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.

 

[Xdqwerty]

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

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

We know, we are angry about the notice itself

 

[Naster]

Just why? It's retro site, 99% of these games you cannot buy legally.

 

[ShadowOne333]

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

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

I'm cancel target #1 now.
But yeah, I get why many people are angered by this, it's always the corpos doing their shitty bidding

 

[Flame]

I'm cancel target #1 now.
But yeah, I get why many people are angered by this, it's always the corpos doing their shitty bidding

ShadowOne333 got cancelled for our sins.

 

[subcon959]

This is probably just some pathetic loser that pretended to be from the ESA.

 

[DJPlace]

just wish archive.org download speeds were not shit.

 

[ShadowOne333]

ShadowOne333 got cancelled for our sins.

I hereby lay as the sacrificial lamb.

 

[LightBeam]

No way, it was my favorite place to get Sony roms

 

[cvskid]

Everything is ok for now theres still a way to get games from there.

 

[GengarsGhostlyGiggles]

damn i loved that site

 

[linuxares]

"pre-patched modifications to retro" - that's your problem right there

 

[SylverReZ]

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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.

​

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.

A huge disappointment for the preservation community. Fuck the ESA!

 

[BasedKiliK]

Please God don't let them take Vimm

 

[brunocar]

and that is important why?

how would i know? because he doesnt want to be sued? i got no clue, im just telling you what he told me.

 

[ikynx]

A huge disappointment for the preservation community. Fuck the ESA!

Probably zero fucking employee at ESA has ever played a video game, let alone understands the appeal of retrogaming.
So many of these white collars deserve to be dealt with in badly lit parking. Let the purge commence, pretty please.

 

[YuseiFD]

Well this sucks tbqh, i Always used it to get prepatched stuff

 

[SylverReZ]

just wish archive.org download speeds were not shit.

You tried JDownloader or IDM? You get slightly better speeds.

 

[SDA]

I've always been visiting CDRomance for a long time, so...
!!!TIHS SIHT KCUF

 

[Clydefrosch]

i've certainly never thought of cdromance as a hack and translation website...

 

[RyanTheArchivist]

The thing is they wouldn't have been taken down if they just provided patch files. A lot of the time they provided pre-patched roms which is a problem.