XeNTaX was a website with a 20-year history dedicated to reverse engineering video games. The site’s forum included a lot of technical discussion, speculation, etc that can’t be found anywhere else. The reverse engineering community already lost a similar forum, Zenhax, earlier this year.

There is a fundraiser to archive the site’s modding tools & wiki, but the forum itself will be lost once the site shutters in less than 2 weeks (in fact, it’s already privated).

Anyway, the site’s owner has been openly opposed to archival efforts. I’ve seen full, functional backups of the forum go offline after he’s requested they be taken down. He’s also floating the idea of requesting that the Internet Archive delete their copies of the site’s webpages.

This is all completely within his rights to do, and he has valid reasons for it, but still, the information contained within this forum is invaluable.

That being said, I suggest that anyone interested in video game reverse engineering try to save their own backups (from the Internet Archive) for personal use, before those are gone too.