Publishers like Square Enix, Konami, and Nintendo are notoriously litigious. likely stays underground because it directly contains copyrighted pre-release material. Distributing an unreleased Xenogears disc or a Final Fantasy VII Saturn build would invite immediate legal action.
Enter the phenomenon quietly spreading through niche forums and Discord servers: .
Because it is a static mirror, it serves as a "time capsule" of the site as it existed before it originally went offline around 2018.