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Title: How did you find GTM?
Post by: helloface on July 23, 2013, 08:07:50 PM
ResettisReplicas/Sonny_Resseti told me to go to it for some reason. I forget if he was showing me where to download the game or if he was telling me that the people in GTM could help me fix a problem.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Mr. AS on July 23, 2013, 08:09:36 PM
googled robot arena 2
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: helloface on July 23, 2013, 08:10:34 PM
Wow, you are fast.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: MassimoV on July 23, 2013, 08:21:23 PM
I saw the official forums when I was like 7 but then I lost interest for a while. I came back and googles RA2 forums and brought me here. Then I lurked for a while before making a profile.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Hydro on July 23, 2013, 08:23:19 PM
I was young and had my father buy the game for me because I didn't know it was "free" here. Then I had a problem and googled a way to fix it. Wound up here.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Sage on July 23, 2013, 09:01:01 PM
Was forced against my will to migrate from the RA2 forums
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Kossokei on July 23, 2013, 09:45:13 PM
story time

Saw a video on youtube.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Badnik96 on July 23, 2013, 10:01:40 PM
Went looking for RA2 mods and found this place.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Tweedy on July 23, 2013, 10:36:23 PM
I just found it one evening, made an account, downloaded the game and here I am now.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: 090901 on July 23, 2013, 11:10:58 PM
got ra2 in around dec 08/dec 09, built some bots, game crashed, a few months later in april 09 i reinstalled it, play for a while, in june i saw some youtube videos of DSL and wanted to know where to get, found gtm, ignored it at first since i saw the botm bot and figured you couldnt do that in ra2 (i didn't even know about other attachment points back then) then join in aug 09
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Jonzu95 on July 24, 2013, 02:45:23 AM
First time I Found video in YouTube back im 2008 December. Started playing it ever since and joined the forums on May 2009... I think it was at the same time with trumpetguy.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Philippa on July 24, 2013, 04:01:04 AM
I watched some ResettisReplicas videos, think I started to watch just after PMRW started so I watched from there. I kept watching until the end of the tourney I suggested... Oh it's been so long I cant remember what it was called, that one with the original incarnations of robots. I think I watched a little after that but my mind is foggy.

Then I bought the game, figured out what the buttons that turned into hieroglyphs were, made some robots, then tried to get some mods. I came here on a few different occasions not knowing it was the same website. Then I thought I'd hate a crack at the BOTM that was on. I'd never looked at anyone else's showcase so I didn't know the class of building. Then I did something wrong so I needed to make an account after sending in about 6 splashes.

._.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: ty4er on July 24, 2013, 04:53:32 AM
i think it was joecb's videos that first mentioned gtm to me. then i looked around for dsl and came across gtm again so then i joined.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Squirrel_Monkey on July 24, 2013, 05:51:38 AM
GK told me about it.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: martymidget on July 24, 2013, 06:46:32 AM
Some craaig fella showed me it at the end of 09, lurked for a while and made some bots, then joined.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Merrick on July 24, 2013, 07:42:18 AM
Googled 'Robot Arena 2 download'.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Chaosmancer on July 24, 2013, 08:22:49 AM
Scourge told me about it, then a few months later, I joined to showcase my sh** bots.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Scorpion on July 24, 2013, 08:58:41 AM
I can't remember, I lurked around here for about a month before joining though.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Doomkiller on July 24, 2013, 08:36:41 PM
Hmmm, mostly because of a friend that gave me RA2 (some people here may remember him, and his BOX), and the next day he had new components (mods), and I asked him where did he get them.

He said he just googled RA2 mods, and found them. So I did, and found GTM.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: R1885 on July 24, 2013, 08:49:01 PM
I was around the old official forums for months, and I jumped on the GTM band wagon when the ATARI forums went bust, then made an account.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: 123savethewhales on July 25, 2013, 02:59:15 AM
I pirated the game, then google for a forum to brag about how awesome I am.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: madman3 on July 25, 2013, 03:07:30 AM
Ressetti and Wham.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: G.K. on July 25, 2013, 03:58:12 AM
There was a link to Sonny's youtube channel in his signature on Robot Wars Wiki, I discovered the game through that. On one of his videos he chatted to GF93, asking him if he was entering 'Badnik's Replica Wars'. I googled dat and came to GTM from there. Lurked a bit, then joined up.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: GroudonRobotWars on July 25, 2013, 04:09:52 AM
When I Google searched robot arena 2 after I bought the game on Ebay back in late 2008, but I did not join the forum until 2010.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Naryar on July 25, 2013, 12:26:42 PM
Joined here from the original forums, and then proceeded to go from nobody to legend.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Jonzu95 on July 25, 2013, 01:36:52 PM
from nobody to legend.
(https://gametechmods.com/uploads/images/81121laugh.gif)
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Meganerdbomb on July 25, 2013, 06:43:59 PM
I came from the official ra2 forum after it died. Anyone with a different answer is a n00b.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: MassimoV on July 25, 2013, 08:58:46 PM
from nobody to legend.
(https://gametechmods.com/uploads/images/81121laugh.gif)
I'd like to see you do better than Naryar.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Ben Purse on July 26, 2013, 10:22:55 PM
The Robot Arena 2 wikia.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Naryar on July 27, 2013, 10:02:20 AM
from nobody to legend.
(https://gametechmods.com/uploads/images/81121laugh.gif)

