Not many things in life you can't just easily grab off the internet. So be happy with what you do get for free. Seriously it is much easier to say thanks to a person than to pay the person. Anyway thanks Rayder for the cheats there are a few games missing and I will tell you as soon as I get my R4 back from my greedy friend.
Don't forget about or write-off Grimalkin because of some mistakes he may have made recently with the dat. He is the one I passed the task of maintaining the dat to. You guys keep praising me, but it's really not that hard to use the code editor. You really want the ultimate cheat.dat? Make it yourself, THEN you will have exactly what you want the dat to be. Any or all of you are free to continue the task of updating the dat in this thread. This was never MY thread. Grimalkin is the dude I gave the task to just in case no one else wants to contribute. My only real request is to continue the dat that already exists, don't' just start over. Grimalkin is doing that now and you all must respect how he is trying to correct the mistakes I have made, overlooked or ignored during my time maintaining it.
The hackers want individual credits. That's a huge task to correct (considering the size of the dat) and I understand their request, but I wasn't willing to go through all the work required to accommodate that request. Grimalkin is doing a heck of a job correcting that. I would never be able to, or care to, do what Grimalkin is attempting to do. Give him the same respect for his work that you gave me. Stop relying on, whining about my retirement, or praising me. What I was doing is frankly not that difficult to do. ANYONE can do it. I gave everyone the necessary sites to get the codes for themselves in the txt file. ANYONE can do this.
I really didn't want to stop maintaining the dat. I actually enjoyed doing it, but the pressure and complaints from the code hackers (and honestly, also from the community) was getting to me. I like to work at my own pace, not at anyone else's. It stopped being fun and became more like a job I wasn't getting paid for. I can whip out updates like nobody's business, but not when I'm expected to adhere to a bunch of demands from the code hackers or the minor details that everyone seems to suddenly expect from me. I can't deal with it. I'm getting to be an old fart (39) and can't keep up with the demands of you young whipper-snappers.
It never seems to fail, at anything I do, that I suddenly become some kind of pseudo god to many and absolutely hated by others. This is why I tend to stay in the background making non-committal comments on posts that already exist.
At all the jobs I've worked, it's the same deal. The bosses love me and the workers HATE me because I tend to show them up with my speedy and mostly efficient work. It's not intentional, it's just that when I commit to doing something, I do it. I can't slow down to other people's speed. I'm not good at small-talk and gossip and being happy-smiles at break time or following rules I don't agree with or care about. I do what I do and devil-be-damned if anyone is going to change how I do it. But the pressure gets to anyone after awhile. It builds up to the point where I have to just stop or I'm going to explode. I bring it on myself and I know it. It ALWAYS happens to me. That is why I decided to stop maintaining the dat. I work at a frenzied pace that will catch up to anyone that works as i do. The same thing happened when I took up the task of maintaining the dat. It got out of control and went further than I intended much faster than I expected.
Copy-and-pasting codes into a dat doesn't require any talent or thought like it does to actually create the codes that the talented code hackers come up with. I was just a worker, the hackers are the gods. Please, please, PLEASE don't blame or flame them for wanting credit for their work. I fully understand their requests, but found it too daunting a task to add all those credits to the plethora of codes that are already in the dat....not to mention bloating the dat when i figured a txt file would be sufficient. Grimalkin is proving to be even more qualified than I expected by actually getting approval to include various codes and adding credits to each and every code. Kudos to Grimalkin for taking on the monumental task.
If that means waiting a bit to get the next update, so be it. Where would you be if no one was doing it at all? I just hope that Grimalkin can withstand the pressure better than I could.
I know many of you agree with me that credits to the hackers don't amount to a hill of beans when it comes to working codes, but it does matter to them and that MUST be respected. Anyone who takes over the task of maintaining the dat is going to have their own way of going about it. Please be respectful of their work. At this point, that means Grimalkin.
Please, keep the swearing and ranting and demanding to a minimum and be thankful that Grimalkin is continuing to update the dat after my retirement. At least I attempted to find a suitable replacement and didn't just leave you guys cold.
Sorry for the "wall of text", but I felt this must be said. I'm sorry for stirring up all this anger and emotion over a simple cheat.dat. I never planned for this to become as big a deal as it has become. For whatever reason, I seem to have this "magical" ability for causing this kind of situation all my life.
