RobotMonkeyHead

Glad that I was able to participate for this 700th video. Good job, everyone.
 

Here it is. My 700th video.
 

I get so stoked when people are interested in Ikemen.

It's not hard, the syntax is a little different, but pretty much the same difficulty as making one in Mugen.  
Here's a nice tutorial by Electro on MFG with an example and video.
http://mugenguild.com/forum/topics/ikemen-screenpack-tutorial-162227.0.html

Cuphead bosses, by DarkRuler
I didn't see any of these characters here, so I thought I'd post them all at once.   (If they have been posted and I just missed them, feel free to delete).  They're not perfect, but they're so much better than the other Cuphead characters I've found floating about (most of which only have one form and barely any attacks).
 
Goopy LeGrande

 
Ribby & Croaks

 
Grim Matchstick

 
Dr. Kahl's Robot

 
The Root Pack

 
 
Videos on Light Ruler's YouTube Channel
 
Original topics:
http://mugenguild.com/forum/topics/2017-12-21-updated-goopy-le-grandecuphead-181973.0.html
http://mugenguild.com/forum/topics/2017-12-21-updated-ribby-and-croakscuphead-182077.0.html
http://mugenguild.com/forum/topics/updated-grim-matchstickcuphead-182355.0.html
http://mugenguild.com/forum/topics/updated-dr-kahls-robotcuphead-182485.0.html
http://mugenguild.com/forum/topics/the-root-packcuphead-183578.msg2403882.html

Edit: updated Grim Matchstick's link, 2/11/2018
Edit: added Root Pack link, 4/30/2018

I was wondering what happened to the site on those days.
Good thing you've got some talented staff on your side RMH :D
Congrats on the recovery!
An extra round of praise to Aлескей, everyone!

~ FIRST PRESENT UNWRAPPED! ~
CLUBS FEATURE OPENED

The Clubs feature is now open for business!!!  Wtf are clubs you ask?  Clubs are like little mini forums within the forum.  They each have their own moderators who can manage club members and create topics sections.  And in those topics sections, members can post topics.  Almost like groups on Facebook.  Anyone can start one, and when you do you automatically become the groups Owner.  You can then make other group members moderators or leaders.  (mods can manage content, leaders can manage content and members).  And of course, Global Mods still have run of the show lol They still have all the same authority over the club leaders like any other members.

Aaaand with all that being said, have at it!  It's all you, go nuts, create clubs for anything and everything!  Have discussions about wtf ever you want!  Check the top nav bar, and click Clubs to check it out!

Friendly suggestion, anyone looking to form Mugen Content Creation teams might find this a really useful tool for doing so...

lol they're being opened over the course of this week.  
I originally wanted to do them all on the 1st, but I didn't have the time to get all of it together, due to the malware issue, and general holiday chaos on my end.
Oh life.   But anyway....

~ SECOND PRESENT UNWRAPPED! ~
TIMELINE FEATURE REVAMPED

Once upon a time, we had a "What's New?" button on the top nav bar that brought you
to this, how do I put it, "difficult to look at" activity stream.


But now we have a snazzy new "Timeline" button, which brings you to this shiny new 
updated timeline, which I've done up in the theme of other social media sites like twitter and ye ol' fb.


Lots of styling work went into this, pulling back certain text, pushing other text forward to make things easier to read,
easier to pick out what people are actually saying, and who was saying it.  The comments on posts got re-styled to get rid
of that vertical line on the left, round out the edges, and space them properly from the sides.   The discord widget was
completely fuckin overhauled,  and so was the user block widget.  I also converted the popular topics list into a scrolling
top 100 topics, and overall the sidebar might undergo some small changes over the next couple weeks / month as it gets
settled in.  The embeds got some attention, the nav bar and rss buttons got it too.  The top area, custom stream
menu (in the pic where it says "Posts by Members I follow") got completely redone.  but...

The pièce de résistance in this feature is the "What's on your mind?" button up top.  It let's users add a new status update
in the spirit of twitter-book, which rounds out the whole "timeline" theme.

Aaaaaand there you have it.  We now have a social media stream on MFFA  lol have fun, enjoy!  Put it to good use!  
Share shit, drop some fucked up memes on me!

Happy Christmas, Newtonmas,  Quaid-e-Azam's Day,  Koliada,  Pancha Ganapati and Decemberween!!!!!!


(....aaand a little teaser.  We, uh, "might" be voting on some new reaction emoticons to go with it soon, member submissions welcome :)

~ THIRD PRESENT UNWRAPPED! ~
CHAT POD IS UNLEASHED!
 
Ladies and gentlemen, we now have chat.  Live chat, in a little un-intrusive window that's accessible just about everywhere on the forum.  And not only can you chat about your grandmothers hugs, but it handles picture embedding, let's you spice up your noise with your favorite onion head emojis, member tagging (just click their name), lets you turn sound notifications on and off, aaaaand keeps you up-to-date by auto-posting links to all forum activity.  Links that open in new tabs, so they don't fuck with your scroll flow. This nifty little doohicky does it all.  So, let the babble begin!!!  Happy Hanukkah and Kwanza to those who celebrate!  And happy un-hacked now to everyone at MFFA!!!  Uber special thanks to Aлескей for that one :)


Here's where you find it.  Just click the little tab, and it'll pop out.                                           And here's what it looks like.  Oh yes.                          
                                        
 
(You must have at least 3 posts before you're allowed to chat, in order prevent spam)
One more to go....

