Madman
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I would screw the entire attack system, its boring for the oldbies, no way for newbies to get started with it, and it blews the room needed for a friggin' one liner to fill my entire browserscreen on 1280x1024.
Seriously, if noone had invented the scrollwheel by now...
But i think i mentioned that 2 years ago
Edit: Just had an idea, if you people love to fight, set up some kaillera server and have some league
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Sites like myspace, youtube, digg are the current trend. Old news portals are seeing a downard trend in visitors and interaction as more and more people are going to these other types sites because they can participate and be a part of the sites overall success.
If you are serious about taking the site to a new level then a lot of work will need to be done and a lot changes. This may or may not be what the current community wants or is ready for. Just some things you will need to weigh.
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So my overall suggestion would be to keep the general focus on emulation and gaming but to expand on the interaction side of things and allow your community to be a bigger part of the overall site.
Damn fine post, chief.
I'd still like to see a site with reviews of all (!) the games of an emulated system.
But to achieve such thing you need a strong community.
Depending on the webspace, people could upload vids of their game successes or something.
The myspace thingy is nothing i would take into consideration, at least not let them 'try' to build a 'website' here.
And yes, the site needs a redesign with something different than black. I use the default template all the time as the black one is hard to read. But thats just me
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Oh yeah tutorials are a big thing, We need lots of tutorials, Theres a lot of websites i visit all the time now simply because i used some of their tutorials and then found they had other cool stuff on them.
What i said.
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Six i guess ?
I dont know what pisses me off more, the fact that police discovered like 10 dead babies in flowers pottery the last months here in germany, or that even more kids die of starvation here each year or get hit to death or penetrated to death otherwise here ?
To hell with "My belly is mine" mentality
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Oh wee i'm glad my suggestion found some positive feedback.
But i sense some differences here:
On the one hand, you want an active forum.
On the other hand, you want to stand out from the rest.
I think thats the main problem of the site:
There are like thousands of sites like 1emu around:
A Portal thingy, plugged ontop of a forum software.
Dont get me wrong, my romuniverse wasnt much different, but it didnt work out in the long term.
I learned something from my half a dozend websites i did over the years.
The reason is simple:
The web is a place of people taking stuff and not giving anything in return.
I noted that on romuniverse and i especially see it daily since my sidtool is out.
With almost 1000 unique visitors within 2 months and over 200 downloads of 1.0 RC1 alone within like one week, what ammount of feedback would you expect ? I can tell you, its nothing, nada, Z-I-P.
When romuniverse was up, within its 2-3 years of existance it had like 30 people posting on the forums regulary.
So get rid of the idea that people will participate on your site for the sites being. The web is full of leechers. Its that way, you cant do anything against it. Example: When i came to the forums a few mins ago, there were 9 members online, and 139 guests. Get the idea ?
Now there is some more i want to bring in:
You have a lot of consoles here that are covered in the forums. From oldschool (S)NES to PS3 and XBoX 360. Divide that up. To make it simple: You may have like 13 people here for each console supported. Thats not enough to get activity here, considered the leecher mentality on the web.
If only 1/10th of people register here, cause they find the site interesting, you end up in 1/100th,
cause the site covers too much.
I dont know, how to explain this exactly.
Look at some popular sites on the web.
When you load them up in your browser, you dont get 20 news each day.
Lets take the old lemon64.com for example. You load it up, and you get LOADs of content. And the forum isnt the thing that jumps at you. Yet its very active. Why ? Cause people get there, get hooked to the site and then sign up the forums. At least thats what i think.
Also, 1emu is called an "Emulation" site. Then i ask myself, what got Xbox, PS2, PS3, Nintendo DS and all the other stuff to do here ? They are not being emulated any well since today.
So what is the focus of 1emu ?
Is it emulation ? Then focus on emulation and dont compete with all these rich game sites, cause you cant win.
Is it nextgen consoles ? Then screw the oldskool crap, and get ready for teens flooding your site with ISO requests.
