New Discord Roles

Hacker Role Split

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

They are ordered from most technical to least technical on a relative level, generally speaking.

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

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.

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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