Source files corrupted beyond recovery
Personally speaking, I always had a soft spot for Streak Thunderstorm’s Sonic fangame, Mecha Madness. The game’s mixture of combo-heavy hand-to-hand combat and the slick, Sonic Advance-styled presentation were a big draw to me. Unfortunately, news today from Streak himself reveals that Mecha Madness is, effectively, dead:
“Due to a very VERY VERY unfortunate turn of events, the Mecha Madness engine .mfa that had all the helper shit and latest engine workings has gone corrupt. I can’t salvage any of it whatsoever. I’m trying my best not to rage and break just about everything around me but that’s not going to get it back. Anyways, sorry to all of you who were looking forward to it.
(…)
Mecha Madness was my exodus from Sonic Fandom. I wanted to go out with a bang but here I’ll just exit with a wimper.“
Though early in the SFGHQ Thread Streak says that he has no plans to rebuild Mecha Madness, as more people post and time passes, one gets the impression that as emotions settle down, we may still see Mecha Madness again in the future:
“Well, to be honest. I’m not entirely ready to quit on Mecha Madness. I’m just pretty much done with MMF2. Ever since I first started on the project, I had noticed that the program itself had alot of bugs and I always worked on a way to get around it’s flaws.
(…)
I’m not too motivated to learn a programming language just to finish this game but I don’t want to just quit on it either.“
We here at TSSZ will keep you posted on any further Mecha Madness developments.
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Maybe he should take a look at E02.
What is it with the data wiping, lately? First you guys, now Mecha Madness. Whose next, IGN? Now that I mention that….
IGN aint going down, Geny.
But it is strange. TSS, and Mecha Madness both in one work? Something fighy’s going on here. I bet no more than 4 days until another Sonic fansite goes down.
that’s sad. It’s always heartbreaking when an artist’s work is destroyed. Whatever Streak decides to do in the future I wish him better luck
Macha madness? Never heard of! It’s so much I’ve never heard of that my brain eplodes! AAA!
Oh, eplodes= explodes… What a boring joke… But it’s true that I have no idea about what it is.
If IGN goes down, then there is a god.
Anyways, this sucks. It looks like it would’ve been kewl.
@Balckhawk: that’ll be the day…
Why not use UnDelete+?
What a shame…
Gosh, what a shame. Really there’s no worse feeling than having your work ripped away like that…I’m really impressed by how maturely and calmly Streak’s approaching this. I’d really like to see Mecha Madness back, but what can you do? I just hope that he has better luck in whatever he chooses to do next.
Its never good to find all the work you made on one game is wiped out. I must of had the only 3D platformer with actually decent graphics made with gamemaker 7 and litterally half of the game was wiped out. Thankfully I didnt have to start from scratch. Good end of it is that when I remade the parts I did previously it was tons better.
Does anyone else like somebody’s taking down Sonic fansites with a lot of afford put into them or is it just me? It really is sad when all your work has been wiped out completely, that must really suck.
Yeah, I’ve been there, Spider.
That sucks.
Why not use System Restore?
(Basically shifts your PC to an earlier point in time [an earlier restore point]).
Sonic fans are dumbasses to backups
“Why not use System Restore?
(Basically shifts your PC to an earlier point in time [an earlier restore point]).”
1. System Restore only works for system files, not data files.
2. It doesn’t work half the time.
Perhaps fan game authors should start learning better programming languages like C and C++ that use plain-text source code instead of binary blobs. Also, use a source code management system like Subversion or git. That way, if something breaks in an update, you can revert to a previous revision.
Thanks for the comment, guys. To be honest, I’ve been messing around in MMF2 lately but the spark of what I had before just isn’t there. I’ve made a few little things but I don’t have the heart enough to sit down and re-work 2 years worth of stuff. I’ve actually decided to switch the storyline of Mecha Madness to a mini comicbook series. I’m going to take all of which I had and just basically draw it out.
I read someone’s comment about an E02 engine. What is that? If it’s an engine… I might be willing to take a look at it and see what I can do…