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New Registration Process

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 17:41:54 +0100

New Registration Process

Hey everyone,

As some of you may have noticed, we've been dealing with a surge of spam bots lately. To keep the forum clean and enjoyable for everyone, we've made a small change to how new registrations work.

What's changed?
New members now go through a brief approval process before they can post freely. When someone registers, their first post will need to be approved by a moderator. Once that's done, they'll be promoted to a full member and can participate normally, no further approvals needed.

What does this mean for you?
If you're an existing member: nothing changes for you. You can keep posting as usual.

If you know someone who just registered and is wondering why their post isn't showing up yet, don't worry, it just needs a quick moderator approval. We'll get to it as soon as possible.

Why are we doing this?
Despite having CAPTCHA protection in place, bots have been getting through and cluttering the forum with spam. This manual approval step ensures that only real people make it into the community, while keeping the process as painless as possible for genuine new members.

We appreciate your patience and understanding. If you have any questions, feel free to post them in this thread.

⚠️ Note
The promotion occurs when the post count reaches 1.
So please make your first post outside the Hangout Area!!

Thanks to for setting this up! <3

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Little Fighter 2 Remastered is officially live on Steam!

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 17:18:51 +0200

Marti Wong just made his dream come true and remastered Little Fighter 2!

You can now buy it on steam!

Here's his official announcement on Patreon:

Marti Wong Wrote:After years of hard work, late nights, and persistence, the remastered version of this beloved classic has finally launched on Steam:
? https://store.steampowered.com/app/3249650
(Enjoy 20% off for a limited time)

This marks a huge milestone, and it wouldn’t have been possible without the incredible support from so many of you. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

That said, this is not the finish line. It’s just the beginning. The game still has rough edges, and your feedback will be crucial in shaping future releases. New stages and characters are also planned for upcoming updates. I’ll keep refining and polishing the game with every patch to make it even better.

Here’s hoping for a smooth launch day.
Let’s see where this journey takes us next.

Marti Wong on Patreon

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Remembering Zort: Tribute to a fallen little fighter

Sun, 28 Feb 2021 14:49:16 +0100

Remembering Zort: Tribute to a Fallen Little Fighter

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Eitan Benjamin Postavsky (nickname: zort)
14 December 1993 - 21 November 2018
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

It is with great sadness that I write to inform you that Eitan had taken his own life on the 21st of November 2018. His closest online friends, Doix and mfc had made the disheartening discovery on the 13th of February 2021. I checked our IRC conversations and didn't notice anything out of the ordinary leading up to this sad day Zort had been on IRC—except that he had mentioned having trouble finding a new job. He even made a forum thread on his final day, sharing his LF2-related work. I contacted Eitan's mother, Mrs. Claire, and she supported the idea of creating this thread in honor of his memory and his work in the LF2 community and as a place to pay our respects to the brilliant and talented person that he was.

I believe it is important not only to remember Eitan, but also to learn from his life and tragedy. He was a brilliant person, skilled programmer, skilled LF2 player, skilled violinist, and his great intellect reflected in other areas of his life. Anyone can fall into depression, at any time, for various reasons. It is therefore important to understand these cases and try our best to prevent these things from happening. We know that Eitan had trouble securing a job and that he did not have (many) friends in real life. Sometimes we cannot choose our circumstances, we face hard times, our expectations aren't met, and we lose hope. You will be missed.

Eitan was only 25 years old. He had a family and online friends. Yet, it appears he did not reach out for help. If you ever feel depressed and miserable, please, contact with someone close immediately and find professional help. Psychologists and psychiatrists exist in order to help you find the right path again and believe me, you can and will get better. Don't lose hope! Don't give up!

Family Remembrance:

Beloved son of Claire and Uri and brother to Noam and Daniella, and much missed by Raymond the cat; gifted violinist and computer programmer.

Obituary:

Legacy:

LF2 Survival Stage World Records - Zort holds several world records for LF2 survival stage. They can be found in the posts that he made on the linked thread.
Little Fighter Replays - Website created by Doix and Zort to share replays of the game.
LF2 AI Script Engine - Contributions to Silva & SomeoneElse's ddraw.dll for LF2 AI scripts (listed in the link).
The Little Fighter Wiki - Created by Kevin and heavily contributed to by Zort.
LF2 Gameplay videos
bortzot: the bot of #lfe. Currently maintained by mfc and originally set up by zort in September 2013 as "zorbot".

Helped many people with their projects by providing constructive criticism. More of his contributions can be found in his forum profile by searching through his threads and posts.

