Little kid hacks Sonic

Awww, these little children grow up so fast! Bless him, he'll be smarter with technical stuff about Sonic than I will ever be.

 

Little kids make terrible Sonic hacks all the time. This is nothing new or even remotely noteworthy. If you want to praise kids, praise the technically smart ones—not the ones who just learn how to open a program on their daddy's computer.

Sonic 65 was 10 years old when he became a Tech Member, and theocas is... what, 12? Those are the kids worth turning heads over. Not this.

 

The bloke responsible for some of the first New Super Mario Bros. editors was only 12 or 13-ish at the time of creating them.

Supposedly some of this tools are used in the industry now.



Ken Silverman who built the build engine which powers Duke Nukem 3D was only 15-or-so when he was hired by 3D Realms. That was cutting edge stuff in 1995 too.

 

file:///C:/Users/Z-Man/Desktop/New folder (5)/Sonic the eletro spike Hedgehog.bin
New folder (5)
WHO DOES THIS? NAME YOUR FOLDERS, KID.

Any idea how old this kid is? I'm horrible at guessing this stuff, though I'd say maybe 8-ish.

 

...I did this when I was his age, down to the Sonik Sprite. So did a few of my friends. It's not that impressive, especially when you name it "Sonic the eletro spike Hedgehog"

 

Yeah this isn't a big deal, maybe if he added some new ability or added any other technical things without looking at a guide then I'd be impressed. Though I will say he's going in the right direction, we all have to start from somewhere right?

 

What's wrong with New folder (5)? I have a few dozens of "new folder"s around my hard drives :v:

 

Yeah.

Also note that it could well look like an indistinguishable mess for all we know - likely an ungodly combination of Sonic's parts and random bits from his own, if he had the same issues I remember having with Sonik Sprite.

EDIT: It could also look great, of course. I don't know.

 

Quoted for truth.

 

I was making fully developed games with RPG Maker by the time I was 10, and not just using their pre-made sprites, music, etc. I even came up with my own battle system for several games and devised ways to make non-RPG games in it. Most of the projects I did in RPG Maker were unfinished system tests for various ideas I had, but I did finish at least two or three 40 hour long games with decent scripts.

I'm not even looking back with nostalgia goggles, I remember looking at them when I was 17 and thinking "holy shit", unfortunately the computer all my games were on had TONS of viruses and my parents chucked it before I could get the games off it. It also had my first comedy album, which is something a lot of fans had asked me about back when I was a more popular musician.

Showing interest in ANYTHING at a young age is good, it'll help guide you to what you might want to do for a career down the road, just because a kid's making Sonic green in a hack doesn't mean it's not worthy of praise. Hell, I wrote a film script using characters I came up with when I was 12 just this past summer.

 

I agree with this, cut him a break guys. If hes really that interested into sonic hacking we should invite him here you know take him under our wing and all that.

But like I said only if hes really interested, You know how kids go in and out of things quick.

 

This.
(I hope he can post though, remember the last little kid who got in?)

EDIT: man I sound really obnoxious ITT let me just quietly leave

 

I created my first sonic fan-game when I was 12...I'm not too impressed

 

It's neat, but like others said, a lot of us were around that age or just a little older when we started. Gerbil was what, 13 or so when he started making ROM hacking tools? I know I joined CulT and started dicking around with ROMs and making fangames when I was 12 or so. Not that I ever finished anything aside from a few joke hacks/games, though...

Jesus it's been almost a decade since then. Time flies when you're a lazy manchild.

 

I knew about roms and emulation when I was 10. I had K-Gen and fwNES when I was but a wee lad, but I don't think I could have hacked anything. Fuck, I probably thought the inner workings of a computer looked like a scene from TRON at the time.

But this is likely due to the fact that we didn't have Sonik Sprite, SonED, DSL and the word 'Gigahertz' in 1997.

 

God, imagine what a rom or an emulator would look like in tron-world?

EDIT: On topic, I knew about all this when I was about 13, but I still can't hack. I've made plenty of maze games in "klik and play" and game maker. The main characters were Robo-maze-man and Pencil Guy. I made all sorts about pencil guy, comics and the like.