... you know what? I'll reveal this one secret to you.
My first priority is to finish this game. Whether I like it or not, I'm gonna finish it.
I'm so sick of unfinished fangames!
Making this game is a hobby for me too, but I'm planning on finishing it, not to learn from it.
So yeah, some may think my motives are wrong, but if that gets first real Zelda fangame done, I don't see anything wrong with that.
"Who cares if I finish it?"
... Pretty much everyone here, I'd say. It's like a painting, there is nothing joyful in a unfinished painting.
What is the point of making games, if you make unfinished games, so you can make more unfinished games? Why not make one good and finished game?
So... What I'm trying to say is, I take every help I can get to finish CoG.
What I use is still creative, even if someone else uses the same stuff.