I thought it was NOT shutting down and is instead turning into 100% a news site only?
ROMhacking.net shuts down after 20 years; database has been moved to the Internet Archive
Submitted 3 months ago by nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com to games@lemmy.world
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jay@mbin.zerojay.com 3 months ago
nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Functionally speaking the distinction is negligible. Users won’t be able to download patches from the site, and new patch submissions won’t be accepted.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Yeah, WTF?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Oh, like abandonia? Their last six articles, all newsvertainment for gambling shit, are years old, but their database is still there last I checked.
Ashtear@lemm.ee 3 months ago
One of the last Web 1.0 bastions in gaming. Really hate to see this, especially when Discord is around the peak of its popularity right now. Here’s hoping a more future-proof alternative than that arises.
catloaf@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Quick link to the archive: archive.org/details/romhacking.net-20240801
Dremor@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Hi there.
I’m a bit cross about allowing or not to allow liking to the website archives.
For the time being, and while we discuss about it among the mods, I’d like to ask you to refrain from posting any link to said archive, I’ll restore to posts containing said links if we decide to allow that.Thank you for your understanding.
catloaf@lemm.ee 3 months ago
From what I see in the archive link I posted, it only contains patches, not playable games, neither original nor patched. You need a copy of the game already to make any use of it.
Pixelguin@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s correct. The entire archive is only about 12GB; it couldn’t possibly contain the full games.
Dremor@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’ll take a look tomorrow. I’m UTC+2 (I just can’t sleep right now 😅), so I’m not yet in the required state of mind to go and check add of that.
doctortran@lemm.ee 3 months ago
If it’s a romhacking site, it wont have the actual ROMs, just the patches. It never would have survived 20 years if it had been hosting ROMs.
stardust@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Nooooo!!!
YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Wtf no
AFreeLarryHoover@lemmy.world 3 months ago
NOOOOOOOOOOOO
capt_wolf@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Such a shame…
Here’s Gideon Zhi’s response and a little explanation, from his side anyway, of what has actually happened.
bassomitron@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeesh, I’ve never used the website but that NightCrawler person seems like they have some serious control problems. The fact that the whole community was willing to chip in/pay for it and take it over and the admin still refused to cooperate is pretty shitty. At least it looks like someone managed to convince the admin to let them host and takeover the site’s wiki.
Ashtear@lemm.ee 3 months ago
This is oddly common in ROM hacking/mod scenes. There’s been no shortage of drama in the Fire Emblem and Final Fantasy Tactics communities, too.
At the very least I wish people would consider the bus test once a site gets to a certain critical mass.
Peffse@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I really hope that tcrf doesn’t take over. I STILL can’t contribute to that website because it requires you to sign up for Discord and agree to Discord’s ToS just to paste some stupid code into their bot.
capt_wolf@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Wait are you talking cutting room? I had no idea they did that. Very weird for a site that’s just copying Wikipedia.
doctortran@lemm.ee 3 months ago
There’s a conspicuous absence of explain why they wouldn’t do it. What were their actual concerns? Did they not voice them or are they just being withheld?
Why was this a requirement?
And what did you say?
Well something clearly happened if he’s family was brought into it, so if you’re going to skimp on the details, I’m not sure how I’m supposed to believe that.