Have you PK Hacked?

Hmm, this is the first time I've ever written a Mailbag letter... eh, whatever. To PK Hacking stuff.

In a little under three years, we've figured out a lot; a quick look at the ROM Map confirms this. You can hack items, enemies, text, graphics, palettes, the map, doors... some things that are commonplace/simple now were thought impossible not too long ago.

Mathematically, we know about 86.83% of the ROM. Don't take that figure too literally. Some ranges are known but their workings are not understood fully yet. The best example is the music blocks; we know where they are, but not everything about them. On the other hand, much of what remains is ASM, and I doubt anyone would want to modify it.

Ultimately, enough is known to make a completely different game via all the programs and stuff, provided someone has the time and patience.

To any and all reading this: I highly recommend downloading some programs and experimenting with them. It's a lot of fun, not to mention the feeling of absolute power over the ROM... :D

--michael_cayer





Congrats on writing a Letter of the Week!
Hi, Mike! And remember, this won’t be your last letter!

As you can see, 3 out of 3 questioned hackers agree: more people need to try PK Hacking. The amount of programs can be a touch intimidating, but we’re all here to help. You’ll just be blown away by how far a little effort can go. If you want to be a game designer some day, this is honestly a great start. The fundamentals in story design, the way games work, and basic construction will be skills that last a lifetime.

--GuyInSummers





Yay, a PK Hacker who actually wrote a letter. I'm sorely disappointed in the rest of you - don't be expecting to get your shares of the cash we electronically swiped from the Federal Reserve Bank last week... uh, whoops. Shouldn't have said that. :|

Uh, anyhow. What Mike says is very true. We've uncovered many, many, many new things recently, but merely the basics of PK Hackery are available to the average user. Despite this, probably the best thing you can do is just play around - experiment with the different programs. Practical experience is the only way you'll ever learn anything.

--Blue Antoid

PK HACK!!!!!!!
thats waht i'll call my special abilioty in a normal version of EB, but i doubt you all care. What you all carea bout is my opinion of PK hack, which i don't have. sadly i ahve not ahd the cance to mess with PK hack cause well i tried it once and realized i had no clue waht i was doing and sadly ahd to delete my ROM and PK hack because my mom decided that it was my evil Virii infested ROMS messing up her computer when in fact, IT WAS JUST AN OLD PEICE OF *edited for your safty*!!!!!!!!!.

sry about that anyways so all my ROMs and there save files (including a file of EB that was at Stone Henge) we're gone for foreever, and the weird part is i haven't messed with PK hack again? anyone know where to find it as well as other places to find ROM hacking Programs? i would probly ahve fun with those.

--Rootbeer kid





Aw, that’s too bad. My mom just gives me the ol’ “That’s nice, dear.” when I tell her what groundbreaking discovery we hackers have made in any given day. One of these days, I’m going to tell her that I broke into the FBI website and see what she says.

~GiS





Hmm... just as a long shot, have you tried the PK Hack website? Man, everything we have is up there, and I still have to answer that question at least twice a week. :P

--Blue Antoid

PK Hack was the first thing I used involving hacking EarthBound let alone hacking a rom period. Itsvery easy to use, and Ihope PK Hack .30 comes out sometimes, the latest I knew of was .21, I really think PK HAck inspired most otehr hacking tools.

'nuff said.

--Akuma





Mr. Accident has PK Hack .3 on his agenda, as well as a new upgraded Text Editor the possible integration of said editor into his Map Editor, the integration into said Editor an Enemy Placement Editor, a Hotspot Editor, a Music Event Table, and custom tile groups, as well as speeding it up, and living, when he has time. So, it’s hard to say when we’d see such an editor.

~GiS





I'm not sure about the status of the next version of PK Hack... it's been picked up and dropped by various people over the past year or so... There's a lot to be added, including PSI data editing, statistical growth data,and such stuff - and the problem of Win XP/2K/ME compatibility must be dealt with as well. Hopefully soon we'll have a nice crossplatform version that everybody can be happy with.

--Blue Antoid

I've used PK Hack in the past. When it first came out, I thought it was the coolest thing ever, but then I set it aside and quit playing with it, and now I probably wouldn't have any idea how to change anything if I tried it again. I may get back into it again, but the currently changable aspects of the ROM are really not my high points - script editing, sprite editing, map editing... I'm more of a spur-of-the-moment kind of guy, making changes as they come to me, but with PK Hack, these things need lots of extensive planning to turn out well, which I have never really been all that good at. Hopefully, someone will get music editing figured out, then I'll have something a little more familiar to work with.

