Thanks guys these comments keep making my weekend every time i check the thread :)

As for the tutorials, there are several already or I would have made my own

http://forum.toribash.com/showthread.php?t=603143

http://forum.toribash.com/showthread.php?t=19742
This is the one that helped me get started, along with asking other people when I needed something explained


The thing about hacking isn't that it's incredibly difficult, it's just tough to get into and all the numbers in notepad can be very intimidating which naturally turns people off, and that's why so few people do it.
There is no easy way in, it can be tedious and confusing and it takes a lot of hard work but the results can be incredible which in my eyes makes it all worth it.

It also gets easier, faster and most importantly more fun the more you learn, but at the end of the day you are still going to have to track down and rewrite tiny numbers in a large batch of text and there's no way around that.



Also I want to endorse this cool video made by Concon