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I'm being intentionally vague here because I want to see where people go with this.
So, what does ROM Hacking mean to you?
So, what does ROM Hacking mean to you?
If there was something such as "Like" button in this forum too, I'd definitely have pushed it.For me, I don't consider most of the people (including myself) in this forum to be rom hackers. I think that mostly the people here are game designers. The difference is that to be a good rom hacker you have to be able to hexedit, find images and manipulate them, be able to trace things back to their source and modify them to your liking, etc. I guess a good definition of what I think of as a hacker is a person who can discover new data and figure out how things work without useing anything but a hex editor and maybe some basic decompilers. This does not mean that they don't use tools made by people, it just means that if need arose they could do their hacking without any tools except a hexeditor (and, once again, maybe some basic decompilers). A game designer is a person who just designs a game useing the tools others have created. They can do some simple hexediting if they have a tut, and can maybe track down a few offsets, but are pretty much helpless without a tutorials and/or tools from others. They key part here is that a hacker finds out things for himself and applies his knowledge, while a game designer just designs a game without knowing how it works.
ROM Hacking is Understanding how something works, Understanding is Knowledge, Knowledge is Power.
ROM Hacking = Power.
Seriously though, I just like being able to say "Yeah, I understand how that works, and I can manipulate it any way I want."
What is it to me? Basically, it's like my life. I have no life outside the internet, and get picked on a lot at school, so I can come home, fire up my laptop, and have fun doing something I like to think I'm at least decent at, while getting away from all the things in life that reallyannoy me or make me feel angry and upset. So yeah, Rom hacking means a lot to me actually.
I'm honestly almost exactly the same as this. Rom Hacking is my life. And since I found this forum, so is PokeCommunity.What is it to me? Basically, it's like my life. I have no life outside the internet, and get picked on a lot at school, so I can come home, fire up my laptop, and have fun doing something I like to think I'm at least decent at, while getting away from all the things in life that reallyannoy me or make me feel angry and upset. So yeah, Rom hacking means a lot to me actually.