We have a quarter of a million members. Why did you all join?

[RageBurner]

At first I joined just to maintain repository access, but the endearing forum denizens have really won my heart.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

So, not to bring the mood down, what happened on the server/old forum? I keep hearing about it in passing as if something horrible happened.

There were several misunderstandings and omissions that made it stray far away from what we want RGT to be and/or represent, so we had to close it down.

 

[Klonoa7]

I've been using ᏟDᏒ for a few years off and on along with several other sites and noticed that ᏟDᏒ was no more several months back. I'm only here since a profile was required to access content on the new site and didn't plan on sticking around to be honest. Forums are fun to read at times but I'm more of a "silent observer" when it comes to forums and social media in general. It's a blast watching people share their various talents here such as the artists and writers here.

That's all for now. You all be good now, you hear? ?

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

I dunno man, I just like these forums a lot. It’s been great to see a large variety of people and they’re not… fighting? Some folks will always fight, but it’s great to see how many of us are tired of that and are just “I want to just TALK to people! Have a good time! Talk about games and movies and manga and nerd stuff!”

This. It's been so refreshing just talking about games and nerd stuff and everyone being chill. It's such a nice slice of internet, away from all the drama.

 

[RageBurner]

This. It's been so refreshing just talking about games and nerd stuff and everyone being chill. It's such a nice slice of internet, away from all the drama.

Yeah, if this forum were a drama boiler waiting to blow up I'd have not posted a single message.

 

[naizou's icon naizou naizou]

The people in this forum are all kind and intelligent,
making it a very rare place on the modern internet.
I hope this peaceful space lasts forever.

 

[TheSortingHelmet]

The only other forum I like to frequent is Giant in the Playground, but this place has a certain vibe about it that is... well reminds me of kinder days and great vibes.

 

[destroyer_44]

For me, I had been using the ᏟDᏒ site for a long time as a lurking leech. It was a great resource. When the update came, I was initially sad. Eventually, I got a SummerCart. Early in 2025 I got an N64 again and was exploring the library. I wanted to download some roms to test the SummerCart out with and went to ᏟDᏒ to get one. When I arrived and was met with the fact I had to make an account, I said “dang. That’s right.” I made an account and got the rom I needed, but I noticed the forums.

I’m young and dumb. I missed out on forum culture at its peak. I’ve always heard of forums secondhand. For the last year and a half, I’ve taken a personal ban on the use of social media for the most part, keeping almost entirely to myself on the internet outside of talking to very close friends. I’ve been out in the real world a lot, which has been nice, but I’ve had so many pent up thoughts about gaming and nerdy stuff.

I took this time to actually join the forums. I came up with a catchy username, got a cute pfp that fit that name (I actually owned the Mothra-Tama at some point but it must’ve been misplaced in my previous move), themed my account after Vib Ribbon because that game has a lovely aesthetic, and started posting around. Since then, I’ve been off and on with posting, but I’ve been so happy I joined.

Thank you to all the lovely folks who make this site possible. Thank you to all my fellow forum users for posting fun stuff. Thank you to everyone for simply being here. I love that we all come from different backgrounds, lifestyles, places of the world, etc. but we are all able to come here to just have some fun and talk about stuff we like. It’s a great feeling.

I never really used forums during the real peak in the late 90s-early 2000s mainly due to me not being alive/sentient enough to enjoy it, but I did go on a minecraft server forum regularly back in 2015-2016 which was quite a joy while it lasted, and haven't had much experience with forums since. I wanted to join this forum board because I wanted to download a game and decided why the heck not I'll join the forums, good to see people are keeping the culture alive still.

 

[ObscureJigglypuff]

I normally don't like to be a part of a community,
but this is an exception i guess.
Can't remember why i got here.
However i have had fun many times here.
I'm loving the place.

 

[IyoTheHelpfulWolf]

Initially I made an account to use the repo for rom hacks and English patched games, but after taking a peek in the forum I decided to participate. The only other forum I was ever active on was the now defunct YuGiCo when I was in middle school.

