A few people have wanted to know how this works: the mechanism is pretty simple. The site checks if your browser says it's coming from one of these sites. If so, you get the "AI loser" page. The link on the page strips out the "utm_source" parameter and referrer, so you only see it once.

TCRF Informalities@tcrfinformal.bsky.social · 2d ago

A bit of a more unique post: The site's ChatGPT source prevention screen!

We're rolling out a new tool to help compare images throughout the wiki! These are on limited pages currently but the selection is expanding. Shoutouts to Hawk for its work on this!

Seeing the audio for this prototype restored so quickly is incredible, amazing job

zallard1@zallard1.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I did a speedrun of Glass Joe on the newly discovered prototype of Punch Out! It doesn't play any audio though, so I ended up doing a complete restoration of the audio using very advanced tech. Please hear the tech you won't regret the tech. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9Fj...

Hey folks! We have an anonymous release today of a very early Punch-Out prototype! There's a lot to see in it (but not hear); check out the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social video here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T5A...

This Punch-Out!! Prototype is Unlike Anything We've Seen Before

YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation

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Happy Holidays! We're back to our old goofs again, this time with some silly random taglines (contributed by admin Hawk).

Today, we bring you a prototype of Mario's Picross for the Game Boy! Dated January 23rd, 1995, this build comes a few months before release and contains different puzzles, a different Super Game Boy title screen, and other graphical differences. archive.org/details/mari...

Thanks to @retropals.bsky.social, I am now aware of Home Alone 2: Kevin's Dream, an unreleased Game Boy game which features some kind of nightmarish creature with the heads of Harry and Marv as its final boss. And now you are too. (Screenshot from the invaluable resource that is @tcrf.net.)

🎄 Happy holidays! ❄️ Celebrate with today's not featured file, unused music from one of the BS-X magazine issues. tcrf.net/BS-X_Magazines tcrf.net/index.php?ti...

🎄 Happy holidays! ❄️ Celebrate with today's not featured file, unused music from one of the BS-X magazine issues. tcrf.net/BS-X_Magazines tcrf.net/index.php?ti...

The winter FUNraiser continues at 12pm Pacific: We're dumping a new set of mystery ROMs, live on stream! And we need your help to assemble the data! Based on the labels on these ROMs, there *will* be at least one new unpreserved game in here.

Let's Dump Mystery Prototype ROMs - Again!

YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation

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As part of our project to preserve the history of Sega Channel, we have recovered OVER 100 new Sega Channel ROMs, including the legendary lost game Garfield: Caught in the Act - The Lost Levels. Read more: gamehistory.org/segachannel/

update re: the tcrf Brawl Stars page. i replied asking for a list of what, specifically, is violating said policy.

X ΘΔ (Security Risk)@xkeeper.net · 9mo ago

full disclosure: the brawl stars tcrf article has been deleted due to a cease & desist. you can find the text of the notice on that page. i've reached out in hopes a human might see this and move to retract it, but in the mean time, RIP

STOP THE PRESSES. The ROM for the unreleased Famicom RPG Splatter World has been released (in a thread on 4chan, of all places). I've tried it myself, and it does seem to be genuine. If it's a fake, it's a damn good one. Expect (more) coverage on West Mansion soon. @hg101.bsky.social

Time keeps flying... The Cutting Room Floor wiki turned 16 on Saturday! TCRF is a product of everyone who has contributed to it over the years. Thanks to everyone that's edited an article, donated, or just shared it with their friends. tcrf.net/The_Cutting_... bmf.rustedmagick.com/cr/cuttingro...

If you buy Midnight Landing on Arcade Archives this week, you'll receive a Biorhythm calculator at no extra cost! You can use it to measure your humors or whatever, I don't know. I'm not from the 70s. (Original find by Phil Bennett - see article for details) tcrf.net/Midnight_Lan...

We're a bit late to the party, but Data Crystal turned 20 years old last month! That's... old. DC is the sister wiki to TCRF, focused on reverse engineering, datamining, and documentation; stuff useful for ROM hacks and fan translations. datacrystal.tcrf.net/wiki/Data_Cr...

Getting into the groove of making articles again. Here's one for Strategy X, which was released on Arcade Archives a few weeks back. Includes version differences with the older Stern set, an unused enemy, and evidence for a possible older Konami set buried in Stern's version. tcrf.net/Strategy_X

If you've been sitting on something you've wanted to document, now might be a good time to finally log in and write that article. (Or at least log in.)

X ΘΔ (Security Risk)@xkeeper.net · last yr.

going to clean up unused accounts on the wiki tomorrow if you have an account and have made any edit at all, your account won't be deleted. this only affects accounts that were registered and never actually used, and only if they haven't been logged into in >180 days.

Now that Deltarune has been out for a few weeks, you might want to take a look inside the game! A big chunk of chapter 3 got cut, and there's a lot of unused sprites throughout both new chapters. tcrf.net/Deltarune

Introducing our newest collection: The Craig Stitt art and design papers! Craig Stitt was an artist and designer for Sega and Insomniac, working on games like Sonic 2, Spyro the Dragon, and Ratchet & Clank. Read more:

Introducing the Craig Stitt papers | Video Game History Foundation

Presenting our newest library collection from Sega and Insomniac artist Craig Stitt.

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Tomorrow, we're launching a new collection in the library... along with a special video episode of the Video Game History Hour! Patreon members get to watch first. www.patreon.com/posts/vghh-e...

A larger number of items from Gaelco's archives were given to us recently. Amongst them was a World Rally prototype (on Modular System) from before Carlos Sainz image was covered with a giant helmet. The development story is well known, so this is an important piece of history.

Ongoing events: Unfortunately, the website and community have been the target of an ongoing harassment campaign by the website KF. For those reasons, we've temporarily locked down invites and wiki registrations to prevent abuse and vandalism. (continued)

i love visualizations. here's a (at-the-time) live feed of requests from the wiki servers. (addt'l information in "alt text")

Happy pride month! To celebrate, the logo rotates through a few different pride flags, and the Discord server icon has been changed to be a little more colorful. Remember: Being kind costs you nothing.

For those using Discord, we (currently) have one of those fancy "server tags" you can use on your profile.

i wrote a blog post about the ongoing LLM scraper/DDoS botnet problem, so there's something a little better to read than a bunch of disjointed bsky posts blog.xkeeper.net/uncategorize...

This is a week late, but here's a TCRF article on Dead Connection that I made a few years back. Notable finds include a big debug menu, scrapped 4P support, a location test screen, hidden cameos from Zak and Mel of Pu-Li-Ru-La fame, and a mess of unused destructibles. tcrf.net/Dead_Connect...

After rigorous testing and numerous bugs squashed, user registration on romhack.ing is now open to the public. Go ahead and register on the site! To help with server costs and support site infrastructure improvements, please consider supporting us on Patreon. patreon.com/c/romhackdoting