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  • Based Badges and Based Boards

    Auto Achievements and Leaderboards by FFV Central

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    June 25, 2026

    The FFV Central community is pleased to present Based Boards and automatic Based Badges courtesy of clymax. Manual Based Badges were previously announced here.

    The new features provide auto achievements and auto leaderboards for a select but growing number of titles on supported platforms. The platforms currently include NES and SNES.

    These new features are provided by FFV Central’s web emulator, which you can access here.

    The titles include many private romhacks and private translations of the FFV Central community. To see our supported titles, click here. For more on our distribution models, click here.

    Both scoring leaderboards and speedrun leaderboards are supported.

    A demo clip using the Whirlwind mod of Final Fantasy V is below. This one uses a speedrun leaderboard.

    For another example using the Four-Job Fiesta mod, which works with our web app here, see below.

    An example of a scoring leaderboard for Tetris on the NES.

    So, what do you think? Comment below, or come check us out on Discord.

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  • RPG Maker Moving on from Old Forums

    Over a Decade of Development Discussions Set to Be Wiped

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    As announced by RPG Maker here:

    Will there be an archive or backup of the forum?

    No. There are currently no plans to provide a public archive or backup of the current forum once it has been closed.

    We encourage users to save any posts, guides, resources, or other content they wish to keep before the forum closure. Content that you would like to continue sharing with the community may be reposted on the new forum.

    For more coverage, see the PC Gamer post here.

    Update: the following archival project was identified thanks to Alakatrore.

    https://rpgmakerchat.com

    Please consider supporting their efforts or spreading the word.

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  • RDHN User Posts Rants Even After Moderator Warns to Be Nice

    Posts Quickly Removed by Moderation

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    Original thread relates to an ongoing project for a Dragon Quest IV (SFC) translation addendum.

    The thread can be found here.

    A moderator steps in with a warning following an exchange between two users regarding writing style for the translation addendum.

    A third user decided to post the following rants.

    These were quickly removed. The site does not make clear on its user profiles whether a temporary or permanent ban has been handed out.

    For reference, RHDN’s forum rules state:

    So, what do you think? Was the user out of line? What moderation action was warranted here? Comment below, or come check us out on Discord.

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  • Retro Achievements Announces Set Destruction Team

    Warning: May Contain Satire

    Covered 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 coverage, please reach out to clymax directly.

    Original Link: https://retroachievements.org/forums/topic/35823?page=1

    May 9, 2026

    Because RetroAchievements can’t have enough departments, today we’re introducing another new department, the Set Destruction team!

    This department will help dumb down the difficulty of achievements even more than ever.

    And by forming another department, no member of the team will need to take personal accountability for any decisions made by the department.

    Yes, even if the decisions are total BS.

    This should help us appeal even more to the dirty RetroArch casuals who never visit our website except to register.

    Yes, we’re throwing serious players and legacy devs under the bus, yet again.

    Starting with seventeen devs and thirteen players from the community with all sorts of ideas on how to vandalize sets, this team will work to:

    • Butcher older sets.
    • Make lives even more miserable for active devs by telling them how they must make their sets.
    • Tell active devs how they must make their subsets.

    We look forward to a glorious new era of set destruction, and so should you!

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