Metroid 2 and Metroid Fusion

[catroid]

Why do Metroid Fusion and Metroid 2 get hacked less often?

[Quietus]

The first part of the answer is more obvious - they're less popular.
The second part of the answer is likely that documentation is sparse, and no complete editor (Fusion) has reached a 'final' stage of readiness.

Also, if Super Metroid is any gauge, then it'd take a few dedicated people to release hacks to spread knowledge, then a great hack like Redesign to really galvanise people within the hacking community to want to make their own.

[liamnajor]

The first part of the answer is more obvious - they're less popular.
The second part of the answer is likely that documentation is sparse, and no complete editor (Fusion) has reached a 'final' stage of readiness.

Also, if Super Metroid is any gauge, then it'd take a few dedicated people to release hacks to spread knowledge, then a great hack like Redesign to really galvanise people within the hacking community to want to make their own.

Well, it won't happen any time soon if I remain the only m2 hacker. I don't have any hacks in the works. I might make one soon, might (probably) not.

[Kazuto]

The first part of the answer is more obvious - they're less popular.
The second part of the answer is likely that documentation is sparse, and no complete editor (Fusion) has reached a 'final' stage of readiness.

Also, if Super Metroid is any gauge, then it'd take a few dedicated people to release hacks to spread knowledge, then a great hack like Redesign to really galvanise people within the hacking community to want to make their own.

As far as Fusion is concerned, the event system makes it a lot more difficult to do what you want to do with it. Specifically, if you were looking to make a Fusion hack in the same style as vanilla Fusion, but with a different means of progression, it'd require editing numerous things that are either poorly documented, or not documented at all.

On the other hand, ALIE is set to drop this year, and that should be the first "big" Fusion hack we've ever seen. And as far as that event system bit goes, I've got a couple ideas that I'm playing around with myself, and I hope to have something new and interesting to show by the end of the year. But it's definitely going to take a bigger variety of hacks for Fusion in order to garner bigger interest in it.

[catroid]

Thank you for the info.