Sonic Cult

Sonic Cult is temporarily fueled by the blood it draws from the ruins of SSRG and SSC.  Without a secrets based environment, they won’t be able to continue.  They can only make it if they start focusing on secrets and not holding grudges and making fun of people.

       D. Members

Damian / Saxman / Rocket
Simon Wai
Terunaga
Sonique
Pelord
*Kat*
Nayr T’nargh
Local H
IceKnight
Los1
Jacko
Nemesis
Pachuka
Snifit AL
Luigi Link
Rattleman
KojiChan
Nik the Greek
Hyper Shadow DC
Sonic Sue
Kurairyu
Kurairyukakumei
Bryn
Beta
Alexbt
Ultima
Johnny UK
Tom
grap3fruitman
Sonicblur
Sonic McTails
Digital Emperor
Cyberplauge
Mercedes / ML55XGamecubemon
Shadow
Neo
dust hill resident
Turbo Killer
Grauh / Damu Ketsu / Arcane
Jen
Sonic Hacker 2000
SMTP
Follow
Rabid
Sting
Epicenter
Spitfire
Gerbil
The Lurker

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.

Things were going very badly already.  As SSC tried to revive itself, a shadowy character brought down a sword.  The politics, flaming, contention and all else found a new shape.  Someone had been working to bring down the community.  It became clear the moment it destroyed the SSC.  Through hacking.  Though a hacker had been known before this, it was thought to be focusing solely on the cult.  With the hacking of SSC and its passwords stolen, it was clear that this was beyond Sonic Cult...

       A. Overall happenings and history

Can’t really sum it up, as it’s still going on...

	1. Cult Attacks

This is where it started, people’s accounts were stolen on The Cult (not to mention an attempted hack of the site itself).  AIM passwords were discovered as well as MB passwords.  People were contacted by their friends through the hacker and accused of being “Cult Scum”.  This is still currently happening.  At this point it was thought it was solely a Cult hater.  “McCarthyism” ensued and names where picked out: Andy, Cyberplauge, Epicenter and various others.  It was soon decided that most, if not all, of these suspects were not responsible.

	2. SSC destroyed

Through a backdoor, the hacker gained access to SSC’s server: Digibase.  After hours of trying, the owner of the server, Dark Digital X (AKA Digimon Emperor) managed to break back in.  He immediately took down digibase.  Now it was clear that the entire community was the victim of this hacker.

	3. Conspiracy

It was soon revealed that this was a huge conspiracy.  Logged chats showed that the hacker was responsible for some messages Andy received, thus leading to Andy’s lockdown of the SSRG.  If that wasn’t enough proof that The Cult wasn’t the sole target, a new message was received...

	4. The message

The following is the message from the hacker, the only one thus far giving his intentions.  I must say, they aren’t what the community wants:

“Are you people enjoying my little games?

I know I am.

Let's play a game! Who am I? 

I could be Andy....

OMFG
YM ASS IS BLEDIN BAN PACKUHA GROW UP

I could be LocalH.....

*WAAAA WAAAA WAAA, PREACH PREACH PREACH*
POLITICS RUINED THE COMMUNITY! I'M GOING TO GO @#%$ SUE IN HER HANDICAPPED ASS

I could be PACHUKA.....

Nothing bothers me, cause I'm so cool, and nothing bothers me! My community is so biiiig, just like my ego!!

I could be Ultima....

=P

I could be Henry.....

OGM! HELO2U, I MASSAGE MY PNEIS NOW!!!

I could be Sonic Sue.....

Now children, behave,read the rules, and have fun! ^_^
And don't forget to talk about megaman as much as humanly possible, and call every japanese character by it's japanese name! Even if the game creators didn't write the stories!

I could be Gerbil....

YOU ASKED FOR ROMS WITHOUT KNOWING MY SITE I'M CLOSING IT DOWN

I could be Cyberplague....

YOU TOLD KOJI I'M AN @#%$?!?! I SUE U!!!

I could be Wetflame.....

Kat Kat Kat Kat Kat Kat Kat Kat Kat Kat Kat Kat 

I could be Sonic Tsunami.....

Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux Linux 

Kurairiairu.....

Hentai Hentai Hentai Hentai Hentai Hentai Hentai 
oops, I ment:
Hentai,Hentai,Hentai,Hentai,Hentai,Hentai,Hentai
Ryoga....

