Okay so as promised two more videos went up today for Sonic The Hedgehog 06; these are videos from Silver's story, numbers two and three to be precise.

It's been an odd last few days, I'm currently hatching a Community Plan for Mario & Sonic @TOG DS as well as eying up some work on NiGHTS 2. I've gained a telephone, had a 20 minute phone call with SEGA Nerds, sorted out a bunch of little glitches on Sonic City and got an email from Richard Jacques to boot.

He says hello btw.

CJMErl however has also contacted me regarding E-On, I will now by clever use of italics switch to his words - *snaps fingers*

Hey Howdy Hey everybody, Wrecks-goers! CJMErl (Leader of the Echo Network) here, with an important message regarding fans of the SW comics, Radio Redux, and all other things Wrecksy!

For those of you who've been living under a rock for the past couple of weeks, you'll know about the accidental destruction of Entherial Online (the "official" SW forum) in an unfortunate folder-cleaning incident, as well as AAUK's subsequent (albeit failed) attempts to get it back up and running.

Not only that, but an unearthly persistent spambot ovverran the site comments section shortly thereafter, forcing AAUK to disable that area as well. Because of this, fans of the website and comic and other stuff have essentially nowhere to go to talk about all things Wrecks. That is, there wasn't until Ms. Echo Hawk--SW second-in-command (to my knowledge)--allowed me to rebuild and revive the old Sonic Wrecks branch forum on its' old haunt, the Echo Network!

The main site can be accessed via the "FORUM" button on the top navigation bar, but for easier access, the specific SW forum can be reached at the following URL: http://z13.invisionfree.com/EchoNET/index.php?showforum=16

And as a service to those who don't want to register on EchoNET (which, as Hawk tells me, is MANY of you ), I have enabled the use of Guest posting, so those who wish to comment (and even create threads of their own) can do so freely, without needing a password!

This forum will be in use until AAUK has finished reconstructing a new E-On forum, (Hmmm....) so enjoy it while it lasts!

Sincerely, CJMErl

P.S.: Visitors to the Echo Network will notice our new festive holiday-themed skin, complete with special banner--credit to members Chaotix, Fate, and Billy McFly for its' idea / implementation. The Entherial webcomic series "E-On Project" has also began its' hosting inside the SW miniforum, so be sure to check it out.

So that's the words of CJMErl, who only just the other day noticed he had a profile in the Staff section. Rofl. Incidentally anyone want to do a sweepstake on when Cult bash me and say I am the worst thing ever to happen to Sonic? Oh and by the way, I'm still coughing up crap. Joy.

Good evening you lot, it's AAUK with your regular "I'm exhausted and need sleep so help me" update on Sonic Wrecks. Hopefully that track will go up tomorrow on Sonic City, but the most recent blog post explains it all at the moment. Yes it's Rivals 2, yes its out in America already, but non-US gamers haven't heard it yet so there.

I've spent most of the day explaining myself to people, when I really should have said "screw you" but I'm like that sadly. I'm also still feeling like crap and violently coughing up horribleness in between periods still.

However I've had a chance to review some of the entered songs, Cold Dog emailed me as well to throw his hat into the ring. I know people are saying "The Great White Northern" T-Bird is favourite for winning the All Star contest, but frankly the lovely Ram is a dark horse. A very dark horse.

Or is that dragon? Hmm.

There'll be more videos going up tomorrow incidentally for Sonic 06, but for now The Vault has had another item added from KevsKingdom past - the first batch of "Defining Times" returns! For those who don't know what that was, think alternate meaning for words. For example "frogspawn" might be 'amphibian's least valuable chessman', etc...

The latest updates have been made to the Wrecks Factor page, with details of rumoured other entires and confirmed details for two more songs. Ram's song is in, Echo's song is underway and only The Great Svendgali and Captain R. Joscelyne of the TSS Enterprise are yet to give me a proven update for the All Stars.

The newest surprise entry is Sonic Yoda - who has done a version of the theme from Sonic Underground. Apparently he made a vow, he'd sing it loud and proud - SONIC UNDERGROUND~!

You remember that this year is the 10th anniversary of KevsKingdom.com - the precursor to Sonic Wrecks and where Sonic Wrecks actually originated. You may remember that I was going to start putting KK.Com things back on SW in a sort of was-the-apprenrice-now-the-master way by way of celebration.

Well now I actually have.

