Author Topic: That Tobias f--k went after Xak III and SO II as pressed CD-ROM releases!  (Read 36833 times)

esteban

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Just coming in to say while he's a underhanded scum f*ck, Konami kinda almost deserves it at this point, look at this...

! No longer available

RIP KONAMI, f*ck TOBIAS, ETC ETC ETC


I'll wait for the PCE port.

Then Necro and nullity will have a reason to whip out their PCE pachinko controllers.

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It's the principle, it's is not f*cking fair, that Tobias profits this big or nightwolve gets shunned for his translation.
Even if it is a slim chance at least it has been stated.

Just a minor correction, but it'd be Bonknuts, BurntLasagna, etc. on the Dracula X fan translation team, and me and my team for Xak III, plus I did actually do the script extraction for Tru way back for SO II, but yeah... No offense meant, Craig, but I have hate-obsessed hounding trolls from my Ys projects that'll claim I'm lyingly taking credit for projects I never worked on if little details like this get mixed up, so I'm made to be responsible for claims I had no part in if that makes sense to you... In other words, on 4chan or GameFAQs (or even Ancient Land of Ys), they'll say NightWolve is falsely taking credit for the Dracula X project because they saw a statement like yours! Somebody else gets something wrong, I'll get the blame for it, I have that level of hack trolls defending XSEED, lying about me, using fudged info to attack my credibility, etc.

I realize in context you mean for everybody in a fan project, but just making it more accurate since Tobias' Dracula X repro/bootleg now came up.

I guess when I get a chance I'll read Professor's whole post and comment more. But for now, just really wanted to say thanks to him for the raffle donation incentive he added to his raffles! All of a sudden I start seeing a string of donations, some of which came from a few who had just donated a little while ago, and was wondering what was going on. Nobody ever did something like that for me and the PR on my website does not help since I worked with and was surrounded by bad people and was left with bad outcomes, so my site is not, shall we say, a "happy" place like say DoxPhile and what not... ;) But yeah, I didn't really know what to say to Mike about it, it was surprising he planned all this out and did a string of raffles like that!

I've had fights here, but I've met many good people and though you mostly remember the negative, PCEFX still has something I never saw elsewhere with its raffles, a generosity that you don't see too often! By and large, there's far more positive here it's just that we tend to focus on negative and it becomes more memorable than all the boring/average ~98% positive or neutral threads on gaming, tech support, buying/selling, etc.

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This is great news! :D
one for the kids

esteban

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All of a sudden I start seeing a string of donations, some of which came from a few who had just donated a little while ago, and was wondering what was going on. Nobody ever did something like that for me and the PR on my website does not help since I worked with and was surrounded by bad people and was left with bad outcomes, so my site is not, shall we say, a "happy" place like say DoxPhile and what not... ;) But yeah, I didn't really know what to say to Mike about it, it was surprising he planned all this out and did a string of raffles like that!

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Professor is Professor: he knew that folks were intrigued by his Adventures With Tobias *and* he knew folks were drooling over the bootlegs. He was going to give away the bootlegs no matter what (he actually tried to do this once in the past, with another bootleg, but somebody got upset with him and he gave the bootleg away locally, instead...I thought that might happen again—thankfully it didn't).

*** Anyway, the supreme moment of brilliance is when Professor realized that folks would be more encouraged to "donate" if it increased odds in a raffle. ***

Nothing like a little bit of self-interest to motivate people to make a donation.  :)

I am honestly not trying to be cynical—I think many folks would have donated without any raffles—but I can't help but feel that the total sum of donations would have amounted to significantly less.

This, of course, is why we love Professor :) —he single-handedly created a "pledge drive" and knew how to nurture it, manage it, and keep inertia going.





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It's the principle, it's is not f*cking fair, that Tobias profits this big or nightwolve gets shunned for his translation.
Even if it is a slim chance at least it has been stated.

