Game Editing!

Sorry I haven't posted for a long time. Anyway.

I have started to become interested in game editing, hacking, moderating or designing.

This all started when I discovered Pokemon World Online and saw that they had edited a couple of maps in the Kanto region (and completely remade the Johto region, of course). I thought it would be cool to go looking for a map editor.

I came across Advance Map Editor (something like that, anyway). I played around with the Fire Red ROM a bit, and taught myself the basics - either I'm a natural, or it's not that hard.

Evidence - http://twitpic.com/186oyo and http://twitpic.com/186pv1

However, I tried connecting a map with another map, which... I shouldn't really have done, because it corrupted one of my save files. One of them. Sadly, this was my main one, but luckily, I'd only redownloaded it recently and hadn't got very far yet.

So I then thought, with if I downloaded the Fire Red ROM again, and only edited one of them? Then I could keep the other for the real game purposes. I thought this was a good idea and almost went ahead with it until I realised it would probably play havoc with my saves.

So what I've now decided to do is download the Leaf Green ROM and edit it to my heart's content, while keeping Fire Red (even though it is a little damaged) for the real game. This will no play with my saves because they are, technically, two different games.

I will post my progress (if there is any) in this blog, and, who knows, it might just be the gateway to me becoming a games designer.