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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 7503/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Who screwed up the thread?  Anyway, a board-wide hack will never work. Hacks done by more than 2 people rarely get finished let alone hundreds. There are 3 problems with the ROM hacking community: 1) N00bs are looked down on and people will simply refuse to teach them. The solution being to stop being so rude, or make a good tutorial. A site like Zophar's, but with less suck and more updates would be great. 2) People see editors that can make all sorts of changes to a game, and immediately think that these editors can do absolutely everything. They set unrealistic goals, then quit altogether when they find out the amount of work involved. 3) People hoard info. Really, when someone asks for a simple address or some such, and you know it, will it kill you to open your notes/source code/whatever and spend 2 minutes finding it? Messy notes are not an excuse. Take some time to organize, and you won't have this problem. |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 7504/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Maybe someone should sticky this. Also, consider posting a sample article so we know what's a good format to use. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 7505/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| I've given up on the current build. I'll make a new one someday... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 7506/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Yeah, we're talking 512 levels, 293 of which can be accessed on the OW. The game can only count up to 255 levels completed anyway. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 7507/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Graphics aren't compressed in VRAM. |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 7508/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 7509/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Yeah, Nintendo always tries to avoid re-making what's been made, sometimes to a rather ridiculous extent. Just about all their ports now are actually emulators with old games in them. I've heard even Super Mario Advance uses this. |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 7510/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Speaking of Mario characters who have been against us all this time, check out Toad. Look closer... That bugger's been flipping us off for 20 years!  |
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<||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 7512/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours
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I had that problem too, and the only solution I found was to create an empty file with the desired name via FTP and change its attributes to 777. That doesn't do much good when you're using variable names though. |
 You might be able to create a 'temp file' with write permissions, and upload all files 'into' it (rather than creating a new file), then copy the uploaded file to its real name. Not sure if this would work. It could cause problems if multiple people tried to upload at once though.Originally posted by Narf <
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<||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 7513/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours
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Nope, no ROM distribution here. |
Originally posted by Dark Ludwig No$GMB and BGB are both pretty good at this.
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The big problem with not helping newbies is that unless they know a certain amount already, nobody seems to think they're smart enough to bother with. I didn't know hex when I first started hacking. When was the last time you saw someone here asking what hex was and getting a real, decent answer? Also, when people do answer, it's often too complicated for them. |
 You're probably right about the issue of not writing things down (though why you wouldn't is beyond me), but there are a fair amount of cases where people simply refuse to help. The biggest problem is that in the community I really learned to hack in, nobody would help anybody. Literally every time someone asked for hacking-related information, the only replies they would recieve were crap like "If I tell you, you won't learn anything" or "If you can't find it yourself, you obviously aren't smart enough to do it anyway". Of course it's true that just copying information leads you nowhere, but when you already know how to do something, but don't want to waste your time re-finding what others have already found, it's not exactly an issue. (That place died pretty quick BTW. )Fortunately, this kind of thing has been mostly limited to a few SMW hackers around here, and others are beginning to find the same information and share it. But I don't understand how you can watch people struggling to figure something out, when you have all the information they need right there in some source code on your hard drive, and just pass it by. Think how much more advanced SMW hacks would be right now if Fu just cut and pasted a few addresses from LM's source or if Jonwil would simply post the code for his Map16-changing routines instead of insisting we trace through several thousand bytes of raw hex that jumps around everywhere. Really, ROM hacking communities depend entirely on sharing information. Everything from random addresses to editors' source codes. Keeping it to yourself accomplishes nothing... and if you aren't even documenting what you find, well...
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<||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 7515/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours
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Right, we'll all just post our information here. Then a few months later, someone can just come and look at the thread listings and... oops, it's buried under thousands of threads of all different subjects with no real categorization. Oh well, they can just use the search and... oops, there isn't one. So mabye they finally found the thread, and need to add something to it. Well they can just post thier findings and... oops, that's not allowed. No problem, just post a new thread. Now when the next person comes looking for this information, they can just find the game's thread and... oops, the information is scattered among 49746 different threads and not organized at all. |
The only practical way for this to work is to have a separate forum with one thread per game (with a standardized name format, like "Super Mario Bros 3 (NES)") where bumping is allowed as opposed to starting a new thread. Maybe even sort the threads by name instead of most recent post (or just override the 'threads per page' setting and list them all on one page and have people use their browser's search). Then you could simply go to the forum, find the thread for whatever game, and BAM, all the info is there. You could even have general hacking information, editor tutorials, etc... Who's with me? (restricted) | (restricted) | (restricted) | (restricted) |
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<||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 7520/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours
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Originally posted by Alastor the Stylish It goes well with my earlier suggestion of custom colours. 
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<||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 7521/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours
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I'm leaving... TO GO TO THE BATHROOM LOL |
And I'm going to be rich and famous after I invent a device that allows me to stab people in the face over the internet.
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<||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 7522/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours
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I always boo hummers when I walk by. |
They're not even durable like the army ones. They're weak.Originally posted by Xeolord Generally you're supposed to be 3 carlengths behind, in case you need to suddenly leave (like if some moron's coming up too fast behind you). | ||||||||||||||||||||
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