hinkage

Well.. I guess so? The possibility of nobody entering has been too cripplingly horrible to imagine, lol. But don't hesitate to enter if you were thinking to do so- goodness knows someone needs to get the ball rolling.

Nope, not to my knowledge. I don't think it's necessarily because it's not in ROM Hacking though, seeing as the thread has a thousand or so views. Admittedly, it's worth at least thinking about moving the competitions, so I've taken that on board, rest assured.

Hinkage, I think there was a bug where I didn't obtain surf or I should've but got cut, or something (I downloaded the non-bugfix version). When I came to the thread, the links were removed and foundout about the fireworks joke incident. Was that something you fixed in beta 1.0-2?

Hinkage, if you ever end up implementing me into a hack as a character, can you use the Wallace sprite for me? It's my sprite in Dragonstone (you're Steven).
Speaking of which, have you played Dragonstone? It's quite decent if I say so myself. Plus, the gameplay should last about an entire hour with little to no bugs!

Hinkage, I can't fnid the Surf HM in Hyetology to advance in the game. How do I get it?

Where can I join?

your avi's got a creepy pedo smile &_&

Please don't leave :(. Your hacks were possibly the most original things to come out of PokéCommunity in years - its their uniqueness that really counts. I could care less about the visual appeal or grammar with all of the completely original references you've put in 2Awesome and Hyetology. It is something that no one has ever seen before, and just because it doesn't make it into the Hacks Showcase doesn't mean its not a good hack.

Nonetheless, if you're really not motivated to hack anymore, I will continue wielding your style with references and humour in my hack. The next update for Dragonstone is unforseen :D.

How do you have time for ROM hacking anymore? I really don't. :/

Thanks. :)

Where can I find this "Adam Gibson"? I wish to make him the Prime Minister of the region in my hack :D.

Lol whatever!

so much waitlolo

only a week for your game! I can´t wait:classic:!!!!

Yeah, but hacks like that aren't going to make it to the Showcase. Ultimately, most hackers aim for that, for whatever reason, but if they're not willing to put in the work then their hack won't move up to the showcase. I see what you're saying and I know that there is some truth to it, but making the rules stricter won't force people into making better hacks, it'll just make the amount of hacks submitted more scarce.

For the most part it's a given that new events be used, especially for the showcase. I mean if a hack is submitted and we can clearly see that all events are the same, then it's not going to do very well/go very far.
You can't really complain about that formula as much as you are. Pokemon games are built on that formula, and for the most part, hacks just use those sprites as placeholders. I don't think it's as huge a deal as some people seem to make out of it- in time, the game will either be perfectly original (due to more time and effort being put in), or it'll peter out and die, leaving everyone to move on from it. I know there might be some painfully generic hacks, but they barely last, and sometimes you have to let the hacker learn that for themselves. I feel I've strayed a bit, but in essence I'm saying that making the rules stricter would really do more harm to the section than good, in the long run.

Sections such as that have been considered and tested. Both times (that I'm aware of) they failed, but because people weren't using them properly. It just seemed too hard to find a middle ground between totally new hackers and hackers of the standard required in Progressing Hacks (of course some are a lot better than others, but I'm sure you know what I mean). In the future, maybe another section like that might be considered, but it's not very likely right now, considering the lack of success with past attempts.

I'm glad to see someone trying to better Emulation, but I strongly disagree.
The amount of screenshots necessary for a hack to be approved is suitable, and has been for a long while now. Raising the amount of necessary screenshots won't improve the quality of submitted hacks- especially not in the case of the Showcase (Thirty screenshots, really?). I'm fairly confident in saying that months pass between one hack being moved to the Showcase and the next, so while I know you think the requirements are a bit low, in actuality we don't just let any old hack go there.

As for progressing hacks, the requirements need to be reasonable for the average hacker who is reasonably new, but we're firm enough to decline anybody who clearly downloaded some tools an hour or so before posting a FR ROM with a terribly edited Pallet Town that gives you a Salamence as a starter and access to the Legendary Birds instead of your Rival's house.

I think the rules are fine, but thanks for suggesting, anyway.

It requires Sappy :\. All I did was note the pointers in AlexPad, and reverse them.

If you can find another program that works for you and displays the right pointers, you should be able to do it with notepad.

I'm occupied with other things right now :(. Dragonstone is on a full stop, because I don't have the control to force my interest away from Minecraft or 4chan :\. If you don't get it done before I get back in the swing of ROM hacking, I'd be happy to do it :).

But where exactly is this "level 11 Politoed"?

Thanks for that, some of them I was aware of.
I'll make sure to fix what I can.

Of course, yeah. You only need two Gyms minimum for your hack to be eligible for the showcase. (Speaking generally here, not personally @you, lol :P). I play minecraft (not so much nowadays) and know exactly what you mean, and that's.. fine, really, since the bones of the hack are completed and it'd be playable otherwise. Completion isn't actually the main factor of hacks that make it to the showcase (and I really can see why people would think it IS a main factor)- it's the general quality of the hack that takes precedence. A hack could have a completed story but be kinda sparse/lacking when it's actually being played, you know? :) So it could be added to a list of completed hacks (that I should get around to making sometime), but it mightn't be worthy of the Showcase.

Again, this isn't directed at you, since I've not forgotten some arguments we've had in the past about this very thing and so you might have thought it was, haha :) I guess I didn't present it as clearly as I could have at that time.