It's especially bizarre that ROMhacks would be suppressed from IA, when IA has played host to plain-old 100%-infringing ROMs for years now, with nobody seeming to care.
(I will not directly link to these collections, for the fates are cruel. I'll just say that these IA collections are 'complete' per-console ROM collection archives created by "GoodMerge", a ROM collection validation and repacking tool — and are named very intuitively given that.)
Did they host the full ROMs or patch files? Seems to me the patches would be safe to host ... but I could still see legal action taken even if the patches were legal and non-infringeing.
How expensive is it to run these archives through a zipping software with encryption as part of the mirroring process? I don't have any real context to know how large these file archives are...
The founder of romhacking.net announced it was shutting down in August 2024 due to some kind of internal drama. Romhack.ing was established as a spiritual successor shortly thereafter. However, romhacking.net appears to have avoided shutdown after all, and is still operating and accepting submissions as of August 2025.
Hi everyone. Jason Scott, software curator at the internet archive.
I'm sure I'll get in touch with these folks to understand details, but I just wanted to make it known that if you do encounter what you think are false spam or malware issues, you can always email me directly at jscott at archive.org.
It sounds like they've been having these issues for a while now, why is it that they had to get the attention of "the manager" in order for anything to be done?
Not just for this instance, but in general... should I start emailing bank CEOs every time I get rejected for a house loan, or Henry Ford's children every time my mechanic refuses to service my car because of a defect they refuse to acknowledge?
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 32.1 ms ] thread(I will not directly link to these collections, for the fates are cruel. I'll just say that these IA collections are 'complete' per-console ROM collection archives created by "GoodMerge", a ROM collection validation and repacking tool — and are named very intuitively given that.)
Did they check to see if their service has been compromised?
Why would Windows Defender flag GameBoy ROMs as malware?
Does a GameBoy ROMs website really mirror all 45 petabytes of Internet Archive?
I'm sure I'll get in touch with these folks to understand details, but I just wanted to make it known that if you do encounter what you think are false spam or malware issues, you can always email me directly at jscott at archive.org.
Not just for this instance, but in general... should I start emailing bank CEOs every time I get rejected for a house loan, or Henry Ford's children every time my mechanic refuses to service my car because of a defect they refuse to acknowledge?