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Gideon Zhi (Hire me!)
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Tech, localization, reverse-engineering, retro gaming.
Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria.
He/him.
https://aeongenesis.net
I really like Fedora, but there's... issues. Always seems like something. My laptop's integrated nic doesn't work great (I get inconsistent speeds) and the solution is "buy a USB adapter." Two-finger scroll stopped working yesterday until reboot.

Minor, but feels like there's always a problem.
December 26, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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anyone know how i can legally get every single one of my contributions removed from this dipshit's dead website? i would like to retroactively revoke any and all rights RHDN might have to archive or distribute my work
romhacking.net updated their TOS so that in a situation where, if you do not want your work hosted by their site, and someone uploads it anyway

the site owner, nightcrawler, personally requires you to send him photos of yourself, and he "may" retain them for as long as he likes :)

archive.ph/0B750
December 25, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I'm going to go lie down and try to mood cleanse with a game.
December 25, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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December 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Can't even go one freaking Christmas without major drama getting stirred up by the chuds over at rhdn.

Sigh. I'm so goddamn tired of all this.
December 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Yeah, the rules stuff may have been me even - I ate a silent ban for essentially asking what was going on with the site, and those magically updated shortly afterward.
December 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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I replied to that one guy that posted your patch in the Splatterworld thread to voice how disrespectful his actions were, and my post was kept in limbo so it never went public since I'm a new account there.

I decided to check again today and see if it ever went live, and they quietly deleted it...
December 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Here at @romhack.ing, we honor takedown requests without any hassle. Just let us know you don't want it hosted here and *poof*, it's gone.
romhacking.net updated their TOS so that in a situation where, if you do not want your work hosted by their site, and someone uploads it anyway

the site owner, nightcrawler, personally requires you to send him photos of yourself, and he "may" retain them for as long as he likes :)

archive.ph/0B750
December 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This has apparently already happened to several people I chat with on discord, including at least one other prominent romhacker. Stay classy!
NightCralwer has also been trying to hide the fact he's the one doing it, creating a new site account (complete with "Jr Member" rank, lol) to post new "forum rules"

of course, any mention of what he's doing is grounds for an immediate, silent, ban

www.romhacking.net/forum/index....
December 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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for comparison, here are the previous terms, which the site operated under for quite a while without issues archive.ph/X0ML1

NC banned most of the former site staff (for telling him what he was doing was insane), and then he proceeded to host staff's new translations/hacks w/o approval. cool guy
December 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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romhacking.net updated their TOS so that in a situation where, if you do not want your work hosted by their site, and someone uploads it anyway

the site owner, nightcrawler, personally requires you to send him photos of yourself, and he "may" retain them for as long as he likes :)

archive.ph/0B750
December 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
So, uh, between it bugging you for updates and this forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.ph... I'm absolutely sick to death of filezilla's garbage. Any recommendations for a replacement that works well on fedora kde plasma?
forum.filezilla-project.org
December 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
So, uh, linux folks? I have a mesh network in my home, base + one satellite, and my nic (qualcomm qcnfa765, which is soldered onto my motherboard) keeps bouncing between the two every few seconds. This is me attempting to download a file with transfer speeds measured over a period of about 1 minute.
December 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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The most highly anticipated Saturn translation has arrived! Yes, Airs Adventure is out in English, just in time to liven the holidays!!

Credits:
@hitomi2500.bsky.social - Hacking
@snowyaria.goodorevengreat.games - Translation
@nichetopic.bsky.social - Graphics
@blueskyrunner.bsky.social - QA
December 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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oh my god
December 19, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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on a completely unrelated note to lrt, i think there has never been a better time for a certain publisher who is hoarding the ip to said doujin game to be relentlessly and collectively bullied into returning it to its rightful owner

a gross historic wrong they robbed it from him in the first place
December 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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The "father of indie games" is a japanese dude who dropped a doujin game that changed the brain chemstry of several people when it got fan translated. Thanks
December 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I keep seeing lots of folks raving about how good Void Stranger is, then I keep seeing "sokoban" in its description and immediately go "ehhhhhhhh" and get put off.
December 19, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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As it's been a bit since I posted anything about it, getting something nicer out for Namco X Capcom is still in the works, just something I hop in to work away on in between other things is all. Some newer screenshots below!
December 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Had to build mesen2 from scratch (appimage link is busted and the binary on git throws a std::bad_cast error when running it) but I got it working at least...
December 18, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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🚨 From this ROM dump, the community has assembled a working development build of the unreleased port of Popils for the NES. More unfolding live!

www.youtube.com/live/RJwR8jX...
December 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Hey, anyone with Wayland/Dolphin experience, I'm unable to drag-and-drop files onto executables in Dolphin. Anyone know how to fix this?

Example: Can't drop splatterworld.nes onto 010editor (Executable)
More practical example: Can't drop splatterworld.nes onto yy-chr.exe (opens with Wine)
December 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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December 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Hey! Are you gifted in piecing together game data? I'm going to need help during this live stream today! I'm putting raw EPROMs in a public folder, but need help piecing them together. Systems are NES, GEN, SNES, GB, GG, Jag. There are new unreleased games here! www.youtube.com/live/RJwR8jX...
Let's Dump Mystery Prototype ROMs - Again!
YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation
www.youtube.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Stream tonight is unlikely - migrating to linux (Fedora KDE Plasma) and still have some things in the system that need to be worked out. Like sound. (Sound works, just not through the displaylink dock I have...)
December 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM