One time while scouring for information about Planetokio (a game with art by Osamu Sato), we saw a fake article on a Wikia wiki that claimed not only was there an official English translation (there wasn't.) but there was a Planetokio movie (there absolutely wasn't.) by some "Gingo Pictures". What followed was literally finding out some guy was making up his entire alternative universe with a fake megacorporation. In fairness, it actively admitted it was "fanon" on the main page of the wiki.
This MetroVG thing reminds me of that, but if the person behind it was actively malevolent.
I edit video games on Wikidata a lot (>200k edits between me and my bot), and this kind of thing always lingers in the back of my mind for data imports. Generally, I've only imported data directly from sources like Steam (since the devs themselves input the data and can generally be trusted) or just external identifiers linking Wikidata to other databases.
There are lots of interesting edge cases, especially around release dates. Prior to the late 2000s, release dates are often more like release months or years and are rarely documented in any press. Where they are documented, they can be inconsistent.
Between MobyGames and Internet Game Database, there was some sort of mass import mistake years ago that seems to have accidentally offset the release dates for many games by a month, with no clear way to reconcile the information on older games with no sources in the press.
Another interesting problem with release dates is that they differ based on timezone. If a game is developed in Japan and released at 8AM on December 16th, should the Steam page for an American viewer list it as December 15th, or should it say the 16th because that was the date in the developer's timezone? Should it default to the UTC timestamp? Should it specify an exact time, rather than a specific day?
Anyway, I've thought about this stuff a lot from my work on Wikidata and my own video game website I've built using all the data in Wikidata (vglist.co). I figured my experience might be interesting for you to read about, and it's not like there are many other people who'd be interested in the minutae of video game release dates and such :)
NeoLurk is a spiritual successor of Lurkmore, an once-popular website dedicated to modern Russian/Eastern European folklore, meme and imageboard culture. The themes on Lurkmore were often similar to Encyclopedia Dramatica, and articles themselves were edited in mocking tone, but unlike ED (essentially a troll platform) it held vast amounts of well-researched information on all the cool niche stuff , like history of Russian gaming or insights on local visual novel scene.
Lurkmore itself lost popularity over time, especially once more people started learning English and leaving runet (draconian internet censorship policies in Russia didn't help). It was discontinued entirely as a protest against war in Ukraine, with site instead leading to the homepage of "Come Back Alive", foundation to support Ukrainian army. NeoLurk was created as an archive/substitute in 2019, but it never achieved the same heights as original site due to lackluster moderation and abundance of unmonitored propaganda-filled articles.
Just think how many more bizarre rabbit holes of obscure, seemingly low-stakes lies must just be lurking out there, waiting for someone to poke just a bit too deeply. Absolutely strange story.
Thousands, if not millions. There have been more than a few articles about low-stakes lies about pieces of media being revealed, sometimes over a decade after those lies originated. Wikipedia literally has an article dedicated to articles previously on Wikipedia that have since been discovered to be completely fictitious, more than 40 of which stood unchallenged for 10-20 years.
Okay, so for some things left out of this video... This guy claimed to have, in 1996 (the year he was born), scored a game published through Pasoket, misattributed to Cybertech Custom, partially bootlegged by the Taiwanese developers Hummer Team for the Famicom as AV Bishoujo Senshi Girl Fighting, and was only released for the PC-98 on 3 1/4" floppy at a Comiket convention in 1994... Also keep in mind Infogrames never published on the PC-98 (the only two games of theirs that got ported to it were published by local Japanese companies under the direction of Atari subsidiary Arrow) because they were a French company that only started publishing without partnerships outside of western Europe in 1993. Not to mention by 1995 the PC-98 was being completely phased out in favour of the IBM PC and Windows 95, making publishing on that platform a financial loss. And he tried to lay this claim via an incomplete "remake" of a completely different game supposedly from 1995 that suddenly appeared on Gamejolt in 2019... And which is actually a Streets Of Rage mod from 2017 (via checking the files) using a well known custom engine/injector tool from 2003 called Beats Of Rage.
To anybody at all who knows oldschool shitposts, bootlegs, and ROM hacks this is absolutely screamingly lies and falsities from the get-go.
3 1/4" what? Also in 1995 the PC-98 was NOT phased out and NOT by Windows 95, which came out in 1996. The Touhou games came out until 1998 exclusively on PC-98 for example. Also Windows up to Windows 2000 were ported to the PC-98 platform. STOP TALKING NONSENSE ABOUT THE PC-98 ....goddamnit.
fucking lost it at the delivery when you said "I think I'd feel worse if he were actually real" and the way it cut into the next chapter, pure comedy. great vid
I run a small VGM channel and this guy asked me if I could credit him in my video featuring music from that Cyber Block game. It all seemed ridiculously fake from the very start, but I played along since I didn't want my channel to be Cookie Bustle'd by an obvious copyright troll. I had no clue that this rabbit hole went that deep.
