Re: How many are still here from way back?

Interesting. I can't say I recall that, although I do see alot of other ROM sites that still cannot host "ESA Protected" titles like Mario and Metroid. I think I remember the OS problems or something similar, but I cannot be certain. Was the IRC chat page there then?

Dhaos - The SNES ROM ban was many years back; either in the early 2000s or late 1990s. The SNES ROMs were restored when it was clear to Vimm that other sites had maintained SNES ROMs for a while (including SM World) without trouble from the IDSA (as my memory serves, anyway). From what I remember though, the SNES ROMs still went off and on the Vimm server several times, namely due to server maintenance issues.

Vimm also posted server problems related to his OS. In 2002 or 2003, he said he "upgraded" to Windows 2002, and was left with the choice of the server working one of two ways - One in which all downloads auto-marked themselves as "complete" after thirty seconds, or succeeding in loading any and all data about 50% of the time. Not an ideal situation, IMO. Nevertheless, the problem was resolved several months later.

- Tricob.