2023 Bud of the Year

[halifax]

It's time again to vote for Bud of the Year.

Rank your top 3 people who have done the most for the community and represent the community in a positive way over the last 12 months. 

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Voting closes December 31st!

 

Previous Winners

2009 - @smozoma(1)

2010 - @smozoma (2)

2011 - @smozoma (3) and @dan_lizhot

2012 - @smozoma (4) and @DaDonch44

2013 - @kingraph

2014 - @chaos (1)

2015 - @McMikey

2016 - @angryjay93

2017 - @slapshot67

2018 - @chaos (2)

2019 - @chaos (3)

2020 - @smozoma (5)

2021 - @UltraMagnus

2022- @Tickenest

[Jkline3]

Would like to throw a shout out to @Drezz for figuring out how to change the main menu background. 

 

[Smashville]

With so many that have contributed to all these great ROMs on this site, I'm going nominate them all as The ROM Hacker. Without any of you, none of this would be possible.

👊

[von Ozbourne]

I'll second @Drezz for sharing my new favourite hack of the menu backgrounds.

But I'll have to give my nod of appreciation to @AdamCatalyst for all of his other tutorials that have become an invaluable resource for literally everything else.

[AdamCatalyst]

On 12/17/2023 at 12:36 PM, von Ozbourne said:

I'll second @Drezz for sharing my new favourite hack of the menu backgrounds.

But I'll have to give my nod of appreciation to @AdamCatalyst for all of his other tutorials that have become an invaluable resource for literally everything else.

I feel very uncomfortable when people say kind things about me, so I will just say "thank-you."

If I were handing out personal awards, I'd nominate @von Ozbourne for making me feel less crazy, and always being willing to help me try to figure out a vexxing problem. 

As for the official "bud of the year" I wish I could nominate all the Modders on the site. This past year has been *so* enjoyable, with folks like @Jkline3 sharing data he spent countless hours manually scraping from the web, @Drezz sharing a huge amount of sprite work with me, so that I didn't have to duplicate the effort for myself, @von Ozbourne sharing anything I ever ask for, and others who's name elude me at the moment. It's been a remarkably enjoyable year to mod '94, with an open collaborative spirit of sharing and support, and so many utterly fantastic mods, from @Sean's epic NCAA project, @Jkline3 & @von Ozbourne's fun Reverse Retro collaboration, @Drezz's immersive HNIC 1991 experience, and so many more. And I haven't even touched on all the breakthroughs that people have shared. I've only been around here a couple years, but from a modders perspective, this past year was *very* different from the year before because of all these fine folks sharing so much with eachother.

[Sean]

On 12/18/2023 at 4:32 PM, AdamCatalyst said:

And I haven't even touched on all the breakthroughs that people have shared. I've only been around here a couple years, but from a modders perspective, this past year was *very* different from the year before because of all these fine folks sharing so much with eachother.

[halifax]

58 people voted for Bud of the Year.

Congrats to @chaos 11-5-6 = 49 points

and @angryjay93 8-10-5 = 49 points

2023 Co-buds of the year!