This takes me back to the days of the early 00’s where much ROM hacking was done by hex editing, and maybe along with Tile Map Pro was any ROM hacker’s most va

This takes me back to the days of the early 00’s where much ROM hacking was done by hex editing, and maybe along with Tile Map Pro was any ROM hacker’s most valuable tool. I spent many many hours messing around in Sonic 2; especially, first changing palettes, then creating custom level layouts; until the tools finally came around to compress / decompress the art found in various formats. :) Now everything is mostly done with Assembly in those communities but there was a grace to the very delicate and fascinating art of editing ROMs directly in hex. :)