Romhacking.net is shut down

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, this whole situation is so unfortunate, and such a weird mess... I don't understand why the guy running the site would act like that, making wild allegations that don't seem backed up by the facts while refusing to update RHDN's backend at all.  I like the site a lot and think the current, certainly '00s-style, site software works well for users, but it does have issues such as the limited file sizes and more (ie, why the site is not somewhere to go to find anything for CD games) and those weren't getting fixed.  And who knows how hard it was to update.  And now we know why nothing changed: the guy running the site refused to change anything whatsoever.  That doesn't seem like the best decision, but what can you do...

I very much hope that it is replaced by a similar site that uses its database.  The romhacking and translation patching scene needs somewhere to make it easy for people to find their work, after all, and that site is it.  If you want hacks for certain specific popular games you'd want to go do dedicated sites of course, such as the Mario World hacking hub  smwcentral.net or the Mario 64-focused romhacking.com, but for anything else for classic consoles and for translation and other hacks particularly, RHDN is the place to go.  Websites still have an important place in the world, we can't go 'meh just go to our Discord to find everything, if you can!'... both forms are important, It's been sad to see the slow abandonment of so much of the internet in favor of just social media sites and Youtube... those are great too but aren't the whole internet!  But anyway.