and your making me retype this: did u read my first post? it said ... AHM... Purple Lizzard im not even going to bother reading that post(since the first 2 lines bored me so damn much) as it was all a bunch of bullshit(lol gunship ...)
what he said had absolutly no purpose hes not the one re-typing things, nor is he answering any questions so something like that from coming from HIM is completly irrelevent. (hes baraged in messages all day? give a fuck. hes not answering questions here hes only reading which noone asked him to).
Since Sylux clearly has something against reading other people's posts, I've now developed something against reading his posts. All he does is flame people anyway...
Anyway, Kej, if I was to make my own hack, what would I need to do? Can you explain, I'm a total novice at game programming (and I wanna study it at Uni in 2 years too 8) )
most hacks are Game-Specific, for super metroid allot of people use SMILE. there are also others that can do stuff smile cant but the most complete hack would have to be SMILE
Embarrasing Fact: Power suit made by lowest bidder
right now, Jathys' site is missing the SMILE download... I think the server went down at one point and lost the file, and he never reuploaded it. Anyways, you'll have to get it from someone else who has it already, or bug Jathys to reupload SMILE.
As for what you need, it depends on what you want to actually hack. If you just want to redesign the rooms, then SMILE is enough (although Jathys decided to leave out scroll plm editing support). If you want to change values, you'll need a hex-editor and the rom offsets of what to change. If you want to make things work differently all together, you'll have to reprogram the assembly. You can do it with a hex-editor, but for large portions of code it's easier to use an disassembler to read code and an assembler to write it.
As for programming a game entirely from scratch, that's something else entirely. To be honest, sylux would probably be able to explain that better than I can. I have *some* experience on large-scale programming, but not much.
If you catch me in irc.esper.net on #supermetroid or #jzd (Jathys' chat room), I'll gladly help out with more specific questions you might have.