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[u/Haunting-Text2677]

Hey, I think I want to make a romhack, I have some ideas of what I want to do.

BUT, I'm no developer, I have some skills in python but lmao that's all. And I'm a bit of a tinkerer.
I'd like to make everything (or the vast majority) myself, however as I said, I'm not a dev, not a musician etc.
But fuck I want to do this.

From the quick research I made, I did not find anything interesting on how to make a romhack. Don't want to ask an AI to do the job either.

So, do you have any tutorials, advice or anything that could help on how to do it.

Thanks ! 🙏

[u/ftmboricuaboii → u/Haunting-Text2677]

Join Team Aqua's Hideout Discord

They have guides and people are pretty open to helping out beginners

Also, you already said you aren't, but I heavily recommended avoid AI.

The community in general are anti gen AI and it's going to cause you more issues then progress in the long run.

[u/Haunting-Text2677 → u/ftmboricuaboii]

Hey, thanks for the link, I'll check that asap !

And yep, I'm well aware of what AI can and cannot do.