[Josh]

(Hope nobody minds me reposting this. I thought it might be seen a bit more here in the main topic and well, I've done basically nothing except work on this stuff for the past four days straight. xD)

Here's what we've done so far:

Exposé 1 (featuring Metal Sonic Hyperdrive, Big's Fishing, Crazy the Hedgehog, BakaSonic, LSD is Bad, Metal in Sonic 3, Mystic Cave Classic, Project Reiko, Robotnik Returns, and Gotta Go Fast):
Right here!

Exposé 2 (featuring Adventure Generations, Hard Bosses, Sonic 1 FM, Into the Void, World Adventure Packs, Stardust Gear, Painto, hard mode, Sonic 2 Adventure, Rise of Chaos, and Color Contrast):


Exposé 3 (featuring '06 Mod, Neo Sonic the Hedgehog, Pro Survivor, Double Trouble, Sonic Tetris, the SMPS Player, Unleashed Project DLC Demo, South Island Warped, Sonic vs. Camera, Egg on Toast, Very Useful Engine, and Sonic UMZ):


PLAYTHROUGHS (Five per day, released between 1-5 pm ET):
https://www.youtube....Ryh_A-pHOPqLrax

This post has been edited by Josh: 22 August 2014 - 12:46 PM

[Cinossu]

For any that tried to enter the GHZ mini-contest and only got the MZ form, my bad. The issue has been fixed now, and as such the timeline has been extended a little to get all your entries in. Click here to go to the Day 2 page and enter.

[Super Egg]

Morning folks. Today's mini-contest had a tiny issue. Because of this hitch, we have decided to let you have extended time...as Cinossu has just said....


I'm sorry for being late folks, I dozed off while writing this post, then woke up realizing I never hit enter. Anyways though, Lemme go ahead give you guys the next Mini-Contest information.


Thursday: Rocking Spring Yard

- This contest will have you creating a new track for, you guessed it, for Spring Yard Zone.

- The track you make can be basically anything, as long as it fits the level theme of SYZ. So, go get creative.

- The top two winners will be selected. Each track for Act 1 and 2 respectively.

- Very Important: Since everybody is using a stock Sonic 1 disassembly, no fancy sound drivers. This contest will work in exactly the same way the SMPS contest over on SSRG works. You can come up with any song, but you can only use what is provided with the stock Sonic 1 driver. This is so that everybody is on an even playing field. I know some people can create masterpieces with the more advanced drivers because they have a crap ton to work with. This is merely to even the playing field, and also because I don't exactly feel all that up to sitting there on Saturday evening having to figure out how your song works, and then have to port drivers from everywhere.



Anyways folks, I'm headed for bed. You can submit this in the regular mini-contest page by just hitting the tab normally. If you need to submit your GHZ on Fire work, which I hope you lot do, hit Marc's link above my post.



- FilipinoWaylon26 out

[Xeta]

Uh oh, it just switched back to Wednesday's Mini-Contest. Crap, I was about to submit my Rocking SYZ entry, too.

I assume this is a bug... and if so, could you please fix it?

[Cinossu]

This is not something I enjoy having to make a post about; it has come to our attention that there are some voting inconsistencies and problems. One of the things we aim to do with the Hacking Contest, due to its public voting aspect, is make sure everything is fair and maintained well. Unfortunately, it seems that some people have tried to exploit this system, and as such there have been some changes to the votes.

Some people visiting the Entries pages right now might notice that there are two entries previously on there now missing. They were the World Adventure Packs for Sonic Generations. One of the voting inconsistencies was a large amount of votes for these entries under the same IP addresses; 40 in total, to be precise, and those sharing the IP of the author of the entry in question. As such, they have been pulled from the contest and will be recieving no trophies and not be elligible for any either.

There have been a number of other inconsistencies along these lines - multiple votes by the same IP address, cross-accounts, etc. - that we will be investigating over the next few hours and during tomorrow. Those caught will have their votes removed at the least, and possible banning from voting in this contest and possibly from participating at all in future contests as well.

Come on guys, are we really stooping to rigging a hacking contest that is done for fun and enjoyment? This is meant to be about showing off what we all can do, and having a little fun with our opinions while we're at it. There really is no need to do this.

[Spanner]

Whilst Thursday brought an announcement concerning something we didn't want to have in the contest, it shouldn't ruin the rest of the week. There's a few more days left to get your votes in for the Community Trophies.

Anyway, here is Friday's schedule which is essentially the last day with most of our regular streaming going on, as if you've been around for SomecallmeJohnny's and MegaGWolf's streams, mostly everything has been played, just some stuff left to go through as well as revisiting some entries worth playing again, depending on what the streamer has in plan. There will still be stuff going on Saturday, and Sunday will be when the results will be announced live, at the moment this is scheduled for 2pm EDT / 7pm BST in MegaGWolf's stream but this can change if needed. If you miss it, the results are always posted here after the show ends.