What the hell just happened?
A sunny christmas afternoon, family stuff is all done with, holiday noise is finally dying down, and me and my gf come home to our apartment.  Great, time to release the 2nd x-mas present to the forum, awesome.  So I sit down at my desk, go to log into the site, and... "Site Unavailable Contact Bluehost or, If You're The Site's Owner, Click Here for Details." ...  Fuck.  So I click.  "Site is temporarily locked due to Malware / Viruses.  Please contact Bluehost."  Motherfuckers.  On christmas no less.

Enter Bluehost chat support.  Basically goes like this:

Me:  "It seems our site is flagged for Malware, what happened?"

BH:  "We recommend using our trusted partner Sitelock to fix it! 
They'll scan all your files and remove all viruses!"

~That quick.  No questions, nothing.  Just pay Sitelock ~
 
Me:  Do you have the list of infected files and the IP addresses that have accessed those files?

BH:  No we do not have The IP addresses that have accessed the file, but here's a list of the infected files.

~ At this point I begin download a back up of all the sites files from 3 days before ~ 

Me:  Why can't I just replace the corrupted files with backups from a few days before, when we weren't infected?

BH:  We do not allow file restores on locked sites.

~ First off, what is that feature for, if not this?  None the less, somehow, the files are downloading, and I still have FTP (back door) access... ~

Me:  Ok I'll take a look, see what I can do, and if I do pay somebody it's going to be someone I trust that is not affiliated with bluehost.

End of chat session 1

So seeing as how the backup files seem to be downloading just fine, I make the announcement on Discord, that the fix should only take a few hours.  Finish downloading, and then upload the clean files to replace the old ones.  I have the list of broken files so it should be easy enough.  Then the download times out.  Yea... our site is pretty freakin huge, especially considering that we do host the work of a few special creators.  And so there goes the easy fix.  Now it looks like I'm actually going to have to pay somebody to do this, because manually removing malware from files is beyond my abilities. 



Google.  Within minutes, I'm finding articles upon blogposts of people having similar things happen to them through a variety of hosts.  Apparently Sitelock is coupled with a ton of major hosting companies, and a ton of people have written articles about their site being basically held hostage by Sitelock who then demands an enormous amount of money to clean the site, and then even more for a yearly security package.  "Shit, are we mid-scam right now?" I start thinking to myself.  Either way, scam or not, I'm going to have to pay somebody to fix this, and there is no way in hell I'm pressing charges or pursuing this at all if it IS Sitelock, so it doesn't really matter.  Outcomes the same.  But I did find this one guy who wrote a ton of blog posts detailing Sitelocks misadventures, and he does the fix for pretty cheap. 



So I contact chat support again, to ask what Sitelock charges.  Sales pitch for the monthly fees begins before the question is answered.  I tell them I don't trust Sitelock and that this whole thing smells wrong, and that there is a zero percent chance that I'm paying monthly fees.  I just want the thing fixed as quickly as possible.  That's all.  $300 for a 1 time fix is their going rate.  And more than that per year for ongoing "protection".  ...take a second to think about this.  Considering the fact that most people are just going to fold and pay this, how much money... anyway Nope.  The guy that writes about how messed up Sitelock's behavior is, charges half that.



Aaaand so I contact that guy.  White Fir Designs.  He's ready to go, says he can have it done in a few hours.  I also contacted this site, who never got back to me.  So I post another announcement on Discord updating everyone, and then I talked with Aлескей.  I figured if I'm going to pay someone to do this, HE's getting dibs on the job before anyone else, if he wants it.  (Granted this could be incredibly difficult, requiring great skill and well worth compensation.  And I'm prepared to pay someone anyway, so truth be told I should pay him if he's going to do it.)

So he decides to take a look at it, and see if it's something he can do.  I tell the White Fur guy that one of our staff's administrators is currently taking a look at it, but to please be prepared.  If he can't fix it, we need it done quickly.  He's ready to go, says it usually only takes him a couple hours.  Great.  I post another announcement on Discord saying Aлескей is giving it a shot, and if he can't do it, we got someone else lined up.

I come home from work last night at fuck all o'clock in the morning, -3 degrees outside, and... what's this? Hell to the Mutherfucking Yes!  Aлескей says the files should be good to go.  I immediately get on Bluehost's chat support, and have them scan the site.  And they come back with "The files are still infected.  We're generating another malware.txt file in your root directory with the details. ....shit.   I open up that file, and check this noise out:
Yea.

 
...saga will be continued soon in this post...
going out to dinner and movie with gf, (new star wars, finally!)
Anyway, to be continued...

Enter Bluehost chat support, act 3.  I go back to Bluehost chat support, and tell them we had a professional coder clean the files, and also again that I don't trust sitelock.  I posted the content of the malware.txt file in the chat and asked: 

"We are not a security company" "Files may contain false positives" "these files appear to contain maiclious code" "You are ultimately responsible for all of your content". So if we're responsible for all of our content, some of which may or may not contain malicious code according to the guess of Not a security company, then what the hell is our site actually locked for?

