: This often refers to the "Trashman" dump being the preferred "clean" base for applying patches, such as for the Pokémon ROWE or other quality-of-life ROM hacks. Why is it considered "Better"?
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Within the community, many believe it's a form of self-deprecating humor. In competitive gaming slang, calling someone a "trashman" is a way of saying they lack skill—a joke maybe aimed at the person who originally uploaded the file. Others think it could be a reference to the 1990s underground comix character 'Trashman' as a cool, ironic alias. There's even a chance it came from the filenames of an early ROM distribution group that used the "TrashMan" tag. : This often refers to the "Trashman" dump