As I'm sure you've noticed (if you're a regular visitor anyway :P) the Emulation64.com server has suffered some downtime the last few days, meaning both Emu64 and EmuTalk among other hosted sites has been unavailable.
Before people start speculating, the server is completely fine and has not been hacked, it was simply unplugged by the server company and it took many phone calls, faxes and support tickets before it finally went online only a few minutes ago.
I appreciate your support, and I hope you understand that I have done everything I can the last few days (and haven't had much sleep, mind you) to get it online as quickly as possible. Thanks to zilmar for news post at www.pj64.net while it was down. :)
Low Lines brings some news about his Flash/XML Based Compatibility List for Nintendo DS:
In case you don't know there has been a lot of work happening in the DS Emulation Forum on emulator compatibility with two emulators in particular (iDeaS & DeSmuME).
Well I have gone and made the effort off creating a Flash/XML based database that has many useful options such as searching and ordering of list data. Though it is still a WIP, it has very much progressed and is really easy to use.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: This site and compatibility database REQUIRES the Flash 8 Web Browser Plugin. And at the moment I don't think it works on Linux Operating Systems. But I do not have Linux so somebody may need to verify this with me. Also your browsers may come up with security warnings (as I quickly found out) or may in deed block it completely (particularily with embeded URLs) but there is no bugs or spyware or anything, it's just Microsoft & Macromedia being paranoid!! LOL
Hey guys it's nice to be back after a nice long break (about 8 months) and I'll be helping out with the site once again. During my time away I have been working hard on EFx2Blogs which has really taken off .. yeah yeah shameless plug. :D
As you may have noticed the site has had a bit of a face lift with a newer design. A lot of elements are the same so it shouldn't be too much of a change. The new design is much faster when it comes to load times and cleaner looking for easier use. I want to thank all those that gave input in the designing process and helping come up with something nice for all our visitors.
I also wanted to give WhiteX a public welcome to the team and a big thanks for all his contributions with news posting and reviews. Also big thanks to [vEX] and wrags for keeping the site updated all this time. I know it's not an easy job going solo. :)
Anyways if you guys are bored or just looking for a nice community to join then head on over to our forums here at EmuTalk and join up (if you haven't already). Pop into Talk of the Town I am sure there is something there that will peak your interest, but if not we are always looking for new discussions. :)
Though the attacks were blocked by our server, too much stress was made on the routers and the server company had to take the server offline. We're currently working on getting the server up as quickly as possible, but the server company is very slow and not very cooperative, which is the reason it's taking so long.
Please bare with us, we're doing everything we can. I apologize for the inconvenience.
On behalf of the Emulation64/EmuTalk moderators and staff, I'd like to wish you all a merry Christmas! I hope you'll enjoy the holidays and time off from school and work, to relax and take a well-deserved break with friends and family. I'm off to my parents in a minute, and won't be online much in the next few days, but for those of you who can't stay away from our fantastic community, feel free to keep the spirit up in our forums. :)
We at the Emulation64 Network/EmuTalk Community have recently launched a user maintained wiki based upon MediaWiki(The Wiki software used by Wikipedia). As with other wiki's it is user editable, which is the entire point:)
We are of course looking for individuals who wish to help build up the knowledge base into a veritable encyclopedia of emulation, there is no need to apply, simply to go and do as you please, at a pace of your choosing and on issues of your choosing. We only ask that you keep things focused on emulation and avoid posting anything illegal or slanderous on the wiki, and that you be on the lookout for those that do.
Hey guys I just wanted to post up a short formal farewell and to say goodbye to the all the great people I have come across in the community over the past 6 years. This is not a sad farewell and I am happy to leave the community feeling good about what I have given back. With the recent merge of my site EmuFanatics with Emulation64 it enabled me to finally step down and walk away on good terms and to leave the site in good hands. I was originally going to fade away quietly but that's not really my style. ;)
I still have a few developer spotlights out there that I am waiting for and I will be sure to pass those on to the team once I get them back. I will also be around working on my project EFx2Blogs (yeah shameless plug) and will be here to help with the Emulation64 maintenance when something breaks or needs to be added. Thanks for all the good times it's been fun. :)
zilmar and the lads at Project64 has updated their site with a new site design, but not only that, the site has lots of new features that shouldn't be missed!
