Great Kyle Flamewar
Back when the site had it's old reign, a member named Kyle was on the forums as "K eRa no1", who owned a site called Nintendo Fan Games Community (NFGC)). During 2002, he had been an admin of the forums and an updater for the MFGG main site. In April of 2002, the main site and everything included was suddenly gone. The forums were still alive. After investigating the matter, Thunder Dragon had concluded that it was Kyle that had deleted the whole site.
The MFGG forums had transformed from:
- A topic on Somari
- A topic on a Metal Slug fangame
- "ok....."
- A request for MugenMidget's aid
- A callout to Trasher
- A tutorial on crafting Mario-esque paperweights
- A greeting to all reading
- A submission of a sprite-library file
- A question about emulators
to:
- "Cutty, you have left me with no choice..."
- A post speaking of how friendly the author is
with Kyle, perhaps sarcastic - A request for a ROM of Sonic and Knuckles locked onto another Sonic game
- A link to another board
- A callout to all administrators
- A worried question about the site's fate
- An apology
- A surrender
- An angry demand to end the madness
There were many posts of flaming, sadness, and grief. Everyone blamed Kyle, due to his name being brought public as the suspect. This sparked many libs and a few games with Kyle getting killed, fried, or beheaded. Some included an MFGG sign with a cross on it.
It was not known until later that Kyle was actually hacked by Lexef. People had been shocked, and apologized, but because of their state of grief, still looked down upon him as an "evil overlord." IPs were found to be different and Lexef was well known for the major hacking SFGHQ in 2000. He was also a close friend with Kyle. Kyle admitted fault to Thunder Dragon as he didn't believe this would happen if he hadn't been a friend of Lexefs. At that time, the IPs were compared and found to be different. It was also well known by Thunder Dragon that Kyle had not been viewing the website himself, as he had to search for him on an online game to inform him.
Lexef was a very well known member of SFGHQ and also knew the owners of emulationzone.org, which explains how he hacked SFGHQ about a year before this happened.
Since then, the site has been moved and deleted after backing up several times. This was the first time MFGG had been deleted, and without a warning either.
