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Profile display name security hardening
By Romarchive Team | 2026-08-29
User profile pages now properly escape display names and descriptions, preventing HTML/script injection.
New era: iOS Classic
By Romarchive Team | 2026-08-09
A skeuomorphic iOS 6 look: glossy blue buttons, bubble wallpaper, rounded glass panels.
"Era" is now "Theme"
By Romarchive Team | 2026-08-08
The Era switch page was renamed to the Theme switch — same URL, clearer name.
New era: Xbox Original (lite)
By Romarchive Team | 2026-08-08
A lightweight green-and-black Xbox theme without glow effects — for old PCs.
Frutiger Aero becomes Windows Vista; Lite themes get their own category
By Romarchive Team | 2026-08-08
The glossy aqua theme is now branded as Windows Vista and sits with the classic OSes; all (lite) variants moved to a separate Lite variants section.
New era: Xbox Original
By Romarchive Team | 2026-08-08
The green-and-black dashboard of the original Xbox console as a new theme category: Retro consoles.
New era: Frutiger Aero (lite)
By Romarchive Team | 2026-08-08
A lightweight Frutiger Aero without heavy lens flare and glow effects — for older machines.
New eras: Old Web (Web 1.0) and Frutiger Aero
By Romarchive Team | 2026-08-08
The raw 90s homepage aesthetic and the glossy 2004-2013 aqua style arrive in the Era switch, PWA and Kiosk.
Themes renamed: Transparent Green is now Y2K Futurism
By Romarchive Team | 2026-08-08
The transparent green theme and its Lite version got proper Y2K names.
New era: Vaporwave
By Romarchive Team | 2026-08-08
Pink and cyan pastels, a neon grid horizon and a sun that never sets: the internet nostalgia aesthetic now lives on the site.
New era: Chromecore (metallic 2000s)
By Romarchive Team | 2026-08-08
A sleek chromatic-silver theme straight from the early-mid 2000s: brushed metal, CD sheen, chrome buttons.
Era switch overhaul: dedicated page with categories
By Romarchive Team | 2026-08-08
The era switcher moved to its own page with themed categories and reached the PWA and Kiosk versions.
New era: Transparent Green (90s clear plastic)
By Romarchive Team | 2026-08-08
A new Transparent Green era switch theme with the look of a clear 90s Game Boy shell.
Server finished maintenance: new faster hardware!
By sapbot | 2026-08-01
Faster downloading of games, browsing of website, and smoother playing of online games!
CowsSMP Minecraft Server, DOOM Servers, and Vote Cleanup
By Romarchive Team | 2026-07-14
New Minecraft server page, DOOM server info, and automatic old vote cleanup.
DOOM Mod Voting, API Documentation, and Re-voting
By Romarchive Team | 2026-07-14
Vote and re-vote for DOOM mods, dedicated API documentation page, and more.
July 2026 Updates — DOOM Mods, Blog, RSS, and more
By Romarchive Team | 2026-07-14
New DOOM mods page, blog with RSS feeds, account and collection support in PWA, collection visibility settings, and Matrix proxy fixes.
Welcome to Romarchive
By Romarchive Team | 2026-01-01
Welcome to the Romarchive project — a curated collection of retro gaming ROMs with a clean, old-school interface.