"I'm sorry for the inconvenience. We'll scan the files." lol ok great.  I leave for work.  Come home and the site is back up... Ok, sweet!  But, nothing changed since the last time except I used the words "cleaned by professional coder" and "I don't trust sitelock".  And magically we passed their test.  Abra-ca-friggin-dabra?  So their first rescan wasn't done or done improperly  ...perhaps they scanned a cached or older version of the files or somehow?  I don't know.  But Aлескей fix worked, and we're back up and running, and that's what matters most.

I couldn't help but bother Aлескей at work to let him know his fixes fixed the site, and that we were back!  Joy!  Christmas is... srved.  And as awesome as he is, no charge, fix was easy enough.  Thank you kind sir.  Saved the day, and quick and free!  Aaaand we are back on our feet!  And life on the forum can resume as usual.  

Wherever that hack came from... idk.  Keep it mind that it very well could've been legit.  This narrative is just what I went through trying to deal with it over the last couple days without much time to process, between work and x-mas.  Although I am clearly not alone in my suspicions, they could still be misguided none the less.  But all the passwords have been changed, and me and  Aлескей are going to discuss it further soon, and see if we need to change any of our security measures.

 
 Soooo happy mugening guys!  Sorry x-mas didn't turn out to be quite as fun as we'd planned.  
We'll just unwrap all the presents on new-years instead :)
 
 

Dude Aлескей is fucking godlike when it comes to this shit.  Totally the hero in this story.  And the database bs like 6 months ago.

Speaking of good chums, I gotta say it to its great to see you.  It's been a minute lol, I missed ya!
 

Release Party - Yellow Devil (RMM)
=========== | Top Man |==========

Sprited By: Magma Dragoon MKII
Coding: O Ilusionista
Mugen: Mugen 1.0
Data: 03/01/2018
Char number: 57
What is new?
What is new?
– More health (no more 1 combo kill) and consecutive hit block
– Better AI (uses more than 1 hyper move now)
– Progressive AI behaviour: If the first round is lost, it will get more aggressive, “Eye Shot” now uses 5 projectiles and earns a new move “Big laser” (AI only). Thanks MGMURROW for the laser sprites.
WARNING:
Since its a boss char, any custom state move (such grabs and others) won’t hit it. plus, this char can’t block.
To hurt it, you need to hit it’s eye.
This version is more recent than the last released in RMM.
============= | IMAGES | ============

============= | VIDEO | ============
 
 
===================================
Download: http://www.brazilmugenteam.com
===================================

~ THIRD PRESENT UNWRAPPED! ~
CHAT POD IS UNLEASHED!
 
Ladies and gentlemen, we now have chat.  Live chat, in a little un-intrusive window that's accessible just about everywhere on the forum.  And not only can you chat about your grandmothers hugs, but it handles picture embedding, let's you spice up your noise with your favorite onion head emojis, member tagging (just click their name), lets you turn sound notifications on and off, aaaaand keeps you up-to-date by auto-posting links to all forum activity.  Links that open in new tabs, so they don't fuck with your scroll flow. This nifty little doohicky does it all.  So, let the babble begin!!!  Happy Hanukkah and Kwanza to those who celebrate!  And happy un-hacked now to everyone at MFFA!!!  Uber special thanks to Aлескей for that one :)


Here's where you find it.  Just click the little tab, and it'll pop out.                                           And here's what it looks like.  Oh yes.                          
                                        
 
(You must have at least 3 posts before you're allowed to chat, in order prevent spam)
One more to go....

CHARACTERS
 
PLAYERS

 
Wade: Joey Faust || Boris: Joey Faust || Kyle: Joey Faust
 
ENEMIES

 
Talcus: Joey Faust || Crossbones: Joey Faust
 
BOSSES

 
Drigger: mitai dake
 
NOT MUGENIZED YET

 
Characters List : Dabel, Joe, Doyle, Mr. Julius, Sledge, Red Fredy and Geld
 
STAGES
Train Ride by Ryoucchi & The Magic Toaster
 

lol they're being opened over the course of this week.  
I originally wanted to do them all on the 1st, but I didn't have the time to get all of it together, due to the malware issue, and general holiday chaos on my end.
Oh life.   But anyway....

~ SECOND PRESENT UNWRAPPED! ~
TIMELINE FEATURE REVAMPED

Once upon a time, we had a "What's New?" button on the top nav bar that brought you
to this, how do I put it, "difficult to look at" activity stream.


But now we have a snazzy new "Timeline" button, which brings you to this shiny new 
updated timeline, which I've done up in the theme of other social media sites like twitter and ye ol' fb.


Lots of styling work went into this, pulling back certain text, pushing other text forward to make things easier to read,
easier to pick out what people are actually saying, and who was saying it.  The comments on posts got re-styled to get rid
of that vertical line on the left, round out the edges, and space them properly from the sides.   The discord widget was
completely fuckin overhauled,  and so was the user block widget.  I also converted the popular topics list into a scrolling
top 100 topics, and overall the sidebar might undergo some small changes over the next couple weeks / month as it gets
settled in.  The embeds got some attention, the nav bar and rss buttons got it too.  The top area, custom stream
menu (in the pic where it says "Posts by Members I follow") got completely redone.  but...

