Category: hacking scene

  • Departed Developer UnsolidSnake’s Achievements Taken Down as “Unwelcome Concepts”

    Muted Just for Saying There Is a New Alternative for Playing Those Achievements

    To see UnsolidSnake’s developed sets on RA, click here.

    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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    Departure of Developer UnsolidSnake of Retro Achievements [Mirror]

    Original Link: https://retroachievements.org/forums/topic/26361?comment=403197#403197

    July 22, 2026

    Moving Goalposts of “Unwelcome Concepts” Cited

    Were these achievements justified to be demoted?

    Some users speak out.

    Muted for Response in the Set’s Official Forum Topic

    Well, thanks for showing why I want nothing to do with this site anymore.

    If anyone actually likes them, I have a significantly improved implementation. Message me if you are interested.

    The site mute was handed down even though the alternative was not even mentioned by name.

    A site-muted user cannot post in the forums or even respond to direct messages on the site.

    Was a site mute even warranted here? What forum rule was broken anyway?

    Related Post:

    FB Neo Combo Trials by UnsolidSnake

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  • PSA: To All Non-Romhacker Idea Peddlers

    Warning: May Contain Satire

    Adapted Heavily from an Atari-Age Homebrew Stickied Forum Post by vdub_bobby here.

    To All Non-Romhacker Idea Peddlers:

    Romhackers already have more ideas than they know what do do with; without any of yours.

    They don’t need your ideas.

    Probably most of them don’t want your ideas.

    Most romhackers have more ideas already than they have time to begin, let alone complete.

    That having been said, if you want a romhacker to even consider your idea for thirty seconds, what do you need?

    The most important thing is: do some work.

    Have either a proof of concept for your idea, or a portfolio of your prior projects.

    If your idea is accompanied by neither, do not expect anyone to take you seriously if you are asking for others to join your project.

    Just ask yourself: would you take such a person seriously?

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  • New Game Plus Modding Community Launches Site Redesign

    But Longstanding Forums Have Apparently Been Taken Down, Citing User Migration to Discord [Update: Read-Only Forum Archive Apparently Reinstated]

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    Preview of the site redesign

    Says Kaffe, web designer of New Game Plus (NGPlus), in an announcement post here (emphasis added):

    A lot has changed since the old forum era. Most discussion now happens in chat rooms, and for us that mainly means Discord. Because of that, this site has been rebuilt with a very deliberate focus. We did not try to replace every old feature just for the sake of replacing it. We started with the essentials and built around hosting the content cleanly.

    That means:

    • the site is back in a rebuilt form
    • mods have cleaner dedicated pages
    • releases and downloads are easier to browse
    • maintainers now have a cleaner GitLab-based workflow behind the scenes

    The new setup also gives us a much steadier foundation. Instead of leaning on a pile of moving parts that need ongoing care, this site is now a static homepage hosted through GitLab [i.e., no forums]. That means less infrastructure to maintain, fewer things to break, and a setup that can be moved or rebuilt without much drama. There was more upfront work to get here, but the goal is simple: an infrastructure-light, near-maintenance-free site that works from day one and keeps working.

    ….

    Just to be clear, the community itself did not disappear while the old homepage aged out. NGPlus stayed alive through the people in it, the mods, and the conversations that kept happening elsewhere [i.e., in Discord]. What is returning here is the public-facing window: a cleaner, steadier place to host the work and point people toward it.

    Although completion of the site redesign seems to be a positive for the New Game Plus community, one caveat appears to be that the longstanding forums appear to have been taken offline.

    Example recent forum link no longer functional: https://ngplus.net/index.php?/forums/topic/992-ffvi-t-edition-lua-translation-v307-297-costume-stats-system-still-available-42926/

    Update on July 10

    A read-only forum archive has apparently been reinstated courtesy of Kaffe.

    So, what do you think? Were you a user of the New Game Plus forums? Do you agree that Discord is an adequate replacement?

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  • Retro Tinkertoys Released

    New Retro Disassembly Tools for Ghidra

    chipx86 is a software dev and game enthusiast who should probably dev less and play more. He is also the co-creator of the web-based collaborative code review tool, Review Board. Aside from Twitch, where he does coding and other streams, you can follow his work via his website, blog, Twitter/X, Github, or Buy Me a Coffee.

    Says chipx86:

    This is a set of scripts I’ve developed initially to aid in my Faxanadu for NES disassembly work.

    His work on Faxanadu has resulted in source code is fully byte-for-byte recompilable, and relocatable within each bank.

    You can also find Retro Tinkertoys on our Tools page.

    Overview

    The release includes the following Python 2.7 scripts for Ghidra:

    Data Scripts To:

    • Add a reference to each value in a selection with a given bank and offset.
    • Perform a search/replace of text in any label names referenced in a selection.
    • Update the types of data values without losing comments or references.

    NES Scripts To:

    • Export annotated assembly files and a hyperlinked HTML disassembly for NES 6502 code.
    • Select a 16 byte NES PPU tile data and generate a visualization in a comment.

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