RHDN is dead. RIP.
Damn, this is unfortunate
This is a real bummer. The hacks will say up, but no new uploads. At least there’ll be people who still make rom hacks, though. (I hope they don’t all operate on Discord.)
Yeah, the ideal outcome is someone using the site dump on Archive.org to create a sucessor site. The longer it takes to get done, the more people will rely on Dicord to host romhacks, which is terrible for discoverability.
Hopefully any new site keeps the high standards romhacking dot net upheld; it’s way too easy to make a hack that unintentionally breaks other things in a game.
Regarding Discord, its un-openness to the 'net at large is definitely a prominent issue. But another problem (based on my limited experience) is that its people just aren’t very friendly. It’s like a large portion of them are annoyed at having to interact with other people. I don’t know why that is or even if it’s true, but that’s the feeling I got from it.
I’m glad everything has been archived. Where are people going to share rom hacks now? Super Mario 64 and Super Mario World stuff have their own website. Niche things are going to be harder to find.
Probably discord where they can be memory-holed automatically since it’s such a terrible platform.
This is terrible news.
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It has nothing to do with Nintendo or litigation.
Just to be clear - there is no nearest-alternative site, is there? Honestly the only other site I’ve seen release things is gbatemp, and a forum format scales very poorly for releasing and finding romhacks.
I’ve seen https://romhacks.org/ come up somewhere else, but I’ve also read rumours that this other site’s admin bullied Nightcrawler. More investigation is required, I guess.
Edit: I hadn’t finished reading the bluesky thread when I wrote this. It would seem https://romhacks.org/ is not a viable alternative.
From what I have seen, it may be a good time to start an open source initiative for a new site. I’d love to hear about what projects you are working on!
Ok…how can the Fediverse can help?
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There’s still gamehacking.org. I still go there from time to time. I’ve even made and submitted a few hacks myself.
Well… I’m glad I grabbed the translation patches for Metal Max two and three earlier this week.
