Contributing Overview

So, you're interested in contributing to Tachi? Awesome! All help is appreciated. But, what can you contribute, and where can you help out?

What does Tachi need?

Contrary to what you might already think, contributing to Tachi actually has remarkably little to do with code.

The primary Tachi maintainer (henceforth referred to as zkldi, because that's their name) deals with the core of the codebase; things like importing scores, adding new features and most of the UI work is handled by them.

Tachi actually doesn't really have a shortage of people who can write good code, and the core of the codebase feature-wise is maintainable entirely by zkldi comfortably.

What isn't possible to maintain, is the sheer amount of things going on in every game! zkldi cannot reasonably keep track of all the games we support and everything that's going on in them.

That's where you step in - people who actually actively play games on Tachi! By letting zkldi know about things going on in your game - and even contributing things yourself - you help make their life easier and Tachi's support for your favourite game even better!

For Novices...

The Novice guides also cover things like how to get a proper code editing setup, how to use the terminal, and more.

You should be able to follow these even if you don't know the first thing about programming!

All of the novice guides are further down in this page.

Sounds good.

Awesome! Start with the Setup guide. This will get Tachi running on your local PC, so you can test all your changes.