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Does anyone know of hypermikey by any chance? Eight years ago, he found an aged series of Sonic the hedgehog comic strips made for a London newspaper and had the whole thing available for download. However, one of the images had turned out missing. Just today, I’ve found out about it and searched for it, then I discovered his profile, tapped on Sonic comic strips and I looked through till I’ve found the missing strip that was supposed to be with the rest of the series for downloading.

I reckon hypermikey must’ve forgotten that he had it somewhere else on his profile. Anyway’s if you know anything about hypermikey, please fill him in that I found his missing image. Thank you.

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STARTED IT ALL OVER AGAIN

When I compared part one for the first episode of Sonic’s first series to the video I downloaded from, I found that my fan restored version looked a bit blurry compared to the other one. So I decided to delete the episodes I uploaded and also the whole series that I had saved on my files.

Then on the day before, I started downloading the series again, but I also did the fan restoration on IMovie as before, only this time a bit differently,with only a bit of brightness added, the colour adding above a brightness by a notch with the sharpness left alone but the changes for audio was the same as before. The audio was just increased to maximum, so warning, if you’re watching the videos with headphones or earbuds, keep the volume on low to prevent loss of ear hairs, course you’re lose some hearing if that happens and they don’t grow back as skin hair does. When I compared to the original video before removing it, it even looked better than before.

Also I realized that it was a mistake to use iMovie for splitting the episodes into two parts, so I tried out a video converter, but it didn’t work for it made them blurry even worse than iMovie did. Then I tried out the photos app which allowed me to measure the length of the video not just in minutes and seconds, but in nano seconds also.

After that, I uploaded the first episode for Sonic’s first ever series, compared it to the original video I downloaded earlier online and as hoped it would, my fan restored version looked shaper and also better then the other one did.

Finally, it’s about time I got out of those irritating setbacks that came from the mistakes that I’ve done. Course, sometimes you’d have have to go through setbacks in order to reckon back to find what errors have occurred so you could learn how to avoid them.

Anyway, here’s the first episode for The adventures of Sonic the hedgehog (fan restoration) which is done by yours truly. I’m still redownloading the videos, but I’ll be restoring them and also be doing episode split copies to upload while I’m at it. Cause I can only upload three videos a day on YouTube, so I’ll be uploading one episode every one or two days depending on the time of day I’ll be uploading. Here’s the link for the playlist of the series and some before and after screenshots as proof. I know there’s not much in the playlist, but there’ll be more to come.

Warning: The videos of the redone fan restored videos for the series have majorly increased volumes so if watching the videos on computers and handheld mobile devices with head phones or earbuds, volumes on the computer or device you’re using must be set on low to prevent loss of ear hairs.

Viewer description is advised.

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16 BIT ERA (SONIC VS MARIO)

If dominance is to be measured by currency, so be it. For let’s face it. it doesn’t just take skill, effect and talent to develop gaming, let alone our idols living on to please is, it also takes budgets to develop them and support to keep them going.

This has nothing to do with the big screen, it was directly focused on the games for consoles and platforms from the early to mid 1990’s (Excluding handheld and recent retro styled consoles). That, and this isn’t about Sega vs Nintendo for Nintendo already dominated it with the compilations of their franchises. This is solely of which mascot made the most money for their companies. Now let’s be clear that this has nothing to do with the Sonic and Mario debate, this is just to settle the moment of truth of witch mascot made the most during the sixteen bit era.

Now before we go down the list and settle this, I like to be clear that I calculated each game properly from the respected pages of Wikia and game would be worldwide overall. There’re no lies in the total on the two lists you’re about to read. Okay, here we go. Let’s start with Sonic the hedgehog.

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG

Sonic the hedgehog, 1991: 2,659,600,000

Sonic the hedgehog 2, 1992: 1,800,000,000

Sonic CD, 1993: 123,000,000

Sonic spinball, 1993: 50,263,440

Sonic & Knuckles, 1994: 330,117,000

Total: 5,283,080,440

Well, that’s Sonic done, next up now is Mario.

MARIO

Super Mario bros 2, 1988: 400,000,000

Super Mario bros 3, 1988: 1,700,200,000

Super Mario world, 1990: 1,748,000,000

Super Mario all stars, 1993: 1,748,000,000

Yoshi’s island, 1995: 365,000,000

Total: 5,043,200,000

Now just to make it easier to see which one has the most total, let’s put their totals next to each other in comparison.

Sonic = 5,283,080,440

Mario = 5,043,200,000

And the winner is…

Yeah I know, this is totally unexpected. Well, it’s official, when it comes to 16 bit’s, Sonic the hedgehog turned out to be the dominate in console gaming and it turns out Sonic is the more popular mascot at the time of that era, just like how he’d did in touch screen mobile gaming when it comes to downloads and performance. Now in order to show the Mario fans that there’s no hard feelings, I’ll be stating that Mario had no reason to regain the title back from Sonic when Nintendo gave Mario a new one to rule.

Still, it didn’t stop Nintendo from winning the so-called console war in the fourth generation of console video gaming, for the advantage Nintendo has is they don’t just have Mario, they also have Donkey Kong, Kirby and Link. Although Donkey Kong is the only franchise in the same universe with Mario, it shows none the less that unlike Sega, Nintendo has the capability of putting two different canon stories in the same universe, which makes crossovers easier.

That, and Mario ruled the 64 bit era, well, till Pokémon and much later, Total war came along at the least.

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This is a fully restored but also corrected panel of a Sunday read from a European newspaper called UK newspaper news of the world. The script was written by Barrie Tomlinson. The art was from Richard Elson. The newspaper it had been printed on was published on the 10th October 1993. The two applications used to restore the work but also correct some of it were Photos and sketchbook on IPad mini 3rd gen. I also added an extra layer beneath with the layer bring the same colour as the simple background for the edges were too narrow and thin. Here’s a display of the photo before work was done on making the old Sunday read like new. I got many more coming up, but it’ll be a long wait, for I have other printed Sonic media that I found but need to fix because of the damage done from time and nature. That and I gotta look after my family and work to be on about. Anyway, I hope you’ll like this, I worked pretty hard on it. Stay way past cool mates and I’ll post for you again sometime.

PS: The image on the left is before and the image on the right is after.