I moved 2 posts to an existing topic: [Community] Diplomacy with the Japanese Fire Emblem Hacking Community
Wouldnât the best thing to do be to just make it?
Thatâs the thing, though. If there isnât much interest, whatâs the point of putting in the time and resources?
While this may be true, right now the great majority of the âupper tierâ hacks have lots of ASM modification in the American fandom, as well as custom maps, custom characters, and custom everything else, while the majority of these things pretty much donât exist in the Japanese fandom. The Midori Patch has some custom maps, and custom characters, etc. Itâs probably the most high end hack Iâve seen come out of that fandom in forever, and other hacks like FE7if have waaaaaaay more music modification than we do (Unless itâs Eternal Bond, heh), but to find all of these things in a single Japanese hack is extremely rare. While the Japanese may actually be more technically skilled, their projects themselves have less customization in general, see?
And if Arch made a Japanese hub for them, that would be pretty cool IMO. Maybe a merging of the communities or at least some sharing would improve both communities tremendously.
Western Fandom*
Well yeah but thatâs because unlike our side, they donât have teams and all of their custom sprite work tends to be only their own. So they likely donât value customization the same way we do.
Custom sprites seems to be a hugely Western thing to do from what Iâve learned.
Western hacks have pretty graphics and Eastern hacks have assembly shenanigans
Typically
But but but western hacks have both
not really
Western hacks usually donât have anything special going on under the hood save a few simple RAM modifications. Itâs really rare to see new code that actually changes how the game itself works at least on some level of gameplay
I think it might just be that thereâs more of a recognizable community specifically for spriters here. If youâre Japanese and you draw sprites, and you actually want them to be used for hacks (not made for a specific hack on commission or anything like that), where are you going to show them off? Pixiv? Then people wonder why youâve limited yourself to 96x80 and 16 colours⌠right? On the other hand, we donât have people making custom music, maybe just because authoring MIDI from scratch (never mind writing âASMâ for Sappy) is a pretty rare skill, and anyway most people seem to just want to convert music from their other favourite games.
As for âfool toolsâ - well part of the point of this community is to make them. Personally, yes I feel there is value in learning to hack, but I want people to be able to tell their stories without that skill. The people who can do crazy ASM tricks arenât generally going to be the same ones who can write a good story for an FE-style game (and letâs not kid ourselves, the âofficialâ stories⌠have some issues). I think this is what was meant with the âstone ageâ comment (though it could have been more diplomatic ) - itâs about the sophistication of the tools. You can be very skilled and make a beautiful, gleaming, perfectly round stone wheel with a crude axe⌠but it takes forever, and itâs still heavy.
On the other hand, you can rent out a factory and pop out a nearly-mathematically-perfect wooden wheel in minutes, and itâs lighter than stone.
The âfoolâs toolsâ are like all technology in my eyes; they simplify a specific process and do it efficiently, however, this also leads to people not really learning much or wanting to scratch below the surface because the machine can do it
Excellent point! Itâs like cars. I can drive one, but I donât really care what goes on under the hood. Thatâs someone elseâs âjobâ. But taking an interest in it could only help me in the long run so really Iâm shooting myself in the foot by not trying to learn more about it.
i would argue that itâs superior to have the machine do it anyway because it minimizes the chance of human error
it also means that, instead of spending the time doing it by hand, i get to spend that time doing something else
knowing whatâs under the hood is only really a necessity for people wanting to improve the current state of things - if youâre fine with whatâs currently present (for the record, i am not) the only reason to look would be intellectual curiosity
You know, a lot of parts of this remind me of the story of Cardano and the cubic equation. Back then, mathematicians would discover things so they could beat other mathematicians at competitions, and âpublishedâ them by encoding them into poems so no one could steal their solutions. When Cardano and his student built off of Tartagliaâs unfinished cubic equation solution (which he wanted to keep a secret forever) to solve the quartic, Tartaglia was furious that his work ended up published.
(Today, mathematicians credit them both equally.)
⌠then we proved that there exists no such equation for quintic polynomials, and the competitions at finding the formulas have ended accordingly.
No standard roots of a quintic equation like ax^5+bx^4+cx^3+dx^2+e*x+f=0, right?
I read this story on my math textbook when I was in senior high school.Haha~
Yes, thatâs correct. However, since the complexes are algebraicly closed, we know that 5 (not necessarily unique) roots exist in the complex plane.
nerds
I believe you mean
fuckinâ yeah
you should help me with Calc