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| Dwedit Posts: 95/116 |
I was exposed to Hex from the Apple ]['s disassembler (* prompt) you get when you do an improper reboot, or "CALL -151".
I was pressing Return and noticing that the numbers went up 0-9, then A-F. I also wondered what the heck BRK meant... |
| INSERT COIN Posts: 237/265 |
It was de olde Game Genie. Althought that is the only one ive been using for the past 10 years. |
| D 2007 Posts: 331/497 |
I had an old GameShark.
Those were the days. Edit: Actually, to be honest, I had a Game Genie. It had a small book with it (literally, small) that explained the basics of hexadecimal. |
| Kailieann Posts: 662/808 |
hm.. I had a calculator back in grade 8 or so that had a hex mode. |
| MathOnNapkins Posts: 1009/1106 |
I honestly have no idea when it was the first time I learned how to use Hexadecimal. I remember I saw some genius boy programming his TI-86 calculator using straight hex when I was in high school.... but I never understood what he was doing until I started reverse engineering programs and ROMs. |
| Bloodstar Posts: 538/669 |
I learned through use of a Gameshark.
You have no idea how much shit I did in SMBDX a while back.  |
| Ailure Posts: 2277/2602 |
Hehe, I remember taht I used to be the only one who had any idea how to use Hexdecimal numbers in some digital electronics course.  All thanks to ROM hacking.
I don't really remember the earliest instance of hex though, but it actually is before ROM hacking. But it's not until I screwed with ROM hacking I learned how to count it and such. :/ |
| Googie Posts: 338/391 |
Originally posted by KP9000 I heard that, it was Tony's hex lesson document to made it easy for me to understand hexadecimal. |
| Ninetales Posts: 807/894 |
I had an old calculator that could change numbers into four bases: binary, octal, decimal, and hex. I always wondered what that "hex" mode was and why it used letters instead of numbers sometimes, and when we finally covered numbers in different bases it finally dawned on me what that mode was. From there I played around with my calculator until I discovered emulators and rom hacking, where I finally had a use for that old calculator.  |
| pikaguy900 Posts: 545/748 |
Let me just put it this way:
You don't want to know. In truth, I don't really know HOW I learned it- I just DID after I started up hacking SMW (which I can't stay away from)....  |
| Watermelon Posts: 41/44 |
Trough ROM Hacking two years ago. It was difficult, but then I learned it  . |
| S.N.N. Posts: 1909/2028 |
Learned it through ROM hacking and pretty much teaching myself. Before I knew what hex what, I would read through all the posts here and think "Hey .. since when does the number system go 0123456789ABCDEF?"
Ever since then I just kind of .. learned |
| Zeld Posts: 15/53 |
I decided just last summer that I wanted to hack ROMs without using an editor that someone else worked hard to make. I got tired of people calling themselves hackers for being able to use others' tools, and wanted to learn how to do it on my own using tools that weren't game specific...like a hex editor.
Another interesting poll would be "which hex editor did you start out with"? My answer would be AXE version 3.4, one that most people seem to have never heard of... I was only able to find this "AXE" through use of this particularly interesting site called "Google" XD |
| Stifu Posts: 554/647 |
I learnt it to translate and mess with RPG Maker 95. |
| FreeDOS + Posts: 1125/1312 |
I learned it through a book many years ago. |
| Dr_Death16 Posts: 698/970 |
Learned it from messing around with NES ROMs and an old copy of Hex Workshop. It reminded me of the Matrix, and therefore, I thought I was awesome for being able to understand it. |
| Ice Ranger Posts: 77/85 |
Learned it by messing with BASIC back in the early 90s with my piece of crap 1983 IBM computer. Wanted to draw some *extremely large* NES graphics and learned to use the alt key and typing in numbers on the key pad. After awhile, it made some sense.
Yep, a crappy style Wart on an old school computer crossed my screen at one time. That's the reason I've never thought hexidecimal was a problem, especially whenever I started hacking hexidecimal in the early 2000s. |
| HyperHacker Posts: 4400/5072 |
Gameshark, specifically, hacking N64 games and Pokémon.
Originally posted by Raccoon SamOriginally posted by JDavis How appropriate. |
| Rom Manic Posts: 464/557 |
Neil from Partial Translations. |
| Cellar Dweller + Posts: 121/138 |
I learned it from a book when I entered programs in as machine code. |
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