Category: RHP

  • Romhacking.net Rejects Link Exchange with Gaming Fansite for Giving Coverage to Alternative Repository

    Claims Romhack Plaza “Actively Sabotages” RHDN

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    [Editor’s note: the info in this post is shared for the sake of transparency and accountability in the romhacking scene. Please do not contact or harass any party known or believed to be involved, due to this post.]

    In response to an invitation to exchange links with a gaming fansite (not named in this post), RHDN allegedly responded:

    Right away in your ‘Applying ROMhack Patches (NES & SNES)’, there is no mention of ROMhacking.net anywhere, or its online patcher (https://www.romhacking.net/patch/).

    Instead, it was chosen to feature romhackplaza.org/romhacks.org which actively sabotages our site (https://www.reddit.com/r/romhacking/comments/18xgc3b/romhacksorg_admin_sabotaged_romhackingnet).

    We can’t be affiliated with such nonsense. Sorry.

    This is despite the cited Reddit thread being nearly three years old.

    It is despite the individual alleged to have engaged in the activity having been removed from site staff along with an official explanation being given. If you’re unaware, see the Related Post below.

    And it is despite both romhacking repositories having since apparently changed owners.

    More importantly, the claim that RHDN is still being actively sabotaged seems spurious on its face. No evidence was provided in support of that assertion.

    Is this what our romhacking community should be all about?

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

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    Is Romhacking.net Low-Key Shaming Alternative Sites It Beefed With?

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  • Is Romhacking.net Low-Key Shaming Alternative Sites It Beefed With?

    Any Mention of Romhack Plaza is Automatically Hyperlinked to Old Reddit Drama Thread—and More

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    1. Intro

    A project thread of mine in the RHDN forums apparently contains some image hotlinks (which I should be fixing anyway) that became broken after a certain point in time, possibly in mid-2025.

    To be clear, these images worked fine for a period of time.

    But why did these end up being broken?

    This is what I saw today when attempting to fix the images.

    It looks like any link to (update: mention of) Romhack Plaza (RHP) is being auto-converted to instead point to a Reddit thread regarding some old drama between the two sites (which Romhack Plaza’s predecessor already addressed here).

    Update 9/7/26: link is now broken with the RHP site upgrade, so the post is mirrored below for the time being.

    Could this be an accident?

    Or is RHDN refusing to squash its beef with one it deems as its competitor?

    Let’s check another project thread of mine here.

    Seems not.

    We get that beef happens. But is that not something that the hacking community can overcome?

    Is this the kind of culture that we want to see being set in our community?

    2. Analysis

    The original image (not hotlinked this time):

    The original forum shortcode with hotlinked image URL:

    [img width=256 height=224]https://romhackplaza.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/FF5r-IC-Disc1-English-translation-v0.01-by-clymax_027.png[/img]

    The autoconverted result by RHDN:

    [img width=256 height=224]https://[url=https://www.reddit.com/r/romhacking/comments/18xgc3b/romhacksorg_admin_sabotaged_romhackingnet/][url=https://www.reddit.com/r/romhacking/comments/18xgc3b/romhacksorg_admin_sabotaged_romhackingnet/][url=https://www.reddit.com/r/romhacking/comments/18xgc3b/romhacksorg_admin_sabotaged_romhackingnet/][url=https://www.reddit.com/r/romhacking/comments/18xgc3b/romhacksorg_admin_sabotaged_romhackingnet/]romhackplaza[/url][/url][/url][/url].org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/FF5r-IC-Disc1-English-translation-v0.01-by-clymax_027.png[/img]

    Basically, RHDN’s automated script looks for:

    romhackplaza

    and auto-adds a hyperlink to the drama thread, like this:

    romhackplaza

    Based on further testing it was discovered that the URL shortcode is nested four deep in this case due to four edited submissions having been made.

    That is to say, each additional edited submission results in one further level of nesting of the URL shortcode.

    3. Validation

    Should we test our hypothesis? A different thread is used.

    “romhackplaza” was temporarily added at the end of the post.

    The result is now hyperlinked as explained in the previous section.

    The auto-added shortcode can be seen on re-editing the post.

    This shows that the auto-conversion is still active to this day.

    For what it’s worth, other variants were also tested but appear unaffected.

    4. Another Discovery

    It has since been reported to yours truly that you get a similar result if you try to mention Romhack.ing.

    Here is a test:

    And the result:

    where

    romhack.ing

    became

    Idiots that staged a hostile takeover.

    in reference to an incident we previously covered here.

    Crosspost on Twitter

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

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