perhaps related to this ?
http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Fileplanet

edit:

This one is probably better 😎 :

http://www.gamefront.com/breaking-ign-to-close-fileplanet/

I wasn't aware of the fact that we left Web 1.0 behind some years ago and suddenly switched to Web 2.0. 🤣

Ah well. There are plenty of alternatives to Fileplanet. I've always preferred to avoid them, especially during their wait time / pay premium days.

I like FilePlanet because they have patches on one convenient site and I think there is still a strong need for them.

A lot of things have changed over the last decade

Yet people still buy games that are a decade, or more, old. A lot of official sites for games are no longer around. In some cases neither are the companies that made them. Even though "content delivery is much more integrated now" that content will also pass into obscurity with time. When that happens there needs to be a standalone site where it can still be found.

I'm also not thrilled with the idea of integrated content delivery itself. First, it mean that content will pass into obscurity more easily and quickly. Second, it becomes harder to find a patch that can be downloaded and stored separately for future use.

The closing of FilePlanet is another symptom of gaming becoming less user friendly. The current trend is for games to update themselves automatically. I think this is a misstep by games developers. It takes control away from the player who might want to play a quick session instead of waiting for updates to download at that time. I'm worried that in the next decade those updates will be lost entirely without an off-line method for applying patches.

Thank god, I hate FilePlanet. Took ages to download anything from that site.
And hey, if you're looking for patches there's always Patches Scrolls and Megagames.

For the past 2 years I've going through my collection of Windows 95/98/XP games. Installing each of them, noting what version I have, and downloading patches. Occasionally I get distracted and actually play them. I have 2 letters of the alphabet left to go and most Fileplanet pages produce an IGN error page.

Is there a way to actually use the archive and search for the files I need?

Isn't Patches Scrolls superior as far as patches go? (If only there was a properly comprehensive site with nice listings of every game with all its various patches and known fixes.)

By the way, did Forumplanet go down? It's kind of sad to see it go; I wasted a lot of time there ten years ago. But its time has definitely passed.

Jorpho wrote:

Isn't Patches Scrolls superior as far as patches go?

I'd like to think so, but it always had poor navigation.
When it was alive, my favorite go for patches was 3dgamers.com. Then IGN did the usual acquire/"migrate to fileplanet"/destroy