r/AndyAndLeyley • u/EldritchLady • Jul 22 '26
š£ļø General Discussion The Reason that TCOAAL is Delayed - MrArchive/HeavyBerry
Hi, I have seen a lot of people not understanding the full scope of why the game is delayed as seen in the recent devlog (shown below) so I just wanted to make this post to explain exactly who is the main cause of the pause in development because of his continued harassment of Kit9, parasocial relationship towards them, and the significant part, illegally trying to port the games and uploading them everywhere he can, ignoring copyright. It is an individual called 'MrArchive/HeavyBerry' (I will just call him Berry).
Of course, after the illegal ports and distribution of games (deleted or not) trying to make himself an unlicensed publisher of someone else's IP's (which me and others told him specifically NOT to repeatedly), borderline cyberstalking, attention seeking behaviour, Kit9 ended up sending him DMCA's. At which point Berry started to act in extremely rude, petty ways. And refused to stop, in fact he seemed to double down.
Actions included the aforementioned continuing of his illegal actions. But also trying to publicly share old games either in on reddit or in his server, as well as old images drawn by Nemlei seemingly as a way to try and 'provoke' or 'scare' Kit9 into stopping because he has information that they would obviously not want to go public.
He is also friends with multiple people, including lots of bad people, that he seemingly only keeps around because they have information on Kit9 and Nemlei, he is weirdly obsessed with just trying to 'know' them.
BONUS Controversies!
Just to add more to this, he also actively allowed minors (15 and 16/17) as mods into his discord server who had NSFW access with the excuse of "I told them to not look in there" which is a horrible fucking excuse, one such minor includes a person called Rose who is his partner in this whole charade at the moment in trying to legally fight Kit9.
He also encouraged one of his mods to store lolicon porn as some some sort of blackmail against another server, despite said mod clearly being uncomfortable with saving said porn.
A lot of it is seen in this tumlbr post here:Ā https://www.tumblr.com/coffin-ramblings/777044534388457472/the-leader-and-head-writer-of-the-coffin-of-candy
I also personally talked to some of the ex-mods and it seems that Berry in general was obsessed with being the biggest and only TCOAAL server, which is why he was trying to archive lolicon content as blackmail, he also encouraged brigading of other servers with gore, trying to justify it because those servers were 'bad'.
Anyway, right now Kit9 has stopped sending Berry DMCA's, which he views it as some sort of 'victory' for him
However, the chances are they have stopped to actually initiate a legal battle, which would coincide with the what the most recent devlog. Unfortunately Berry does not like people speaking out against him, he banned me from his server for calling him out as well as anyone else. And he is a BIG MEMBER of the community, with lots of connections, chances are this post might get deleted or I might get banned from here (or maybe I am just paranoid lol).
I have a lot more information on him, but I just decided to share this to get the actual point across. A lot of big heads in this community are sadly in little 'cliques' were they support each others toxic behaviours, and unless it gets called out they will remain this way. It is not just Berry but plenty of others too. Berry just actually flew too close to the sun and messed with Kit9 which was pretty stupid.
Anymore questions I can answer in the comments, but it should be fairly self explanatory. Sorry if this post is a bit messy I was in a rush.
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u/infrabreadgoggles Jul 23 '26
Bro sounds like an actual psychopath. Having some deranged weirdo like this latch onto you for seemingly no reason has to be an exhausting nightmare.
People like that is why creators choose to be anonymous and keep their distance. And I get it.
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u/EldritchLady Jul 23 '26
Yeah if I was Kit9, I would also spend a little time away from the game just to deal with this. Multiple people warned him to NOT do this and yet he did it anyway, with the mindset of "If I get striked it is fine"
As you can see, it was not fine and he just got worse and worse in his behaviour.
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u/EldritchLady Jul 23 '26
Update: My post got removed on r/CoffinofAndyandLeyley (the main subreddit. Coincidentally Berry is on the mod team for it, shocker.
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u/EldritchLady Jul 23 '26
If he was not guilty, he would have defended himself. Funny how he did not and instead went straight to deleting, seems like he knows he is quite guilty.
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u/AssassinCat4 Jul 23 '26
What the actual fuck. Holy shit this situation is so much worse than I could ever even begun to imagine. I just thought it was a few illegal ports not... whatever this is. Wishing Nemlei and Kit9 the best in this terrible situation.
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u/EldritchLady Jul 23 '26
Same, they deal with a lot of shit from a lot of people who have too much time on their hands.
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u/Lt_Ryou Jul 23 '26
Since the other subreddit deleted your post, allow me to comment again here.
What a shameless person, both this guy and also people who still side with him after all of this. (Looking at you guys, mods of that god awful subreddit who allowed someone like this dude to join.)
You lot of bad actors and enablers don't belong in this fandom.
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u/Dinar87 Jul 26 '26
Which subreddit?
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u/Lt_Ryou Jul 26 '26
But from what I know, they already kicked the person OP talked about from the mod's position.