You can now load up that most wonderful of things, The KevsKingdom.Com Special Day Generator. It works in more or less the same way as SWAG, but this will tell you what special day it is - so at a quick glance I can tell you today is Tweak a foreign tongue in aid of handbags Day. Check it out in the Vault for more wierdness.

*cough-ough-OUGH*

Firstly, if you're new to Sonic Wrecks and have snuck in here as a result of Sonic City and trying out archangeluk.com or something, thanks and enjoy!

Guys, if you're finding any technical issues with Sonic City email me (at sega via the blogs@ address for the competition) with the subject as "Sonic City Issue" and I'll try and get it fixed. It's only natural there should be a few teething issues when you bare in mind just how much of a struggle it was to get it approved and live. The characters section should now be working btw and if it isn't for you clean your cache and try again. I hear the register page might not be working, I'll try and get that fixed Monday as well as the non-www. situation.

Glad to hear the majority of you liked the new Sonic City, I only got a few non-pleased comments about "inaccuracies" and "you suck" but considering some of them came from people who don't ever post in the SSMB I'm not that bothered. Others took the opportunity to comment on the quality of the Sonic games coming out atm - yeaaahhhh Ryan of SEGA Nerds, I'm really responsible for the making of the games. (I'm well aware you're "Sharky".)

I'm actually rather poorly atm, and am coughing up my guts (litterally as it turned out last night) pretty much constantly. I'll be working on some bits and pieces over the weekend for SW including putting up the first Blognik-X (see below) and I've updated the Wrecks Factor page with new entries/details including news of a terrible death!

In better news *goes into major hacking cough fit* I've actually had to conduct my first proper interview for a website - check out WiiDS.co.uk for thoughts on M&S, communting and the community day. BTW: The video of the day made by the boys at Maverick has gone online and can be viewed on YouTube.



Check back here later for more news.

AAUK

Welcome to the first Blognik-X - No, these aren't Blognik's remixed by David-X, they are Blognik's that in the time restrictive mediums of SEGA life never got approved for one thing or another. The pain of these is that it's likely I've done a lot of work putting them together which is then wasted, the joy of these is that I can to prevent their loss entire put them up here!

The following takes place on the day of Video Games Live coming to London:

It's 4:27am and I've been up for what seems like days; in fact I'm roughly approaching 24hrs awake which is perhaps not a good thing - but I have to tell you what happened last night at Video Games Live.

As usual the difficulty for me was finding the people I was going with - especially when the directions being given appeared to be in some sort of dead language and intent on sending me somewhere nearer Bristol than the sushi bar in question...(Read more)

Please note, all SW email addresses are currently broken so you'll have to send any queries to me at my hotmail account (archangeluk@). As mentioned in yesterdays post the WF page now has a list of know entrants, songs and statuses of them.


What the???

It changed again! IT CHANGED AGAIN!

This new comic, in special anniversary gold, is now available to view.


What the???

Where's this come from? What the heck???

Edit: Wait, I deleted that image and its back... I was gonna say we've had the first entry in for the Wrecks Factor All Commers, but PLEASE make sure you actually do an MP3? Rather difficult to put a YouTube video into an audio podcast. A full list of known songs/singers will go up first thing tomorrow.




Damnit, what the heck IS that??

I've (finally) heard from Startlogic that they only keep backups from the last 7 days - so E-On as we know it is gone for good.

The Wrecks Factor now, as mentioned yesterday, has its first entry and we also now know the song being sung by Echo Hawk - though her status in the All Star contest is in flux due to her being thrown out her house. Anyway, you can now expect:

- I Am The E.G.G.M.A.N
- Dreams Of An Absolution

Comic 50 WILL appear tomorrow, mass of work and England Vs Croatia not withstanding.

A whole heap of stuff went up today - various pieces of artwork for Sonic Riders, Emerl colouring paper, a load of MP3s you can't get to yet, an update to the Radio Redux Statpod and some more bits.

The main thing though is that on the Wrecks Factor page, My Destiny (Instrumental) now links to something and there are four new tracks from Sonic X to use. We also have our first entry as T-Bird has submitted his song - will "I Am The T.B.I.R.D" triumph?

With a lot of effort (and with thanks to tester Blake Draco) hopefully RR213 will now be working properly and you can download beyond the first part of "Hot To Death" or more that 27mins in - the change might take some time to propogate to iTunes etc, but if you try RR213.mp3 as of now it won't work.

If you want to try a direct link, use http://media.libsyn.com/media/sonicwrecks/RR213a.mp3.

In other news: #050: There Are Four Blue Lights is on the way...