Video where he talks:

(Starts at 1:43)

Thoughts from friends:

AmadisLFE Wrote:I will not say that I knew him a whole lot. But we had some good matches, that much I remember for certain. And he was a wonderful member to the Little Fighter Empire community, that much I can say for granted. A sad farewell, may he find peace.

Azriel Wrote:Zort is among the best Little Fighter 2 players and promising creators. Making survival world records, winning in self-imposed disadvantage plays, and analyzing much of how the game works, and creating tools from that learning. But beyond the game is a person who persistently tried, and kept trying to grow stronger. Sadly we did not recognize those tries as repeated efforts to live. peace

Blue Phoenix Wrote:For the few years during which I had the opportunity to meet him, zort was always a reliable and intelligent partner. Even more so, he was a friend. Our sessions in LF2 and AoE were more than a mere time filler — they gave us the chance to converse about anything that was on our minds. We laughed about bugs and memes, cracked jokes, and enjoyed our time off. Eitan, thank you for everything we could share. These moments were short but will last forever.

Chiko Wrote:Zort was a kind and intelligent person who I had the pleasure of chatting with over IRC. He has helped me test my work and I wish I had gotten to know him better over the years I felt there was more time and I'm shocked and saddened to learn of his passing and his struggles. RIP Zort we'll miss you.

Doix Wrote:Zort was a good friend and we spent many hours working on random projects together. He's one of the smartest people I've ever worked with and had a talent of motivating me to keep working when I was feeling lazy. As time went on I had less and less free time to spend on #lfe, but he used to be there whenever I joined. I'm sad I didn't get to spend more time with him near the end. I'll miss him a lot.

Kevincentius Wrote:He's probably the most patient friend I ever had. We played LF2 a ton, checking off very long lists of things to do in the game... one day we joked that we've beaten the game when we did 2 templates vs 4 Firzen HKC. But he also supported me whenever I'm doing hobby projects, and he is the only decent tester of one of my game Pantul. He used to be the only person I was comfortable with speaking online in English. He never runs out of new words when I told him to teach me some.

Luigi600 Wrote:Your projects and input will be forever valued and cherished. R.I.P.

MangaD Wrote:I and Zort started off on the wrong foot. He was quite honest and it was hard for him to fake emotions. When I joined the IRC channel around 2014, I had heard from Kevin that Zort was the best at LF2 survival and that he was a great programmer. I pestered Zort, wanted to become his friend and know more about programming and LF2 reverse engineering. But he was quite annoyed for some reason and told me "I don't like you". Because of that, I stopped my attempts and never got to know him much better. I figured that he did not like my presence (or did he?) and avoided talking to him altogether. However, we did play survival mode together when BP, Ramond, Stm93 and Pf were around. I never figured out until this day if he liked me or not, if I was annoying to him or not, what exactly was his problem with me (if any). Maybe he was just depressed and had no patience anymore for my newbie attitude. Maybe I came late into the party. He did say once that since he left his parents' house that time appeared to go by much faster and that he had no patience for my "drivel". A conversation that I remember well with him was when I was planning to go to Finland, in late 2017. He told me that I was "living his dream" and that he'd like to live in my building's stairwell there (he'd say strange things sometimes). I asked him why was it a dream for him, why was it not a goal? He answered "Let your dreams be dreams, no inevitable disappointment that way". During the year of 2018 it was mentioned that he was having trouble finding a job. Part of the reason for it, as he admitted, was his difficulty at being dishonest. And knowing how many flaws the job market has, plus his negative attitude, I can only imagine how his job interviews had went. Knowing what I know today, I wish I could have had more serious conversations with him, but alas, he is gone. Farewell Eitan, you will be missed.

mdsrv (aka. madman vel vamastah, alias: f33) Wrote:zort was my internet buddy since I joined #lfe channel on freenode. I admired his analytical skills and his dedication to our common hobby (LF2). I enjoyed a book he recommended to me (Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie) and the other one is waiting to be read (Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson). It was a pleasure to talk to him about his views on many topics as they were similar to mine and original alike. I think I could say we shared a few problems (e.g. lack of understanding among people closest to us) but he was much more sensitive to them. 

I was worried when he stopped coming to the channel. Usually it was nothing to worry about - eventually he came back after a few days or weeks. I hoped he found better things to do in his life than sticking to geeks playing a niche game. It would be natural to do so: some of us followed their academic career, others started their own families, and still others devoted themselves to the work in the industry. It was not the case for him, he decided to end his life for the reason known only by himself. 

