"we're archival" you're literally not at all????? You create new achievements that change the experience of playing them??? You're the opposite of archival you fucking wads

Also, there *has* to be more important ROMhack and retro stuff to archive than slur-ridden explictly pro-Nazi games.

*gestures at Brazil

Why are you gesturing at Brazil?

Because Nazis escaped to Brazil after the fall of Hitler.

no not that we were talking about romhacks that are more important to preserve than the shitty 4chan nazi hack and I was referring to a country that had its own entire market of unique ports and homebrew on mega drive

OOOOOOOOOOOOOH, I see... yeah, like that time we basically sold a glorified romhack of Wonderboy as a retail game.

i know I've made an incredible mistake by even trying to engage with these people because it's not a coherent ideology worth trying to engage with but fuck me dude some of the people in this thread are Horrible

I have a feeling I know who was pressuring the team to host nazi shit!!!! It's probably the little freaks bending over backwards for this! tbh probably should just ban them too!!! I hate to say it but SomethingAwful would have made the right choice here lmfao

making fun of the storm front forums was the casual shitbro hobby of 2000s forums so yeah it's easy for them to clear *checks notes* elected democrats in 2025

What floors me is that these people turn into circus acts at the mere CRITICISM of the decision. Not even of the people involved in the decision outright, but people rightfully pointing out that it will in fact change the perception of the platform and those who use it.

Ridiculous right? That hack has far more vitriolic things to say about groups, but oh, people are REALLY being too hard on the site owners and platform holders for allowing it on there. THAT'S the language that's troubling, not the fucking racism? Are you shitting me?

It is pathetic how vacant the backbones of people like this are now. You can't even stand for what you're promoting, you'll just host it and try to act like actions don't signify anything. Just zero accountability, I guess we've really failed to teach folks the importance of that

Wild I'd have more respect (not that it would add up to much) if they just outright said they condone it, but no just dance around it and try to hand-wave it away. You know what's just as easy at that point and WON'T make you look like an ass? Not hosting it at all!!!!!

I don't got much to add outside of thanks for speaking up

There's a lot of people I lost a ton of respect for after reading this entire thread on RA. I have been doing this for a long time and it's just really fucking disappointing to see so many people I have known for years supporting this. I really get the impression the admins don't know the content

Hoo boy the Nazi furnace pokemon I was told about really just made me even more upset this is being allowed

Beyond insane RA is choosing to die on this hill. No room for hate, none.

I am really tired of people acting like racism is a political viewpoint that they have to give a platform to to be neutral. Makes it pretty clear at least one political party is seen as predominantly bigots.

As someone who actually is in the RH scene: this *particular* romhack is infamously a huge faux paus to talk about in multiple romhacking servers and doing anything associated with it beyond acknowledging it exists is a massive red flag.

(To be abundantly clear what I mean, "purposefully having a reference to it in your hack" is generally just disgusting. Ditto for certain romhacks with racist or R18 content I don't want to mention.)

They let a nazi into the bar and didn't chase them out. Hand-wringing fools.

People need to stop being fair with Nazis, man The facts that some of these mouth-breathers can’t see the difference between platforming “violence” and “iconography associated with ethnic cleansing” is one of those losing-faith-in-humanity moments

This is disgusting and why we can’t have nice things. Do we stop using this or do we try to have our voices heard?

I'm out personally, but if folks more invested in RA wanted to start a damn thing it'd have my support

God I just started getting into RA this past year because of Arcade Pit too. This sucks hardcore

Absolutely insane to make this as a *pushed site-wide announcement*. God bless Punchy for being one of the only people in there to push back against this, hope other people join in but the amount of asspatting and shoulder shrugging going on in that thread makes it clear this aint a space for me

Theyve at least responded now and shut down the development of the romhack’s RA set retroachievements.org/forums/topic...

Read a few comments in the forums, pathetic handwringing over censorship. Then I saw the one suggesting people look up a particular pokemon from the set (which I ain’t linking here because it’s basically a fucking golliwog)

To prevent other people from having to Google that, it's one of those big lipped all black 1920s rubber works blackface caricatures. Y'know, like Jinx but even worse.

