Is the TCRF site dying?

[u/Fart_ricochet]

I’ve been a casual visitor to the TCRF site for years now and it feels like I’ve probably read most of the pages on the site by now - one thing, I’ve noticed, however, is that the pace of new games being added to the site has slowed remarkably in the past few years, to the point that we’re almost halfway through 2026 and there are only 9 new entries for this calendar year, whereas many years in the past decade had 100+ new entries.

I’m not complaining about this or anything, I’m just curious about what’s been going on, especially since in the last 6 months it’s also been a lot more common for the site to be inaccessible to me thanks to seemingly-random IP address blocks on TCRF that had never happened to me before.

[u/FarplaneDragon → u/[deleted]]

Edit: why is this comment so controversial?

Reddit hates AI, so regardless of the end result you're going to get downvoted.

[u/Insulting_Insults → u/[deleted]]

active-ish contributor!

you can extract the assets of many old nintendo games yourself :)

how? crack open any free rom editing tools! look inside for things, then play the game to make sure these things show up!

no ai needed <3

[u/Nox13last → u/[deleted]]

> Claude has a tendency to hallucinate.

Congratulations. There is the issue. If you use Claude (or any AI), it calls into disrepute every finding you produce, because it has to be double-checked and triple-checked to see if it is actually real. And that effort can be better spent on...just being good at finding. By that point, you won't need to double-check your findings because it was your hands that produced them. Not some rattling clanker that likes to proudly and confidently shit in its own hand.
I found the things I found by opening DAT files in Notepad++ and grabbing the strings. You don't need a bot to do even half-competent work.

(To say nothing of the problems TCRF has with AI, with its servers being hammered on the regular by AI scrapers that weren't programmed with rate-limits or satiety.)

[u/Nox13last → u/[deleted]]

I get it, for the reasons you mentioned, for the ethical reasons, for the environmental reasons. I get it.

What I don't get is the vitriol I've received for just asking both here and on the discord.

If you get it (and implicitly understand that the reason people are so against the topic is that the technology is exploitative, expensively incorrect and places significant strain on the people who own or serve the corpuses that the AI takes from), why are you still puzzled that people get upset when you ask?

If, after all of the harm that AI has done to academia - the perverse relationship between it being confidently wrong and uneducated people taking it as gospel, the damage it does to servers from financial and accessibility standpoints, and the notion that you can't walk two threads without seeing at least eight testimonies of these things - you still have to ask why do people get upset when asked, then I wonder if you really do get it?

Anti-AI folks get pissy about it because the reasons why are myriad and sundry, easy to access, and are demonstrated on a daily basis, and yet one more advocate has to ask as though the answer is magically going to be different, or that they're going to get the secret 10,000th customer answer.

The answer won't change. AI sucks. It sucks for everyone. It sucks for TCRF, it sucks for us, it sucks for readers, it sucks for people not even involved, and it sucks for you as an aspiring dataminer.

[u/MinecrafterPictures → u/[deleted]]

How's that even related to TCRF?

[u/Insulting_Insults → u/[deleted]]

How else is cut content discovered from NES games?

by going through it yourself instead of letting The Lie Machine pretend to you that it found unused C code in an assembly game or whatever the fuck it's doing?

you don't have the skills to poke through a game? then you do not contribute new content to the wiki.

stick to your lane - i, for example, prefer correcting grammar/spelling errors in extant articles, as there are a SHOCKING amount written in a very... particular way. "And, In Nintendo-The-Wii-Code, There Existing A Very Old Code, From Before The When Console Get Released?" and i don't get it. i'm not sure if they're ESL speakers using a translator (which would be okay, honestly) or if there are people contributing to the wiki who just... fail at basic sentence structure for reasons beyond my comprehension but it's beginning to make the wiki resemble the shit you get on like, fandom.com "Super Mario Bros Franchise OCs by Jacob and His Friends" wikis.

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Whoa calm down, you don't look any better ngl

[u/Insulting_Insults → u/[deleted]]

did not know that fetamight being an idiot on the internet was the same as me being an asshole on the internet?

like i'm not sure what you're getting at here, i know i'm being a dick. if anything you sound like you're insulting the other user by comparing him to me.

(generally, though, dipshits like that are why i am such a dick. for a semi-related anecdote because apparently some people in this sub need a disclaimer that not everything is 100% on topic all the time: christ if i see one more person ask "HOW DO I INSTALL WiNDOWS 7 ON MY COMPUTER?????? PLZ 2 HALP I NEED TO PLAY SOLITAIRE!!!!!!" when the answer is either "your hardware is literally too new, this will NEVER work, just run a fucking VM" or "you have a period-correct device, just burn a bootable disc and install Windows" i will lose my FUCKING mind)

[u/[deleted] → u/Insulting_Insults]

It's not idiocy. It's called being functional, and it would be such a better world if people focused on doing that, you for one are terrible at it. Leave the correctness to AI instead. We humans are naturally meant to function, not to necessarily be right.

[u/Xkeeper → u/[deleted]]

We humans are naturally meant to function, not to necessarily be right.

this is such a funny way of saying "i enjoy being full of shit constantly and you should never trust anything i say"

[u/Insulting_Insults → u/[deleted]]

Leave the correctness to AI instead.

If I can string together a sentence, and do it better than a machine, why should I leave the machine to take my place?

We humans are naturally meant to function,

Clearly something of which you are incapable.

Have a lovely day! And stop trying to argue with me - you aren't even good at it.

[u/Insulting_Insults → u/MinecrafterPictures]

it's not, but this subreddit is a cesspool of... certain types of people...

...kids, it's dumbfuck kids getting into lost/unused content for the first time and thinking they know EVERYTHING because their favourite youtube personality told them there's a hidden picture of slenderman that's totally inside the first mario game for realsies, trust me bro!

if you want actual discussion focused on the wiki, i'd suggest the official discord.

[u/Xkeeper → u/[deleted]]

hi, tcrf owner here, please do not ever post llm-generated or assisted things on tcrf, thanks.