Well, its not my cheat database, its a community database, I just maintain it. So people can do just about anything they want with it, link to it, ect.
Also I don't mind any competition at all and such. Seems like Hickeyl got the wrong imppression. People were taking the cheat database me and Rayder maintained and either didn't make any modifications to it (So basically just a copy) or make a minor edit like adding a single code to a single game and such and posting the entire file in the downloads section.
So because of this, people have been PMing me now and then confused which file to download and why some things weren't in the file they downloaded, due to the file being uploaded by someone else and haven't been updated at all with my recent additions. Which in this case, happened with Hickeyl. He made a copy of the database, simply added a couple codes to a Megaman Battle networks game and uploaded the updated cheat dat.
In such a case, I fail to see the point of it. The point of the massive cheat database was to have one cheat database for the entire GBATemp community to enjoy. I spoke with Hickeyl and instead of having a copy of the massive cheat database in the download section with the small code addition, he just posted the codes and I added them to the official cheat database.
Though I don't blame him, he's just a bit eager to help out which I do appreciate.
At any rate, I hope this clears some things up.
distorted.frequency said:
But I don't really see him as the kind of guy who views all of this as a sort of competition. Why would he want others to take down their own version of a Cheat.Dat? It's...I dunno. It sort of feels selfish, don't you think?
I agree, I don't mind competing cheat dats, I'll just gladly keep up with mine as I am doing now for the GBATemp community.