One minor correction: The font in the header of the image at 11:15 is not Rabbitmapism. The "t", "f", and "r" are noticeably different.
The actual font is PizzaDude's "Arcade", which I'm honestly having trouble tracking down an original date on. Most versions of the font available out there now were updated in 2003 to clarify the license text, but the Wayback Machine shows it as being available on PizzaDude's site in 2000, and the TTF file there is dated June 2000. If it predates 2000, I can't find any record, but it may still be a possibility since some of PizzaDude's other fonts date back to 1998.
What a fascinating (and frustrating) rabbit hole of desperate deceptions this turned out to be. Excellent reporting!
If anything, this whole sordid mess proves just how frighteningly easy it can be for some random no-name grifter to spin their way into profiting off works of the past. And if there aren't enough knowledgeable individuals around to call them out on it, proving the web of lies for what it is, such callously-revised history might just be what gets remembered as definitive truth further down the line.
Truly do hope the person responsible for all of this sees proper justice enacted upon them before long, and that the original creators are rightfully vindicated. Even if the subject in question stems from a series of ultra-obscure titles released on an equally-as-obscure platform, nobody deserves to have their work co-opted by a complete and utter snake taking advantage of a perpetually-broken system.
I don't know if I'm the kind of person to feel empathy for the wellbeing of a deranged pathological liar but I do feel some sort of "concern" regarding this culprits possible futures if things turn out in the worst possible way for them.
I'm autistic and I can confirm this is the deep end of where obsessiveness can take you to. That or he's just deeply jealous of people having more talent than him.
Nice video! I've had to deal with this person before over on MobyGames (where he submitted some edits under the name Rezoul Paraast) but hadn't kept up with the most recent blow up after the fake Indian subsidiary with an address that led to a mostly empty under construction lot in New Delhi. It's just a seemingly endless series of increasingly absurd lies lol.
well. if i understood the "adult" part correctly this guy's main thing is claiming he composed the music for obscure hentai games. great hill to die on
i was caught up in a similar investigation of pathological lying a few days ago, regarding the "sines of exquisite pleasure" album that hit the algorithm. its baffling why people would do this, especially for such small entities...
about a week or so ago, an album called "modular systems" hit the youtube algorithm. it was a very eno-inspired ambient release, purportedly published on cassette in 1982. but some things just felt off about it. the audio sounded too clean for what was ostensibly a rip from tape, and the album art? it was obviously digitally made. clean fonts and jpeg artifacts and all.
that could be excused as just a reproduction of the original art, but it still felt off. i went to the discogs page for SoEP, and its bio said the tape was made by nashville native 'douglas em', who apparently became a fellow of the national endowment of the arts and taught music production at a university.
i checked the NEA list of all recipients of grants, his name was not in there. i then turned to the school, which was a religious college that closed two years ago. i emailed the head of the performing arts dept, and he said no 'douglas em' ever worked there. makes sense, as its unlikely electronic music production would be taught at a lutheran institution alongside programs specializing in faith music.
and on top of that, the guy who added this now-obviously-fake tape to discogs is already a member of a legit space rock band. so begs the question. why add fake releases like this (including one which was obviously a ripping off the packaging of free system projekt's "moyland")? for what gain?
@lempamo I suppose the added mystery of some obscure tape being uncovered would help build up some hype I guess, butI don't see the point in building up hype if the album costs $999 and the tapes are sold out. Also, I found a discussion on Discogs about the school, was that you?
I don't know why they decided to tie the backstory to a real school like that, they could've kept their thing going a lot longer if they just said "Hey, A local musician gave out copies of this album back in the 80s so I decided to release it".
No way, I stumbled across that a couple days ago and didn't even give it a second thought, just saved it to a samples playlist. Looking back at the coverart it's almost screaming at me how inauthentic it looks, wild.
in what world does yusup think he can just use zeta from project x love potion disaster and photoshop her into a sonic bootleg beat em up and be taken seriously on any wiki? the people that care enough to even check sonic wiki pages already recognize her from miles away
This is such a crazy and interesting story, good work putting this all together on a great video, and also you made a nice job with your original soundtrack.
Jesus Christ, what a story. My brain was turning to mush by the halfway point of chapter 2 If this story was told without evidence, it'd come off as the most unhinged fiction regarding VGM probably ever
This is so well done!!! :D love the work here - a lovely summary with fitting graphics, and a good work of preservation. Love the captions too as always :) !!!
