dohclude said:
Well, I wasn't in the "Code Creator's Club" or anything, but I did have a 7 page topic with my GBA Cheat code releases in it that was moved to the new "Code Hackers" section last night without even asking me. Now I get on to check my posts and the entire section was deleted... along with my release topic. Now I had no say and no hand in the new section so why should all my hard work (and yes, it is hard work renaming and translating 3000 individual files from chinese to english) erased because of somebody else's bad decisions??? For those of you who care, this was the former url for my topic
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=112939
It was never deleted, I forgot to move the topics back when I hastily closed the cheat forums. The problem is fixed now, I wish to apologize for this. Your topic is intact.
Now to further explain the "Code Creators Club", well, its just a name folks, they don't have any special powers here on GBAtemp and al their purpose was to moderate the cheat forums so they don't get out of control. Hell any of you could have easily joied, all it takes is having some skill in code/game hacking and contributed to the forums, thats all. Its basically people who have shown they had the skill to keep the cheat forums a greta place for everyone and dedicated to going through all the cheats t make sure they work and won't corrupt your save files and such. Basically, they are just Moderators under a new name.
The run down of those who I added in the initial group:
Curley5959:
He is still new to the code hacking scene but has shown great dedication and progress. He has made several guides on how to ode hack, how to use the R4CCE and edit the cheat database and has helped numerous others. He was added because he has shown a strong affinity to code hacking.
elixirdream:
What can I say? This man is awesome. Over the past few months this guy literally has donated 80% of the codes in the recent updates to the massive cheat database. He also helps me translate Japanese codes for the cheat database, convert Japanese codes to different game regions, test codes and quite frankly, does a a lot to help me and the people here.
fa_demion:
He may only have 11 posts, but he has helped be quite a bit and is a very skilled code hacker. Over the past year he has sent me numerous fixes, updates and offered his help through PMs and Emails. He is a far more skilled code hacker than even I and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Also we were working on a secret project for all of you, a cheat server backend and hoembrew. Basically the homebrew on your DS would scan the NDS files on your flashcard and then send the data to a server and compile a cheat database just for your flashcard and for only tehe games you have. This way you wouldn't need to download a bloated cheat database with games you don't need but only downloads the cheats for the games you current have. We are also in the process of reverse engineering the various cheat database formats for this project.
Normmatt:
Normmatt is awesone, not only does he work on AKAIO, a firmware replacement for the Acekard 2 and RPG which even the Acekard team has shown interest in using as their default firmwware, he has also helped me with creating and fixing up cheats for the cheat database. He even wrote a custom AR cheat engine himself for AKAIO which works better than well, most standard flashcard's cheat engines. He was also the mastermind behind the Chrono Trigger DS piracy fix.
SCVgeo:
While a new member of the bunch as shown great promise and skill with hacking and creating cheats. He has access to the No$GBA Debugger and is skilled in making ASM cheats. Assembly cheats require a lot of skill to make and require knowledge of programming and Assembly code. He has also made and submitted several codes alreatdy to kodewerx. He was also one of the people who helped with the Chrono Trigger DS fix.
Also as I said before, the group is open to the public if they show they have some skill and dedication to code/cheat hacking. Though I didn't choose the initial people lightly, they had to prove themselves in which they did. They are certainly not newbs as many of you people labeled them. While some of them may not have a high post count, we do meet daily in the #NDSCheats forum on the irc.gbatemp.net server to discuss various things, hack new cheats and work on imrpoving the cheating scene on GBAtemp.
I had good intentions for all of this, basically I wanted a group of people who knew a thing about game/code hacking to moderate the forums. Of course the current mods here are awesome, they do a really good job but I'm not not many of them if any knows anything about hacking games. At any rate, due to all the remarks here, I don't foresee opening the cheat forums here anytime soon if ever again.
Also once again, It is my fault for all the confusion and I take the blame. I was tired last night and I should have thought things threw, I knew some of these people would have looked fish if no explanation was given to why they were selected but I was tired and out of it from some medicine I took. I wasn't doing it to abuse my power but well, to add to GBAtemp and give you guys a new section to play around with.
