So let me get this straight. This was basically a completely forgotten Japanese PC game from 1999 that nobody paid any attention to outside of obscure retro game blogs and youtube channels. Until out of nowhere in 2022 a deranged psychopath copyright troll started trying to erase any mention of it off the internet. Which some people speculate was a collector trying to drive up value, but ended up Streisanding it into getting enough attention to get an English translation 25 years later. And now finally after 4 years the copyright troll has been dealt with and it's safe to post about Cookie's Bustle again.
That's basically it, yeah.
It's safe now? What happened, did someone find and kill the faggot?
>>12452664VGHF arrested him and is currently deliberating on his punishment after he was found guilty in their tribunal.
>>12452664In all seriousness they wrote a massive article about it, it's a good read if you're interested but the gist of it is basically that these are the people who beat him.https://gamehistory.org/cookies-bustle/
>>12452617>And now finally after 4 years the copyright troll has been dealt with and it's safe to post about Cookie's Bustle again.There still seems to be a few claims flying here and there, possibly the troll doing it manually, but his main method of having a company do mass automatic bot-based takedowns was taken away from him, yeah. And his claim to ownership of the copyright has been greatly called into question for when you try to fight the takedown.
>>12452617>So let me get this straight. Posting an AI summery of a wikipedia blog will get me (You)s
>>12452825>summery
>>12452617This really is the Panchiko of /vr/
>>12453236panchiko was an obvious fake, so I'm not surprised /mu/tants fell for it
>>12452692>https://gamehistory.org/cookies-bustle/>We are skeptical that the owners of RODIK, Inc., a studio that primarily produced fortune-telling software based on traditional Japanese divination techniques, would sell their library to a borderline anonymous holding company that claims to operate in EuropeActually, some companies (most likely made up of just one guy in his bedroom) do just that, they grab everything they can get presumably for cheap to re-sell on Steam or whatever.
>>12453248What's fake about it?
>>12452664Brandon White went after people with an actual legal team, and they found out he had no proof of ownership.
>>12453371Sadly not as cut-and-dry as that.The takedowns were being sent on behalf of a company called "Graceware", which was very likely a fake company that Brandon White registered to hide behind.The company actually sending the takedowns was Ukie, who is in the business of.... using bots to scour the internet and send mass takedowns on behalf of other companies. Fuck companies like that in general though, especially ones that go well beyond abuse. They weren't sending just takedowns, they were sending strikes (A system that in and of itself is incredibly stupid these days, and YouTube is notoriously stubborn about removing strikes or changing their system) and doing absurd things that go well past DMCA abuse such as going after someone who merely said the game's name and posted a screenshot in Discord.The way Graceware was registered was through a company that has almost zero verification of ownership or identity required. Brandon basically used the seediest most broken and barely legitimate corporations possible to "register" his copyright and issue the takedowns.The VGHF gathered a mountain of evidence against Graceware that showed they very likely did not own the copyright and were flat out lying and contacted Ukie about it, who then suspended Graceware's business with them after looking into it.Graceware still exists, but it had it's main method of spamming takedowns taken away, they can still manually send takedowns and try to register with another company that would send mass takedowns, but none of them would have been as powerful as Ukie was, and would likely be harder to be approval, especially if they do even the smallest of background checks and run into this mess.Graceware likely has no claim and would likely lose if anything does go to court, though the problem is the way law works these days just the THREAT of a company suing an individual is enough to force them to do whatever they want.
Sounds niceI remember some subhuman faggot human waste piece of shit mouthbreathing cocksucker did some copyright trolling with fucking Metabots of all things and tried to shill some NFT's(of course) a few years agoWouldn't have happened if they gave us more fucking Medabots games in the west
>>12453917Imagineer let the “Medabots” copyright lapse even to they keep releasing stuff under the Medarot name. So the guy who registered it in Europe saw a chance to make money which is of course reproachable but ballsyThe Cookie faggot hasn’t even tried to make dosh, he just lives to annoy
>>12454076I think both of them should be shot desuMetaphorically speaking
>>12454076You are thinking of Trademarks. Copyrights have a set time, they don't "lapse" nor can they be renewed. Outside of the copyright running out from the absurdly exaggerated long time they last thanks to Disney, they can only be given up if the rights holder decides to, which has happened about as often as a bigfoot photo not being fake.
>>12454076According to the article he was also fraudulently trying to sell merchandise.
Where do I get the game though, all the abandonware sites don't have it because of Brandon and I don't like using torrents.
>>12453248Feels like way too long of a con to be worth it, doesn't make sense.
>>12454458Myrient has it, but you better hurry. Also you will have to find the patch elsewhere.
>>12454615Oh, the patch I already have. Thank you.
>>12454616Are you talking about the fan translation patch or the official patch? Just wanted to clarify which one I was talking about.There was an official patch released for it, listed as version 1.02And there is a fan patch to add an English translation, which is version 1.2You will also need a serial key, should be easy to find a list of them.
