About The Drama With RHDN…

I created Romhacks.org to address some things I didn’t like about romhacking.net. I made it for those who wanted to use it, some did, most didn’t. welp.
When I first made it public, it was almost ready, a group of people quickly joined discord and helped me with moderation tasks, mostly kandowontu and another person.
I knew kando from his fastrom hacks. I didn’t know the other person . Turns out they had beef with RHDN (which I had no idea) I guess it’s my fault for not doing background checks on people but what are you gonna do? You take the help you get. This was a year ago and I don’t remember exactly all the details, but at some point it surfaced that this person had made a script to increase RHDN download counters, and was actually pretty proud of it, as they mentioned it on my discord. Someone very passionate about killing RHDO (a site which I had worked on 100% alone and in good will) went on to reddit to tell the world to never use the site because we “sabotaged RHDN”. Awesome.

That somehow morphed into people believing I took romhacking.net database and used it to make romhacks.org (!) which I never did…and if you actually look at romhacks.org you’ll see the hacks we have are manual submissions by the creators of the hacks. Minus a handful of entries I manually created to test while developing the site. Anyways…

I woke up to those news without the slightest idea of what was going on. Getting people to use the site was already a hard task and now this?
Needless to say that person was removed from the moderation team. But it didn’t solve the problem. We were already the bad guys and no matter what I said it didn’t count.
So all my work was for nothing, got really depressed stopped working on it altogether.

Even now a year later people are reluctant to use RHDO, either because of that incident or because I (Aka Spike) run cdromance, a site that hosts pre-patched romhacks and that’s the worst thing you can do.
Whatever the reason the site is there for those who want to use it, as always.