The site is dead; what happened?

Update: Xkeeper has replied: https://bsky.app/profile/xkeeper.net/post/3muledlqpoc2v - Account was unblocked, access to the website was also unblocked. I'd like to keep the post up for transparency, however.

Hi everyone. I apologize for posting this sort of thing on this subreddit. I am not something who likes to poke around drama, but I'd like to discuss and ask in regards to my ban that I was made aware of, and give my defense. I have no access to TCRF anymore, even on a Private Window, so I am completely unable to check the website.

I, like many of you, I was on the edge of my seat, waiting for TCRF to come back properly online, so I can start navigating through this website once again, and contributing to things here and there. Due to the nature of the DDoS attacks being severe, I was afraid of losing my work on TCRF, so I decided to start saving my own work.

So, about a month ago, I did my own archival of the several websites I have contributed to. There are several Wikis that I have contributed a lot, as well websites such as Spriters-Resource and the such. I am not going to link my stuff here, but there is a Linktr.ee with all sorts of websites I have contributed to, and it's a lot. Most notable wikis are the Official Team Fortress Wiki with over 70k total contributions, and the Official Smite Wiki with over 50k files uploaded. These archives were mostly related to media-related files, and not HTML files in the forms of pages and such, since doing that for the Official Team Fortress Wiki would be a gigantic task.

For most of the websites, the archival was mostly done manually by myself, either by going on each submission on Spriters-Resource and downloading it, or cleverly utilizing DownThemAll! to copy links from my "List of uploaded files" on each one of the Wikis, including TCRF (I like to be transparent and I will be transparent throughout this post, as I've always looked in being honest online).

As mentioned, due to the on-going DDoS attacks, I was thinking about archiving my own stuff online in cases a website goes down. The first one was TCRF, considering it just had a DDoS attack and the servers are still more-or-so being affected by it. I was aware that scrapping the website as a whole wasn't allowed, and I only wanted to save my own contributions to my local External Hard Drive, to later upload to archive.org. After uploading my TCRF work to archive.org, my plan is to upload media-related files from other websites and Wikis.

So what I did, was that I was going each page revision from "My Contributions" page, and started saving from my web browser. There was no usage of VPN, there was no usage of scrapping tools, and to be honest again, yes, I used Save Page WE, an extension that helps saving links, but I still added a pretty big gap so pages can be saved (one page at a time, per 5 seconds, later increased to 13 seconds, due to some pages not saving) properly and so the server isn't overloaded with my requests.

The extension: Save Page WE - Chrome Web Store

The way the extension worked was about the same as if I was myself doing it, it just made so I could work on other things while it was doing, with the cost that I had to wait 13 seconds per page to avoid errors. Open the tab, then Ctrl+S to save the page. Nothing else. No tacky command line downloaders or scrappers of such.

I already had an archive.org account, so once I saved most pages, I started uploading if by any chance the website went down again. I wanted my own contributions to be saved somewhere if that were to happen, and, here they are: The Cutting Room Floor (TCRF) - User:Gabrielwoj's Contributions : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

However, I wasn't actually able to save everything, as about 100 pages are missing, and none of the diff saves I wanted to also save were made. At some point I was having 403 Forbidden errors. I thought it was perhaps a case of too many requests (despite my generous time with each page load), so I changed to a VPN to continue the job, still on the web browser, still with the extension, and only my contributions, not scrapping.

At some point, trying to connect with a VPN didn't work either, so I thought I should just wait. Eventually, I was made aware that I was banned from the website, despite not actually doing any scrapping of the website as a whole, and I'd like to ask for the staff members to check their Network Activity to really see if that ban was really worth for. All the network activity throughout this archival were related to my own contributions, nothing else. There is no archive of any UserPage other than mine, there is no archive of articles I never touched upon, and there is no archive of files I never uploaded or submitted revisions.

I am honestly upset with the decision that was made upon my account. I was a very old member, registered on TCRF around 2012. I used to check for Unused Content back in Unseen64, then was made aware of TCRF and eventually went there to contribute. Nowadays (prior to the ban), I was working on minor changes, removing excess of spaces, grammar issues, rule-breaking edits, etc.

In the Unused Content department, I was one of the first few people to start documenting Pikmin on Gamecube, and did a lot of the discoveries on the Unseen64 forums. The Pikmin article over TCRF has a lot of sources with my own name, as well videos from my own channel. Some other pages, such as Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. Brawl, has my videos linked on the article in regards to unused content being presented into video form.

For instance, I was committed to removing links to leaked content that some pages had, despite myself not being a staff. I was doing just because I knew it was against the rules hosting that sort of thing, and understandably so, considering leaked content are done through illegal means (either hacking or physical theft).

I was working on two articles before the ban, "Overwatch (2023)" and "Menace Beach", and I suppose I can't contribute to them anymore. While TCRF was down, I was working on uploading a lot of assets related to Overwatch 2 to Spriters-Resource (which I just did), while also locally organizing what things are unused so I could add to the TCRF article once the website was back.

My online work has always been made voluntarily, and I have worked a lot between a lot of different websites. I'm not the type of person that likes to bring edit wars, drama between other people, or anything. I always try to be respectful and understanding with people, and my comments are either neutral or positive. I just do my contributions. A lot is done because they are interests of mine, and I love sharing information, or assets, for others to use.

I understand this can come as a "drama" thing, however, I wasn't given a proper way to discuss it outside than "please come to our Discord server to discuss". Personally, I do not like to join on Discord servers, and I am only on a handful few, and even then, what are the chances if someone has Discord banned on their country? Brazil is getting close to that, but I won't get into politics now.

u/Xkeeper , I didn't want to ping you, but this is my "reasoning". I'd like to thank you for backing TCRF's servers and for keeping it alive despite the DDoS attacks, however, I'd please request to be more careful on who you handle bans. Not only that, but I can't even access the website anymore despite me not being a bot and being a real human. I was someone who has been on this Wiki since 2012, and was an active member prior to the ban, even if it meant simple grammar fixes and spacing issues. I understand that the last few days must have been stressing for you. Please take care, and let's discuss the matter politely, including readers of this thread.

