I wish I could help, but I wouldn't be able to give as much detail as you in my description. I just wouldn't know what to write. You have a really great dream and I'd be willing to help, but have a lot of other things to do in my "free time." Sorry about that.

I actually wrote a guide for Sonic 3 and Knuckles, which was published on Mahalo.com. Writing guides for Sonic games has always been an interest of mine, but my only real interest is in the 2D classic Sonic games and unfortunately you already said you had a Sonic 3&K guide written up. Even so, please e-mail me and let me know if you can still use me somehow for any writing related to the classic Genesis Sonic games. Here is a link to the guide I wrote: http://www.mahalo.com/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_3_Walkthrough

The level of detail is a notch below yours, but I am improving as a walkthrough author, I think. This was my first ever published strategy guide.

Hi Anonymous - got your email too, for some reason couldn't send my reply to your address. Thanks for your interest! Yeah as you say, everything for S3&K is already written and ready to go so I probably won't need any more help with that. You've written a good guide though, it's more in depth than you normally find on other sites and interesting to see that we've both taken a similar approach (descriptions of music, specific objects for each level, and pointing out particular areas and tips etc). I like your writing style - keep up the good work!

Let me know if you change your mind and would be interested in tackling another game I haven't covered yet.


And no worries, Meph! Glad for your support anyway :)

LiQuidshade: is there any other form of writing I could do that pertains to Sonic 1 through Knuckles on here? Unfortunately you seem to have covered it all but who knows?

Not really I'm afraid. Only the other Mega Drive Sonic games like Spinball and Sonic 3D, but I guess you're not including them anyway. Still, really appreciate the offer nonetheless.

Hmm, either of those might work actually. Between the two, I'm probably more familiar with 3D Blast. Keep me informed.

Oh well then, you're more than welcome to take on either if you wish! It's entirely up to you. I have maps to aid you in your writing for both, but I'm not sure if I can rip my own from anywhere to use on the site (I'd rather not steal maps from other places) so you might have to write under the assumption that maps won't be available in the final product. But anyway, go for it if you really want to - just let me know if you've definitely decided and if so, which one!

I'm sure you're more than capable of doing a really good, thorough job, but they do, ideally, need to be very detailed, as the others are, so it's a fairly big commitment. Still, Spinball is only four levels big and 3D is fairly straight-foward in that the different "Flicky areas" would make up most of your points in the guidance sections and there are few alternate routes to worry about. Either would be very good to have!

Thanks so much. Do let me know!

Actually, I am currently working on a guide for Jak 3 for Mahalo as well as some other personal matters but after that's all taken care of, 3D Blast sounds like it would be fun to do a guide for

Great! I'll pencil you in on the contributor's list then. No hurry, just let me know when you get started and we'll have a chat about it.

Thanks very much! This little campaign is all going rather well so far :D

So you also said you wanted to work on fan-made Sonic games, right? If so, I could maybe provide some ideas if you wanted.

Yeah, it's not something I can really start on any time soon, but it's an ultimate goal of mine to design and construct a handful of completely original levels, the ideas of which have been floating around in my head for years now, but I'm basing them on the rules and knowledge of Sonic level design that I've learnt from this project. If I can incorporate that aspect into Zone: 0 and let the site become a place to share appreciation in level design, both official and fan made, that would be awesome.

Still, that's way off in the future yet, so I'd rather just focus on the guides for the moment. :)

Hi ^^
I am Brazilian, I would like help in this project, I access the site a few weeks and found it very interesting! I will send an E-Mail:)

I'd be glad to contribute a guide for the 8-bit version of Sonic 1!

Great stuff, anon! You can go right ahead with the first level or page if you want, and email it to me so I can see what it's like. Thanks :)

Hey Liquid, what your Email?
I don't managed to send to liquidshade-AT-soniczone0.com. :(

Try replacing -AT- with @ - sorry, I wrote it like that to prevent spammers picking it up.

Thanks!

this site looks awesome,i love the game guides,and scrap brains,as thats my fav level in all the sonic games made to date!

i would love to contribrute to this,i have played the sonic advanced(1,2,3(just recently) games alot

Thanks anon, have just sent you an email. :)

Keep up that good work! (=
And i feel the same like you about sonic games, it's good to see somebody else with the same thoughts about the blue blur
As soon as i have a better access to internet i'll give you a hand.
I will send you an e-mail as soon as possible.

Hello! I'm a somewhat experienced Sonic player and I think I could help you in some way... Not too much, as you're awesomely experienced enough!

Excellent! Yes, I believe I've seen you post several notes, great to hear you're interested! You're more than welcome to contribute, it's entirely up to you what game you want to do - what did you have in mind?