I AM A HOMOSEXUAL

thissideupxl:

DU, TIME TO POST ANOTHER LAME IMAGE

Who will I be tomarrow......? 
I've fooled all of you once. 
ill keep doing so.

SSRG is dead, thx 2 me.
SSC will soon be gone.
Sonic Classic is full of lamer kids and run by a chick in a wheelchair. It's dying off with very little help from me.
This board seems to think that they are invincable. But u will be gone 2 eventually.

And I know you're trying to compile info on me. I know you have a few of my passwords. I know you're tracing my ips. I know you're hard at work trying to defend yourselfs.

It won't work. Submit.”

“I've fooled all of you once.” this statement is inaccurate.  He hasn’t fooled the entire community.  Just individuals (on a rare occasion).  He admits his destruction of the SSRG and the destruction of SSC.  He feels Sonic Classic is nothing to worry about.  Well, it seems his plan at this moment in time is to trap everyone on the Cult and then move in for the kill.  Only time will tell where we go from here...

       B. Achievements

Until we find something new or catch the hacker: none.

       C. Message Boards

From the most recent attack, two majour message boards remain along with one “neutral” board if you will.

	1. Sonic Classic

With few mentionings of the hacks, it seems to have become a target thanks to one of Epicenter’s recent messages on Sonic Cult.  Sonic 2 Beta is still the most peaceful, zany board in the Sonic secrets scene.  Probably the best one to go to for a little fun!

	2. Sonic 2 Beta

The neutral board, it doesn’t seem to have any junk on the hacker, but it’s also very inactive.  Still the classic secrets stuff, though.  Whenever it shows up...

	3. Sonic Cult

Birthdays have been hacked and insulting posts thrown.  People on the MB have the attitude “Bring it on”, but that’s not really helping any as that’s exactly what the hacker is doing...

XI. 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...

Mysteriously, the hacking attempts cease.  The hacker, only known as SSS, seemed to have let go of his grudge and moved on.  Out of the dust two remaining strongholds of the community come forth.  The two Sonic styles: Sonic Classic and Sonic Cult.  Both are bitter with each other, just as the SSRG and The Cult had been in the past.  Would this evergoing grudge be the straw that broke the camels back?

       A. Overall happenings and history

Not much to go on so far.  Just read on to find out what's happened so far...

	1. Sonic Classic moves

The last board to make the switch, Sonic Classic (formerly Sonic 2 beta) finally switches to Invisionboard on their new host, project nemesis.

	2. Sonic Classic vs. Sonic Cult

It finally happened.  The last of the people opposing Pachuka rose up to take Andy's throne.  Long before Sonic 2 Beta and The Cult had serious disagreements.  Since that day, they had been against each other.  While most claimed that they didn't, the prejudice and tension still existed.  Finally, it all broke loose in a simple post by Cult founder, Pachuka:

Title: Pachuka Girls go 'Round the Outside

"I figure since I used an Eminem quote last time, it would be amusing this time.

A lot of people would like to see me silenced, but I don't go away that easy. If you haven't figured out who I am, I am PACHUKA.

THE EVIL ONE, THE ONE DESTROYING THE COMMUNITY, THE ONE SPREADING LIES AND HATE CAMPAIGNS!

Right. This is mostly directed to the whole conflict going on here, and my two cents. Don't like it? tough.

I've been in an out of this community for years now. The CulT is close to 4 years old. I've seen a lot of people come and go, and a lot stay. Some I've liked, some I've hated.

I didn't really "settle down" and be a regular until the Area 51/S2beta ezboards. Back then was quite a bit different. A lot of myth, a lot of random crap. No better then today. To say "it used to be so much better" is really a lie. 

There was still drama, still websites and forums getting hacked, and still a lot of problems. So I attempt to focus on current issues. So, what ARE the current issues? A majority of it HERE seems to be the administration. 

So, let me go into my personal history with this subcommunity.

A while back I joined A51, and then shortly after this community. A LOT of people disliked me. A LOT. Including people who are regulars at the cult, and people I consider friends.

I began posting. This was when Sue was in her "missing period". Don't know the story behind it, and I also don't care. But she came back. During this time, I was having a lot of fun at both forums, sometimes pissing people off, sometimes making everyone happy. Then my conflict here started.

