Announcement - [NEW ALERT!] Resource Blacklist - The resources you should definitly not use

Avery · 2015-02-09T08:39:20+0900

I have made this list a while ago on a German forum, but I thought it would be useful to have it here as well. If there's any problem with it, please tell me. I don't want any discussion about using Rips the chance of getting punished for using stolen stuff, this is just to give you the information, so noone can say "I didn't know about this". You can suggest other stuff to add, but please include links to the original sources or screens of the game where the things are ripped off. 1. The Avadan Ship This is maybe one of the most famoust ships for RM VX and Ace - and sadly nearly as famous for including ripped parts. Archeia detected this here, but there are still many people using it, some don't know about this fact, some just don't care. Spoiler Spoiler Original: The Ship by Avadan (one of it's many versions, this is just for showing, DO NOT USE THIS!) What you could use instead: Spoiler Spoiler I am working on a ship tileset, there is a full functional base yet: Avery's Ship Celianna has an awesome one. Schnecke/Snail made another one. And there is this Edit of the XP-Ship; you would need to owm RMXP to be allowed to use it (and to ask someone to translate the japanese terms). 2. The "Big Icon Set" One of the most aweful violations of the terms I ever saw (and a very successful, too -_-) Here we have: stolen stuff of various RPG-Artists who's terms also tell people not to repost (without any credits, of course) and also ripped stuff. If no credits and the many different styled weren't enough hints, here is a clear: delete it! Spoiler Spoiler Some of the original sources: http://ccw.blog.shinobi.jp/アイコン素材/ http://whitecafe.sakura.ne.jp/material.html And games where the rips come from: Ragnarok Online Fire Emblem Alternative stuff Spoiler Spoiler Yeah, I know, it is a lot more work than just pasting a large sheet, but: http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/27484-grannys-lists-balloons-and-icons/ includes nearly all legal sources for icons, and with slimmeiske's great list you have also easy access to the terms of the Japanese artists. 3. Nightfox' stuff Nightfox was a German ...artist back then. In fact, he stole parts of the work of other people and used rips. He never made clear what he got where, so just don't use anything that can be found in his thread. Spoiler Spoiler The graphics are left inside the thread so people can go and check what NOT to use. Nightfox' Ressourcen 4. VXresourceplanet A large resource Site... well, they just mostly "forget" to mention, who made the stuff what is posted there. Random things from around the web, violating the terms of different artists and nearly no credits, great. Spoiler Spoiler VXresourceplanet DO NOT USE THE THINGS FOUND THERE! Example for stolen stuff: this post and this one Original source is Vibrato, the stuff can be found in this huge Pack by him you can download on this site. There are no credits given, even though it is against his terms, translated here. 5. Some statues There are also some Terranigma statues which are mostly used in some XP-Projects Spoiler Spoiler 6. Zanyzora/Teamanti See the Terranigma statues above? Zanyzora/Teamanti posted them, just for example. This was a site with a lot of cool XP-Edits... mixed up with rips. Since the site went offline, the stuff is spread all over the web and it's nearly impossible to say where it can be found. But since Zanyzora mostly forgot to tell us about used rips, don't use anything with this name in the credits without beeing very sure that only XP-tiles were the base for that (she had some autotiles for example that can be used without any issues). An example (thanks to PandaMaru for finding the original sources!): Spoiler Spoiler Golden Axe Screen (the throne in the BG): Suikoden II Screen (the pines): Castlevania: Set with the rips: Second Example: Spoiler Spoiler Illusion of time screen: Set with rips: Third example Spoiler Spoiler Original source: http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/thenewpage/levels.html Ripped set: and another one Spoiler Spoiler Original source: e.g.: http://uo.stratics.com/database/view.php?db_content=gameitem&id=2405&cat=851 7. Ragnarok Whenever you read Ragnarok or Ragnarok online anywhere in the credits, be suspicious! This is an online game and guess what - those graphics are not free to use! The game has a very own graphic style and the rips are mostly labeled as battlers, chars or sometimes there are also icons Art examples: Spoiler Spoiler http://rns.gamona.de/index.php?show=monster_re&act=search&key=Desert+Wolf 8. BenBen/Kaliban and Hanzo Kimura The BenBen Tiles were released after the game was cancelled and they are very popular. Sadly they contain Rips and they should not be used! Spoiler Spoiler Example for ripped stuff in the BenBen-Tiles: Ridley (Metroid): Example for stolen stuff in the BenBen-Tiles: Terms of Studio Pickle (no repost): http://www008.upp.so-net.ne.jp/newiceax/framepage1.htm charsets: http://www008.upp.so-net.ne.jp/newiceax/framepage1.htm (parts…

