Do we know what happened to the CC1-CC6 reviews?
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2025 2:48 am
So this is is something I've been thinking about for quite a fair while.
As some of you know, the first 6 traditional Community Contests were originally hosted back on Knux's site, but this has run into issues because the site ended up shutting down not too long after these forums were established. This has got to the point where the judge reviews for these contests seem to be, in essence, lost media. While I'm sure they're probably floating around somewhere, I've tried to retrieve them by going into the Wayback Machine, but it turns out that they don't seem to be indexed. This seems rather odd that it starts from CC7 in the Contest section of the forum archives, to the point one may be wondering where the first 6 are.
Do we know what exactly happened to those reviews, and if they're still floating around somewhere? While at least the levels themselves have been preserved in the SMBX archives, tracking down the reviews themselves could possibly be another key step for preservation.
As some of you know, the first 6 traditional Community Contests were originally hosted back on Knux's site, but this has run into issues because the site ended up shutting down not too long after these forums were established. This has got to the point where the judge reviews for these contests seem to be, in essence, lost media. While I'm sure they're probably floating around somewhere, I've tried to retrieve them by going into the Wayback Machine, but it turns out that they don't seem to be indexed. This seems rather odd that it starts from CC7 in the Contest section of the forum archives, to the point one may be wondering where the first 6 are.
Do we know what exactly happened to those reviews, and if they're still floating around somewhere? While at least the levels themselves have been preserved in the SMBX archives, tracking down the reviews themselves could possibly be another key step for preservation.