--LousySpy





Music…editing…

(GiS dies.)

~GiS





SNES music editing itself is the demon beast. Merely looking at its code has been known to drive people off the edge. We've lost three of our best hackers to its fearsome might... they went and got better jobs. Get out... Get out, before you get a better job too!! :O

Ah, I kid. But not much. We have quite a ways to go before music editing is even remotely possible - hopefully we'll one day have a nice happy editor to work with...

--Blue Antoid

No. I have "P.K. hack all" but I dont have A snes emulater or rom. *hint* It would help if somone could give me A link that works, all the earthbound rom links i've found are dead. *hint*

p.s.

the last mail bag; where you commented where you could call. My entrie's text was kinda funney (as in big, and white.) looking not to mention the backround could you fix it?

--rividkid





Sorry, but no. You can’t ask for ROMs. Remember that.

Oh, and thanks for pointing out that error.

~GiS





WTF BANFROMCHAN

First rule of Fight Club, kid. Never ask for ROMs. I shouldn't even have to say that. If you're not willing to go to the effort of using a search engine long enough to find a copy without involving anybody in the community, you're probably not going to be willing to undertake the effort inherent in making a hack.

--Blue Antoid

PK hack is very cool and fun to use for doing crazy stuff in the RPG SNES game we all love. However it is really hard to use all its tools. You need to be either really smart or have experience with all those really long and weird numbers for making the great stuff. The people involving in this concept is really cool for creating all that stuff that simply never stops to amaze me! I wish someday I became a decent knower of PK Hacker, but by new I must learn the basics. PK Hack is a different way to enjoy EarthBound like you have never seen!

--Jigglysama





Ah, come under our wing! Join us in #pkhax, and bury yourself in our mounds of material at http://pkhack.starmen.net. There’s no time to start hacking like the present!

~GiS





Whoa, I didn't know you were into PK Hacking, Jigglysama. You are correct in that you need experience in hacking to be able to do good work... The key comes with time. When I started making my fisrt hack, JonBound, I didn't have a clue what I was doing. However, with all of the time and practice I gave the game, I began to catch on to the various concepts. Granted, it does take a lot of hard work and devotion. But if you're willing to provide that, the possibilities are endless.

--Blue Antoid

I've been using PK Hack for a long time now, and I was wondering, is there any chance of making any programs for use with the Mother 2 rom. The only program that I know of that works with Mother 2 is EBSE. I know the majority of us don't know any Japanese at all, (I know a bit myself) but I think it would still be good to hack it.

--Venom





To a tiny extent. I believe we can read graphics from the ROM, but there are tons of problems with everything else. And here to hopefully explain this in more detail is Blue Antoid.

~GiS





It's unlikely. Yes, the original DOS Sprite Editor will read graphics from the Mother 2 ROM, but there are lots of other issues. Not only is there the language barrier to be crossed, the data throughout the game isn't set up the same as it is in EB. That makes it rather inconvenient for use with our preexisting editors. And hence, inconvenient for hacking.

--Blue Antoid

PK Hacking is the most unethical thing a Eb fan can do but it is just soo much fun you cannot help but be bad.

Eb is a very, very unchallenging game-by hacking into it though, Eb can become almost new if not just better because of it. By hacking you can change locations, story, characters but most importantly-the challenge. YES, I can now make a spiteful crow actually spiteful. I can also change PSI Rockin' to PSI Soft Rockin' so that I can now focus on cooler PK abilities such as shields and temporary stat boosters. SWEET! I gained a level and actually gained some valuable and worthwhile stats! Hey, a pack of coiled snacks just handed my head to me, I guess I am just gonna have to gain a few more levels.

Despite all the fun I can have with this valuable tool, unfortunantly it is comparable to murder...well, not that bad but close. You see the way I see it, Eb is a gem and if the game is a certain way, then thats the way it should hold precident above all other forms. Seriously, when you use Pk Hack it just feels so dirty and wrong; your ruining the best game ever and making it something its not...then why is it just so darn fun then?!

Well in conclusion I would like to say that PK Hack is something good to fool around with on the side but should not recieve more attention then the real game. Its comparable with a spouse. Your married to the perfect person but you want alittle extra because your bored and get a gf/bf on the side(bad). Sure your having fun with the gf/bf but if you start devoting all your time to that new person, your relationship to your spouse will fall apart. But if you give more time to your spouse, the worst that can happen is that the relationship on the side might fall apart and for the better. But all in all to get back to EB, I think PK Hack is the direct result of not recieving Mother 3.

