Current Season: Spring
Latest News
31/01/2008
New site in progress
I'm becoming involved in a new Sonic Secrets site, aiming to archive and discuss everything featured on SRZ and more. It'll be more up to date than here and hopefully more fun to read too. More news coming soon!
21/04/2007
I'm now affiliated with "The Glowing Bridge", a site which is setting out to archive information about Sonic prototypes. Since the recent discovery of the Sonic 2 nick arcade build, a site like this seems needed! It's still in the process of being made however...
http://www.glowingbridge.org Site now closed.
01/11/2006
Comments system now operational!
Finally got comments working, feel free to post them =D I might also see if I can get the articles section using comments =)
30/10/2006
New oddities!
Added two Sonic 1 oddities and a Sonic 3 one realting to the special stages. Nothing spectacular but it's worth a read =) Also just cleared out the spam from the comments database, I'll be working on implamenting a comments system again soon.
25/10/2006
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As you may have noticed, for a long time SRZ's oddities database has been non-functional. The reason behind this is a Nucleus CMS upgrade that screwed up everything, which I did in an attempt to stop the stupid amount of spam I get on there. I plan to stop being lazy and fix this by writing my own engine which uses the Nucleus database, and eventually enable comments again, with a verification code to stop spam. It'll take a while though but I'm determined to get SRZ up and running again. Feel free to send me lots of oddities you've found in the games that I never got round to adding in the "SRZ death" period!
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Apologies for all this downtime, I'm working on the new engine! It might take a while though. I'm also considering revamping the look of the site to be more modern. I also have a backlog of oddities to add! I've just been lazy.
Update! First version of the database engine is now online. You can see all the oddities, but you can't post comments yet, I'll be working on that tommorow!
Welcome to The Sonic Research Zone, your source for "underground" sonic info. No fan rubbish on this site, this is about Oddities, Glitches and other Cool Stuff! This site, which started on the 14th October 2000, is quite simply a database of all the strange sonic stuff that I've seen over the years, and is also a center for my Sonic hacking tools and projects.
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Email: qjimbo@randomsonicnet.org
For errors in the research: research-error@randomsonicnet.org
MSN Messenger: jameshansen14@hotmail.com (not used for email)
AIM: jameshansen14 (rarely used, usually on M$N)
Special Thanks
Voice - For being open to the merge with RSN, and for thinking up fun ideas.
Clush - For his help uploading some of the Sonic Videos, and providing some great artwork for the site.
Nik The Greek - For providing resonable opinions on my Sonic Theories, and putting up with me!
Thomas Pitt - For his excellent progress in Hacking the Sonic Games
Jan Abaza - For running the excellent Area 51, and providing a large inspiration for this website
Craig Stitt - For being kind enough to do a huge interview, and creating the HPZ legend
Sonic Team & SEGA - Without you, none of the games would exist!
Originally the Site was called Hill Top Zone. However I changed so much, so I changed the name to "Sonic Research Network".
After I became part of the RSN I changed the name to "Sonic Research Zone", basically because I didn't want a network within a network (thats just silly :p) A history of the site is avaliable below.
History