TimeSplitters Music Box was a TimeSplitters fan-site that had become well-known throughout the TimeSplitters community for offering MP3's of the TimeSplitters soundtrack for download. The Music Box remained popular even after Free Radical Design began to offer higher-quality MP3's for free on their own site. The site's forums boasted 417 members from around the world, 4657 threads, and 224971 posts as of 23rd April, 2008. The site's forum now boasts 4256 members, 5823 threads, and 286822 posts as of 23rd April, 2009. The recent spike of users is correctly attributed to the site's growing popularity with spam bots, despite the inability for them to create any new topics. Spam bots now make up an important part of the community, with fond remembrance of Levitra Online.
History[]
The site was founded by Zaliek, when his free webspace accounts could no longer support the number of downloads that the site was seeing. The site briefly had a home at musicboxdownloads.com, before moving to ts2musicbox.zaliek.com on Zaliek's private server. When TimeSplitters Future Perfect was released, the site was moved to its present home at tsmusicbox.com.
As of 19th April, 2013, the TSMB has been retired and taken off the Web due to stagnating activity and the costs of maintaining the site. The members are still in contact and have avowed to revive the site if the upcoming TimeSplitters Rewind generates a large degree of new interest in the series. Those looking for mp3s of TimeSplitters music can download high-quality versions from Graeme Norgate's Bandcamp page for a nominal fee.
Projects[]
The TimeSplitters Music Box became the catalyst for projects of many of the users.
- DeviantART is a focus for some members.
- The band "Welsh and Associates" was formed here.
- The "Spoon Dudes" were created, and even had their own website.
- Many members are regular movie-makers on YouTube.
Controversy[]
The Music Box has become infamous for its unbelievably high post counts with only around 10 active members. This is the result of several non-TimeSplitters-orientated threads under different boards in the forum, and a decent number of semi-active members and long-time members who have left the forum for various reasons, such as forum drama or a prioritizing of real life.