Category: hacking

Hacker Role Split

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The Hacker Discord role has been split into eight more specific roles as described below.

Your body of work is primarily characterized as having been done via...

1. Binary Editor – binary editing. Example: clymax.
2. Assembly Hacker – assembly hacking using an assembler; may use disasms. Example: Cubear.
3. C Hacker – C hacking based on decomps, or toolmaking using C or another HLL. Example: Vesly.
4. Data Hacker – hacking ROM data without changing or adding ROM instructions. Example: xJ4cks.
5. Scripter – writing emulator scripts to create enhancements such as custom achievements, 16:9 aspect ratio, Mesen HD graphics packs, Mesen NES Enhanced Audio, Lua indicators, etc. Example: solidification.
6. Project Lead – conceptualizes a hack design, recruits team members, directs them to make exclusive patches for the hack, and combines and tests the exclusive patches. Example: Lightning Hunter.
7. Compilation Producer – curates and tests custom combinations of publicly available loose patches. Example: Nintenja.
8. Modmaker – game-specific editing tools made by others. Example: YeOldeLoremonger.

For the kind of work of the first two roles, we have an academy pilot available to players.

Subject Matter

1. Maps. Example: YeOldeLoremonger.
2. Sprites. Example: Cubear.
3. Audio. Example: Cubear.
4. Text. Example: xJ4cks.
5. Mechanics. Example: clymax.
6. Bugfixes. Example: clymax.
7. UI. Example: Vesly.
8. Compression. Example: Vesly.

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