Just a minor correction, but it'd be Bonknuts, BurntLasagna, etc. on the Dracula X fan translation team, and me and my team for Xak III, plus I did actually do the script extraction for Tru way back for SO II, but yeah... No offense meant, Craig, but I have hate-obsessed hounding trolls from my Ys projects that'll claim I'm lyingly taking credit for projects I never worked on if little details like this get mixed up, so I'm made to be responsible for claims I had no part in if that makes sense to you... In other words, on 4chan or GameFAQs (or even Ancient Land of Ys), they'll say NightWolve is falsely taking credit for the Dracula X project because they saw a statement like yours! Somebody else gets something wrong, I'll get the blame for it, I have that level of hack trolls defending XSEED, lying about me, using fudged info to attack my credibility, etc.

Got ya man 100%, i was way to general in my comment i should have been specific, sorry man.
Best you do clarify but i meant well which you know.

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All of a sudden I start seeing a string of donations, some of which came from a few who had just donated a little while ago, and was wondering what was going on. Nobody ever did something like that for me and the PR on my website does not help since I worked with and was surrounded by bad people and was left with bad outcomes, so my site is not, shall we say, a "happy" place like say DoxPhile and what not... ;) But yeah, I didn't really know what to say to Mike about it, it was surprising he planned all this out and did a string of raffles like that!

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Professor is Professor: he knew that folks were intrigued by his Adventures With Tobias *and* he knew folks were drooling over the bootlegs. He was going to give away the bootlegs no matter what (he actually tried to do this once in the past, with another bootleg, but somebody got upset with him and he gave the bootleg away locally, instead...I thought that might happen again—thankfully it didn't).

*** Anyway, the supreme moment of brilliance is when Professor realized that folks would be more encouraged to "donate" if it increased odds in a raffle. ***

Nothing like a little bit of self-interest to motivate people to make a donation.  :)

I am honestly not trying to be cynical—I think many folks would have donated without any raffles—but I can't help but feel that the total sum of donations would have amounted to significantly less.

This, of course, is why we love Professor :) —he single-handedly created a "pledge drive" and knew how to nurture it, manage it, and keep inertia going.







Something like that. The initial ones I got were not a set Tobias sent to me, those were loose copies from a trade I made because the guy had Tobias mailing address included with them. I did not care for those titles much and really just wanted Tobias mailing address and the other few games I got in the trade also. The mailing address perplexed me because I thought Tobias was still moving stuff out of Sweden, at least through a proxy or something, and not Germany.

Those initial copies I offered here for trade at really low value went to a long time friend here in a small low value trade (I give and trade with friends all the time, got plenty who can vouch for that). Evidently cjameslv just felt that I should just give stuff away for free all the time to whomever or something though, even if its at my expense, because Tobias or because he gives plastic trays away all the time in private...whatever. Don't really give a flying f*ck what his reasoning was.

Basically cjameslv was having a rather stupid moment thread crapping on someone who has probably held more raffles and give aways over the years then he will ever dream of doing. So yeah, thread locked. Should be pointed out though that said thread crapper WAS NOT thread crapping over gbaplayer's high price Tobias proxy sale thread, so yeah...

I mean look, I am a fairly generous person, within reason. If I feel the need to be compensated for something I paid out for in some way, then that may just need to be how it will play out so I can feel right about it. I don't care if its a Tobias boot, a Famicom boot, a 3DO boot, or some normal non-repro copy of something.

If I have something here and I don't want it and feel like I can eat the cost and not stress over it, then cool too, which I have done often here giving away game systems and system hardware and games, or like over at Digital Press when I gave away a fully working Rastan jamma board.

If someone gives me something I don't want or need, then odds are I'm just going to flat out give it away as long as someone pays shipping also. Thats just how it is. How I handle things though, I am not going to let anyone, especially cjameslv, dictate how I do it.