--Psionic Brawler





You bring up two of my greatest arguments on both a pro and a con of PK Hack, though I of course decided the pros greatly outweighed to cons. On one side, EarthBound just didn’t have a satisfying challenge. There was no reason for EarthBound to lack challenge – it had just as much room for increased difficulty as any other RPG. With hacking, not only can we make a whole new game, we can make a whole new challenging game. With the same awesome EarthBoundy humor. I’ve also mulled many a time on the subject of changing such a great game. Why mess with perfection? In a sense, no matter what you get, it’ll still be EarthBound. The engine just has the feel, and more importantly, the hack’s overall style will somehow throwback to EarthBound.

~GiS





Heh, a lot of people use PK Hack just as a cheating utility, rather than making it harder. That's going to happen whenever such options are made available. I mean, think about it - Coil snakes that can drop the Sword of kings and give millions of Exp. Ad mit it, some of you are drooling out there. As for "feeling dirty," I have to admit, I don't really agree. PK Hacking can better be viewed in terms of remixing songs. Sure, I enjoy a good techno mix of my favorite songs, but it doesn't change my appreciation for the original. They're completely different things. In fact, I think that hacking EB has brought me closer to the original game in many ways. For example, who here has ever seen this?



I'll bet a darn few of you. And no, that ISN'T a hacked image. If you don't believe me, go get yourself the carrot key, and waltz on over to Happy Happy Village. Makes you wonder what else is tucked away in the depths of the game, eh? :D

--Blue Antoid

PK Hack was something I tried doing back when the first few versions were released, but now being "real" programmer, I found that making your own game has more potential for new things than changing someone else's. It was fun when I didn't know as much programming and also funny to be changing a game where I knew how everything was supposed to be and playing it differently. At this point, I find it more confusing to try to do it than to just make my own code and work with it in my own way. (yay boring rant)

--Orbfighter





Well, there are definitely a lot less limitations in making your own game, but there’s something about an EB hack that really feels awesome. It’s hard to explain the feeling, but just seeing the EB engine at work with your creation gives you a real awesome sense of accomplishment and joy and nostalgia all at once.

~GiS





Well, we can always use all the programming talent we can get. Why not come down and hang out, and see if you can make an editor for something cool, like the character sprite data we just found.

*Blue Antoid puts on one of those pointy WWI helmets*

YOU MUST OBEY THE KAISER!!! >:O

--Blue Antoid

Are you KIDDING me? PK Hack is one of the greatest programs for Earthbound in the world! Not only can you play around with all things inside the game, but you could make the game into your own! You could put yourself into the game! Have you ever taken the stats of a Teddy Bear (or Deluxe Teddy Bear)? You could change the moves and stats of it so IT can attack the enemies with a various moves! (Of course, since the PP doesn't seem to work on it) Try the extra mile with defence and attack by naming a simple runaway dog to Giygas and giving him Starstorm B, Fire B, Freeze B, and Lightning B! Change the entire game, try adding HP or Armor to each enemy in the game, you could make it much harder! Rename enemies so you could defeat the people you hate, make a Earthbound just for your friends! Try fighting Jingles the Clown instead of Giygas! How could you possibly hate PK Hack? Sure, it's a bit bad that you have to use a ROM to play, but when your a bit tired of the same old enemies and places on your SNES game, how can you resist a program that changes it and makes the game enjoyable and fun all over again?

--JoeyDK87





It’s amazing to think that all the awesome things you decide encompass only the main PK Hack itself. With PK Hack, you could make hacks. But with all the knowledge and utilities we have today, you can make magic.

Wow, that was schmaltzy.

~GiS





Yes, there is a wide realm of possibility when it comes to PK Hackery. These days it's almost been too wide. What with map and map graphics, door editing, and even the capability to redesign the plot of the game, manu users are quickly overwhelmed. Still, you seem to be handling it well. Once you feel confortable, go ahead and try out some of the more complex editors we have to offer. Good luck in your future endeavours!

--Blue Antoid

Aloha, Muers!

Sorry about straying off-topic; I didn't have much to say about hacking this round. If there does happen to be some unwritten rule against deviation, it'd be much appreciated if y'all could post-date this one February 10th :) because it does have to do with game music.

I just wanted to give a heads up on Sunshine, Louis Philippe's website. If the name rings a bell, he's the one who the main vocals on Flying Man from the Mother OST. As it so happens, this very song appears to be freely (and legally :P) available to download in the MP3s section of the site!! XOXOX! (It's down near the bottom of the page, under Collaborations.)

