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Old December 9th, 2010 (11:05 AM).
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[/LIST]Gotta say that you progress way faster than most people ever :D
Here is a suggestion from me; as you happen to learn everything fast and seem like a person who actually wants to learn as well, why not check out what scripts actually look in the ROM and study what different commands do ? As you probably realize, no commands such as "display text" and "walk 1 square upwards" exist. Somewhere in the ROM is just defined that when a script is load, a random byte defines a different thing whileas when a map is load, the same byte could represent for example a roof tile.

There is a tutorial about third gen. scripting somewhere which you could read before starting to mess with scripting tools ;)
Well, actually, I have already done all of what you said, but since you didn't know, thank you, for if I didn't do them, your reply would guide me to that point.

The thing is, I am hesitant right now as I began to realize how 'used' Fire Red is. Don't take me wrong, it's the best option out of those three, but I s'pose that many chocolates in one stomach can cause stomachache. Although, in the end I might solely work on Fire Red, just because it suits me best in hacking. As in, it is a land already explored, so no dangers are lurking around.

Other than that, I don't know if I progress quickly or not, but speedy knowledge is never a good thing, so...
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Old December 9th, 2010 (2:03 PM).
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Don't take me wrong, it's the best option out of those three
I'd be careful with statements like those. Each ROM has its ups and downs and I would hesitate to single out one as the "best option". I'm not saying that you should switch ROMs (hell, I used Fire Red for an entire year before switching to Emerald), just that you should shop around before settling on one ROM.
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Old December 9th, 2010 (5:47 PM).
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Lol... where to begin.

I First signed up 2 years ago in a profile called Pokefreak2.
I had good friends i played shinygold and thought i wanted to hack too.
I learnt scripting but really, that was the only thing i could do.
I tried mapping utterly failed i mean probably worst on pc, so bad i quit a-map deleted
it cause i sucked. i didn't try anything else i stayed with scripting... then
i started playing World of warcraft again and basically quit hacking... xD

Few months later i came back to it, I learnt alot more i relearned how to script but was much better then before. I learnt to map, tile insert, Music hack and all sorts of things.
And now i'm trying to learn how to sprite... but... i Utterly fail at it.
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Old December 9th, 2010 (10:53 PM).
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I started ROM hacking when I was 14, and I started with the standard package at the time, kyofu kawa and the Helmeted Rodent's Elite Map Package to be exact.

ScriptEd was out of the question when I started, I had no logical processing in my head, so I fiddled around with the Map Editor.

Then PokeScript Came out, and more tutorials started popping up everywhere, so I decided to take a crack at scripting for once.

thethethethe is the only reason I am what I am today in terms of scripting prowess, and I thank him in my head every time I finish a script.

It's been 4 years since the start, and I can say I've progressed a lot, gained a logical mind, (which is a good thing for ROM hacking, but I completely destroyed my moral fiber and opinions on everything in the process, now I'm full of un-biased opinions... wololo)

I took time to learn some graphics editing, dabbled in ASM, I get the gist of it I suppose.

I still can't music hack, but I have a BEAUTIFUL score for a snowy route, from a song I heard a woman's choir/pianist play earlier today.

Even though I don't really hack mainstream, like, complete hacks, or released hacks, and only do it as a hobby sorta, I keep myself updated and I like to write scripts and not compile them since my PC is too slow to actually ROM hack...

(TRUST ME KIDS, when I get a better computer, I will create something beautiful, I've already got a NOVEL LENGTH MANUSCRIPT for me to follow and hack to, complete with maps, music, ASM, you name it, IT WILL BE EPIC... someday...)
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Old May 2nd, 2011 (3:07 AM).
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hmm, well, at first i was thinkign about advance replay and stuff, and downloaded pokesav for platinum. (at the time i hade no idea that hacking existed, i thought that hacks i downloaded where programmed and needed a super computer genius to do).

anywho, one day, i thought: 'maybe there's a program that could make hacking easier for stupid people like me', and i googled it. i founf some tutorial stating that you only need two programs to hack, advance map and a-starter. i was like: 'cool'.

i downloaded them and read the rest of the tutorial. realizing that all it said i could do was change maps and starters, i was like: 'what the hell ? how do they mak those awesome hacks ?'

