Well... Let's talk about progress.
There were actually a ton of things that just made development of this mod very difficult, like the fact that it was the first major mod that I was doing, but the biggest one was this issue with fences and SRB2 Xmas 0.96, If you know anything about fences in SRB2, the handles are floating platforms (Which is something that versions of SRB2 before Demo 1 didn't have) So after getting numerous failed attempts and even asking SSNTails a few times for assistance, Dannon had enough of working on a mod for Xmas, and decided that he would manually tweak the source code to have floating platforms, while I made a wad for it, basically, the mod had to start over from Scratch and is technically not a mod anymore, or (would) not be a mod. You see, after February which was when that conversation was had Dannon pretty much stopped contacting me about the remake and then completely stopped talking to me for months to this day, and wouldn't give me any updates. He could return at any moment, but it's been a while and the remake seems like old news now, I don't actively work on it anymore, and until Dannon comes back or there's a solution to our issue, progress cannot go forward. But there is some good news, a few weeks ago, I saw a texture trick that can fake floating platforms, so I might try that out and see if it works on the fences.