Just a heads up to you guys here... there is a new version going online. You can preview it here. There is a new layout as well as a few new features.

Most changes have been made in order to promote user interaction with the site. More comments/ratings should mean more people coming back and posting. I've kind of tried to modify things into a blog-ish type format.

Comments have been reworked and they have also been added to the 'systems' pages so you can add comments about the super nintendo for example.

Questions/comments/bug reports would be awesome.

Thanks guys.

YAY!!!
No more child pornography!

Top games page has now been made... check it out on the test link I gave.

Cool. The top ten loads hella faster
...and I'm STILL number one baby!

We REALLY need some good, reliable new members.

I mean for serious.

I'll second that.
I'm telling you that more people would come if we had a PSP section.
We are horribly out of date.

A PSP section would attract quite a few of my friends to the site, but I'm not sure I'd want my friends posting on a board I go to.

All info at DCEmu is reliable.

I think the problem right now is the forum doesn't link to the site so new members couldn't post anything here. I've opened up the forums in the interim until I can finish the custom one.

Yeah top members I fixed up.... it was taking over 2 minutes to compile the list so I optimized the function and it runs in under 1 second now. I must of wrote that function a long time ago because it was coded pretty badly

What do you think of the new top games page?

The top games page is pretty kickass. I'll probably end up downloading most of those

Looks slick.

I'm kinda glad you didn't let this go.
For a while there I was certain that you weren't going to do anything anymore.
Cool beanz man.

Say Ness...is your avi from Full Metal Alchemist

Edited by Bane King on Sep. 18, 2007 @ 7:51 PM

Don't worry I'm still working behind the scenes all the time. I don't have any intentions of giving up the site.

Now if the web host would hurry up and install the url rewriting on the server I could actually put these changes on the live site, I requested it back on July 31.

No. It's a logo-esque design that Coheed and Cambria uses.

News categories have been setup. Just a little quicker way to filter the news posts and find what your looking for.

User avatars are now setup as well. When you upload an avatar for yourself it counts as uploading a screenshot so you get 5 points.

Avatar sizes are 72x72 (profile page) and 36x36 (comments) and a max size of 15kb.

You can preview this by viewing some comments I posted (ie: http://chriswrona.myvnc.com/TheRoms/news/one-week-remaining/).

Just wanted to give you guys an update on what has been happening:

New version of the website uses URL rewriting to make the urls more search engine friendly. In order to do this the server needs an extension installed.

My current host supports this extension but for some reason it is not installed on the server the website is on. They said that it is an older server that doesn't have it installed. They said it would take a few days to install.

My original request for this to be installed was on July 31. After excuse after excuse I have now found a new webhost.

I am hoping to have the website setup and running within a week now on this new host.

Well it's finally time to start converting over the forum to the new system.

I want some input from you guys to see what features you think are really important for the forums here.

Things that I think are important:
- Simple to reply (having the reply box on the same page instead of clicking a reply button and then going to the page where you can type your message.)
- New posts since last visit (so you can see whats new easily)
- Avatars and signatures (let each member be more unique)
- Minimal styles to posts like bold and ability to add pictures (too much styling gets taken advantage of and then just looks ugly)

So what do you guys think is important as well?

Just make it look good on the eyes...

Are we going to have ranks? (ex: Knight-Captain)
Post count will be restarted?
Private messages? or is that going to be on the main site?
Are we going to have the same sub forums?

I'll try my best.

Yeah I can do that pretty easily if you think we should have that.

No i will import all the posts off this forum into the new system so we won't lose information.... hopefully.

It will be part of the main site so it will be all integrated. I'll be doing that after the forum.

Yes I think so.

Great, let us know on your progress

Is anyone else having a problem downloading roms? I always get some type of error.

I've had the server down, bandwidth usage was too high

I've made quite a bit of progress on the forums lately. What kind of ranks should we have?

I'm thinking they should be based off of the points we have on top members and profile pages. That way everything is taken into account on the rank and it's not just a forum rank.

Anyone have suggestions for what theme they should be or ideas what they should be?

I have a beta version of the forums ready for everyone to preview and test out finally!!!

If you wouldn't mind the preview is here. Click around and let me know your questions/comments.

I think I have nailed most of the important features. A couple things missing are ranks. I'm still undecided how I want to do them.

I'm thinking I want ranks to showup throughout the entire site, not just the forum. So if you post a comment your rank will be known there as well.

Let me know what you think guys.

Thanks.

fits in nicely

will the hits on the forum count for the total hits for the site