So it's been awhile, been busy, but what can I contribute to a 3D Blast guide? My strengths, I think, would be enemy, zone feature, and boss battle descriptions.

Great! Well, you can do as much or as little as you want really, since it hasn't been started by anyone else yet. You can keep to particular sections if you want, but it'd be preferred if at least each page was written by only one individual, rather than a level being a conglomeration of different people's work. That way you'd be more able to cross-reference between other sections of that level if necessary and things would just feel more consistent. So you could do only a set amount of levels if you want? Or just the levels and not the general pages, or even better, all of it if you're happy to do so. Whatever you want really.

Let me know!

I could contribute in many old Sonic games. My best are Megadrive/Genesis games, but I'm also good in Game Gear, Game Boy Advance and some (not many) modern games like Sonic Heroes.

Hi Ajavalo, how would you feel about a Sonic Spinball guide then? If there's any others you'd prefer instead then that's fine - let me know!

For Spinball, I suppose you could still maintain the same basic appearance/structure/obstacles formula, and have each emerald as a specific point, in addition to any other bits that might be noteworthy. What do you think?

Whoa, time out. You are trying to build a website for Sonic levels? Way past cool!
Maybe I could help I have made several "pretend" levels in the sonic stanza, so I have quite a bit of experience. One thing I like to do is make sonic cd "past, good future, and bad future" versions of already existing sonic levels. My e-mail address is below if you want to contact me:

fidthomas94@yahoo.com

Thanx! ^_^

P.S. write back.

Sonic Spinball? Well, I know how pinball objects work and I know emerald locations and bosses very well. I could make a nice job!

Hey Brandonthehedgehog! Nice idea trying to make alternate time versions of Sonic levels! I often imagine how would be Green Hill Zone in the past and future...

Ajavalo - Great, if you're happy with that then you could make a start on Toxic Caves, or any page you want to start with really, but email it to me so I can see what it's like, before pressing on with the rest. Just try and keep to the normal level formula I use and I'm sure you'll do a great job. Sounds like you know the game better than I do anyway, so I look forward to reading it! Thanks a lot :)

Brandon - Thanks for your interest, I'll be emailing you soon!

Hi LShade! Thanks for offering me such an opportunity, but... I have no web building skills... I look at many fan Sonic pages but I've never written in one.

Oh, no, you don't have to have any web building skills, you just need to write it out. I can add it myself, or I have a simple content management system that you can use yourself to build the pages, without any HTML knowledge necessary at all.

Ah, thanks a lot! I'm starting with Toxic Caves. I'll be e-mailing you soon!

Did you receive my e-mail?

Hey!!
I WOULD LOVE TO DO THIS!
I LOVE SONIC!!!

I'll do Sonic Adventure 2 Battle!
PLEASE CONSIDER ME! I KNOW ALOT!!!

Hey, I appreciate your enthusiasm, thanks! That's a big one, you're welcome to give it a shot if you really want to but I'll need assurance that you're capable of doing a good job. Why don't you try just writing City Escape or something else that's fairly small, at first, and send it to me and I'll let you know what I think. Just remember to be thorough and professional!

I really love this website. It's such a creative idea! I wish I could help on possibly Sonic Heroes, but I have no experience with programing or making pages on the web. I'm an idiot when it comes to this stuff...

I could easily write down in-detail of the levels and story, but I wouldn't know how to make any maps or use screen shots...

I am going to be a senior by September, and I may not have a good deal of free time, and I am kinda busy in general, but if you are interested, please tell me.

Can I help?

Hi A fan, I emailed you a few days ago, check your inbox if you're still interested!

SonicObsessed, it's up to you! What do you want to do?

Attention GOLD_sonic/A fan! ..I got your email and have tried to send you a response to the email address you used but it keeps bouncing back! Could you provide me with a working email address (just leave a comment and put it in the email field, and I can pick it up there, if you like) so I can send you all the details?

Thanks!

I can't Find a Custom zone maker :(.However I know About Sonic Advance 2 GBA,Even Though I never played it.This Comment Has A walkthrough That Might help players Beat It.

WalkThrough:If This is Your very 1st Time,Then Here it is starting With Leaf Forest.

Head Straight Through Act 1 Collecting Many Rings.If You get hit By An Enemy Get Back Many Rings As Possible And Destroy It.Repeat On The Next Act.If You Acess The Special Stage Do It Sucessfully And Recevie an Emerald.Note:Collecting All 7 And Beating XX Will Unlock True Area 53.Part 2 Coming Soon!

How essential do you think the maps are as part of the experience here, and how does that reconcile with the 3D games and their probably-unrippable maps?