The next time I have literally nothing else to do (like if I'm too ill to do anything else but not too ill to watch multiple long videos), I might try doing a triple-feature of this video, Hbomberguy's video on the bizarre history of the Roblox death-sound, and the DefunctTV documentary on the Disney Channel theme, in that order.
The Cyrillic @12:04 is romanized to "Rayts Menejment BG"/"Rights Management BG" as 'Б' romanized is actually 'B', not 'V'. However, "ВГ" would romanize as 'VG', as you can see the letters look similar to an English speaker (ВБ), so I think somebody just made a very dumb mistake. It should be "Райтс Менеджмент ВГ"/"Rayts Menejment VG".
I observed this early on when helping Pat document the situation for this video. Funny typo there, especially for someone who's (allegedly) a Bulgarian native.
In a world run by algorithms, it really is that easy to claim ownership over something, isn't it? Ya best start believing in cyberpunk dystopias, you're in one
His credits for English localization also list D.W Reed [sic]... you know the little sister from Arthur? (lol) Watching this play out on twitter was wild, I've never seen someone so committed to something so... meaningless? I don't even understand what the end game could be? An incredibly small amount of money from royalties/ adrev?
As someone familiar with intellectual property law (#notalawyer) - Russia, as well as many of the CIS and East Asian and African states are known as Copyright deadzones due to the fact that LEAs (Law Enforcement Agencies) in those jurisdictions are at best, have more important matters on their hands and won't respond or will respond with great delay (such as with actual piracy in SEA), or at worst, are outright uncooperative for the sake of dealing economic damage to their adversaries (such as in Russia and China.)
With recent events with the west and their allies vs Russia, Digital Project, and the Russian national law enforcement are probably going to rebuke Basiscape's claims. Unlike with US and EU-based intellectual property holders, you can't just file a DMCA or something equivalent as countries like Russia don't really have a system for this kind of thing, and even then, Russia has a strong history of being non-compliant with copyright-related legalities targeting Russian nationals, and I bet Bulgarian LEAs don't give much of a shit either, as eastern european states, even those in the EU, have problems with corruption - just look at Albania and Romania for examples.
The reality is, though - that Basiscape can at least file DMCA and Copyright C&D notices to companies outside of these deadzones, limiting the damage caused by these infringers, but again, this only applies to platforms distributing the copyrighted works within territories that fall under more strict and proactively enforced copyright laws.
Hiyo, wiki sysop from Sonic Retro, Sega Retro and NEC Retro here. After coming across this video thanks to another user, the MetroVG page on NEC Retro has been deleted and his "Tratata" account has been blocked. Cheers for getting the information out there.
It may also interest you to know that back in 2018 he had also used the name "soniccis96" on Sonic Retro to claim certain versions of Sonic & Knuckles Collection which had "Genesis-like music", and the MIDIOUT.DLL file (where the game's MIDI music is stored) from this supposed version was proven to be a hacked file.
I have been seeing this guy stealing stuff almost from the beggining, At first i directly commented on his old videos (Now removed) from his channel "SonicCIS96" that his music was stolen, He just replied to me either saying that i was lying or just removed my comment, I forgot about him for a moment but then since 2021 i decided to take a look at his stuff again to see if he was continuing to steal, And omfg, I really can't believe he really is just going on and on with his lie despite the people he stole from themselves denying that they worked for him, It's really crazy, But i'm glad that the truth is starting to spread, It may sound ridiculous but i was fearing that this guy was going to be succesful with everything he was doing, That was until hally tweeted about his fake uploads, That the truth was finally starting to spread. Your video was amazing and documented some stuff that i tought i was the only one to know about! (Obviously until i saw hally's tweets, Don't think that i believe myself to be a "Knower of all") (Also, Excuse my bad english)
So bizarre for anyone to die on the hill that their own fake company made all these soundtracks for these super obscure PC-98 games that has also went on for so long even the original creators of these games had to get involved, it makes you wonder just why this guy was so dedicated his fake company
By the way, SONY (Or someone trying to be) tries to claim the old doujin remixes on my channel. I contested them SIX TIMES and won all appeals. I gave credits and never joined Youtube partnership, so I guess it was just the stupid shit happening like described in this video........
Looking at this video, I realize... how that kind of the saboteur could do it. I uploaded some documents proving the rights (just fact that some fonts have been restored and relived is not a good counter evidence against it), I have proven that I am actually a composer, I've given some other proofs and this is what is actually done against me. Well, I don't think it is actually true... More like trolling attemption! What is actually (else) needed to restore my good reputation (or lower it) so no one will ever troll me?
