09/19/2001

New Sonic 1 Arcade found!
This version has new clouds at the top of the screen, and is obviously not like the standard US/European ROM release.

This version was found by ICEknight and more information can be found at A51 MB here.

(On behalf of STH A51 MB)

09/11/2001

MD#### ROM discovery
Blaze has discovered a large selection of ROMs on edgeemu.com. In the 'z' section, there are a number of MDxxxx roms starting with zzz unk.

The list of them has been compiled here.
It is not yet complete, but will hopefully get quite big soon! (And maybe some Sonic stuff will be found...!)
(sth2k)

09/03/2001

Total Chaos at STH Area 51 MB
It seems that the "real Genocide City" is causing a bit of a stir there. No-one seems to be able to do anything about it - Jan has tried his best.

If you want to try and help out, (but not flame any more) http://pub54.ezboard.com/bstharea51messageboard is the URL to visit.

I'm really hoping this ends soon.
(sth2k)

09/02/2001

Sonic 2 Beta Info
If you visited the Sonic 2 Beta or STH Area 51 pages recently, you might of heard of the Sonic 2 Beta Title Card Hack that was hacked by L0s1. The title cards are in Sonic 1 font, and as far as I can tell are part of the original game's programming. You can find the hack at http://server2043.virtualave.net/chaos-emerald/s2L0s1.zip

Also just want to let everyone know that I haven't gave up on the Sonic 2 Beta site, my computer was down for 3 months and I didn't have any FTP access. I'm still in need of someway to restore the Music section of the site, many people have tried to help but I was unable to read the files properly. Any help with this can go to pelord@hotmail.com
(Pelord)

09/01/2001

Site & Staff Changes
The following changes to the site have been made


Staff Firings

'Zone
Blackbeard - Vanished
Blazemore - Vanished. Game Skins Archive and Kid Icarus section. (Don't ask me to put those sections up; he deleted them before he disapeared and we don't have an archived copy. Sorry.)
Dragonfyre00 - We never saw eye-to-eye as to what his site was going to be about, plus the fact that it's not active.
Insektor - Vanished.
knux - Vanished.
psychot (TG-16 section) Vanished.
Rick - His MegaMan site has no value to be kept up.
Reznor - Did nill.
Shekers -Vanished (Console section)
simone - Vanished.
skyy - Vanished.
Ultimo - Vanished (Console section)


SSRG
Cinos - vanished
Egguman - Keeps promising to do something... never has. Sad really, considering he has great graphics skills that just need to be fine-tuned for web development.
Elliotro - Was suppose to maintain the Sonic SB BETA page but let a truck load of info relating to the site go by without doing anything. You little…
Goon -Was suppose to resume work of his section this summer. It's September and I don't think he has any intentions to continue work. His "Custom Level Archive" will be merged with Rich Roger's "Rom Hacks Archive."
MetalX & the rest of the Xteam - One whole year and still nothing to show for it.
Napsonic - Some layout artist. Did nothing.
Ryu - Not doing a job at a level of quality I was hoping he would do, or even remotely close to.
Sparx - Begged for site back. Site was given back. Did crap since rejoining. Will continue to do crap.
Zac - Said he would help out this summer, but vanished. Only reappeared when his account was terminated.

Staff Exits

Yohoho (3-4 months ago) - Left so he could work on other projects.
Sonukku - See http://stjr.emulationzone.org for explanation
Saxman - Retired
Andy W. - Retired

Site Closures
Ecco-the-dolphin.com.nz - Vanished of the face of the Earth.
X-Team(SSRG)

Site Exits
STJR - Leaving for various reasons. Keeping the SRB2 project under one roof will be best for the STJR team.

Site Suspension
Spin Ball Beta site - New maintainer needed with Ellitro's exit.
Cracking the Crackers - New maintainer needed with Sparx's exit.

New Sites
S2Me- (SSRG) A promising Sonic 2 Rom hacking project.
Rsonic - (SSRG) Retro Sonic, from the maintainer of the Sonic CD BETA page.
(Andy (Retired))