The "making" of
Dragon Warrior: ChatGPT Edition
Let me be very clear. This method is not possible to use unless you understand basic ROM hacking. The changes it made to this ROM over the course of the hour or so I worked with it could have been made in less than 10 minutes by even the most novice ROM Hacker. I had initially uploaded the ROM for reasons unrelated to the project which is what lead to this. At the start of exchange, I asked it to stop kissing my ass, as such behavior disgusts me and I view it as disrespectful. There are moments where I'm genuinely blown away at it's capabilities here, but in the same way I'm excited to see a baby walk for the first time. Real AI wouldn't have this much trouble.
What I asked for
What it gave me
After this, the conversation veers off into another direction. Further small edits were made, but nothing that ended up in the final product because it broke things that were already established. If you use this, you'll need to understand that it will erase things that have already been done sometimes to implement new changes. If you change the graphics, you need to change them all in one fell swoop. If you cut up graphical changes, you will notice that the original changes you made will be reverted. It seems to keep a clean version of the CHR-ROM in memory for modification, so any time you ask it to change that, it'll start from there rather than your modified CHR-ROM.
This is not a viable method of ROM Hacking, and if you're going to try it, expect nothing of value. It's sense of humor is sub-reddit tier 2008 "LOL XD SO RANDOM XP" bullshit. and doing this took much longer than simply opening up Windhex32 and changing the text myself.
As with any form of artistic expression, you're going to get what you put into it. Don't waste your time like I did with this. This isn't even a shitpost hack. Those have artistic merit. Nothing created by AI is capable of having artistic merit. There's no mind, there's no intent.
Whats that you say? Your mind created those prompts with intent? You filtered both through a machine that doesn't fundamentally understand anything about your mind, or why you're doing what you're doing. It doesn't care about your work, do you?
ChatGPT can barely generate passable text, and it's ROM hacking abilities are cumbersome to the point of absurdity. If you choose to do this and try to pass it off as something you created, you will be noticed, and people will rightfully shit on you for it. Do so at your own peril.