Irsen Tanaka? She is not my identity, she is my pen girlfriend. Spotify profile? It's being lead by my own Manager, like the same profile at Apple Music etc. Smollett and Livesey are just a nicknames, like Konachan and Hirohiko Yanagi.
The comment of "totalynotalier" is sponsored by: Google Translate. Easy to write, hard to read!
But on a serious note, it's quite funny to read all of this while your only source is "trust me, it was already proven" and "i, by myself, wrote a thing somewhere some time ago that says it's not true".
Nice one with the screenshot of a doc tho, i sure didn't laugh that hard for a while! Adding a bunch of random people and J. Livesey is comedy gold.
Should've said you're a comedian instead (sure would sound more believable).
Yusup really seems like he's trying to be a dollar store knockoff of Tommy Tallarico. It's been something of a recurring problem with archiving information on obscure media that, due to some of this stuff relying on primary sources and word of mouth, and a lot of it just being regarded as unimportant it's very easy for false information to deliberately be inserted into records without being noticed. In 2014 the Daily Dot actually did an article about how a prank edit of a Wikipedia article for the Amelia Bedelia children's book series had gone unchallenged and accepted for so long that even the man who currently owns and writes the series thought it was true, which in turn prompted quite a few other instances of vandalized records about obscure media to be uncovered.
Superb video! I actually feel sorry for how fucked in the head this Dalmaz guy is. As an autistic with obsessive tendencies, he has unintentionally set an example for where I should draw the line with my train of thought. I imagine he just does all of this because copyright law is almost non-existent in an Eastern European country no ordinary person cares about. (Lack of copyright law is a good thing but it shouldn't be taken advantage of thru messy situations like this.) Or maybe he's deeply ashamed of his existence being from such a depressing ex-communist land that he created a fake past as copium. Nevertheless, I condemn this scumbag's actions.
One time while scouring for information about Planetokio (a game with art by Osamu Sato), we saw a fake article on a Wikia wiki that claimed not only was there an official English translation (there wasn't.) but there was a Planetokio movie (there absolutely wasn't.) by some "Gingo Pictures". What followed was literally finding out some guy was making up his entire alternative universe with a fake megacorporation. In fairness, it actively admitted it was "fanon" on the main page of the wiki.
55 likesThis MetroVG thing reminds me of that, but if the person behind it was actively malevolent.
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As a fellow Sato fan, thanks for bringing this to my attention, wow!
14 likesI edit video games on Wikidata a lot (>200k edits between me and my bot), and this kind of thing always lingers in the back of my mind for data imports. Generally, I've only imported data directly from sources like Steam (since the devs themselves input the data and can generally be trusted) or just external identifiers linking Wikidata to other databases.
31 likesThere are lots of interesting edge cases, especially around release dates. Prior to the late 2000s, release dates are often more like release months or years and are rarely documented in any press. Where they are documented, they can be inconsistent.
Between MobyGames and Internet Game Database, there was some sort of mass import mistake years ago that seems to have accidentally offset the release dates for many games by a month, with no clear way to reconcile the information on older games with no sources in the press.
Another interesting problem with release dates is that they differ based on timezone. If a game is developed in Japan and released at 8AM on December 16th, should the Steam page for an American viewer list it as December 15th, or should it say the 16th because that was the date in the developer's timezone? Should it default to the UTC timestamp? Should it specify an exact time, rather than a specific day?
Anyway, I've thought about this stuff a lot from my work on Wikidata and my own video game website I've built using all the data in Wikidata (vglist.co). I figured my experience might be interesting for you to read about, and it's not like there are many other people who'd be interested in the minutae of video game release dates and such :)
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even on steam devs can't be trusted I've seen many publisher's take over game pages
5 likesNeoLurk is a spiritual successor of Lurkmore, an once-popular website dedicated to modern Russian/Eastern European folklore, meme and imageboard culture. The themes on Lurkmore were often similar to Encyclopedia Dramatica, and articles themselves were edited in mocking tone, but unlike ED (essentially a troll platform) it held vast amounts of well-researched information on all the cool niche stuff , like history of Russian gaming or insights on local visual novel scene.
44 likesLurkmore itself lost popularity over time, especially once more people started learning English and leaving runet (draconian internet censorship policies in Russia didn't help). It was discontinued entirely as a protest against war in Ukraine, with site instead leading to the homepage of "Come Back Alive", foundation to support Ukrainian army. NeoLurk was created as an archive/substitute in 2019, but it never achieved the same heights as original site due to lackluster moderation and abundance of unmonitored propaganda-filled articles.
