u/Atrium41

Long time follower of ROM hacking... first time using a decomp. Once apon a time I had the ambitions of making my own rom hack, but quickly dropped that idea. Then a decade and a half went by. After seeing the advancements from recent years, I finally got around to figuring out cloning the git and setting up VSC.

My idea is a small project. Not a lot of custom assets or a large story/region. What I remember being a pain was finding free space in the rom, and screwing up the the sound, and causing crashes if you allocated to the wrong spaces.

Anywho.. What are the best practices for creating your own Trainers, maps, scripts and events? Same with Flags and Variables, and anything else my amateur butt forgot. I'm working on adding a few character sprites with aesprite and setting up a "hub town" for testing. Then its off to the races on figuring out configurations and... making it. Any tips for good practices or issues to avoid would be appreciated. Also any resources for the higher scope stuff like music, feature branches and changing the intro scenes/title screen?

With the next update seeming to be a features update, what are some car parts and mechanics around them you could see added around "tuning"

The one that sticks out to me would be brake pads. They would have to be as abundant as tires, and wear down similarly. Different pads could have different stopping power, durability and sounds

With N64 and Xbox 360 taking off, it's exciting. I'm weary of Claude assisted ones, so I'm all for patience and understanding. The Pokémon Emerald decomp and the Emerald Expansion project have done things I thought were impossible. Being familiar with the traditional binary hacks.

I'm hoping to see the NDS era take off in the coming years, and skip most of the awkward early era like gba.

I'd like to see PC ports at some point that completely sunsets rpg maker's "necessity". I also like the prospect of dual monitor gaming on other ds projects.

Not that I would have considered #43 a filler, but now we get to see the context of Nathan's return. (Well duh, right??)

Hear me out... Nathan is being trained for the Premier Radiant, as the Old Way is changing. With him set for the helm. Buuuuut. Earth has a hitch to that plan. The Catalyst(?) Colossal. It is currently underground being retrofitted into something??

This is where I'm gonna get more speculative. 4 plot points that are just poking at me.

Franklin Group has been doing everything it can to prepare for the Catalysts return.

-Yellow Radiant Contained

-Leading to Bootleg Radiants

-Seized Colossal

-AI system to call all the shots

Whatever the AI system is, I believe it is being trained on the data from the Yellow Radiant and whoever is currently at its helm.

I think the Franlkin Group is obviously trying to build their own team to defend the Earth from possible Threats, and soon they will have that. With a big ass robot, an AI leader, and Alien Tech that charges off Radiants.

Except in order for Nathan to return, so that they can make everything "right" with the New Way, he has to get highly classified technology off planet

But who will the enigmatic Radiant Yellow turn out to be??? That is my biggest itch.

Seriously underrated. I wouldn't consider Armchair Martian or Drag the River household names, but he is sooo good. It seems like a lot of people are likely to know a song with him in it, rather than knowing who he is. He is everywhere and collaborates with everyone.

Dude definitely got me into more Alternative Country. His voice is perfect for it. From the Fat coasts of Cali to the East Coast and Gainesville scene.. he is there. Like that cool dude in highschool that just hit it off with every click.

If anyone can point me to a seller... or someone who might have one stashed away.. I'd greatly appreciate you

Mr. Higgins mentioned people at conventions having them squirreled away.

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That's all. Love lost media. Love the process. Some demos are my favorite versions of songs. Someone somewhere will really appreciate it.

I used to be really plugged into a local band, and only recently after 15 years, discovered their demo tracks leading to their first album. 16yo me would have killed for them

Amazing feeling.

That's all. Love lost media. Love the process. Some demos are my favorite versions of songs. Someone somewhere will really appreciate it.

I used to be really plugged into a local band, and only recently after 15 years, discovered their demo tracks leading to their first album. 16yo me would have killed for them

Amazing feeling.

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>Are we forever destined to be another carbon copy. Forever tainted by the faults of our fathers fathers father

>Maybe it's the demons in our blood

Or the monsters in our heads

>(Chorus) But I don't wanna just Survive another branch on the family tree. Survive another try at a prodigy. Survive another try at the life you didn't lead.

Survive just to be another trauma queen