ROM Hacking?

[LSA]

Ultimately I would like to write my own SNES game from scratch...

I figure a good place to start would be hacking... learning how to crack the rom and make it do whatever I want...

can anyone tell me where to learn to do this... and where to get the tools?

thanks

[Alakazander]

I'm kind of surprised that no one has mentioned this in 4 days, but the website http://www.romhacking.net/ is almost synonymous with romhacking in-general.

Documentation (guides and the like) can be found Here
Tools can be found Here

[LSA]

thank you I shall start reading