If you have dabbled in emulation beyond getting a pirated version of Breath of the Wild running on your Steam Deck you may well have come across the 20-year-old ROMhacking site, especially if you were keen on playing obscure Japanese RPGs that were never released in the West. The reason for this is that ROMhacking was (note past tense) the home of hundreds of English translations of games that had had their ROMs, er hacked (making sense now?) to change the text into English. It was also a place where you could get the likes of the Super Monaco Grand Prix for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive from the 1990s, hacked and edited to include the likes of LeClerc and Verstappen as the drivers instead of Ayrton Senna and co. Now, as of last night, ROMhacking is a different beast altogether after a dramatic switch to a ROM news site only, removing all submissions and social media and dumping its previous content in a nearly 12GB torrent on the Internet Archive for posterity and preservation. A sign of the times perhaps as corporations, many of whom don’t really get emulation and preservation and simply see all enthusiasts as carte blanche thieves continue a legal clamp down on property they don’t even really care about anymore. While some emulation software like PCSX2 continues to improve its software and boom in popularity, more and more websites are trying to avoid any impending action from copywriter lawyers. Internet drama In a post on ROMhacking a spokesperson said, “It’s been a good near 20-year run, but for various reasons, it’s time to wind things down.
Huge Internet Emulation Website Romhacking Changes To News Only And Releases Entire 11gb Of Files Onto Internet Archive For Pres
Paul McNally, ReadWriteWeb
Fri, 08/02/2024 - 1:45am
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