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May 08, 2013 • 19:32 Profile Photo thunderstruck

I just searched ‘Mansion of Insmouse: Mario Madness Edition’ and couldn’t find it until I realized it is a patch for Insmouse No Yakata. I couldn’t find Faceball: Remastered anywhere in the Games-Section. I don’t know if there are more ROM hacks that actually add gaming content but I feel like at least those two shouldn’t be buried in some sub-section or forum post. The same thing goes for Space Pinnball. I couldn’t find it anywhere in the Games-Section.

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May 09, 2013 • 05:59 Profile Photo Lester Knight

I also think there should be a ROM hack section. It may promote more hacking. Space Pinball is hidden under Galactic Pinball, in its “Prototype” tab.

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May 09, 2013 • 12:25 Profile Photo Benjamin Stevens

I spoke to Krisse before about Mansion of Insmouse: Mario Madness Edition, and he said the reason why he only wants to post the patch in a somewhat prominent place is for legality issues. I guess it is legal to make a patch for a game, but it is then illegal to apply the patch to an illegal ROM and then play the game. Thus, he will put the patch on the site but not the patched ROM, so if someone wants to find the patched ROM, they will have to search through the forums and find where I posted it on my own volition, without getting permission from Krisse. I guess this would all apply to Faceball as well. Since Faceball:Remastered is a patched ROM, the patch as well as patching program would have to be released as separate items, in order for them to find a prominent place on the site. (Although, having a whole News article about the patched ROM with link to it seems rather prominent already to me.)

Since game patches are allowed prominent places on the site, I would suggest that “Game Patches” appear on the GAMES drop down menu beneath “Homebrew.” I think a lot more people would readily find them and use them if they appeared there.

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May 09, 2013 • 19:55 Profile Photo thunderstruck

Benjamin Stevens wrote:
I spoke to Krisse before about Mansion of Insmouse: Mario Madness Edition, and he said the reason why he only wants to post the patch in a somewhat prominent place is for legality issues. I guess it is legal to make a patch for a game, but it is then illegal to apply the patch to an illegal ROM and then play the game. Thus, he will put the patch on the site but not the patched ROM, so if someone wants to find the patched ROM, they will have to search through the forums and find where I posted it on my own volition, without getting permission from Krisse. I guess this would all apply to Faceball as well. Since Faceball:Remastered is a patched ROM, the patch as well as patching program would have to be released as separate items, in order for them to find a prominent place on the site. (Although, having a whole News article about the patched ROM with link to it seems rather prominent already to me.)

Since game patches are allowed prominent places on the site, I would suggest that “Game Patches” appear on the GAMES drop down menu beneath “Homebrew.” I think a lot more people would readily find them and use them if they appeared there.

Well… yeah. I get that there are legal issues with publishing Rom hacks. However, they can already be downloaded from the forum post. On top of that, I don’t understand why ROM hacks can’t be handled the same way the commercial ROMs are handled.

 

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