I would be willing (and quite eminently able) to go for SA2 if only I had known-good maps to point things out on...the problem, of course, is that no such images exist. I've tried my hand at marking out three levels (with the simplest level layouts in the game) on maps made from scratch, but whatever details I can track down, it's still only a black box reverse engineering of the map, and I can't guarantee its complete veracity. And never mind the twenty-nine (or thirty-three depending on who's counting) levels that are even more complicated, even harder to get right...

When it comes to the 3D games, I would say on the whole, maps are not really that essential, purely down to their design. They could be important if they were more like the Mega Drive titles with multiple routes, but as they tend to be much more linear, I think you could probably just get away with screen shots and info indicating where any occasional brief branching route or hidden area may be.

In fact though, SA2 maps have been made, they appear in the Prima strategy guide for the Dreamcast version. They're mostly top down illustrations of all the rooms and paths and I can't say whether or not they're entirely perfect, but they do point out every line of rings, item box, animal and certain objects. I have the book here (when I started Zone: 0 I hit eBay and picked up as many strategy guides for the games as I could find - they can often be a little inaccurate but they at least provide useful points and maps to look over), so it's definitely better than starting from scratch. There is also a separate guide for the Gamecube release, though this doesn't have maps.

It's fantastic to hear you'd be willing to go for an SA2 guide, do you think with the aid of these maps it would be something you would like to do? What I could do is scan these in for you (or you might be able to get one on eBay for a fairly cheap price) and you could either use them just as an aid to writing your guide, or I see no problem in just linking to the scans on the site, or perhaps you would prefer to trace over them with your own versions and markings. Completely up to you!

Let me know what you'd like to do!

I looked into that guide and found that they distribute "eBook" guides online in PDF form, so I picked that up.

Right away I noticed several objects were left out of their maps, and some of the ring zones were marked with erroneous numbers of rings. Additionally, secret rooms in Knuckles and Rouge stages are marked on the map as being directly behind the walls you dig through, which I guess is convenient for presentation, but in Wild Canyon at least, this causes them to completely overlook the fact that two of the rooms they put down are in fact the very same room.

As such, I don't think I can just take down those maps and paste the connecting ends together (since we won't be limited by page structure). They'll certainly be useful for getting shapes and sizes correct, but there's far too much erasing that would have to be done, and being able to mark off individual rings with more specificity would be preferred. In addition, all three of the maps I've done so far are at the same scale and I'd like to keep that consistent in future stages.

So I'll eventually be able to write up the stages, but I'll have to construct new maps for them first. At least that's easier now than it would have been before.

Ok, clearly you have strong determination to make high quality maps, which I admire! An original format for the maps as opposed to just scans of other people's would certainly be preferable anyway, so great to hear! There's no time limit on these guides, take as long as you need, providing you think that it's likely that you'll see it through to the end (and I'm sure you will). I'm unlikely to find the time to start adding them online for another year or so anyway.

Let me know when you get onto the actual write ups and we can discuss ideas for how best to represent them. I'm thinking they could mostly fit into the traditional structure I've employed (appearance, structure, obstacles, etc), but where the guidance sections are normally divided into acts, the SA2 stages could probably be divided into their five separate missions. Also the common objects information for the game in general will end up being rather chunkier as I'd suggest making a general enemies section to explain them all, and then just say what appears where inside the level pages. Additionally there could be two/three "stages and story" pages for Hero/Dark/Final, along with descriptions of cutscenes between the levels and I guess there's probably enough chao info for a page of its own too.

Do you have access to both the Dreamcast and Gamecube versions of the game? It would be best to note differences between them as you go along. Also is there any chance you could send me what you have of those three maps you've already made? I'd love to get a preview of the sort of thing you're aiming to achieve! My email address is listed above, in the blog post.

Providing you're happy to proceed, I'll add you to the list of contributors. Very much looking forward to your work, and really appreciate it! :)

oooh, definately. if i cant do sonic advance, which i would like to do, i'll do Sonic Rush

oh couldnt find the name option: i'm Impish.

Hi Impish. Sonic Advance would be cool, I haven't heard from the guy who said he might be doing that one. Let me send him an email and ask if he's still doing it, and if not, you might be able to. Leave me another message here and include your email in the email field, and I'll get back to you soon.

Cheers!

hello iam intrested in helping. i am a sonic freak and id love to help

Hi Jarret, what would game would you like to cover?

As a general note for everyone, I think it's best that if you're interested (and I must stress.. -very- interested) in writing a guide then you should send me an email from now on, as opposed to leaving a message here. That'll be easier for me to check, now that this post is quite old.

Don't forget to specify which game(s) you'd be interested in writing for!