The pièce de résistance in this feature is the "What's on your mind?" button up top.  It let's users add a new status update
in the spirit of twitter-book, which rounds out the whole "timeline" theme.

Aaaaaand there you have it.  We now have a social media stream on MFFA  lol have fun, enjoy!  Put it to good use!  
Share shit, drop some fucked up memes on me!

Happy Christmas, Newtonmas,  Quaid-e-Azam's Day,  Koliada,  Pancha Ganapati and Decemberween!!!!!!


(....aaand a little teaser.  We, uh, "might" be voting on some new reaction emoticons to go with it soon, member submissions welcome :)

lol they're being opened over the course of this week.  
I originally wanted to do them all on the 1st, but I didn't have the time to get all of it together, due to the malware issue, and general holiday chaos on my end.
Oh life.   But anyway....

~ SECOND PRESENT UNWRAPPED! ~
TIMELINE FEATURE REVAMPED

Once upon a time, we had a "What's New?" button on the top nav bar that brought you
to this, how do I put it, "difficult to look at" activity stream.


But now we have a snazzy new "Timeline" button, which brings you to this shiny new 
updated timeline, which I've done up in the theme of other social media sites like twitter and ye ol' fb.


Lots of styling work went into this, pulling back certain text, pushing other text forward to make things easier to read,
easier to pick out what people are actually saying, and who was saying it.  The comments on posts got re-styled to get rid
of that vertical line on the left, round out the edges, and space them properly from the sides.   The discord widget was
completely fuckin overhauled,  and so was the user block widget.  I also converted the popular topics list into a scrolling
top 100 topics, and overall the sidebar might undergo some small changes over the next couple weeks / month as it gets
settled in.  The embeds got some attention, the nav bar and rss buttons got it too.  The top area, custom stream
menu (in the pic where it says "Posts by Members I follow") got completely redone.  but...

The pièce de résistance in this feature is the "What's on your mind?" button up top.  It let's users add a new status update
in the spirit of twitter-book, which rounds out the whole "timeline" theme.

Aaaaaand there you have it.  We now have a social media stream on MFFA  lol have fun, enjoy!  Put it to good use!  
Share shit, drop some fucked up memes on me!

Happy Christmas, Newtonmas,  Quaid-e-Azam's Day,  Koliada,  Pancha Ganapati and Decemberween!!!!!!


(....aaand a little teaser.  We, uh, "might" be voting on some new reaction emoticons to go with it soon, member submissions welcome :)

What the hell just happened?
A sunny christmas afternoon, family stuff is all done with, holiday noise is finally dying down, and me and my gf come home to our apartment.  Great, time to release the 2nd x-mas present to the forum, awesome.  So I sit down at my desk, go to log into the site, and... "Site Unavailable Contact Bluehost or, If You're The Site's Owner, Click Here for Details." ...  Fuck.  So I click.  "Site is temporarily locked due to Malware / Viruses.  Please contact Bluehost."  Motherfuckers.  On christmas no less.

Enter Bluehost chat support.  Basically goes like this:

Me:  "It seems our site is flagged for Malware, what happened?"

BH:  "We recommend using our trusted partner Sitelock to fix it! 
They'll scan all your files and remove all viruses!"

~That quick.  No questions, nothing.  Just pay Sitelock ~
 
Me:  Do you have the list of infected files and the IP addresses that have accessed those files?

BH:  No we do not have The IP addresses that have accessed the file, but here's a list of the infected files.

~ At this point I begin download a back up of all the sites files from 3 days before ~ 

Me:  Why can't I just replace the corrupted files with backups from a few days before, when we weren't infected?

BH:  We do not allow file restores on locked sites.

~ First off, what is that feature for, if not this?  None the less, somehow, the files are downloading, and I still have FTP (back door) access... ~

Me:  Ok I'll take a look, see what I can do, and if I do pay somebody it's going to be someone I trust that is not affiliated with bluehost.

End of chat session 1

So seeing as how the backup files seem to be downloading just fine, I make the announcement on Discord, that the fix should only take a few hours.  Finish downloading, and then upload the clean files to replace the old ones.  I have the list of broken files so it should be easy enough.  Then the download times out.  Yea... our site is pretty freakin huge, especially considering that we do host the work of a few special creators.  And so there goes the easy fix.  Now it looks like I'm actually going to have to pay somebody to do this, because manually removing malware from files is beyond my abilities. 



Google.  Within minutes, I'm finding articles upon blogposts of people having similar things happen to them through a variety of hosts.  Apparently Sitelock is coupled with a ton of major hosting companies, and a ton of people have written articles about their site being basically held hostage by Sitelock who then demands an enormous amount of money to clean the site, and then even more for a yearly security package.  "Shit, are we mid-scam right now?" I start thinking to myself.  Either way, scam or not, I'm going to have to pay somebody to fix this, and there is no way in hell I'm pressing charges or pursuing this at all if it IS Sitelock, so it doesn't really matter.  Outcomes the same.  But I did find this one guy who wrote a ton of blog posts detailing Sitelocks misadventures, and he does the fix for pretty cheap. 



