Oh this brings me back.
I remember back in 2001, when 11 year old me was surfing sonic fangames HQ for a sonic game. I stumbled upon this and played it. I only ran through it a few times and stopped. ADHD took over and I went back to surfing SFHQ for more games.
Two years later, in 2003 I stumbled upon SRB2 via a google search for free multiplayer games. I re-downloaded it, named myself SSNWolf because I though the name SSNTails was badass, and joined a few games. I feel in love with the match mode and soon after I customized my controls to use the mouse for camera movement. Tails was my main back them and bomb rings were my primary go to weapon. After a while I just got bored of SRB2 and left again.
Fast forward to 1.09.4 when I was digging through my old files for a cleanup and stumbled on the old file/ I jumped on the site and updated the client. This was also when I found Mystic Realm and fell in love with the level pack. I spent the entire 2007 summer trying (and failing) to make maps and wads. Most on my 1.09.4 work will never see the light of day since I had to reformat it after a nasty virus hit it.
I gave SRB2 a break and went on to do other things. Finishing up high school and starting college. Around late 2010 i checked SRB2 out of curiosity and noticed it was in 2.0.6. I downloaded it, played through all of single player plus learned how to port forward and host Co-Op servers. Soon, due to college, I left once again to pursue my studies.
Now its 2015 and am still trying to find all the secrets to 2.1.14 while trying to figure out how to make maps again.
That was a nice walk down memory lane.
Also, yes I lurked alot back then, and yes I am Shadow The Fox. Lets kindly forget about that old forum ID.