Recruiting for collaboration project: Reviving Jathy's Harvest Moon Editor

[VariaphazonSamus]

Hey there,

I'm a long-time lurker at this site.
I've registered here years ago, when a friend of me tried hacking Fusion, unfortunately to no avail.

Anyways, you might have stumbled across this thread here wondering about the title... I was talking with someone, who happenes to mess around with the Harvest Moon SNES ROM since lately, and I indirectly asked him, if he would be interested in further improving,where Jathy's left oft (his editor is open source, ater all).

However, he said he would just help figuring out stuff, but not mess around with it on his own behalf.
That's where I'm asking here for assistance.
Is anyone here interested in seeing Harvest Moon hacks in the future?
I always thought Jathy's editor was already pretty advanced. Why did Jathy's abandon his editor?
Do you guys think he would want to cope with getting back into it and working together with Lytron, the person who said he would like to help?
MathonNapkins seems to get back into his Black Magic editor as well (or atleast, the disassembly), so I somehow have the feeling that the time has come where people want to go back to their former editors/tools.
I can't speak for others, of course, but me not being able to modify ROM's myself, all I can do is encourage people in what they have accomplished.

Well, just thought I would bring this up.
The more people wanting to help out, the better.  :^_^:
That is, if there is even interest.

Edit: Forgot to add the links.

Lytron's site: http://pantalytron.com/blog7.php/a-small-look-into-harvest

Jathy's site: http://jathys.zophar.net/harvestmoon/index.html

Harvest Moon Editor - Source code: http://www.geocities.ws/jathys/files/HMEsource.zip

Additional information regarding the editor (might be outdated): http://www.geocities.ws/jathys/hme/index.html