That Tobias f--k went after Xak III and SO II as pressed CD-ROM releases!

[SamIAm]

I would be stunned if Konami didn't do something about that. Castlevania is one of its biggest IPs, and it's still active. I seem to remember a period of time 10-15 years ago when Konami was trying to suppress online availability of the ISO, especially lossless rips. Seriously, that is the single most dangerous looking PCE game to bootleg.

Nice work, Professor. I hope they nail him.

God, he stole another translation, too? That's infuriating.

[BigusSchmuck]

That's above and beyond of anything I was going to do. Nightwolve will get some donations tonight for sure.

[turboswimbz]

https://www.ysutopia.net/index.php

DONATE button is down on left side if the page . 

not sure if Night doesn't have another preferred method though.

[bartre]

Dang Prof.
that's way beyond anything I think i could pull off.
kudos, chap.

KUDOS.

[seieienbu]

Well played, Prof.  Here's hoping Konami cares enough to do something about it.

[Psycho Punch]

I donated $5 to NightWolve. It's a small amount but at least it will pay him a beer or two.

[PCEngineHell]

I donated $5 to NightWolve. It's a small amount but at least it will pay him a beer or two.

Do me a favor and on the raffle you want to enter your extra entry on state you donated and want to apply it on said raffle. That will help me keep track of things on that.

[Joe Redifer]

a fake wooden stake

I bet it won't even kill real vampires.

[PCEngineHell]

Its like made of foam rubber, so you cant even use it on the homeless. He goes to the trouble of providing a wooden box, but yes, a rubber stake. Has any of the Belmonts ever even used wooden stakes in any of the games? I always thought they used daggers, axe, holy water, bible and boomerang cross thing as an optional weapon. I cant recall a wooden stake ever being used. Its just strange to me, but whatever.

[SephirothTNH]

Wasn't there a wooden stake in Castlevania II?  I think it was an event item or maybe just took up space in your inventory?  Or maybe I'm thinking about Dracula's rib.

[PCEngineHell]

Hell you'd think I would know this since I loved all the older games, SOTN and prior, and esp Castlevania 2, but I cant recall that. I planned to pick up part 2 again on Nes soon, so I will see soon enough I guess.

[Joe Redifer]

Its like made of foam rubber, so you cant even use it on the homeless.

What? Why does it even exist? It should have come with a Bible instead. That would have been hilarious. It'd be easier to get across customs than a dagger or a holy axe. And you can tie it to a rope to get the spin action to use on homeless people.

[SephirothTNH]

Found it. http://castlevania.wikia.com/wiki/Oak_Stake

It was the oak stake and you used it to destroy an orb or something in one of the mansions.  CV II was my favorite as a kid.  I played it again several years ago and couldn't help feeling that it could have been so much better.  Still love it though.

[cabbage]

I think we should plaster it all over Konami's facebook and go "WHERE CAN WE BUY THIS, KONAMI?  ITS A NEW RELEASE? WE NEED IT. THIS GUY IS SELLING IT"

*post address/etc.*

This is a good idea! Count me in

[PCEngineHell]

When you guys post on the Konami FB page please post links. I need my lulz. This may go better then me contacting Konami Europe, due to the possible exposure you guys could generate.

[BigusSchmuck]

Found it. http://castlevania.wikia.com/wiki/Oak_Stake

It was the oak stake and you used it to destroy an orb or something in one of the mansions.  CV II was my favorite as a kid.  I played it again several years ago and couldn't help feeling that it could have been so much better.  Still love it though.

I wonder how many kids try to bring stakes to school back in the day..

[PCEngineHell]

Lol man, so clueless:

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[Arkhan Asylum]

I posted to Konami's FB page, but I can't link to it.  You'll have to check it on the left side where they list that shit.


I didn't post his address yet though.  saving that for when shit hits the fan.

[csgx1]

Wow, absolutely hilarious! Well played scheme Professor.  Perfect timing with him just making the Dracula X repro.

Its like made of foam rubber, so you cant even use it on the homeless.

What? Why does it even exist? It should have come with a Bible instead. That would have been hilarious. It'd be easier to get across customs than a dagger or a holy axe. And you can tie it to a rope to get the spin action to use on homeless people.

Or maybe a tasty piece of wall meat on a bone.  A nice snack during a play-through or it could be shared with the homeless.

[Arkhan Asylum]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10100331011617398&set=o.33404976120&type=1&ref=notif&notif_t=like

Does this work?

[PCEngineHell]

Yep it shows. I can see it on the far left side of their FB page too lol!

[ClodBusted]

Prof, who is awesome?
You're awesome.

By the way, you cab double check Tobias' postal adress by feeding the web adress of his .de website into http://www.denic.de as I mentioned somewhere earlier in this thread.

[PCEngineHell]

I just did what I said I was going to do. I wanted to devalue his shit as much as possible on here if I could to get it down to a "reasonable price" or going rate anyway for sales and trades among us, and give him hell in general. Paybacks a bitch, and he had it coming long time. There is still more work to do on devaluing his stuff, but we can handle that here internally when ever the stuff pops up for sale or trade.

[Arkhan Asylum]

I really hope people start responding on the FB page.

Maybe Twatter usage is in order.

[DeshDildo]

This is great.  Epic job prof!

[SkyeWelse]

Wow Professor! I guess that's why they call you... "Professor" as you really dished out a valuable lesson here... "Tobias, open your book to 'Chapter 11'. "

I hope anyway!

I was wondering though, after reading the comments about whether Konami will do anything and I was thinking, why stop there? Create a situation where Konami can't ignore it because it's gone viral and out in the public. Right now Konami is trending pretty low, and they are an easy target to make fun of for their recent business decisions. I can't imagine they wouldn't react or try to do something if word got out that "Look how stupid they are! Konami doesn't even care about copyright issues for their own past works! Free Konami games for everyone!"

