1. You're joking. No way a romhacker could get Square-Enix to do a project that would cost over 100 million dollars.

2. Yes. Several mapper hacks exist, and are even here in RHDN's archive.

If you (speaking in general) do not believe in asking your fellow (active and reachable) community member's permission to use their work or crediting them for the work you've used, then you don't belong here. RHDN is not meant for you. Please leave. Promoting strong community ethics of friendliness and respect are core principles this site was founded on and the target audience type it aims to serve.


Aside from our 'Addendum' Translations and foreign translations (many times they're piggybacked on top of English translation work), I don't know if we have any other hacks of hacks. I know there are a few hacks we have based on other improvement hacks or whatever, but they were specifically labeled as being free to be use as base hacks for others if I recall. As for a full fledged hack of a hack like Lindblum described, I don't think there are any that I'm aware of. The closest thing we have is foreign translations based on English translations.
 

People are taking two different situations as a single one.

- The first is about giving credits to the original romhacker. OF COURSE I will do this if I release "FF7 MCB" someday. My need for being respectful and correct with other's work is so evident I even do ridiculous, obvious and unnecessary things like credit Hudson Soft on an Adventure Island hack!!

- The second is to consider mandatory the bless of the original hacker. I will credit the people involved with the first project, of course. But I probably wouldn't quit because someone else doesn't think it's a good idea. How can I feel bad for HACKING A HACK, GODDAMMIT!? I can't even feel bad for the piracy and REAL copyright infringement involved on hacking projects.

As I said before, MANY people used sprites and tiles I created or modified on their hacks. I would love to be credited, but I can't (and I won't!) force anyone to do it remove my GFX. My goal is to change old games - not to be a pain in the ass.

And that's why I'll take this kind invitation to leave the board. I think romhacking is something beautiful and significant enough to be discussed and reflected as any other kind of art. At least this is how I face it.
If it's not how you face, then Nightcrawler is right.. This place isn't for me and I have no interest in becoming 'the annoying guy' that every single board in the universe has.

You can always reach me at http://www.tcheco.com/mcbhacks/
The page will finally get a update in September - to celebrate my 10 years of romhacking.

And my YouTube account have some humorous trailers of my hacks. Keep your eyes on it - a new video is about to be uploaded in September too. By now, I have:

'Adovento Tcheco' (hack of Keroppi 2 for NES)
http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=sLXAQ8GK-UY

'New! New! New! New! Mario Bros. (hack of NES' Mario Bros.)
http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=mBWUN5QAmSo

And a mix of my 'Pinball' and 'Adventure Island' modifications
http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=JGIGKwmk3D0

Bye!
Macbee

So ROM hackers are deserving of respect but people who create original works aren't? Why should someone bother getting permission to use someone else's hack when the original hacker more than likely didn't bother to ask permission to hack the original game in the first place? It's polite to let them know, in case they have any questions/concerns/suggestions, but not imperative.

Also, some day you should do a sanity check between what you intend for the site to be and what it actually is. The community that you constantly tout is filled with hypocrisy, deceit and elitism. Speaking of hypocrisy, I recall you jumping all over me because I suggested that a sizable group of people who disliked one person politely ask him to leave in a PM. Now you're openly suggesting that people leave because they don't share your opinion on a single subject. Normally, I would concede that it's your site and you have the right to do whatever you see fit, but you're the one that constantly insists that it's the community's site. I'm fairly certain that "social dictatorship" isn't among the flotsam that is Web 2.0.

There is some irony to this, but I think it has a lot more to do with how the original author of the hack may be offended. In the case of the original author of the game itself, that would be in the form of a "cease and desist" type of deal...  I'm not saying it's the best justification of the matter, but no romhacker should be making a profit out of this, just credit.


I have no idea what politics goes behind closed doors, nor would I care to know. I think there is some seperation of how the board works vs what the romhackers are doing. I can't say that I know what lines are drawn or even crossed. Whatever I guess...

The community tends to consider hacking a hack without attempting to ask permission disrespectful. Seeing how much effort gets put into some. If the person can't be contacted, it's usually assumed in good faith they'd be OK with it.

I don't think it's a black and white issue. If all you're doing is a whole scale rip off of someone else's work, then not asking for permission is basically a slap in the face.

At the same time, what if someone cannot be contacted in any way? People tend to disappear from the romhacking world, sometimes for years and sometimes they never come back. How would you handle it then?