Ive been meaning to post an update to this thread for a long time now, but basically as it were I had to remain quiet concerning what was going on because I wanted to see how much of a embarrassing blow could be dealt to Tobias. Because Tobias, I hold a grudge, and I will get pay back if I can, even if it takes years. You owed me, my friend Eric, the entire PCE community.
You owe big, and it is time to pay up. You didn't want to apologize about the Sapphire mess and own up to it, and you pulled this shit on Nightwolve, and you still insist on overpriced repro copies, so this is how you pay up instead.
After coming across the Tobias PCE memories in a local trade prior and getting his address and email info, I concocted a plan to see if Tobias could be tricked into sending me a package to promo, so I could double check the shipper address and actually get registered tracking so I would have legit proof of where his stuff was coming from when I handed the info over to Konami in Europe, because honestly I knew where Tobias was going with all of this, and if you are not smart enough to figure it out, I will lay it out for you, high priced Dracula X bootlegs.
I know Tobias has a snitch here, I aint gonna say names, but I can tell you I suspect its a German member who has offered Tobias stuff here prior. Due to that there was concern if I just contacted Tobias using my IRL name "Mike" that he would know or suspect who I am and the ruse would probably be up. I set up a alias email under the name of Mark Castor, contacted him concerning an imaginary fake PCE/TG booth at a current Classic Game Fest convention that was to happen this month in Texas, and he could send a couple of things for promo if he liked.
I said we would be showing a beta copy of Pit-Fighter for TG-CD of all things at this show, given to us by a prior unnamed Tengen employee, just to see if maybe he would bite, and if nothing else maybe ask me for a copy of it and give me a mailing address I could compare to the one I got from the prior trade if he didn't want to mail anything. I even created some fake Pit-Fighter footage made to look the game was playing off a cd-r on my Duo in case he asked for proof.
Amazingly I guess Germans think Pit-Fighter is so bad that he did not ask or even inquire about it AT ALL lol. But he did take the bait at a chance to show off his wares. And when I say he took the bait, I mean he really took the bait. He sent multiple copies of both the PCE and Turbo Duo Memory box sets and the RPG titles, Xak and the other one. Also copies of a caravan shooter called Force Gear and Cycho Rider. Doubles of these were given out to my friends Eric and also Herc here.
I kept in touch with him under the Mark alias and kept in friendly contact, stoked his ego on his encoder knowledge some on the iScan stuff, etc, in hopes I could get him to admit to what future titles he had planned, because I really wanted hard evidence on the whole Ys 4 thing too for Nightwolve (which ultimately Tobias never mentioned or admits to have pressed or had plans to do so. He in fact stated he planned to stop doing RPG releases and get back into the other genres.).
Ends up Tobias sends me more packages. They include the Beyond Shadowgate and Might and Magic III games along with Twin Bee One has a secret game he doesn't want mentioned until he reveals it on his website. Its so secret he wont even tell me the name of it. Any guess what it is? Yes, Dracula X. The f*cker made a boxset for Dracula X.
After his last packages arrived and I got my proof collected, I cut off any contact with him and went dark. So here we are now, its time for the convention, and good ole Tobias promoting a fake booth for his own wares at a real convention. The irony of it all.
Oh yes, and I am sure you want to see these also:
So yeah info has all been collected and will be forwarded to Konami Europe in good time.
Tobias. You pulled the Sapphire shit. You lied and cheated your way into high profits with Sapphire fakes. You came back again with more overpriced wares, not willing to even come down to reasonable repro prices. Just typical Tobias behavior, trying to milk the PCE/TG community for what its worth. You caused many including myself and people I know a large amount of stress, especially with this shit you have done to Nightwolve. You thought you were irreproachable and untouchable in all of this. Just some wanna be Victor Ireland all nice and safe hiding in Europe funding your upscaler purchases off the PCE community.
So here we are now. And the fact of the matter is if you'd come here and apologized for all the Sapphire shit you pulled on us, gave Nightwolve a fair shake instead of going behind his back and taking advantage of a situation, and you actually priced your shit according to reasonable repro value, much of this could have been avoided. You make great quality repros, but you're an self serving a$$hole, 100 percent through and through.
So yeah, you did it your way, so now I did it mine. You paid some of us back in what will now be both embarrassment and freebee merchandise, and a few of your own bucks spent to send said stuff, which I guess makes up for ripping me and Eric off on Sapphire. Konami can do what they will with said info. It will be up to them to decide what to do with you since it is Konami Europe that would be tasked with doing anything about Dracula X, etc.
GG Tobias, GG.
