A Hacker's Motivation

Started by Quickster March 14th, 2010 7:28 AM
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Male
Seen April 4th, 2016
Posted April 3rd, 2016
351 posts
15.6 Years
What motivates you to hack and why do you do it?

I cant stick with hacking, there will be times that its really fun but then I start losing interest in it and there goes my motivation.

So tell me, what do you do to keep interest in hacking?
I laugh looking at this.

But sometimes I want to come back to it...

PeregrineFig

Starting Pokémon Obsidian

Age 28
Male
Michigan, USA
Seen February 22nd, 2011
Posted June 5th, 2010
202 posts
13.3 Years
My constant motivation is my own sense of pride. Scripting and things like that become incredibly frustrating at times, but when I write a complex script and it works exactly like I wanted it to, the feeling of pride I get is worth the effort it required. Being able to look at my work and think "this is pretty good" keeps me going through the annoying stuff.
Current Projects:
POKéMON AQUA SAPPHIRE
POKéMON OBSIDIAN

Bolens

Soul Hacker

Age 29
Male
PA
Seen August 22nd, 2016
Posted March 28th, 2013
359 posts
13.4 Years
My sense of motivation is the joy and or overall product value I can give my fellow members, and those who play my hacks. I want them to be able to remember my hacks, and then on the end of completing one, they feel that I accomplished something that made them feel good, and at the same time made me feel good while making it.

PeregrineFig

Starting Pokémon Obsidian

Age 28
Male
Michigan, USA
Seen February 22nd, 2011
Posted June 5th, 2010
202 posts
13.3 Years
hacking is fun but if you don't know what ur doing then it could be dangerous anyway its loads of fun having x999 master balls and x999 rare candys :)
Eh, I've found that if you have unlimited everything the game's boring. There's nothing to actually do when you have every Pokemon in the game, all at level 100. If you don't cheat it's more enjoyable because you have to actually play the game.
Current Projects:
POKéMON AQUA SAPPHIRE
POKéMON OBSIDIAN

Pokepal17

More cowbell~

Age 28
Male
Steeltown
Seen July 7th, 2011
Posted May 22nd, 2011
1,517 posts
14.6 Years
I want to enjoy myself. I'm not hacking for others, you know. It's a hobby to me, and nothing more. Like Spriting,
Another one of these polls? T_T

Pretty much the same for me, except I script instead. :3
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558122_DG

Learning how to make mistakes

Male
Seen May 27th, 2021
Posted April 1st, 2010
737 posts
13.5 Years
Cause its fun and cool. No more so cause I like hacking, cause....I donno I just do :/
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colcolstyles

Yours truly

Male
The Bay Area
Seen May 18th, 2019
Posted August 13th, 2012
1,588 posts
15 Years
Ever since I was a little kid playing Pokémon Yellow Version, it has always been my dream to create my own Pokémon game. ROM Hacking has made that dream a reality for me. Everything that I want in a Pokémon game I can now have. I can pick the trainers' pokémon and wild pokémon, I can make the people say whatever I want, I can design the entire region, and (as my hacking skills have developed) I can add entirely new features to the game. Though I have discovered that making a Pokémon game is far from easy, the idea of my own completed game is what motivates me to hack.

Brother of Vrai
Age 29
Male
Seen March 10th, 2023
Posted August 22nd, 2022
3,482 posts
15 Years
I only really focus on the graphics (tiles especially), so my motivation I suppose is from all the graphical things I saw and thought should be in Pokemon. Hence, my Tile Insertion. As well as my constant fear of not being remembered.


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NarutoActor

The rocks cry out to me

Age 29
Female
Brooklyn/Marlboro
Seen April 2nd, 2016
Posted March 22nd, 2016
1,974 posts
14.4 Years
Ever since I was a kid I wanted to make my own video game, and fix the problems that I thought pokemon had. I always enjoyed rom hacking. Even before hacking pokemon, I would hack other game series. I love the idea of trial, and erro. Figuring things out for my self, with a little help from my friends :). But personally now my motivation is to create the best hack I can make, get my hack in the hackshowcase, win hack of the month, and mabey, just mabey; make a hack that is as popular as Shinny gold.
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Alice

(>^.(>0.0)>

Age 31
Female
Oregon
Seen April 30th, 2015
Posted April 29th, 2015
3,077 posts
14.2 Years
The only hacking that I do is mapping... which I look at more as a form of art. Sort of like painting I guess. I don't do it to actually make full hacks, but just because I enjoy seeing the pictures in my head in real life. (Plus it's fun to show them off on the map rating thread lol.)