Anyway, moving on, after contacting Tobias and him sending packages, my extras from him went to Herc and Quoth other then the spare Force Gear I set aside, which was CIB. I planned to raffle it for awhile now and try to work an angle that would get Nick some extra donations, but had to sit on it and wait till the Tobias stuff played out near the end of this month because it was one of the games Tobias had not sold yet on his site.

So raffling it would have tipped him off to what I was doing. Ended up with the spare Splatterhouse too to raffle, then out of nowhere Bernie sent me the extra Tobias Godzilla, Sylphia, and Renny Blaster... so yeah, 5 games to raffle, perfect timing! Bernie is a super generous guy, so people should be sending him thanks too!

It all worked out great. People win stuff, Nightwolve gets some extra donations, lulz were had at Tobias expense, and me and Quoth got some compensation back off Tobias, and Herc got an excuse to drag his Duo-R out again so he can play that TurboDuo Memories box set and those Xak and Startling Odyssey II rpgs. And mother f*cking cjameslv is still on my shit list. All's well that ends well. 


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Ha! :)
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The best, and most hilarious aspect of this for me is how he goes from the decked out full on double disc box set for Dracula X that he sent to me for free, to just a single disc thing in a case with f*cking no name/unbranded, probably dangerous to consume energy drinks, and ask for $100 basically. Who the f*ck would even be stupid enough to buy this?

The majority of "retro game collectors" unfortunately.

Companies like Konami could start making decent money off of overpriced limited edition sets of old games.


EDIT: I just got the PCEWorks email. The big box set for Drac X is also available for 220 Euros.

This is a disturbing thought that mirrored my own when I saw this linked to on another site. I will never touch this shit but I bet there are enough idiots for him to "sell out". I mean jfc just buy a REAL copy of the game for less money.

@Prof: Good shit. This thread has been pretty great since you posted about your Tobias trolling.

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Lol prof glad to see you still think of me  :oops:  i told you in the  first place and give the games away...took you long enough. Charging shipping is normal so not sure why you would think otherwise? So cry all you want about me dictating to you and you not doing it....then going ahead and doing exactly that lol. Good game!

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Holy shit this is super interesting, but it's a lot to take in. Is there a cliff's note's version?

I did notice that Drac-X thing. I actually had it shared to me, which is why I popped on the forums to see what you guys were saying about it.

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Lol prof glad to see you still think of me  :oops:  i told you in the  first place and give the games away...took you long enough. Charging shipping is normal so not sure why you would think otherwise? So cry all you want about me dictating to you and you not doing it....then going ahead and doing exactly that lol. Good game!

God you're f*cking stupid. I have stated multiple times Bernie sent me the current Godzilla, Renny, and Sylphia, and I am paying it forward by raffling them with my other two items up for raffle. Nothing from that locked thread is up for raffle right now. f*cking noobs, I swear....

I didn't do what you wanted with the games in that thread. I already had a Neutopia raffle going on, and as stated prior, really would rather been compensated for something I traded something for unless no other options were available and interest was low. I wont do anything I don't feel right about it, and I don't let f*ckwits dictate what I do with my stuff.

I give when I want, I trade when I want. When I sit around going hmmm, I should do a new trade or raffle, the name cjameslv doesn't f*cking come to mind or play a factor in any of it.

All you did was f*ck some interested parties out of it when I locked the thread prior, and you had a melt down making a mock thread and crying in FS when I told said interested parties to thank you for being a dick.

Per above, go back and read. Said games were traded away to a friend here who is a long time member, Mother Gunner, so your stupidity was his gain.

Your thread crapping only made me lock the thread, tell everyone no, and set the stuff aside until someone I knew decided they wanted it.  MG had stuff he didn't want, I had stuff I didn't want, we did a swap. In addition to that you got your self perma banned from any raffle I do, and any sales/trade threads I may hold.

