Guess what my uncle Ronald McDonald just told me!

Dude... new transformation? Old thing we never found?

at first i thought that it was ice mario who registered this site, mainly because he found it first if i recall correctly.

Registrant:
Microsoft Corporation
Domain Administrator
1 Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
US

Domain name: STOPNSWOP.COM

Administrative Contact:
Anderson, Kevin domains@microsoft.com
Domain Administrator
1 Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
US
001-425-8828080 Fax: 001-425-9367329

Technical Contact:
Anderson, Kevin domains@microsoft.com
Domain Administrator
1 Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
US
001-425-8828080 Fax: 001-425-9367329



Registration Service Provider:
GX Networks Ltd, services@123-reg.co.uk
08712 309525
08701 650437 (fax)
http://www.123-reg.co.uk
This company may be contacted for domain login/passwords,
DNS/Nameserver changes, and general domain support questions.


Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
Record last updated on 30-Mar-2008.
Record expires on 21-Dec-2008.
Record created on 21-Dec-2007.

Registrar Domain Name Help Center:
http://domainhelp.tucows.com

Anyone who said Microsoft wouldn't let Rare waste money on an April Fool's Day joke: I guess not, huh?

Heh. Are you sure it's April Fools Joke? Oh yeah, I'm almost certain of it, but still. Think about it. If there's even 0.000001 % change...

Wouldn't that be BEST April Fools Joke ever? It's too clear; We all think it's AFJ. But why can't the joke be opposite? They tell us something BIG, and it would be TRUE, on APRIL FIRST!

Oh. I still think it's AFJ.

here's the information from www.banjo-kazooie.com

Registrant:
Microsoft Corporation
Domain Administrator
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
US
domains@microsoft.com
001-425-8828080 Fax: 001-425-9367329

Domain Name: BANJO-KAZOOIE.COM
Registrar of Record: Corporate Domains, Inc.

Administrative Contact:
Microsoft Corporation
Domain Administrator
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
US
domains@microsoft.com
001-425-8828080 Fax: 001-425-9367329
Technical Contact:
MSN Hostmaster
Domain Administrator
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
US
msnhst@microsoft.com
001-425-882808 Fax: 000-000-0000000

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.MSFT.NET
NS5.MSFT.NET
NS2.MSFT.NET
NS4.MSFT.NET
NS3.MSFT.NET

Created on..............: 18-Jul-97
Expires on..............: 17-Jul-08
Record last updated on..: 13-Jul-07

I think it's the actual release date...
BK was released on 17 July, 1998 right? ( Correct me if I'm wrong )
PLUS, Rare announced an anniversary... Meh, gotta wait 'till tomorrow.

Why wont the bloody Rare emplyees tell us if this is real! WHY! I may just take a gun and accidentally have my bullets fall into their cranium...Just maybe...

I'm going to keep an open mind about this. There's a 50/50 chance it's an AFJ. And what is this about Blackbeard in the coding? Does my homie from another time period have anything to do with SNS?

not quite
 

here or all the release dates for banjo kazooie 64.

Published by: Nintendo

Developed by: Rare

Genre: Platformer
Number of Players: 1
Release Date:
US: June 30, 1998
Japan: December 5, 1998
Europe: July 7, 1998
Australia: July 7, 1998

MSRP: $47.99

I got my bk game june 28th 1998 walmart must of got them early I still have my receipt.

Oh and I have no Idea whether this site is AFD joke or not. I hope its real But it will be fun to see what happens.:p

When I saw this update on RWP's news page, it blew my mind.

So awesome. Wow.

Rare wouldn't pay for a joke.
The answer to Stop 'n' Swop might be there ¬¬'
They could at least edit and put things on their sites.

Yeah I thought that, but you never known... They could be going way out of there way just to make us look like fools

can you believe i typed in "www.stopnswop.com" at about 9am this morning and it showed a black white page? i check back 8hours later and WOW!! :D

EDIT: damn my spelling, BLANK white page (sorry BKMasterxD). i haven't got a screenshot- there was no point. the page was literally just white, and it said "Untitled Document" at the top of the screen.

Why is this thread in banjo-threeie forum?

Anyway, Ghost, did you take a screen shot of the 'black white page'?

probs because it could be in B3 (Sns that is) so until we know it's not in B3 it will stay here maybe?

See my EDIT- sorry about that :(

That's the truth. I was checking that site when I was in school, and all I got was empty page. It was white, and there was nothing in the source code. So, there's no reason to get screenshot of that. It was nothing.

When I returned home, the site worked "again" (?).

1+1=last year

stickied
no admin posting here
afj all over

When that magazine did that retrospective on B-K, didn't the Rare employee being interviewed imply the possibility of clarifying SNS as an anniversary present of sorts? Or by implementing it into Threeie?

The same employee who came here years ago, offered SNS answers and was chased out as a fraud, lol.

Wish we had listened to him :(

The site looks quite official thus making it a good AFJ. However it would be awesome if it is the real deal.

I find this incredibly funny.

More people believe the obvious hoax on Spiral Mountain's web site than this hoax made on under Rare's own name.

@ BKN: lol, that would be Gregg Mayles himself.

Has anyone commented on the less than professional background? Not to criticize the faker's work, but I don't think anyone at the Rare offices made that. Not a bad background by any means, but Rare has standards up the wazoo...

No one seems to get that it doesn't matter how professional or nonprofessional it looks.

It's March 31. That's all that matters.

It is Rare definately from the address thingy saying that Microsoft own the site or whatever...I dunno what I'm on about tbh...

I don't know why, but this made me laugh xD Heh, IF this is true, I think it's going to reveal some hints about SNS before revealing the whole thing.

Well, looks like someone's April Fools prank is spoiled prematurely.

How you know its afj?

Only intuition for now.

If this won't be an april fools joke I am gonna rewrite my signature!

Funny how that website was pre-owned by :

:D

That's kinda what I'm thinking. I mean, seriously. A Stop N Swap website created the day before AF day? That's just too obvious. Who are they fooling with this?

Unless...they really are revealing it. We're so sure it's a joke that we aren't considering the possibility of it being real at all. If it is real, theb all of us got fooled...and isn't that all Rare wants? :p


BTW, I still think it's a joke.

If it's true: it's awesomely epic.

They should initiate a viral marketing campaign like this for BK3. Mysteries make for great marketing.

I hope it's real but yeah, all logic points towards it being a joke.

But then what? A stamp over the image tomorrow with the words 'APRIL FOOLS' on it? What was their plan with this site before people found it? Or did they want people to find it early?

My theory is this: The Stop N' Swap web site turns out to be false, of course... but banjo-kazooie.com gets updated with actual stuff about the game. Screen shots. Gameplay bits. General info... In other words, "real" stuff.

But so many people are talking about the Stop N' Swap web site that no one pays attention to it until the very next day.

I don't think I'm gna be able to sleep tonight knowing there's a site offering the answers to sns...

Well, that's a pretty crap AFJ...

Me too. Maybe they'll release some B3 screenshots with really crappy looking SNS eggs plastered on the screen :p

The most logic explanation I have read so far in this thread

Im suprised this has got to 9 pages and is yet to receive a post from a Rare employee

I am kinda on the fence about this. 90% iTs fake and ten percent its real but thats just my gut