Hey I wont mind joinig... so ok Sign me up for it..

hey, based on what I've seen, I'm guessing that we can add/contribute to the existing guides. In the meantime, I had a Sonic 2 guide published on Mahalo.com if you want to see it, but due to my work schedule I'm not sure when/if I can start on 3D Blast.

I think the best contribution I could make would be musing on the original character designs (damn it, that's not a pot leaf on Silver's head, it's a hand-shape representing his psychic abilities) as well as the changes made to Sonic and Amy especially... yeah, I'm useless.

#53. Sonic is my biggest and favorite number #1 hero in the world.I hope the Sonic Team keep up the good work.

Hello there! So you're looking for writers still, I take it? I just happened to come across this site and I think it's wonderful to write such detailed guides for all the gamers out there. I personally have beaten SA2 it's my absolute favorite game in the world. I would be very interested in helping write a guide for it. Obviously I don't have an account on here, but perhaps you can email me and we can discuss ideas? If you no longer need help writing a guide for this, then I am quite sorry to have wasted your time with this message. But if you still need someone to help out, please contact me and tell me what you'd like. :)

Thank you Jessi, unfortunately SA2 has already been taken, however if there's another game you're incredibly passionate about that you'd like to cover, and isn't among those in the contributors list, let me know!

What about Sonic unleashed? May i work on a walkthrough for that i have two games of it!

Hey, all you people I wanted to do SA2 (sonic Adventure 2 Battle Sonic Advance 2 has too many pathways) but it's taken so I'll do the next best thing Sonic Adventure 1 DX Plus there are no missions (find the lost chao collect 100 rings time limit etc.) so I can do that. I've been doing a Chao Walkthrough on SA2 (I wasn't attached to them in SA1 for some reason perhaps you do not enter after the stage), but besides that, This'll be perfect for me. I found th final bosses (Egg Viper Finalhazard Chaos 6 from Big's story Sonic Unleashed Boss 6 I forget his name or was that hte only hard boss no I believe level 1 boss was hard) easier than the 2D bosses especially the Giant Mecha Eggman from Sonic Advance 2 Sonic & Knuckles I haven't made it to Sonic 2 but it looks hard since its after Silver Sonic, Sonic 3D blast (this seems like its a real Sonic game instead of a game with Sonic in it) Choa!

Hi Ty Sparks. Do you think you could link me to your chao walkthrough for SA2 first please, so I can see what it's like? Thank you

Unfortuently its not on Youtube yet but its under edsandsonicatolympic short for Ed Edd n Eddy & Sonic at the Winter Olympic games. My dad and I are having trouble figuring out Youtube (amd uploading the videos its a little complex you need a firewire a some random other wire). Also, I've decided my name. supersonicsmash. Does it remind you of anything. Super Smash Bros Brawl. I was so mad when I found out Sonic was only in the final boss fight.

I jsut want to say I'm working on it but you have to do devolopement (what I don't know anything) also I will not do the story just yet. I will type all of the storyline and dialogue but I will give the jimmy of it. Is Jimmy of it a real word or did I just make it up, we'll never know.

#28 Neo Green Hill Aquatic Ruin is the past version of Green Hill/Emerald Hill Zone because of Sonic CD being one with Sonic 2. Perhaps the 2nd level in Sonic CD was the original version of Casino Night Zone with slightly altered designs. But I imagine my own. Hill Top does not have a bad future. Actually, they're all good futures because the bad ones don't exist unlike the Little Planet.

Hi, Liquidshade. My name is SuperBragon and I would love to help you with your dream. I'm very familiar with the Sonic Genesis series, like Sonic the Hegehog 1, 2 ,3 , and S&K. This guide would be my first very big project so I'd love to do it. I would very much like to do Sonic the Hedgehog 2. I will be strapped for time slightly since I'm fourteen and in high school, but I can write a comprehensive guide for Zone 0. You can look at some of my work on http://superbragon.deviantart.com/. Get back to me as soon as you can!

Two things I'd like to add
- I'll do SOnic Spinball if no-one signs up for it but I will be hacking it and I'll try my best on htose special staes.
-I can help with the S3&K special stages but not Sonic 7 Knuckles there's no save feature.

I was interested in finishing the Sonic 3 & Knuckles section for you, or at least contributing very deeply to it, but you mention here that it's already finished. The page itself appears to be empty beyond the third of the fourteen zones. Any news on what happened there?

Yeah, everything's already been written for both the Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles guides. All of the text that's currently on the site was originally written between 2004-2006. Since then I've actually been building the site, making maps, taking screen shots and assembling the pages, which is what I'm doing now with S3&K. After that though it's all new territory.

If you'd like to contribute anything else instead, let me know!

I'd love to help. It would be a great opportunity to help. I'm particularly interested in that Sonic 3D guide.

Congrats on finishing it. I'll check it out and take a look now.