old consoles are a technological lingua franca
make a game for pc, and it cane be played on pc and maybe also steam deck
make a game for snes/mega drive/game boy and it can be played on anything that emulates those systems. you can sell the rom on itch for people to buy and play on their pc, their chinese handheld, their 3ds, etc.
yeah I also found out that was his full name yesterday and thought it was funny
That much I can understand.
Itâs just that the authorâs reasoning is âI want to switch my Megadrive project from C to assembly, so Iâm making a SNES game in a completely different form of assembly as practice.â
guess whaâ
an astrobot DualshockâŚsixxaxxxxiis⌠what are they calling it these days, A Fiver? Cinque-Shock? 
this blows a lot, and has been executed poorly
220 people is only 17% of their total personnel? Christ alive
Wondering if they were gonna do the layoffs regardless and counted on The Final Shape doing poorly as a pretext for it
if he personally ships me that e30 m3 i may forgive his shonky management
https://x.com/Koryuken/status/1818131956971827639
whoaaaa
whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
linking pre-recorded video to gamestate data is gonna have people doing some nutso shit on stream imo
wow thats disgusting.
rom hacking dot net is shutting downâŚ
https://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=39405.msg460227#msg460227
Update By: Nightcrawler
Itâs been a good near 20 year run, but for various reasons itâs time to wind things down. The site achieved almost everything it set out to do, and far exceeded it. We joined hacking and translation communities together for the first time ever. We outlasted and eclipsed ROM hacking sites that came before us. We brought ROM hacking from niche and fragmented to global and centralized. We assembled the largest force of ROM hackers on the planet. We brought learning resources and accessibility to a much wider range of people. We made major progress legitimizing and pulling ROM hacking from underground dark web type material to something much more accepted by the mainstream. We paved a much easier path for all of those that will come after us. No doubt, this site changed ROM hacking forever. It will leave behind the legacy of those accomplishments to remember.
Things sure have changed since the beginning days. I miss the times when I was able to interact with a smaller group of supportive people to collaborate with rather than the entire world. Having gone from an unknown fledgling site to an infinitely growing and globally known one made sustainability very challenging. The site became so busy with 24/7 use, endless queues, and an endless inbox. Itâs a very different world than it was in 2005. Copyright pressures increased dramatically with takedowns and legal burden. The site shifted from serving mostly contributing humans to bots and overzealous people abusing resources. They drowned everybody else out. The need for the site has lessened over time. There are now many options for community discussions, open source projects, and file storage across the Internet. For a while, I was looking to find a successor within the circles of site supporters. I asked several potential people, but the stars did not align.
I was finally looking to wind things down at the end of last year. I wanted to provide the site database and file archive to the general public. At that time, an internal group suddenly emerged with an offer to help continue the site. I questioned their intentions, but I thought it could prove to be a more community friendly path forward. However, it turned out to be the opposite. We had a rocky phase 1, moving the downloads into their possession. When I went to startup phase 2, I discovered a most dishonest and hate filled group. I learned that I had been dehumanized for a very long time. My personal details had been given out. Secret deceitful plots had been made to cut me out, and drop a bomb like I am a target to destroy. My family has seen this and after discussion, we are immediately ceasing all related site operations. We are cutting ties to Discord and Twitter social media outlets, and will have no further contact with these individuals. Lines were crossed. I had hoped this community especially would have learned from what happened to Near. This behavior is not OK for handling disagreements, miscommunication, anger, or anything else.
We have released the site database (sans account and/or profile information) as well as all of the files and images to the Internet Archive. In summary:
- Internet Archive of Database and Download Files
- All Submissions other than News are permanently closed.
- All sections of the site will remain up as read only.
- Downloads and images will be available for as long as DarkSol, FCAndChill Calico will allow.
- Forum will remain up
- Twitter and Discord affiliations have ended. Anything further from these outlets do NOT represent myself or ROMhacking.net.
I look forward to seeing what projects will emerge with the site data for the next generation. From what I have seen, it may be a good time to start an open source initiative for a new site. Iâd love to hear about what projects you are working on!
I thank all of the many staff and community members whom kept the wheels turning and the lights on over the years. I am proud of our many accomplishments here together. I will carry forward remembering the good times, laughing about the bad times, and knowing she was right for the time, but time has a way of moving on.
This is ROMhacking.net as we knew her signing offâŚ
(for the record, i have no insider knowledge on whatever drama is underpinning this, though if itâs the usual suspects as implied here iâm gonna lose it)
Jesus fucking Christ
what the fuck
Inclined to believe this based on stuff I heard a few months ago (that I donât really remember the details of clearly now so donât listen to me, Iâm not trustworthy, I bet thereâs more to this though!!)
I will never understand quite why This Tone is so prevalent in announcements like these. itâs like, a very strange combination of Learned To Write on the Internet + Paranoid Style, it always gives the impression that the author is like, constantly and vaguely beleaguered. somehow someoneâs idea of sounding lawyerly is âexclusively use the passive voice.â
(obviously not taking a position on who is actually in the wrong here, itâs just hard to know if any kind of like, recognizable-to-me mediation would have any effect on a tone like this)
i remember when Gideon had a (justifiable) meltdown about people harassing him about SMT translations and iâm not sure why online communities still canât seem to escape this kind of mess (barring SB which is obviously perfect)