I tell you what though cjameslv, since you want to see others give their games away so bad, why don't you jump in on that action do some major giving away of your own you self-righteous f*ck? And do something more then just 2 dollar soccer titles when you do. Give a few games away that actually f*cking matter, or game systems, or system add ons. Can you do that, and do it on a consistent basis? Because all I see here from you is minimal activity, a few post a month, and you trying to sell junk from your 3d printer when I do actually see you doing something more then one liner post.

I mean who the f*ck do you even think you are that you can just go around telling people they have to give their shit away just because you don't like the source of said items, when you don't do similar yourself constantly?  You have been around here less then a year and you think you carry enough weight with people here that you can go around telling others what they have to do with their stuff? Thats f*cking ridiculous. You're a f*cking nobody selling cheap junk ran off a 3d printer.

And also, where the f*ck were you during the gbaplayer thread? Oh yeah, thats right, no where. If there was a time to thread crap, that was it, but you were nowhere to be found. What the f*ck is up with that shit?

Wanna know what the really funny thing is about this though cjameslv? The fact is I dont think I can even recall you prior to that one thread. I mean seriously, thats what I mean when I say youre a nobody that doesnt carry any weight. I mean I recognize quite a few names of new people here from last year, even though I may not be friends with them. But you, yeah, got no f*cking clue where you came from.

You basically had to thread crap to get really noticed outside of your 3D printer shit. I don't know if you just wanted extra attention, or you thought you were building some kinda rep by doing that, but all it did was blow up in your face and have me take a dump on your cheap crap you sell, and you still look stupid over it. So here I am, still doing what I have been doing all these years here for this community. WTF are you doing? Selling cheap plastics and posting a few times a month, but acting like some key player in this scene, someone with weight. f*cking despicable.

I probably wont even remember who the f*ck you are by the time Sep. or Oct. rolls around, especially after you're put on ignore, something I forgot to do the other day when I started the new raffles. Thats basically the only long term way I can make sure you stay out of my raffles, since you stay so under the radar and post so little as is. I had to go back and check that original thread as is so I could copy paste your name for the post above, because I forgot what it was, and was like "who the f*ck was that guy, I forget?".

Who the f*ck is cjameslv? Nobody, that's who. GG.

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Wow, I love you too prof. This "nobody" sure has you worked up, you need to calm down man and relax. Lol your way too serious, but hey its good reads and enjoyment for the community!

As for my work towards the community: i believe my first raffle was splatterhouse then followed by many other games, created a the first write up of its kind creating a 2 port tg-16, designed some cd inserts for esteban's site, helped out quite a few with different tech issues, test over 120+ pce games to help contribute for the pce games that you dont need moon runes to play, modded alot of duos/tg-16s/even a few non obey goodies, drove 1/2 across the USA and drank margaritas with another member, sold a ton of good games for cheap until i ran out of duplicates then yeah cheapies were all that was left, and chatted up with a handful about 3d printing & design, man...

whew this list is looong! well guess main thing is im a pretty normal guy and your a f_ckin nut case so yeah, there's that BUT that is what makes our lil chats so intriguing!
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I can confirm Mike sent me the games and to my surprise, he gave me all of them which I was thankful for.  Prior to me knowing I would get all of them, I offered him free pick of a lot I had and as a friend, he could have taken the whole lot but he only wanted a couple of titles.  It goes to show he doesn't care to profit and saved me from giving Tobias any money.  To date, I have only paid for Sapphire like many of us early on and before Blue gave them away too!

Having said that, I have no beef with cjames and he's shown me nothing but respect.  We live to Obey even as Roddy Piper died today.  Moment of silence....
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Holy shit this is super interesting, but it's a lot to take in. Is there a cliff's note's version?

I did notice that Drac-X thing. I actually had it shared to me, which is why I popped on the forums to see what you guys were saying about it.

Prof tricked the German repro maker into giving him promo copies of his shit, so he could get his confirmed addy. In the process he was given drac x, which wasn't released yet.

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Damn, Roddy Piper is gone?

And I learned of it in this thread?
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