games

I've heard free to play games don't need PS+ so this game seems to be paid and thus dead on release

this is kinda big news

biggest game file format decrypting website/forum is going down

say goodbye to OST rips as fast and etc.

I wasn't following closely, but isn't xentax pretty niche?

its niche but its the biggest place for that

lol

argubly ripping video game OSTs, models and etc.

is pretty niche

no, but even within the scene

zenhax is dead

spooky

like dead dead

so its just xentax now

which is also dead

zenhax was the forum/site ran by the quickbms guy, the tool used to open like 80% of games nowadays

and it had a market place where you could bid for people to make tools

to open/work with older or niche games

thats dead

I saw a write-up from months ago about why xentax didn't matter

and now xentax is dying

when the admin put up his first whiny post

well

about wanting to sell or w/e

the bigger issue is more all the random tools

that are just emebds

in forum posts

that have zero backups

ok, that is fair

the number of times some archaic tool, that's just uploaded to an old forum, saves my ass

is very high

there's actual thousands of these

i have the ones that matter to me

but its pretty bad to lose tools and impotant documentation

the issue I have is, there are ways to centrally archive stuff like this, (or just keep hosting the forum read-only

but people seem only interested in making their own backup cluster hoard

if they make it read only + keep the embeds id be ok with it

because people will just... find a new site i guess

or use discord

issue with discord is that people do NOT know how to search which is really fucking weird

i think its because making a new forum post/thread gives people anxiety, so they search first

Discord is fucking terrible for public things

but discord its so easy to just

type "HEY HOW DO I DO THIS"

you have to have way too much structure to make a discord usable, which then makes it not a discord

because basic things like capturing and moving posts between channels, or having archive threads that are able to be used

is just not there

discord is adding a forum feature but

its really bad rn

I saw

its basically just a channel thats ONLY threads

I've seen some games with some early version of that in-use

and it can work maybe

discord should just bake in an actual forum feature

thatd be cool

not like half baked threads inside threads

but full on forums in client

would be interesting

but basic ass php forums

are the gold standard

and always will be

i like my php forums

i still use 2

discord should just remeake php forums

I'm ok with media wikis too, but people ahve forgotten how to use talk pages

unironically would be good

because wikipedia is shit now

and no one grew up editing it

luigi is dead too

rip

game ripping also is just not as popular anymore since games often release their OSTs, or almost always have localizations

etc.

so its just model fags and dataminers looking for leftover goodies, and sometimes ost

this was the post

I said the same thing when the poast guy was whining about not getting donations

it's not materially expensive to serve the bandwidth necessary for a site like this, and if $200/year or whatever the grand sum of costs are to him is unsustainable, I don't know why he doesn't jsut pass it off to someone interested in the scene

even if it's just a read-only mirror