I wonder what zort thought of before doing his last step. I feel sorry I could not convince him to be more selfish. He always tried to meet expectations of others. He perceived emotions as weakness. He feared to follow his dreams due to possible failures. I think somewhere along the line he forgot to enjoy his life.

mfc Wrote:Countless hours spent together in the #lfe (since 2013 spring). Sassy on the outside, kind on the inside. One of the best survival LF2 players. Cropped off the height of all the buildings in the AoE2 to the point of madness. Curious, inquisitive and logical. One of the creators of LF Replays. Good friend.

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Prince Freeza Wrote:Zort was someone that made me laugh, that is the first thing that comes to my mind when I remember him. The late night IRC chats and the survival fights with Zort and the rest of the fellas were one of the best times I have ever had online. He would also always help me with ideas and suggestions each time I’d share one of my works on IRC. I am thankful for the memories. May he finally rest in peace.

Ramond Wrote:Zort used to be a rather frequent one of my acquaintances on LFE (mainly #lfe, its IRC channel) back when I was still active. We didn't talk super much outside of playing and organizing LF2 survival runs, which I had very much fun doing with him, since he belonged to the elite of skilled players. At some point we even started playing Age of Empires 2 together, and he became a regular training partner of sorts. A couple of years later #lfe became rather inactive - including myself - so I never consciously realized his absence. He will be dearly missed.

STM1993 Wrote:Zort was an inquisitive player who maintained the LF2 Wiki with Kevincentius. His contributions helped to build up the LF2 community's knowledge and enthusiasm. I enjoyed our online Survivals & IRC chats together and the percussion music video. May he rest well.

YinYin Wrote:I think he was the only one to ever give me lots of feedback not just on my work, but also my (first) website. Incredibly constructive and to the point. Very in line with how I approach things myself, so it was extremely helpful. Not sure I've ever been piled with feedback by anyone else the way I pile it on others.

If you knew Zort and would like to contribute with your thoughts, post below and I'll add it to the collection.

Forum Upgrade

Tue, 12 May 2020 13:47:27 +0200

One could think this is a (belated) April Fool's joke due to its unlikeliness but I'm currently in the middle of upgrading the forum software. Just as an info in case anything looks weird/is not working properly (or at all); will take a while until I get through all of it.

Once I get everything up and running again, I'll update this notice

Edit: as of now (May 13th), I can't seem to find any further issues that require fixes. Hence, I deem the forums as fully operational again! Join the wobble-party!

Server switch

Sun, 20 Oct 2019 13:52:47 +0200

Just a quick info that LFE's moving to a different host tomorrow. Even though it feels a bit silly to say, please note that mainsite and forums can, might, should, or will be unavailable during the transfer.

will provide additional info once the switch is completed.

First thread in here for 3 years, nice!

Opening of the "LF2 Extended" forum

Wed, 19 Oct 2016 20:45:25 +0200

Ey oh 'ello, remember the LF2 extended-thread? Well, due to the stagnant progress, the creators have agreed to open up the forum to the public. You can check it out by following this link.

This forum mainly serves as an archive (which is why you cannot post new threads in there); you can, however, post in existing threads. If you plan on continuing any of the projects, please be sure to read the info-thread beforehand so everything is cool and clear.

Just thought of letting you know

/html

Fri, 23 Oct 2015 18:36:56 +0200

As indicated previously, the opportunity to use HTML in signatures gives people the chance to introduce malevolent code to the site that, in the best case, creates minor inconveniences. However, it is also possible to break the entire site layout or to even compromise people's security.

It is for this reason that I am forced to remove any HTML-priviledges that have existed and announce that post-formatting will, from this point onwards, exclusively be available via BBCode (the codes in [brackets]). The only exception are admins (aka. MH and I) who are advised to use it as little as possible (i.e. for demonstrations or announcements) and omit it whereever possible.

Now, some of you are particularly fond of using tables, myself included. Personally, I would have liked to add some BBCode for tables into the editor. By using tables, though, it is extremely easy to break the forum layout as well. In fact, looking at any previous "help, my post broke the forum layout" had some sort of wonky table that simply was not used correctly (most of the time, more closing than opening tags and the like). Writing regular expressions (the magical link that transforms BBCode into displayable HTML-Code inside your browser) for tables (and especially nested tables) is close to impossible, if not impossible by definition. For these reasons, you will not find an alternative solution to insert tables.

