ROM Hack City:About
From ROM Hack City
The ROM Hacking Wikia, founded May 7th, 2005, by furrykef, is a wiki about ROM hacking, ROM hacks, and fan translations. This wiki is for information about ROM hacking and is not a place to distribute ROM images or patches.
[edit] What is on topic?
ROM Hack City may include wiki pages about
- ROM hacking, which is the art of modifying ROM images of old video game, or any other program in ROM form. This includes changing palettes or graphics, translating text, creating new levels, composing new music and whatever other possibilities.
- ROM hacks, the results of ROM hacking.
- hacking of other binary images, because the techniques to hack them tend to be similar to the techniques to hack ROMs. So we can discuss Famicom Disk System, CD-i, Playstation, et cetera.
- fan translations, because they are a primary reason to hack ROMs.
- emulators that we use while hacking. We can have wiki pages about the emulators, about the emulator features that help with hacking, about emulator source code and so on.
- utilities for hackers, both how to use the existing utilities, and how to make new ones.
- assembly hacking, to study the program code in existing ROMs, to reprogram them to act differently, and to program new ROMs.
- anything else that is necessary and proper for this wiki, or for the community of editors of this wiki.
At this moment, ROM Hack City might not have everything in the above list. You might be the first user to add something to ROM Hack City.
