This incident highlights the same lack of transparency that Moderator BahamutVoid would soon raise in leaving his farewell letter not long after Administrator televandalist’s own resignation letter dropped.
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September 21, 2025
The ban took the form of what is referred to as an “Untracked” player status on Retro Achievements.
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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
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.
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.
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…
