DaleH771

Happy b-day! ;D

Hahas, most hacks have their mapping done first, but that's where the flame is at it's hottest, so they put in more effort to make eye candies 8D

Oh... Where have you been? Your hack's not very famous but I love it the style is so original!

Hey there is Oxcrest continuing?

Hey friend!
Take a look at my Pokémon Red - Gen. II Graphics Patch!
Play through the original Pokémon Red we all know and love with huge improvements such as all new sprites from GSC!
No more pixelated "grainy" back sprites!
It's kind of like a sneak-peak to alot of the features included in my main hack, Pokémon Prototype!
Leave your feedback in the hack's thread!
And while you're at it, tell your friends!
Thanks a bunch!

Hey, I know you're prolly very busy with ur hack but can you give me a link to that wooden house tile in your hackl?

Heck, that's not the right attitude at all
Look, join Skeetendo Inc. and check out "Global FAQ and Resource Thread" by kkj1116 there. You'll find lots of neat stuff there and I've no doubt you wouldn't understand how hacking works by reading some tutorials in there. You've got nothing to lose, expect for time...

Isn't that what rom hacking is all about ?
Rom hacking is not mapping, not inserting tiles with a game-specific tile inserter, not adding more events to a map with A-map either by using some editor's command for "add new event here".

If you're not interested in what you're calling "hacking", why not learn how to do the stuff in a proper way then? You might have seen my earlier modifications on pokemon crystal which I made with zero-knowledge on hacking so far. Yet little by little, I started studying rom hacking in general, how bytes work, what bits are, what is "ram", how Gameboy processor handles data, ..., and I'm still on that path learning more and more all the time.

I for myself have quite a lot of free time to spend on rom hacking although I do have plenty of other interests as well. And even of this rom hacking part, let's say, 70% of it is really working on Dark Future. The remaining 30% goes for advising others, learning by doing so, asking questions, studying more etc.

Not sure why I really wanted to say all this but related to what I pointed out earlier, rom hacking is a lot more fun when you actually have to use your brain to do something. I also used to like doing stuff your way but it's really not that fun without having sort of a problem solving behind it. http://www.wordiq.com/definition/ROM_hacking

Hi!

I can't help but shake the feeling I was supposed to find some kind of tile for you and I've yet to do that- I'm afraid I'm kept reeeeeeeeeeally busy with Uni and general mod work around here, so it just slipped my notice, and I'm sorry about that! :( What was I supposed to give you again, a mountain tile or something? :P

Why's that? I can tell you that hacking turns out a lot more fun when you actually know what you're doing, experimenting and finding out more and more. Doing simple changes with a hex editor isn't really any more difficult than doing the exactly same things with a game-specific editor. For example in Silver, if you wanted to make a trainer have a lv 10 Magikarp you'd simply write his pokemon data as:
0A 81 FF in which 0A is the hexadecimal form of "10", 81 "129" (Magikarp's number in pokedex) and FF for ending the pokemon data. It's really not that complicated...

And once you understand the basics you can move on into doing more difficult things. And I can say for myself that I would have never gotten this far if it wasn't for my curiousity in learning how to hack G/S/C (instead of FireRed for instance).

I'd say, if you are even a bit interested in learning how to hack Silver, go for it! You can even apply most of the stuff you know about hacking GB/C games into GBA ones as well. I could go and create an excellent GBA pokemon rom hack if I wanted to even though I haven't been messing around with tools such as XSE and A-Map at all (because I already know what they "do" without actually having to use them).