So I contact chat support again, to ask what Sitelock charges.  Sales pitch for the monthly fees begins before the question is answered.  I tell them I don't trust Sitelock and that this whole thing smells wrong, and that there is a zero percent chance that I'm paying monthly fees.  I just want the thing fixed as quickly as possible.  That's all.  $300 for a 1 time fix is their going rate.  And more than that per year for ongoing "protection".  ...take a second to think about this.  Considering the fact that most people are just going to fold and pay this, how much money... anyway Nope.  The guy that writes about how messed up Sitelock's behavior is, charges half that.



Aaaand so I contact that guy.  White Fir Designs.  He's ready to go, says he can have it done in a few hours.  I also contacted this site, who never got back to me.  So I post another announcement on Discord updating everyone, and then I talked with Aлескей.  I figured if I'm going to pay someone to do this, HE's getting dibs on the job before anyone else, if he wants it.  (Granted this could be incredibly difficult, requiring great skill and well worth compensation.  And I'm prepared to pay someone anyway, so truth be told I should pay him if he's going to do it.)

So he decides to take a look at it, and see if it's something he can do.  I tell the White Fur guy that one of our staff's administrators is currently taking a look at it, but to please be prepared.  If he can't fix it, we need it done quickly.  He's ready to go, says it usually only takes him a couple hours.  Great.  I post another announcement on Discord saying Aлескей is giving it a shot, and if he can't do it, we got someone else lined up.

I come home from work last night at fuck all o'clock in the morning, -3 degrees outside, and... what's this? Hell to the Mutherfucking Yes!  Aлескей says the files should be good to go.  I immediately get on Bluehost's chat support, and have them scan the site.  And they come back with "The files are still infected.  We're generating another malware.txt file in your root directory with the details. ....shit.   I open up that file, and check this noise out:
Yea.

 
...saga will be continued soon in this post...
going out to dinner and movie with gf, (new star wars, finally!)
Anyway, to be continued...

Enter Bluehost chat support, act 3.  I go back to Bluehost chat support, and tell them we had a professional coder clean the files, and also again that I don't trust sitelock.  I posted the content of the malware.txt file in the chat and asked: 

"We are not a security company" "Files may contain false positives" "these files appear to contain maiclious code" "You are ultimately responsible for all of your content". So if we're responsible for all of our content, some of which may or may not contain malicious code according to the guess of Not a security company, then what the hell is our site actually locked for?

"I'm sorry for the inconvenience. We'll scan the files." lol ok great.  I leave for work.  Come home and the site is back up... Ok, sweet!  But, nothing changed since the last time except I used the words "cleaned by professional coder" and "I don't trust sitelock".  And magically we passed their test.  Abra-ca-friggin-dabra?  So their first rescan wasn't done or done improperly  ...perhaps they scanned a cached or older version of the files or somehow?  I don't know.  But Aлескей fix worked, and we're back up and running, and that's what matters most.

I couldn't help but bother Aлескей at work to let him know his fixes fixed the site, and that we were back!  Joy!  Christmas is... srved.  And as awesome as he is, no charge, fix was easy enough.  Thank you kind sir.  Saved the day, and quick and free!  Aaaand we are back on our feet!  And life on the forum can resume as usual.  

Wherever that hack came from... idk.  Keep it mind that it very well could've been legit.  This narrative is just what I went through trying to deal with it over the last couple days without much time to process, between work and x-mas.  Although I am clearly not alone in my suspicions, they could still be misguided none the less.  But all the passwords have been changed, and me and  Aлескей are going to discuss it further soon, and see if we need to change any of our security measures.

 
 Soooo happy mugening guys!  Sorry x-mas didn't turn out to be quite as fun as we'd planned.  
We'll just unwrap all the presents on new-years instead :)
 
 

What the hell just happened?
A sunny christmas afternoon, family stuff is all done with, holiday noise is finally dying down, and me and my gf come home to our apartment.  Great, time to release the 2nd x-mas present to the forum, awesome.  So I sit down at my desk, go to log into the site, and... "Site Unavailable Contact Bluehost or, If You're The Site's Owner, Click Here for Details." ...  Fuck.  So I click.  "Site is temporarily locked due to Malware / Viruses.  Please contact Bluehost."  Motherfuckers.  On christmas no less.

Enter Bluehost chat support.  Basically goes like this:

Me:  "It seems our site is flagged for Malware, what happened?"

BH:  "We recommend using our trusted partner Sitelock to fix it! 
They'll scan all your files and remove all viruses!"

~That quick.  No questions, nothing.  Just pay Sitelock ~
 
Me:  Do you have the list of infected files and the IP addresses that have accessed those files?

BH:  No we do not have The IP addresses that have accessed the file, but here's a list of the infected files.

~ At this point I begin download a back up of all the sites files from 3 days before ~ 

Me:  Why can't I just replace the corrupted files with backups from a few days before, when we weren't infected?

BH:  We do not allow file restores on locked sites.

~ First off, what is that feature for, if not this?  None the less, somehow, the files are downloading, and I still have FTP (back door) access... ~

Me:  Ok I'll take a look, see what I can do, and if I do pay somebody it's going to be someone I trust that is not affiliated with bluehost.

