Sonic-Cult used to have a mirror of the Area51 EZ board, but now that's dead. And SSRG used to have a snapshot of the original site, but checking the link now goes to the SSRG main forums. Does this mean there is no part of Area51 online anymore outside of the wayback machine??
Area 51 is still online here: http://2003.sonicresearch.org/ssrg.emulationzone.org/area51/index.html Unfortunately, I don't think there's any mirror of the A51 EzBoard online anywhere outside of Internet Archive. But I really would like to see one hosted, uploaded or shared in some form, which is why I'm hoping Sazpaimon or someone shares the archive that used to be hosted at Cult. Does anyone here have it?
I'd love to see the EzBoard archive as well. I know it was on Sonic Cult, but when ever I clicked on the link it would just give an error message (I think it was like that since 2011-ish, but I could be misremembering).
truthfully I care more about the actual main site more, so I'm glad it's archived, but yeah, the EZBoard needs to be properly backed up and accessible IMO.
There were quite a few interesting discussions on the Ezboard that I'd love to read again. In particular, I'd love to read the thread where Stealth posted his transcription of the STI character profiles. To this day, I am still kicking myself for saving the transcript but not the original thread! I seem to be remember there being some other interesting discussions (I think a poster called Tom [maybe] found an Eggman life counter in Sonic 2 [perhaps?], but I might be misremembering).