A blast from the past... Checkin' da archives.

[ianh05]

I remember seeing that on youtube forever ago! Do you remember who built who?

Project Tabletop? Scrap Daddy actually built that he left a comment on it's videos (match 4 and losers battle royal).

[Scrap Daddy]

ahahahah this was actually my first tournament I think.

[090901]

I miss the days before we converted to the new software.

rip all the spongebob/pikachu avatars.

[courthousedoc]

Anyone have the RAR or Zip file for Madbia's old bot A.T.O.M?
The link to the download dissapeared when the wizfourms went down.
And that bot was truly a masterpiece.

[Badnik96]

Anyone have the RAR or Zip file for Madbia's old bot A.T.O.M?
The link to the download dissapeared when the wizfourms went down.
And that bot was truly a masterpiece.

I have ATOM somewhere...

[Mr. AS]

yes it was in his bitches aint sh** but hoes and tweeks thread https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php/topic,841.0.html http://www.madiaba.gametechmods.com/ATOM.rar

[Somebody]

stop trying to be overly dramatic for gods sake, it was a website not a freaking ghost town in the nevada desert

Actually now that Team 9 mentions it, that is a very accurate description of what browsing the old forum archives is like.
 
You can see the general structure and some of the more popular threads, even a few rare artifacts (pictures), but most of the details are obliterated.  Most of the people on those old forums are no longer around, too, which makes it feel even more like a ghost town.

This exactly. Even browsing old GTM threads makes me long for the days 4 years ago.

I think I joined 3 or 4 years ago and I recall guys like Whammitnutt, Icethefrostycat and others. Heck look in both my DSL (First few pages) and Stock showcases (First page only), you can see some posts by some veterans who aren't here anymore. Still it's a d**n shame the Wayback Machine didn't chronicle the entire wizfourms.

Wham, Ice, Condor33, MetalikVyper, venko

oh the memories

[Mecha]

I miss venko's showcase. :P

[Clickbeetle]

OK guys, I said I would do it, and there seemed to be considerable interest, so here it is:
 
Download ALL the bots!
 
^ That's my entire stock Robot Designs folder, minus any bots that weren't built by me or FB and any bots with custom parts.  The bots date back to 2003 when we first got the game, up to now.  At least half of them were never showcased so there's plenty of old content to poke through.
 
The .bot files all conveniently start with "CB_" or "FB_" depending on who built it, so they don't get mixed up with your own bots.  Except for Lots OOOOOOOO wheels which was built by FB's friend.
 
...Looking back, I kinda miss building bots like Evil Weevil V and Gigawhirl II and Double Edge.  I had kind of an IRL style before I found the forums.

[kill343gs]

I had kind of an IRL style before I found the forums.

You did for a spell afterwards too. I have a quote of you in your showcase saying you preferred to keep your bots realistic, which is why you didnt build HS

[Clickbeetle]

I had kind of an IRL style before I found the forums.

You did for a spell afterwards too. I have a quote of you in your showcase saying you preferred to keep your bots realistic, which is why you didnt build HS

...Huh, I could swear I didn't build HS because there was no way to make them original.  Maybe it was both.
 
I have a lot of HS now, though.

[ianh05]

OK guys, I said I would do it, and there seemed to be considerable interest, so here it is:
 
Download ALL the bots!
 
^ That's my entire stock Robot Designs folder, minus any bots that weren't built by me or FB and any bots with custom parts.  The bots date back to 2003 when we first got the game, up to now.  At least half of them were never showcased so there's plenty of old content to poke through.
 
The .bot files all conveniently start with "CB_" or "FB_" depending on who built it, so they don't get mixed up with your own bots.  Except for Lots OOOOOOOO wheels which was built by FB's friend.
 
...Looking back, I kinda miss building bots like Evil Weevil V and Gigawhirl II and Double Edge.  I had kind of an IRL style before I found the forums.

Thanks for these click :D now perhaps I will try building a Beetlebros. AI pack, with your permission of course.

[Jack Daniels]

I remember seeing that on youtube forever ago! Do you remember who built who?

I made Jade Falcon. Which was terrible in the tournament... but had the most ingenious self righting mechanism.  (which was useless because the matches lasted like 10 seconds tops)

[Jamin]

OK guys, I said I would do it, and there seemed to be considerable interest, so here it is:
 
Download ALL the bots!
 
^ That's my entire stock Robot Designs folder, minus any bots that weren't built by me or FB and any bots with custom parts.  The bots date back to 2003 when we first got the game, up to now.  At least half of them were never showcased so there's plenty of old content to poke through.
 
The .bot files all conveniently start with "CB_" or "FB_" depending on who built it, so they don't get mixed up with your own bots.  Except for Lots OOOOOOOO wheels which was built by FB's friend.
 
...Looking back, I kinda miss building bots like Evil Weevil V and Gigawhirl II and Double Edge.  I had kind of an IRL style before I found the forums.

Uhh, do any of these bots use custom components? Bumblebee (wedge thing) accidentally my game.

[ianh05]

it's most likely just a missing smart zone.

[ty4er]

not sure if these have already been posted anywhere but i didn't see them
some of pyscolone's bots
http://s88.photobucket.com/albums/k199/pyscolone/
another ra2 forum, sadly wayback doesn't have much with this forum
http://web.archive.org/web/20050123183218/http://carnagerobotics.proboards37.com/index.cgi

[HurricaneAndrew]

another ra2 forum, sadly wayback doesn't have much with this forum
http://web.archive.org/web/20050123183218/http://carnagerobotics.proboards37.com/index.cgi

>Dat font.


Hnnngh...

[kill343gs]

Some of Vertigo's old works

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and more of Kill343's first bots. :D

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Anybody that doesn't appreciate Vert002's old works has no concept of RA2 history.

And I just remember that I was such a genius at naming that that bot right there was named 'The Claw'. True story. Oh, and those wheels on top were powered by redbirds so it could drive upside down. INNOVATION

[Jack Daniels]

BotBash 2004 Mega Image.

[Jamin]

I'd love to see more multiplayer tournaments these days...even with the immense lag it's still really fun (especially with hamachi, which seems to help the lag out some.)

EDIT: and organised builder teams.