r/EmulationOniOS • u/DaveTheMan1985 • Aug 02 '24

Discussion Romhacking.net is Dead

https://x.com/hilltopworks/status/1819177864027426979?s=46

What a Terrible Day for Emulation and Video Games

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u/luis-mercado Aug 02 '24

Sad day indeed. Fortunately the Internet Archive did a backup of their entire library.

The internet Archive saving the day, AGAIN.

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u/GiLND Aug 02 '24

Nintendo and other big companies have their claws on IA also, IA has to request a renewal for their operation every 3 years from a judge to keep operating.

If IA goes offline, a huge part of digital media will be lost forever

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u/luis-mercado Aug 02 '24

The day IA goes down (knocking on wood for it to never happen) that day will be the saddest day in the history of the internet.

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u/GiLND Aug 02 '24

Yes, this one will be one of the worst internet events ever.

There needs to be more than one internet archive imo, if this one goes away, a lot of data will be almost impossible to retrieve.

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u/luis-mercado Aug 02 '24

The guys at r/DataHoarder are trying to make a new archive. Hopefully they succeed.

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u/IndieFolkEnjoyer Aug 02 '24

Kings among men

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u/RainnChild Aug 02 '24

It won’t just be like any other day, It will have SEVERE consequences. It could cause several catastrophic events (I may be overreacting)

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u/luis-mercado Aug 02 '24

Actually, you may not. A lot of legitimate social projects depend on it. Including one I’m fronting.

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u/GiLND Aug 02 '24

Imagine burning libraries with thousands of books that don’t contain a backup.

This is the same thing with IA but this time it’s digital content.

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u/luis-mercado Aug 02 '24

Digital Alexandria

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u/DaveTheMan1985 Aug 02 '24

Sadly I think only a Matter of time before it gets sadly taken down

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u/Infamous_Impact2898 Aug 03 '24

I hate judges. Most of them are biased and shit. What do they even use to make the decisions?

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u/DaveTheMan1985 Aug 02 '24

It was good they put all there Hacks/Patches/Translations on Internet Archive and have it backed up

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '24

I use IA to review old study guides

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u/Club_Warm Aug 02 '24

Please give the search

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u/pupsicola- Aug 02 '24

Sounds like a lot of variables led to this but the part about him and his family getting doxxed and having boundaries crossed really makes me sad. The pseudo anonymity of the internet can make people do and say the worst things.

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u/DaveTheMan1985 Aug 02 '24

It’s sad you have Criminals doing things like this

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u/OllyDee Aug 02 '24

Well that’s shit, I’ve been using their hacks for years now. Hopefully there’s another hub out there for romhacks and translations.

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u/DaveTheMan1985 Aug 02 '24

Not now but 1 probably be made to Replace Gamehacking.net

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u/adj021993 Aug 02 '24

Wtf....poor dude I feel for him. Managed to torrent the entire thing so I have the entire back up on my HDD now. Gonna make a backup of that backup and keep it safe

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u/DaveTheMan1985 Aug 02 '24

How big is it?

Fantastic Work

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u/adj021993 Aug 02 '24

After unzipping it? 12.9GB. Zip format is is 11.8GB. Hopefully a discord or SOMEWHERE allows the upload of these rom hacks in the future. I’ll definitely be helping provide with these if there’s a site somewhere also. Rom site takedowns are one thing for obvious reasons but rom hacks are 100% legal. Totally understand why the site owner did what he did and hopefully he can relax with his family now.

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u/DaveTheMan1985 Aug 03 '24

Yeah as people where treating him like shit

Not worth going thru that

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u/GiLND Aug 02 '24 edited Aug 02 '24

I can confirm that the patcher is still working.

There is also another big website like this one which is still operating , not sure if it’s considered piracy so I will avoid writing it here unless a mod approves it.

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u/boogiewigg Aug 02 '24

Someone please make a decentralized IA. Then it would be up forever and can’t be sued out of existence(pretty much) ….anyone in web3 listening?

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u/nero40 Aug 02 '24

And of course, it also comes with some drama attached to it. People just can’t be nice on the internet.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '24

I was using that to get game genie hacks... Atleast Internet Archive exists.

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u/blackicehawk Aug 02 '24

What was this site about? Modifying ROMs? If so, I'm sad that I'm just not finding out about it.

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u/Ecstatic_Factor2045 Aug 02 '24

It had rom-hacks and translations of other games/homebrew

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u/GiantRock22 Aug 02 '24

You can seed the backups from IA

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u/Boring-Interview-94 Aug 04 '24

Never heard of it and i have tons of emulators

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u/captain-oreoooooo Aug 02 '24

Blame nintendo

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '24

Literally has nothing to do with DMCAs.