Ban of Romhacker YoniArousement, 34th-Ranked Softcore Player on Retro Achievements

Mirrored at the sole discretion of clymax for sake of transparency on Retro Achievements, which was one of the aims of Moderator BahamutVoid in leaving his farewell letter not long after Administrator televandalist’s own resignation letter dropped. If you have any concerns with this mirror, please reach out to clymax directly.

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Disclaimer: Any opinions expressed in this post are those of YoniArousement and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of any other individual within or outside of the FFV Central community.

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YoniArousement is a fan of Doraemon and Arcade games. He has created his own games in Game Maker, M.U.G.E.N and RPG Maker 2003. He produced several Streets of Rage romhacks throughout the years of 2012-2022. He still uses YouTube like he’s living in 2007.

YoniArousement’s flagship romhack is Bishoujo Super Street Fighter II: Glamor Queen. It’s a combo and fighter replacement ROM Hack of the Sega Genesis version of Super Street Fighter II. It features tweaked move sets, edited sounds, juggles and adds dashes. The project came about when he was tweeting Game Genie codes for the game.

You can follow YoniArousement on YouTube, Twitter, Game Jolt, RHDN, or his personal blog.

October 22, 2025

1. Player Account Banned Presumably for Sharing an RA Forum Post on Social Media during Clovergate

Original Link to Player Profile: https://retroachievements.org/user/YoniArousement

The original post that was shared was later quietly removed from the RA forums. That post is also covered here.

Over two hundred completion badges nuked into oblivion with the push of a button. This can happen to anyone. Do you want to play on Retro Achievements?

2. Wrongfully Banning Users When Doing Clovergate Damage Control, Presumably

Cross-referencing the chat from the original BahamutVoid disclosure sheds more light on the situation.

2-25-10-05 11:05 [Staff A]: @[Moderator A] please be aware of YoniArousement …

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Spreading lies to incite more problems

2025-10-05 16:04 [Moderator A]: Banned YoniArousement

The banned player contacted the RA admins via email to appeal the ban. No response has been received in two weeks.

3. Previously Wrongfully Denied Junior-Dev Role for Unspecified Off-Site Behavior, Presumably

YoniArousement previously shared a set plan for one of his hacks, on his own blog.

After requesting to be a Junior Developer, however, he got thie following response from RA’s Code Review team on May 27, 2025.

After discussion, the team decided to reject your request to enter the Junior Developer program. The team is not comfortable with the type of content connected to your online presence. It’s contrary to the team’s values and the type of community we are trying to foster. Thanks for your interest, but we must respectfully decline.

Is Retro Achievements Big Brother, watching your every move on the Internet?

4. Illegally Hosting Cloned Patches of Presumably Wrongfully Banned Users

YoniArousement never authorized Retro Achievements to host these patches. So why are they still up, especially when even the mod author has been banned?

5. Longtime Viewer Wrongfully Discord-Banned by RA Twitch Streamer LordBBH for Mentioning Clovergate-Related RA Ban, Apparently

See the video for more details.

Supporting YoniArousement

Want to show support for our player and modder who opposes how Retro Achievements treats its players?

Check out the below trailer or Discord for Bishoujo Super Street Fighter II: Glamor Queen.

A speedrun leaderboard is also available.

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Comments

6 responses to “Ban of Romhacker YoniArousement, 34th-Ranked Softcore Player on Retro Achievements”

  1. Yoni Arousement Avatar

    RetroAchievements has seriously dug up their own grave. They’ve dismantled the community with their decisions on what they allow on their site.

    I was getting into RA in 2025 after getting a Steam Deck, and steamrolling through a lot of beat ’em ups, shmups and run & guns in Softcore, but after they banned me for tweeting a deleted message that paints them in a negative light, it brings me no joy to say that I am through with them. They’re dead set on keeping both FluffyPants and my RA account banned.

  2. RAdmin Avatar
    RAdmin

    You were banned for bringing your pedophilia and weird fetishes onto the website for everyone else to see.

    We don’t want images of little girls in their underwear on the website. This is not a difficult concept to understand.

    1. MakeCloverGreatAgain Avatar
      MakeCloverGreatAgain

      I take it RA prefers them fully nude? Princess Maker isn’t in your Banned Games list and you see the female characters even without wearing a sliver of clothing in there.

      Not to mention that 18+ loli game you hosted, Hajimete no Orosuban, that you silently removed about two weeks ago where a lot more happens than mere depictions of nudity.

      Any reason you haven’t added this to the list? How many games did you silently remove? And how many sets – like Yoni’s – did you still host, despite banning their authors?
      If RA were not called out on this, Yoni’s set would still be hosted on the site lmao.

      1. Yoni Arousement Avatar

        Streets of Rage 2: Mortal Kombat CX never had an achievement set. Princess Maker indeed features female nudity, but not sexual acts.

        It’s possible that RA might update the banned games list again, and include ROM Hacks made by users who are banned from RA (such as myself). I’m inclined to believe that RA staff actively silences people from criticizing them.

    2. Fluffy Pants Avatar

      I didn’t do anything on RetroAchivements to warrant getting banned from there.

  3. Yoni Arousement Avatar

    Is that RAdmin an impostor? Their Gravatar isn’t linked to their post. I am the real Yoni Arousement as proven by my Gravatar image link.

    Don’t make me laugh. I won’t stand for defamatory statements like those. I may share an interest on one platform, but it doesn’t mean I would do the same thing on certain platforms. Are they implying that the cover art for Balloon Fight GB is offensive, for example?

    I can add that possibly fake RADmin’s message as an example to expose the ways that Lolicons are treated.

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