ITS CALLED VANDASH

ITS A “THIEF POKEMON”

This is incredibly disappointing and beyond frustrating. I hope RA enjoys its brand new Nazi bar, I guess.

Fucking sad to see a cool site bend over backwards to justify shit like this, all cause you expect the bare minimum of decency from them in curation like not actively platforming overtly racist content. Goodbye and good riddance, rest in piss

will you be starting the bsky equivalent of a classic video game achievements site now?

The announcement post and every reply after got split into its own thread: retroachievements.org/forums/topic... Regardless, a really fucked up decision to make in these times.

I guess the Retro was short for Retrogressive all along

The hack page has since then been taken down and the hack is ineligible What an interesting day to be a Retroachievements developer... retroachievements.org/forums/topic...

Yeah I once reported an MK4 game boy achievement for requiring a mode with excessive screen flicker by design, a health hazard if I ever saw one so of course they refused to see anything wrong with it and muted me. Their spiel about being "neutral" is a fucking LIE.

game boy screens dont have fast enough response times to flicker

These mods man, jesus

Hey, sorry to see that my post upset you - I was trying to point out that it's not just RA with that policy, but that it's a wider policy used by corporations and publishers as well.

And you think they make for good role models?

Definitely not. I don't believe that any corporation can be a good role model for anything, that's just an inherent cost of revolving around financial gain.

LOL

Statement from the founder. The claim has just been dropped.

Development on Pokemon Clover set has officially been cancelled retroachievements.org/forums/topic...

If this was a forum this would absolutely run afoul of the rules just about every forum had (and those rules would also always ban politics, so let's not pretend that excuse applies). Gotta love everybody who's trying to pretend to be a common carrier.

Read the thread replies some, my head started hurting. Jesus.

Just in case someone anyone seeing this post is curious about what's being said, please do not read the announcement thread. The dogwhistling and shiteadedness of people defending this is like reading a god damn 4chan thread.

Jesus christ... When something contains *that* kind of content... yeah letting it stand is a political move. You'd think people would learn by now, but I guess not...

I dread to think of what godforsaken floodgates these dipshits just opened by dragging Pokemon Clover back into relevance.

I was really starting to get into RA. This is beyond disappointing, especially seeing the response to it on the site. The levels of whataboutism and the blatant dog whistles make me feel completely unwelcome there. I'm deleting my account, and I don't know what it would take for them to get me back.

It's even worse that this hack has been in RA News' Most Wanted Hack for several editions... But wait! THERE'S MORE! No joke, someone tried to claim a set for a Pokemon hack where you start with a DROWZEE. (iykyk) Luckily, that didn't last. ...But Pokemon: My Ass has a page.

(Adding further) But it's not just rom hacks, either. But there are some Homebrews also with disgusting views. There's "My Saturday Grounded," where you (about 10 or 11) coax a 13-year old as you do stuff to sleep in the treehouse. And then there's "He Fucked the Girl Out of Me."

retroachievements.org/forums/topic... They seem to have apologized and banned Clover, thankfully

They have now locked the thread:

well time to delete the account. Hopefully a nice alternative will come up eventually

I think ripping their stupid pointy hats away and making them die mad about it would be a good thing, actually.

There's no "non-political." By allowing this, they're saying explicitly that this shit is okay. Dumb as fuck logic.

Did literally the exact same thing. Also left the Discord.

Where are the cat photos, I keep getting more discourse about whether nazis are bad or not

It's a 4chan made shitpost game. If you get offended by it then they did their job and are laughing at you for it.

cool another acct i'm going to end up deleting :(

Honestly everyone in here should just post images of the pokemon in question, cause they're so offensive they get deleted as hateful content. Yeah just spam them with screen shots of the game until they delete it imo

anyone got a link to the patch so i can play through the whole game from start to finish thoroughly and completely to take screenshots?

Already ordered the deletion of my RA account, and am warning everyone I know, devs or players alike who use this.

Man, I had started my first RA set a couple of weeks ago too...

I was literally just getting into RA... ugh.