Author Topic: Looking for a Reverse Engineerer (or something like that) (Read 13917 times)

Romsstar · « **on:** February 12, 2011, 01:18:40 pm »

All right I want to hack the PSX Game "Digimon World".

For that purpose I need someone who can figure out some things.
All right I got the table for Dialogues so Text hacking itself wouldn't be an issue.
What I can't do is making the texts be longer than original which in some cases would be really useful.
But also I want to be able to edit Models and Graphics.

What I want from you:

I need a GUI based tool that can: make you edit dialogues (longer pointers), Open the 3D Models (they are stored in a format called MMD which is somehow based on TMD), Open up the MAPS (Format seems to be TFS here) and export and import everything+editing. Basically so you can do a lot of funny things in the game and make evil hacks like the Pokemon hacks. Yeah that's what I basically want but for this very PSX Game.

Payment: depending on success and the functions provided up to 50$. If you can get everything I want even 100$.

Answer in this thread if you feel capable I can provide materials you need just say what you will need.

Best Regards,
Romsstar

Gemini · « **Reply #1 on:** February 12, 2011, 02:20:59 pm »

100 dollars for all that mess? Forget it.

Romsstar · « **Reply #2 on:** February 12, 2011, 02:46:19 pm »

I don't really think money would be the issue but I'm pretty sure you say that Gemini because you aren't capable of doing even one of that tasks but it's way easier to turn it down by saying not enough money haha.

Lilinda · « **Reply #3 on:** February 12, 2011, 02:51:45 pm »

A. You pretty much can't get anyone to do hacking for you for cash.

B. Gemini has completed several translation hacks, is working on others, and even has a homebrew game in the making. He knows what he's talking about.

9volt Kappa · « **Reply #4 on:** February 12, 2011, 02:54:17 pm »

Quote from: Romsstar on February 12, 2011, 02:46:19 pm

I don't really think money would be the issue but I'm pretty sure you say that Gemini because you aren't capable of doing even one of that tasks but it's way easier to turn it down by saying not enough money haha.

Why don't you do it your self?

Doesn't this board tell you if someone has posted while you're writing a response?

Romsstar · « **Reply #5 on:** February 12, 2011, 02:55:35 pm »

I know that Gemini has the basic skills when it comes to PSX hacking but this is something of an higher level and I think that he knows how hard it is and not the money but the task itself (which is not easy) is scaring him away.

And I.S.T what's your point? As long as no one is doing the exact same thing by coincidence I'm screwed no matter how much I offer? lol

Ryusui · « **Reply #6 on:** February 12, 2011, 02:55:59 pm »

He's probably gonna have to, now that he's insulted Gemini.

Rule of thumb: romhackers don't work for pay. Either we don't accept money for what we do on ethical grounds, or the people who offer to pay are generally clueless about what they're asking us for.

Romsstar · « **Reply #7 on:** February 12, 2011, 02:59:51 pm »

Ryusui: Would that make a difference in first place? I lurked around this board a lot and I notice the tons of threads with 1-2 replies because nobody even cares to help.
Of course I don't have the skills to do what I'm asking otherwhise I would do it myself.

The thing I'm asking for is a program, not you to hack a Rom there's where the difference comes in when we talk about the ethnical ground.

And where do you see the insult?

creeperton · « **Reply #8 on:** February 12, 2011, 03:06:42 pm »

Try again.

9volt Kappa · « **Reply #9 on:** February 12, 2011, 03:07:42 pm »

Quote from: Romsstar on February 12, 2011, 02:59:51 pm

And where do you see the insult?

Quote from: Romsstar on February 12, 2011, 02:46:19 pm

I don't really think money would be the issue but I'm pretty sure you say that Gemini because you aren't capable of doing even one of that tasks but it's way easier to turn it down by saying not enough money haha.

Romsstar · « **Reply #10 on:** February 12, 2011, 03:11:08 pm »

It was actually an appropriate response to his reaction. No insult at all.
If he was saying "could do it but for 500" that would show he's a professional all right.
But by this way of responding his credibility at least for me went down to 0.

Pennywise · « **Reply #11 on:** February 12, 2011, 03:12:36 pm »

I find this thread oddly amusing.

Carry on

Romsstar · « **Reply #12 on:** February 12, 2011, 03:22:08 pm »

Funny enough this thread has got already more responses than half of this board's threads only because the factor money is in.
Talking about ethical grounds.lol

Tomato · « **Reply #13 on:** February 12, 2011, 03:24:45 pm »

$50 or even $100 really IS incredibly low for the amount of work you're asking. You're looking for a program, with a GUI, that can do a whole bunch of different, pretty complicated things. It'd probably take a lot longer, but let's say conservatively that it'd take someone 100 hours (a couple hours a day for a month) to put all that together. 100 hours of work for $50 comes to 50 cents an hour. Would you work a job for only 50 cents an hour? That's why Gemini says it's way too low for the amount of work. Honestly, for projects this complicated, actual companies would probably pay tens of thousands.