End of chat session 1

So seeing as how the backup files seem to be downloading just fine, I make the announcement on Discord, that the fix should only take a few hours.  Finish downloading, and then upload the clean files to replace the old ones.  I have the list of broken files so it should be easy enough.  Then the download times out.  Yea... our site is pretty freakin huge, especially considering that we do host the work of a few special creators.  And so there goes the easy fix.  Now it looks like I'm actually going to have to pay somebody to do this, because manually removing malware from files is beyond my abilities. 



Google.  Within minutes, I'm finding articles upon blogposts of people having similar things happen to them through a variety of hosts.  Apparently Sitelock is coupled with a ton of major hosting companies, and a ton of people have written articles about their site being basically held hostage by Sitelock who then demands an enormous amount of money to clean the site, and then even more for a yearly security package.  "Shit, are we mid-scam right now?" I start thinking to myself.  Either way, scam or not, I'm going to have to pay somebody to fix this, and there is no way in hell I'm pressing charges or pursuing this at all if it IS Sitelock, so it doesn't really matter.  Outcomes the same.  But I did find this one guy who wrote a ton of blog posts detailing Sitelocks misadventures, and he does the fix for pretty cheap. 



So I contact chat support again, to ask what Sitelock charges.  Sales pitch for the monthly fees begins before the question is answered.  I tell them I don't trust Sitelock and that this whole thing smells wrong, and that there is a zero percent chance that I'm paying monthly fees.  I just want the thing fixed as quickly as possible.  That's all.  $300 for a 1 time fix is their going rate.  And more than that per year for ongoing "protection".  ...take a second to think about this.  Considering the fact that most people are just going to fold and pay this, how much money... anyway Nope.  The guy that writes about how messed up Sitelock's behavior is, charges half that.



Aaaand so I contact that guy.  White Fir Designs.  He's ready to go, says he can have it done in a few hours.  I also contacted this site, who never got back to me.  So I post another announcement on Discord updating everyone, and then I talked with Aлескей.  I figured if I'm going to pay someone to do this, HE's getting dibs on the job before anyone else, if he wants it.  (Granted this could be incredibly difficult, requiring great skill and well worth compensation.  And I'm prepared to pay someone anyway, so truth be told I should pay him if he's going to do it.)

So he decides to take a look at it, and see if it's something he can do.  I tell the White Fur guy that one of our staff's administrators is currently taking a look at it, but to please be prepared.  If he can't fix it, we need it done quickly.  He's ready to go, says it usually only takes him a couple hours.  Great.  I post another announcement on Discord saying Aлескей is giving it a shot, and if he can't do it, we got someone else lined up.

I come home from work last night at fuck all o'clock in the morning, -3 degrees outside, and... what's this? Hell to the Mutherfucking Yes!  Aлескей says the files should be good to go.  I immediately get on Bluehost's chat support, and have them scan the site.  And they come back with "The files are still infected.  We're generating another malware.txt file in your root directory with the details. ....shit.   I open up that file, and check this noise out:
Yea.

 
...saga will be continued soon in this post...
going out to dinner and movie with gf, (new star wars, finally!)
Anyway, to be continued...

Enter Bluehost chat support, act 3.  I go back to Bluehost chat support, and tell them we had a professional coder clean the files, and also again that I don't trust sitelock.  I posted the content of the malware.txt file in the chat and asked: 

"We are not a security company" "Files may contain false positives" "these files appear to contain maiclious code" "You are ultimately responsible for all of your content". So if we're responsible for all of our content, some of which may or may not contain malicious code according to the guess of Not a security company, then what the hell is our site actually locked for?

"I'm sorry for the inconvenience. We'll scan the files." lol ok great.  I leave for work.  Come home and the site is back up... Ok, sweet!  But, nothing changed since the last time except I used the words "cleaned by professional coder" and "I don't trust sitelock".  And magically we passed their test.  Abra-ca-friggin-dabra?  So their first rescan wasn't done or done improperly  ...perhaps they scanned a cached or older version of the files or somehow?  I don't know.  But Aлескей fix worked, and we're back up and running, and that's what matters most.

I couldn't help but bother Aлескей at work to let him know his fixes fixed the site, and that we were back!  Joy!  Christmas is... srved.  And as awesome as he is, no charge, fix was easy enough.  Thank you kind sir.  Saved the day, and quick and free!  Aaaand we are back on our feet!  And life on the forum can resume as usual.  

Wherever that hack came from... idk.  Keep it mind that it very well could've been legit.  This narrative is just what I went through trying to deal with it over the last couple days without much time to process, between work and x-mas.  Although I am clearly not alone in my suspicions, they could still be misguided none the less.  But all the passwords have been changed, and me and  Aлескей are going to discuss it further soon, and see if we need to change any of our security measures.

 
 Soooo happy mugening guys!  Sorry x-mas didn't turn out to be quite as fun as we'd planned.  
We'll just unwrap all the presents on new-years instead :)
 
 

My Christmas Gifts for ya!
ANNOUNCEMENT VIDEO

INFO

Hey everyone, gui0007 here. Merry Christmas to all of you MFFA-ers!
There are some gifts for you, i'll post them as it shows in the Announcement Video.
 
Christmas Gift #1 KOF Memorial Level 2 Red Edition -Extended Pack- DONE!
Christmas Gift #2 KOF Memorial Level 3 -FINAL VERSION- DONE!
Christmas Gift #3 MKP Season 2.5 -Ultimate Update EXTRA CONTENT for the Final Version DONE!
Christmas Gift #4 MUGEN Match 2.1 -VERSION 4-  DONE!