Thought this might be interesting :)
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Wow, thanks a lot for the lore here! That's helpful to know.
10 likesIs there any pristine lurkmore archive? I don't know Cyrillic, but you never know when we'll researched content is needed...
1 likethere's no way they thought they stood a chance against hally
23 likesJust think how many more bizarre rabbit holes of obscure, seemingly low-stakes lies must just be lurking out there, waiting for someone to poke just a bit too deeply. Absolutely strange story.
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human secrets are important ; don't judge too harshly
1 likeThousands, if not millions. There have been more than a few articles about low-stakes lies about pieces of media being revealed, sometimes over a decade after those lies originated. Wikipedia literally has an article dedicated to articles previously on Wikipedia that have since been discovered to be completely fictitious, more than 40 of which stood unchallenged for 10-20 years.
1 likeOkay, so for some things left out of this video... This guy claimed to have, in 1996 (the year he was born), scored a game published through Pasoket, misattributed to Cybertech Custom, partially bootlegged by the Taiwanese developers Hummer Team for the Famicom as AV Bishoujo Senshi Girl Fighting, and was only released for the PC-98 on 3 1/4" floppy at a Comiket convention in 1994... Also keep in mind Infogrames never published on the PC-98 (the only two games of theirs that got ported to it were published by local Japanese companies under the direction of Atari subsidiary Arrow) because they were a French company that only started publishing without partnerships outside of western Europe in 1993. Not to mention by 1995 the PC-98 was being completely phased out in favour of the IBM PC and Windows 95, making publishing on that platform a financial loss. And he tried to lay this claim via an incomplete "remake" of a completely different game supposedly from 1995 that suddenly appeared on Gamejolt in 2019... And which is actually a Streets Of Rage mod from 2017 (via checking the files) using a well known custom engine/injector tool from 2003 called Beats Of Rage.
9 likesTo anybody at all who knows oldschool shitposts, bootlegs, and ROM hacks this is absolutely screamingly lies and falsities from the get-go.
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3 1/4" what? Also in 1995 the PC-98 was NOT phased out and NOT by Windows 95, which came out in 1996. The Touhou games came out until 1998 exclusively on PC-98 for example. Also Windows up to Windows 2000 were ported to the PC-98 platform. STOP TALKING NONSENSE ABOUT THE PC-98 ....goddamnit.
0 likesfucking lost it at the delivery when you said "I think I'd feel worse if he were actually real" and the way it cut into the next chapter, pure comedy. great vid
13 likesI run a small VGM channel and this guy asked me if I could credit him in my video featuring music from that Cyber Block game. It all seemed ridiculously fake from the very start, but I played along since I didn't want my channel to be Cookie Bustle'd by an obvious copyright troll. I had no clue that this rabbit hole went that deep.
14 likesOne minor correction: The font in the header of the image at 11:15 is not Rabbitmapism. The "t", "f", and "r" are noticeably different.
17 likesThe actual font is PizzaDude's "Arcade", which I'm honestly having trouble tracking down an original date on. Most versions of the font available out there now were updated in 2003 to clarify the license text, but the Wayback Machine shows it as being available on PizzaDude's site in 2000, and the TTF file there is dated June 2000. If it predates 2000, I can't find any record, but it may still be a possibility since some of PizzaDude's other fonts date back to 1998.
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Thank you very much for catching that, I appreciate the research a lot too!
4 likesthis is the kind of random trivia I'm into
3 likes"when i purposely spread misinformation over the internet"
13 likes-Yusup Dalmaz
This is a wild fucking story. I don't even want to imagine how difficult it was to organize and simplify this into a video. Great vid!
9 likesThis is "Greeny Phantom" levels of lore here. Great work, Pat.
14 likesdude needs to face legal consequences
9 likesWhat a fascinating (and frustrating) rabbit hole of desperate deceptions this turned out to be. Excellent reporting!
6 likesIf anything, this whole sordid mess proves just how frighteningly easy it can be for some random no-name grifter to spin their way into profiting off works of the past. And if there aren't enough knowledgeable individuals around to call them out on it, proving the web of lies for what it is, such callously-revised history might just be what gets remembered as definitive truth further down the line.
Truly do hope the person responsible for all of this sees proper justice enacted upon them before long, and that the original creators are rightfully vindicated. Even if the subject in question stems from a series of ultra-obscure titles released on an equally-as-obscure platform, nobody deserves to have their work co-opted by a complete and utter snake taking advantage of a perpetually-broken system.
It's always fun to see liars get their comeuppance.
