Rayman Fanpage

Rayman Fanpage
Rayman-Fanpage.de
Published by	Matthias Franke
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Release date	2000
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Rayman Fanpage is an archived, unofficial Rayman fan website that was created and actively maintained by Matthias Franke from 2000 until 2024. An affiliate of the Rayman Pirate-Community, the site provides content in six languages: German, English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Italian. Following Franke's passing, the original domain went offline, but the site has since been preserved as a static digital archive.

History

Matthias Franke established the website in 2000 and diligently maintained it for over 24 years. During the site's early years, an alternative sub-site was created specifically to accommodate users browsing on 2000s-era personal digital assistants (PDAs), which was accessible at https://www.mobile-rayman-fanpage.de.

Franke passed away in June 2024. Without his maintenance, the site's original domain (https://rayman-fanpage.de/) began to malfunction, and by November 2024, visiting the address resulted in an error page. To ensure Franke's extensive work was not lost, the website was backed up and reuploaded to the Rayman Pirate-Community archive on November 26, 2024. The preserved site can now be accessed at archive.raymanpc.com/rayman-fanpage.

Content

Originally serving as a standard informational website akin to RayWiki, Rayman-Fanpage documented both the Rayman and Rabbids franchises in extensive detail. Today, the website serves as an unintentional time capsule and a highly valuable repository for pre-Rayman Origins media.

The site features comprehensive coverage of games, spin-offs, and regional media. It is particularly notable for sub-pages containing high-quality scans and photographs of rare Rayman memorabilia from around the world. Because of its age, the website has managed to save many links and assets that can no longer be found anywhere else on the modern internet.

Due to the archival nature of the site, many of the older outbound links point to obsolete domains that are now dead or redirect to unrelated sources. Accessing these external pages generally requires the use of web archiving tools such as the Wayback Machine.

Gallery

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  Matthias Franke, creator of the Rayman Fanpage website.