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The Retro family of wikis; Sonic Retro, Sega Retro, NEC Retro are collaborative projects to create the most definitive, accurate, and accessible encyclopedia and reference for everything related to Sonic the Hedgehog, Sega, NEC video games. A fourth wiki Retro CDN (which you're viewing now) is a central repository for shared material.

If you need some help browsing or editing a page on our site, one of the pages listed in the list below should be helpful.

For more detailed use of the Mediawiki software, see mw:Help:Contents.

About the Retro family of wikis

• Tutorial: A general introduction for newcomers.
• About: A general introduction about who we are, what we want, why we're here, and where we're going.
• Frequently Asked Questions: A collection of anticipated questions about our policies, practices, and goals.
• Copyrights: An overview of Retro's copyright policy.

Getting started

• How to log in
• How to edit a page
• How to start a page
• How to use Wiki markup
• How to include images
• How to include tables
• How to use talk pages
• How to use headers

Features

• Setting your preferences
• Searching
• Go button
• Recent changes
• Related changes
• Using the watchlist
• What links here
• Page history
• Tracking user contributions
• Edit summary
• Minor edits
• Using templates
• Variables
• How to use categories
• Special characters
• ISBN links
• Understanding namespaces
• Keyboard shortcuts

Creating images

• Screenshot creation guide
• Physical scanning guide
  • Windows scanning guide
  • GNOME scanning guide
• PNG compression and optimization

Problem solving

• How to resolve edit conflicts
• How to protect a page
• How to rename a page
• How to redirect a page
• How to merge two pages
• How to revert a page
• How to delete a page

Preferred styling

• Manual of style

Wiki-specific

Sonic Retro

• Hack Policy: A guide to Sonic Retro's perspective on Sonic hacks.