The board had creeped to an all time slowness at the point I was banned, so I was having fun bumping posts that were older then Christ. Then I started posting "forum images". I was posting them after certain dumb posts and silly posts, but mainly because there was NOTHING to reply to and the board was dead quiet.

These were those images: 
http://spiderman.sonic-cult.org/satam.html

At that same time, Sonique, a friend of mine was doing one of the two above mentioned actions, I forget which, but Sue tore into her a lot more harshly then she should have. It was very mean, nasty, and derogatory. So I threw a fit.

Their conflict was taken care of in the middle of my fit. I was posting my images like mad, and I received a warning in one post, that if I posted another, I was to be banned. Of course, Sue had managed to find one of my derogatory posts that was posted before her warning, and banned me for it. Not really because of the images, but because I disagreed with her actions with Sonique. So time passed.

Stuff happened, discoveries made, people got older, seasons changed, yadday yadda. something.com began. My forums started. A51 died. (No, not because of me, but because of Jan. The ezboard was my fault)

At this time, I started posting on my forums how much I disliked Sue and this community in general. (Allthough the dislike stemmed from the complete and total unquestioning way mst people followed her)

At about this time, LocalH became a MOD on my forums. (what a convenience)

LocalH decided it was his job to put on his superman outfit and save his damsel in distress. So he started cluttering up my forums and turning them to sh!t. I got so damn tired of dealing with his propaganda on -MY FORUMS- that I gave him the boot. 

Time passes. LocalH Attepts to form a "peace agreement" between me and Sue. I keep disagreeing, but he keeps pressuring. I cave in, and I go ahead with it. I wait for close to 2 weeks for her to contact me, but she was too afraid to. So I went to the s2beta chat and confront her. "Peace" is worked out.

I post a message under my roomate's screen name saying that the conflict is over, and I wouldn't contnue it. I would post this single message there and leave them alone. I planned on doing so.

A little while later, I was informed that Sue and LocalH were talking boatloads of shoot, causing more conflict, and basicly being the lying scum they are. So I lurked at s2beta, hoping for them to slip up. I began posting again. 

I often pushed at the rules setup, trying my best to be rebanned without beaking the rules. I eventually was, and it was funny, and I went right back to Sue and s2beta bashing. Why not? If they can, I can.

Soon, it became obvious that anyone that was attached to me in any way, my friends, people who visited my forums would be punished for those actions. 

Koji, Turbokiller/Boritz, Grap3, and countless others were sh!t all over for this.

But there was allways an excuse. The rules were often brought up and bent in the favor of Sue so she could get rid of cult members and other undesirables. It became obvious with time that she was doing this, which caused many of the people here today to dislike her and her attitude. 

You may have seen the listing of posts in NON-support of her.

Time has a habit of exposing people. And recently, that's what's happening. People are realizing the fraud and deception going on.

Then the classic Sue covermessage: "I'm only doing my job enforcing the rules".

No. You're using the rules as a basis to rid yourself of conflict you can not overcome. There are often times you don't follow the rules or even enforce them if they suit you in a situation. You are the true essence of the term "Nazi". You are controlling, manipulative, and you rid yourself of people you dislike, because they don't agree with you.

Wanna know why I keep attacking you? Because you keep attacking me. You attack me by plotting behind my back, you attack me by banning and verbally attacking people who just so happen to agree with me, and you attack me by simply trying to keep people from my site/forums. You are guilty of all these things. Care to disagree? Go ahead, I have the materials to prove it. And you know I will.

For people non-directly involved or uneducated about what I'm speaking of, your dear Sue and LocalH were planning on "pulling a stealh" on my forums while LocalH was a mod there, They talked of plans of having me DDoSed (Basicly killing my online connection or harming my PC), contacting my ISP and trying to have my service canceled, not to mention the fact that they used HyperShadowDC as a "puppet" to pump me for information, and all kinds of sh!t.

I have the logs to prove it: 
http://spiderman.sonic-cult.org/localh.html

Of course, I must explain how I got these before someone points at me and yells "hacker, hacker!". LocalH must have been moving his logs from one location to another, because he zipped them up, and uploaded them to his webspace. One day, I follow an image of his back to that directory, and of course, te directory is open wider then tsalami's ass. So I picked through it, and found 2 zips full of logs.

