Hacking What happened to that ISO site?

[Polarise]

What happened to it? When I go to the site it won't connect to it. It says that this site cannot be reached.

 

[slaphappygamer]

Keep trying. It's up. Probably a lot more users now that slowhax has been out for a few days now.

 

[nl255]

Working fine here, you might try a VPN that has a free trial to see if it is a routing issue or ISP block. I personally use Mullvad for all my torrenting/piracy needs and I know they give you 3 free hours to start but here is a good list of no-log VPNs many of which have free trial periods.

 

[proflayton123]

Working just fine for me

 

[Alex658]

Why is it that whenever that happens to someone it first pops up in GBAtemp?

 

[Luckkill4u]

Why is it that whenever that happens to someone it first pops up in GBAtemp?

A lot of the members on those *iso sites are members here as well.

 

[Deleted-19228]

That site goes down frequently. That's USUALLY when you know a hot release is out. It was up and down all day when Moon leaked :o

 

[zoogie]

A lot of the members on those *iso sites are members here as well.

No surprise there. In the beginning, GBAtemp was just as much of a warez site as iso is now. The 'temp' in GBAtemp refers to the site getting shut down and moving all the time in the early days.

 

[Alex658]

No surprise there. In the beginning, GBAtemp was just as much of a warez site as iso is now. The 'temp' in GBAtemp refers to the site getting shut down and moving all the time in the early days.

AFAIK it referred to only the 10 latest ROMs being available for download at a given time.
Lemme look at the wiki history for details in a minute.

EDIT:

GBAtemp began as a small GBA ROM site in 2002, created by it's original admin, an Italian guy named KiVan.

KiVan was a GBA scene freak, always behind the latest ROM releases. He was both for playing them (first on emulator, then came the 'real hardware', aka flash carts) and for sharing them with others.

Motivated by his passion for the GBA games and by the relative difficulty of getting the ROMs on IRC channels soon after the release, he came up with the idea to host some of the latest ROMs himself, to help out close and far friends that shared his same passion: the GBA. So he started to keep a constantly up-to-date web page, where he provided always-working links to the LATEST 10 GBA ROMs. A very simple and straightforward page: just some text & images, and links to the ROMs of course .

He started to become well-known in the scene because he was blazingly fast in updating the web page (split-seconds after the ROM was released, KiVan uploaded it on the hosting web space and updated the page with the links), and he almost never had any broken links (well he had them, but he worked VERY VERY hard to update old dead links with new links as soon as he noticed them down... and that was REAL fast since he was a real 'F5' refresh maniac).

That page was called GBAtemp, mostly because it was a GBA ROMs page, but always TEMP(orary), since KiVan had to switch hosting nearly everyday, and KiVan worked hard for it: by updating every hour or less the page with the newest ROMs & by always keeping the web page & the ROMs online, using a free dynamic DNS service in order to automatically give people the link to the latest, constantly changing, working web space.

Back at the time, people knew that if you wanted to check the last ROM released or if you needed a hand to get just released GBA ROM, GBAtemp was the place to be.

So apparently the temp in the name referred to both having the 10 latest ROMs at a given time, and constantly switching hosting space.

 

[proflayton123]

AFAIK it referred to only the 10 latest ROMs being available for download at a given time.
Lemme look at the wiki history for details in a minute.

EDIT:


So apparently the temp in the name referred to both having the 10 latest ROMs at a given time, and constantly switching hosting space.

Interesting history c:

 

[Luckkill4u]

No surprise there. In the beginning, GBAtemp was just as much of a warez site as iso is now. The 'temp' in GBAtemp refers to the site getting shut down and moving all the time in the early days.

lol yeah I know, I've been a member on this site for a few years and was a lurker long before. I even remember when GBAtemp had a red theme instead of blue. Possibly I downloaded GBA roms off this site before too but I cant remember precisely.

 

[Deleted-19228]

No surprise there. In the beginning, GBAtemp was just as much of a warez site as iso is now. The 'temp' in GBAtemp refers to the site getting shut down and moving all the time in the early days.

..? You registered in 2014, what do you know about "early days?"

 

[zoogie]

..? You registered in 2014, what do you know about "early days?"

lurking

 

[Luckkill4u]

..? You registered in 2014, what do you know about "early days?"

Have you checked out the temps wiki? Full of some good info and great temp history.