5 likesI don't know if I'm the kind of person to feel empathy for the wellbeing of a deranged pathological liar but I do feel some sort of "concern" regarding this culprits possible futures if things turn out in the worst possible way for them.
10 likesI doubt they have the most stable mindscape.
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I'm autistic and I can confirm this is the deep end of where obsessiveness can take you to. That or he's just deeply jealous of people having more talent than him.
8 likesIncredible work on this video, what a crazy story lol
14 likesNice video! I've had to deal with this person before over on MobyGames (where he submitted some edits under the name Rezoul Paraast) but hadn't kept up with the most recent blow up after the fake Indian subsidiary with an address that led to a mostly empty under construction lot in New Delhi. It's just a seemingly endless series of increasingly absurd lies lol.
7 likeswell. if i understood the "adult" part correctly this guy's main thing is claiming he composed the music for obscure hentai games. great hill to die on
13 likeswow. what a goddamn rabbit hole.
11 likesi was caught up in a similar investigation of pathological lying a few days ago, regarding the "sines of exquisite pleasure" album that hit the algorithm. its baffling why people would do this, especially for such small entities...
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Could you explaint he sines of exquisite pleasure thing? I'm curious.
1 like@F I J I W A T E R my pleasure.
14 likesabout a week or so ago, an album called "modular systems" hit the youtube algorithm. it was a very eno-inspired ambient release, purportedly published on cassette in 1982. but some things just felt off about it. the audio sounded too clean for what was ostensibly a rip from tape, and the album art? it was obviously digitally made. clean fonts and jpeg artifacts and all.
that could be excused as just a reproduction of the original art, but it still felt off. i went to the discogs page for SoEP, and its bio said the tape was made by nashville native 'douglas em', who apparently became a fellow of the national endowment of the arts and taught music production at a university.
i checked the NEA list of all recipients of grants, his name was not in there. i then turned to the school, which was a religious college that closed two years ago. i emailed the head of the performing arts dept, and he said no 'douglas em' ever worked there. makes sense, as its unlikely electronic music production would be taught at a lutheran institution alongside programs specializing in faith music.
and on top of that, the guy who added this now-obviously-fake tape to discogs is already a member of a legit space rock band. so begs the question. why add fake releases like this (including one which was obviously a ripping off the packaging of free system projekt's "moyland")? for what gain?
@lempamo I suppose the added mystery of some obscure tape being uncovered would help build up some hype I guess, butI don't see the point in building up hype if the album costs $999 and the tapes are sold out. Also, I found a discussion on Discogs about the school, was that you?
3 likes@F I J I W A T E R indeed it was, i was in there doing some of the investigative work
1 likeI don't know why they decided to tie the backstory to a real school like that, they could've kept their thing going a lot longer if they just said "Hey, A local musician gave out copies of this album back in the 80s so I decided to release it".
1 likeNo way, I stumbled across that a couple days ago and didn't even give it a second thought, just saved it to a samples playlist. Looking back at the coverart it's almost screaming at me how inauthentic it looks, wild.
1 like@Ecrylian Yeah, the "Scan" of the cassette's J-card with crystal-clear and perfectly-aligned text really sticks out once you notice it.
0 likesin what world does yusup think he can just use zeta from project x love potion disaster and photoshop her into a sonic bootleg beat em up and be taken seriously on any wiki? the people that care enough to even check sonic wiki pages already recognize her from miles away
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I think he's just a sore loser with more jealousy than actual creativity.
2 likesSeems like his hope was to not encounter anyone who takes the stuff that seriously.
8 likes@May Sparkle Or anyone who can easily fall for BS in general.
5 likesThe fact you namedrop the game not even the video creator dared mention... Iron Balls, dude
7 likesThis is such a crazy and interesting story, good work putting this all together on a great video, and also you made a nice job with your original soundtrack.
6 likesi don't know when patbytes' channel changed from half-life trivia to shining a spotlight on the mentally ill but i'm here for it
3 likesDidn't exactly expected you to go from smaller videos, to a miniature BobbyBroccoli-like video.
9 likesBut either way, it's a nice glow up from you.
Jesus Christ, what a story. My brain was turning to mush by the halfway point of chapter 2
3 likesIf this story was told without evidence, it'd come off as the most unhinged fiction regarding VGM probably ever
This is so well done!!! :D love the work here - a lovely summary with fitting graphics, and a good work of preservation. Love the captions too as always :) !!!
3 likesThe next time I have literally nothing else to do (like if I'm too ill to do anything else but not too ill to watch multiple long videos), I might try doing a triple-feature of this video, Hbomberguy's video on the bizarre history of the Roblox death-sound, and the DefunctTV documentary on the Disney Channel theme, in that order.
