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Designer Guild (http://www.ztcdd.org/DG/index.php) - (ZT1 only)
Owner: Fern. Admin: Fern
Membership Requirements to Browse Site: none, guests cannot register.
Membership Requirements to Download Files: none
General Content: A small site providing downloads and info for ZT1 only.
Northern Skies - ( ZT1 & ZT2) site closed
Membership Requirements to Browse Site: Registration & validation required.
Membership Requirements to Download Files: Registration & validation required.
Content: downloads and forum
Wisco's site closed
Status: inactive
General Content: A very old site known for its ZT1 combined animal exhibit info. Does contain some info for ZT1 and ZT2.
Zoo Admin ( ZT1 & ZT2) (5 sites) site closed
Zoo Admin ZT 1 Downloads files to be hosted at ZooTek Phoenix (https://zootekphoenix.com/forums/)
Designer's Treehouse files to be hosted at ZooTek Phoenix (https://zootekphoenix.com/forums/)
Zoo Admin ZT 2 Downloads files now hosted at ZooBerry (https://zoo.goosifer.io/)
Zoo Admin Archive site closed
Owner: Yellowrose. Admin: Yellowrose (deceased)
Membership Requirements to Browse Site: None for most of the site, however to see member areas for contests and site games membership is required. Must be 13 years of age to register as guided by US and Canadian law.
Membership Requirements to Download Files: Registration & validation required for Zoo Admin ZT 1 Downloads. None for Designer's Treehouse and Zoo Admin ZT2 Downloads.
General Content: Extensive information and tech support topics for both ZT1 & ZT2. A very large selection of downloadable files for both ZT1 & ZT2. There is also an archive site containing older game information.
ZooBerry (https://zoo.goosifer.io/)
Owner: Goosifer.IO. Admin: Goosifer.
Membership Requirements to Browse Site: None at all; it's meant as a public resource.
Membership Requirements to Download Files: none
General content: ZT1 and ZT2 mods
Zookeeper's Lounge (http://www.lunamanar.com/zklounge/index.php?act=idx) - (almost entirely ZT1)
Owner: Luna Manar. Admins: Twilight_Star, Troyminator, jwa1107, Jay.
Membership Requirements to Browse Site: none for downloads and most of the site
Membership Requirements to Download Files: none
General Content: Many downloads; much technical information (though some outdated) for players and designers; discussion areas; various reservation lists and animal checker for designers.
Zoo Tek Phoenix (https://zootekphoenix.com/forums/) - (ZT1 & ZT2)
Owner: SavannahJan. Admin: SavannahJan, Brandi, Cricket
Membership Requirements to Browse Site: None
Membership Requirements to Download Files: Registration & validation required.
General Content: A site that offers a variety of ZT1 and ZT2 downloads with helpful staff and members.
Zoo Tycoon 2 Designing Centre - (ZT2 only) site closed
Admin: Penguinman
Membership Requirements to Browse Site: none
Membership Requirements to Download Files: none
General Content: A medium site that is known to have some of the best ZT2 designing info around. Also providing downloads.
Zoo Tycoon and More - (ZT1) site closed
Owner: JohnT (aka JohnRN1)
Admins: JohnT
Requirements to browse site: none
Requirements to download files: must be a member
Content: downloads and forum
Zoo Tycoon Planet - (ZT1 & ZT2) site closed
Owner: animalz07
Admins: animalz07, ape, firefox
Requirements to browse site: none
Requirements to download files: must be a member
Content: chat areas, downloads, ZT1 and ZT2 pictures, advice, contests, and seasonal activities.
Zoo Tycoon Unleashed - (ZT1 & ZT2) site closed
Owner: PsychicZookeeper. Admin: Marlizdu, PsychicZookeeper
Membership Requirements to Browse Site: none
Membership Requirements to Download Files: registration & validation required
To access benfactor downloads - Donation to support site operations required.
General Content: Active friendly forum, zoo building contests, forum games, and Zoo Tycoon downloads.
Zoo Tycoon Wildlife now Forums Club (https://forumsclub.com/) - (ZT1 & ZT2)
Owner: slg
Admins: slg
Membership Requirements to Browse Site: Have to be a registered member.
Membership Requirements to Download Files: Regular - one post
Zoo Tycoon Wildlife Design Team's - 26 posts
Exclusives - 51 posts.
General Content: The site has a chatbox, members' clubs and role-playing games, Zoo Tycoon contests, forum games, and Zoo Tycoon downloads.
Zoo Tycoon Planet currently closed due to inactivity...
Zookeeper's Lounge no longer takes new registrations so questions about their downloads can be asked here.
ZT Unleashed seems to have no one around doing the new members validations these days.
It would seem that ZTUF (Zoo Tycoon Unleashed) has gone as links have not worked for some time now. Some files were already available at other sites and authors permissions will allow the release of some more files so not too many will be lost.
Dumb question - for big download sites that have now departed this mortal coil like Zoo Admin :cry2 and Zoo Tycoon Unleashed :cry2 :cry2 is there any way to access any of their downloads :duh . I did start trying to assemble a complete collection of all downloads ever ever ever, but multiple hard drive failures at critical points in the process over a number of years leave me almost exactly where I started :blush
The general answer is that their downloads cannot be accessed. Sometimes the downloads can be found at archive.org. But archive.org usually does not make a copy of every page of a site. And some sites do not give download access to guests, which is the only way archive.org would be able to make a copy. For some sites that have left, the owners of the sites gave permissions to other sites to host their downloads. But that is not the case for those two sites. Sometimes a site can get permission from specific designers to host their creations elsewhere. That has happened for some designers. The only other way to get the downloads is via private communication. For example, it is possible to ask someone you know via email. Also, I believe Phoenix allows people to exchange things via private messages. But getting everything for a site via private messages might cause their bandwidth costs to increase, depending on their agreement with their web host. Zoo Admin had more than 2 GB of ZT1 downloads and more than 1 GB of ZT2 downloads.
ok, thanks :hugs1
Could you please fix the site link above for Zoo Admin please it is no longer a vanished site.