If you have the time and bandwith, LP's other works are worth checking out. While his own style is different from Suzuki-san's (who IIRC sang the second verse of FM and helped out on the refrain) it has a similar, um, layered sensibility and is also interesting to the ears... It's sort of spare-sounding (not exactly minimalist, though), jazzy and oldskool, with equal emphasis on melody and, er, melancholy. Anyway, I liked his stuff. (I may not be the best at music crit, but I do have to say that LP seems to be a pretty snazzy dresser... C'mon, don't you just have to hear out a guy with a hat like that? :D)

Extended ps. (blah blah blah^2) ....Speaking of Keiichi Suzuki and mp3s, I was checking to see if pissin' on line was still up (remember from way back?) for a recent mix project -- it's not, no surprise there since it's been like three and a half years. Fortunately I found out the Wayback Machine sometimes archives short clips, which I was able to make do with [whew] in time... During this li'l episode was the dawning realization that there had been something missing in my life lately (other than free time ;)). I tried thinking it out rationally (Suzuki=EB music=EB? Could it be?) and decided to go on the impulse.

So I picked up Earthbound for the first time in a long while, intending to play it for a just a little bit. Gradually this turned into a somewhat larger bit as I toured Eagleland and parts exotic, tamed animals, cured the zombified, and smaaasshed the bad guys, hummed along with the sweet tunes... got sucked into the game all over again... and realized that this PSI-Rockin' supormazation was exactly what I'd unconciously been craving all along. Now that's some good stuff.

pps. I'm definitely going to have to give a go at pushing Moonriders to Aquas these coming weekends ;) out of gratitude...

--Guppi





There is no no-off-topic-rule at all: you’re allowed to go as off-topic as you want! It’s great to see Suzuki still up and at it, and to see that he still has pride in his past accomplishments. Hopefully everybody with a musical ear or two will pop around and check out his work.

~GiS





Speaking of Suzuki-san, here's a little-known bit of PK Trivia. In my search for the end credits, I didn't have a whole lot of luck, until I searched for "Keiichi Suzuki". So, not only can we thank him for EB's music, we can thank him for bringing us editable end credits. Oh, well, and I suppose you can thank me while you're at it. :P {/boastful}

--Blue Antoid

To answer your first question, I will unseath my capital N to the iz O. Who do these people think they are, huh? EB_God_185? I think not. You want to be some big wig, hot shot, look-at-me, game person? Why not just work at Nintendo? The big N. I mean, at least then you get paid. Instead of working in a shack on Windows 91 with a 22k modem and a Super Number Munchers 2 demo to keep you company. Why don't these people just go into the biz? And when I say biz, I mean bi$$$$$. I'll hook you up. You needn't even pick up a phone. In fact don't even lift a finger. Go into a comatose state and let me do all the talking.

On the second question: Let me put it this way. Say I order a Big Mac, right? Okay? Then I go sit down at the table next to that weird German guy who's always reading the paper. So I take out my Big Mac, and I start to disect it. I take out the pickles. "Haha, look at that, no pickles!" I laugh to myself merrily. Then, in place of the pickles, I put a dried up apple core. "OMG Larry, look at this!" I holler, trying to get a janitor's attention (his name isn't Larry, though, so he just kinda goes about his business). Then, I make the meat purple. PURPLE! Well, after making the diced lettuce vibrate, along with a few other alterations, I decide to eat my Big Mac. BUT... that's just the thing. Is it even a Big Mac anymore? You be the judge. Out.

--Grandpa





Grandpa? Are you, like, The Grandpa? If so, what convinced you to spell your name right? Otherwise, I apologize for scaring you. Your style is very similar to that of Grampa.

Well, though at first glace your letter seemed to be a wonderful hodgepodge of merciless insanity, there’s actually a deep hidden message in here. I’ve often thrown this idea about: If I change 90% of the bytes in the EarthBound ROM, is it still an EarthBound ROM? And if not, what keeps me from selling it? (besides common sense) I suppose the point is, no matter what you do, if you keep the buns, it’s a Big Mac. And if you don’t think about it that way: if it tastes good, does it matter if it’s called a Big Mac? A sandwich by any other name would smell as sweet.

