I don't see the system. So it means it's removed, right?
Except again, no corporation outside of nintendo attempted to take down a modified rom of their games, regardless if it's pre-patched or not. The only thing that's really a gray zone is fanmade games, you know, games made from scratch.
Trust me, I had a gamebanana account to upload mods there, Now I only came here for the mods and nothing else. Because the admins there are just as bad.
They have no legal nor moral ground to demand anything beyond proper credit, it never was their IP in the first place. You of all people should know that there is no end to trying to placate these folks.
You have literally not established anything, w.t.f, you are still modifying copyrighted work without express permission from the original ip holder and until it gets proven otherwise in court it'll be illegal at the end of the day. All you are accomplishing here is coming across as insanely petty and arrogant.
I wish the people who downvote so much made comments as well. Why they're such haters, would be interesting to hear it.
I 100% agree with everything you wrote. Hopefully, this site won't fail the way RHDN did and will learn from their mistakes. And yeah, the whole upvote/downvote system is indeed pointless.
As people interested in romhacks and old games, we are all with our eyes turned a bit towards the past, to our childhood and a time we wish we'd preserve or repeat. By necessity, this makes us a bit peculiar. It's good to feed the child in us, and adult gaming is certainly a common thing, but for some people this obsession with restoring the past turns into strange, peculiar and very stubborn opinions about how romhacks should be treated. There is no way of pleasing these people. You probably need to have a very thick skin to be able to ignore all this sh*t, and continue doing what you want to do, without being affected.
It definitely won't have said effect, the same characters that ruined RHDN and that are driving him away from the site *he made will lead RHDO to the same place RHDN was. Happens *every single time. Makes no sense whatsoever anyway, the community was already fractured and people started coming here to find something different, not more of the same.
Is the account I replied to (below Simone D. Alemanno's reply) a spambot that slipped through the cracks?
The upvote/downvote system will likely be removed soon.
But this practical difference between piracy and romhacking is precisely what I and other people are basing their complaints on. So, I do not see any hypocrisy: I do not see anybody here discussing the CDR vs romhacking "problem" by saying that they are perfect and just. It is just that we are already in a gray area with romhacking, which so happens in practice to barely survive take downs and companies suing, and we fear the connection with CDR could exacerbate this very delicate stability, which took us years to establish.
While I agree about the copyright to a extend, especially how it's outdated. And the hyporcrisy around the users here complaining to CDR despite romhacking is also a suspect. Keep in mind that Romhacking was a thing for years, in the 90s to be exact. And there were no incidents that revolves around DMCA a romhack, the only thing I know it's the case is how Nintendo strike down Pokemon Prism, but even then it's the exception rather than the norm. In fact, Sonic Mania was made by the people who makes romhacks/fangames and a lot of them are made without Sega's permission, so take it as your will.
The -20/40 scores on these posts shows that some of these people lack maturity and this whole reddit score shouldn't exist on a romhacking website in the first place. This isn't Reddit or Twitter. And to think that RHDN was a good place makes me laugh, do you remember the incident where Tom and his projects got nuked by a mod seething over that Goemon 3 hack? And he got doxxed by Twitter insanos afterwards. The mods in question was one of those insanos that supported doxxing of a normal person over a translation. I don't care what's your take on that, this whole doxxing is wrong in anyway, and you're a piece of shit if you're doing that. For a place that does this, why should I upload my work there? To get me in trouble, even if what I did was nothing out of ordinary? And I've seen the Discord screenshots from this incident and what I saw was childish behavior and degeneracy. (The Astolfo art for making a dialogue in a discord server, very mature, totally not goofy and toxic). What I thought this place is to be a competition to RHDN, one that is chill and reasonable. What I got instead, and by reading the comments on news related to this drama, is no different than RHDN. The one who I avoided back in the day. And then you wonder why the whole romhacking scene is disorganized, little to no centralization (while said central places are specialized only to one IP like SMWcentral for example). Because of the shitty unions like these is what keeps reasonable people away from the immature manchildren who's investing these places. Do you want to make the community a better place? Have a better moderation without political biases in any way, this is a site for modifying read only memory not a political soapbox agenda in disguise and if there's something wrong, do it in private and professionally like a admin should. Instead of making a whole song and dance over it. I only came here for romhacking, not a Discord drama which caused a whole site to shut down out of juvenile reasons by the mods on both sides. Insanity in every level.
Compared to other sites, CDRomance also doesn't have a lot of ads. I use another site named WowROMs where every time you click on anything, it automatically opens a spam site and you have to wait for long to find what you need. Very annoying.
You know I love your project. I have nothing but good things to say about you! Where ever you go I wish you the best luck and a community that appreciates your effort and talent and can give you the joy you need to keep going and have a good time. I am sure most of us will miss you here one your side.. so many thanks.. And goodbye, I guess?..
I only hope that this has the effect you want it to. If this isn't going to work, it would be incredibly sad to see someone step away from something they were clearly at least at one point incredibly passionate about. I really hope to see this place step up and become a hub for those fractured by the closing of RHDN. I hope the burden placed by such a sudden influx of traffic isn't too much for the new Admin. Best of luck to the team here, I just want to see romhacks continue to flourish.
Same here.
I completely agree, you shouldn't have to step down as admin of this site just because of the complaints of certain individuals with nothing better to do in their spare time, but to complain and find fault with everything around them. You're doing a great job so far with running both CDR and RHDO and a lot of people respect you for it. Do try and take some time to carefully consider if this decision is truly what you wish to do. In all honesty, I think that you should remain as the admin of both sites and allow this one the time it needs to slowly grow and increase in popularity as well. Otherwise, RHDO might end up in the same exact situation as RHDN and its numerous problems with both the staff and toxic users that only complain and contribute nothing at all in return. In the end though, it's your decision and I will respect it either way.
kandowontu Mod
Yes.
About The Drama With RHDN… - August 10, 2024