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this is actually perfect wow
4 likes11:25 made me feel like i was having an out of body experience.
5 likesThe Cyrillic @12:04 is romanized to "Rayts Menejment BG"/"Rights Management BG" as 'Б' romanized is actually 'B', not 'V'. However, "ВГ" would romanize as 'VG', as you can see the letters look similar to an English speaker (ВБ), so I think somebody just made a very dumb mistake. It should be "Райтс Менеджмент ВГ"/"Rayts Menejment VG".
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I observed this early on when helping Pat document the situation for this video. Funny typo there, especially for someone who's (allegedly) a Bulgarian native.
5 likesIn a world run by algorithms, it really is that easy to claim ownership over something, isn't it? Ya best start believing in cyberpunk dystopias, you're in one
5 likesHis credits for English localization also list D.W Reed [sic]... you know the little sister from Arthur? (lol)
9 likesWatching this play out on twitter was wild, I've never seen someone so committed to something so... meaningless?
I don't even understand what the end game could be? An incredibly small amount of money from royalties/ adrev?
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It's D. W. Read - the girlfriend of Arthur. Not D. W. Reed. But it's strange nickname, as usual.
1 likedamn this is really interesting stuff, fantastic video
3 likesi am definitely invested in this story now lol
you deserve a million subscribers!
5 likesAs someone familiar with intellectual property law (#notalawyer) - Russia, as well as many of the CIS and East Asian and African states are known as Copyright deadzones due to the fact that LEAs (Law Enforcement Agencies) in those jurisdictions are at best, have more important matters on their hands and won't respond or will respond with great delay (such as with actual piracy in SEA), or at worst, are outright uncooperative for the sake of dealing economic damage to their adversaries (such as in Russia and China.)
8 likesWith recent events with the west and their allies vs Russia, Digital Project, and the Russian national law enforcement are probably going to rebuke Basiscape's claims. Unlike with US and EU-based intellectual property holders, you can't just file a DMCA or something equivalent as countries like Russia don't really have a system for this kind of thing, and even then, Russia has a strong history of being non-compliant with copyright-related legalities targeting Russian nationals, and I bet Bulgarian LEAs don't give much of a shit either, as eastern european states, even those in the EU, have problems with corruption - just look at Albania and Romania for examples.
The reality is, though - that Basiscape can at least file DMCA and Copyright C&D notices to companies outside of these deadzones, limiting the damage caused by these infringers, but again, this only applies to platforms distributing the copyrighted works within territories that fall under more strict and proactively enforced copyright laws.
Edit: Like clockwork.. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/08/russia-considers-creating-a-list-of-unfriendly-copyright-holders-to-infringe-on/
What a clusterfuck of a rabbit hole lmao. Great run down!
2 likesthis is the natural progression of "my dad works at nintendo"
4 likesAwesome video. I hope this gains some traction!
3 likesI'm just so glad this could all unfold before Twitter dies.
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lmao, implying twitter will ever die, that's rich!
11 likesfun fact: masahara iwata composed a pingu GB game
5 likesjust thought that was interesting
I wasn't expecting Bulgarian Tommy Tallarico when I clicked on this video but, that's what I got.
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HIS MOTHER IS VERY PROUD
14 likesHiyo, wiki sysop from Sonic Retro, Sega Retro and NEC Retro here. After coming across this video thanks to another user, the MetroVG page on NEC Retro has been deleted and his "Tratata" account has been blocked. Cheers for getting the information out there.
6 likesIt may also interest you to know that back in 2018 he had also used the name "soniccis96" on Sonic Retro to claim certain versions of Sonic & Knuckles Collection which had "Genesis-like music", and the MIDIOUT.DLL file (where the game's MIDI music is stored) from this supposed version was proven to be a hacked file.
phenomenal video!
3 likesI have been seeing this guy stealing stuff almost from the beggining, At first i directly commented on his old videos (Now removed) from his channel "SonicCIS96" that his music was stolen, He just replied to me either saying that i was lying or just removed my comment, I forgot about him for a moment but then since 2021 i decided to take a look at his stuff again to see if he was continuing to steal, And omfg, I really can't believe he really is just going on and on with his lie despite the people he stole from themselves denying that they worked for him, It's really crazy, But i'm glad that the truth is starting to spread, It may sound ridiculous but i was fearing that this guy was going to be succesful with everything he was doing, That was until hally tweeted about his fake uploads, That the truth was finally starting to spread.