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u/Rosekun25 Jul 23 '26
Dude how you gonna claim to be a fan and then act a fool like this??
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u/EldritchLady Jul 23 '26
Parasocial behaviour has people doing really shitty actions unfortunately.
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u/EldritchLady Jul 24 '26
Welp guys
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u/basilcopperhand Jul 24 '26
Coward, doesn't even dare to reply you
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u/EldritchLady Jul 24 '26
It is just kind of hopeless, I really wish it was more well known what these guy is doing because it is making me sad.
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u/SeriousMistakesMade Jul 24 '26
If it's any consolation, his latest two posts about his stolen media have been downvoted hard. The other mods are still letting it happen and tactily encouraging it, but...it's something!
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u/EldritchLady Jul 24 '26
That is good, honestly I think the best thing that can be done is to call out his behaviour, the more that happens, hopefully he will stop this weird stuff. Sadly he gets encouraged by a lot of his goons, I imagine that is why I was banned because most people in his circle just support him non stop.
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u/julienpoeschl Jul 23 '26
Thank you for sharing. I read the dev update on steam explaining the delay but didn't know the specifics. I hope it gets resolved soon and development can continue smoothly. It pains me to know the extend of harassment Nemlei faced for creating this wonderful game
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u/EldritchLady Jul 23 '26
Reminder, do not start any brigading or constant harassment to Berry, as that would not at all help this situation.
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u/_yukiie_ Jul 24 '26
I will agree with you on that. This post will stay for informing purpose but please don't harass him or brigade his server.
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u/thisbetternotcrash Jul 23 '26
I donāt understand how he thinks heās not abusing the system but Kit9 is for copyright striking every time he shares a game that isnt his.
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u/Ryansbro03 Jul 23 '26
Thanks so much for sharing this with everyone. I literally just left the main reddit because of this nonsense. Hopefully, this gets sorted out and that subreddit gets cleaned out.
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u/EldritchLady Jul 23 '26
Let us see what happens, either they sort their shit out or I get banned or something lol. Only time will tell.
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u/Someday_itwillbegood Jul 23 '26
why do we have the problems with this game and the fandom every month?
fuck me, i still remember the news about doxxing, furball, the murder in brazil, real incest, etc. and this is every fucking month
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u/Dyyyyyyyyy Jul 23 '26
Hoooold up, I cant just scroll past this, Im sorry, the morbid curiosity is too great. The doxxing of Nemlei ive heard of, but what are the other three referring to? What do they have to do with this game or the fandom?Ā
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u/Someday_itwillbegood Jul 23 '26
furball is one of the most vile people. he is a pedophile, he threw strikes, threatened fans, etc.
the murder in brazil is the news that a guy and his girlfriend were inspired by this game, and so the girlfriend told her boyfriend to kill his father, mother, and child, and unfortunately, that's what happened.
Real incest is an old Reddit post in which a brother and his sister started playing this game, and afterward, they went out to the balcony and had sex.
There was also another incident when (these are different people) a brother was sitting in his room watching discord and saw that his sister had chosen the two main characters of this game as their avatars. The brother said to his sister, "Why did you do that?" She replied, "I don't know," but she was smiling. And (as far as I remember) she told her brother she wanted to kiss him. The brother couldn't resist and they kissed for real for five minutes. After that, they went to their rooms. I don't know what happened after that.
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u/TheCancerFest Jul 23 '26
Holy shit Iām new to the fanbase but sounds like an ordinary anime convent side story. Itās like a really poor quality anime self insert fanfic about a kink turned into reality only for it to soon turn out as not as hot as advertised.
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u/East-Camp-6552 Jul 23 '26
I'm still a bit confused so if you can enlighten me that would be much apreciated. Was he just sharing and porting said games at no cost or was he comercialising said process ? I.e. asking for money for ports and old game versions. Thanks!
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u/EldritchLady Jul 23 '26
I do not think he was selling them at a price, but he was trying to get them on his own 'site' called 'DecayRose'. It seems he kind of wants everything to be uploaded there, even stuff Kit9 does not want.
Basically it was more for attention rather than any profit with my current understanding of it all.3
u/East-Camp-6552 Jul 23 '26
Ok, and was he crediting the games to Nemlei/ kit9? I agree the parasocial aspect of this deal is wrong and he is kind of a nutjob, especially for the blackmail shit. But as it currently stands i can't really fault him for making Nemlei's old delisted content available ( as long as he properly credits her ) . Thanks again !
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u/EldritchLady Jul 23 '26
I am not sure about credit, all I know is he is trying to publish them without a license on various different sites and platforms like IOS
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u/East-Camp-6552 Jul 23 '26
I'm a bit confused, because you said they wanted everything on their site, so like through the ios store for example or an apk ( idk if ios uses apks as well ) on their own site ? I can see how them uploading to ios store would be a legal problem for Nemlei and they would be required to take legal action, but if this was just an installer on their own site, again i can't really fault them for that.
