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ROMhacking.net shuts down after 20 years; database has been moved to the Internet Archive

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

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  • capt_wolf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Such a shame…

    Here’s Gideon Zhi’s response and a little explanation, from his side anyway, of what has actually happened.

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    • bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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      • Ashtear@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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    • doctortran@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      after some further research, it became apparent that Discord staff could save a significant amount of money by changing S3 providers. The new bucket was set up, but when the time came to make the change NC refused to do it, even though he was not the one footing the bill.

      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?

      NC refused to join the Discord to talk about solutions in real-time.

      Why was this a requirement?

      Did we vent in private? Sure.

      And what did you say?

      Did we dox or threaten? Fucking hell, no! And frankly I’m LIVID at even the suggestion that we did.

      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.

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    • Peffse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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      • capt_wolf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Ashtear@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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    • doctortran@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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      • Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You got a good point here. I’ll take that into consideration.

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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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      • Pixelguin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s correct. The entire archive is only about 12GB; it couldn’t possibly contain the full games.

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      • Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Mango@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Saying you’re cross usually means angry.

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      • Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh, my bad 😂

        I meant that I was hesitant.

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  • jay@mbin.zerojay.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I thought it was NOT shutting down and is instead turning into 100% a news site only?

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    • nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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    • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, WTF?

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Quick link to the archive: archive.org/details/romhacking.net-20240801

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  • stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nooooo!!!

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  • YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wtf no

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  • AFreeLarryHoover@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    NOOOOOOOOOOOO

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  • Aetherion@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A lot of internet gardens are dying these days…

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  • Mango@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hail Hydra

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  • Mango@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Jesus Christ.

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