And to tell you the truth, even -I- was shocked about how much stuff they had tryed to do to me and other people. I invite you to open any of those logs and do a search for "pac". That will often bring you to the juicy details. Especially any of the Sue logs.

In closing, this is what -MY- side of the conflict is, since you've only been subjected to one side of the issue. I'm sure a few of you will simply brush it off and go "pachuka is a jerk, I don't agree with him simply because I'm a braindead follower and only view the sides of my pals". But a few of you who actually have more brains then illegaly obtained ROMs might want to pick through this post and that link. 

You'd be suprised.

ps. to staff here: I'll be linking quite a lot of people to this post the second it's posted. I suggest not tampering with it, as you will probally get hit HARDER with people attacking you for poor desisions. "

This became a huge issue.  Nearly 300 posts from members tried to fight for or against Pachuka, none working correctly.  Bryn made the following analogy as to what would happen should things continue:
"Imagine a city that's got two gangs in it, and these two gangs constantly have street brawls and gun wars, over things like drugs and cash. Eventually, the police in the city give up and just allow the gangs to run amok. The innocent residents of the city get so pissed off that they simply pack their bags and move on. The city falls into disrepair and all that's left are about ten gang members, who promptly kill one another until the very last one is left with all the crap and a desolate wasteland"
After much further arguing, it became clear that neither side would win.  There would have to be a truce.  It finally happened.  Here I quote both sides of the truce, one from Local H and the second from Pachuka:
"I hereby retract everything in those logs that I said against PACHUKA, and apologize for merely talking about possibly trying to get the Cult shut down, even though I never actually did try to. I apologize for all the BS, and all the zealotry. I'm willing to forgive PACHUKA for all he's said and done, if he's willing to do the same likewise.

I do have one request - I would like to be unbanned from the Cult, since I cannot post on Saxman's boards because of my IP ban there."

Then Pachuka did the same:

"I would like to apologize to the Sonic Classic community for the following actions:

Posting pictures of a offensive nature
Replacing images people hotlink to with cocks, anuses, and testicles.
Making fun of the fact that Sue is in a wheelchair, and calling her names such as c*nt, wh*re, b*tch, sk*nk, and many others.
Making fun of LocalH about various things, stealing his logs and publicly posting them.
Bumping old topics
Flaming
insulting various members
some other crap I forgot"

This officially ended the final tensions between The Cult and any other community unless it is again upset by either party...
       B. Achievements
Just look below...
	1. Original Sonic 2 hacking document found

Found by Nayr T'nargh on an old hard drive, the community finally gets to see how far hacking has come since its infancy.

       C. Message Boards

Seeing as it's nearly all that's left from the hacker, here's what we got...

	1. Sonic Classic

Moved to invision board and agreed to a truce with Sonic Cult.

	2. Sonic 2 Beta

Still in the neutral zone, it was not affected by hackers.  It's not very active, but still continues plugging along.

	3. Sonic Cult

Being flooded by newbies after the decline of other boards, things are uncertain... However this could be caused by the treaty signed with SClassic...

	4. ??SSC??

On March 3, 2003, Tom decided he would revive SSC for the final time.  It is unknown whether the weak reincarnation of the original Area 51 board will reclaim its former glory.  At the moment, things look dismal...

XI. Conclusion

While things look like they're heading in the right direction, this can often turn sour.  It has also been noted that as soon as SSC came back up, a server was infected by a virus and someone tried to hack in.  Perhaps the hacker isn't done?  Only time will tell... Our only hope for the future is if we can learn from our past.  That's the goal of this document and I hope it helps in some way... "Those who fail to learn the lessons of history of doomed to repeat them."

-Nayr

XII. Versions

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V. 0.10
=================
- first public release
- outdated information removed thanks to Gerbil
- unmentioned member added thanks to Snifit AL

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V. 0.02
=================
- varioius aesthetic changes
- thanks to Cyan, important corrections in “Ethiopia”
- ToC fixed
- Members added to “The Cleansing”
- New section for recent “hacking” developments added

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V. 0.01b
=================

- spelling corrections made

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V. 0.01a
=================

- created and finished

XIII. Credits

- I thank everyone in the community and credit you all: past and present.
- http://ssrg.emulationzone.org
- http://www.sonic-cult.org
- http://pub10.ezboard.com/fsonic2betafrm2.showMessage?topicID=4686.topic
- http://www.aol.com (because I used AIM for some of this info -_-)