Not the typical "hey, new feature"-post but I guess it's important enough to get its own announcement, too. I guess now it's time to fix up some signatures

Public events

Sat, 17 Oct 2015 22:14:31 +0200

You might have noticed the newly added tab at the top right corner called "running events". This is a little thingummy that will, as the name implies, list up to 3 of the most imminent events taking place. The following is a small list of the features implemented.

Visibility: self
Every event that anyone posts will be visible to them, no matter whether they are public or private. In other words, if you set an event, it will only be displayed to you, nobody else. The difference to public events is that those will be visible in the calendar for anybody. This behavior is completely independent of usergroups.

Visibility: others
By default, only users with moderating priviledges may place public events in the tab. This is to keep the amount of items minimal and reduced to interesting/important bits. For community-organized events with deadlines and the like, please inform a moderator (ideally by reporting your own thread) so that he can add your topic to the tab.

Event type
Only single events are supported. The way recurring events are stored in the database is absolutely ugly and I don't want to invest heaps of time to allow both of them. They kind of work in a way that the first date of the recurring events is shown but any following is ignored. Keep that in mind in case you wonder why a recurring event you set a year ago will not appear anytime it should.

Date
The list will only contain entries that lay in the future. Due to the way single event dates are stored in the database, the cutoff-time is midnight GMT. So, if you set the event date to "29 Nov 2015", it will be treated as "29 Nov 2015, 00:00 GMT" and hence will disappear after that date/time.
UPDATE: events are now treated as happening midday instead of midnight! In other words, setting the event date to "29 Nov 2015" will imply a datetime of "29 Nov 2015, 12:00 GMT". I hope this clears out some confusion.
To check the current GMT-date/time, scroll down at any page within the forums; at the bottom right, your current time and GMT-time will flip back and forth in the bottom right.

Alright, that's all. Just giving you a little heads up about what this thing does and what not

tl;dr: if you have some sort of event that should pop up at the top right, inform a mod, yo

edit: I have been informed that the font rendering might appear bugged. If it looks similar to

this (Click to View)

please refresh your cache (for Firefox, this would be Ctrl+R) to reload the updated stylesheet.

LFE v3-Theme

Sun, 09 Nov 2014 13:05:46 +0100

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away...
Blue Phoenix embarked on a journey to bring darkness to the forums.

On a more serious note, though, I'm happy to release the new forum theme to public, called (as you might've guessed already) "LFE v3". It is pretty much a hybrid between the old LFE v2 theme in terms of styles and the white MyBB-theme for structure (porting every tiny aspect of v2 just wouldn't have been feasible anyways).

This is going to be the default forum theme (white will stay selectable), so if you plan on keeping white, please head over to your User CP > Edit options and readjust it manually. Just give it a shot beforehand, though, you might like it

Originally, it was planned to ship out together with a fixed version of the editor. However, considering that its code is much more beasty than I feared (paired with the fact that I am lacking the time to completely understand its workings), that'll have to be prolonged. Hope you can deal bear with it.

If you find any bugs related to the theme, please inform me about them. If you can't find any, even better. But for now, enjoy!

edit: it has occured to me that the login-form is somewhat broken. I'm fixing it right now.
edit2: fix'd edit1

The update of updates

Sat, 20 Sep 2014 09:59:49 +0200

During the past few years, the forums have gotten a little rusty. In fact, the last major update was 4 years ago and since then, quite a few things changed.

In the next few days, I'll undertake the mission to upgrade the forums to a new version. What will this mean?

I'll lock the forums and then backup the database --> no posting possible
Upgrade of the forum software --> possibly weird page display which does not necessarily make sense
Bringing back the major features of the forums which are not included in the default system (usermap, chat, HoF, MotM, Awarded List, and possibly a few other thingummies I forgot)
Fixing major bugs
Opening the forums again --> from then on, you can proceed as-is
Fixing smaller bugs, i.e. bad images
Working on a theme á la "LFE v2". The other themes (blue, black, red, green) have reached their end of life and will not be developed further. Once theming is completed, it'll be made the default one again (those that don't want a dark theme and prefer the light MyBB theme will have to manually switch back).

If you wish to communicate with others, I advise you to do so via IRC under the following link: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=lfe
I'll hang out there as well, so if there are any questions, feel free to ask them!

