What I gathered from that massive wall
@antago posted is that Graal is a MMORPG Zelda clone that turned into a cancerous tumor of lolsuits, asshole Frenchmen with ego issues, spinoffs with people flinging shit at each other, and a never ending cascade of butthurt.
That's basically the gist of it; "Graal Online" as they call it, started out as an illegal Zelda cult operated by pedophiles & child predators to lure kids in. (see image below; PACHUKA also ran other cults)
The community hasn't changed much, it's just fancier looking like a 5 Star restaurant with hookers and mafia men shooting up their enemies in the back in torture chambers over competitive territorial business arrangements. And no, I do not consider that glamorous; these are literally international con-men, the major rift being that they targeted to prey on English-speaking American children or other countries. They assumed they could get away with it, because they're outside the borders of France & Germany. Also, the countries they target have lots of money & talented kids who they can steal artwork from.
Preamble
Some German programmer coded a generic tile editor then ripped the Zelda 3 rom to target American kids mostly.
Originally, the server application could be ran by anyone including the emulator tools, so you could create your own game communities. The game tools were pretty much another Unreal or Unity game engine to make your own games, except they were low-end freeware. The German coder had a server-host where he illegally kept the Zelda 3 rom up.
That server guy is Stephane "Portha" Unixmad. The German programmer is Stefan "Bomber" Knorr.
Unixmad offered to literally host
anything on his server for free even if it was illegal ROMs, hoping to twist the narrative and rename the games to sell copyrighted content from other countries so that he could make money doing nothing in this life.
If you look at the following image you will see Unixmad's first "game company" website Cyberjoueur where he was pretending to legally own the rights to Bomberman, Tetris, and Zelda. He renamed Zelda to Graal to throw Nintendo off the trail.
The video and screenshots of 3D games were not his; he has no affiliation to Nintendo, Playstation, Tetris, Hudson, Sega, Zelda, nor Disney—literally,
in any way shape or form.
Unixmad is a mega con-artist.
He was a pirate from the beginning, and wanted to host illegal ROMs & then associate with game developers long enough to steal their clout, communities, and files. He illegally calls himself a game designer & creator, when in fact everything Unixmad has done is nothing more than bribing programmers to help him pirate & steal game creators' identities by setting up a server in game development communities & befriending emulator ROM script-kiddies like Stefan.
He then bullies and harasses the independent game developers later into being scared of protesting his theft when he robs them as well; he first targeted children to steal enough of their money, clout, and content. Then he banned them, erased their names, and told the entire communities to ostracize and destroy their careers & to slander and role-play against them under fake accounts to make them appear mentally ill. He tried to cover all the evidence, which allotted him the freedom to then rebrand his fake piracy company to look more legit so that when he wanted to threaten & rob adults, these adults would be more intimidated and not know that his entire company and claims to fame were stolen from kids.
Notice Unixmad's first fake game company website where he puts all kinds of links and images from other games, images of Disney, etc. to trick kids into thinking he's a game company. Then he ported Stefan's illegal ROMs on there and even renamed Zelda to Graal.
Looks impressive, unless you analyze the freaking content and realize that he's showing screenshots and videos from other game companies, pretending to have some affiliation to Disney, and then offering illegal ROMs up-top. Later, he stole all my games and rebranded the Zelda 3 rom & game tools with Stefan, and mashed my games into Zelda then split them up and called it "Graal Classic & Graal2001". It is from here that he began making money and looking legitimate, except that this too was nothing more than a clever rouse to appear like a game company.
Graal New World was never completed, and it wasn't a Cyberjoueur game either. Graal New World was a project ran by independent developers. Unixmad put a link on there to make his new fake game company look like he was spitting out tons of original games.
In February 2001, Unixmad began pretending to own "Graal Classic" and "Graal 2001". The following image will show you how Graal Classic was a cheap knock-off of Zelda 3, and it was also a testing sandbox with hundreds of levels uploaded largely from random people, none of whom Unixmad paid nor had any rights over their content. He offered free hosting on purpose so he could steal it all later. I will explain after the following screenshot how this all went down.
Here you see Graal was Zelda Online, then in 2001 they started selling my games
Here, the tileset is clearly a rip of the Zelda rom. In fact, most of the original tiles (cropped out of this image) I actually made. Pretty much all of the other tiles were ripped right from Zelda I found out later.
