Originally posted by Matrixz

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I think the release of Data Crystal was a sort of nice bless. A romhacking/romhack/utility database like what Data Crystal is becoming, is probably an idea alot had, but there's actually several updates every day, showing people have time to maintain it and there's activity. Besides, its obvious that people these days are still working on their hacks and stuff, although there's long periods between releases.
Me, my interest for romhacking and the like doesnt seem it will be replaced in many years. School is pushing me right now but school doesnt work for me anyway. I spend the time i can on the romhacking-related things i do.

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Originally posted by Dan

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Originally posted by xcomgs

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Fuck Data Crystal. They dont have shit. WikiRAM has organization, way more data, and importing .nl files. I still dont get why people love Data Crystal!

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One of the main reasons I prefer Data Crystal to WikiRAM is that the guys who run it aren't doing it to inflate their ego. They are actually trying to help the ROM hacking community, and create a worthwhile resource. You are just trying to get "respect" without putting much effort in.

WikiRAM has very little organization, a trained monkey could see that. I would also say that WikiRAM doesn't have much data on it either. They both aren't very good in that respect. However, I'd rather add data to Data Crystal than to WikiRAM. Namely, because Data Crystal has a set of formatting rules that pages should adhere to. WikiRAM it's just stick it in the wiki, screw formatting. Finding useful information in pages of people's messed up notes is a complete pain in the ass.

I can't see the importing of .nl files in WikiRAM, in fact the only mention is that it is on the to-do list. So that point doesn't really count.

Working on Data Crystal is the only ROM hacking related work I do now.

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