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Yeah, it'd be awsome if you guys would start showcases. :gawe:


Okay. I went through some local hard drives I have connected to my computer and found backups from years ago of my "My Pictures" folders, wherein there was a nice collection of robots originally posted from 2003 - 2005, stock and DSL alike.

I'm going to go into detail about some of my personal favorites, but each directory below is chock full of whatever I was able to recover from various installments of My Pictures and the sub-directories inside of them.

(Side Quest: Count the number of Team AceUplink decals on the robots for extra fun.)

Antweights (under 175)
http://www.gatoraids.com/directories/dracophile/ra2_ant


Blue Blue is an antweight toting two Redbird motors for drive. It was entered in one of the AceUplink ant contests.


Can Opener's weapon was modeled after an actual can opener.


Circuit Breaker was one of my best antweight robots. Its saw blade really put a damper on its battery power but it was able to tear up opponents left and right.


When it came to None Shall Pass, none did pass. NSP's weapon was two spiked clubs tilted in a way that allowed it to act as both a wedge and a ram.


Ramdozer didn't have a weapon but was damn near impenetrable with his heavy steel armor.

Sidenotes: 2 Wheelin' was an experiment in trying to put the Mud Tires onto an ant. Crazy UFO Hat Bikini was named after a picture on Something Awful. Lemmin Juice 3 was another AU ant entry. Peanut Botta was named after the RA2 multiplayer "placeholder" robot. Some Disassembly Required was built twice with two completely different designs. The Ring was another AU contest entry.
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Lightweights
http://www.gatoraids.com/directories/dracophile/ra2_lw


Deceptitron was a design that looked like a rammer, but had a hidden pneumatic spike that launched out for a surprise attack.


Power Box. I don't know, you tell me.

Sidenotes: Digital Sentinence was a replica of TDS' 30 pound robot. Green Machine was featured in a 3rd party AI pack. Underdawg has a "pop wedge" design.
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Middleweights
http://www.gatoraids.com/directories/dracophile/ra2_mw


Obligatory furry robot Amy Rose.


Butt Cheex. More legendary than me.


Digital Dragon 2 was my last AU tournament entry. It's invertible and Forward is always forward regardless of its orientation.


Rift Blade: Samurai Warrior brandished three samurai swords on an HP ZTek motor. Once it got spinning there was no stopping it.

Sidenotes: CrapBot 2000 was my very first robot. Harmony Bunny was named after a character in the Powerpuff Girls. Mexican Pizza was my second-ever robot. Wimpy is a replica of the RA1 robot of the same name.
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Heavyweights
http://www.gatoraids.com/directories/dracophile/ra2_hw


The only thing American Dream is missing in this picture is a bikini model waxing it.


Apocalypse NOW! was kinda named after that movie, but was also the third robot I ever made.


Billboard was a curious robot that could literally throw an opponent into the roof of the Combat Zone. It was prone to tipping over though. On the reverse side of the sign there's a dragon saying "RAWR!"


Bot X was my attempt at a FrenZy style robot, its hammer could swing back and forth and land in some crushing blows.


Crash Boom Bang was one of my favorite robots that made use of Some Kinda Zombie's hyper reversible angle motor. When its sledgehammers got spinning it was impossible to stop and the pain was dealt out big time.


Darkside is a semi-truck inspired by the Twisted Metal Black version of this vehicle.


Evil Con Carne was the perfection of the FrenZy design.


Flip You Off. Get it?


Time has been very kind to Head Splitter 3. Last time I played using this robot it was capable of taking down tough Starcore AI.


Purple Haze made use of the AU BB AI spikes, the ones that dealt like a million points of damage out per hit. It's over-powered but was built to take on my other robot Minion usually piloted by one of my friends in heated head to head battles.


Rock N Roller, named after a Vectorman boss. The very first multibot in RA2.


See N Say Of Pain was a show-bot, but it caught on with the community and soon there was more than one of these floating around out there.


You've just been THUMPERIZED.


Transformer was capable of expanding its drive system for close combat or for maneuverability.


Wazzzup! was a robot that had enough AU decals on it that it was used in the official AU robot showcase banner. I was banned during this time, though.


Wooden Warrior (seen here in version number six) wasn't actually made of wood, but it was a nice texture and an even better fighter. It's one of my absolute personal favorites and makes an RFS AI appearance in the "RFS" team.

Sidenotes: Administrator of Pain isn't a TDS joke but it was an attempt at making chain flails. Armorgedden has two pistons inside of its wedge to throw opponents on their backs, this weaponry was explored again in the RFS AI robot Telekinesis. Balls of Steel was my first "series" robot, it was built and rebuilt over 10 times. Blood Dumpster is a nod to Space Ghost Coast to Coast, it was the name of Zorak's proposed horror flick. Carl's Robot featured by ATHF Carl soundboard part, it would spout out one-liners such as "GET OUTTA MY FRIKKIN POOL" and other quotables from ATHF season 1. Coffee Grinder's plan was to toss opponents into the air and catch them in the grinder. Fire Wheel had 4 flamethrowers mounted on a spinning disc, it threw fire out in all directions. Undercover Undercutter made an appearance in another 3rd party AI pack.
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Super Heavyweights (over 800)
http://www.gatoraids.com/directories/dracophile/ra2_shw


666 swings 12 saw blades around like nobody's business.