i googled again and again, and discovered some more tutorials o other stuff, the stumbled upon 'diegoisawesome's mega huge scripting tutorial'.

it seemed unimaginarely hard, and i though reading wouldn't hurt, so i started. of course i had downloaded the new XSE, and nothing would work, (mostly because of the outdated commands in the tut). So i went on to self education. i read the beginning of the official XSE guide that comes with it, and i understood what an offset is, what pointers are, and the general layout of commands. then i just used the command help feature (which only give five words about the commands unction, and a list of the parameters needed for it. and i understood scripting like how i knew my name. its so easy to me now, the only prob is that i virus attacked my pc, and one of tools is now bugged, i think that's why every script i have written for month have caused a reset bug.

anywho, i started to learn other aspects o hacking, and i also became an expert and pokemon sprite inserting, people sprite inserting, tile inserting, and ow inserting and mapping. lolz.
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Old May 2nd, 2011 (5:27 AM).
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My inspiration for hacking began in 2009, when I decided I wanted to try to play Pokemon Yellow as close to the anime as possible, with only Ash's team. I made a few videos, but then decided it wasn't close enough to the anime and didn't feature enough of the trainers Ash faced to be accurate.

Afterward, I began learning the basics of hacking, and decided to make a simple hack of Fire Red that would feature all the events from the anime to make the playthrough more accurate:



After making a few episodes, I determined that it simply wasn't good enough. If I truly wanted to make a game that was accurate to the anime, I'd need to learn scripting.

Shortly after that I was able to make fairly elaborate events, that more closely represented the events of the anime:



I'd already come a long way from the very basic hack I had begun only a little more than two weeks earlier. But that wasn't good enough either. With some patience in learning the fine points of scripting, and the help of JPAN's hacked engine, in about a year my events would become more than rudimentary and much more advanced:



The videos show my timeline as a hacker, progressing from a very basic hack with (not very good) superficial sprite changes and trainer battles to uniquely created scripts to more advanced scripts and techniques (many of which wouldn't have been possible without JPAN's hacked engine, I admit).

In two years I've come a long way, but there's still more I need to learn and accomplish if this hack will be as good as I want it to be.
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Old May 11th, 2011 (11:29 AM). Edited May 11th, 2011 by BloodPact.
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I think I really havent changed much in the past few months since I've begun hacking. This is mainly because I got stuck awhile back on something and have yet to find anyone to help me. I couldnt seem to figure out how to make a cave entrance work, and I still am unable to now. So, a PM would be apprciated from anyone able to help.
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Old August 3rd, 2011 (12:41 PM).
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Haha, well, I started about 2 years ago, sucked badly. I started mapping, did it for about a month and wanted to learn to script, I did, now I look at myself as an excellent scripter, and a decent mapper. kthbai
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Old August 3rd, 2011 (1:06 PM).
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A ton. Like, really.

I started drawing maps before I knew about map editors

For awhile I hacked Super Smash Bros. Brawl with custom music, stages, and textures.

Then I went to G/S to edit maps.

From there, I restarted about a dozen times.

After about 9-10 months later, and after taking an intro to programming class, I was able to complete Pokemon Awesome Version in a month.
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Old August 11th, 2011 (5:15 AM).
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I like to think I've improved a decent amount.
I started making sprites back in 2004, hoping one day I could put them in-game. But although I had the tools back then, I had no idea how to do it, and my attention span was so short I couldn't sit there and ready a guide. :P

Now I've advanced onto putting new pokémon/trainers in-game, although mapping and scripting are things I still need to work on.
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Old August 19th, 2011 (12:50 PM).
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My evolution as a hacker? Well, I started messing around with hack tools a few years before signing up here on the forums. Back then I had no idea what I was doing...my mapping was failure, I couldn't script, and I couldn't insert titlescreens/worldmaps. I also had no clue what indexing an image meant or how to palette edit. The list goes on and on.

Over roughly the past year, I have learned to do all of these things. So I have gone from knowing nothing to knowing quite a lot. Since the beginning, I envisioned myself creating a hack that I could someday post on the forums for people to play...and that day is still to come. Right now I do not even have a thread, but with each passing day I get closer to posting what I have done in the Progressing Hacks section.

There are still many more things I have to/want to learn about rom hacking before I can truly be happy with my skill set, but for now, I suffice in knowing that I have come a long way. :)
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