Says the forum's laughingstock.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Scorpion on July 27, 2013, 10:41:09 AM
from nobody to legend.
(https://gametechmods.com/uploads/images/81121laugh.gif)

Says the forum's laughingstock.
Really, I never found Jonzu to be all that funny?
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Meganerdbomb on July 27, 2013, 11:31:04 AM
from nobody to legend.
(https://gametechmods.com/uploads/images/81121laugh.gif)

Says the forum's laughingstock.
Really, I never found Jonzu to be all that funny?
He's not funny, he's just a joke.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Jonzu95 on July 27, 2013, 12:37:20 PM
from nobody to legend.
(https://gametechmods.com/uploads/images/81121laugh.gif)

Says the forum's laughingstock.
Really, I never found Jonzu to be all that funny?
He's not funny, he's just a joke.
Too bad I didn't find a photo of you. It would've fitted in here perfectly.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Mr. AS on July 27, 2013, 04:02:10 PM
HE
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Scorpion on July 27, 2013, 04:50:59 PM
You know what is funny, clowns.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Merrick on July 27, 2013, 05:55:40 PM
GTM is a joke, and Jonzu is the punchline.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Resetti's Replicas on July 27, 2013, 06:18:57 PM
I came here via the RA2 forums too, but how I discovered that is a pretty interesting story.  I had played the 5 Robot Wars games and was disappointed by their limitations; I think I saw RA2 on Ebay occasionally but I ignored it because it wasn't Robot Wars.  I'd heard about how the legendary Mauler was too dangerous for Robot Wars, so it got me searching for videos of it.  Keep in mind this was 2006, Youtube was in its infant stages, so nothing was there.  What I did find was this (http://www.chaosengineering.com/jindex.html).  In addition to getting my Mauler fix, I saw the Tornado Mer vs Particle Accelerator fight to which they remarked "reminds me of Robot Arena 2."  In this video, Tornado Mer systematically chops off PA's wheels.  That got my attention; the wheels don't fall off like that in the RW games.  I bought the game swiftly and found the forums while searching for info because my bots sucked at fighting.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Badnik96 on July 28, 2013, 09:12:38 AM
I came here via the RA2 forums too, but how I discovered that is a pretty interesting story.  I had played the 5 Robot Wars games and was disappointed by their limitations; I think I saw RA2 on Ebay occasionally but I ignored it because it wasn't Robot Wars.  I'd heard about how the legendary Mauler was too dangerous for Robot Wars, so it got me searching for videos of it.  Keep in mind this was 2006, Youtube was in its infant stages, so nothing was there.  What I did find was this (http://www.chaosengineering.com/jindex.html).  In addition to getting my Mauler fix, I saw the Tornado Mer vs Particle Accelerator fight to which they remarked "reminds me of Robot Arena 2."  In this video, Tornado Mer systematically chops off PA's wheels.  That got my attention; the wheels don't fall off like that in the RW games.  I bought the game swiftly and found the forums while searching for info because my bots sucked at fighting.

I really want to see those clips but I can't open .rm files D:
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: cephalopod on July 28, 2013, 09:35:29 AM
I'd been aware of the game and community since it was released but never got the game because I couldn't pay for it. Then a few years back, randomly found a download and played it. Been here since.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: HX_ on July 28, 2013, 02:25:34 PM
I was looking for a robotic blow job machine to pleasure me and google search results seemed to push robot arena to the top so I clicked on it and was pleasantly disturbed by what I found here. FAP FAP FAP FAP FAP :dance:
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Resetti's Replicas on July 28, 2013, 02:39:32 PM
I came here via the RA2 forums too, but how I discovered that is a pretty interesting story.  I had played the 5 Robot Wars games and was disappointed by their limitations; I think I saw RA2 on Ebay occasionally but I ignored it because it wasn't Robot Wars.  I'd heard about how the legendary Mauler was too dangerous for Robot Wars, so it got me searching for videos of it.  Keep in mind this was 2006, Youtube was in its infant stages, so nothing was there.  What I did find was this (http://www.chaosengineering.com/jindex.html).  In addition to getting my Mauler fix, I saw the Tornado Mer vs Particle Accelerator fight to which they remarked "reminds me of Robot Arena 2."  In this video, Tornado Mer systematically chops off PA's wheels.  That got my attention; the wheels don't fall off like that in the RW games.  I bought the game swiftly and found the forums while searching for info because my bots sucked at fighting.
I really want to see those clips but I can't open .rm files D:
That particular one is on Youtube now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y23Mfd2Na8I# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y23Mfd2Na8I#)


