SMW hacking has come a long way over the years, and our Tutorials forum has been left behind a bit. There's a bunch of great tutorials there, but quite a few outdated ones too.
So, we need your help. We've recently been spending some time going through the forum/the List of Essential Tutorials thread, identifying where we can (with our knowledge) what tutorials are outdated, and what's all good and up to date. But our knowledge inside the staff team is nothing compared to what you guys know. Once we've got a handle on what needs updating, then we will move onto updating and creating new tutorials! Right now, we're not quite there yet.
Below is a big ol' list of every tutorial from the List of Essential Tutorials thread, compiled into a table with its current status and some notes (compiled by Ninja Boy, here's done all the hard work here).
Good - means to the best of our knowledge, this tutorial is up to date and is fine as-is
Outdated - means that this tutorial contains outdated info, and requires updating (see its notes)
Missing - means that this tutorial was at one point planned in the List of Essential Tutorials thread, but was never created
Not Checked - means that this tutorial has not been checked and/or that we are unsure if this requires updating.
So, what we need from you is...
- Have we correctly marked as Good up to date? Do you agree with their status? Or is there further updating required on something we missed?
- The tutorials marked as Missing, is this a tutorial you would like to see? Or is it a tutorial you would be willing to write yourself / contribute to the tutorials forum? We don't need anything writing just yet, but it would be great to know if you're interested in helping in the near future.
And the biggest thing is:
- If you're knowledgeable on this topic, can you help us identify if the tutorials marked as Not Checked need are outdated, or up to date? They're the more specialist, niche topics. If they do require updating, just like the above point: are you interested in helping to update them?
That's what we're asking! We would really appreciate your feedback on this to ensure that the forum is providing you with the best and most up to date SMW hacking knowledge. If you're able to take the time to glance over some tutorials, whether it's just a couple of all of them, and drop us some feedback/notes in a reply to this thread that would be great. Especially if you're super-smart, and understand the complex things like SuperFX and MSU-1!
So, we need your help. We've recently been spending some time going through the forum/the List of Essential Tutorials thread, identifying where we can (with our knowledge) what tutorials are outdated, and what's all good and up to date. But our knowledge inside the staff team is nothing compared to what you guys know. Once we've got a handle on what needs updating, then we will move onto updating and creating new tutorials! Right now, we're not quite there yet.
Below is a big ol' list of every tutorial from the List of Essential Tutorials thread, compiled into a table with its current status and some notes (compiled by Ninja Boy, here's done all the hard work here).
Good - means to the best of our knowledge, this tutorial is up to date and is fine as-is
Outdated - means that this tutorial contains outdated info, and requires updating (see its notes)
Missing - means that this tutorial was at one point planned in the List of Essential Tutorials thread, but was never created
Not Checked - means that this tutorial has not been checked and/or that we are unsure if this requires updating.
So, what we need from you is...
- Have we correctly marked as Good up to date? Do you agree with their status? Or is there further updating required on something we missed?
- The tutorials marked as Missing, is this a tutorial you would like to see? Or is it a tutorial you would be willing to write yourself / contribute to the tutorials forum? We don't need anything writing just yet, but it would be great to know if you're interested in helping in the near future.
And the biggest thing is:
- If you're knowledgeable on this topic, can you help us identify if the tutorials marked as Not Checked need are outdated, or up to date? They're the more specialist, niche topics. If they do require updating, just like the above point: are you interested in helping to update them?
That's what we're asking! We would really appreciate your feedback on this to ensure that the forum is providing you with the best and most up to date SMW hacking knowledge. If you're able to take the time to glance over some tutorials, whether it's just a couple of all of them, and drop us some feedback/notes in a reply to this thread that would be great. Especially if you're super-smart, and understand the complex things like SuperFX and MSU-1!