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A pivotal online hub for ROM hacks goes news-only after two decades


Twenty years of hosting ROM hacks sounds tiring.

Nightcrawler, who created and runs ROMhacking, announced that the site, which has hosted community-made alterations for classic games, has stopped taking submissions and will only post news going forward. Writing about the shutdown yesterday, Polygon pointed to its past stories about translations of Sailor Moon and Samurai Showdown games. ArsTechnica called outa mod that lets the SNES Star Fox run at 60 frames per second.

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