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Most hacking groups offer web space for hosting hacks and screenshots (sometimes only hosting hacks by the group's members and hosting almost any hack), a message board, and often have an [[Internet Relay Chat|IRC]] channel. Several hacking groups have also created guides that aims to help othersbeginners get into grips with ROM hacking for the first time, such as the legendary "Rom Hacking Bible" for the [[Nintendo Entertainment System|NES]] written in the mid-to-late 1990s,<ref>{{Cite web |title=NES - Rom Hacking Bible - NES - By SeRiAlKLR - GameFAQs |url=https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/nes/916386-nes/faqs/2948 |access-date=2024-08-05 |website=gamefaqs.gamespot.com}}</ref> aswhile wellothers asare designed for learningthose that wanted to learn how to add or change things from start to finish.

There are many sites on the internet dedicated to world of ROM hacking, with each site focusing on several hacks and translations of several different games across multiple series, franchises and platforms. One of the most popular sites dedicated to ROM hacking of video games was {{Anchor|Romhacking.net}}ROMhacking.net, which first went online in late 2005. From its inception up until 2024, it served as a hub related to all things ROM hacking, hosting a repository of hacks, translations, utilities, documents, and patches for many well-known and obscure video games from the [[Third generation of video game consoles|third generation]] up to the [[Seventh generation of video game consoles|seventh generation]]. ROMhacking.com was the immediate predecessor of ROMhacking.net, which launched five years earlier in 2000 and was briefly renamed as ROMhacking.org between 2001 and 2002 before returning to its original name afterwards and then went offline in late 2004.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Legacy - ROMhacking.com/ROMhacking.org |url=https://www.romhacking.net/about/#romhackcom |website=ROMhacking.net |access-date=27 August 2024}}</ref>