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How did you find out about rom hacking?

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narutoactor said:
...fire red didnt even come out in english until 2004
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Did he ever say it was for Pokemon Firered? Gold, to my knowledge, has a Map Editor!

I just found some of those rubbish hack things on YouTube, like that one with the Congratulations, you received a free Regice, and then Chaos Black, and then here.
 
Mateo said:
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I found rom hacking in a similar way to Mateo.

I was at an all day rehearsal with my amateur dramatics group, and I had a few months previous been playing Pokemon for the first time, and so we got on the conversation of it, it eventually led to some guy saying his friend had Pokemon Yellow on his computer. When I got home I dialled up the net and found no$gmb and pokemon blue. This got my interest in looking for Pokemon roms, which eventually led to finding some Pokemon Orange hacks by Dtyler, and Pokemon Generations by BG Translations. Onwards a few months I was looking for Pokemon game makers, it must have taken many weeks of searching before I found anything. The first programs I discovered were Thingy32 Mr. Clicks TileED, and Pokemap. I didn't join any forums until 2003 about a year after I had started ROM hacking and 2 years since I found out about Emulation.
 
Honestly? I googled "New Pokemon Games" and found the original Pokemon Brown.
Through that, I found out about hacking, and through google yet again, I found Pokecommunity.
Hung around for a while, then disappeared, joined in 2007 and barely posted.
And now my posting is starting to pick up.
 
I remember searching pokemon gold cheats on youtube. Then after browsing a bit i found pokemon shiny gold glithes and i was like wth? then eventually i found a vid showing more of SG and the link was to PC. The next part embarrases me...
...I tried to download shiny gold and found out i had to be a member. Made an account, looked at HSC hacks and played them. Later in the fall i decided to give ROM hacking a try. The rest is just history... (first romhack I was in was reign of fire, didnt go so well...)
 
Ahh, the good ol' days.
I was checking out Pokemon Diamond/Pearl vids before the game was released in the USA, and I came across a pic of a custom map, so I looked around on youtube, found a link to E-Map, and got it, looked up Scizz, and the Helmeted Rodent team, and found The Pokecommunity, and joined, became a nooblet, and that is the story of how I became me.
 
Yeah, someone in youtbe had a good video on where to find hacking tools. I followed the links(wah) and his advise, and i became a maniac hacker. XD

Then, i searched around Wah, i learnt about on going hacks, and then [i dont remember how] i clicked a link to a PC page. I started to like the forums, and i joined right away, using my nickname as username. [/offtopic] Sorry. XD
 
i found pokemon choas black, dude some guy was selling it! i was so dumb that i actually bought it........
 
hmm well i was googleing "gold and silver remakes" after i first saw those one pictures (the ones that were fake that got posted one april fools day) because i thought they were real and i really didnt find anything about it when looking for websites so i clicked images and one one of the first three pages i saw shinygold. i tryed to download it but it said i needed to register (and if it wasnt for that i would have never came back to PC) i download beta 4 of SG not knowing beta 5 was out because the link led me the older thread lol. a month passed and i found a link to beta 5 on a youtube video. a year later (i didnt always play it lol) and i got stuck in SG so googled "pokemon hacks" to try to find a different hack but no i found something greater i found PC! i logged in after a whole year and i sent a pm to Zel asking for help and ever sence then i have been going to PC almost every day!
 
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