This is the screenshot of "Graal Classic" in February 2001, clearly depicting 2 enormous game prototypes (sunken Nazi ruins, and Destiny) affixed to a Zelda 3 knock-off that was called Zelda Online
Here you can see my games labeled, along with photographic proof that it was called Zelda Online for a reason
Here, PACHUKA's online testimony along with hundreds of logs all over the Internet will prove to you that they mashed my games into a Zelda 3 rom and called it Graal Classic
This is Graal2001, which was my game. It was an autogenerated world, you can literally see squared off areas where I had stopped detailing the world like in the mountain (named after me). You can see lots of squared off areas where levels were being detailed, then in February 2001 they pre-maturely launched my stuff because they were impatient thieves, they hated me, and they hate games. They wanted to start making money off my stuff ASAP. I will tell you more in the rest of this post.
How It All Went Down
- "The Programmer" - Stefan "Bomber" Knorr
- "The Server Host" - Stephane "Unixmad" Bomber
The programmer of the emulator tools tried advertising the emulator software to the public with an intention of selling the software years later after he had loyal game developers, no different than any start-up software company.
The blaring problem was that these tools were & still are substandard, especially at the time. During the late 1990s, his software was literally low quality; but what they did have, were underage kids who were loyal to the tools, which over the course of some months & years, Unixmad (the server host this thread is dedicated to, pretending to be a game company) began getting angry and hungry behind the scenes watching kids rightfully live their dreams when he himself wanted all the money, glory, and power so he didn't have to work another day again in his life.
The programmer knew he wasn't going to make money off the games tools to ever make a living; he
had to provide the emulator game tools as freeware, however, because nobody would pay for them, but they would use them if they were free since they were substandard. He was hoping to build enough of a loyal base of game developers to at least sell the game tools some day.
The server guy in Paris (Unixmad) wanted to literally takeover all the games so he could get rich by doing nothing. The software programmer couldn't make money off his tools; the server guy couldn't make money off game hosting, because nobody wanted to pay him to host their games.
They knew the game developers were going to be making money off of their games. Since they weren't creative and didn't have money to buy games, they made themselves relevant by conspiring to steal games from children who were using the game tools. So they began befriending kids in the community.
In the summer of 2000, I finished Destiny which was originally meant to be a town in the Jesus Freaks game (which they never made), but by the time I finished it, it had evolved into an entire game. Unixmad offered me hosting on his server, and gave me an FTP login & password. I had other experimental content in the Zelda 3 rom, so I placed a portal to get into my game world by entering "Antago's Manor / Boot Shop" on the Zelda rom through the storybook in the back of the house. It would transport you into my game world.
Eventually a bunch of the hackers who were friends with the fake game master "Galen", who was helping Unixmad & Bomber hack the game creators, decided to slander me with fake images. Then Unixmad & Bomber told me they could no longer host my game because I was "corrupt" for threatening to jail some players for breaking rules in my game. In other words, they were setting me up to rob me. A bunch of hackers hijacked the Destiny police horse and then Unixmad & Bomber, as well as Galen, shut down Destiny and moved it into the Zelda 3 rom along with some sunken Nazi ruins game I was working on.
Here, hackers in the Zelda 3 rom (now called Graal Classic) hijacked the Destiny police horse, from my game world, in the Zelda world during testing; they were going to duplicate it and give it to all the players
They told me that my games belonged to them because I uploaded them. At the time, I was being threatened, slandered, robbed, and harassed by a dozen adults or so in this rom community, and I was 13 years old so I had no ability to defend or question the situation.
I started creating a ton more content for Destiny, but they wouldn't allow me to touch my game anymore because "It was now a pat of Zelda 3, which belongs to them". But my games were evolving so quickly and full of so many cool ideas, my websites had a ton of followers, I had lots of friends from my church & over the years who followed & supported me. They wanted to literally absorb every single last piece of my virtual identity; they wanted me friends, supporters, staff, my new ideas, my patentable technological concepts, my following, and all the new content for Destiny.
Unixmad decided he would give me FTP hosting again, because "they really believe me and want to give me a second chance". I created a creature called the bomy-bopot, and I was inventing many more creatures; a friend of mine helped code my creature so the player could control it (play as it).
I invented something called an Animal Sector which Stefan then basically stole the credit for and coded; he renamed it to the "NPC Server". They wanted every single piece of my future, so they told me if I wanted to keep working on my games, I could use the NPC Server I invented and my new content on this separate FTP again.
I was given a map generator which spit out a giant world in 1 second, then I had to go in and modify it, I created towns, characters, had my bomy-bopots in them, you could play as the human or the body, I invented the gralats and an economy for the first time; I had my own time system. I named the regions, created tons of graphics. I then recruited my fans and my programmers to help make this happen.