CHRISTMAS GIFT #1
The King of Fighters Memorial Level 2 -Red Edition- (FINAL VERSION + Extended Pack)
 
FINAL VERSION VIDEO
DOWNLOAD → MEGA / Mediafire
 
EXTENDED PACK VIDEO
DOWNLOAD → Mediafire
 
The first Christmas Gift it's Final Version of my KOF Memorial Level 2 Red Edtion!
Also i did an "Extended Pack", with new stages, new characters, new versions of existent characters and more.

For the Extended Pack works fine, follow these steps:
1. Download the Game
2. Download the Pack
3. Extract the Pack in the Game's folder via WinRar or 7-Zip.
4. It'll appear if you want to replace some stuff, that are the .def of the stages that are updated, some of the sounds, the select.def and system.def. Select "Yes to All" and it's done.
5. Open the game and have fun!

More will come, stay tuned!

MFFAWN #34  (Dec 10 - 16, 2017)
by gui0007 + Mʀ. Sтᴇαl-Yoᴜя-Wαεfυ + White Ranger
 
Snow Day

 
Sunday, 12/10/2017
[ CHARACTER / RELEASE / ANY MUGEN / AI:NORMAL ]

Raiden (CAPCOM vs SNK) by knuckles8864
DOWNLOAD LINK
 
Monday, 12/11/2017
[ CHARACTER / UPDATE / RELEASE / ANY MUGEN / AI:NORMAL ]

Zenryoku by tanukida_taichi
DOWNLOAD LINK
 
 
[ CHARACTER / RELEASE / ANY MUGEN / AI:EASY ]

Sally Stageplay (Cuphead) by AngryBirdCooler
DOWNLOAD LINK
 
 
[ CHARACTER / RELEASE / ANY MUGEN / AI:EASY ]

Mr. Wheezy (Cuphead) by AngryBirdCooler
DOWNLOAD LINK
 
Tuesday, 12/12/2017
[ CHARACTER / UPDATE / RELEASE / ANY MUGEN / AI:NORMAL ]

Monster Hulk (Marvel) by aoiro
VIDEO PREVIEW
DOWNLOAD LINK
 
 
[ CHARACTER / RELEASE / ANY MUGEN / AI:HARD ]

Qdora by Gondwona
DOWNLOAD LINK
 
 
Wednesday, 12/13/2017
 
[ CHARACTER / RELEASE / ANY MUGEN / AI:NORMAL ]
 
Black (Jump Pocket) by Alextrox
DOWNLOAD LINK
 
Thursday, 12/14/2017
[ STAGE / RELEASE / ANY MUGEN / 320 x 240 ]

Helipad Fight Night by CoolAnimeHustler
DOWNLOAD LINK
 
 
Friday, 12/15/2017
[ CHARACTER / BETA / EDIT / RELEASE / ANY MUGEN / AI:NORMAL ]

Supreme Sagat by M206
DOWNLOAD LINK
 
 
[ CHARACTER / RELEASE / ANY MUGEN  AI:NORMAL ]

Gabriella (CVS3/Pots Style) by Prime SC
VIDEO PREVIEW
DOWNLOAD LINK
 
 
[ FULL GAME / RELEASE ]

Call of Duty Nazi Zombies by armin_iuf
DOWNLOAD LINK
 
Saturday, 12/16/2017
 
[ STAGE / RELEASE / 1.1 / 320 X 240 ]

No Escape From Hell by DJ Luke
DOWNLOAD LINK
 
 
[ STAGE / RELEASE / ANY MUGEN / 320 x 240 ]

Japan Subway Station by CoolAnimeHustler
DOWNLOAD LINK
 
 
WEEKLY FUNNY

 
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ʕु-̫͡-ʔु”-- CoolAnimeHustler's Creations
ʕु-̫͡-ʔु”-- Yo, What's Up MFFA Fam! It's The CoolAnimeHustler And Here's The Works I Have Made So Far For The Mugen Engine! If You Want To Get The Goods, You Can Find My Stages On My Blog, Yo! Look Under The Category Called (CAH's Mugen Works Of Awesome ʕु-̫͡-ʔु”). Have Fun and Caring Is Sharing! ʕु-̫͡-ʔु”
https://coolanimehustler.blogspot.com/

~ FIRST PRESENT UNWRAPPED! ~
CLUBS FEATURE OPENED

The Clubs feature is now open for business!!!  Wtf are clubs you ask?  Clubs are like little mini forums within the forum.  They each have their own moderators who can manage club members and create topics sections.  And in those topics sections, members can post topics.  Almost like groups on Facebook.  Anyone can start one, and when you do you automatically become the groups Owner.  You can then make other group members moderators or leaders.  (mods can manage content, leaders can manage content and members).  And of course, Global Mods still have run of the show lol They still have all the same authority over the club leaders like any other members.

Aaaand with all that being said, have at it!  It's all you, go nuts, create clubs for anything and everything!  Have discussions about wtf ever you want!  Check the top nav bar, and click Clubs to check it out!