And the others probably are too if you search for them
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: HurricaneAndrew on July 28, 2013, 02:56:46 PM
Seems like Google brought me here. Not sure why or how.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: helloface on July 28, 2013, 03:13:20 PM
Welcome back Andy.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: HurricaneAndrew on July 28, 2013, 03:14:17 PM
Welcome back Andy.

It's not like I've never been muted.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: frezal on July 30, 2013, 03:59:42 PM
I probably first came to this place after RA-Reborn went down. Those guys had the most comprehensive download database at the time, and when they ended the site, I had no other choice than to come here.

I didn't really start posting here until sometime after the official boards went down.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: HurricaneAndrew on July 30, 2013, 04:39:11 PM
I probably first came to this place after RA-Reborn went down. Those guys had the most comprehensive download database at the time, and when they ended the site, I had no other choice than to come here.

I didn't really start posting here until sometime after the official boards went down.

Pretty sure you didn't even register here until a couple months before me.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Dexterhunter on October 03, 2013, 09:18:25 AM
Was forced against my will to migrate from the RA2 forums


This pretty much.


Before that though, I looked up aceuplink because aceuplink was plastered in the credits of the game (or those guides to make a robot in the game folder or something) eventually I found Gametechmods later on and the rest is history because I dont want to type more.


Edit: oh naryars still a nobody
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: playzooki on November 03, 2013, 09:13:10 AM
Bought the game in '11 or '12, found these forums, lurked, lost interest in ra2, regained interest, rediscovered these forums, joined, the end
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Badnik96 on November 03, 2013, 11:09:26 AM
Thought I should expand on my first post...

Got obsessed with robotics back in '01 during Season 3 of BattleBots. I was like 4 at the time, and my mom was like "you should check out this cool new tv show I found". Watched it religiously till it got cancelled. After that I had to look for the occasional Robot Wars episode they showed on BBC to get my fix. Played with mini Lego battlebots until my uncle gave me my own computer, and from there I searched "BattleBots". This took me to Youtube, and one of the related videos was Alphasim's Robot Wars RA2 video. Watched that and a bunch of other old RA2 vids, and one of them linked to GTM, so I looked and was hooked. Didn't know you could download it for free so I convinced my mom to buy it for me after playing the hour-long demo. After buying it i screwed around with custom parts and AI packs for a few months before joining GTM. Didn't even post for a month after registering, and my first post was about entering a BoTM (where my entry sucked). Since then I've been unable to leave D:

help
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: HurricaneAndrew on November 03, 2013, 11:15:10 AM
I was kidnapped and brought here by Sage and now I'm being held against my will.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: That Robot is a Spy! on November 03, 2013, 11:18:14 AM
Being 9 years old, and having a lot of time on my hands.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: rnifnuf on November 03, 2013, 12:43:38 PM
I was introduced to RA2 in a tech ed class in October 2012. I loved it, but I didn't have a way to make my own bots at home. So for my birthday in March 2013, I asked my parents for a copy of RA2. Amazon actually sent a copy of RA1 instead XD. My parents later ordered a different copy of RA2 off of Amazon which arrived in April. I installed the game on my PC, but the UI was screwed up, so I had to find a way to fix it. I didn't find the 1.3 patch on Gametechmods, but I did a bit of research on RA2 and found out that this was the last surviving community for RA2. So on May 12, 2013, I signed up and the rest is history.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Badnik96 on November 03, 2013, 12:58:59 PM
Wait you used RA2 in a tech ed class? Where?
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: rnifnuf on November 03, 2013, 01:44:53 PM
Wait you used RA2 in a tech ed class? Where?

My middle school offered a tech ed class. The seventh graders have a whole unit dedicated to RA2. Although they only build in Stock and they haven't even unlocked the AI parts... :facepalm:
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Badnik96 on November 03, 2013, 10:03:09 PM
Ok you went to the coolest school ever
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: MassimoV on November 03, 2013, 10:10:06 PM
Wait you used RA2 in a tech ed class? Where?