EDIT: There is something going crazy with this MP3... ignore for now. [[The latest Radio Redux show is up, and as I'm sooooo busy it's the first part of a planned compilation of all the shows I've guested on which was actually going to appear between season 2 and 3 but no matter. In it you'll hear DC interview me on the completely unheard of SugogoBlop-Cast as well as my appearance on episode one of T-Time. ]]

The date for Mario & Sonic on DS was announced yesterday so you can now find press releases in English, Dutch, French and Spanish in the Shadow Depository (Press Releases are through Misc). Even more Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 videos are up including 2 and 3 of Shadow's story and Clip 3 of the Last Story.

Before I forget, we're adding a slightly different set of Shadow The Hedgehog icons to Sonic City with no transparancy - I've added them to the Depository for reference.

Phew. Have I been busy the last few days OR WHAT? Anyway I'm taking time out from my SEGA doings to tell you... about my SEGA doings! As of the 15th or 16th I should be getting my official offer letter for SEGA to become Community Manager for SOE. I've actually been accepted and its just up to me to run over the contract ask for double the money and see that the details are okay.

So what am I up to? Well for a start we had the Community day, which included many notable Sonic fans and also days at the Wii flat and Mario and Sonic @ It's A Knockout - you really should be reading the Blognik, part 2 is up and a MASSIVE part 3 is to follow.

So when Mario & Sonic is done and dusted, what can you expect ol' AAUK to be working on? Welllll, Sonic City is undergoing final approvals and thats mine to take care of, then there's Sonic Rivals 2 which is out soonish. Mario & Sonic still needs to appear on the DS so I'll be sorting out that of course.

Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity? That's mine. SEGA Superstars Tennis? Yup, that's mine as well. All future Sonic games? Oh ho ho their spikey arses are allll in mah yard.

Then there's the Marvel licences, Iron Man and Hulk, I'll be doing those as well. Future Phantasy Star games are all mine, several as yet unannounced titles are mine and lets not forget a little title called NiGHTS: Journey Into Dreams. Yup, that's mine as well.

So why are things a little slow on SW now? Well I've got no time, that's why - lol. I'm out at 6am and back in at 8pm. I'm exhausted half the time! I do have one little update to the depository to let you in on and that's that Shadow's introductory FMV, the first of his story related CG vids from Sonic 06 has been uploaded and hence can now be downloaded by you! XD

Okay... well, hmm, what to say here. Basically I'm asking Startlogic again if they'll do reinstall a backup and I'll take the hit in terms of money. *Sigh*

Consider E-On dead. I've wasted an entire day on the ruddy thing, re-installed the gender mod and what happens? It screws up again for the umpteenth time. I'm fed up of the bloody thing and good riddence to it.

KABOOM!


WHAT THE HELL????


It seems like something is going on at Entherial Online.... check out /forum to find out the latest.

Edit: The Shadow Depository images section pages for Sonic 06 and Sonic The Hedgehog have been 2.0'd. The clean version of the "Three Hedgehogs" picture is now also available to download.

Right, so the forum is gone. Mkay? It's gone and its gonna take me the best part of the rest of the year and then some to get it back - esp with me now at SEGA, time for SW is at a premium. That I'm "not happy" about this is a god damn understatement.

Until I can figure out something to stop the spambots the comments are locked - they actually say "registered members only" if you post. Doubly bad news is that Startlogic wanted to charge me $50 for reinstalling the database from backup, which I won't pay as a matter of principle so consider everything lost from the previous E-On.

"New" Entherial Online (which operates better under 40 degrees celsius and has a cooler, crisper taste) will be up at the weekend, though it might take a little while to get things back up and running 100%.

Then we'll see about monthly database backups I think.

Edit: To UK:Resistance - A Correction - I did not nearly die. I in fact did.
Edit 2: Check out the Blognik for news of my adventures on Monday at a M&S press day.

Say goodbye to the halloween headers, you won't see them again until next year (awwww) but this probably means there'll be some form of Christmas headers! YAY! All the previous headers have been reinstated, I should probably do some sort of award banner for our Elite winning status... hmm.

Up on Radio Redux you'll find the new Billboard countdown, which is a Halloween special comprising the missing September billboard as well as October. As if that wasn't enough - the Radio Redux media section has had some Sonic meet additions with Darkspeed's Bird Con signing sheet added and two videos from Wrecksfest 2007: Sonic Yoda's footage and the "Cheers" intro sequence from The Sonic Show.