I was initially worried that I'd come off as rude or that people would think I'm a clout chaser only here to shill my content, but those fears were put to rest as you all accepted me with open arms, to the point that it feels like I've always been a part of this community. I love how the forum is always active yet all the regulars know each other, and how everyone is so supportive of one another. I'm so happy to be a part of that now.

Thank you all for accepting me as one of your own and for letting me contribute as a content creator, a member of the writer's guild, and emotional support to anyone who needs it. This place is very special to me now.

 

[Dyne]

I came for the roms, I stayed for the vibes.

Like others said, Spike's "Moving On" post on CDR made me sign up because CDR was such a fantastic resource (thank you Spike!) and I didn't want to lose it.

In my first post I said I'd probably just lurk and not post much; I was wrong. The old school forum vibe and cool people here drew me in and I find myself posting way more than I expected.

 

[BeBop]

It's probably one of the coolest places to stay updated with new translations. Detailed sheets for every game are very useful and time-saving, as I am doing and releasing translated packs for the Core Type R frontend. Many many thanks for the last Vita ones as it saves me hours of testing ;)

Post automatically merged: Feb 23, 2025

By the way, for those of you who are curious, this how it looks once done:
Super Famicom Updated

 

[medisinn]

As with many others, I leeched from ᏟDᏒ for years, and thus ended up here. I spent a lot of my free time in the early to mid 2000s on forums, and the absence of that sort of interaction has left a void in my psyche that this fills. You get a good mix of people from all over the world, and no one is trying to sell you anything, chasE clout, or brag or pretenD about how great their life is. Instead, it's all the good things a social site should be. Instead of reading the news on my breaks at work and being depressed about what is happening in my country, I now read some posts here about random things. I stopped using Facebook and the like years ago, so I feel like a ghost online, but being here makes me feel like I'm somewhat participating in society and culture again. It's nice.

I haven't even dug into the articles yet, so that's another thing to look forward to. Even aside from participating in the forums, I'd been longing for a website where I can just read stuff en masse over time at my leisure. No endless scrolling, no forced video shorts, no product placement, just words and thoughts coming from curiosity and passion. The internet has felt so small and suffocating, like everything I knew became shuttered or folded into a handful of rapidly worsening sites and apps. It's comforting to know places like this still exist.

 

[Turtlegodking]

CDR always seemed to have new games I had never seen or heard of so when they moved to this site I joined to see them keep apearing
The forums here are also nice to look though

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

Im new to emulation scene , I installed epsxe and wanted to play silent hill after not finding a suitable RE1 version googling it brought me to a reddit post to which the name ᏟDᏒ was mentioned reluctant of new sites but having no choice I google ᏟDᏒ and install silent hill.

What followed was a great experience but I still wanted to get into RE so I found RE1 on ᏟDᏒ every single game I was looking for was found on ᏟDᏒ save for that one time I had to search for RE3

The games I installed are amazing pieces of media having great influence on me all thanks to ᏟDᏒ and the ones behind it who provided me the ability to reach these wonderful games with ease.

Fast download speed , easy and straight forward installation , full game all kept me coming back to ᏟDᏒ.

Its been 6 months since I started using it and now its December 2024 looking up if FF9 is there I find the "moving on" post initially you could still download stuff but when I went to download FF9 for future play no longer could I download I was like "damn man why? Where will I get games now?" Then I noticed the link to RTG and went in well that was good decision.

I never was there to experience the forums at their prime while I used Hiveworkshop and War2RU the latter being somewhat dead and the former being mostly about maps and models while having forums of its own it isn't nearly as active as this one.

Presented with the chance of being a forum participant and FINALLY for so long had I found a place to discuss video games properly , this place doesn't have this constant bombardment of doom and fear mongering as seen in most active discords no overwhelming sense of negativity , the original reason 6th grader me went online was to discuss games in depth cuz no gamer around me existed IRL and I can finally say that wish has been fulfilled thanks to this site and you people.

