Maws

[dukeofarcadia]

I noticed Maws over at mameworld is giving me a 403 error.. has never

happened to me before.. are they down? does anyone else get this error

http://maws.mameworld.info/

This is where I get my mame info so this driving me crazy

[flocke28]

right.. Maws is currently down after a server crash from mameworld. as far as i know

[bkenobi]

I thought MAWS had been down for months. If they were actually up for a time, that would have been the news I was perplexed by!

[dukeofarcadia]

Is there any alternative website which lists which games are clones and which games are the parent files..

That's why I use Maws... does any other place list that?

[Adultery]

Caesar, Games Database just to name a couple.

[nullPointer]

Regarding MAWS, it’s not just that the server crashed. It seems that the Mameworld servers were hacked and turned into spam bots using MAWS scripts as an attack vector. Mameworld is (obviously) back, but the word on the street is that MAWS won’t be back until they can get their security issues worked out. Who knows when that might be.

A fairly thorough accounting can be found in this thread.