Regardless, I think a lot of people will appreciate having this back. New sprite additions will help make this resource more useful, as well as give us some healthy goals to work towards. There are so many spriters who have created their own projects while the MFZ was gone. Some of these sheets have also been improved. Not to mention that Sega released Sonic Mania a couple years ago, opening the floodgates of hundreds of moders creating sprites for the game. While the old archive has been restored, this is only the beginning of more things to come.
Brand new additions can be expected in the weeks to come, as well as missing items added back courtesy of our members. If you haven't seen it already, come visit our site and join our Discord. I promise we don't bite
Site: sgxp.me/sprites_v2
Discord: discord.gg/YBXbDSHm9f
Insonicnia Comic Reader
Comics Page: sgxp.me/comics
MFZ Archive Project
For those of you that sprite, I have restored 75% of the Mystical Forest Zone sprite section, with plans to add more new sprites in the weeks to come.
What started as a small personal endeavor to chisel my web dev skills has turned into a passion project to restore one of my favorite websites.
As most Sonic fans are aware, a big hole in our community was left when the Mystical Forest Zone shut down its website. One of its best features was its large collection of sprite sheets that gave comic makers and animators a resource to use for their projects. Although the basic characters can be found on the Spriter's Resource, many of the other unique gems can now only be accessed via the Wayback Machine.
With a couple months of time and effort, I have tried to create a diligent restoration of the original sprite pages. As you can already tell, the buttons look just a tad different but are still very similar to the old layout. This is in hopes that the restoration will be a familiar place for old timers to come back to. I also like the ease of customization, and hope to add substantially to this collection with new content.
I am fully aware that Kajin / Atto Sama may have plans to bring the MFZ back. Links to the old site show a blank landing page, and rumors have spread that the forest will bloom again. All of that makes me feel excited, and I hope that it will happen in the near future. While we wait for an official release of their site, the sprite page I build will act as an archive of their old website. I am in no way affiliated with the MFZ, and am fully aware that many of the sheets explicitly state that they are only to be hosted on the MFZ. I feel however, that the spirit of my decision is to open the gates back up to collaboration, and that the only way to do that is to make the older sheets available in a convenient manner to people who want to use them again.
For those who want to assist me in adding to the archives, please join the forum in the suggestions section and our Web discussion Discord to discuss potential ideas and bug fixes you may see. With time, I hope this project will usher in a new era of Sonic creators to take up the flag where our predecessors left off.
P.S. If Kaijin, Atto Sama or Dark Fox sees this, I would love to be part of helping restore the MFZ. Please contact me if you need any help with coding.
Wow
Update yo
I decided that I would make two comics for myself. One that was more aimed at comedy, and another aimed around a more serious story. I hope you will enjoy the things to come.
Also, if yall have any good resources or advice, I'd love to have them. This comic thing sucks so much time, I'd need the blessings of the comic goddess herself to get it done quicker.
One more thing:
new sheet. WEEEEEEEEEEEE