User:SonicMaster
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Status: Maintainer. Vandals shall FEAR ME!
Uhh, hi. If you want to know something quick about me, then know this: I love making music. Part of the motivation of making music came from a site called Sonic Vegemite. Something about it motivated me to create remixes, my first being a remix of "Sleeping Egg Zone" from "Sonic Chaos." (It's still there at SV). After my first batch of hoaxes I created, Matt Newman's comment of wanting to hear what the music would sound like for a Special Stage Bad Future got me to compose it. This was my first multi-instrumental composition, and I did it at the age of 15. I later left Sonic Vegemite; it was unusually addictive for me. Now I'm a sequencer at VGMusic. I haven't been submitting lately, though.
I started to compose more music with MIDI, but motivation increased when I created a soundtrack for Sonic Vegemite: The Game. Later, I decided I wanted the MIDIs pulled, for I questioned the legality of fangames. My views on fangames later on changed. (Obviously, or else I wouldn't be a member of the SRB2 Wiki!)
Unfortunately my computer refuses to load PrintMusic 2006 anymore, so instead I'm using PrintMusic 2002.
Progress on my second symphony is now finished! Now I need to find some way to register a copyright on it and sell it...
I also have a project that I want to go through and make a techno Christmas album, which means, sorry, I won't link to any of the files. Don't feel like giving a sample. I indeed want to make money off this stuff. Maybe I'll drop my worst remix for this album and put it in one of my zones or something. The nice thing is that my worst remix...will still be good...
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Video gaming
Sonic
I have always liked Sonic games. I played my first one (Sonic Spinball) in 1993 (?) Now I (and my sister and brother) have over twenty Sonic games. SRB2 is my favorite! Personally, I would love it if Sega made a game inspired by SRB2. Or at least a game with multiplayer somewhat similar to SRB2's. SRB2's multiplayer rocks.
Mario
Yes, Mario is also awesome. Not as much as Sonic though. We have plenty of Mario games at my house as well.
Myst
The Myst series is really sweet. I still haven't beat them all, though. Or have them all.
Super Smash Bros.
I first actually played this game at a video store. Then we rented it. Then we bought it. SSBB looks awesome, and it's #1 on my Wii Want List, now that I have NiGHTS.
NiGHTS
Journey of Dreams owns. We have like sixty to seventy video games, and in my mind, Journey of Dreams has the best plot so far. I really like the representation of real-word virtues as powerful Ideya, because in real life, those virtues do have literal power. Also, when's the last time you heard in a video game explicitly show the plain truth that we do have free will? That really just is super cool.
I'm 18 and am utterly captured by the magic of the game. ^_^
I didn't actually feel the sense of flight except in the last boss. On the other hand, NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams really captured the sense of inspiration and fighting evil. So what if you can't skip through the cutscenes? Why would you want to?
I don't have Into Dreams, but I loved the Wii version. It is also the only Wii game that I only use a Gamecube controller for—the Wii controls aren't that great.
And the gameplay is great, too. I have Wii Sports, Super Mario Galaxy, Mario Party 8, Zack and Wiki, and Sonic and the Secret Rings, but NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams is better (albeit with lower lastability) than all of them.
Thank you so much, Digiku! Your Botanic Serenity has inspired me to be a NiGHTS mapper, as well as get NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams, the best game of 2007!
How I got involved in SRB2
I had first heard about SRB2 on SV. One day in June 2007, I decided to get it; and I was (and still am) happy that I did. I introduced myself to Match mode in September.
How I got involved in SRB2 Wiki
I saw that the article WAD File had this tag:
 | This page or article does not conform with the The Style Guide for Editors, or is badly written and in dire need of a rewrite. You can help SRB2 Wiki by fixing this article to meet with the standards set forth in the Style Guide. |
and therefore felt the need to fix it. And now I've been having lots of fun helping out the Wiki. It's sort of become a hobby. In just a little over a month, I have made my 1337th edit.
View on Mentioning Mods on the Wiki
Same as Blue Warrior's.
Progress on New Levels
- Blown Fuse Zone, my second 2D level, was slightly on a hiatus, as I got a snag. After a bit of brainstorming, I now know what I'm going to do to push out the next section of the map.
- Tainted Rainbow Zone, my Match level, hasn't been started, but it has been conceptualized. The idea is to put hazards in the zone without having them actually cause the player to enter a Painstate or Deathstate. Ironically, it was inspired by one of the gimmicks in verifiaman's levels.
The Map Editor Hassle
The first editor I tried downloading was Doom Builder. Unfortunately, it crashed my computer five minutes into a session due to issues with my computer. I then downloaded WadAuthor. I literally was screaming with frustration using this editor. Its overly simplistic interface made things too hard to do. Then the trial period expired. I then downloaded SRB2 Doom Builder to see if it worked on my computer. Nope, it also crashes within 5 minutes of a session. I turned to my college friend Brian (Gemini), whom I introduced to SRB2, to ask if I could use his computer for map editing. He agreed. It works on his computer, but it is hard to find time to use it.
I then turned to DeePsea. That so far is the only map editor that actually works (and that hasn't expired). But its interface is incredibly crappy and the Thing and Linedef menus are incredibly cluttered with stuff. Also, the map editor limitation is teh FAILAGE.
I recently (January 24 at this post) got SLADE, an open-source map editor. I opened it up to find that the map overview layout is incredibly reminiscent of Doom Builder. And thank goodness, you actually select linedefs in the same fashion as Doom Builder. That is one thing that was so annoying about WadAuthor. If I made a mistake in selection, everything would be deselected. So painful. But here's where the worst thing happened. SLADE also crashes my computer.
*OpenGL does work on Gemini's computer, and I prefer it over Software Mode as far as graphics go.
Issues with My Computer
Ever since I got new hardware for my computer, it crashes randomly. Certain programs, however, never fail to trigger this crash once opened for long enough. My computer literally—I'm serious, no joke—crashes over 1000 times a year.
Here is a list of things that crash my computer. They never crash it instantly, only if the session is long enough. In many cases, five minutes is long enough.
- SRB2 Doom Builder
- Doom Builder
- SLADE
- Jay Leno's Headlines website
- Official NiGHTS website
- Streaming media from online (if done long enough)
- Windows Live Messenger conversations with my friend Ethan
- MSN Games
- OpenGL Rendering
- Paint Shop Pro 9
It appears to be that the problem is with my graphics card. One piece of evidence is that OpenGL goes very slowly. As for other stuff, thank goodness I have Firefox to remember my progress on the Internet in case this happens.
Solution
Well, now I'm using my 13-year-old sister's computer, and my old one ceases to run properly anymore. My sister's works a lot better, but OpenGL pushes out a framerate of 2 frames per second. That, and the tint is all weird, naturally. It's also nice to not have to use someone else's computer for SRB2DB.
Subpages
Human Specs
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Favorite Food: Spaghetti
Favorite System: Wii
Best Scrabble Play: Rattlers for 113 points
ACT Score: 30
SRB2 Editing Strength: NiGHTS Level Design
Most Impressive Map to me: Dandjr Palace Zone* by Penopat
*Flawed enough that I would give it a 9/10 instead of a 10/10, but otherwise quite stellar.
