One of the most popular websites in regard to romhacks, fan translations and other kinds of pre-patched modifications to retro titles has always been CDRomance. Chances are if you were looking for a specific mod or hack for a certain title, most likely you'd find it there in an already patched form. However, as of this past weekend, the way in which CDRomance operates has changed.

On February 11th, CDRomance's owner, nicknamed "Spike" received what seems to be a notice by the ESA (Entertainment Software Association), which effectively took down CDRomance's ads that helped maintaining the servers online. This action prompted Google to ask for the removal of any kind of file-sharing going on with the website, to which Spike complied and disabled direct links from the website itself. According to Spike, it seems like the possible action taken against CDRomance could have been from someone posing as the ESA, and not the actual ESA itself, but to avoid any kind of troubles as to whether or not the treat was made by the real ESA or not, Spike decided to remove the direct links either way.

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This is surely a big hit for preservation of a great amount of fan translations and romhacks all around, as CDRomance also helped preserve different revisions of projects themselves.

Not all is lost though, as many users online have already found a workaround for the direct links being taken down, and also there's certain scripts floating around that could also help with this endeavour, for those that wish to backup the catalog of CDRomance's files in case of a more dire situation.

 

[The Catboy]

Bruh, that’s one of my favorite site too
I hope the owner makes another site

 

[Metoroid0]

it was called nicoblog before it was cdromance....wonder how they gonna name it next to evade dcma.

 

[LokeYourLord]

Simply convert all links/URLs to Base64 instead like some sites or Sub-Reddits that dabble in grey-area file-sharing do.

 

[Alexander1970]

Very good,now the great Dreamcast Translations are gone.....

archive.org is becoming more and more important...

 

[LokeYourLord]

Very good,now the great Dreamcast Translations are gone.....

archive.org is becoming more and more important...

I supported Archive.org with a Donation to pay for their server & attorney costs. I'd urge anyone who can to do the same, the freedom of the entire Internet depends on Archive.org to continue existing without interference and censorship from mega corporations.

 

[Metoroid0]

Bruh, that’s one of my favorite site too

get used for corporate douche bags to suck all the fun out of people who hurt no one because of the "LosTpRofit" or "HurtinGthEdeVeLOpeRs" crap.

 

[The Catboy]

get used for corporate douche bags to suck all the fun out of people who hurt no one because of the "LosTpRofit" or "HurtinGthEdeVeLOpeRs" crap.

As a pirate, I am very much used to this

 

[Dax_Fame]

One day, if everything goes according to plan, there will be no physical media left or any sort of downloads available anywhere but outside of the IP holder's limited walled garden shops.

I look forward to all the media that will be lost to greed. These companies have already proven they cannot be trusted to properly maintain their own property. Pathetic.

Also, rom hacks of ancient titles are totally a large contributor to lost income... Excuse me while I go pickup my eyeballs that rolled over to the other side of the room.

 

[Necron]

it was called nicoblog before it was cdromance....wonder how they gonna name it next to evade dcma.

So now I know what happened to nicoblog haha.

I guess we'll end up with a emuparadise situation here, which is not bad considering. I just hope they mirror translation and hack patches on their own.

 

[Winduss]

Surprised it has taken this long. It's warez, just a bunch of roms, prepatched for convenience. Copyright owners are well within their rights.
Next nicoblog will popup soon though, don't worry

 

[Xdqwerty]

What's next? Vimm?

 

[chrisrlink]

does the ESA get really involved? i thought it was up to the individual companies (nintendo,MS/Sony) to file dmca notices

 

[brunocar]

it was called nicoblog before it was cdromance....wonder how they gonna name it next to evade dcma.

nicoblog was changed to avoid the fact that spike doesnt want to go by nico anymore

 

[Ryab]

Very good,now the great Dreamcast Translations are gone.....

archive.org is becoming more and more important...

Yeah start uploading yourself too. I've been uploading stuff for awhile now.

 

[Metoroid0]

Copyright owners are well within their rights....

whenever i hear people talk like this i think they work for some gaming corporation and troll gamers.

 

[Marc_LFD]

Not CD Romance they offer such a great library of roms and hacked roms. Damn.

 

[Xdqwerty]

Not CD Romance they offer such a great library of roms and hacked roms. Damn.

And some of the romhacks werent avaliable elsewhere

 

[Metoroid0]

nicoblog was changed to avoid the fact that spike doesnt want to go by nico anymore

and that is important why?

 

[Flame]

@ShadowOne333 be like why did I create this thread getting hate by smiles.

Ladies and gents, ShadowOne333 didn't take down cdromance.