>>56271463>>56271543>>56271465I don't know the discord end of it, but a lot of this shit goes back decades, and I can kind of explain the oldfag part. It's not just discord shit.
It's bad that the site is shutting down, as it has become the definitive site for rom-hacking, but the owner has always been a dickhead. Way back in the late 90s when everyone was hacking NES roms with Nesticle, the romhacking scene was founded by chinese pirates and western shitposters. All the earliest hacks were juvenile things like editing dicks into mario games or cursing into the scripts of games. Everything was very open and DIY. After a few notable translation hacks released however, the founders of
romhacking.net got uppity and refused to host any "objectionable" hacks while simultaneously working behind the scenes to eliminate competing sites that did host them. For years, you could only find many classic hacks in the form of pre-patched roms on romsites because of this, until people got serious about archival.
On the other side of things, the discord retards are aligned with Ghideon Zhi who is without a doubt the biggest dickhead in the history of romhacking. He lorded over the SMT community for years because he thought he was special for releasing a bad translation of SMT1 with gamebreaking bugs 20 years ago. After sitting on the project for close to 15 years he shit out an SMT ...if hack and then acted like SMT fans killed his dog.
The silver lining in all this is that GBA and Pokemon hacking have other sites, so everything should roll on seamlessly.