 

[fake-kun]

Joined for the ROMs, stayed for the community.

 

[King Koopa's iconKing Koopa]

I wanted to make an account to download roms and when I noticed this also had an old school forum site I decided to check it out. I grew tired of regular social media and wanted to chat with other nerds in a more anonymous manner. Plus it's been becoming more and more difficult to find people to talk about retro games.

 

[Antihero]

Tbh, I joined after Spike's msg on CDr. I can proudly say it was the best decision I made.

 

[calebthegnome]

I also joined right after I saw Spike's "Moving On" post on CDR, just to gain access to the Repo. I kind of ignored the actual forums for a while, just because I figured gaming-related forums would be toxic and not worth engaging with. But then I noticed more recently that they actually seem very pleasant and fun, which is a welcome surprise. It kind of feels like some of the forums I was active in back around the turn of the millennium.

 

[IHeartRetro]

It's just as OP stated. I started using ᏟDᏒ about the time EMUparadise shut down. (Yeah remember them? If you do guess what. You're old!) From what I saw people said it was a safe place and you can not worry about getting viruses. So, downloaded I did. I was very appreciative as well of giving pre made patches to hacks. I'm a dumb dumb and even though I'm 33 never learned how to do all that.

Then I learned CDRomances fate. Naturally I was saddened. Sure, I got the internet archive still and I could learn to patch that stuff myself, but the simplicity of clicking the download, plus seeing new stuff pop up every so often that I'd try was gonna be missed.

Learning about the new place I was annoyed to make an account but I was like "Ok fiiiiine." Then a little time passed and I was like "... ok why not." Cause I always see the topics and I'm like "Hey. I like that topic." Well. Time went on and here I am. I still say I'm "new" but I'm interactive and I am appreciative of the community.

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

Initially I made an account to use the repo for rom hacks and English patched games, but after taking a peek in the forum I decided to participate. The only other forum I was ever active on was the now defunct YuGiCo when I was in middle school.

I was initially worried that I'd come off as rude or that people would think I'm a clout chaser only here to shill my content, but those fears were put to rest as you all accepted me with open arms, to the point that it feels like I've always been a part of this community. I love how the forum is always active yet all the regulars know each other, and how everyone is so supportive of one another. I'm so happy to be a part of that now.

Thank you all for accepting me as one of your own and for letting me contribute as a content creator, a member of the writer's guild, and emotional support to anyone who needs it. This place is very special to me now.

For me, you’ve become part of this community the moment you made your first post and I’m thankful that find this place special.

 

[sysuah]

I remember being on here when it's still called Nicoblog then nblog due to drama of some guy using the same domain as Spike's site and doing sketchy businesses and that there was Vita games and ps3 iso, 3DS games and some pirated pc software too or not at all and that i remember several details wrong since it's been so long now before finally changing it to ᏟDᏒ

And whenever i look at my laptops for roms that i got here from God knows how long now, looking at the entire filename and seeing like *game title_Game ID*_Nicoblog and looking at the dates of these files sort of brings me back
And i guess migrating from ᏟDᏒ to here was inevitable

 

[OmegaPunch's icon OmegaPunch OmegaPunch]

I've been using ᏟDᏒ for years now, until @Spike announced the site was moving elsewhere to avoid any unwanted attention.
At first, I didn't even know this site had a forums section until February (I think? I don't remember.)
I used to be a lurker at first, but then I thought "Hey, this "forum" thing seems pretty interesting" so I decided to become a user, and my life was changed forever...

 

[PrismRed]

I admit the fact this forum is not fully publicized is part of the charm.
Nobody looked for RGT specifically for the forum, we all come here due to the repo.

 

[Nidstang]

Needed to make an account to keep downloading games. Figured I may as well check out the forum since I made the account