• Dremor@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    2820·
    3 months ago

    Hi there.

    I’m a bit hesitant about allowing or not linking to the website archives.
    For the time being, and while we discuss about it among the mods, I’d like to ask you to refrain from posting any link to said archive.
    If we decide to allow it, I’ll restore the comments containing said links I’ve removed.

    Thank you for your understanding.

    Final Edit :

    After carefully considering both sides arguments, and talking about it with LM admins and the mod team, we decided to keep the direct links removed.

    LM allows meta-discussions around piracy, but not linking to possible pirated content. As we do not have the means and resources to check the whole 12Go dump to make sure no there is no copyrighted content in one of those Rom Hacks. More information here.

    Rom Hacking is a gray area which is, depending on your location and/or interpretation of your local law, allowed or not. LW is under EU Jurisdiction (see that part of the TOS), and has to abide with rather restrictive law on that matter. There is unfortunately no broad “fair use” exception in that jurisdiction, only specific exceptions listed here. None of them seem to be applicable to Rom Hacks, which mean that they are to be considered potentially illegal under LW jurisdiction.

    • doctortran@lemm.eeEnglish
      37·
      3 months ago

      If it’s a romhacking site, it wont have the actual ROMs, just the patches. It never would have survived 20 years if it had been hosting ROMs.

      • Dremor@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Oh, my bad 😂

        I meant that I was hesitant.

        As you can see, English is not my main language.

        • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          Two Irish nuns were sitting in their car at a traffic light when a bunch of rowdy drunks pulled up alongside.

          “Hey, show us your tits you bloody penguins!” shouted one of the drunks.

          The Mother Superior turns to Sister Margaret and says “I don’t think they know who we are. Show them your cross!”

          So Sister Margaret rolls down her window and shouts, “Sod off you little fucking wankers before I get out and rip your goddam balls off!”

          Sister Margaret looks back at the Mother Superior and asks, “Was that cross enough?”.

    • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
      191·
      3 months ago

      Yeesh, I’ve never used the website but that NightCrawler person seems like they have some serious control problems. The fact that the whole community was willing to chip in/pay for it and take it over and the admin still refused to cooperate is pretty shitty. At least it looks like someone managed to convince the admin to let them host and takeover the site’s wiki.

      • Ashtear@lemm.eeEnglish
        181·
        3 months ago

        This is oddly common in ROM hacking/mod scenes. There’s been no shortage of drama in the Fire Emblem and Final Fantasy Tactics communities, too.

        At the very least I wish people would consider the bus test once a site/project gets to a certain critical mass. Insane to me that a site with this kind of profile never had coverage for that scenario this entire time.

    • doctortran@lemm.eeEnglish
      13·
      3 months ago

      after some further research, it became apparent that Discord staff could save a significant amount of money by changing S3 providers. The new bucket was set up, but when the time came to make the change NC refused to do it, even though he was not the one footing the bill.

      There’s a conspicuous absence of explaining why they wouldn’t do it. What were their actual concerns? Did they not voice them or are they just being withheld?

      NC refused to join the Discord to talk about solutions in real-time.

      Why was this a requirement?

      Did we vent in private? Sure.

      And what did you say?

      Did we dox or threaten? Fucking hell, no! And frankly I’m LIVID at even the suggestion that we did.

      Well something clearly happened if his family was brought into it, so if you’re going to skimp on the details, I’m not sure how I’m supposed to believe that.

      The whole thing just comes back to the larger issue with discord: the record vanishes.

    • Peffse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      3 months ago

      I really hope that tcrf doesn’t take over. I STILL can’t contribute to that website because it requires you to sign up for Discord and agree to Discord’s ToS just to paste some stupid code into their bot.

      • Capt. Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        3 months ago

        Wait are you talking cutting room? I had no idea they did that. Very weird for a site that’s just copying Wikipedia.

  • Ashtear@lemm.eeEnglish
    43·
    3 months ago

    One of the last Web 1.0 bastions in gaming. Really hate to see this, especially when Discord is around the peak of its popularity right now. Here’s hoping a more future-proof alternative than that arises.

  • jay@mbin.zerojay.com
    311·
    3 months ago

    I thought it was NOT shutting down and is instead turning into 100% a news site only?

    • nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      27·
      3 months ago

      Functionally speaking the distinction is negligible. Users won’t be able to download patches from the site, and new patch submissions won’t be accepted.

      • jay@mbin.zerojay.com
        122·
        3 months ago

        People also used RHDN as a news source to find out about new hacks and translation releases, and it was the best resource for doing that. And it sounds like it still will be going forward, so… I disagree with you on that.

    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Oh, like abandonia? Their last six articles, all newsvertainment for gambling shit, are years old, but their database is still there last I checked.