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So it seems this thread's been making the rounds in the community, though since i'm about 90% sure everyone communicates these things via DMs none of you oh so vile nazis will notice. Ah but if you'll indulge my bit of gloating for Turkey day(while i wait for the bird to roast), lemme give you an update on Katkurin, who of course happens to run his very own discord! Though to be honest i don't have access to the server. Initially when i joined bout a month back, i was met with some verification channels, with the only other instruction being "Just read the rules lmao" but the the rules are:
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Lots of frivolous things written by someone who has their head up their ass. Maybe it's in there somewhere but i'm not going to bother. Didn't need to either thankfully, since i had someone in their circle of friends help me out! They'll remain anonymous of course for obvious reasons but thank you so very much for that archive of their server.

but what makes this shithole worth talking about? Well there's a ton of unrelated sonicfag drama in here by nature of what this insufferable idiot is, but unlike the "battle hardened" TCRF admins who've fought many ah bigot in their toime and are more than likely one bad day away from slicing their wrists open, these greenhorn upstarts(who put their age in the BIO, some as young as 13 and were more than likely breaking the TOS when they joined) don't care for proper discord protocol. They advertise this server in multiple places and think it's still safe to spill their tea. As it turns out they actively hate and resent most of the people in that community. One might argue that this thread is also a form of hate mail, but the difference is night and day, one makes a case on it harboring self-admitted and convicted PEDOPHILES, as well as other riffraff, while the other is "This server is all bigots and the other all incompetent fools i see it everywhere!"
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Oh, it's no coincidence he brings up Kak by the way, he read the thread from cover to cover:
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Kat's bigot alarm is about as wacked out as an virus scanner set to maximum.
Essentially, their problem is they want the admins to take a shotgun approach to users to find the specific person leaking information out of these publicly available discord servers(protip: your server is also public if you go around advertising it in public you fucking idiot). Now every single one of you reading who isn't brain damaged can see how that would make any chat room ever a miserable place to go to and why that is such a stupid idea, but this what TCRF is doing. Their problem with THAT however is that they're not banning them the right way
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[The person being referred to at the time is a user by the name ChainSpike. I wouldn't doubt that he is a pedo, but i have no evidence and i'm reluctant to take a claim like that at face value coming from someone who's obviously not well in the head, and to be absolutely clear; i am not talking about transgenderism.]
Oh, but they made sure to correct it, and tell TCRF that he was running a grooming operation! Despite this some users in that community will swear by them as their friend.
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What a great and well adjusted, absolutely stable group of people these members are. May i remind you, at this point, that this server is supposed to be about fucking game preservation, and yet there's hardly any posts relating to that. Katkurin themselves doesn't appear to have done anything remotely related to game preservation aside from attack members of it.
Most, if not all of these users do nothing to further the hobby. They either complain:
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(Though perplexingly, it's not as if TCRF is any kinder to children...)
Act like hypocrites:
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"Don't call me a schizo you fucking spook nigge-"
(plenty of replies are truncated to keep this pic from getting any taller than is necessary, nothing however is taken out of context.)

And again, attacking members
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They are no better than what they think kiwifarms is in any respect. All in all they're just spoiled white children mad they're not being treated as an expert in the field.
 
Because autism and typically obscure, isolated communities can be a dangerous mix.
Its the same PR agency tards that ruined wikipedia and all of its offshoots.

Even if you have actual new contributions to an article like previously unseen cut enemies or unused models, it will just get deleted and your account permabanned for “trolling.”
 
Small communities either lead to competition or attention whoring. As is always my example, SMW was pretty good when people were pushing out unique ideas and new content for people to use in all these rom hacks, but it all fell apart over time when making a good game was no longer part of the site's identity, especially in the face all the internet's new favorite ways of begging for attention.
 
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Joshua / JBrickouski / MrPinball64 / Jason Harrdington
Damien / Obscure Gamers / VGPM

Pinball:
Email
jason.h.inquries@gmail.com
jasonharrdington@gmail.com

Location: Idaho[Unconfirmed]
Mountain View, CA[Unconfirmed, source is the Paypal link, he may actually live or have lived in Idaho]

Known aliases:
Jason Hardington
Joshua Brickouski
Joshua Gaming
MrPinball64
JusticePlays
JusticeScreamsYT
JonathonRox
GasterTheBlaster
Scott__Cawthon
JoshuaDoesThings
JoshuaGamingXD
Icantbelieveitsnotmike
Probably not even close to all of them, though Jbrickouski is the earliest one i've found

It’s possible his real name is Joshua, even that is doubtful. Attempting to search for a Joshua Brickouski brings up nothing concrete. His name is definitely NOT jason though, IIRC, that is the name of a friend of his that he threw under the bus.