My middle school offered a tech ed class. The seventh graders have a whole unit dedicated to RA2. Although they only build in Stock and they haven't even unlocked the AI parts... :facepalm:
You should've downloaded ULTIMATUM and brought it on a flash drive and just kick everyone's ass. An RA2 class in school would be fun as hell though.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: helloface on November 03, 2013, 11:35:46 PM
Wait you used RA2 in a tech ed class? Where?

My middle school offered a tech ed class. The seventh graders have a whole unit dedicated to RA2. Although they only build in Stock and they haven't even unlocked the AI parts... :facepalm:
Too bad my school is stuck with sh**ty macs  :(
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: rnifnuf on November 04, 2013, 05:27:27 PM
Ok you went to the coolest school ever

Actually, it's not as good as it sounds. Even though we are one of the better schools in the district.
Now that I think about it, we're more "uncool" than "bad", as my school usually has kids that at least make it to the regional level at competitions.

My school only has one floor and has barely updated their equipment since around 2004 (although the shop class just got a set of shiny new laptops and we recently got a bunch of iPads, everything else is outdated). Also, our band program kinda sucks despite the fact that we were invited to play at the WMEA conference 2014 in Yakima. Either we submitted a really damn good audition or everyone else either didn't try or got too cocky and messed it up.

Oh well, at least they're forcing our band up to eleven... from two or three XD

You should've downloaded ULTIMATUM and brought it on a flash drive and just kick everyone's ass. An RA2 class in school would be fun as hell though.

Actually, we had no access to the RA2 files, so bringing ULTIMATUM on a flash drive was out of the question. And back then, I had no idea that there was a whole community dedicated to this game. I'm thinking of making replicas of the three bots I built for the class... and putting them in my Stock showcase XD
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: The Asian on October 28, 2014, 06:37:15 PM
helloface and STC threatened to rape me if i didn't join
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: S.T.C. on October 28, 2014, 06:38:15 PM
helloface and STC threatened to rape me if i didn't join
Still contemplating you b**ch  :p
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: helloface on October 28, 2014, 06:38:20 PM
helloface and STC threatened to rape me if i didn't join
Asians and their perverted fantasies.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: The Asian on October 28, 2014, 06:39:38 PM
This actually happened witnesses were there while we were meeting up in Wisconsin
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: S.T.C. on October 28, 2014, 06:40:05 PM
helloface and STC threatened to rape me if i didn't join
Asians and their perverted tentacle fantasies.
You forgot something  :gawe:
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: helloface on October 28, 2014, 06:40:44 PM
Wisconsin
Hell no, I'd never go near that Jew state.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: The Asian on October 28, 2014, 06:44:54 PM
right you're too busy in israel right now

婊子
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: RedAce on October 28, 2014, 06:58:47 PM
On-topic with my story with this site: I found out about GTM as I was following the BBEANS series. I found BBEANS2 rather late and I really wanted to join ever since BBEANS3 was going to signups, but I never got my chance. Later on when not too long after BBEANS5 I lurked more and more about the site, finding out a bit more information about it's history, like older AI packs. Then a few months after BBEANS6 ended, I made my account and about half a year later, I was in and out with it, but still active as a lurker. I think I'm getting a bit out of hand now, so I guess I'll stop now.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: yugitom on October 28, 2014, 07:05:52 PM
I first found RA2 when I saw Resetti's Wars, so I started to try to look it up and guess it's name. Then I found out that NerdCubed played it and that's how I found GTM.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: 090901 on October 28, 2014, 08:47:46 PM
Wisconsin
Hell no, I'd never go near that Jew state.
:smile:
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Shield on October 28, 2014, 09:57:26 PM
at first via DSL.

and then I got the BBEANS pack. then i read about tournaments.

then i joined battlebots 6

it was fun and i stuck around
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: toAst on October 29, 2014, 12:03:37 AM
joined robotarena.com back in like 2001 maybe? then like basically everything ever happened. now its today. :thumbup
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: Naryar on October 29, 2014, 02:53:50 AM
downloaded robot arena 2, searched for guides, found the korium9 guide on GameFAQs, then i followed links and found the old ra2 boards, then i found gtm.

posted a bit on the old forums, but i was more on GTM than these until they got baleet'd. i regret not reading the old forums more.
Title: Re: How did you find GTM?
Post by: helloface on June 13, 2025, 04:00:43 PM
helloface and STC threatened to rape me if i didn't join
Still contemplating you b**ch  :p
woah luis settle down there man