Originally posted by 404

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Reproduction.

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Originally posted by windwaker101

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I don't think that a universal editor for ANY NES game exists, except perhaps Tile Layer. They each of somewhat different level formats, data in different places, etc.

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Originally posted by Kitten Yiffer

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And what would make an program unauthorized?

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Originally posted by LocalH

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If it weren't for intros, there'd probably be no demo scene, period, or it would be a lot less mature.

Good thing none of you had any say over the C64 scene...I don't know why people are so averse to intros, hell I remember some of the old C64 intros better than the games they preceded! Half the time the intro was coded better than the game was =P

Don't take offense to this - I don't want to force anyone to like intros. But you can bet your ass that any ROM I ever release will have an intro (although I will also include instructions for manual removal and information on exactly what was modified). Basically, the way I look at it, if you're smart enough to remove it yourself, then you deserve to have an intro without a ROM. But, for 99% of the emulamers out there who only download ROMs to increase the size of their collection, then you can bet your ass I want their copy of my releases to have my intro on them. I wouldn't make it easy, you'd have to go in with a hex editor to purge the intro.

Sorry to bump this so long after it died, but this is something I feel very strongly about, and anytime the topic comes up I vocalize my beliefs. The C64 demo scene was borne of the cracking screen, and the intros added by crackers, and I feel it's due to the very fact that intros were standard that makes the C64 demo scene the biggest and best in the world, even to this day. I just don't understand why people have tolerated intros for as long as they have, and now all of a sudden I see most people in the console scene saying 'intros suck, bla bla bla'. I can sorta understand it with GBA games because I have a feeling it takes quite a bit less work to 'crack' the average GBA game than it did the average C64 game, but still, like I said, the emulamers who only want massive collections fucking DESERVE ROMs with intros. I'd like to see them properly identified, such as TOSEC handles it (by adding [cr {cracker}] to the filename). That way, those who want ROMs with intros (such as myself) and those who don't want ROMs with intros (such as most of you) can both have their way.

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