I'd be nice to have a collection of these for reference and analysis. Preferably all in one place, like DataCrystal.

That sounds like a really good idea! I wonder where one could find such a thing?

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What blows my mind is why someone who has said they are "not going to reverse engineer a single copyrighted game" because it is "illegal" cares so much about such things.

It also involves material that takes up a full semester course at a typical US college with a computer science program.

There are plenty of documents on this site as others have already suggested in this thread. Yes, a lot of them are geared towards beginning to intermediate skill, but hey, that's where a lot of people start out and go from there. A lot of people develop their own method for handling many different situations in ROM hacking that really doesn't require a document.

Anyways, whatever gap you feel that needs to be explained can be handled by you. This is a community that is made up of many contributors. I think that since you have all these great ideas, you should be the one to implement them, after you manage to gain more skill at ROM hacking. Because, I'll be honest with you, most of the things that I've heard you post about just don't make any practical sense. I ain't trying to put you down, I'm just stating my opinion that I think that you need to improve before you can start telling people ten times more experienced than yourself that you have a better idea.

You can't even really base what you're saying upon any experience either because you have contributed nothing to the cause yet. No hacks, translations, documents, utilities or anything other than reviews. So, what are you waiting for? Instead of planning all these counter-arguments, start working on projects instead.

Sure I suppose having more and more documents on various romhacking stuff wouldn't hurt, but I don't think it's necessary. I worked my way up from the very bottom and I've learned a great deal more since then. Most of which came from experimentation and my interaction with others.  There are some good docs for the more advanced stuff, but nothing has been more helpful than what I said above.

I recommend the Chilton's brand of repair manuals if one's available for your car. Try to avoid Haynes if at all possible. They're good but most of the instructions are vague and only really make sense if you've already done what's being explained before.