If you want stuff to look at whilst the streams aren't going on, check out some Hacking Contest reviews from Geek Critique and Tails' Channel.

● 11am EDT / 4pm BST until 2pm EDT / 7pm BST - SomecallmeJohnny Stream
● 2pm EDT / 7pm BST until 4pm EDT / 9pm BST Spanner Stream
● 4pm EDT / 9pm BST until 7pm EDT / 12am BST - MegaGWolf Stream
● 8pm EDT / 1am BST to 10pm EDT / 3am BST - Cobanermani456 and TailsChannel Stream
● 10pm EDT / 3am BST to 12am EDT / 5am BST - Radio Rev

[Lanzer]

Question.

I got a buddy at SSMB whos also got a Retro account thats in Pending Limbo, and while that doesn't allow him to do much it did allow him to participate in the voting part of the hacking contest. but thanks to a jagwad trying to rig the contest it seems that Pending Approvals can no longer vote in the contest.

He understands why this was done but he wants to know if any of his votes counted towards the contest. so, do Pending Approval votes still count pre-contest rigging?

[Spanner]

We have free slots that are two hours each that will be given to anyone on a first come, first served basis on Saturday as many of our streamers have finished up for the week. Please PM me expressing your interest, the time slot you want and your Twitch URL (we also support Ustream and Livestream for those not using the usual service). This is also being advertised on SSRG, and remember, the slots go to whoever gets it first, and they probably will be filled up very quickly.

● 11am EDT / 4pm BST until 1pm EDT / 6pm BST - amphobius Music Workshop
● 1pm EDT / 6pm BST to 3pm EDT / 8pm BST - Free Slot 1
● 3pm EDT / 8pm BST to 5pm EDT / 10pm BST - Free Slot 2
● 5pm EDT / 10pm BST to 7pm EDT / 12am BST - Free Slot 3
● 7pm EDT / 12am BST to 9pm EDT / 2am BST - Cobanermani456's Stream
● 9pm EDT / 2am BST to 11pm EDT / 4am BST - Cybernetic Outbreak Private Demo Workshop Display

This post has been edited by Spanner: 22 August 2014 - 08:21 PM

[DalekSam]

Due to technical difficulties and an oversight on my end, OBS failed to record my stream locally and Ustream did not record it either. For this I'd like to sincerely apologise for anyone who was looking forward to watching the recording. The stream also had a fair deal of technical difficulties with set up and could have gone better.

I will like to make up for my shortcomings by making a dedicated guide with other talented musicians within the community to make a comprehensive guide to making custom SMPS music for your ROM hacks which will eventually come soon. It's in its early stages and is planned to cover everything right from the beginning of the process of making a custom, and in several ways to do so.

I would like to say, however, that the end result of the stream did end up sounding great, and I'll be uploading that to my SoundCloud account some point tomorrow before the results show.

[You-Are-Pwned]

DalekSam, on 23 August 2014 - 04:31 PM, said:

Due to technical difficulties and an oversight on my end, OBS failed to record my stream locally and Ustream did not record it either. For this I'd like to sincerely apologise for anyone who was looking forward to watching the recording. The stream also had a fair deal of technical difficulties with set up and could have gone better.

I will like to make up for my shortcomings by making a dedicated guide with other talented musicians within the community to make a comprehensive guide to making custom SMPS music for your ROM hacks which will eventually come soon. It's in its early stages and is planned to cover everything right from the beginning of the process of making a custom, and in several ways to do so.

I would like to say, however, that the end result of the stream did end up sounding great, and I'll be uploading that to my SoundCloud account some point tomorrow before the results show.

Thanks DalekSam for trying to save it anyway. As I was the person requesting the archiving I actually attempted to get the stream myself. The problem is, every time I try to download something from Ustream it ends up in horrible quality. So while was looking for a way to save it live and yadda yadda, I only managed to record the last part (duration is 30 minutes).

I uploaded that part on MediaFire (and the quality, again, is horrible). The audio, though, is in reasonable 128kbps.
https://www.mediafir...b73ikq4m0vht47d

Thanks again and I'm looking forward to your tutorial!

EDIT: Had to upload to MediaFire instead of YouTube, because it just refused to convert it.

This post has been edited by You-Are-Pwned: 23 August 2014 - 07:19 PM

[Spanner]

All Community Trophy judging has now finished, if you forgot to vote, too bad. If you were unable to vote, chances are you were in the Pending Membership or Pending Approval groups, which were disabled from voting due to the vote rigging attempt earlier this week.

If everything goes to plan, the results show will be from 2pm EDT / 7pm BST in MegaGWolf's stream. However, if all judges have not completed their voting, the results show may be delayed or skipped altogether with the results being posted on the site as well as on Sonic Retro and SSRG as normal.

[Spanner]

We will be starting shortly in http://shc.sonicrese...tream/megagwolf

[Felik]

Is there a good way to download Sonic 2006 mod for Sonic Gens? Torrent link would be highly appreciated