Socials(Pinball):
https://www.furaffinity.net/user/MrPinball64 (Archive)
https://archive.org/details/@mrpinball64
https://bandcamp.com/MrPinball64 (Archive)
https://twitter.com/JHardington (Dead, not big surprise)
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198290477546 (Notice it’s been banned on steamrep lol)
https://github.com/MrPinball64 (Archive)
https://twitter.com/JBrickouski (Deleted)
https://www.fiverr.com/aguywhodoesit/play-team-fortress-2-with-you-and-i-will-use-any-class (Archive)
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/MrPinball64 (Archive)
https://mcuuid.net/?q=MrPinball64 (Archive)
https://www.reddit.com/user/MrPinball64(wiped and no archive exists)

Socials(Damien):
https://twitter.com/VGPMuseum (Archive)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC428DL0RYnKvWGv2lmZfylg (Archive)
https://vgpm.org/ (Archive)
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(Archive)

Been awhile, hasn't it? During the Pokémon leaks of 2020 and well into 2021, everyone was captivated by dead Super Nintendo back up tapes and games like Home Alone 2: Kevin's Dream finally leaking to the masses, but in the background another drama was taking shape.
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To start, MrPinball64 was at one point a fairly well respected member of the community, as you can see above, he apparently used to be a big deal in that hive of autism. He claimed to be a British man by the name Jason Harrdington. This was, in fact, a bold faced lie.
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You'll find deception is his bread and butter. He's not a very sharp individual however, as shown by him getting tricked by a fake prototype:
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Mr. Pinball 64 owns or claims to own a TON of assets, though would sometimes try to walk it back if it caught too much attention. Despite being a prolific liar, however, it’s not all bullshit. These claims range from him having access to everything from complete shovelware(a series of developer HDDs from the publisher of infamously bad games like Gingerbread Man on the Wii), to Sonic Adventure 1 source code
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Above is the walkback, below, however...
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supposedly he destroyed in a fit of monkey rage(this especially he will categorically deny). Notice he's calling himself a SEGA employee, a big habit of his:
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(Source to this is one of those secret vidama gaim chat servers i always bring up)
He's also claimed to have been with Nintendo, THQ, UbiBugisoft, and possibly more. Wow, what a career right? Well, the reality of it is:
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Pinball is either involved in or knows people who are involved in multiple breeches, which means he gets things. Things such as:

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Rayman on the 32x
Spider-Man 4 on the wii
and more you'll be seeing later on.

The Great Internet Slapfight of ‘20:
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But i'm getting ahead of myself here, lets head back to 2020 when Damien, the original owner of the website Obscure Gamers, made a post on his blog. Obscure Gamers itself was built from the ashes of Assembler Games, another instrumental website in the game preservation community. It also had its own fair share of drama, including the creator buying a ton of acclaim stuff at auction and then sitting on it, doing nothing, then ending it all by sacking all the moderation, closing registration and just leaving it to rot when people started to question him, but I digress. The two part post, "Exposing a fraud" and "The Bullshit Saga, part 2" lays it all out perfectly:
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Tonight I spotted him exposing stuff that wasn’t mine, While casually lurking on someones account as they’re thick and left their logins public. See, doing a jason is fun, and on top of that he was bragging about working at Ubisoft and had played “RayMan 4” which was cancelled. The person that has it never shared it and the build simply does not work. Jason/Joshua’s goal is to harass you to death until you give up. He’s done it to least 10 people. Ironically, Even offline collectors made mentions of him harassing none stop for stuff when they met up with me last month. Can it get worse? yes.

Jason is known to jack/hijack peoples accounts. Yup, he even admitted to this. Worse still, he admitted not once, but twice trying to hack me for data. Then trying to claim I hacked him, which has been proven false countless times. Or worse, hacking Ubisoft and stealing WATCH_DOGS source code.

A friend of mine wanted to talk, I sent Jason an invite, he refused to send the person as he said stuff he didn’t want them to see.
Jason cries about hoarders, but having been a child at the time it is impossible he could have worked on Sonic 06.
Yes, Jason, sorry.. Joshua has Sonic Adventure Source, Shadow the Hedgehog Source, Sonic 06, Sonic Unleashed when you asked how much to buy he’d claim he couldn’t as SEGA said no.
One night he smashed one of the HDD’s on live chat against a desk, you could hear the disk scream when he tried it after.
This is a list of everything,
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There’s much more proof, and others have been sent further information that was sent to me. do not trust Jason/Joshua, if you have something he wants he’ll claim the devs want it and he’s talking to them, he’ll claim the moons made of cheese and literally anything to sucker you out of stuff. Soon as you ask in return he’ll refuse “dev said no” “they said no” it’s happened every time. I have hundreds of screenshots sitting here but I cannot post as it’d expose people who sent them.
(Notice a "Rayman 4" has since actually leaked.)

Damien is a strange case, he has been accused of doxxing, leaking passwords, you know that sort of thing. And apparently being a straight up schizo, shutting down sites and claiming he's leaving the community FOREVER!!!! for a day, but for what it's worth, he's been 100% right about this. Pinball even admits as much himself:
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These people are truly meant for each other, especially since Pinball may or may not be gay.

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Anyways, somewhere in between this, a zipped, password protected file to the unreleased 360 game Goldeneye 007 was leaked onto the internet. The password, set by pinball, had such an absurdly long string that it was theorized that anything below a quantum computing couldn’t crack it. Said file was given to Damien WITHOUT the password, specifically so that it did not leak.
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He would eventually give out the password, though only after ANOTHER copy of the game leaked AND a very visible public slapfight in Hidden Palace’s discord. (Not to be lazy, but there's probably no way i can fit all that here. Enclosed at the bottom is a .dht file, an archive for dicksword channels since the original spat was deleted, run it through this link.)

