Romhacking.net is now open

Clements · Post by **Clements** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:57 pm

The replacement for The Whirlpool is up and running:

http://romhacking.deadbeat-inc.com/index.php

kieran_ · Post by **kieran_** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 4:07 pm

There are lots of dead links there. It looks quite a lot like the Whirlpool, was that intentional?

blackmyst · Post by **blackmyst** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 4:59 pm

I see Romh!

Looks promising, I hope it'll do well.

Louis Cypher · Post by **Louis Cypher** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 6:37 pm

Just because some of it's running doesn't necessarily mean that it's open for business. I think Nightcrawler's still trying to get a lot of it working.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 12:22 am

Man, the site looks amazing. I hope it does well too.

Post by **badinsults** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:12 am

Ha, I love the deadbeat-inc.com name.

Djungelurban · Post by **Djungelurban** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 2:42 pm

Looks very promising. Although, I would very much like them to add a "virtually complete" status.

Nightcrawler · Post by **Nightcrawler** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 3:36 pm

Louis hit the nail on the head. Ugh.. I'd rather this didn't happen quite yet.

The site is NOT officially open yet, hence the broken links. It's sort of in a pre-launch phase right now. I coded the entire backend and frontend from scratch myself tailored to our needs. More features are in progress and it needs to undergo a slow limited visitor trial period before we open the floodgates to work out all the kinks, add overlooked features that are a necessary, and fix any shortcomings from the current code and setup.

It's not quite ready for the userbase it's going to receive.

Kieran:

The translation content IS from the Whirlpool(and as we speak is already branching out with our own additional content). This site is the successor to Romhacking.com/.org AND The Whirlpool. I have both permission and blessings from those involved. I also lay a little bit of respect to both sites in the design such as the Romh. So yes, it's definitely intentional.

Djungelurban

You would, would you? Are you volunteering to go through and reclassify 700+ entries? I'm serious. That's on the to do list. Most are in agreement that a new category is needed. The code is already in place for it, but nobody has volunteered to go through and reclassify the whole database. I currently have my hands full with the rest of the site.