A pivotal on-line hub for ROM hacks goes news-only after 20 years

ROMhacking.internet, a longtime stalwart of the web traditional gaming world largely turned the lights off on Saturday. Nightcrawler, who created and runs ROMhacking, introduced that the positioning, which has hosted community-made alterations for traditional video games, has stopped taking submissions and can solely publish information going ahead.

Nightcrawler mentioned the positioning’s assortment could be discovered on The Web Archive (the place, extremely, all 20 years’ value of hacks and different recordsdata are largely concentrated in a single 11.7GB zip file.) He added that the discussion board will keep up and downloadables will stay obtainable for now; in any other case, the positioning is in read-only mode.

Nightcrawler blamed the wind-down of the positioning on “24/7 use, countless queues, and an countless inbox,” in addition to “authorized burdens.” He additionally accused members of a bunch who’d supplied to take over administering the positioning of doxxing him and of plotting to take away him from the positioning. One member of the group disputed his accusations in a sequence of posts on X.