The new HBGames Archive Board

[DerVVulfman]

Dear friends.

As those that have visited our site in the past week may be aware, a long-running indie game forum in the RPGMaker community had closed.  HBGames, formerly RMXP.Org, has been in existence for nearly twenty years.  And with that, twenty years worth of content that would vanish if efforts were not taken.

Ergo, the HBGames Archive has been created.

With a near manic pace, the entire RPG Maker Scripts board had been searched. And what software that could be saved was recreated.  It was an incredible breakneck speed that over 800 posts were saved within one week of discovery that HBGames had vanished.

Having been a member so long ago, some of the actual demos that were lost over the years, I happened to have on my drive.  So there are some cases where Save-Point is now the exclusive site to such works.

The work is not nearly done.  Plugins, Art, and Games must be looked into soon.  And the posts have neither attribution to the original authors other than a note at the top, and the notice stating they are present for archival purposes not placed.

But honestly, the Plugins section isn't even 1/10th the size of the Scripts section, and our own DoubleX must have crafted a good many of those.

Thank you.

[CarlosDavilla]

Superb job, DerVV! Thank you.

[DerVVulfman]

Thank YOU for being a member. And for our members, an update to our Save-Point Archivist banner:


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The banner now includes HBGames along with the others already found within our Archive board.

[Ace_V]

Truly, superb job with the archiving. I already managed to use one of the scripts (the pre-title splash screens) Again, thanks for the effort to save so much content so that future RPGM enthusiasts will still have access to them!

[Remi-chan]

DerVVulfman really do be the definition of all work and no play. Crazy bastard let me in on what he was doing and my legitimate response was...

[DerVVulfman]

Well, I now have all the RPGMaker MV/MZ scripts archived.... minus all the scripts that DoubleX had already posted in our forum.

And that accounts for over 80%. Yeah, I only needed to archive 14 Plugins.

They have the "This has been archived" notification at the top. Again, attribution of the Authors and the date of creation will come later.

[DerVVulfman]

Dear Friends,

FOURTEEN seems to be a magic number, because I just recreated fourteen "Completed Projects" posts from HBGames within our new HBGames Archive board.

I work backwards, tending to try and salvage the eldest content first. However, I must report that the archive dates given by HBGames's Completed Projects stated EVERY GAME WAS A NEW GAME. Yeah, fat chance given that some were Starmage's games from 2017. Of course, the games by Starmage did not need to be recreated.

Also not needed to be fully recreated was Dark Eternal II, a game by Hazunet and Hsia Nu that also resides in our Completed Projects board. However, it did undergo some surgery as many of the image links and the download links were completely broken until now.

One game that I could not save or salvage of this run on the Complete Projects board in HBGames was a Dragonball Z Online game, the webpages directed were all corrupted.

This venture into the Complete Projects of HBGames is not done. Not even close. It took hours to go and reacquire the content, some of which required a few tricks to find alternate sites where the original posters uploaded their work. I still have roughly 9x the number of games in my sights. The question is whether they are all viable or not.

[DerVVulfman]

Well, this time I was able to salvage eighteen more games for the HBGames Archive.

It was interesting that I was able to find viable and existing mediafire links and was able to recreate the pages thanks to the Internet Archive, a fair number of those games no longer appearing in google searches and non-existent in sites such as RPGMakerWeb. And some of those, the games only existed within the Internet Archive itself. They would have literally been lost for good. Worse yet, today's venture into the Archive was slowed again by heightened bot or AI scraping activity.

Now some games found might be gems, even those of the older RPGMaker 2003 variety, utilizing live action or video as accents for story arcs. Some have unique feature scores, two of which actually point to other sites where the background music can be found. And some sequels of sorts.

Comically, one game isn't even an RPG game. Instead, it is an off-site website where you and others may yype TEXT in order to be a chef.

Insofar as the...

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... disclaimer, it appears on over half the Scripts now within the HBGames Archive.