And there is another thingi tell you: In the end you will be more successfull when focussing on oldskool stuff. The nextgen consoles have teens glued to them, while the oldskool stuff has mature people interested in them. Thats why 25 years after C64 was released there are still people holding demo compos in 2007 and code stuff like sidtool. On SNES there are many hacksites, people hack roms to translate Japanese games to English and german, people mod the roms. People code stuff like Jumpman under Construction or look at Arno who released its 20th Boulder Dash game in 2006. Or look at me. I come here since 4 years now.
Anything like that for any PSX related site ? Any PSX hacks out there ?
You cant have both. 1emu misses a focus, and only sites with a clear focus attract people.
What the focus will be, is determined by the people that have supported 1emu over the years.
Noone of that guys into oldskool ? Then compete with ngemu.
OK, thats it for today. Beer is empty
Forgive me if i pissed you off with anything, but its how i see things. 
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sure thing, but not on the frontpage as its an unofficial thing
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my 2 cents:
I rather have 99 articles worth reading than 99 articles worth reading plus 300 stupid posts
get rid of the board as the main thing on the site.
You should install a content management system and add articles in categories and not post them in some of the 33 forums here.
That will change the sites image from a usual forum-portal site to a website.
Clean the forum up a bit, like the Dreamcast/Saturn thingy: Unpin some topics and/or merge em with others.
Merge the Sega forums to one, there is too few activity in there.
Same goes for Playstation. Could alter posting form to add a little identifier to the new topcs like [PSP] etc.
If you just add more and more areas to the site and press them all into the forums, people will get lost here
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I released an unofficial Amiga MOD port of Sidtool today
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i second all of the above.
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Hi!
Sorry for the late reply, i have had a few busy days.
I did not post on lemon64, i have no account there.
If you have an account there, feel free to post it.
I released 1.0 RC1 a few days ago btw, in case you missed it.
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Gens32 Surreal v1.76 has been released.
1) Update YM2612 core,PSG core etc...to 24bit.2) Playback with 64bit AHDA.
3) Restore classic menu.
4) New force feedback drivers comes with this version,
one is for MK3/MK3 hack, one is for virtual fighter 2.
Because new tech was bright into these stuff,so more
force feedback drivers should be released in our forum later,
5) A mp3 player called ACOMPAL media player comes with
this version,Which playback with 64bit AHDA too.
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i didnt look too much on those offers.
In general: You need that TV card crap ? If not, dont pay for it.
You have a Win license allready ? If so, dont pay for another one.
You have a digi cam and other stuff ? If not, why you need to pay for a 9in1 cardreader that slows your system down with all these additional drivers you need to install ?
Need more HDD space ? Then buy a 2nd HDD. Its cheap and should not be something to decide upon.
If i had to chose between these 3, id go with
CybertronPC - Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 / 1GB PC5400 (667MHz) DDR2 / 160GB SATA II / Dual Layer DVD±RW / Asus nVidia 7300GT 256MB Video Card / 10/100 LAN / NO OS / Black X-Plorer Gaming PC with Speakers
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Emu Loader is a Multi-Frontend for Windows.
version 4.9.7.1 change log [January 22, 2007]---------------------------------------------
.fixed: Option "Use MAMu_ Icons" was being set as disabled when not using zipped icons
.fixed: Error when creating games lists at startup
.changed: Favorites Profile Editor:
- Removed "Edit User" button. You can change description / filename
"on-the-fly" now. Remember to click the "Update" button to save the changes
Selecting another profile or exiting the editor cancel the changes
- Added two extra confirmation messages when deleting a profile, so you can keep the
games list and icon files for that profile
- You can have multiple profiles with same description, but the filename must be unique
- Some minor optimizations and improvements
.added: Select a filter with mouse double-click ("Arcade Main Filters" screen)
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The drought is over! After the longest delay EVER between two updates we are back with another bunch of 1000+ SID tunes that bring the whole collection to a whopping 33,000 tunes! I'm confident it was worth waiting for, as the new updates has some surprises inside.
