Just visited like I do almost every day and it seems that it closed down, you can follow on Reddit now.
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Just visited like I do almost every day and it seems that it closed down, you can follow on Reddit now.
That's not good news. Thankfully between us we probably have very complete collections of most things. But it's a bit worrying regarding MAME updates if they do vanish.
I'm more worried about less know stuff, like TOSEC main branch, No-Intro or Redump stuff, and a lot about Visual and Future pinball.
And even the eXo sets were not updated since longer time, he merged the first 5 of them into the eXoDOS collection, and I thought that a newer version would be released after some point.
This link has info about the sudden close.
https://torrentfreak.com/rom-emulati...gaming-210927/
I'm also worried about sourcing future updates and rarer sets. I also currently don't have many of the sets and archives on any of my running systems so I hope my DVD backups are all still working. I was planning a,new emulation setup based on my soon be retired i7 main system.
Really annoying is I had a very large download credit on the tracker too. My MAME set was quite out of date too and I was planning to download a fresh new full set. Very annoying.
Let's hope someone will either resurrect it, or create something new to take over. It's always such a shame when we lose an amazing resource like this, although PD had removed a lot of their content in recent times to avoid copyright (such as all Nintendo sets). I wonder if they were starting to be chases for copyright infringement, game the quite while we are ahead comment.
You still can get the MAME sets here: https://pleasuredome.github.io/pleasuredome/index.html
I just hope that as it's still linked to the whole PD peoject it remains maintained, updated and live. At least being on Github that's something. I wonder how long before organisations, games publishers and governments start going after github?