10 likesYour video was amazing and documented some stuff that i tought i was the only one to know about! (Obviously until i saw hally's tweets, Don't think that i believe myself to be a "Knower of all")
(Also, Excuse my bad english)
So bizarre for anyone to die on the hill that their own fake company made all these soundtracks for these super obscure PC-98 games that has also went on for so long even the original creators of these games had to get involved, it makes you wonder just why this guy was so dedicated his fake company
4 likesautomatic distribution of music and shit on the internet is out of control. these listings clog up every single website
5 likespat, this was brilliant!
2 likesThis whole thing sounds shockingly similar to what's going on with Cookie's Bustle. I'd bet money it's the same guy.
3 likesthanks for the advice, will now lie forever.
4 likesI wonder if Yusup's ever worked with the Frans Bleed Band 🙄
4 likesyou rock
3 likesWhat if this video game was a lie? You know as a tax-write-off or something hahaa!
3 likesBy the way, SONY (Or someone trying to be) tries to claim the old doujin remixes on my channel. I contested them SIX TIMES and won all appeals. I gave credits and never joined Youtube partnership, so I guess it was just the stupid shit happening like described in this video........
1 likeim too dumb to understand any of this
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some slavic rando can't stop lying about how he made music for some japanese games that no one cares about.
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2 likesthats a lie
4 likesPromosm
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1 likeLooking at this video, I realize... how that kind of the saboteur could do it.
2 likesI uploaded some documents proving the rights (just fact that some fonts have been restored and relived is not a good counter evidence against it), I have proven that I am actually a composer, I've given some other proofs and this is what is actually done against me.
Well, I don't think it is actually true... More like trolling attemption! What is actually (else) needed to restore my good reputation (or lower it) so no one will ever troll me?
Irsen Tanaka? She is not my identity, she is my pen girlfriend.
Spotify profile? It's being lead by my own Manager, like the same profile at Apple Music etc.
Smollett and Livesey are just a nicknames, like Konachan and Hirohiko Yanagi.
Again, this video is just a farce.
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How interesting. They also said that we are the subdivision of You.
3 likesGuess who else is a farce?
2 likesYou.
@Matias61, na-ah. I am NOT a farce, at all. Actually, it is just a offspring of someone's dirty minds managed to discredit my own rating place.
0 likes@ydlmz Sound I love how you're saying that you're not a farce on the comments of a video that proves that you are, indeed, a farce.
7 likes@Matias61, just sit down and shut up. This video is just a compromate. Nothing more.
1 like@ydlmz Sound Compromate? What does that mean?
6 likes@MemesCIS because you are
4 likes@Matias61, Compromate = Compromising evidence against sb or sth.
0 likes@ydlmz Sound There's no compromised evidence.. what are you talking about
7 likes@Matias61, the video is nothing but a compromate.
0 likesThe comment of "totalynotalier" is sponsored by:
4 likesGoogle Translate. Easy to write, hard to read!
But on a serious note, it's quite funny to read all of this while your only source is "trust me, it was already proven" and "i, by myself, wrote a thing somewhere some time ago that says it's not true".
Nice one with the screenshot of a doc tho, i sure didn't laugh that hard for a while!
Adding a bunch of random people and J. Livesey is comedy gold.
Should've said you're a comedian instead (sure would sound more believable).
wAIT WHAT LMAO
2 likes1:10 Uhhh... The Sharp X68000 was a full-blown COMPUTER/PC platform, not a games console. 🤷
0 likesYusup really seems like he's trying to be a dollar store knockoff of Tommy Tallarico. It's been something of a recurring problem with archiving information on obscure media that, due to some of this stuff relying on primary sources and word of mouth, and a lot of it just being regarded as unimportant it's very easy for false information to deliberately be inserted into records without being noticed. In 2014 the Daily Dot actually did an article about how a prank edit of a Wikipedia article for the Amelia Bedelia children's book series had gone unchallenged and accepted for so long that even the man who currently owns and writes the series thought it was true, which in turn prompted quite a few other instances of vandalized records about obscure media to be uncovered.
5 likesSuperb video!
2 likesI actually feel sorry for how fucked in the head this Dalmaz guy is. As an autistic with obsessive tendencies, he has unintentionally set an example for where I should draw the line with my train of thought. I imagine he just does all of this because copyright law is almost non-existent in an Eastern European country no ordinary person cares about. (Lack of copyright law is a good thing but it shouldn't be taken advantage of thru messy situations like this.) Or maybe he's deeply ashamed of his existence being from such a depressing ex-communist land that he created a fake past as copium.
Nevertheless, I condemn this scumbag's actions.
worlds smartest down syndrome
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