New Discord Roles

Hacker Role Split

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The Hacker Discord role has been split into ten 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 roles two and three, we have an academy pilot available to players.

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

1. Solo Hacker – making solo works using any of the next three types of hacking. Example: Cubear. Unlike the others, this is an additional role.
2. Binary Editor – binary editing. Example: clymax.
3. Assembly Hacker – assembly hacking using an assembler; may use disasms. Example: Cubear.
4. C Hacker – C hacking based on decomps, or toolmaking using C or another HLL. Example: Vesly. Toolmakers get an additional Toolmaker role.
5. Data Hacker – hacking ROM data without changing or adding ROM instructions. Example: xJ4cks.
6. 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.
7. Cheat Coder – writing cheat codes to alter behavior of games. Example: solidification.
8. 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.
9. Compilation Producer – curates and tests custom combinations of publicly available loose patches. Example: Nintenja.
10. 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. Integration. Example: clymax.
8. UI. Example: Vesly.
9. Compression. Example: Vesly.

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