Category: Pokemon

  • Top-Sixty Ranked Player NeonHenchman Perma-Muted out of the Blue

    Covered at the sole discretion of clymax for sake of transparency on Retro Achievements, which was one of the aims of Moderator BahamutVoid in leaving his farewell letter not long after Administrator televandalist’s own resignation letter dropped. If you have any concerns with this mirror, please reach out to clymax directly.

    Global Points Ranking Leaderboard

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    By RetroPoints – Historical, Before Formula Change

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    You can follow NeonHenchman on YouTube or RA.

    August 31, 2026

    No Warning or Recourse

    I’ve been muted until 2038, even though I really feel wronged, still to this day.

    The Muting was just recent and there was no notification about it, but it all stems from a lot of bad faith months prior.

    DM-ing a Mod & then on-site’s RAdmin, they never responded, it’s obvious what it’s about.

    First Mute… Then Thread Locked

    The timeline is that, I really loathed the Resident Evil 4 GameCube Set, not because of the creator, but because it’s badly designed, like one of the achievements about Regenerador was impossible to follow on Professional Difficulty, while a lot of others had you abuse the adaptive difficulty, it’s just cumbersome.

    Then I was muted for a week, because when I made the argument that adding RPG-level of grinding to that game is inappropriate, they kept going in bad faith like saying “What do you think of Final Fantasy’s grinding achievements then?”, they wouldn’t understand context which ticked me off. I then made a Thread to vent my frustration, but while they did locked it, they hadn’t muted me again, that was on February/March.

    Perma-Muted out of the Blue

    [Editor’s note: it is believed that the mute is for the longest supported duration, amounting to a perma-mute.]

    Up until August, I was in good standing it seems, and I wasn’t using the service actively, only really responding to a few people, but then out of the blue in August, they did muted me until 2038. I believe I’ve had a doomspell put on me as I was about to say something about a crappy game that yet got a revision just recently. Basically, all my problems were about Quantity Vs. Quality.

    They also seemed more pissed at me reusing my old memory cards, than they were my criticism, which was odd, their portugese channel made it seem I was just skipping across games to get Points, even though I used to be Top-40 in terms of RetroPoints.

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  • Departure of Developer Cadaxar of Retro Achievements [Mirror]

    To see Cadaxar’s developed sets on RA, click here.

    Via Jr-Dev Channel on Discord on May 31, 2025

    Let this be a warning to all future devs, if you are not absolutely perfect you will be dev banned eventually. Instead of informing you of problems in a set you will have a list compiled against you then thrown in your face along with a removal from Devving. Good luck to you all

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  • Departure of Developer UnsolidSnake of Retro Achievements [Mirror]

    To see UnsolidSnake’s developed sets on RA, click here.

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    Response of Departed Developer UnsolidSnake of Retro Achievements [Mirror]

    Original Link: https://retroachievements.org/forums/topic/24374?comment=251761#251761

    December 3, 2024

    Fact is, I spent the better part of 3 months busting my ass off making this set, only for my work to be invalidated at the last minute. This is just about the most disrespectful thing you could possibly do to a dev. I have no desire to come back until I can be certain that I’ll be allowed to work on whatever I want without having shit like this happen whenever a mod or DevComp member gets too antsy about my contrarian stances or if my tongue is too sharp for their liking (I did word some of my arguments harshly, but there were no instances of me outright insulting another person on this site).

    All this and then I find out you already had a proper way of handling this back in the old days. You have no excuse.

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  • Former Junior Developer AuroraX’s Subset of the Month Vandalized by Writing Team of Retro Achievements [Mirror]

    You can follow AuroraX on SRC or RA.

    Mirrored at the sole discretion of clymax for sake of transparency on Retro Achievements, which was one of the aims of Moderator BahamutVoid in leaving his farewell letter not long after Administrator televandalist’s own resignation letter dropped. If you have any concerns with this mirror, please reach out to clymax directly.

    Subset: Metroid (NES)

    Original Post: https://retroachievements.org/forums/topic/21251?comment=244996#244996

    October 23, 2024

    I don’t want to come across as rude to people who worked hard on the text rewrite. I’m merely venting out some frustrations… Just keep that in mind when reading this. While a few things were indeed made more clear… that actually comes at the complete detriment to the spirit of the game… which is mystery. The descriptions were MEANT to be vague and riddle like in nature to match closely with how it feels to play Metroid.

    The titles are mostly left in tact, and I’m mostly fine with them, except with “And I’m a Rebel!” I am vehemently, vehemently against this change. This completely ruins a childhood reference that was one my personal stamps on the set, I have no power to change any edits done, but please revert the title back to its Spanish counterpart. …please. And also, for the narpassword warning, if you’re gonna make me say something I clearly didn’t, you might as well remove me “saying” the quote altogether. I’m also very unhappy about that description’s change, and the complete removal of the “UwU”. Again, another little stamp to indeed showed it was me. I put an unbelievable amount of work into the set… the least I could’ve gotten out of it if no one played it, was a bit of my quirky nature still shining through in some titles and descriptors.

    I spent nearly as much time on the titles and descriptions as I did the artwork. I’m fine with a few things being made more clear, for how they’re in actuality implemented code wise, but so much much of the fun light hearted spirit I put in has been removed, and it sadness me greatly. This set was intended to be a work of art. I know that goes against this sites goals of being very clear cut, and how others sets tend to be… but all the oddities is what made this set feel special (even if you had no intention of playing it).

    TL;DR

    • The quirkiness and soul of the set has been nurtured and corporatized, and it saddens me greatly. (It is what is I guess…)
    • Change back “And I’m a Rebel” back to it’s Spanish counterpart (please… TwT)
    • And remove me from my 4th wall break in the Narpas cheat warning, as they are not my words, and it makes me uncomfortable.

    Despite these personal grievances, I appreciate the work being done to improve the set. I honestly thought it would just wither away and die…

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