Snes-O-Rama is Down!

[Elmdor Rizer]

imho,if by any bad luck, snesorama can`t go active again,they should merge with emuparadise, that would be the perfect retro-site,besides we already have good ppl from SoR (adm-mod-Jackhammer,Destrudo,Scattman, Supreme Warrior [left dunno why], today i saw two posts from Gladiator). just an opinion. "Emu~oramaforums.org" ºoº'

I call president, S-Admin and chief of staff. Also, I will be wearing the number 7 shirt, and the rest of you will be in the skins team, just to show how inferior you are.

On a less insane note, well, that's a shame. :/

[Grouch]

I never signed up to Snesorama (or I may have, but as far as I can remember I never actually posted), but I'll miss the site for its encyclopedia of Japanese titles and its large range of games in other languages. My obsession with foreign languages means it's rare that I'm actually looking for a game in English these days, so a source like that was pretty invaluable to me. I doubt many of their uploaders will see this, but thanks for everything if you do. I only regret that I didn't grab more while I had the chance.

I'll miss it if only for the loss of a large library of Japanese titles too, it seemed like they usually had everything I was looking for that I couldn't find here it's gonna be tough to find another place like that

[Knightshade]

Well not trying to start any arguments or site flame wars but I joined S.O.R. first before I found E.P. and as Jack Spicer said in his post, though with better wording, I find E.P. to be the superior site.

That being side I also liked Snes-O-Rama for many of the reasons listed above including the greater opportunity it provided to find rare games if we didn't have them. I would also like to welcome any members of Snes-O-Rama that come here as Jackhammer said in his post they have done for us in our time of need.

[Dreamer]

Hi everybody. And no, I dont know anything. Shutting down was never discussed...so I believe its a tech thing.
90% of my uploads are gone due to the MU event. Not sure if Im gonna reup yet or not. Gonna wait n see.

[Rockstar1983]

I never signed up to Snesorama (or I may have, but as far as I can remember I never actually posted), but I'll miss the site for its encyclopedia of Japanese titles and its large range of games in other languages. My obsession with foreign languages means it's rare that I'm actually looking for a game in English these days, so a source like that was pretty invaluable to me. I doubt many of their uploaders will see this, but thanks for everything if you do. I only regret that I didn't grab more while I had the chance.

I whole-heartedly second this. SnesORama did have a rather large library of unique and off-beat games. Most things I couldn't find here on EP or anywhere else on the 'net were usually posted on SOR.

@Dreamer - IIRC, you were a rather large contributor to SnesORama... I'd like to thank you for your work there. My thanks also extend to the others that made that site work as well as it did. It was good while it lasted. I'll miss it. I'm glad to know that you're a member of EPforums.

[Andy_Jerk]

Gladiator posted another incarnation of this track when I was new to SOR, and I found it quite moving when I listened to it drunk. I still really love the melody; and it's funny how the words could be applied to joining an emulation forum--at least the part about finding a niche at last and being a prisoner of the past.

[Dreamer]

Well...here is the scoop..

Snesorama (aka SOR) might be back soon. But we will no longer provide any illegal files, as I dont wanna risk jailtime or getting sued for millions of dollars, or even worse, EUROS!

I was going to shut down entirely, but I figured, we could just have the legal forum part up.

So I'm going to, if all goes well, upgrade VB, and restore the old database. The main difference being that the trade post will be gone.

It is unsigned...........Assuming its from Matrlx.

[luffy4]

putting the site back up under the same name at all i think could still run risks

[Joe Blog]

I never really went to snes-O-rama but i thought it was a good site, it ashame to see it go. Hopefully the content from snes-O-rama will find it way to being reuploaded to EP.

[deadlegion]

Looks like it's back up again (from an old db backup).

[Dreamer]

Its back, mostly. Server got toasted.

[gezegond]

Its back, mostly. Server got toasted.

The Trade Post is still there, but they've named it "SnesOrama - Legal Gaming ". Should I be worried about the trade post?

[deadlegion]

The Trade Post is still there, but they've named it "SnesOrama - Legal Gaming ". Should I be worried about the trade post?

They still have a pre 2007 pc section.

But it looks like there's a problem with spambots there atm.

[Muscab]

They are back but everything is really outdated. Many of the links are outdated and lot of it still megaupload link. :/

[deadlegion]

They are back but everything is really outdated. Many of the links are outdated and lot of it still megaupload link. :/

Yeah, that's 'cos:

Looks like it's back up again (from an old db backup).