Dreadknux
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Dreadknux added a post in a topic Word of warning regarding TSSZ news tips
Thanks, but this is the sort of thing that should be discussed on TSSZ's website, not here.
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Dreadknux added a post in a topic Welcome To Your New-Look SSMB!
Well, all I know is that I'm checking this out on an iPad mini right now and the place is looking absolutely gorgeous Proud of how it's looking! I think there are some things we can tweak - the page stretches on smartphone for some reason and we could do with changing the colour of the 'submit' buttons - but by and large I think this has all gone pretty nicely
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Dreadknux added a post in a topic Sonic at Alton Towers thread of... HOORAY!
Oh really? Blimey. Well ignore me (and this thing) then. I guess local newspapers have been jumping all over Alton Towers lately to try and make a story out of this, eh?
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Dreadknux added a post in a topic Sonic at Alton Towers thread of... HOORAY!
I thought the Sonic hotel had long since been redecorated. I could be wrong though
Also, it's old news now (probably not worth covering on TSS) but it looks like Sonic Spinball had a crash at AT as well:
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/second-alton-towers-rollercoaster-crashes-9576832
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/sonic-spinball-crash---alton-9578467
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Dreadknux added a post in a topic Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has passed away
I heard about this late last night, as the story was breaking. I'm still not sure how to handle it. I didn't know him personally, but I (as do many other people) sort of feel like I do through the games he made and his personality (via Directs, his approach to fans and gaming in general, development philosophy). He was truly a unique leader in the games industry - a CEO who knew all about the development scene and had a real innovative spark. The Wii and DS remain two of the most important game hardware releases ever, and it was all down to his leadership that they came to be.
More than anything else, he just had fun with it. He had the best job in the world, and he was the best man for that job.
I hope he's still smiling on the other side. He deserves it, for all he's accomplished.
We won't ever see the likes of him again. RIP Iwata-san.
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Dreadknux added a post in a topic Welcome To Your New-Look SSMB!
Yeah, I was going to add the Top Poster stuff before we re-opened, but there's some background rebuilding going on so we'll pop them back on when it's done :)
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Dreadknux added a post in a topic Welcome To Your New-Look SSMB!
If you're looking for a Status Updates main page, you can find it by hovering your mouse over 'SSMB' in the blue navbar on desktop / clicking Hamburger > More > Status Updates on mobile.
Thanks for all the feedback so far, guys. A few notes/responses:
- This white theme isn't a temporary one. It is the new default look for TSS site-wide (and will be in effect when we revamp TSS later this year).
- But I am interested in re-introducing the old Sonical theme down the line, just a matter of finding time for us all. So sit tight!
- We will tweak this current design so that a lot more design elements make sense: the greyed out buttons and post separators being examples of things we can fix. Please continue offering feedback so we can consider any design changes.
- Most of the tech/structural issues you might be having will be down to the forum software itself and is largely out of our control. IPB will likely fix any tech bugs with future updates to the core forum code.
- Tapatalk was something Bmn shoehorned in so that SSMB could work on mobiles. It's not officially supported and so if it no longer works that's down to forum software code changes, as above. In any case, Tapatalk is a confusing mess of an app anyway, with absolutely no benefits over a native mobile view, so I'm personally not in any hurry to find a way to add support back for it, sorry.
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Dreadknux added a topic in Announcements
Welcome To Your New-Look SSMB!Hello!
You might have noticed that this place has changed a little bit since you last saw it. Welcome to the Sonic Stadium Message Board - 2015 Edition! The moderators, Bmn and myself have been working really hard these last few weeks to make sure the upgrade from IPB 3 to IPB4 was as seamless as possible, whilst also taking the opportunity to update the look and feel of The Sonic Stadium in a modern way.
So there are a whole bunch of technical things that have changed, as well as cosmetic changes that relate to how the forum works. You'll see your username above the main content area: click that and a dropdown menu will appear containing most of the options you need to work your profile. Next to your username are a bunch of quick icons that take you to Notifications and Direct Messages. In the blue bar underneath the header, you'll see an 'SSMB' link on the far right (next to the search button), hover your mouse over that and you'll see different sections of the forum, like Calendar and Forum Staff pages etc. Posting replies is simpler than ever, and a lot of the bugs that have been prevalent in the forum this past year have been squashed.
(Needless to say though, that if you're seeing anything that's a bit wonky, do post in the Member Feedback/Bug Reports forum, as it will help us troubleshoot stuff!)
