My problem is I'm sorta anti-social, or more accurately, a social misfit who prefers to be one of the people working in the background who does stuff for the community when I can. Forums are something I consider a safe-haven where no one actually KNOWS me and I can speak my mind without worrying about the repercussions overly much. GBAtemp is a special kind of love for me. I only started creating cheat dats because I saw a need for such a thing and working with R4CCE was ridiculously easy (thanks to Yasu
), so I started conglomerating codes into one big dat on my own time and freely gave it out to the members of GBAtemp using my own personal webspace. Obviously it caught on big-time, much more than I ever anticipated. When I started catching flack for "stealing" codes, people requesting certain codes and complaints, I didn't know how to handle it because of my lack of internet social skills, code creation and mediating with the people who had issues with the dat. The dat quickly went over my head into areas I knew nothing about. I am nothing if not honest. I started looking to people who actually knew how to create the codes that were in the dat, or people that at least had a better understanding of how the codes actually worked, and/or someone who was more socially adept at netiquette than I was. But again, my social skills hampered me and I had no real idea who to pass it to that I could trust to do a good job at maintaining the dat. Then I got a job which eliminated all the time I dedicated to copy/pasting cheats. Things got out of control really quick trying to keep up, I was forced to watch for the first person to do as good of a job of creating dats as I felt I was. That person was quite apparent to be Narin. Well, to be honest, there were others before Narin who's names I won't mention because I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings at this point, but the very first person I tried to pass it to was not friendly enough to member's demands/requests/critique to successfully continue the dat. I pulled the under-handed move of having my personal cheat dat hidden as a secret click in my sig. That person found out about it and was very upset that I pulled such an unethical maneuver against him and he just handed the task back to me out of disgust. I felt like such a dick. But at the time, I felt I had no other recourse for maintaining a certain amount of modicum a person that maintained the dat must have to continue the dat as I originally intended.
Since I know squat about actually creating codes (never tried to even learn), and my first choice failed, I became overwhelmed with requests, demands and the insistence that I remove certain codes, etc. that it very quickly became apparent to me that I was WAY over my head and was bringing far too much attention to myself, which I didn't want. I had to find someone to take over that was not only net-savvy, but had a better understanding of the general "netiquette" of forums and the creation of cheat codes. After much watching and waiting (and starving people for a dat from me), that person turned out to be Narin, who proved to be the best backup to what I was doing at the time. Narin took the dat to true greatness by creating cheats.gbatemp.net and I was very pleased with my decision of the next "cheat master". Heh, I even accused Narin of being a "ringer" to take over the dat....he seemed too almost perfect for the job.....but that was just some kind of weird paranoia on my part. Anyway, now Narin is too busy with real life to continue the dat the way I intended it to be, which is to be updated AT LEAST once a month, if not weekly (I updated on a daily basis). Personally, I feel he is letting down the community by not updating or passing the task to someone else since he can no longer continue the dat in an expeditious manner. Please don't look at that statement as being negative towards Narin, because it's not, he's epic in what he has done for the dat, but real life has hindered his ability to continue maintaining it.
At this point, I see exilirdream to be the next person worthy of taking over the dat, since Narin can't really continue in a timely manner anymore. But see, when I handed the dat to Narin, I only made a couple suggestions (no WiFi codes, remove certain codes that were questionable (aimbots, for example) or requested by the creator to be removed without announcing it to the publlic, so as not to cause unnecessary complaints), otherwise, I gave full discretion to Narin as to what he did with the dat. So really it's up to Narin who will be the next "cheat master" after him.
But still, I feel elixirdream is "da man" now. Not only does he create codes himself (and a butt-load of them at that), but he is consistently updating the dat for all of us to enjoy right now. So like I said, he should be the next "cheat master" in my opinion. But it is ultimately Narin's decision.
Sorry for the "wall of text", but I felt that needed to be said.
elixierdream, don't underestimate yourself. you ARE truly worthy of the task.