Friendly suggestion, anyone looking to form Mugen Content Creation teams might find this a really useful tool for doing so...

~ FIRST PRESENT UNWRAPPED! ~
CLUBS FEATURE OPENED

The Clubs feature is now open for business!!!  Wtf are clubs you ask?  Clubs are like little mini forums within the forum.  They each have their own moderators who can manage club members and create topics sections.  And in those topics sections, members can post topics.  Almost like groups on Facebook.  Anyone can start one, and when you do you automatically become the groups Owner.  You can then make other group members moderators or leaders.  (mods can manage content, leaders can manage content and members).  And of course, Global Mods still have run of the show lol They still have all the same authority over the club leaders like any other members.

Aaaand with all that being said, have at it!  It's all you, go nuts, create clubs for anything and everything!  Have discussions about wtf ever you want!  Check the top nav bar, and click Clubs to check it out!

Friendly suggestion, anyone looking to form Mugen Content Creation teams might find this a really useful tool for doing so...

MFFAWN #32  (Nov 19 - 25, 2017)
by gui0007 + Mʀ. Sтᴇαl-Yoᴜя-Wαεfυ + White Ranger
 
Stay Cool

 
 
Sunday, 11/19/2017
 
[ CHARACTER / EDIT / RELEASE / ANY MUGEN / AI:NORMAL ]

Jin Kazama ToSix Style (Tekken) by chuchoryu, Duracelleur, & Naresee
DOWNLOAD LINK
 
 
Monday, 11/20/2017
[ CHARACTER / RELEASE / ANY MUGEN / AI:NORMAL ]


Goopy Le Grande (Cuphead) by Dark Ruler
VIDEO PREVIEW
DOWNLOAD LINK
 
 
[ CHARACTER / EDIT / RELEASE / ANY MUGEN / AI:NORMAL ]

Aquaman (DC Comics) by Zvitor, & Dark Luigi, & edited by ghost_rider
DOWNLOAD LINK
 
 
[ STAGE / RELEASE / 1.0,1.1 / 640 X 480 ]

Bebop City Alleyway (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) by OldGamer
DOWNLOAD LINK
 
Tuesday, 11/21/2017
[ CHARACTER / RELEASE / ANY MUGEN / AI:NORMAL ]

Cagney Carnation (Cuphead) by AngryBirdCooler
VIDEO PREVIEW
DOWNLOAD LINK
 
 
[ CHARACTER / RELEASE / ANY MUGEN / AI:NORMAL ]

Beppi the Clown (Cuphead) by AngryBirdCooler
VIDEO PREVIEW
DOWNLOAD LINK
 
 
[ CHARACTER / RELEASE / ANY MUGEN / AI:NORMAL ]

VK-2 (KFA) by ZETA
DOWNLOAD LINK
 
Wednesday, 11/22/2017
 
[ CHARACTER / UPDATE / RELEASE / 1.0,1.1 / AI:NORMAL ]

Sanae Kochiya (Touhou Project) by RicePigeon
DOWNLOAD LINK
 
Thursday, 11/23/2017(Thanksgiving)
[ CHARACTER(S) / UPDATE / RELEASE / 1.0,1.1 / AI:NORMAL  ]

Marisa Kirisame & Yukari Yakumo (Touhou Project) by RicePigeon
DOWNLOAD LINK(Marisa)
DOWNLOAD LINK(Yukari)
 
 
[ STAGE / RELEASE / 1.1 / 800 X 600 ]

Avenger is Coming by Dj Luke
DOWNLOAD LINK
 
Friday, 11/24/2017
[ CHARACTER(S) / UPDATE / RELEASE / 1.0,1.1 / AI:NORMAL ]

3 Touhou Characters Updated
DOWNLOAD LINK(Youmu)
DOWNLOAD LINK(Koishi)
DOWNLOAD LINK(Yuuka)
 
 
[ CHARACTER / RELEASE / ANY MUGEN / AI:EASY ]

Sera (Shoujo Mahou Gakuen) by Valgallah
DOWNLOAD LINK
 
 
[ STAGE / RELEASE / 1.0 / 320 X 240 ]

Junkman Yard (Mega Man 7) by OldGamer
DOWNLOAD LINK
 
 
[ CHARACTER / UPDATE / RELEASE / ANY MUGEN / AI:NORMAL ]

Charles Babbage by Jaki
DOWNLOAD LINK
 
 
[ CHARACTER / RELEASE / ANY MUGEN / AI:NORMAL ]

Urban Champion (Famicom Fighters) by KingPepe2010
DOWNLOAD LINK
 
 
Saturday, 11/25/2017
[ CHARACTER(S) / UPDATE / RELEASE / 1.0,1.1 / AI:NORMAL ]

Eight Touhou Characters Updated by RicePigeon
DOWNLOAD LINK(Author's Site)
 
 
Gaming News
 
Are Loot Boxes Considered Gambling?

NEWS ARTICLE
 
Christmas Themed Costumes Coming To Street Fighter V

NEWS ARTICLE
 
GameStop CEO Steps Down After Having Brain Tumor Removed, Health Issues Return

NEWS ARTICLE
 
Valkyria Chronicles 4 Announced For PS4, Xbox One, & Switch

NEWS ARTICLE
 
 
Weekly Funny

 
 
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