If you're building on top of the original FireRed canon, maybe not?
Yeah, you can. There's 9MB of free ROM space to build on. Also around 5KB of RAM space unused 1 bit per Flag, that's a lot of flags.
No one told you to. O_o
You're your own person lol, this isn't work. Everyone does what they want to an extent.
You made a request in my thread, then called me lazy when I declined, haha.
All those nops in Emerald that were written over for years?
00s and FFs it doesn't matter. If it's unoccupied, and safe to overwrite, by definition it is Free Space. That's also a shamefully weak point if you're trying to justify why Ruby is better than Emerald.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.
I'm trying to show you that File Sizes are changed for Pokemon ROMs to a static 16 MB when dumped, even though the cartridge is 32 MB. This is to save space on your computer. This is also why 32 MB expansions of said ROMs are safe for Cartridge play. You can make 5 regions and still have extra room.
I don't use Emerald, so I really don't care about that.
That's a beautiful way to dodge a point.
How fruitful a hack is far from how "technically innovative" it is, lol. There's good writing, good graphics work, how the hack meshes together, then there's "features" made with assembly. It's one of many gears to be honest.
Now add good writing, graphics work and all of that into a Base that's actually better.
I wouldn't be hacking Ruby without a reason to.
You haven't given one reason yet other than "it's my opinion". If you're going to have an argument like this, I'd prefer if you knew what you're talking about. Your only argument thus far is the nops in Emerald not being present in Ruby. But those Nops are free space, and take all of about 20 seconds to change to "FF"s. Now if you have anything that's actually technologically valid, I'd love to hear.
Emerald is only one base.
The most popular ROM base is FireRed. I don't know why you thought of Emerald instead, or that Emerald was the only popular ROM base...
We're getting around to fixing mistakes like that. But we're not there yet, are we? We have a ways to go, and until we get there "expanded ROM support" is still relevant.
For the starting hacker, yes. If you know what you're doing, expansion isn't a pain to deal with at all. There are already alternatives for scripting and mapping which support expansion. From there, editing tables is a hacker's ability to understand the data presented. Anyways, it's still an inconvenience to hack without nice tools. That's not what this arguement is about, because expansion while adding on to cannon events is possible for all ROM bases (as I explained above about cartridge size). Even without expanding to 32 MB, it's still 9MB free to use. That's 9/16 MB free.
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I'm sorry, you don't justify elitism. Shoving your opinion into everyone's faces and acting like it somehow holds any more water is just ignorant. FireRed and Emerald are being given technical advantages that could have honestly been bestowed onto Ruby but weren't, and whether those technical advantages are the bee's knees are your opinion - and you should know something about opinions: they all weigh the same. People are going to do what they want anyway, and the best thing you can do is hold what you have as preferences the same as what everyone else has, and not put them on a gilded pedestal like everyone needs to know about it. FireRed is more researched, and more developed for. That is a fact. It isn't by some magical virtue that that is the case, though! A large part of it was just luck. I'm honestly hacking Ruby because Nintendo's graphics are nicer in Hoenn, and because I'm building on top of their canon so I have to leave all of their flags alone. I don't have to expand my ROM and worry about tool incompatibility. That's it. It's not so complicated.
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I'm saying as a ROM Base FR, EM are already miles ahead of their competitors. Forget the research or things hackers added. Just the standalone ROM, they're both newer and have many bugs fixed, features added ect.
Now from that superior ROM base, add the extra research and hack development. Ruby isn't even comparable. I'm not degrading your preference to hack Ruby. I'm trying to tell you that when hacking Gen III Ruby is at the bottom of the pack from the ROM base. Then added features for other bases granted by hackers just plummet Ruby's standings. This is fact, not opinion.
Anywho, I think I've proven my point. If you don't see what I'm coming from then that's unfortunate and I wish you the best of luck in your Ruby Hack. When comparing Ruby and Emerald I'm unbiased because I don't hack either, nor do I have a preference to either. I'm just stating facts.