What's this about Famitsu then? Well the depository has been hit up with some love as well; some Mega Collection packshots have been added there and we've a PDF of Famitsu's review of Sonic Riders now able to download as well.

I'm keeping an eye on the comments atm, as we're getting some p0rn spam - I tried adding a CAPTCHA setting on cutenews and it wouldn't work frankly. Which means at some point I'm gonna have to rip out cutenews and replace it, probably with WordPress as thats a Startlogic tool I possess. Just be wary if you see any comment starting "this is a cool site" as it probably ends with a link telling you to go to http://boysandmencocks.splurg.net or something

STILL no news on a recovery of the database, I'm gonna give it til Saturday and if I've still had no reply I'm gonna bite the bullet and say the database is indeed lost. :(

I currently possess no working calf muscles having pulled both at the damned It's A Knockout event at the David Beckham Academy next to the Millennium Dome/02 Arena. I'm in an awful lot of pain. Tune into the blognik in the next couple of days for unbiased coverage of the event. Honest. Also expect pictures and videos of me flat on my back, holding my calf to be in a lot of publications over the next few weeks. Yay humiliation AND pain!

Still not heard from Startlogic and just to be REALLY nice libsyn is being a bit cranky atm so I wasn't able to upload the new Radio Redux either. Sigh.

Edit: There's a blog up on the blognik about a playtest I did for Mario & Sonic, plus we won an award - lookie!


Xtra Edit: Right I bodge fixed something the other day as I was litterally in mid run for my train home, as a result comments no longer worked - mainly as the news boxes were hardcoded as I had to copy code from the online version to fix an issue. I only noticed when I edited this post and found no update, but its back to running off the cutenews RSS feed now. For some reason the nav bar edits were reversed and the Blognik button link became broken again - this has now been re-fixed!

While trying to fix some issues I seem to have done something to unistall Entherial Online - I'm not sure exactly if i can get it back either as it can't find the database. If this is the case obviously anger all round esp for me after all the edits done for it.

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Sunday Edit: I'm out of the office tomorrow with Dreadknux at a press event, atm I'm still waiting for Startlogic to get back to me. There's not much point in me uploading anything MAJOR atm incase we go to a backup so I'm gonna build up stuff ready for a mass upload when things are sorted. Should be a new Radio Redux hitting Monday btw...

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Saturday Edit: Okay, basically I uninstalled something that was apparently pointing at an old test folder - and it happened to be PHPBB's old folder. So I've ended uninstalling PHPBB - which basically means the database of everything is gone. I've asked Startlogic to see if they can reinstall a the last backup of the SQL... we'll see what happens. :(

Hope you had a good Halloween, I didn't but hey. The Halloween headers are going to be up for a little while longer and I have a new addition to the Shadow Depository music section.



I'll tell you who's won the signed Shadow the Hedgehog artwork in as sec, however I can tell you the total of headers. Can I just say that baring in mind the post before the competition announcement I told you that I'd added 25 new headers to the Default skin I was very surprised with those people who then went and put LESS than 25 for the answer to the whole thing... oy...

The break-down goes as follows:

AMY WRECKS = 18
MASTERS OF THE DESERT = 40
SONIC SHIPWRECKS = 22
THAT'S-A NO GOOD = 6
and finally.
SW CLASSIC (DEFAULT) = 135~! (HOLY.... CHRISTMAS!)

That, if my GCSE Maths is right, tells me we have a grand total of 221! A quick glance tells me we do have a clear winner - some of you came really close, but as it turns out one of our oldest hands won: with a guess of 240, just 19 away...

Your winner is: RAM THE DRAGON~!

SOFIA WINS! SOFIA WINS! Oh.... frell. I've no gotta post the damn thing to Uruguay. Curse you all!

1a) I've been listening to the SSR Halloween show and the love for SW is amazing... remind me never to give a damn about a SSR livecast again.
1b) Check out the Blognik as it has a halloween themed post and discusses Sonic pumpkin carving as well as mentioning Sonic Wrecks and the SSMB's halloween doings.
2) Check it out tomorrow as well... and the day after that ;)
3) The competition ends in a few hours, after which a winner will be announced sometime Friday evening.

Hey guys, I've put up some Halloweeny goodness for you in the form of an awful lot of Oct 31st headers. These DO NOT count towards the competition which officially ends at the end of Wednesday, so enjoy. People will notice the thread to talk about header references on the forum is unlocked, also I'm gonna junk (mostly) that graphical change in the Depository I was going to do as I prefere the older style. Also the Blognik link now works...