Roy

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Username:	Roy
AKA:	Fuzzyfreak, DDDFreak, Joe13...
Real name:	Joey
Staff Position:	Global Moderator
Age:	16
Knowns of:	Advanced 65c816 ASM, Super Mario World hacking, Super Mario All-Stars hacking, DSP-1
Join Date:	November 2nd, 2007
Birthdate:	August 12th (1994)
Known for:	Projects such as Mode 7 Overworld, disassembling Super Mario All-Stars, often referred to as being one of SMWCentral's "lards".
Contributions:	Contributions to SMWiki

This article is about the SMW Central member. For the Koopaling, see Roy Koopa.

Roy, also known as Fuzzyfreak, DDDFreak or Joe13..., is currently a staff member on SMWCentral.

Info

Before SMWC came into play

Roy always wanted to make a game of his own. When he got a new computer, that could actually handle emulators at all, on September 29th, 2007, and when he got internet working on October 1st, 2007, he decided he'd download a few emulators and ROMs. Still being interested in the concept of game editing, he searched for a Super Mario All-Stars editor. However, he found none. He found Lunar Magic though, and started working with that instead. Before registering on SMWC, he made two test c.q. garbage hacks. Part of the second hack can be found on his Youtube channel. He registered on November 2nd, 2007, after downloading Tweaker. (Which was the only intention with which he visited SMWC.)

First months on SMWCentral

Roy found out about new, rather neat tools (such as BlockTool and Sprite Tool), which could be used to insert completely new aspects into SMW. He started up a new, third hack, called 'Pokey and Kolorado'. This hack never got finished, though - it got discontinued on December 27th, 2008, after having struggled with finishing the first (!) level. However, he regards this as the first serious hack he made. Roy didn't post much during these months.

Nightfall

This is the only time Roy really wanted to leave the community. He was in desperate need of help regarding SMW hacking at the time, yet he couldn't even ask questions properly because of how the board was designed. He became rather dismotivated in SMW hacking, and thus he decided to come back at Mario Kart: Double Dash!! time trialing, which is what he used to be doing since March 25th, 2006.

SMWC comes back, new inspiration

When SMW Central was put back up again in mid-February, 2008, Roy got interested in SMW hacking quickly again.

On March 17th, 2008, he tried to learn how to port music, and a day later, he started learning ASM - he already caught on with hex editing in November 2007, however -, after being inspired by the Advanced SMW Hacking forum, which he visited a week earlier.

ASM was more in his interests area, so he decided to continue with that. He started with coding simple blocks. On March 31st/April 1st, he began coding generators, sprites, eventually to the point where he made a boss: Ferdinand Y. Fuzzy. About half of his posts back then resided in forums such as World of Insanity - and later, Forum Games -, which is something he still is a little bit ashamed of.

This is the period he started contributing to SMWC as well. His first submission ever was a block that would act like a static Fuzzy. Later, he began to submit things such as patches, and get more specialized in some parts of ASM.

On September 1st, 2008, he changed homes, and thus he took a break until October 22nd, 2008, since his new home didn't have any internet access until that date.

When he came back, he joined Ersanio with the SMAS Disassembly project, of which the goal is to disassemble all of Super Mario All-Stars's ASM data.

On February 28th and March 7th, 2009, Roy and Ersanio held an ASM Workshop. A summary of it was also made.

Promotion and functions

On April 21st, 2009, Roy was promoted to a local moderator. At first, he got to moderate Advanced SMW Hacking, the patches, RAM/ROM addresses and the news. On August 3rd, 2009, he also got control over the custom sprites section, and in September 2009, he got control over ROM Hacking. On October 14th, 2009, Roy got promoted to a global moderator, which means he moderates all forums on SMW Central. When the Wiki was brought back up on November 22nd, 2009, he also became a Wiki administrator. Since February 28th, 2010, he also got control of the Blocks section.

Currently, his functions are:

Keeping control over all forums
Patches
Custom sprites
Custom blocks
RAM/ROM map
News
Wiki administrator.

#serioushax

Roy founded #serioushax in early August 2008, together with DarthRiko. The channel was intended as a place to ask questions about ASM and SMW hacking.

During the time Roy was taking a break, the SMW Central community moved from CentralChat to Badnik. Thus, #serioushax got registered on Badnik by DarthRiko, who kept his owner powers until March 5th, 2009. After that, Roy reclaimed owner position. In November 2009, Ersanio got +qo as well, which makes #serioushax rather unique in that it has two people with +qo.

The channel also got much more popular over time. Here's a graph:

Links

Trivia

- Roy used to be on the Mario Kart community (professional Mario Kart: Double Dash!! time trialing) before joining SMWC. He once even managed to miss out on the World Record of Dry Dry Desert by 0:055 seconds. Hence also why his nickname used to be DDDFreak.

- Roy is insane, or so he says himself. He has a lucky number (17), but also lucky days (Monday and Wednesday) and even a lucky month (March). More proof he is insane: he tries to learn as many digits of pi as possible.

Notable projects

There are more projects Roy has had, but this list only includes his most notable ones.

Cancelled / Unreleased

Pokey And Kolorado. Started on November 2nd, 2007. Got discontinued on December 27th, 2008.
Mario: Old Plots, New Villains. Started on March 23rd, 2009. Got discontinued on May 9th, 2009.
Z Positioning. A sprite that made Mario's movements simulate a pseudo-3D environment. A few vids about it can be found on his YouTube channel, such as this one. He started on it on July 7th, 2008. The project was frozen pretty much after the linked video was made - July 20th, 2008- , for being limiting, and Roy didn't like how he coded it. He never bothered on working on it anymore, though. WYE made a rather similar RPG overhead system, which he showcased in C3 Fall '09.

Released

In the making

SMAS Dis, with Ersanio, Alcaro and SWR.
TMR3, with Ersanio.
Mode 7 Overworld
A Serioushax Production

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