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 principally turned the lights off on Saturday. Nightcrawler, who created and runs ROMhacking, introduced that the location, which has hosted community-made alterations for traditional video games, has stopped taking submissions and can solely put up information going ahead.

Nightcrawler mentioned the location’s assortment may be discovered on The Web Archive (the place, extremely, all 20 years’ value of hacks and different recordsdata are principally 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 location is in read-only mode.

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