Hi, I made the color hacks for Kirby's Pinball Land and Faceball 2000.
Please do not chastise people for not doing color hacks of the games you want. People are generally motivated to hack the games they feel like hacking, not what they get asked to make. That's not to say your requests aren't considered at all, but this is a free-time process, people have their moods. And yes, I agree wholeheartedly that Donkey Kong 94 needs a GBC hack, and I even started technical research on it a while ago. But I suggest you show a little more respect for the people who make these hacks.
With Faceball in particular, I decided to do a GBC hack of it because I'm weird and really like that game. I was always fascinated by how it was an FPS on the Game Boy out of all systems, and one that came the year before Wolfenstein 3D at that. The main issue with it is its abysmal framerates, so I felt I could take advantage of the GBC's extra hardware to help fix that. And for the most part, it helped. Albeit with me having to make a version with the original game's slower renderer, because the new one didn't play well with certain hardware revisions (still got more speed either way though).
Anyway, I want you to know that I appreciate the demand for color hacks for more monochrome GB games, because I enjoy working with this system, and said demand does help me with where I want to go next with my hobby. However, I found your tone here very off-putting, because, again, you're putting down people for hacking games they find interesting, but you don't.
Hi. I'm sorry I offended you. If you had read my second post, I already stated that I was being
hyperbolic in my first post. In other words, in regards to my off-putting tone, it was never meant to be taken seriously or
literally.
At the end of the day, we're talking about ROM hacks for damn near 30 year-old Gameboy games. So, when I say such a thing is a
"priority", or that "hackers need to get their priorities straight" by hacking the games that
I want hacked, I would figure such a statement is patently ridiculous on its face. That's because it was
supposed to be interpreted as me just being silly. Though I'm well aware that intended sarcasm doesn't necessarily transmit well through text.
While I would certainly like to see Donkey Kong '94 receive a proper DX treatment, I certainly don't feel a sense of entitlement to it, and I'm certainly not of the belief that you
should be doing anything other than what you
want to be with your own free time. I certainly admire the time, talent, work, and wizardry that goes into these type of things, and the fact that they are made available for free to guys like me.
That said, while I'm sure the three people that are actually playing your Faceball 2000 color hack are really enjoying it, a lot more people would be playing your Donkey Kong '94 hack, and you're wasting your talent. And life. xD
... I'm
kidding! Relax.
Have a Holly Jolly Christmas.