I was just wondering if anyone did take requests. I just thought it would be neat if there was some extremely experienced rom hacker that was just bored and took requests of people who didn't really know how to romhack.

That's true. I just know that some people who have just discovered romhacking (me), don't really get much free time to hack roms, let alone PLAY hacked roms. I'm lucky if I get about 10 or 15 minutes in an entire day to sit down and play. It does sound a bit ridiculous, though, I guess. The upside would be, like you said, if someone were to throw out an idea that an experienced hacker maybe never thought of that they would love to do. I am trying to learn more about romhacking and such, though. For now, I pretty much use whatever game-specific utilities have already been made. Oh, well.

Don't dispair. If you approach the subject from a theoretical angle (i.e. "Wouldn't it be cool if...?"), you might trigger something in someone's brain that could lead to something great. Just don't come off like "hay guise if j00 mak a hax0r 4 me ill put ur name in da kredutz lol".

Personally, if I can come up with a good enough concept, it's all but assured that I'll invest the time/effort/energy into making it a reality. I have to assume there are others out there who operate the same way. Now, where is it written that we (respectively) have to personally come up with such concepts? In early 2004, I amused myself with the notion of a hacked SMB1 that parodied the then-recent Catholic Church sex scandals. But if someone had posed the concept to me a day/week/hour before I thought of it myself, it would still maintain its objective intrinsic value. And I still would've spent three years creating this.


Also, feel free to advertise your services as a creative consultant. I can't tell you how many times I've been in the middle of a hot project, but for the life of me couldn't figure out how to replace some object in the original game in order to make it fit with the theme of the hack. As an example, I've had a terrorist-themed hack of Zelda II on the back-burner for a few years now. The humanoid enemies (Moblins, Goriyas, those Axegator things, etc.) will all be replaced with your typical, run-of-the-mill ululating splodeydoper. But I needed some way of replacing the smaller enemies (Bots, Birds, Spiders, etc.)

After agonizing over it for several days, a friend suggested I replace the lesser enemies with stuff that we're no longer allowed to bring onto airplanes because of terrorism. Sheer brilliance. Now you have to fend off toothbrushes, dental floss and tiny eyeglass screwdrivers, in addition to Akmed bin DurkaDurka.

I've taken some requests for help, as mentioned above, with some minor asm hacking on FF6 when it was (a) something I was interested in, (b) something I had done before, or (c) something relatively easy which would help someone that already had goods to show off.
As for "please do all this work for me"... nope.

The majority of people doing translation and hacking work already have millions of projects of their own that they'd like to see done, and can't get the time and/or motivation to even do their own projects.  People who take requests are extremely, extremely rare.

Just request for it and hope someone do it but they may not like what you are into like
most members are a rpg gamers and some like simulation, action or etc.

Now, I hope no one bump this thread after this.