I originally started this site as
I could find no others like it and the growing HD Loader community needed
somewhere that they could go to without trailing through pages of forums to find
if a game worked or not, specifically inspired by my own experience on the IGN
forums where the HD Loader thread was growing fast and needed to be put in some
sort of unified format. Soon after going
live the site was at the top of google if you searched for ‘HD Loader
compatibility’, that made me feel very proud and I quickly added some basic
FAQs to help people struggling with their HD Loaded, evident by the many
questions I would get in email.
I specifically noted that the
site was not to be copied anywhere else unless I gave prior permission, some
people did ask and generally I gave permission, yet I soon received many emails
pointing me to other sites that had plagiarised my work and the work of my
contributors, several of whom were hostile when I asked them to remove my list
from their site and it got to the point where I didn’t even bother to email
people anymore as it simply was not worth it and never worked. Worst still, many were claiming it as their
own work and some even asked for Paypal donations in order to keep the site
going, this angered me because I did not start the site for profit, I started
it to help. Thank you
if you pointed me to any of these sites and if you corrected people on forums
by letting them know where the original came from (something I saw on more than
one occasion). If you are one of the sites who used the list but asked in
advance, I've nothing against you and some of the work I've seen by these people
have been excellent.
Over the Christmas period 2004 I
got backlogged with submission emails, a lot of emails. Typically I would get up to a couple of
hundred emails a day with submissions and I did my best to get each one up as
fast as possible, but after taking a few days off over Christmas and New Years,
the backlog was immense. Even though I
had offers to help, I did not want to delegate the list any of the people who
offered simply because I did not know any of them. If you did offer to help, thank you anyway. After the massive backlog, going through the
list to update it became a huge chore and so I stopped for a bit, which
happened to turn in to never updating it again unfortunately.
If you contributed to the list then
thank you for your contribution and I hope I managed to get your name on the
credits page while the site was still up, if I missed then sorry but I did my
best to make sure each and every contributor was credited.
If you came here looking for the
list then apologies for it not being here, but there is a good
alternative list around, I won’t specify the
address but it’s the one I use.
Hope I managed to help a lot of
people, thanks for all the kind words I have received in email, if I didn’t respond
then know that I did read your message, but the volume of emails I received
made responding to each one was very time consuming.
Again, thanks all,