From f3b33df2c05b5a47c59d6b47e3e9c12e8e78666a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hiram Anderson <37224753+hjk321@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 22:24:43 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Advantages: mergable branches, and git

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 There is also another, if not _the_ most important advantage to using decompilations: **we do not care about offsets**. Unlike binary hacking, one can easily change the size, locations, even the members of variables at their will. The linker (`ld`) does the work for you, recalculating and modifying references to variables. Gone are the days of worrying about remaining free space; we just don’t do that here.
 
+Like binary hacking, we have a wealth of resources available to you that tweak things, add new features, Pokémon, moves, etc, and even a completely revamped battle engine. However, *unlike* binary hacking, instead of applying a "ROM base" patch at the beginning of your project, you can use **as many of those resources as you want,** and can add them **even in the middle of your project.** No more worrying about whether a patch will break something; it all just works. And for the same reasons that we stated above, these resources are typically much better-developed than their binary equivalents, with less bugs and more advanced features.
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+One final advantage is that there is no need to keep a folder full of ROM backups while developing your hack. Ask anyone who has successfully released a binary hack and they will tell you that they have a folder full of hundreds of backups with every little change in case something breaks down the road. With the decomps, you will be using a program called Git to make code backups for you (called **commits**) and upload them to Github (the website you are on right now). The difference is that Git makes a backup of the *code*, not the ROM. This is better for a lot of reasons; for example, you can easily see exactly what you changed between each commit instead of having to guess from a list of identical-looking ROMs. Also, if you find a bug, instead of having to boot ROM after ROM to find when it happened, then starting over from that point, Git has tools to test when a bug occurred, allowing you to fix it without losing any progress. Git also has a lot more advantages to hacking over binary; for example, you can have multiple people working on the hack at the same time because you are editing separate parts of the code instead of a single file.
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 **Before you start hacking, it is recommended that you have some experience in coding in C, C++, Rust, C#, Java, or any other C-like programming language, if you want to use use the decompilation.**
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