~GiS





Whoa, down, boy. No need to get personal. Some of us don't use dialup around here, you know. :P

You do make an interesting point, however - if one hacks EB, is it even EB anymore? In the most technical of terms, no. But who hasn't wanted purple meat and no pickles in their Big Mac once in a while? Maybe you haven't. There's plenty of people who are satisfied with their sandwiches - and their games - the way they are. PK Hack is simply something that makes the desire that quite a few harbor a possibility.

--Blue Antoid

Lol Yes....Its Very Fun :)
Lol I Made Reviver Phone Teleport phone! :D YES! I LOVE PK HACK! AND THE EB TEXT EDITOR TOO!

-Tails90 --Tails90





Hey, give that back. Only Licensed PK Hackers are allowed to use the raw caffeine IV injections.

~GiS





Watch out with that shift key, buddy. You could put somebody's eye out.

--Blue Antoid

Greetings, GIS. It wasn't until quite recently that I discovered PK Hack. I decided that I would dive headfirst into this interesting domain. After getting some helpful tips from BlueAntoid, I downloaded all of the neccesary tools.

Upon my first try, I became intimidated to say the least. However, with practice, I became better and more experimental. I must say that from my experiences, PK Hack is an incredibly fun activity.

This is a great thing for both those who want more variety in the game, abd those who are aspiring game developers. The tools are easy enough for anyone to make fun tweaks and deep enough for the more experinced to create an entirely original game. With more becoming hackable all the time, it just keeps getting better.

Is it ethical? PK Hack itself is not a ROM. That is another topic all together with me, and I will not open that can of vipers here.

PK Hack is a great achievement and is something that keeps a game that, otherwise would become stale, fresh. Many thanks to those who have worked hard and those who are still working hard to provide the EarthBound community with an easy to learn, and highly entertaining program.

Thanks.

--Madfish





Yay! Somebody expressing appreciation for the hours of work that constantly spill forth new weekly miracles! I hope you’ll continue to dive deeper into hacking’s ever-expanding universe, to the glorious yet slightly painful initiation right of l33tness where your sanity is weathered and torn until it vanishes.

~GiS





Thanks, my icthyoid friend. We hackers are always at work figuring out stuff in the ROM... well, if we're not busy setting each other on fire, or sitting around in a caffieneless stupor. Or watching GIS use his creepy PSI powers to spy on #pkhax.

--Blue Antoid

I have been part of the PK Hack community for a while. In the past I have made just a few simple text changes and enemy/item changes, not alot to do back then. Once EarthBound is close to complete hackability and I finally find out what those darn event codes for the day part of the game I will start work on my big hack project. PK Hacking is fun and very rewarding, especially if people like your hack. I hope someone other then me is going to start a hack project soon because that is what keeps the PK Hacking community alive, new hacks, and caffiene. If anyone knows which events I need to change to make it completely day-time, please help!

--Ryan





It seems that, in tune with many of the ultra-cool utilities to arrive recently, waves of inspiration have swept over many of the community’s top hackers. The general public can likely anticipate the next revolutionary hack to come from any one of a number of hackers – if not all of them!

~GiS





GAWAHH! You don't listen to me! :P

1) Set flag 68 00. This will deactivate the stars in the sky and the land tiles that block your path to the Onettian suburbs. It also toggles the music to daytime.
2) Set flag A6 01. This switches the Onett pallet to daytime.
3) Unset flag 6B 00. This deactivates the message you get from Pokey when walking towards the Onettian suburbs.
4) Set flag D5 01. This deactivates the cops and people outside.
--Blue Antoid

If I have three articles but I only send in two and use the other one as a Latest Excuse filler, is that ethical? Or do I owe PappyCat a third article to replace the one I used to fill LE?

--SimonBob





PappyCat demands your articles now. You will obey PappyCat. Give PappyCat articles. You are getting very sleepy.

~GiS





I say go ahead and use one as filler. You can always just sell your soul to Pappy in exchange... oh, wait, I forgot. You already sold it to Tomato for a PK Hack badge. Oh well. :P

--Blue Antoid

It’s about time somebody did a topic on PK Hack. It’s really its own section of the community. The PK Hackers are reasonably secluded, our own private sanction, working day and night (mostly night, long caffeine-loaded nights) to crank out new technology, learn new things, and generally increase enjoyment of EarthBound on the public scale. But above all, it is we – the hackers – who most rediscover their enjoyment of EarthBound. At least, that’s how it went for me.

