Hello! Old romhacker incoming:
And guess... ...of course it's finished. I wanted to do a better remake of Pokemon Crystal, so you will not find stupid Orange Island here.
First off, that's just rude to post about on someone's thread, regardless of their activity/inactivity. Perhaps you could have been more constructive about it, but then again, why advertise your hack and badmouth another on a thread that isn't even yours.
Rejoice that GAMEFREAK itself has not banned you from hacking!
I actually wrote a 10-page paper in one of my college courses about the topic of whether or not romhacking is illegal and if companies can efficiently ban others from editing their work. Really depends on where your publishing your edited work, and how you are formatting your work (IPS files vs actual rom files). Also, it can be argued that people who own specific roms in question are allowed to edit and tamper with work, but that is a very big grey area in terms of legal debate.
The fact that my hack is based on Liquid Crystal and is the same name (I just like the name). The content is different and better. LaZ never got GameFreak's permission to edit Fire Red! And there are no exclusive rights to the name "Liquid Crystal". Hack is created for fans by fans, so I have the right to edit this hack! In addition, all authors violated the rules when they created their versions of games based on Red Fire, Emerald, etc. None of them got permission from GAMEFREAK! If you do not like something, simply do not play it. I created this hack for myself, and the fact that I made it available to you is probably not a crime!
Again, you could've easily made your own thread if you want to advertise your "better" (love the subjectivity/bias there) hack. Honestly, it seems like you are only posting here so your hack can have a better chance of getting "fame"/reaching people. That's just my opinion though, feel free to prove me wrong. :)
So yeah, as someone who has been involved in the community for a long while and developed friendships with people such as Linkandzelda, it hurts to see that someone is willing to badmouth another's project on their thread and then continue to advertise their better "edit" of the hack. I'm not mad, disappointed or whatever about the fact you are editing another person's hack, but the sheer fact that you are advertising your hack on a platform that isn't yours bothers me. If you want a platform so bad to advertise your hack, create your own.
Now then, I'm gonna go back dealing with my life. Hopefully you can read this and understand where some people are coming from.