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Looks awesome. I'm excited for this because I have seen few S3&K hacks before now. My only suggestion is for Radon Ravine, maybe consider lightening up the pallete, or put a few more colors in, to break up all the blue/black. Either way, this looks awesome. Can't wait to see more. I don't really have a problem with crossovers either way. We already have them with games like the Super Smash Bros series, Mario and Sonic at the Olympics, etc.

Awesome. Amy adds something new and interesting to S3K. Glad to see someone breaking into hacking it, as so few hacks of it are out there. I'll be following this one for sure. I don't have much technical feedback unfortunately, as I've always been purely an art hacker.

To some degree, I can understand wanting to protect your work, but, I think full on DRM goes a bit far. It would be one thing if it were an original game he made with original characters, etc...if that were the case, DRM that shit all day long. But it just rubs me the wrong way, and more importantly, I fear it rubbing Sega the wrong way, DRMing something with a character who's copyright you don't own. If I make a hack(whcih I did, a few years back), I don't want folks stealing my work, and the community would come down harshly on them. But...I was using a character and engine that weren't mine, but were being modified under fair use, so I know damn good and well I have no right to say, copyright Sunset Shore zone, Space Base zone, or whatever the hell else I made. Someone else could go modify my stuff and try to make something of their own, and not credit me. Sucks ass. I'm gonna give em a ration of shit, but, again...its a risk that comes with creating content if you're unable to copyright it. I just choose to accept it. Not to mention again, the PR nightmare this is for us. Yeah, we're all reasonably computer savvy, and know what's really going on here, but a lot of folks aren't. They're going to see Sonic Retro, Sonic 2 HD, and keylogger, might fear coming on our site period, without doing their homework, and think "I'm staying the hell away from that place". Should they investigate and get the facts? Yes. Absolutely. But we have to be real here, and account for those outside of our sphere here. They're not going to. The sooner everyone accepts that, the better. Some mistakes, even if innocent, can cause huge problems, and some things just shouldn't happen to begin with. Kinda like those data breaches with credit card info. Sure, Discover, Mastercard, whatever the hell payment processing company didn't mean for their servers to get hacked. But it did. Trust was breached, and there needs to be accountability for the lapses there. That translates to here too. After your house and car, a computer is probably one of the most valuable things people possess. I sure as shit want to do right by them. I think people need to remember we have a responsibility to do right by the public. If it weren't for them giving us an audience, we wouldn't have a sonic fangaming scene to begin with.

Lost fucked up. Now we're front page news on Yahoo. This may or may not have been posted already, but I'm kind of pissed and too lazy to go through the past few pages of replies. http://games.yahoo.c...-190514162.html
I normally would never do this, there's probably some rule against it, but seriously...I move to ban Lost from here forever. The harm he has caused to the amateur sonic game making/hacking community is quite possibly irreparable. He likely damaged the confidence people have in us to turn out hacks/fangames that are of solid quality(for the most part), and most importantly, not going to hurt your PC. It makes us look like we as a community don't know what the fuck we're doing. Plus, why on earth would you put DRM in a game you DON'T HAVE THE RIGHTS TO TO BEGIN WITH? He may well have opened the makers of Sonic 2 HD, maybe even the owners of Sonic Retro to legal action from pissed off users, maybe even Sega, now that they might get wind of this controversy. I would bet money Sega is in contact with ScarredSun and other admins in the coming days, even though it wasn't their fault. Seriously, Lost, just leave.

Sega should really hire Markey, rebadge Sonic 4 as something else, like Sonic Wii, and let him take the lead making a new Sonic 4 that's more true to the originals.