Halfway through getting my second game going, they told me they were going to start selling it. When I asked for money they threatened me, again; having been hacked and slandered dozens of times by them, and them having nearly three of my games now (really it was all supposed to be one giant game, but they kept stealing them and forcing me to split them up while they pretended these were separate worlds to trick customers into investing in Unixmad)—I worked several months more before they made this FTP also public, started selling access to it. I was a kid, and for the first time in years, I broke down & cried, didn't understand why, and I left after being threatened by hackers while Unixmad & Bomber refused to ban them or give me financial aid from the money they were stealing.
It took me about 15 years with my autistic tendencies, years of repressed threats and shame from this criminal community to question years of brainwash and realize that I was literally robbed. All their claims that "uploading something to my FTP means I own your games and can take credit for it", and my beautiful life that was stolen; it was miserable and beyond painful realizing what happened.
Stephane "Unixmad" Portha convinced Stefan "Bomber" Knorr to move to Paris and shut down the G-Server so that every game creator in the community would have to give their game to Unixmad if they want it to function. They needed to steal my games to make the merger.
"Cyberjoueur" as they call it is a sham.
There's genuine people in Graal Reborn who do not use piracy; and then there's a lot who do. But in its basic essence, due to the nightmare of Graal beginning as an emulator cult that was hijacked by a thief with a server who teamed up with the emulator software coder, Graal Reborn is now literally a huge entourage of independent game developers, some hacker, & also some underground piracy rings mixed in with some authentic players & software coders who are protesting Unixmad's scam.
So what we have are two piracy operations going:
Graal Online - Unixmad & Bomber's fake company funded by stealing Zelda & my games to afford shutting down the game tools, and forcing people to use Unixmad for hosting (without my games, they couldn't disguise the Zelda 3 rom, and they had no money; they rebranded a game development company and started selling content they virtually violently mugged by threatening & tricking a kid)
In 2002/2003, a year after I left, I was brainwashed and robbed. But I wanted my life back, so I teamed up with the other underground piracy & hackers in the community & united them to create Mongers under a fake name. I released all the files to the servers I had, and then set them to the task of taking the game client back from Unixmad & Bomber.
Years later I guess they, along with some new programmers, achieved the task by using the older Graal clients while some practical geniuses managed to recreate the G-Server they shut down when they stole my games. Enter in, Graal Reborn.
Graal Reborn - a renegade community of pirated files they took from Mongers and other communities, and began restoring Graal to a free game development community again.
Now there is a hacking guild with many of the people from Graal Reborn; they're all nearly the same people going by different names.
So we have Graal Reborn, a fake community running the G-Server outside Unixmad's control. Then we have Graal Online, another fake community running the G-Server that Bomber gave to Unixmad in exchange for a salary Unixmad paid him by pirating & selling my games mashed into Zelda.
3 years ago I began speaking out and Graal Reborn supported me because they want to free the G-Server back up. Then when they realized that I wanted Unixmad to give me my share of Graal Online since he built the entire company off my games & money he took by lying to me when I was a minor (not even old enough to consent to a contract, nor did I sign one)—they turned against me.
I then found out my research into law & sociopathy was right, because Unixmad has been robbing hundreds of people over the past 20 years by stealing the community. Bomber allowed him.
In the end we have major warring factions trying to take control over the war of worlds, essentially.
Schwrz contacted me, and we seemed to come to a resolution. I guess Graal Reborn thought I was lying to take them down; in truth, I am not. I just want Unixmad's tyranny to end, and I want what belongs to me. If Unixmad were to be taken down, I would certainly grant the liberty that many of the Graal Reborn developers are aiming for. As mentioned, it was only by stealing my games that Unixmad got Bomber to shut down the G-Server. It was by Bomber's own greed and malicious piracy that he conspired to do it, and decided to destroy the community so he could start making money. The major reason there being, that game content makes more money than the software tools; they were envious and angry that kids were going to be rich, while Unixmad's piracy was going to force everyone to see him as the bottom feeding trash he really is.
So, they stole it and then told all the game developers that their games belonged to Unixmad (which was a total lie). They discontinued the ability to host your own games, and said if they wanted to host games again they would have to literally sign their games over to Unixmad. At the end of the day, they didn't need to try to sell game tools anymore because they now had game content which make a million times more money than the game tools or hosting do.
It's a scam. The whole thing.
Stay far the fuck away, and expose Stephane "Unixmad" Portha. He is a con-artist who preys on children and creates fancy fake companies using websites & servers, then threatens & character assassinates his victims or targets.