What's Koscher?

[Onmi]

I know the limitations when it comes to Sprites/Animations etc. Never without permission unless Permission isn't asked. What I'm more curious about is code. Is it considered poor form to go through a hacks ASM and see what changes were made to achieve new things?

[Dr.Sholes]

So long as you don't straight up copy the code I don't think that should be a problem, I might be wrong though.

[shadowofchaos]

Honestly, since there's usually more than one way to achieve a solution to a problem, or in the case of FE animation hacks that happened with me, you will independently come to the same solution.

If you are able to decipher what the code is doing in the disassembler, who's to stop you from messing with it?

The only thing would be like making your own routine, and changing stuff around, and releasing it. You state your terms with it, since it's your code. So stealing someone else's (claiming it as your own unless it's public domain) is still a big no-no.

I had an incident with the FE7if guy, being an idiot about "I stole it from a Japanese wiki" when I actually did just look into the ROM and looked at how the Mauthe Doog used different battle commands. The guy shouldn't be accusing anyone of anything if he can't even fluently speak neither Japanese NOR English and is using Google Translate on his youtube account. The only thing about is that I CAN'T win against an idiot. He ended up blocking me and it STILL pisses me off that dared question my honor.

[CT075]

My philosophy is that if it's open-source, it's mostly fair game. I mean stealing code for, say, an application in a higher leveled language like Java or Python or something that's crossing the line, but with ASM there's really mostly only one way to do everything anyway so there's no real reason not to allow someone to use your code.

Not to mention that nobody can stop you from using a patch, then using a debugger like no$ or VBA's disassembly mode to view the changes manually.