As of today, I had finished toiling away upon the second page of RPG Maker Central's Completed Games board, and was less successful than the day before. However, this likely caused by issues between both the Internet Archive and RMC which had been experiencing technical difficulties for a while. An example of such issues were than the second and third/last page of games within the board shared three threads. That is to say, page two of three displayed the titles "GloryQuest, DarkEnd and The Seventh Door" and these same topics were duplicated on the third and last page. As a result, the second page's collection held 27 game topics to examine, and not 30.
But of those 27 game topics, only 16 games were re-acquired. This time, it was more than a third of this page that was now lost.
Some of the now-vanished games were fan-games, be they My Little Pony or One Piece, some card battle games, a couple horror-survival fare, and one game that the author self-imposed an 18+ year flag. A fair number used author-hosted blog sites while others were erased by intent.
Of the content saved, a very diverse mixture was encountered. Games ranging from comic fare that challenges the Chicken to actually cross the road straight through classic RPG and horror fare into the historic based questionable character of Emperor Caligula. And do expect some indie award winners to be present.
Up is down, left is right and sideways is straight ahead. - Cord "Circle of Iron", 1978 (written by Bruce Lee and James Coburn... really...)
Yes, our site went down. To be more specific, it was down from 5:02 am to 1:41 pm. However, it was nothing serious. And as luck would have it, Kirito planned to perform a small kernel upgrade which needed the server to reboot anyway.
The issue, once seen, took less than 5 minutes.
As to what transpired, I have a suspicion which I plan to discuss with Kirito when he comes back from vacation. He will be AFK until January. But even if the incident re-occurs, no data will be lost and a reboot on his side is all that is needed to bring the forum back online. But again, I think I have a small suspicion on what the actual cause may be.
Meanwhile, I am also pleased to announce that the forum's domain has been renewed for another year.
And lastly, all the games accessible from RPG Maker Central's Completed Project's board have been processed. The final push garnered over twenty more saved indie produced games, and had lost only five in that stretch. Some games were quite wholesome, some horror-based, and a couple more were fan games. So by my calculations, the 59 game topics now saved indicates that roughly 70% of the games now remain.
But I am .... not done.
I thought I was at the final stretch when I hit [POST] upon the last game when I was gifted a new list. It was a list of games that were not within the RMC's Completed Games board, but were part of the Completed Games board from the site's earlier incarnation as RPGMakerVxAce.Net.
This new list of games from the now-lost RPG Maker indie development site is long, roughly 20% larger than RMC's game collection. And I have been going through it at warp speed, having examined fifty out of the roughly one-hundred titles. Of these I examined, twenty do have salvageable games. So by that, I expect to save 40% of the games now presented to me.
After being up till 2:30 am last night, I'm taking a break.
Up is down, left is right and sideways is straight ahead. - Cord "Circle of Iron", 1978 (written by Bruce Lee and James Coburn... really...)
(12-15-2024, 08:40 PM)DerVVulfman Wrote: I thought I was at the final stretch when I hit [POST]upon the last game when I was gifted a new list. It was a list of games that were not within the RMC's Completed Games board, but were part of the Completed Games board from the site's earlier incarnation as RPGMakerVxAce.Net.
This new list of games from the now-lost RPG Maker indie development site is long, roughly 20% larger than RMC's game collection. And I have been going through it at warp speed, having examined fifty out of the roughly one-hundred titles. Of these I examined, twenty do have salvageable games. So by that, I expect to save 40% of the games now presented to me.
Dear friends,
The time for the massive endeavor of archiving the RPG Maker Central Complete Games board is coming.
Today, I went through and examined the viable download links to over 100 games posted prior to the board's rebranding in 2017. And of those, over 50% of the content is able to be restored. In fact, I had already begun and restored over a dozen lost threads!
Actual murder mysteries, puzzle-system fan games, and even a Star Wars parody game with its title based on "Dude! Where's My Car?". And who can't enjoy a bit of mayhem playing as a little infant with a big honkin' sword going medieval on dungeon monsters?
I am taking a break from recreating any more tonight. But I have just over 40 left, and then it will be DONE!
Up is down, left is right and sideways is straight ahead. - Cord "Circle of Iron", 1978 (written by Bruce Lee and James Coburn... really...)
The entire salvageable contents of RPG Maker Central's, formerly known as RPGMakerVXAce.net, has been archived.
As of today, I restored the last of the Completed Games within the board. Fan games for Angry Birds, Pewdiepie and even Mountain Dew were restored to near-original presentation. Unexpected were finding the sequel to Dark Gaia's One Night, or even a game that garnered an officially licensed within.
But restored they are, and now available. The only thing I plan perform after this post is to update any of the RMC archive topics with the disclaimer below...
This is a locked, single-post thread from RPG Maker Central / RPG Maker VXAce. Archived here to prevent its loss.
No support is given. If you are the owner of the thread, please contact administration.
... and lock the board from even administration actions.
Up is down, left is right and sideways is straight ahead. - Cord "Circle of Iron", 1978 (written by Bruce Lee and James Coburn... really...)
I had not finished archiving all the available Completed Games at RPG Maker Central. Call me a glutton for punishment, or call me a completionist who endeavored to make available everything possible. But I decided to go through my list of RMC games missing, and I found thirteen more.
It wasn't really as difficult as I had expected, a fair number within Itch.Io site that were built by their creators. Some others found in GameJolt, also made available by their creators. And a few were found in custom websites. Only two cases, did the Internet Archive help in retrieving the actual games.
So not every game is free to play, but that is expected as others already posted within the Completed Games board have a mixture of free, set your price, and paid content.
I was a bit surprised when I found one available for the Nintendo Switch!
As to the remaining games I have not found, I am now listing those titles within the following spoiler. Do know that these are the titles to their 'topics'. so the actual game for the Love Land [Complete] topic doesn't have 'Complete' in its final product. And Japan Jubeis is actually Japan: Jubei's Vengeance (I sure hope they didn't follow those awful 1990s movies...).
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