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Alper wrote: ↑Mon Jan 05, 2026 5:48 pm I'm curious about this too. Are there any alternatives for the sites that are gone?

I'd assume that anyone who maintains such important externally produced files will need to find alternative methods to share their updates or find a new host (should mameworld not be returning). There is always a bigger fish..

Mr. Do may have to find another place for the artworks. If staying down forever.

ChewChew wrote: ↑Mon Jan 05, 2026 4:00 am What about Mameinfo.dat ? Isn't that hosted there too?

FYI, MASH has successfully transitioned to github too:
https://mashinfo.github.io/mameinfo/

IV/Play Homepage : MAME™ Front-End, Icons, Snapshots & Benchmarks
https://john-iv.github.io/iv-play/

ARCADE64 moved to https://messui.1emulation.com/arcade for the release of 0.284, and

Twisty's Samples are now lost to us, but there's the alternative at https://www.progettosnaps.net/samples/

Mr Do's artwork had been down for a long time due to database problems, so no change there.

MAME Classic front end might emerge in a new place, but that's still being worked on.

It can be assumed that the dozens of other sites won't be back.

And, no, I won't be signing up for reddit, because the place is a cesspit, and it is affected by proof-of-age laws in my country. I certainly won't be providing personal information to them or any other similarly-affected site.

Robert wrote: ↑Thu Jan 08, 2026 8:34 pm Twisty's Samples are now lost to us, but there's the alternative at https://www.progettosnaps.net/samples/

Well, perhaps not entirely. Thanks to the magical effort of 'archive.org' aka "The Internet Wayback Machine' aka 'The Internet Archive", we may still have some (limited ? ) access to it. At least some of this (or perhaps even all) seems to have been archived over at these urls :

https://web.archive.org/web/20251125113 ... rld.info./

https://web.archive.org/web/20251127001 ... orld.info/

But they may be in need of a new permanent home now.


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