This could also be re-enforced by sending a letter to the copyright holders for all of the software titles that Tobias as released. Every last one of them. And the same letter too, which states that Tobias is profiteering off of the copyrighted works from this company, this company, this company, this one, this one too" and have that be in the same letter that you send out to each copyright holder. It might take some work tracking all that information down, but I think it would be worth it in the end.

If not only the public knows, but other companies as well, it should create an appropriate shut down hammer with Konami leading the charge.

Not sure if many of you knew this, but in the MSX communities, there was a place called Konamito, which was cited by Konami for having copyrighted material and they decided to shut down and reopen under a slightly different name and different content. There was a whole forum discussion about it here.

And then there is this too:

Metal Gear Remake gets the okay from Konami... Not!

So I think they will react accordingly, especially if there is some fuel to add to the fire. As this been sent through Twitter? I know myself and Nightwolve are on Twitter and I'd be happy to send a tweet about this. I just need to lock and load. It would be more effective if we had an official tweet setup that we could copy and paste with who we want to send it to, i.e. @konami #KonamiCopyrights, et cetera.

-Thomas

[PCEngineHell]

A new email from him:

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I had to coax him into admitting he knew by saying the convention date had changed, but at least he is confirming he has snitches here. at any rate, told him I know he is a punk and all, but least he could do is grow some balls and confront the whole thing here. But of course he wont. Fucking pussy. So, as I said in my reply, I will say again to you Tobias:

You are going to get everything you deserve, and it is for the right reason. You fucked with us with the whole Sapphire thing. Now we fuck you back. Lay back and enjoy it. I hope it hurts.

[ClodBusted]

I can't stand blink-smileys used in a converstation that should be taken seriously. They are the equivalent of saying "asshole".

[PCEngineHell]

Giving Tobias all the attention he deserves:

facebook . com/kotaku/posts/444045942387094

[Sadler]

Prediction: Konami does nothing and Tobias makes more sales due to people seeing it on Konami's facebook page. Hope I'm wrong.

[PCEngineHell]

Sadly probably right, but we will see. It's worth a shot. I mean hell, I notified them months back at their EU division and they seemed to do nothing. That Hudson stuff, Konami owns the rights to a lot of it, so they could have gone after him. Now they have been notified again via email and FB, so we will see what happens.

[esadajr]

I guess since Konami is not actively protecting their IPs, this means Iga doesn't have to settle for an "spiritual successor" to Castlevania.

[PCEngineHell]

https://pceworks.wordpress.com/2015/07/29/gems_bundle/#more-509

[Gentlegamer]

Seriously ?

[PCEngineHell]

Hey, after giving him 99 EUR, he figures your are probably going to need something to wash the cum down with after he face raped your wallet.

[SkyeWelse]

Wow, I can't believe they made an energy drink to enjoy while they laugh at Konami and all the collector's who pay top dollar for their warez in pretty packaging.

Well, your move Konami. But I guess I'll start something on Twitter to see where it goes.

-Thomas

[PCEngineHell]

Giving Tobias all the attention he deserves:

wayback://facebook/bloodstainedrotn/444057452385943
Forget Bloodstained, why buy that when you can buy this bootleg of Castlevania Dracula X? Hell, this Dracula X comes with energy drinks. Does Bloodstained include energy drinks? I think not....

[SkyeWelse]

Sent a tweet that I hope will be effective. A few RTs might help get it started if you are a Twitter user.

-Thomas

[CrackTiger]

I'm hoping that someone rips the hacked Force Gear disc and spreads it around the internets so that everyone can play it without having to wade through Tokimeki or give Tobias money.

[PCEngineHell]

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 fucking no name/unbranded, probably dangerous to consume energy drinks, and ask for $100 basically. Who the fuck would even be stupid enough to buy this?

[CrackTiger]

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 fucking no name/unbranded, probably dangerous to consume energy drinks, and ask for $100 basically. Who the fuck 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.

[elmer]

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 fucking no name/unbranded, probably dangerous to consume energy drinks, and ask for $100 basically. Who the fuck would even be stupid enough to buy this?

He's still selling the full "limited edition" boxed set ... for 219EU ... ouch!

Funny that he's dropped the translation patch ... guess that he's trying to avoid any controversy ... hahaha! 

[PCEngineHell]

Yeah I see that now. LOL at that price....

[ClodBusted]

I find it funny that a fake Drac X is supposed to cost more than a genuine one.

[NecroPhile]

Man, this shit just gets stupider and stupider. 

[PCEngineHell]

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[SignOfZeta]

It really is impressive how %100 shameless the guy is. He just keep boosting the hype on his ratchety-ass bootlegs and does not give two fucks for anything. He is absolutely unrepentant. It kinda reminds me of the GWB years when literally every single day you'd read the news and find out how some grotesque abuse of power had taken place while you were asleep but it was legit hard to stay mad at him for it because before you could even do some reading on the subject some other nasty thing would come to light. Sometimes the best way to have people forget about your past bad deeds is to just do so many more bad deeds that people can't even keep them straight.

I guess we needed a new Crazy Dion anyway, it gives people something to talk about.

[Arkhan Asylum]

I'd like to know who the rat is on the forum here.

Basically, who's the biggest cunt on this forum?

[Bernie]

I'm hoping that someone rips the hacked Force Gear disc and spreads it around the internets so that everyone can play it without having to wade through Tokimeki or give Tobias money.

That's easy enough to do.

[BigusSchmuck]

Sent a tweet that I hope will be effective. A few RTs might help get it started if you are a Twitter user.

-Thomas

Dude that cat and shaq is going to give me nightmares.