I am not going to pretend that I understand what goes into making a good rom hack as I have never even looked into it, but I do realize that there is an extreme amount of work that goes into it. I actually understand where you are coming from, but at the same time It still seems if I were a judge that it would be hard to compare them fairly... It is like trying to compare a perfect square to a perfect circle. Then again... In your defence there are plenty of traditional fan games out there that are based on other peoples fan game engines so... I don't know. It is just a gray area for me I guess.