>>12454610Yeah, development builds of notable, decades old games have been found in hodgepodge lots of junk or at a Goodwill, and a lost film was even found in a barn, so the idea of some random garage band's demo CD being found in a thrift store isn't hard to believe. The genre, cover art, and story of the discovery and the timing itself all just happened to coalesce in a way that made them a delayed success. Seriously, if the CD had been found 15+ years ago, I doubt anybody would've given a shit. Even if somebody had actually bought it then, they probably would've popped it into a CD player, thought "huh, that's weird," and promptly forgotten about it.
>>12454714It also isn't even the only time it happened, I remember how long it took to find who made Subways of Your Mind and that one probably had even more people trying to figure it out
>>12452828>summeryWhat about your shitpost wasn't summery?What about your copepost wasn't summery?
>>12454806Holy ESL damage control
>>12454809Perhaps he meant it like it was written in a warm, cheerful way, akin to a pleasantly warm summer afternoon.
>>12454714>The genre, cover art, and story of the discovery and the timing itself all just happened to coalesce in a way that made them a delayed success90s indie musicians being inspired by anime isn't a foreign concept either, Matthew Sweet used Space Cobra clips in his music video for Girlfriend
>>12454809Holy trying way too hard to fit in sumer child
>>12456540>sumer childWhy yes, I am a descendant of Ea-Nasir. How did you know?
>>12456560give me the better copper bitch
>>12456560I can tell from some of the cope and from seeing quite a few projecting thirdies in my time.
>>12456587Good reply>>12456862Retarded reply
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I haven't heard of myrient before, went to fmhy to confirm the correct url, and it gave me a link to a rentry with text encoded in base 64. I decoded that and it gave me a link to a pastebin with text also encoded in base64. And then after I decoded that I finally got the link. So I don't need any help finding it, I'm just curious, what is the purpose of so many layers of obfuscating the link?
>>12454458There was a thread on /v/ where someone posted a catbox to a pre-installed version with the translation patch applied.https://arch.b4k.dev/v/thread/734285731/#q734320181Make sure to install the build of QuickTime that comes with it.
>>12456881>a link to a rentry with text encoded in base 64. I decoded that and it gave me a link to a pastebin with text also encoded in base64. And then after I decoded that I finally got the link.>what is the purpose of so many layers of obfuscating the link?My Anon in Christ you can literally just google "Myrient" and it would be the first result, what the fuck weirdass site did you go to that made you jump through so many hoops?
>>12457028I did go to google first and saw the link, but I've had it happen before where the site that shows up on google is a fake site, so I had to be sure. So I did the whole base64 decoding thing, only to find out it was the same link. I have no idea what that site was trying to pull, usually it just gives me the direct link.
>>12456871retarded cope
>>12457303Just leave the thread, you're embarrassing yourself at this point.
>>12453326Is not even death metal
>>12453236>anachronistic use of vaporwave design esthetics>typeface didn't exist yet when the album supposedly came out>whole story played out in highly visibility online spaces
>>12458670>anachronistic use of vaporwave design estheticsPic related came out the same year by a British band
>>12459527I meant the text styling for the title. that's 100% a vaporwave thing
>>12457305>please please leave the thread you're embarrassing me so much i can't even cope more about it in your language
>>12459538>vaporwave is when you use italicsI have no fucking clue what to even say to you.
>>12459570you know that's not what I meant.
>>12453261Nightdive, Piko Interactive, MicroProse, GOG
>>12457028>My Anon in Christ>Goofy ahh bih safe horny slangJust say NIGGER, you unbelievablely gay Twitternigger FAGGOT.
>>12460156I dislike your hostility but I also agree with you and think you're right.
>>12454458Pretty sure it's up on MyAbandonware now.It's very unlikely that Brandon White will ever be identified, but I'll break down each of the current theories.>Random Faggot CollectorAny sane person would have surely conceded and let this go by now after catching the attention of a corporate legal team with the means to potentially prosecute you if they uncover enough incriminating information. I think this is the most likely case if we ultimately never hear of them again, and for those in doubt that some chump could get away with shit like this just look at the Backyardigans pilot scandal for example, another retarded saga of lost media for actual children being held ransom by psychotic autists.>Keisuke Herigai (or any of the other original devs)This doesn't seem credible either as they surely would have spoken up to give their side of the story or gotten qualified legal counsel to fight VGHF directly by now if they genuinely wanted to stifle efforts to preserve the game.>Yusup DalmazSeems a lot more plausible because we already know he's a psychotic criminal scumbag who will go out of his way to take credit for and profit off of works he had nothing to do with, and the shady, fraudulent means by which he does it and the extreme lengths he's willing to go line-up more with that of a bad actor than a reclusive ex-developer. I think this is the most likely culprit if they attempt to keep the scheme going even after the VGHF expose.