Until then, expect some downtime

Current todo-list:

Add links to: motm, hof, usermap, stream, awarded, java-chat is deprecated and will be fully replaced by the one on lf2stream
Dark theme
Awarded list avatars
HoF styling
Modnotice
[spoiler], [motm], [award], [img]
exclude forum games from general searches (getnew, getdaily, ...)
show [code=lang] in editor
"//phoenix edit"s --> plugin - WTF I ACTUALLY MADE IT THROUGH THIS LIST
- custom page locations (unless they have an associated plugin)
- GMT-display (will toggle between current and gmt @ bottom right)
- calendar bg images --> necessary? nope
- Display a warning that the user must activate his account within 3 days.
- Different style for motm
- Display "Offline since {Date} ({Time})" instead of just "Offline" when you hover over the offline-icon
- legitimation of bot-ban & unactivated accounts removal
- userpruning for bots & unactivated
- add country in memberlist
- search thanks
- poll countdown
- the havoc that takes place on the stats-page
"Who was online today?"
"View New Posts (x)"
Left/right scroll @ worldmap
geocoords in user cp
The highly elusive } in postbits
Different editor? --> off the list for now. The default works well enough, imho
Port Overview from 1.6 to 1.8
fix "Unknown Location" in who's online
advanced editor in quick reply
give links in posts their own class (unnecessary, css will do the deal just fine)
registration-questions
spoiler class
gravedig-warning
The highly elusive linebreak-characters that get added in nested quotes

Downtime III

Fri, 18 Jul 2014 18:06:31 +0200

...and the great quest continues!

On a more serious note, though, this post/announcement is to inform that LFE is back up and running as before. To those of you that weren't on IRC during the past week, I'll try to sum it up:

LFE and HFE are both running on the same server with the same contract
HFE got compromised, the host shut down the site and anything that is somewhat related
MH had to sign a paper that he will do anything he can to prevent this from happening ever again plus take down any vulnerable things
Status of now: LFE Mainsite is up, LFE-Forums up as well. HFE-Mainsite will have to be rebuilt completely, HFE-Forums probably need a major upgrade.

Why did it take so long? Host demanded a lot of things which were impossible to do for the mere mortals, so negotiations took place. Yes, I know, retarded explanation but that's how the potato rolls.

That's all I can tell for now.

LFE v10

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 16:04:24 +0200

It has been done! Most work on the mainsite has been finished and I'm proud to announce that LFE v10 now goes live!

This update was mainly for security-reasons but while being at it, I added a whole new design (porting the old one just wasn't feasible anyways). A forum-update will follow as well; however, no precise date has been scheduled yet.

Either way, we're now entering the stage of tracking and fixing bugs. When you see one, you'll shit bricks please report it here so it can be squished. Ruthlessly. Mercilessly. Apocalyptically.

All for now, yo

Avatar-change-day!

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:19:41 +0200

Heya,

considering the situation of not being able to write files on the server, I looked for a workaround of enabling you to change your avatar. And I found a way. However, it requires direct database-access. Therefore, I decided to be kind and open up a little service. From the time of this post's date, 24h onwards, I'll change your avatar!

However, despite all doubts, I am still a human (albeit quite awesome), so I'll have a few limitations to mention first:

One avatar change per person (so think twice if you want to live with your new avatar)
The avatar's size must be 120x120 or smaller
Upload your new avatar to an image-host that allows hotlinking^*) (ie. imgur.com).
Send me a PM with the direct image-link (and praises and glorifications)
This offer will only last 24h after this post's date

^*) I am also aware of the fact that you might have your own website that you can upload stuff to and later renew the file. Personally, I don't mind. Just be sure that you stick to the same size then (eg. 120x120) because it'll inevitably stretch otherwise.

So, you want to replace your avatar? Then send me a PM! (or post in here. I don't really care. I'm an admin. Not a cop)

Please note that I don't know when or if I'll do this anytime soon again

LAst two days downtime

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:02:51 +0200

... was caused by another stupid bot who crawled to much on LFE. Those stupid bots really get on nerves, so I blocked all of them except Google, problem might be some ignore all the blocking-stuff. We will see...

Downtime II

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:21:34 +0100

Hi guys,

well you surely recognized that LFE was down (again), this time for two days. Simple answer: we got hacked and the webspace was used for several stuff which wasn't in the TOS of my hosting company. So the account was locked and I had to sign a security paper blablabla ...

Problem: Neither me or BluePhoenix got time to fix the major problem right now, so we had to make a choice - choice was to put a write protection on the complete website. This won't have any effect on the forums beside the attachements and avatars are locked - you won't be able to host here anymore, just on external hosts.

That's it for now, have fun here ^^

Bye
Razen
Good job, man - Simoneon