Personally I can completely vouch this statement, as I decided to peruse CDRomance just now after reading this reply... and noticed both of my undub romhacks I've made were just sitting there, listed alongside the other ROMs there. Admittedly they were properly credited, barring one using my old username (but that was a RHDN being outdated moment lol). But nevertheless I straight up just didn't know they were up there at all, at least until I seeked out the site at all. I suppose you could make the "Anything you put online is eventually going to be reuploaded/stolen" sorta argument here, as obviously I make my romhacks to be shared and played in any way! And it's not like they're taking/removing any credit when they upload pre-patched hacks. But... at the same time I kinda don't wanna be associated with piracy that directly? Like, it just seems strange to list my Undub of Rhythm Heaven as just another version along the JP ROM. Like they're using these hacks being prepatched as a nice little incentive for visitors to prefer CDR over its contemporaries. It just feels sleazy. I know it's ultimately an unrelated website to RHDO. Yet I still feel a bit... dirty giving such blind optimism just a mere few days ago in this very comment section. I just think there shouldn't be ANY hacks there unless they we're posted with permission from the author. And the way I see it, anything posted to this site is liable to be reuploaded over there, and I just kinda don't like that.
All hail spike and long live for he!!
Still, as long as you can get past the art of sharing pre-patched ROMs, you'll find CDRomance a good site to find ROMs that, let's say, aren't bad dumps or something.
I don't know, since people say their hacks/translations get uploaded as pre-patched ROMs on CDRomance without their permission. I do agree that this is not the way to share ROM hacks, since this is done without asking the authors first.
Honestly, I'm kind of glad there's less people. That means less crappy ROMhacks to sort through. We don't need this site to become like gamebanana, lol.
Dude, based!
Just want to say I found out this site exists because of the RHDN drama... And since I've used CDRomance plenty of times for hacks that have been troublesome to find the correct checksum for, going to err on the side of trusting you with this. (And semi-unrelated, thank you for the prepatches, because once I had to find some spanish guy's personal archive of Pokemon games to get the correct version of english Emerald for PokeCommunity hacks from 2012 and I really don't want to do that amount of legwork when the romsets I have don't have the right checksum EVER again.)
i had Just found out about the entire RHDN n RDHO drama + the RHDN Shutdown late last week when trying to check for any updates to the Chrono TriggerPlus romhack, tbh i give little care about the drama , whats done is done it's in the past (in some situations that attitude leads to alot more issue but *shrug*) it is still leaps n bounds better to have a site centralizing hacks then going back to the days of it being scattered everywhich where, n letting things be lost to time.
Thanks a lot!
Thanks for your support, it's always a risk when running a site like cdr.
I removed everything I could find, if I missed something let me know.
Regarding the prepatched ROMs, I filed the Google form on CDRomance to request the removal. Thanks!
Depending on when you released your patches and he put prepatched roms on cdr, both could've occurred long before Spike decided to even start RHDO. In the 2+ days you've been mentioning this here in the comments have you tried to contact him and just politely ask him to take them down until he asks permission?
Fair, out of curiosity what hacks you made that I uploaded?
Ultimately it's a free service to host hacks. The objections so far have been greatly based on misinformation or opinions towards me, not the site itself. A lot of work was put into making this site, and we continue to make improvements and adding features. All we can do is continue working and hope people will give us a chance.
With all the flaming discussions and different opinions clashing against each other, I have to say: Should I even TRUST this website or not?
Spike can even upload the whole history of video games on CDRomance, for all I care. What I care about is that he uploads prepatched ROMs with my romhacks/translations without asking permission first. I simply do not want this to happen with my free-to-use work, and expect Spike to respect that, but he clearly does not. He completely ignores and direspects the work of the very same people he is trying to gather together at RHDO.
Really digging this so far, feels like a nice in-between of Super Metroid's physics and the gba titles. Thank you for uploading this!
Terrible hack. It actually makes Samus more difficult to control and makes it harder to dodge enemies. Not recommended.
Simone D. Alemanno Verified
Credit or no credit, what makes me angry is that these hacks are uploaded with no permission from the authors at all.
About The Drama With RHDN… - August 7, 2024