>>12460263I don't think Yusup Dalmaz has enough self control to have not said something about this if it was him.
>>12460193You do not in fact have to agree with a buzzword-filled schizo meltdown.
>>12460156What kind of schizo retarded autistic faggot cares so much? I would but but I won't now, just to piss you off because you lost your shit over a meme phrase that I have seen used even here dozens of times anyway.If you think that is "twitter" bullshit then see what kids are actually saying, I have no idea what the fuck "skibiti rizz ohio" even means but it makes me want to jump off a building when I hear it.
>>12460308he is just having a meltdown. call him a loser faggot and move on
>>12460297>>12460308>>12460324Kill yourself, newfag.
>>12460425You are trying so hard to fit in it's sad. But you never will
>>12460425>Calling the person that has been here for years before /vr/ even existed a newfagYou realize everyone can tell you're a newfag that's trying hard to fit in, right?
>>12460265He's written entire wikis about himself.
For anyone who hasn't seen it. Yusup Dalmaz is a schizophrenic bulgarian pedophile that has spent years writing fanfiction about himself and claiming to have secretly been responsible for various obscure Japanese games he obviously had nothing to do with. Filing endless fraudulent paperwork trying to claim ownership of them and harassing the games actual creators demanding the rights to various mascot characters. As well as vandalizing dozens of wikis. In his malformed brain he either thinks he owns Cookie or is in a sexual relationship with her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7rgrATqK7E
>>12460504Reminds me of those insane people who make the "Pooh's Adventures of" (movie name) where they edit Winnie the Pooh characters into various movies to make it look like the Pooh characters are interacting with the characters in the movies, except they aren't very smart or good writers so they can't think of what to have them say so it's usually just "Hi I'm Pooh and this is Tigger and this is Piglet" and so on.
>>12460297His post is mostly cromulent: "My Brother In Christ" is that kind of extremely gay and annoying stock phrase which teenage Twitter already beat to death 6 years ago but still won't stop saying.>>12460308>>12460324Now you're even more annoying.
>>12460491That's not his argument, he's saying that it would have been clear from the get-go that it was him.
>>12460623You defend that but gloss over him randomly sperging out and saying "safe horny" for seemingly no reason, yet another phrase that twitter retards have beaten into the ground because I guess they don't like that people besides them can be horny and want to feel like special snowflakes about it. And your use of "cromulent" is cringe in its own way but I'm not even gonna waste my time getting into that.I'm relieved this board immediately pushed back on all that nonsense. Good to see /vr/ is still one of the few boards on this site that doesn't abide obnoxious election tourists trying to be as edgy as possible and saying absolutely nothing with any of their posts because they think that's how you fit in around here. Instead of, perhaps, posting about video games.
>>12460640You sound insecure.>>12460434>>12460437Samefag
>>12460640>No u>Tourist doesn't realize it's someone taking the piss out of his nu nigger ebonics
>>12460504hahaha omg VGHF defeated a retarded furry pedohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFV2c-DQtv8&t=218sanother glorious victory for Cifaldi
>>12460758What the FUCK?
>>12460675>Newfag tourist cannot comprehend he is being a spaz and just thinks everyone calling out his bullshit is a samefagJust go back already
>>12452617>protagonist gets groped by a pedophile policeman within 10 first minutes>it turns into a running joke with a lawyer npc constantly telling you to sue him and make moneyUnhinged game. They don't make them like this anymore.
>>12460951I would contend they didn't really make them like this back in its time, either. This game is just an inexplicable outlier in gaming history.
>>12460951You got to that scene in 10 minutes? I spent like 2 hours talking to all the NPCs before I saw that.
>>12463387Is that what bustling looks like
>>12464675Every day I'm bustling.
>>12452617>copyright trollWha's this?
>>12466764Basically someone who claims to be the copyright holder to get stuff taken down, usually in an attempt to make money off it. It's a headache to fight because usually it's expensive and time consuming to deal with despite being frivolous, so copyright trolls can do a lot of damage before anyone is able to stop them.
>>12466785What a faggot move. I'm surprised someone would do this for something as obscure as this game.
>>12466791>I'm surprised someone would do this for something as obscure as this game.It's basically a mix of greed and mental illness. Dudes like that go to great lenghts just so they can fap to the thought of being the only person on earth who own or even know about some rare collectors item.
>>12453236and>>12459527aren't even remotely on the same level beyond an anime girl on the cover, but go off i guess
>>12467725Either way it makes no sense for there to be some grand conspiracy, it's not like they've reaped any noticeable benefit from it.
>>12457303retarded nigger
>>12469324it's still coping!
>>12470436You have been obsessively replying to this thread with childish, off-topic bullshit for well over a week now, you are a genuinely pathetic retard and nothing you ever post will erase your shame.
