1. How you became interested on SMW Hacking?
Hmm, dunno. I just found the thought appealing of remaking a game I used to play A LOT when I was younger (inb4 losing it somewhere). That and the fact that I've seen some other hacks on YouTube thinking "I wanna do this stuff too". Finding tutorials was tough though. I found some stuff on YouTube and what I didn't find I ended up teaching myself. Like layer 2 for example... only took a few hours of trial and error until I got it
... had I only known about SMWC sooner ;-;
2. As staff member, how are things going now?
I'd say, things tend to get more busy... well no shit sherlock.
For example, I found myself making less hack reviews because moderating takes longer in general. Other than that, there isn't much going on other than occasionally yielding my powers on threads that should go into another forum or banning people from time to time
(if they deserve it of course
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Other staff members are nice to work with too. Well, there are conflicts from time to time (not gonna say any names) but overall, I think people get along with me and so do I with them.
Not much else to say about being staff.... I still like my name color.
3. What do you think about the future of SMW Hacking?
That's a hard one. Whenever you think we already have a lot of neat stuff, others come around presenting you with even more awesome stuff and you have to ask yourself, "how could I live without that so far". Taking Lunar Magic for an example. With all the stuff that FuSoYa added over the time, it's hard to imagine hacking with the old versions now. Same goes for various other hacking tools of course. GPS here goes to show that even old tools like BTSD can be updated and advanced (which makes me wonder when sprite tool is due xD)
I'm kind of curious to see how this Lunar Magic add on thing turns out. Seeing as it is a great idea actually.
4. If you could add something special to SMW Hacking, what would be?
A Firefox addon to listen to .spc files. Seriously, if there's anyone out there who knows how to do this, get to work. I like listening to others ports but it's a pain to always have to download them. Would be really neat if one could just listen to it in firefox without downloading. Other than that, not sure. I can't really point my finger at anything right now but I'm sure there's still some awesome stuff to come :3
5. What are your thoughts about the community?
People are still awesome. Being in this community is as fun as ever. It's nice to talk with people about anime and stuff (not just SMW related shenanigans) or just fool around in general. I get my daily dose of randomness, which is good... I think.
Same goes for the staff (as mentioned above). Getting in the staff team, I was sort of anxious at first not to make mistakes, but seeing as how casual things go over there as well sure made me feel at ease.
I also enjoy seeing the trolls making fools of themselfs when shitposting, though that's not something we actually want, so I shouldn't really be in favour of it
6. Bonus Question: What are your favorite phrase?
"If you run around a tree at a speed of 87 mph You could theoretically fuck yourself" -Albert Einstein