Minion was modeled not after the robot of BattleBots fame, but after the demonic tank from the Twisted Metal game series. It's seen here with a TM3 paint job and a spike array matching the Minion tanker truck from TM Black.


The X-Terminator has about a million weapons. Seriously.

Sidenotes: 25C Crane Machine was an experiment in trying to pick up an opponent, it didn't work.
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DSL
http://www.gatoraids.com/directories/dracophile/ra2_dsl


Bad News has the appearance of an angry Dorito and the steering of a highly sedated rhino. Slow as all heck and difficult to turn but still capable of pushing over a train and ruining your day.


Circular Motions was capable of slowly disassembling its opponents by grinding it apart piece by piece.


Destructo Thingy has the biggest disc with giant blades on it. Just for the heck of it.


K.R.O.C. (Killer Robot on Crack, but also KROC as in Crocodile) could rotate its weapon 360 degrees and strike from any angle.


TORM was a robot that fared well against most designs and was included in the RFS DSL AI pack.


Unnecessarily Irrellevant had a double layered blade that made for clean smooth cuts and a pretty much unstoppable weapon.

Sidenotes: Blast Cannister and Credit Card Shredding Machine were two DSL antweights that threw themselves out of control with every full force blow. Food For Thought was originally made as a DSL tourney entry. Mal De Ojo was an RFSHQ tourney entry.
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Replicas
http://www.gatoraids.com/directories/dracophile/ra2_replica











This was a real antweight robot I made. This replica is in the "RFS" team on the RFS AI Pack.

Sidenotes: Complete Control was made a couple of days after I bought RA2.
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« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2009, 10:33:06 PM »
DSL is for you.
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« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2009, 10:45:52 PM »
I have to agree with sage,and Minion and Xterminator has custom coponents.

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« Reply #3 on: June 06, 2009, 10:56:07 PM »
Butt Cheex FTW!!!

Though most aren't combat-effective, they still look very awesome.

And I actually like the idea of using a spin motor to drive a hammer. Sweet. :D

Oh yeah. How did you do Darkside?
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Clash Cubes 1 - Grey Matter (Runner-Up)
King of Karnage - Sideshow Freak (Runner-Up, Best Engineered)
Rust In Pieces - Paper Cut 3 (Grand Champion, Most Dangerous Bot)
Wheely Tag Tournament - Ion Thruster (Grand Champion, along with Ounces' DiSemboweLment)
UK vs USA - Dark Striker (Grand Champion)
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BBEANS 6 - Infection 4 (Runner-Up)
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« Reply #4 on: June 06, 2009, 11:08:23 PM »
I would like to know that too, I love the creativity of some of these bots

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« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2009, 12:50:37 AM »
DSL bars aren't the best weapons you got.

I like your complex shell spinner thing with Magmotor drills on it, though.

Also are these Buster Blade teeth on your Bad News ? Aren't these unbalanced ?
« Last Edit: June 07, 2009, 03:24:28 PM by Naryar »

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« Reply #6 on: June 07, 2009, 03:41:13 AM »
RFS Here !!

Damned, who called the spirit ?

even if the bots aged, i read this thread with awe and trembling.

my respectful greetings.

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« Reply #7 on: June 07, 2009, 05:13:42 AM »
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« Reply #8 on: June 07, 2009, 05:30:34 AM »
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K.R.O.C. (Killer Robot on Crack, but also KROC as in Crocodile) could rotate its weapon 360 degrees and strike from any angle.

We got an AI for that now.

Also

On Bad News and Circular Motions, are those DSL 1 Beater bars or something?
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« Reply #9 on: June 07, 2009, 08:10:42 AM »
Finally, someone with a taste for designs. These ARE cool looking bots. RadioFS, if im going to make A.D.D.I.C.T. 2 (stock bot design contest) you MUST enter and win it.
Welcome back, respect.
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« Reply #10 on: June 07, 2009, 08:54:18 AM »
Nice bots. Some of these are pretty effective for Stock Realistic* bots.

*Don't think of it guys, these babies are old like the BBEANS 1 contestants. We need some decent Realistic stock builders here....
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« Reply #11 on: June 07, 2009, 12:51:24 PM »
Suppose they were good for their time.

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We need some decent Realistic stock builders here....

It's all I seem to be able to do (maybe excluding decent), so hmm.




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« Reply #12 on: June 07, 2009, 01:54:09 PM »
RFS: Actually Antweights are 0-125 and Beetleweights are 125-175.
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« Reply #13 on: June 07, 2009, 03:09:48 PM »
the robots here are realistic... but wont stand a chance against most starcore v3 bots.
that is the only problem with the real world(IT SUCKS!)
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« Reply #14 on: June 07, 2009, 03:56:28 PM »
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I have to agree with sage,and Minion and Xterminator has custom coponents.