This eventually snowballed into a massive leak by the (at one point, legally registered)museum Obscure Gamers. Almost EVERYTHING that was given to him by Pinball, which included stuff like very early prototypes for Crysis 4, the unreleased Spider-Man 4 game that was to be based on the canceled movie and everything pictured here:
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Some of which you can see was fucking stolen from Frank Cifaldi's museum. Unfortunately, one thing Damien teased and never released was the fucking GTA V DLC.

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The one Rock* canceled because GTAO did so well. The screen cap above more or less explains why. Can’t exactly blame
them for being afraid of a company that sues open source reverse engineering projects, after all but GOD DAMN.

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These days Pinball has slowly tried to crawl out of the hole that was dug by him and Damien. To do this, he’s using a few rubes, and the hash info to some spongebob prototypes to help him soften out his image.
You'd think there'd be no conceivable way to the community, and if allowed back, but...
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he’s ever so sorry for all the things he’s done, please, won't you consider it? Oh and also ignore the hissing noises, you won't get bit.

As for Damien, after allegedly getting scammed out of a ton of 360 development kits he sold someone by the name of “Mad Modders”(Who has actually been arrested for stealing bikes), he has more or less said fuck you to the entire community, shuffled off all the prototype links to a mega address(that supposedly expired back in november of 2022) and fucked off to make his own museum, the ever original VideoGamePreservationMuseum. This particular one seems to be more in line with Borman’s Museum of Strong, not releasing anything given them. OG still exists, but only just barely. They initially tried to go 100% clean, and refused to do any game releases of their own, but that didn’t appear to last. The lack of donations sank the website, and it appears they now operate out of Discord, though i’m not entirely clear on how that works. Whether all that shovelware, unreleased games, and Aliens Colonial Marines builds they released were actually saved anywhere before takedown, who knows for sure.


Anyways, that’s probably gonna do it for now. Might be back later, might not, who knows! For now though, that’s pretty much everyone I wanted to cover in this great niche buried deep in the anals annals of video game spergery.

oh wait, have some final words of wisdom:
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Source: A thread where pinball has another slapfight with some discord troon
 

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The Ninja Warriors is a Kung-Fu Master-style beat-em-up with the three-monitor display from Darius and the most political plot in a Taito game: you control two ninja Terminators created by an anarchist terrorist organization with the mission to kill every single living human, animal, and demon (kill-em-up?) until you reach and assassinate a corrupt president of the United States! All that's missing is CNN reporting these robots' rampage as "murderous but mostly peaceful protests" and Snopes' mandatory fact-checking whenever someone denies it.

The crack about Snopes was briefly removed at one point, then re-instated in the next edit. Some TCRFers, I assume, are good people.
 
Eh, this is worth bumping the thread with. So yesterday Forest of Illusion quietly shut the fuck down and it's owner mysteriously went into DFE mode. Today, the twitter reopens and the website redirects to this curious little message...

As we reach the end of a 6-year journey dedicated to game preservation, we must regretfully announce the closure of Forest of Illusion. We've come to the decision that we can no longer keep the site running. This is for a few reasons, but is primarily due to not being able to provide the necessary time and energy needed to maintain our cherished platform. We express our sincerest gratitude to our supporters and followers. Thank you for being part of this extraordinary adventure, and thank you to all past and present patrons who helped us get to where we are.

All previous releases (along with their original documentation) can be found here via archive.org. Enjoy!
You'd think that's that, right? Well, no. It turns out they were on some discord server or another claiming something more ominous(archive)
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You might think that's just bullshit right? Well, not so fast:
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While there's isn't much on this particular user on the web, what little remains does seem to point towards a stalker. I should also point out that this person was in the middle of multiple projects before pulling this, including dumping a prototype of the original metroid for the japanese NES, as far as i'm aware, there wasn't any indications they were getting ready to shut down, at least, not just yet.
 
Eh, this is worth bumping the thread with. So yesterday Forest of Illusion quietly shut the fuck down and it's owner mysteriously went into DFE mode. Today, the twitter reopens and the website redirects to this curious little message...


You'd think that's that, right? Well, no. It turns out they were on some discord server or another claiming something more ominous(archive)
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You might think that's just bullshit right? Well, not so fast:
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While there's isn't much on this particular user on the web, what little remains does seem to point towards a stalker. I should also point out that this person was in the middle of multiple projects before pulling this, including dumping a prototype of the original metroid for the japanese NES, as far as i'm aware, there wasn't any indications they were getting ready to shut down, at least, not just yet.
Can't wait for this to become a huge shitstorm when what really happens comes out.
 
I'll get around to reading the whole thread throughout the week or so. Anyway, I seem to recall LuigiBlood got his start on YouChew (shocker, I know). There might be more worth investigating on that avenue. Anyway, it's a shame he's such an insufferably unlikable autist, since he otherwise seems dedicated to his retro hobby, which is better than nothing.
 
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