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RHDN is dead. RIP.

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[-] Waveform@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

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.)

[-] Monomate@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] Waveform@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 4 points 3 months ago

I wonder if anybody would be interested in running a Lemmy community for them.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I wouldn't be able to run it, but I would subscribe to it.

[-] Cadeillac@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago

Damn, this is unfortunate

[-] maxenmajs@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

I'm glad everything has been archived.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.

[-] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

Probably discord where they can be memory-holed automatically since it's such a terrible platform.

[-] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 17 points 3 months ago

God, I fucking hate how small communities gravitate to Discord. It's such a trash platform for a complete community package, but everyone uses it because it's free. It'd be a lot better if communities just relied on it for chat, but no, critical information is left in ever expanding chat logs, and participation in any capacity at all requires explicitly joining.

[-] vikingtons@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

And the client apps gradually get worse and worse.

[-] kagrocery@midwest.social 19 points 3 months ago

https://bsky.app/profile/gideonzhi.bsky.social/post/3kypgqcah6k2p

Gideon Zhi has some more context on Bluesky. Sounds like the main (only) admin made things… difficult.

[-] SuperFola@programming.dev 15 points 3 months ago
[-] kagrocery@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Thanks for posting that.

~~Holy shit, the backend was Wordpress… 💀~~

Edited, mis-read Gideon’s comment. That’s what I get for dog walking and reading at the same time.

[-] s38b35M5@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Holy shit, the backend was Wordpress

Of RDHO, not RDHN

[-] xnx@slrpnk.net 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Here’s a post that goes more in depth at the shut down and it refutes the accusations of doxxing. https://x.com/gideonzhi/status/1819215914988196204

Seems like the discord community was helping make the site more resilient since it would often go down and stay down for days because only one person could bring it back up and no one could contact him. They also were going to reduce the costs by a lot and foot the bill. Seems like this was shut down by an overzealous ruler not anything else.

Sorry its a xitter link but its the only place theyve posted.

[-] Shatur@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Thanks for the info!

Here is the link for people who don't use X: https://xcancel.com/gideonzhi/status/1819215914988196204

[-] RandomStickman@kbin.run 11 points 3 months ago

Aw man. At least it's archived.

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago

So what happens if the Internet Archive goes away?

[-] refurbishedrefurbisher 12 points 3 months ago

That would be like losing the Library of Alexandria all over again.

We need to archive the archive, and maybe have it in the middle of international waters.

[-] everett@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Prevent it from being lost by seeding the torrent. (All Internet Archive items automatically have one.)

[-] DuckGuy@mander.xyz 10 points 3 months ago

This is terrible news.

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.

[-] drasglaf@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 months ago

That's a shame.

It feels like the end of an era.

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

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?

[-] PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There's still gamehacking.org. I still go there from time to time. I've even made and submitted a few hacks myself.

[-] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Well... I'm glad I grabbed the translation patches for Metal Max two and three earlier this week.

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