ROMhacking.web, a longtime mainstay within the on-line traditional gaming world, was closed for many of Saturday. Nightcrawler, the creator and operator of ROMhacking, has introduced that the positioning has stopped accepting neighborhood modifications of traditional video games and can solely publish future information.
Nightcrawler stated the positioning’s assortment will be discovered on the Web Archive (extremely, all 20 years of hacks and different information are gathered collectively in a single 11.7GB zip file.) He added that the discussion board will Keep open and downloadable content material will live on. In any other case, the positioning is in read-only mode.
Nightcrawler blamed the positioning’s shutdown on “24/7 utilization, infinite queues and infinite inboxes” in addition to “authorized burdens.” He additionally accused members of a gaggle prepared to take over administration of the positioning of doxxing him and conspiring to take away him from the positioning. A member of the group refuted his accusations in a collection of posts on X.
