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 Goomba Level: 14 Posts: 5/26 EXP: 10488 Next: 2583 Since: 03-15-07 From: New Zealand Last post: 5949 days Last view: 5469 days |
I lurked for a really, really long time. Since the first archive, since before the SMW Hacking forum was split up into "Crappy SMW hacking threads forum" and just regular "SMW Hacking" (or something like that). I think I originally found this place via Acmlm's "Overclocked" site, and I found his Strange Mario World hack but when I tried to use the IPS patch or any IPS patch on an SMW SMC file, water would fill up in the title screen and Mario would die, and if I pressed A really quick to skip the title the same thing would happen in the introduction stage. It happened with like 3 other hacks and I'm still confused as to how I made that happen.
I still lurk for the most part, occasionally saying something in the #rohmacking IRC channel. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 1402/1881 EXP: 6465838 Next: 184826 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6153 days Last view: 6144 days |
Google.
But let's start at the very beginning. That would be somewhere in the vicinity of 1992, maybe even 1991. We got a NES a few years before that, and my parents and I would both play it a lot. I was particularly intrigued by a game called "Super Mario Bros.". I noticed that the levels were built of various components such as blocks, staircases, pipes, and pits. I wondered how many different ways they were arranged in the game, and would often dream up many of my own worlds, which I would draw on paper. I filled numerous notebooks, most of which are now in landfills in New Jersey. I grew older and, while I stayed a fan of the Mario games, I didn't draw worlds anymore. I became engrossed in various PC games and there was this thing called "school", which gave me something called "homework". I forgot about my Mario levelmaking past until 2000, when we had a newly-acquired SNES (that's right: we didn't get an SNES until the year before the GameCube was released.) and were looking for a strategy guide to Super Mario World. We inadvertantly bought a guide for Super Mario Bros. Deluxe for the GBC. I looked through it anyway and saw their section with maps of the Lost Levels, and I was like "hey! these are new SMB1 levels, like the ones I used to draw! Cool!" We did get SMAS for our SNES after finding out that it had those levels. The next year, in 2001, I discovered something else: the Internet. Eventually, I found a site called TMK which had a lot of then-little-known information on the Mario games. I read pretty much every page on the site, hogging my parents' only phone line (they're cheap like that) for hours, and I found a section entitled "Level Editors". I thought "Wow, you can edit Mario levels?" It turns out it was just Mario Improvement, the crappiest SMB1 editor ever which only worked on the hardest-to-find rom, but I got into the whole emulation thing from there and started looking for other people's Mario levels. I typed something or other into Google that summer and came up with "Strange Mario Bros." Curious, I clicked the link. I wondered at the odd name of the site ("Acmlm? How do you say that? Ack-mulm?") and I still pronounce Acmlm that way. I downloaded some hacks, I know they included Strange Mario Bros. 1 and one of Frank's hacks, don't remember what else. Then I found the superior program YY Mario Editor and worked on my own Mario hack, then another, then another. By this time it was January 2002 and I had seen some other things on the Internet, including a type of online community called a "message board". I almost submitted my first hack to Challenge Games just as they changed servers and the E-mail was lost, so I decided to release my third one instead as I had finished it by then. I posted a few times at their board and some other boards, then one day I decided to get more hacks at Acmlm's site and found out they had a board too. So I lurked for about 3 weeks, mostly in the romhacking forum, and found out about SMB Utility there and started on a fourth SMB1 hack. I was strangely attracted to Acmlm's board for some reason. Maybe it was the craziness (this in the days before the loldrama), or the unique and interesting software, or the colour-coded usernames. One day after school I decided to register, picking the name "comm128" pretty much at random. The rest is history. |
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 Ropa Alcoholic Level: 59 Posts: 164/737 EXP: 1585752 Next: 87376 Since: 02-20-07 From: The North Side Last post: 5462 days Last view: 2597 days |
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 Lakitu Level: 52 Posts: 138/555 EXP: 1036416 Next: 47424 Since: 02-19-07 From: Citra, Florida Last post: 6022 days Last view: 4453 days |
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 Cape Luigi Level: 131 Posts: 394/4792 EXP: 26244887 Next: 179733 Since: 03-15-07 Last post: 3741 days Last view: 3653 days |
Boredom > Rom Searching on google > acmlm.overclocked.org > Acmlm's Board > ||board > ABII
Dec '06, Jan/Feb '07 I stopped going to Acmlm's for the most part. March '07 I come back to Acmlm's, and find chaos (read: ||board). March 14, 2007 After lurking at ||board I find a link to ABII and join here. ____________________ |
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 Cheep-cheep Level: 32 Posts: 63/189 EXP: 205948 Next: 494 Since: 02-20-07 From: Not here anymore. >> Last post: 6105 days Last view: 6081 days |
Basically, I was bored at school (during a spare or something, I dunno). I went on Google, searching for Mario. 
After a while, I found Acmlm's. It seemed cool, so I immediately joined. I discovered rom hacking and I decided to try it. After a while, I stopped. I started a crappy comic which got better eventually. So here I am. 