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Candacis

#101 Nov 15, 2015, 01:19 AM Source

To add about the Big Iconset. Some of those icons are from Guild Wars 1. A fairly known MMO. So, if you use those icons (they are easily recognizable), people WILL find out and you could get into serious trouble with the publishers from Guild Wars. And they are not a small company.
CallMeKerrigan

#102 Nov 15, 2015, 04:46 PM Source

I found this resource pack on the steam workshop:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=232004450 (Author's name is Shigekichi)

All of the tiles are exact copies from this website:

http://bougainvillea.egoism.jp/material/material.html (Website name is Bougainvillea)

There is no 'bougainvillea' mentioned on the steam page. And some of the tilesets seem to be missing pieces from Bougainvillea's tilesets. They're like partially complete. I thought this was suspicious.
Marquise*

#103 Nov 15, 2015, 04:49 PM Source

Candacis said:
To add about the Big Iconset. Some of those icons are from Guild Wars 1. A fairly known MMO. So, if you use those icons (they are easily recognizable), people WILL find out and you could get into serious trouble with the publishers from Guild Wars. And they are not a small company.
You reminisce me of when I first found Dropbox and their security Icon was Link's Triforce shield and I sent them a comment about it wondering if they were owned by Nintendo or something. :p
Sharm

#104 Nov 15, 2015, 04:53 PM Source

@KerriganSaila: For stuff like that you should report them.
CallMeKerrigan

#105 Nov 15, 2015, 05:42 PM Source

I was hoping someone would correct me. I didn't know if maybe it was the original author going under another name. I just wanted to check first.
slimmmeiske2

#106 Nov 15, 2015, 06:56 PM Source

It's the same person I believe. When you click at Bougainvillea's site on READ ME, you get the English terms with at the end "written by SHIGEKICHI".
CallMeKerrigan

#107 Nov 16, 2015, 08:11 PM Source

Thank you for clarifying. :) I missed that.
Sausage_Boi

#108 Dec 18, 2015, 07:38 PM Source

Anybody have any info about this site: http://spritefx.blogspot.com/ I feel like I recognize some of the tiles in the RPG Tiles section, but I don't know... it might be nothing
Lunarea

#109 Dec 18, 2015, 07:40 PM Source

I found this resource pack on the steam workshop:

https://steamcommuni...s/?id=232004450 (Author's name is Shigekichi)

All of the tiles are exact copies from this website:

http://bougainvillea...l/material.html (Website name is Bougainvillea)

There is no 'bougainvillea' mentioned on the steam page. And some of the tilesets seem to be missing pieces from Bougainvillea's tilesets. They're like partially complete. I thought this was suspicious.
I just wanted to add... This was posted by our team (i.e. official), and we did have explicit permission from Shigekichi to post it. So, no need to report it. :)
Kyuukon

#110 Dec 22, 2015, 11:49 PM Source

edit: nevermind :)
TheSourceCode

#111 Dec 31, 2015, 04:32 PM Source

Woah, hold the phone! I think I've might have download that REALLY big icon set myself, can anyone clarify that the one I've downloaded is the icon sheet in question, please?