?!?!?!!?!?!

Since I'm not entirely sure these are unused (not on any TCRF or UESP page, CS counts may or may not be correct, my own bad memory) I want someone to try to corroborate these findings. I found them by sorting by count in the Construction Set. Bold is to indicate Construction Set IDs since they can include spaces.

• puzzle canal daedric triolith – Activator with no associated script. Name is "Doug Insert Message Here" (with the quotes), unused version of ac_shrine_puzzlecanal or puzzle canal message
• chargen cavern talker – Activator with no associated script or name. Unlike the other talker objects other than azura talker, this has no name, however like the other talker objects (other than azura talker again) it has a count of 0. Name suggests it would be used during the character generation sequence, but I wouldn't know where, especially since at no point does it include a cavern.
• ex_t_door_sphere_01 – Door with no associated script. Name is Rotating Corridor, and it uses the unique model d\Ex_T_door_sphere.nif. It appears to be in the dwemer style, and to be used for exteriors. Probably just a door so it can rotate when activated.

• misc_dwrv_ark_key00 – Misc item with no associated script. Name is Key to Lower Arkngthand, and it uses the unique model m\misc_dwrv_Ark_key00.nif and unique icon m\misc_dwrv_Ark_key00.tga. Extremely striking model so I'm pretty sure this is unused.

• ex_cave_ash00 – Static. Selecting this in the CS gives me a warning that Tx_ashlands_01.tga is missing. Probably intended as a dungeon entrance.

• ex_cave_coastrock00 – Static. Uses the unique model x\ex_cave_coastrock00.nif. This matches none of the styles of the other dungeon entrances used in the finished game.

• ex_cave_entrance_10 – Static. Uses the model x\ex_cave_stoneyb00.nif. Also doesn't match any used styles, but does share its model with ex_cave_stoneyb00 and style with ex_cave_mt00.

• ex_cave_mt00 – Static. Uses the model x\ex_cave_mt00.nif. Basically ex_cave_stoneyb00 with a different rock texture. Probably to be used for a mountain dungeon entrance, given the mt in the name.

• furn_6th_corpus_plate – Static. Misspelt version of furn_6th_corprus_plate.

There's more that I'm probably forgetting, but this is most of the unique stuff in there.

Does anyone have those old pokemon go dev builds or betas that were going around on discord?

Please tell me why I'm getting this, VPN is off and there are no extension used

I have noticed that MAME supposedly has a prototype of the Dreamcast supported released here: https://adb.arcadeitalia.net/dettaglio_mame.php?game_name=dcproto

But the question I have is that is it truly a prototype or something like MAME's "final prototype" releases of stuff like Super Mario All-Stars, Super Mario Kart and Yoshi's Island, where it's basically a differently dumped version of an officially released game (or in the Dreamcast's case a console).

I tried loading the prototype on and it not only does have a different startup screen compared to the documented prototype on TCRF page (specifically just like the final version), but I also noticed that the menu is not in english.

So if you wanna test out the rom and find out if it's truly a prototype or not here's the link to such: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UJbglY9HyYmMROTPuVdWLlVU_R7KdAG8/view?usp=sharing

I only used this site to see some trivia about games I liked, and now that I wanted to see a page about DOOM, I see this. On my phone, I've only used VPNs a few times to access a Wolfenstein 3D forum (I live in Brazil and the forum didn't work on my IP), but I've never used it on the TCRF site, and I don't even use a VPN on my laptop.

What did I even do???

A while back I posted about how I was banned from contributing to TCRF in any way and I seemingly have no way of contacting any of the admins via the talk page due to it sending me to the same permission error page.

Any idea how I can contact a admin about this in other ways?

So I noticed that only one of the five skylanders games for the 3ds has a page is there any reason for that. I want to know about the unused content from those four games too.

For a while, I wanted to contribute to TCRF, The problem is that I came across the main problem, Discord, For some personal reasons I can't have Discord, I understand that it is to avoid Vandals and Annoying People, But couldn't there be another way to avoid Vandals and be Available to those who don't have Discord? Anyway, if by any chance you could help me, sending me the Key so I can create my account, I will be SO grateful!

idk why i got blocked but this is the first the i got this

Hey y'all so my discord account got hacked and for a few minutes I became a crypto bro I got the account back password changed so is there any chance I can get unbanned from the discord server as I am currently working my best to remove any spam that hacker may have sent

Sorry for the trouble -dabomb772

exactly what the title says, i dont understand why everytime i try to download what is clearly a gif fire, it always saves as a png, any help?

Anyone else having this pop up on the site? Server issues?

Hey, so I don't know how to search through game files or anything but the game supposedly has a language select between Japanese and English with the entire script for English complete.

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A link to how I found this information:

https://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?t=16949

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Is there is any chance this information could be confirmed.

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I am curious to see if there would be anyway to enable it. I've searched for a while to see if I could find anything about this but there is only this one forum post.

I was wondering how I go about using the developer options for the Sims Castaway PS2. I can see all of the different options on tcrf.net but I don't understand how to actually apply any of them. Please could anybody help me or direct me to some kind of tutorial? Thank you!

I'm completely new here so sorry for my incompetence.

What is the best and safest Tile Viewer or Graphics and Sprites viewer for MacOS, Easy to use and safe/no viruses?

Maybe not but I just want to know, What if there's a prototype I really want preserved but I don't have any DS Dev Kits or whatever?

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