One of the leading reasons why I (and I believe, a few other) hackers stop doing things is because of the sheer frustration caused by the community in general. Such a large community is driven by a handful of people who are willing to take the time to produce these codes and applications. But the response is always purely sloth and idiocy from people who will not take the time to understand something themselves.
It is extremely frustrating and unmotivating to watch people pester others for help when they could take 30 minutes of their time to learn the tiniest bit and achieve it for themselves, and it really raises the question to me of why I bother sometimes. I don't play Brawl+. I don't play Brawl at all. It's been that way for a lot of the time that I produced codes.
I produced the Alternate File Loader initially as a test of what I had learned as a programmer over the months that I had hacked Brawl. I went from having no experience with the system whatsoever to being moderately good at it by most standards, and producing the AFL was my proof to myself of that. And the result was enduring answering questions from people who hadn't read the text or taken 5 minutes to think for themselves.
Eventually I decided to fix the code to ensure that it worked to my standards. Few codes are perfect the first time around, and since I could only test the initial version by myself it was clear there would be bugs with multiple players. I finished doing that a fortnight ago, and have asked many people to test it for me. The only person who took 5 minutes of their time to help me was GameSystem. And because of him, I managed to iron out at least one of the glitches.
I can't test this code. I live in a university residence. The nearest TV is 4 flights of stairs down. And it's shared between 290 people. The alpha of the new version of the code has been up for three days, and noone has been able to take 5-10 minutes just to throw it on their SD card and find out how it doesn't work. Are you people seriously that lazy? Instead you continue discussion about the old version of the code, whilst helping me fix this new one would solve that problem anyway!
This is why I stopped hacking.
It is extremely frustrating and unmotivating to watch people pester others for help when they could take 30 minutes of their time to learn the tiniest bit and achieve it for themselves, and it really raises the question to me of why I bother sometimes. I don't play Brawl+. I don't play Brawl at all. It's been that way for a lot of the time that I produced codes.
I produced the Alternate File Loader initially as a test of what I had learned as a programmer over the months that I had hacked Brawl. I went from having no experience with the system whatsoever to being moderately good at it by most standards, and producing the AFL was my proof to myself of that. And the result was enduring answering questions from people who hadn't read the text or taken 5 minutes to think for themselves.
Eventually I decided to fix the code to ensure that it worked to my standards. Few codes are perfect the first time around, and since I could only test the initial version by myself it was clear there would be bugs with multiple players. I finished doing that a fortnight ago, and have asked many people to test it for me. The only person who took 5 minutes of their time to help me was GameSystem. And because of him, I managed to iron out at least one of the glitches.
I can't test this code. I live in a university residence. The nearest TV is 4 flights of stairs down. And it's shared between 290 people. The alpha of the new version of the code has been up for three days, and noone has been able to take 5-10 minutes just to throw it on their SD card and find out how it doesn't work. Are you people seriously that lazy? Instead you continue discussion about the old version of the code, whilst helping me fix this new one would solve that problem anyway!
This is why I stopped hacking.