ROMhacking.web, a longtime pioneer of the traditional on-line gaming world, shut down the lights on Saturday. Nightcrawler, who created and runs ROMhacking, introduced that the positioning, which hosted group mods for traditional video games, has stopped accepting submissions and can solely put up information going ahead.
Nightcrawler mentioned the positioning's assortment will be discovered on The Web Archive (the place, extremely, all 20 years of hacks and different information are largely condensed right into a single 11.7GB zip file .) He added that the discussion board will stay lively and the downloads will stay obtainable in the interim; in any other case, the positioning is in read-only mode.
Nightcrawler blamed the positioning shutdown on “24/7 utilization, infinite queues and an infinite inbox” in addition to “authorized burdens”. He additionally accused members of a bunch that supplied to take over the positioning of doxxing him and plotting to take away him from the positioning. A member of the group disputed their allegations in a sequence of posts on X.