Japanese SC4 Links

[mgb204]

In short, a lot of this stems from the way Japanese creators distributed their works. Using individual web pages, which when the creator stopped creating were left as-is. Eventually the hosting service changes something or shuts down and next that content gets lost. In many cases the creators have moved on and are unaware of things. Some efforts were made to restore the lost content though the hide-inoki site. But the content is a lot more scattered, scarce and in some cases simply missing sadly.

[Silur]

I have a very lots of items from Japanese sites. Many of them died. It's very sad. But SC4 die now - SC4Devotion and Simtropolis are the last port for life. Thank you to JRJ for this website. Good luck to all.
One more detail - JRJ never asked for money with His Great Site !!!  I can't transfer money to this website, you can get cash here only (Russia - Football Cup)  ...

[chongjunxiang3002]

Some of the sites are down, but some of them are just changed their website.
SOMY: http://somy.gozaru.jp/
Tadasu: http://tsushinikai.com/simcity4/

Hope OP can do the corrections soon.

[AsimPika3172]

Found another Japanese links with nice buildings are here!

https://www37.atwiki.jp/simcity4j/pages/13.html

[Alan_Waters]

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The request could not be satisfied.
The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country.
Generated by cloudfront (CloudFront)
Request ID: oPmMnDi86P5EMvvnyls-qjjzfZmVapb8aoWyIOhcPQu6OKYjUDIAiQ==

[Kitsune]

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The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country.
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Looks like the amazon cloud (which runs a ton of websites) has blocked everyone in Russia.

[Simmer2]

Its fine from here. That last link is not Russian, its Japanese.

Nick

[art128]

Its fine from here. That last link is not Russian, its Japanese.

Nick

Alan_Waters is from Russia.

[Simmer2]

Its fine from here. That last link is not Russian, its Japanese.

Nick

Alan_Waters is from Russia.

....duh!

[AsimPika3172]

I know why some websites was blocked in Russia is.... doesn't support HTTPS!!!

Checking by using this website!

https://www.comparitech.com/privacy-security-tools/blockedinrussia/

I also checking Simtropolis and look likes was blocked or not working in Russia because of HTTPS and SSL support....

Checking Sc4devotion (this forum) and the result is.... ACCESS GRANTED! Because no HTTPS and no SSL support!

[art128]

it has come to my attention that the popular Japanese website hide-inoki is now offline (as of 29/08 11h40 UTC+2). I will attempt to contact the administrator to see if this is normal or if the site is gone for good. In the later case I will ask permission to see if we can upload most of the stuff to the LEX.

[Chong Jun Xiang]

it has come to my attention that the popular Japanese website hide-inoki is now offline (as of 29/08 11h40 UTC+2). I will attempt to contact the administrator to see if this is normal or if the site is gone for good. In the later case I will ask permission to see if we can upload most of the stuff to the LEX.

Seen this in home page, the site is still exist with the files intact, but:

2020年8月27日　告知
この掲示板を設置しているサーバーの仕様変更により、この掲示板は2021年2月末をもって動作しなくなります。
そこで、その日以降も利用できるように皆様の投稿をHTML化しました。投稿の閲覧やファイルのダウンロードはこれまで通り可能ですが、投稿や検索等のPHPスクリプトを使用する機能は一切利用できません。
もし不具合や要望等がある場合は、下記の web mail をご利用ください。
http://hide-inoki.com/bbs/clipmail/index.html

August 27, 2020 Announcement
Due to a change in the specifications of the server that hosts this forum, this forum will stop working at the end of February 2021.
Therefore, we have converted your posts to HTML so that they can be used after that date. You will still be able to view posts and download files, but you will not be able to use any of the functions that use PHP scripts, such as posting or searching.
If you have any problems or requests, please use the following web mail
Please use the following web mail: http://hide-inoki.com/bbs/clipmail/index.html

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

[Chong Jun Xiang]

  Also, a new modder from Japan: satoshishi !!!

That guy made some decent, pure forms buildings, but excellent train sets and planes.





Now this guy files are located at his google drives, distribute by twitter, I have encouraged the dude to get a ST or SC4D as soon as possible

https://twitter.com/satoshishi9

[AsimPika3172]

All Kei buildings and props are here!

https://web.archive.org/web/20200216162237/http://gobanboshi.s25.xrea.com/SimCity/bat-kei.html

Special thanks to Wayback Machine for revive it for future mode. 

[Turnstyled]

I did an advanced search on Twitter for the string "drive.google.com" under satoshishi's account and I grabbed all of their files.



Edit: Screenshot included with this post was hosted on my personal website and no longer exists.

[art128]

It's always a good idea to have an archive like that. 
What do you plan to do with it? In any case if you want to share it on LEX or other place, you will need his authorization.

[Turnstyled]

I'm going to keep the items for myself! I'm aware that a creator's rights should be respected and I had no desire to share them.

[Tyberius06]

Hi there,

We already approached Satoshishi last year (a fellow player called @reg made contact with him) with the idea of bringing his creations to STEX and/or LEX, but he had some concerns, so for now they stay where they are on his google drive. Some of those uploads was shared on the Simcity 4 EDIT/Force whatever japanese site, but most of them are available only on his google drive (from his twitter account https://twitter.com/satoshishi9 they are available after a bunch of rolling). I think it's about 27 uploads, some of them contains more models. I found this comparison image about most of his collection:



- Tyberius

[Turnstyled]

For personal safekeeping, I archived the websites listed in the first post of this thread. To do that, I used an application called Cyotek WebCopy.

https://www.cyotek.com/cyotek-webcopy

I used a browser extension called Save Page WE to save individual pages as HTML when it wasn't appropriate to archive the entire website.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-page-we/dhhpefjklgkmgeafimnjhojgjamoafof?hl=en-US

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/save-page-we/

To perform recursive extraction, I used Multi Unpacker. Multi Unpacker requires that WinRAR be installed.

https://code.google.com/archive/p/multiunpacker/

I was unable to archive Gobanboshi's site, so I made downloading the files easy using a browser extension called Linkclump.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/linkclump-for-firefox/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/linkclump/lfpjkncokllnfokkgpkobnkbkmelfefj?hl=en

Edit: I used Everything to make searching for .zip files and .sc4* files within the archived websites easy.

https://www.voidtools.com/

[Kisigi]

I wonder if anyone managed to find Tenyu Tsubasa " Agricultural Cooperative ver1.0 "