Yeah some of them were using ][cer weapons and stuff. I just mostly used whatever I had in the game. The overpowered ones were meant to fight against the other overpowered ones (X-Terminator, Minion, Purple Haze, etc)

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Butt Cheex FTW!!!

Though most aren't combat-effective, they still look very awesome.

And I actually like the idea of using a spin motor to drive a hammer. Sweet. :D

Oh yeah. How did you do Darkside?


Darkside was built sideways and its smokestacks are simply self-righting mechanisms. It begins the fight flipped onto its side and from there I just pop the burst motor and try to fight normally. For some reason though, Darkside can't turn (it has scrub style steering because you can't mount the car steering part sideways).

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DSL bars aren't the best weapons you got.

I like your complex shell spinner thing with Magmotor drills on it, though.

Also are these Buster Blade teeth on your Bad News ? Aren't these unbalanced ?


Bad News does use the Buster teeth, and yes they are unbalanced. :P

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We got an AI for that now.

Also

On Bad News and Circular Motions, are those DSL 1 Beater bars or something?


That's amazing that something like KROC can be AI'ed. Back in my day that was just wishful thinking. You guys have come a long way. Circular Motions doesn't use any beater bars, it used one piece of a drum with some spikes on it. I don't remember what the spikes were from.

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Nice bots. Some of these are pretty effective for Stock Realistic* bots.

*Don't think of it guys, these babies are old like the BBEANS 1 contestants. We need some decent Realistic stock builders here....


I only build things realistic, which is how the original AI was and how the game was meant to be played. Sometimes I splurged a little and made something really far out and crazy (666, etc) but for the most part I enjoyed playing the game with robots that you could build in real life if you wanted to. My AI pack(s) reflect that sentiment. Out of 180 robots only 10 or so were really zany and unrealistic.

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Suppose they were good for their time.

It's all I seem to be able to do (maybe excluding decent), so hmm.


Holy crap are you Ryan, the guy who tagged around with Technex?

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RFS: Actually Antweights are 0-125 and Beetleweights are 125-175.


Has it always been that way? That's strange. I distinctly remember fighting them as ants against other people, maybe the weight allocations have changed?

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the robots here are realistic... but wont stand a chance against most starcore v3 bots.
that is the only problem with the real world(IT SUCKS!)


As smart as a guy that Starcore was, I hated his AI packs - like I mentioned earlier I enjoyed realistic designs. Starcore's AI pack was PERFECT for the players who liked to stack motors and enhance spinners with burst glitches and using AAM to design things, but that wasn't my thing so I never really enjoyed the pack as much as others did.

However Starcore and I were both insanely good at what we did, for the longest time my AI Pack was the most downloaded ever (according to RA-Reborn's download database counters) and it was only surpassed by Starcore's (and later DSL if you want to count that as an AI pack). There were many other AI packs out there (SoverignII's AI Pack the first AI pack ever, AceUplink's BattleBots pack, I believe ARC made a pack as well, etc) but the two best ones were me and Starcore's, for both kinds of RA2 players. :)
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« Reply #15 on: June 07, 2009, 04:06:28 PM »
Starcore doesn't use AAM....

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« Reply #16 on: June 07, 2009, 04:07:13 PM »
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Holy crap are you Ryan, the guy who tagged around with Technex?


Damn straight. Only with 30% less suck. Maybe 31% now.




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« Reply #17 on: June 07, 2009, 04:07:47 PM »
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Starcore doesn't use AAM....


I meant "advanced building" in general. Any kind of crazy stacking and spinners/weapons that go through other components and other stuff. The really complicated kinds of designs that take a few re-re-rebuilds in the Bot Lab to get right. :P
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« Reply #18 on: June 07, 2009, 05:04:05 PM »
Other person, except me, that want to build realistic stock bots? Yesssss, im not alone now. The others usually spit against realistic stock building and don't respect it.
Let's seeeee... RFS, if you are interested, after i finish my university this summer (btw, you are close to my age), if you are interested, i will contact you to discuss one big project that we with Gigafrost are planing.
Not even close like the poor ADDICT. Something unseen to now and it will rocks. Realistic bot building maybe will be part of it, so we have a place for people like you in the team.
So, if you are interested, after i gets back from my school practice/probation and talk with Giga, i will contact you.
Glad to have you back. See you.
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« Reply #19 on: June 07, 2009, 06:03:38 PM »
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I meant "advanced building" in general. Any kind of crazy stacking and spinners/weapons that go through other components and other stuff. The really complicated kinds of designs that take a few re-re-rebuilds in the Bot Lab to get right. :P


That's the point of stock now, I hate to break it to you. Wheres the fun if you don't rebuild something 10 times? It takes all the pride out of building your bots. The more complicated, the more fun and challenging to build. If you look in my showcase, one of my newest bots KROME took me 7 rebuilds, as well as 4 other ones just to get the chassis right. But I enjoyed almost every minute of it.
You got my vote for RA2 Wizard. Always and forever.