And since I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post links to outside sites, (this IS my first time posting after all) does anybody know if the resources from "RPG Maker VX Ace Resource Planet" are safe? Because that's where I've downloaded it, along with a couple other assets. D=

But I must say, thank you Avery for taking your time to create this thread! Most appreciated! =3
mlogan

#112 Dec 31, 2015, 04:49 PM Source

You can post a link.
Andar

#113 Dec 31, 2015, 04:54 PM Source

TheSourceCode said:
I think I've might have download that REALLY big icon set myself, can anyone clarify that the one I've downloaded is the icon sheet in question, please?
An invalidated version of that big icon sheet is displayed in the spoiler of the very first post of this topic - just compare, if even one group of the icons looks similiar then the chances are high that you got at least part of the illegal resources in yours.
TheSourceCode

#114 Dec 31, 2015, 05:00 PM Source

You can post a link.

An invalidated version of that big icon sheet is displayed in the spoiler of the very first post of this topic - just compare, if even one group of the icons looks similiar then the chances are high that you got at least part of the illegal resources in yours.

Ah, okey-dokey then! =3

And yes, they actually do look very similar to each other. Chances are looking preeeeety big of them being the illegal version so far, but here's the link from where I downloaded it from:
Haydeos

#115 Dec 31, 2015, 05:24 PM Source

yep, that's the one.
Andar

#116 Dec 31, 2015, 05:31 PM Source

TheSourceCode said:
And yes, they actually do look very similar to each other. Chances are looking preeeeety big of them being the illegal version so far, but here's the link from where I downloaded it from:
Yes, as said that is the illegal iconset - that's why I removed the link after checking.
And I wouldn't touch anything from that site at all - not a single post of it gives credit to the artists (which is required in 99% of all cases), so those resources are probably breaking the artist TOS even if they aren't ripped.
TheSourceCode

#117 Dec 31, 2015, 05:32 PM Source

Haydeos said:
yep, that's the one.
Darn... Whelp, I know the first thing I'm going to do now! Thank you all so much for the help! Really appreciate it! =D

~~EDIT: I'll go remove my link now. =3~~

Yes, as said that is the illegal iconset - that's why I removed the link after checking.And I wouldn't touch anything from that site at all - not a single post of it gives credit to the artists (which is required in 99% of all cases), so those resources are probably breaking the artist TOS even if they aren't ripped.
Yeah, so sorry about that, I'll be sure to never return to that site again! Thanks again for the help! =)
Valkyriet

#118 Jan 7, 2016, 03:52 AM Source

I found this blog while searching for some sprites : https://rpgconspiracy.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/monsters/

At the bottom it's mentioned "I found these reposted a lot so...dunno what to do for creds". I think the phoenix and the salamander are from XP, but there are some I don't recognize. Especially that beautiful Garuda. Anyone recognize who really created these?
Avery

#119 Jan 7, 2016, 04:35 AM Source

One Garuda is a not very good recolor of the XP one, the other by Vibrato and I recognize a lot of Studio Pickle/Ice Axe's Sprites.

Other chars (robots) are from the Enterbrain Blog, I think Deb posted them somewhere here as well.

Behemoth is an Edit of Vibrato's Behemoth.

The sheet with the dragon and it's recolors are listed as Yoshino's in Deb's old animal list.

No idea about that winged XP sprite dark angel.

I don't know the original source of the large ogre, I've only seen it been reposted over and over.

The werewolf could be a work by coyotecraft.

The mixed monsters are out of the Coming of Age set, that has also been discussed and definitly contains at least Material out of VX/Ace and (several?) unkown sources. I never looked very close at the set or did any research about it so I can't tell you more.
Euphony

#120 Jan 9, 2016, 03:31 AM Source

Okay, I'm probably a little behind on this because there's so much discussion going on in this thread, but...I'm honestly still confused about the BenBen stuff. .__.;; I've seen commercial games from Aldorlea using tiles from that huge BenBen tileset (for example). Do the devs there have information we don't? What's good to use, what's not good to use? Will the mystery that is the BenBen tileset ever be solved?