Jigglysaint - I was quite literally out of commission from 2000 to late 2004, that part is no joke.  So if a website sprung up in those years I would definitely have missed it.  I also did'nt mention ACMLM board, which I probably should have, but the point was to snub them  :laugh:

Disch - Go watch the Daily Show, much of that is an example of dead-pan humor.  Or what about Andy Kaufman?  The very fact that you never were quite sure where the comedy ended and the truth began was his whole appeal.  If I put a huge flashing neon sign reading "this is all false and just the raving of a madman" it would no longer be funny.  The audience has to come to their own conclusion that the author is unhinged.  How you would'nt come that conclusion immediately after seeing a photo of a TV with a penis and tophat crudely drawn on it escapes me.  But even if someone actually did think a community of people liked to draw genitalia on their television, then they went to the links section and came here, all illusions would be dispelled, no?  Most comedy ceases to be funny if you explicitly spell out every joke, you either "get" it or you probably never will.  

Onyxye - see above, most of it applies here also.  People already see my Jomb handle as an unhinged somewhat psychoic individual anyway  

Disch again - I think some people are simply too close to this thing we call ROMhacking.  Cant see the forest because of all them trees as they say.  The evidence that its comedy is over-whelming unless you just cant step back and see it.  The site is called badhacks.net, not serioushacks.net or theactualrealhacks.net.  Who knows, maybe when you took it literally you were right, are there actual analog ROM-hacks out there?  Did you make some?  I just made it up, but maybe they do exist   We already have romhacking.net, and that is where a serious history of ROM-hacking would go. 

If someone sends a translation hack to your site, they must have no idea where they are and probably didn't read a single paragraph on your page.   


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So, does this mean that the people who submit hacks to your site should take their projects seriously?  If you could care less about the truth content of your site, why should anyone support it?  The fact that you're admitting it's false and (even worse) have no desire to rectify it can't possibly be appealing to any dedicated member or group of ROM hackers.

And yet, that hasn't been the case yet.

It could just as easily be mistaken for gay porn, or a tophat site, or something else completely not related to what the purpose actually is.

You keep saying it's a joke, but it seems as though you are the only one laughing. How's something supposed to be funny when it's an inside joke and you're the only one that gets it?

Nightcrawler - "Unfortunately, one day my comments were taken the wrong way (Don't you just love communication on the Internet?) and several staff members got upset" I think I know where you been....  Look, it has changed alot, but when Romhacking.net first opened it was mostly everything that used to be at The Whirlpool.  That is why I originally came here.  There were other things to, but I was mainly interested in the translations.  There were many many times as many translations hosted here compared to hacks.  So why do you think I pulled this thing out of left field, that this site originally was more about translations than hacks, even though at the time you were aggressively gathering and soliciting hacks.  I know nothing of Romhacking.com, I never once visited that site because I was either not online at all due to personal tragedy, or unaware.  If you still are upset with me, feel free to do "an eye for an eye" and make up things about me or my work.

Onyxye - whether people who submit hacks to Badhacks.net take their work seriously or not is their own personal concern and is irrelevant.  You are mistaking badhacks.net for Romhacking.net.  The goal is humor or sometimes train-wrecks.  It is most definitely not the place for your latest effort to improve the graphics in your favorite game.  It is the place for your latest satire of the ROM-hack section at I-mockery.com

Disch - You take things way too literally.  I was referring to The Daily Show as in how it used to be where there were segments feauturing mock-reporters who would get real interviews and the person being interviewed did not know that it was a comedy interview and you'd get to see them squirm alittle.  If you flipped the channels and saw the interview sometimes you were uncertain if it was an actual news show or not.  But yes, The Onion is an excellant example of what I'm getting at.
Andy Kaufman did get into several famous situations where people were uncertain where the act ended and his real life began.  For example his whole stint with wrestling, his fight on the Fridays show, etc.  Obviously Andy Kaufman did not talk about emulators (see i can take you way too literally also )

Lenophis - you would visit a gay porn or top hat site for Romhacking information?   I'm not the only one laughing, this went over quite well at different forums.  Many people have gotten it.  I have the emails to prove it.

Are you implying that all the people who submits (or is going to publish) hacks at your page are bad romhackers?
If that is right then it isn't a good philosophy in my opinion
 

Yes, but are the hacks going to be bad enough to rescue the President?

or murder the president in a rage when it's discovered that he is a he
See, sometimes hacks can have political satire in the mix!