Seems like every quarter there’s news of ROM sites getting picked off. Why aren’t people rushing to change hosting to Russia or some other country that doesn’t care about wester IP laws
I don't think this was an IP cease and desist issue, just a person who kept stepping on their own feet to refuse to create a plan for handing off the day to day to other people.
Yeah, these aren’t ROMs, they’re just ROM hacks. I don’t think any copyright law can stop you from distributing these because they’re just slight changes to the original code - if they could, then any Action Replay/Gameshark/region bypass devices would’ve already been banned.
judging by the age of the site and temperament of the owner, probably just running a big (maybe even physical, colocated) server that could handle the peak load and letting it sit idle all other times.
I hope the community pulls together to find a new centralised site/place for new hacks. There are a load of hacks being worked on currently and trying to keep up to date as things stand now isn't ideal
They did say they wouid post news.
I have the backup on our nas just in case the site eventually disappears.