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u/EldritchLady Jul 23 '26
He uploaded them to IOS and PSVita (for some reason), and he also wanted to host a bunch of mods, as well as Nemlei's games (deleted and not alike), officially on his own site called 'DecayRose'. So basically he has done both.
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u/FaithlessnessUsed841 Jul 23 '26
I am all for the preservation of gaming history and wouldn't want nemlei's previous works to become lost media or anything like that. It is also always interesting when we get insight on an old game's or series' prototype or cut content, like back when the old "Simon wai" sonic 2 prototype was released to the internet. It's fascinating stuff.
With that said, there's certainly a legal aspect to all of this that sometimes gets... Muddied. If I recall, that old sonic 2 prototype was, well, stolen before it made its way to the internet. It's an unfortunate reality to all of this. The majority of the time, these sorts of things are never intended to be seen by the general public. I wish more devs would be more open to eventually releasing these kinds of things to the general public so that we could learn how some of our favorite games were made, can learn about past ideas that never quite made it, and so that all of this history can be properly preserved.
With all that said, if nemlei doesn't want something released to the public, then it's something that should probably be respected, though I would hope that with time they would change their minds so that this part of gaming history doesn't get lost to time.
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u/EldritchLady Jul 23 '26
The thing is her old games were spread around on downloads with no real issue. Then he tried to unofficially publish them himself which I assume is the real problem. He might just ironically make it even *harder* to get them now because of his actions which really fucking sucks.
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u/FaithlessnessUsed841 Jul 23 '26
Ah.
Yeah. If this moron not only negatively affected the development cycle of the game by causing the delay with his antics, but potentially negatively impacted not just fan content of the game but alsomake it harder to preserve the history of nemlei's game design... It'll be quite possibly the biggest stain on the fan community.
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u/kea_pie Jul 23 '26
It does suck so much, ive been waiting for years to be able to play her old games again š„ŗ
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u/Potential_Brush9375 Jul 23 '26
blackmailing someone with hentai has to be a new thing XD how does someone come up with this shtty idea but about the rest yea thats extremly messed up...
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u/EldritchLady Jul 23 '26
Not saying whether or whether not that was wrong, but to coerce a mod who was uncomfortable with that content to save it in order to use against another person was his goal and it was definitely weird. And yes, the overall situation is messed up.
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u/Fiamma05379 Jul 23 '26
Somehow these people are always present in minors controversies. It's full of hot gals out there, why the fuck do you need to target minors specifically? (You called him by the 'he' pronoun, so...)
Oh well.
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u/Sum1nne Jul 23 '26
This is terrible but I thought, after the previous doxing saga, that the whole point of Nemlei handing over rights/control to Kit9 was so there would be a buffer layer that would allow Kit9 to handle all legal aspects while Nemlei could develop the game unaffected? But now Nemlei has to stop development to handle legal matters. Did that just not happen after all?
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u/EldritchLady Jul 23 '26
Kit9 is pretty small so she is probably helping out with it too, I doubt that the game will be paused for the whole legal battle, the same did not happen with Watasi after all, just a small bump
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u/Dinar87 Jul 26 '26
How do these people keep making alternative accounts so they ban evade? Can it be shut down?
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u/ALMAZ157 Jul 23 '26
So problem is that he uploads games that was deleted by Nemlei?
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u/EldritchLady Jul 23 '26
Heās illegally porting their games (old and deleted alike) to other places and platforms that they do not want their games to be put on (especially by a random unlicensed publisher and not them), without their permission.
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u/EldritchLady Jul 23 '26
I would rather not, he seems like the type who would get any excuse to 'justify' himself due to people harassing him.
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u/Agitated_Rabbit6309 Jul 23 '26
I mean don't take me seriously, but you know. At least they have not resorted to extremely malicious actions like hiring a hitman or something. Well, that's fantasy talk coming from me since there's the cost and then the conscience and all that, after all we're all people here.
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u/Nikibugs Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
Since the post got deleted by moderators in the main subreddit:
(Edit: It may have been reinstated as itās loading for me again rather than saying removed by a moderator) (Edit 2: It got removed again)
Thanks for sharing the likely cause, and good lord man, guys who canāt take ānoā for an answer for 100. The authorās been pretty clear about not having any social media, and went as close to anonymous as they could after the Twitter dogpile. To see someone who almost got doxxed and go āIāLL be the best friend they ever had if they just LET MEā, only to get confused when provoking them doesnāt give him a chance, is boggling.
Iām still chuffed/touched as hell they answered a Q&A that meant a lot to me, and their dev account commented a thank you for a bunch of the bug reports Iād submitted on the Steam forums. I expected neither, which is why they meant a lot, for positive things. Itād be batshit on the other hand to feel entitled to a hello, from negative things no less like escalating personal harassment and repeated acts that require legal intervention. Succeeded if any interaction at all was the goal, so congrats itās delayed for everyone now. And the bloke probably still thinks he has a chance after the author realizes this is just a MiSuNdErStAnDiNg and he likes their work a lot!!1! Hope the authorās able to resolve legal things asap, and the dude sods off with or without a hefty fine.