HylianDev

HylianDev
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Aliases:	Super Goombario
Interests:	Zelda, video games, web design, programming

HylianDev is an MFGG user from 2006. He went by Super Goombario until 2012. He spends most of his free time programming in either C# or PHP, but doesn't have a whole lot to show for it.

History

As a child, HylianDev grew up in a home filled with video games. As far back as he can remember, he had the NES, SNES, and Nintendo 64 and a decent library of games for each. He was one of the only ones in his family who had an interest for Super Mario Bros. 2 or The Legend of Zelda.

He became a regular on the internet upon discovering Video Game Directors Cuts, a website that made sprite movies parodying major video game franchises from the 8- and 16-bit eras. From there, he discovered MFGG when they became affiliated with VGDC.

Fascinated by the fact that people made available the sprites and sound effects from the video games he loved so much, he started attempting his own rips and edits. They were all mediocre at best, and awful at worst. The only one that got accepted was his sprite sheet of Wart edits, attempting to copy VGDC's video, Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom. The edits were mediocre, but the sheet received decent praise for the included rips, which Super Goombario did not rip himself, and forgot to give credit. The sheet has since been taken down.

After numerous warnings to use better typing habits in the comments section, he was eventually banned from the mainsite. He afterwards made numerous alts, each one getting banned. The same happened to him on the forums. He then went to ZFGN, where he got better reception for his slightly better rips. He also learned to rip from screenshots he took himself rather than ones he got from google images.

His relationship with other members on ZFGN wasn't great, though; at least on the forums. He only occasionally got banned, and only for short periods of time rather than permanently, but he was significantly less mature than the rest of the users, and there was a small number of users on the forum so it showed.

ZFGN Revival Attempt

After ZFGN and TZGR merged to form TZGN, and eventually closed altogether, he hunted down Falcon and asked for permission to start ZFGN on his own. He didn't exactly get permission, but went on to do it, with much controversy. When he posted about it on MFGG (after creating an alt called ZFGN_Scout), it became quickly obvious that he wasn't able to create a good website, and he was certainly not mature enough to run one. Despite this, he went on trying for years, until a ZFGN revival was attempted by Falcon, Kesha, and others. He, now a competent web developer, actually made a running version of the site, but it never saw any activity. The site disappeared months later. He showed up to help when ZFGN received its most official revival yet by Sparks the Echidna, but that was very short-lived.

Internet Leave and Return

In 2012, he left all internet forums he was active on after becoming extremely religious. In late 2013, he ended up coming back as HylianDev, less religious than ever before.

Current Projects

HylianDev is currently working on a Zelda content website like ZFGN, called the Zelda Fan Game Resource (ZFGR). He's also usually found working on his indie game projects.