The whole collection is undergoing a massive directory structure change. So if you're downloading the update packs, be prepared for a rather long time it takes for the update tool to complete. After it has reached 60% things are becoming dog slow, but don't mistake that with a freeze or crash. It's doing its job, moving almost every tune in HVSC to its new location. Go outside for a walk and when you're back you'll have a new and shiny HVSC on your harddisk.
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Taken from the EAB
Main changes are CDTV emulation and Advanced Chipset ("do not touch if you are not sure") configuration panel.Highly confusing changelog:
Beta 2:
- filter zoom and position is not restricted to coordinates divisible by 4 pixels anymore
- datapath command line parameter fixed (broke in 1.3.4b9)
- enumerate only known DirectInput devices types (keyboards, pointers and game controllers), apparently there are some broken DI compatible "unknown" devices that crash DirectInput's internal enumeration code..
- "magic mouse" related freezes fixed
- dragndrop disk insert fixed (again..)
- added more Picasso96 modes to "unique" mode list
- possible fix for some missing Picasso96 display modes
- added Amiga-side pointer validation to bsdsocket (smaller chance for crashing if Amiga-side program passes garbage to bsdsocket)
- added safe host<>Amiga memcpy/strcpy helper functions to memory.c
- Aminetradio bsdsocket freeze fix (broke in 1340b6)
- do not "fix" configuration when advanced chipset compatible checkbox is not checked and using A4000 rom.
- Windows driver Catweasel-mode works again
- only access CW registers if CW mouse/joystick is selected, read keyboard port only if CW checkbox is enabled
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Yes, im aware that the audience for such a tool is rather limited, compared to an emulator playing games. So no problem
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Oh, i never thought about someone not knowing what SIDs are
SIDs are like MODs. Means, ripped music files. MODs are Amiga Music files, SIDs are C64 music files. The people at http://hvsc.c64.org collected like 32.000 SID files so far.
The C64 is still famous for its sound capabilities, people still love the tunes that were made on the C64 then. Some even remix them nowadays, see http://remix.kwed.org
Now there are a few SID (name of the C64 Sound Interface Device) emulators out there that play SID-files quite well, but most have a crappy interface and lack certain features.
SIDTool tries to fill that gap, bringing an intuitive frontend for common SID emulators under one easy interface.
ATM im trying to fix the bugs other people encounter, which i cannot reproduce for some strange reasons here. But im on it
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D.O.G. 1.53 updated to version date 17 january 2007. Tried to fix the losing of profiles and added the customizable toolbar.
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Updates to 0.9.0 (17.01.07):
‘Added advanced search to search the SID Header info
‘Added PlayList sorting
‘Now using TinySID 0.996 Final
‘SIDPlay2/W default again for subsong support
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Hey I think I haven't got enough testers on windows !
Anyway, I just uploaded a new package (windows binary + source) to fix a bug where the video mode selected is always twice too big if you use scale2x.
The archives have the version number 0.50.1-1.
Sorry !
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Well, though obvisiously noone cares about it here, Sidtool is now the first to support Vice CL sidplayer. Its supposed to be the most accurate sidplayer up to date.
Quite a bunch of improvements have been added over the past days.
Current Version is 0.8.5
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The peeps on aep had it first, but we are close:
GBXM is a Nintendo GB/GBC emulator for Windows. This software supports most gameboy cartridges. This software requires DirectX 9 or higher.GBXM is released under the GPL.
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Amstrad CPC Emulator
for DOS, DPMI and WIN32
CPCE 1.71 has been patched to support a new turbo mode, 4 (32 MHz). -
SIDTool 0.7 Beta has been released.
Updates as follows:
* Rearranged GUI to make window smaller
* Click on stop now disables continuous play
* Doubleclicking a SID restarts song
* STRG+C to copy full path to Clipboard
(upon HVSC Administration request)
* Added some SID header info
* Made PlayList hideable
* Added clocklike display for playing time
* Auto use sidplay2 for RSID files
* Switched to sidplay2/w for better sound
* Uses TinySID 0.966 Final now
* Integrated search function
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i start to think this discussion leads to nuttin