I'm going to OIT next year to study software/game programming though, and I do tons of other hacking/ game making. (CSS maps, AOM and AOE scenarios, and other games.) So, pokemon hacking kinda got left behind... the only part I seemed to truly enjoy was mapping, so I still do it a lot.

siper x

I'm Russia, Fear Russia

Age 27
Male
Seen March 29th, 2023
Posted July 14th, 2016
375 posts
13.8 Years
what motivates me is when people like my hack.
if i lose motivation during the hack, i start playing hacks that are liked, and see the coments they have, which motivayes me to get that good.

one bad thing though (that happened to me) is that new hackers aren't excepted as much, they try to make maps, and get critisized on everything, which makes it so they might not want to hack anymore.

so there are some things that motivate, and some things that bring people down.
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Satoshi Ookami

Memento Mori

Age 30
Male
Abyss of Time, Great Seal
Seen August 5th, 2018
Posted July 3rd, 2018
14,253 posts
14.8 Years
I guess fun and scripting... pretty much like... when I do complicated script and it's working I'm really glad =)
And also I wanna make fans of hack happy. 'cause they can play hack they like.
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Ty2

New Hacker and Working Hard

Age 26
I'm not really sure
Seen August 2nd, 2016
Posted May 28th, 2010
87 posts
17.6 Years
Well, I just started making a hack and my friends and siblings motivate me with ideas and they help me when I don't know what to do. I want to make a hack that could at least get hack of the month or week at least. What motivates me to keep trying is knowing when the moderators approve my thread then there will be some people out there who tell me whats good and tell me whats wrong in my hack and I'll fix it right away. And guess what? When I do that I will get more compliments in my hack. The feeling of someone appreciating your work can really make someone happy. That is what motivates me.

Shiny Quagsire

I'm Still Alive, Elsewhere

Age 25
Male
Hoenn Safari Zone
Seen August 7th, 2020
Posted April 17th, 2017
697 posts
14 Years
My motivation is the satisfaction of the community. I havn't posted one on this forum, but on another which go shut down. :(

miksy91

Dark Energy is back in action! ;)

Male
Finland
Seen September 21st, 2022
Posted September 21st, 2022
1,480 posts
14.6 Years
I get motivation from comments (which I rarely get) but the main issue that keeps me hacking is that it's fun and like the result of the game I make :D
Pokémon Dark Energy
Some ROM hacking related stuff
Age 27
Male
Massachusetts, USA
Seen September 19th, 2014
Posted July 18th, 2010
41 posts
13.9 Years
Scripting is eugh, even if I succeed, the annoyance of getting a big script working is too much.
True that so much :P

Another thing that motivates me is how its fun to do and when its done can be fun for others too.

Vrai

can you feel my heart?

Age 28
Male
Seen October 24th, 2022
Posted April 1st, 2016
2,896 posts
14.9 Years
Motivation, motivation... I generally hack for my own pride. I hack to say, "Look what cool crap I did with this!" and then go outside or something.

It's also nice to have a good group of friends (both IRL and here on PC) that support what you do and keep you working at it.

Aljam

Sweepin' ain't easy...

Age 29
Male
the wired
Seen February 4th, 2022
Posted January 30th, 2022
615 posts
14.9 Years
What motivates you to hack and why do you do it?

I cant stick with hacking, there will be times that its really fun but then I start losing interest in it and there goes my motivation.

So tell me, what do you do to keep interest in hacking?
As of you, I have lost interest in hacking as well.... At the time, what motivated me in hacking was learning how to do this and that and all of the people I would meet. Being on a hacking team really motivated me awhile to do my best for my peers. (for example working on silver ice with you was a blast!) Eventually, venturing out on my own was my downfall because I had no one to support or be supported by. Occasionally I have an urge to ROM hack and I honestly really want to get back into it. I remember when working on Emerald Thunder, I got HOTM clearly on the tiles I had used. That clearly brought my view on ROM hacking down because it wasn't meant to be skin deep.
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