Well, it is that time

Man, that's too bad. Prior to even joining this site I saw you as great hacker and programmer. I guess I could say you helped want to become a hacker, when I first played your Final Fantasy V Xpert. I wondered how one person could change a game like that and I wanted to know more to try and create a hack as well. So for that Jce, I bid you a farewell with all the joys in life.

Thanks man, good to hear those kind words.

Ouch, this hurts to see one of the legends go... A little piece of me died reading this. I understand though man, and you are always welcomed here of course! I must ask though, what will become of your project that had a lot going on with? I could maybe keep it going on & put it on my things to do list after my infernal hack is out...? It had a great premise and I was really looking forward to it. You have a nice new world map, and songs, and I assume character plans and maybe sprites. This is a shocked, drunken shocked post, please keep in mind. Trying to avoid the actual though of thee JCE3000GT retiring from the hacking scene!

I remember the first time I heard I think it was a Secret of Mana song in FFV, and that blew my mind. I am also a man of music, when it comes to these games, and JCE (James) was the person I wanted to be as a ROM hacker - nice, generous, knowlegable, and cool! I finally got in touch with him, and he was even nicer and all that stuff I just said than I coulda thought.

You have done a lot for the FFVI hacking community and tought me pretty much the foundation on which I can make the music hacks!

P.S. I am going to play and beat Drakkhen over the weakend, or so help me God.
Just hope I don't run into any crazy ass f**k**g dragon god-like enemys or stencil shaped humanoid figures, orrrr the laser shooting dog heads. Orrrrr that constilation of stars that has it out for me, trying to rid the world of dragon creaters one automated confusing battle at a time!

EDIT: this post was edited to be slightly less drunk sounding -_-

I knew you wouldn't take that announcement well Mike. It is time for me to retire though, losing the passion in a hobby should be the first sign to let it go. This is why I also sold my Camaro restoration project earlier this year as well.

As for the "secret" project I was working on I had planned on publicly posting what it is and how far I got on the progress by Sept 1st. You are welcome to all my project files and my storyboard/to-do lists, I would love to see it finished but I am ok with what has been accomplished on it so far. Ironically most of what was left is something I would of needed someone else to do, that being mapping and events. Most everything else was either completed or nearly complete.

I'm so very happy that so many people have either enjoyed or benefited from what ever contributions I've made to the community. And of course all of the great people I've had the privilege to work with or contribute to on various projects. And you specifically have been a treat to work with. I must say you absolutely are the king of the current S-SPC (Square SPC) music scene, and you definitely passed me up on skill with all of that MML stuff that I still to this day just don't have the patience for! HAH! Maybe you can pioneer some FF4 music progress in the future. I'll expect to continue corresponding through email on stuff if you need.

And yes, you need to finish Drakkhen at some point! Just put in some PAR codes to make it easier. LOL

wow, I am really sad to see you go man,

you have made huge contributions to rom hacking period and are (to me anyway) one of the top "Friggin Guns" no questions asked dude lol


JCE300GT, you will be missed bro and are always welcome here with open arms

Thank you, I know this will be a great place to continue to check in on. Maybe I'll post some random stuff when you least expect it.