The cosmetic changes are part and parcel of a wider initiative by myself to reinvent The Sonic Stadium in 2015. Did you know that this plucky little website will be 15 years old in October? It's been through an awful lot, and with the changing habits of forum goers and website readers alike I've been spending a lot of time trying to figure out the best way to present the site (and forum) in a way that makes sense for everyone in today's era. That's why you see a chop-and-change of some of the forum listings on the homepage - SSMB has been re-organised so that discussion is at the top of the list, and the more popular forums are front and center so you can access them much more easily.
Needless to say, SSMB's butterfly change into this current form is a prelude to what will soon happen on The Sonic Stadium itself, later this year - a lot more housecleaning is needed on the main site yet, before I can fully unleash the revamped design. Either way, I hope you like this new look and functionality, and are looking forward to what's coming soon!
As this is brand new forum software, there will naturally be some elements that haven't crossed over to this new SSMB immediately - namely Badges. We are working hard to get these back, don't worry. They're not lost forever! We're working on a way of getting them back to you. Stay tuned on that front!
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Dreadknux added a post in a topic Scratch That, Shadow of a Hedgehog (SoaH) is now open once more!
I've not been very active these last few years (largely adminning and keeping the site ticking over), but I did see this topic and was aware of the hubbub that went down with SOAH and Neon Chaos. What a shame - but am very happy that it's been reborn. Stritix, you've been doing a fantastic job on it, keep it up.
Super-necro-bumping a question goku asked like, two years ago as well, regarding this:
http://www.sonicstadium.org/2001/10/shadow-of-a-hedgehog-stadium/
Basically, I got to know Dennis when we were both starting out and one time we joked about how cool it would be (seeings as we seemed to have the same kind of approach and mentality to things) to merge, and that 'Shadow of a Hedgehog Stadium' popped up as some sort of funny pun. But after a while we started thinking about how that might actually look like and how both of our sites could really grow if we merged (back in 2001, TSS was certainly NOT as big as it is today, the big players were undoubtedly Sonic HQ and Kedzie-K's The Sonic Foundation). I made a mock design which combined the structure of SOAH (the dark reds, the black backgrounds) with the imagery and content layout of TSS.
http://www.sonicstadium.org/wp-content/uploads/site/layouts/soah-stadium.gif
Ultimately we both lost interest in going through with it for a number of reasons - we both realised that our individual sites were on a growth path so merging would stunt both sites, and we were worried that it could have led to our friendship turning sour as two webmasters would probably try to claim more ownership of such a site over the other.
I suppose more information can be found here (I thought it was easily accessible from the site but it appears that it's been buried and not directly linked to), along with a bunch of other old layouts
http://www.sonicstadium.org/site/layouts/
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Dreadknux added a post in a topic April Fools 2015
Hey, have you heard that SEGA's announced that they will be remastering Sonic 2006?
http://www.sonicstadium.org/2015/04/sonic-the-hedgehog-remastered-announced/
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Dreadknux added a post in a topic Welcome Back!
Hey, we're back!
Time I changed my avatar from like 2009.
EDIT: And my signature jeez it's been a while since I worked at SPOnG.
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Dreadknux added a post in a topic Did you ever get out of Sonic?
Man, I remember SADX on PC. You must have had the patience of a saint just for loading it up. Or did you not have the European version (the EU version had a pre-launch bug where you had to swap discs twice just to load the title screen... before swapping discs again)?
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Dreadknux added a post in a topic Boy Howdie, Sega's SuperStar kids sure was a thing!
Hahaha! XD
Seriously, this is some creepy shit. Wonder what other monstrosities SEGA did on an official level back in the day?
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Dreadknux added a post in a topic Did you ever get out of Sonic?
I did fall out of favour with Sonic when I was growing up. Well, 'fall out of favour' sounds like we had an argument or something. More like, my interest in Sonic kinda died out. It was during the Sega Saturn era to be fair - after the Mega Drive I jumped into Nintendo for the first time with an N64 (never regretted it, brilliant console), and only ever knew the Saturn existed through a family friend who happened to have one.
It was actually when I discovered the Internet, in 1999 at high school, when I got interested in Sonic again. Everyone was playing Sonic 2 on their Genecyst DOS Emulators and I got into the nostalgia of the MD classics. Then Sonic Adventure came out. Then I made TSS.
Edit: Funnily enough, you'd think I'd quit Sonic again after 06. I didn't.
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Dreadknux added a post in a topic Sonic Runn..er wait... "SSMB YOU CREATED A TIME PARADOX!"
I'm confused and I'm pretty sure it's been cleared up in past pages so forgive me for asking;
2015 isn't Sonic Boom, is it? Boom is coming out 2014. So this is a thing yet to be announced?