Gemini happens to be like THE Playstation hacking guy, BTW. Hell, besides his excellent PSX translations and homebrew stuff, I've even seen him port Super NES games to native PSX code. Trust him, he knows what he's talking about.

Assuming this isn't a clever troll, of course

creeperton · « **Reply #14 on:** February 12, 2011, 03:24:47 pm »

Quote from: Romsstar on February 12, 2011, 03:22:08 pm

Funny enough this thread has got already more responses than half of this board's threads only because the factor money is in.
Talking about ethical grounds.lol

You are absolutely right. Do you have a facebook page where we could hang out together?

Romsstar · « **Reply #15 on:** February 12, 2011, 03:31:42 pm »

Quote from: Tomato on February 12, 2011, 03:24:45 pm

$50 or even $100 really IS incredibly low for the amount of work you're asking. You're looking for a program, with a GUI, that can do a whole bunch of different, pretty complicated things. It'd probably take a lot longer, but let's say conservatively that it'd take someone 100 hours (a couple hours a day for a month) to put all that together. 100 hours of work for $50 comes to 50 cents an hour. Would you work a job for only 50 cents an hour? That's why Gemini says it's way too low for the amount of work. Honestly, for projects this complicated, actual companies would probably pay tens of thousands.

Gemini happens to be like THE Playstation hacking guy, BTW. Hell, besides his excellent PSX translations and homebrew stuff, I've even seen him port Super NES games to native PSX code. Trust him, he knows what he's t alking about

Now that's a fine answer all right. You've got a point there.
But which I don't understand if this is such a high paid task like ten thousands of dollars like you're saying I'm wondering why there ARE such tools for the pokemon games and the developers (which did it probably for fun) never got their ten thousands of dollars?

Makes me really wonder how realistis this view is.

I do know and saw what Gemini can do. I respect him and think he's quite good when we talk about basic rom hacking. But his reaction makes me wonder if he even feels up to the task. No elaboration, just saying my task is a mess and 100$ is not enough.

KaioShin · « **Reply #16 on:** February 12, 2011, 03:31:54 pm »

a) This thread has a lot of responses since you are ridiculous.

b) The threads you are talking about with "no one helping" are unreasonable requests, just as this one. Either they are outright "I can't do anything, so please someone do this for me" or "Here is specific game X and I need specific thing Y done", which no one who hasn't actually worked on the game can answer - which leads back to the first case, it's unreasonable to expect someone else to get that deep into a game just to help someone who doesn't want to bother. Topics with sensible questions that can be answered without game specific knowledge, or with very specific questions that are sufficiently described get pretty much always responses. If you can't tell the difference, you really don't have a clue what you are requesting. If you actually knew, you'd know that the sum you are proposing is quite insulting. What you want is a project that can keep someone busy for a year. And it has nothing to do with difficulty. It's the volume of what you are asking.

Romsstar · « **Reply #17 on:** February 12, 2011, 03:39:18 pm »

KaioShin: Ok let's assume I never had mentioned a sum. How many responses this thread would have gotten? I guess we both know it's close to 0.
And you can't say I'm just being lazy or I've never tried I ripped the game script, I got the table file and all the models and maps ripped out in their specific formats.
I did my efforts. Given that you say this is an unreasonable request, the sum doesn't really matter at all.

But I do think that one year is quite a lot said as the developers themselves needed less than a year to write the whole game.lol

DarkSol · « **Reply #18 on:** February 12, 2011, 03:45:11 pm »

Quote from: Romsstar on February 12, 2011, 03:39:18 pm

KaioShin: Ok let's assume I never had mentioned a sum. How many responses this thread would have gotten? I guess we both know it's close to 0.

Yep, would have gotten very few responses because you're asking someone to do all the work, researching and understanding how the game works, for you.

The amount of money is immaterial.

9volt Kappa · « **Reply #19 on:** February 12, 2011, 04:12:57 pm »

Quote from: Romsstar on February 12, 2011, 03:39:18 pm

But I do think that one year is quite a lot said as the developers themselves needed less than a year to write the whole game.lol

Quote from: Romsstar on February 12, 2011, 03:39:18 pm

And you can't say I'm just being lazy or I've never tried I ripped the game script, I got the table file and all the models

Yes I can, You're just being lazy.