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I've always loved video games, and making my own games was my main interest for my entire life. Sometime when I was 7 or 8, I started teaching myself QBASIC (and then VB a few years later) and I'd try to make really awful recreations of stuff I saw in games.
A few years later, my brother showed me NESticle and I was hooked. I found YY-SMB and was incredibly excited about being able to make my own custom Mario levels.
From there, I found Zophar's "facelifting" section and found the SMB2 Discombobulator, which lead me to the first incarnation, sometime after it had switched to MySQL.
SMB2 Discombobulator was great, because it was made in VB, and I could make simple stuff in VB but I wasn't mature enough to be able to handle rom hacking or any "big" programming projects.
Acmlm's Board wasn't full of people who were total lamers like literally everywhere else was, and since everyone had the same interests as me, I stuck around.
Sometime between the second and third incarnations, I drifted off to nesdev, and to different rom-hacking communities. Late in the third incarnation, Xk found me and suggested I come back, which I did, but the fourth incarnation happened soon after.
Over the years, I followed everyone until we all wound up here.
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