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I started with an existing ROM and compared it to a base version of the 30 team ROM by wboy which is also a good starting point to learn where the decompressed graphics and reordered tables and pointers are. Then I just used the 30 Team ROM and started from scratch with the notes I had made and the ones here from wboy & KingRaph. Experiment! Sometimes you come up with happy accidents. Lord knows I had my share... (background tile for me)

I feel very uncomfortable when people say kind things about me, so I will just say "thank-you." If I were handing out personal awards, I'd nominate @von Ozbourne for making me feel less crazy, and always being willing to help me try to figure out a vexxing problem. As for the official "bud of the year" I wish I could nominate all the Modders on the site. This past year has been *so* enjoyable, with folks like @Jkline3 sharing data he spent countless hours manually scraping from the web, @Drezz sharing a huge amount of sprite work with me, so that I didn't have to duplicate the effort for myself, @von Ozbourne sharing anything I ever ask for, and others who's name elude me at the moment. It's been a remarkably enjoyable year to mod '94, with an open collaborative spirit of sharing and support, and so many utterly fantastic mods, from @Sean's epic NCAA project, @Jkline3 & @von Ozbourne's fun Reverse Retro collaboration, @Drezz's immersive HNIC 1991 experience, and so many more. And I haven't even touched on all the breakthroughs that people have shared. I've only been around here a couple years, but from a modders perspective, this past year was *very* different from the year before because of all these fine folks sharing so much with eachother.

I'll second @Drezz for sharing my new favourite hack of the menu backgrounds. But I'll have to give my nod of appreciation to @AdamCatalyst for all of his other tutorials that have become an invaluable resource for literally everything else.

Would like to throw a shout out to @Drezz for figuring out how to change the main menu background.