Yeah, they always colorize these things with too much saturation. Kirby's pink color is atrocious, and I wish someone would fix it and tone it down.
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I'm speechless. This is pure beauty and easily on par with Super Mario Land 2 DX. Any indication on how far the overall progress is?
Faceball 2000 DX took him 1 week. Kirby's Pinball Land DX v1.0 & v1.1 took him about 1 month each. I'm guessing he'll be done in a matter of weeks.
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"Everything other than the graphics changes was done through assembly code I wrote myself. Palettes were determined with the aid of YYCHR's PaletteEditor.exe, with YYCHR itself used to edit the graphics."
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Exactly. And the higher your ASM knowledge level is, the better your colorization hacks will be.
There's this tool for making simplistic colourisation by editing palettes, won't give anything like the amount of control or quality you could get by assembly editing, but it's something you could play with straight away:
https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/30/
Ah, yes. It's the infamous GB Colorizer.
We all know that this tool messes up the ROM very badly. I once tried using it on Yoshi (the GB game) and I got glitched results.
The Mega Man World 5 DX hack has gained its first ever negative review. This user doesn’t recommend it just because “there is flickering and the bosses don’t have shading anymore”.
He probably does not know what technical limitations are.
He probably does not know what technical limitations are.
The review section is the biggest weakness of RHDN imho.
First I don't know whether it's good to only have those two states (yes/no) because I read several reviews that were very positive but had a little thing in the last paragraph "preventing" them from "recommending" it which in most cases would have been no game-breaking issue for me at all. I would rather introduce a rating system where each user gives up to 10/10 points. (But then again Steam does the yes/no thing too...)
Second I find it totally annoying that there's no chance at all to react to reviews. You should be able to drop comments there. What if someone doesn't recommend a hack because he oversaw something? Your only chance then is to write a separate review (which I often saw already) like "regarding review xxx..." or "despite the other reviews here..."
Especially it would be a good opportunity for the hack creator(s) to react to a review, especially when the issue(s) got fixed meanwhile.
What if you release v1.7 of your hack, something is broken, you earn 20 negative reviews, then you fix it in v1.8 but out of randomness, no one writes another review or edits/removes the old one. That would mean you have a working hack online but every visitor only sees 20 negative reviews and immediately skips on it.
Also sending email notifications to the review creator when a comment on their review was made would help a lot, getting him/her back to edit/adjust the review.
tl;dr: The review system of Romhacking.net is cursed as it is currently and that's a shame.
I 100% agree with you. RHDN's review system is one of the reasons I hate this site.
Some of the statements you made are true, when someone writes a negative review on a specific version of a specific hack they do not always go back on editing it when a new version of that hack is released, as they just no longer care about that hack any more. An example is Super Mario Land DX: version 2.0 has been released from a while and the review section has reviews about that version now, but all the negative reviews dating back from version 1.0 are still there - I mean, people who didn't recommend this colorization due to past issues never bothered to edit their reviews even after they were fixed!
About your rating system proposal: yes, this is permitted to write in a review, but the site rules strongly discourage them as seen here:
- Numerical ratings or scores, though allowed, are discouraged. Our goal is to put the emphasis on the review content and we already support a ‘Recommended’ or ‘Not Recommended’ selection to your review.
Some people also use this review system to criticize others' works for no reason: an user who goes by the name of "Morinis" wrote multiple negative reviews on hacks that only change the graphics or the player character. And that just for their lack of "gameplay changes". From this I can assume this guy does not like graphic hacks at all, but why'd you have to make such insulting reviews on something you dislike when you can just walk past them? Makes no sense, really.
What is more, I'm one of those few people who dead hate criticism from other people. The only two ROM hacks I uploaded to ROMhacking.net weren't that good, and one got a positive review simply because I removed it from download. My biggest fear is that someday one of the users there might write a negative review on any of my works, and I won't have a single chance to reply to them. If you get a negative review from someone, you can only take it in.
It's a matter of opinions. I dislike RHDN mostly because the people there weren't friendly with me.
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MojoDodo is back again, and I'm afraid he's never gonna fix the Galaga & Galaxian DX hack.
MojoDodo is back again, and I'm afraid he's never gonna fix the Galaga & Galaxian DX hack.
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