It all started in the year 2000. At least, I think it was 2000. It’s all been one wild ride. I had been a while since I’d searched for an EarthBound site – of the few previous times, I came across misc. stuff – a certain YANEB, a site by Carpainter; I vaguely remember acing an EarthBound quiz and making the Hall of Fame under the name. This time, I came up with www.earthbound.net, a site that caught my interest to a reasonable extent. What was it? The bustling forum? The layout? Or maybe just the little quotes up in the top bar? Whatever it was, it got me to come back again and again. But I still wasn’t trapped. I started reading about changes at the site, and the next time I logged on, I found we had become the to-be famous http://starmen.net. Was I interested enough to register? Nowhere close. It took one major thing. It took PK Hack.

As soon as I saw PK Hack, I was hooked instantly. I had always looked for something like PK Hack – a way to take my favorite game and make it fresh. A way to express my creative talents in one my favorite mediums, electronic gaming. A way to make any item or enemy I ever dreamt a reality. The possibilities were so limitless! It’s one of the simple pleasure that many newer people will never see. We were forced to make due with only our one, earth-shattering PK Hack. And whenever we saw somebody whip something up with it, we were looking at a masterpiece. It was just jaw-dropping: this was our game, the game that all brought us here, the game that was with us for so long – and we could shape its perfection in exactly the way we pleased. We weren’t sad, as you might think, without a map editor and compressed graphics and extra megs and such – we couldn’t even fathom such things. We had PK Hack. It was a miracle in action. With every whisper of a new version, I hung around. I was soon visiting daily, and my time had certainly come due to register. I was in for good, and I’m still here. My first posts were in the PK Hack forum. I stuck to this site thanks to PK Hack, and look where it has brought me.

As I sit and listen to nostalgic EarthBound tunes, I think about my life. How was it shaped? My friends, EarthBound. PK Hack. What inspired me to press myself to the limits of my young mind with my programming skills? What taught me volumes of working with computers, with games, the mystical workings of those 0’s and 1’s? BlueAntoid once asked, in a lonely meeting, a classified day in a classified channel: if there was a supercomputer which could hack the EarthBound ROM for us instantly; get it to spill all its secrets, eliminate all need for work and advance us to full understanding, would we use it? The yes’s began shooting up, and without thinking, I threw a yes into the pile. But I glanced again at the query and retracted. No, of course I wouldn’t have. The lessons I’ve learned in hacking. The friends I’ve made along the way. The experience. I would never give it up.

Hacking, of course, grew rapidly, leaps and bounds at a time. The rift finally began drawing the novices from the vets, and we learned more and more about the ROM. Text editing was a huge development. Then there was the shock when Tomato dropped the first picture of a compressed battle graphic in action. Yes, so many milestones; all of which I’ve been there for. Nowadays, it is hard for the newer set to fathom what it was like ‘back then’ – in the days where the very pictures of text editing at work brought forth emotions that I cannot possibly put into words. Every picture of a huge development sent new tremors of bliss and excitement…all the way back to the glory of the famous http://pkhack.starmen.net/old/pics/ and http://pkhack.starmen.net/old/pics2/. We also picked up skills that would always help us succeed in hacking and in our future – especially hex editing, a skill that, with so many new utilities, sadly new people don’t grasp right away.

Well, everybody, it’s been a wild ride. It was PK Hack that brought me here, and I’ve ridden its wave all the way to the present. Of course, in time, I began drifting more into the meat of starmen.net itself, eventually bringing me to my spot as Chief Mailbag Executive. But even to say that I’ve ‘never forgotten’ PK Hack is a total understatement. I’m still there, bytesaber at the ready, PK Hacking away. Some think I’ve faded from the scene – and yes, I have fallen more to the wayside, to things like Mailbag, afterschool commitments – and yes, I do feel guilty. But I was there, I am there, I will be there. I’m still there with the crew every week, smashing the last bits of information from the ROM, theorizing, joining the hacking crusade or just chilling. PK Hack brought me so far; I could never desert it. I’ll be there. I will make that hack I promised. And I encourage all of you, the wave can still be caught. Join with us all, and try out PK Hack. See the joy of adding a new twist to your favorite game. Make it your way. Make it however you want. Go for it, and PK HACK!

*phew* I don’t know about you, but I think I want Letter of the Week this week. :D

--GuyInSummers

Conclusion? You’re kidding, right?

Well, there was a conclusion to be made. It seems that not enough people know the range PK Hack now encompasses. People should visit http://pkhack.starmen.net more. I’m pretty sure I covered everything else in there. Ah, I also conclude that the one flaw of being Mailbag manager is not getting to do Mailbag. Well, except I just did Mailbag, sorta’. Aw, you know what I mean. Later, all! :)