ZOMG MEMORY LANE LOL |
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 Mole Level: 43 Posts: 148/365 EXP: 552669 Next: 12377 Since: 02-21-07 Last post: 5347 days Last view: 5347 days |
Way way back around in 2003, I decided to actually browse through the Acmlm forums. I used to oogle the screenshots from the main page around the time Lunar Magic came out (2002). I wanted to talk to people who shared the same interests as I did and assumed the forum was much like TekHacks. The first time didn't go too well (banninated!) but after awhile I managed to blend in quite well. |
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 Red Paragoomba Level: 19 Posts: 10/54 EXP: 31317 Next: 4460 Since: 04-14-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 4980 days |
Last incarnation/archive3
Well, in my search for more info on the SM64 editor, I find a massive, 40 page topic on some board named Acmlm, now known as archive3. I figure, "What the hell?" and register. And the rest is history. Current incarnation/board2 Well, in an effort to get my favorites back after my 80gb got ESD, I googled Acmlm's Board. The return shows up ||board. I said to myself, "They upgraded already." I click it and register. Just out of curiosity, I click the memberslist, and click admins, just to see if anything had changed. Turns out, I was right. No Xkeeper, no Acmlm, you get the idea. I said, "This isn't the right board." But, I managed to find HyperHacker's rant thread, which said something about Xkeeper's board. So, back to google I go, and here I am. |
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 Metabble Level: 64 Posts: 349/904 EXP: 2154362 Next: 59735 Since: 02-19-07 From: Location? Last post: 5175 days Last view: 4789 days |
Thank Peardian. I found KvSG on accident, and I lurked for like a month, then I joined. I like fun stuff. |
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 Bullet Bill Level: 50 Posts: 220/502 EXP: 891481 Next: 55836 Since: 02-20-07 From: Springfield, Ohio Last post: 6105 days Last view: 6082 days |
I'd seen Acmlm's in the past, usually through a link I followed from Romhacking.net. It's a casual interest, hacking, and I'm not planning to do much with it. I finally registered to 3rd incarnation maybe a week before the split, and found my way over here by way of Xk's Tagboard. I've been here ever since. ____________________ My current complication: Girl's name who gets no more than 10 minutes of screen time in the actual game. |
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 Ninji Level: 36 Posts: 150/234 EXP: 283738 Next: 24372 Since: 02-19-07 From: Norway Last post: 2499 days Last view: 1439 days |
Posted by Cirvante Haha, you actually played through that thing after randomly finding it in a hack collection? I can't even remember reffering to Acmlm's in it, so that's certainly an interesting way to get here. As for me, I had found the site prior to the birth of the board when googling for rom hacks (of Final Fantasy in particular, not knowing it was possible to hange anything other than graphics and text in a game), liked it, and somehow started checking it daily for updates, not knowing anywhere else I could find non-Penishead Mario hacks. Registered at the board the first day. |
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 Bloober Level: 47 Posts: 59/444 EXP: 739893 Next: 26310 Since: 03-20-07 Last post: 5437 days Last view: 5828 days |
Posted by Cirvante tl;dr but I can't imagine how anyone could say that much about just coming and going here. My short story: -Kiwi showed me this place -I started posting -I stopped posting -I repeat steps 2 and 3 constantly |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 1410/1881 EXP: 6465838 Next: 184826 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6153 days Last view: 6144 days |
Excuse my noobness, but what is "tl;dr"? I'm seeing it a lot lately, is it some fad from the time I was gone? |
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 Buzzy Beetle Level: 44 Posts: 264/383 EXP: 594145 Next: 17140 Since: 02-19-07 From: California Last post: 5474 days Last view: 5474 days |
I met YD on another message board, we got to talking on AIM and became friends, and she dragged me here a few months later. I was a total internet noob at the time and this place blew me away. |
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Level: 105 Posts: 1343/2846 EXP: 12035029 Next: 227231 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 6067 days Last view: 2804 days |
Posted by Kernaltl;dr is loser for "too long, didn't read" (note that this refers to people who utilize such acronym for "screw you I'm not reading this", not "short summary version") tl;dr: it's lame ____________________ I dealt with it. |
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 Micro-Goomba Level: 11 Posts: 5/15 EXP: 4594 Next: 1391 Since: 03-19-07 From: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Last post: 5431 days Last view: 5431 days |
I was a member at FFLegend. On the forums over there, Acmlm told me that he was making his own board, so I decided to register. When he opened it for real in January 2001 I registered again but wasn't really active. I became a little more active a few times, but most of the time I just lurk. ____________________ 05-04-01 Flare: How is such a dumb topic getting so many replies? Acmlm: I guess we just enjoy posting in stupid topics. |
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Level: 105 Posts: 1344/2846 EXP: 12035029 Next: 227231 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 6067 days Last view: 2804 days |
Posted by Kernaltl;dr is loser for "too long, didn't read" (note that this refers to people who utilize such acronym for "screw you I'm not reading this", not "short summary version") tl;dr: it's lame ____________________ I dealt with it. |
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Red Paragoomba Level: 19 Posts: 18/53 EXP: 30562 Next: 5215 Since: 02-28-07 From: Belgium Last post: 5435 days Last view: 4188 days |
I was googling for Zelda hacking stuff and found one of Mirzle's posts. After reading the post I was like "Wow, this forum is all helpful and shit". Stifu having the same type of board also made me more curious and after some time lurking I finally registered. |
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 Panser Level: 42 Posts: 209/338 EXP: 492563 Next: 28799 Since: 02-19-07 Last post: 5518 days Last view: 4916 days |
Posted by XkeeperUsing tl;dr for a summary though usually doesn't do anything for the people who use it for saying "I'm not reading what you wrote"Posted by Kernaltl;dr is loser for "too long, didn't read" 
Anyway, I found Acmlm's ROM Hack Domain in 2003 after looking around for Bouché's old board (which I don't remember how I even found his board first ), and stayed for part of '03. I came back once or twice in '04 but didn't realize my account was deleted due to a database wipe (d'oh  ) but finally reregged in '05 and stayed from then on. |
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 Porcupo Level: 41 Posts: 200/317 EXP: 446035 Next: 34110 Since: 03-29-07 From: Somewhere far, far away. Last post: 6069 days Last view: 5254 days |
Posted by Darckthunder YAY! We're similer. |
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