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FFVI: Divergent Paths
10-31-2019, 09:55 PM
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(10-27-2019, 02:55 PM)PowerPanda Wrote:(10-27-2019, 09:00 AM)Murdertrain Wrote: I wish I could learn this stuff myself.
Well, if it's any encouragement, I started off on this site 2 years ago spending a week trying to figure out how to make a relic change "Runic" into "Shock". Once you get the basics down, the rest just kind of flows from there.
Not to be a Negative Nelly, but my experience has been completely different.
I lurked on several message boards for five or six years before I can actually get some of the basic concepts of ROM hacking. Even though there were tutorials, a lot of them glossed over certain basic building blocks, such as what hex editing actually is, how a byte could be code or data, or what was realistically possible with ROM hacking versus building one's own engine. I only stepped in here a few years ago because I did want to make changes, but I had absolutely no idea of what the framework was to make the changes. It was only after at least a year that I finally began to understand some very bare bones basics, and it took another year and a half after that just to make one of the major changes I would like to make. I soon quit after that because I realized I didn't have the aptitude to do things like make ASM files. While I can at least follow along with with what people are talking about now, for me this limited knowledge did not come quickly. I thought prior to this form that ROM hacking was simply changing one byte of hexidecimal to another, seeing if the one-byte change were successful or if it broke, then working from there. I didn't realize there was organized way of proceeding, and necessary for knowledge before getting to the point of making changes.
By the time I learn how to achieve my other goals, somebody would have already done what I wanted. So I can understand the frustration of Never-Hackers, because to me the process has not been intuitive.
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