Welcome to the new Project64 site
Written by zilmar
Tuesday, 11 October 2005
The new site has been built so we can better support our user base and provide more news. You can get the latest public version of Project64 (v1.6) from the download section. Any problems, have a good look around the support section - still under development as we launch - and the public forum, where we'd also like to hear your responses. We are also giving access to the beta versions and more development news, read more about this here.
Well I was away for a week and have been kind of busy since I have been back. So the News Credit Database got a little behind but I took some time today to get it pretty much updated.
For those that don't know what the News Credit Database is, it's basically a list of sites that have credited us for news. It's our way of giving a link back to those sites in appreciation for taking the time to credit us. :)
So feel free to pop on over to the database list and give those sites a visit. Also if you see a site crediting us and I have missed it then please let me know and I will get it added to the list. (Note: Only legal sites please. I can't link to sites that have ROMS and other illegal material.)
Hey guys just wanted to let you know that we are currently looking to expand our site content and would love to have your help. So if you have a review or an article you would like to share then feel free to pass it our way. On a related note Trotterwatch has added his very nice article on emulation which you can read here.
We have a submit review forum you can use for submitting reviews. Reviews can be for games, hardware, or anything PC related. If we find it to be good enough we will add it to our site.
If you have an article you would like to share then feel free to send me a private message on the forums and I will hook you up.
Thanks for all the support and I look forward to reading all the new content. :)
Sorry for the non emulation interuption. Just wanted to wish my wife a happy 7th year wedding anniversary. Love you baby .. only 43 more years to go until we hit the big 50. :)
I have been wanting to post about all the recent changes we have done to the site but also wanted to wait until we had a bunch done. So I have just finished up the latest addition to Emulation64 and figured now would be a good time to go over all the recent changes.
- News and File Search - I have added search features for both the news database and the file database.
- File Database Reorganization - I have reorganized the file database and now we have them separated into consoles, handhelds, computer, arcade and misc sections (Thanks to PsyMan for the suggestion). Along with the search engine it should be a bit easier to find what you are looking for.
- News Archive - I have added a news archive and also made a new category list so you can easily view news by either month or by category.
- Redid The Guides Navigation - When the sites merged I was short on time so I had to write the guides script in about a day so I didn't have time to come up with something nicer at the time. So I have redone the guides navigation when viewing a guide and also added Previous and Next links (uses page titles). Looks much better now and the guides can now use the wasted space.
- Added a Main Menu - I added a main menu to the top right area of the menus. We are really starting to expand a lot and there is no room for more links at the top left of the site so I needed to make a menu. The menu lists all our major areas as well as a few useful things such as the news archive and RSS feed.
- News Credit System - I have also created a new feature for Emulation64. I wanted to way to give thanks and link back to sites that credit us for news. So I figured it would be cool to make an area where we could list the latest sites who have credited us for news. It basically shows the site name which is linkable to the site and the poster, post and date. It will list the last 50 credits and eventually when have more added we will add some cool stats such as top credit posters and top credit sites as well as an archive.
Whoo .. ok thats enough for now. I have also done some admin stuff that won't be very interesting to you guys and currently PsyMan and Gent are working on adding missing files to the database as well as updating outdated stuff. Jakob is working on adding his gallery script to the site which is very nice. Dark Watcher has added in a few of his guides from EmuFanatics and will be adding more soon. So as you can see we have been pretty busy and things are going great and its nice to see the merge working out so nice for everyone. Thanks for all the hard work guys lets keep it up. :)
I have added a KlipFolio feed for The Emulation64 Network since we are a premier site for emulation news and we want to provide a variaty of ways to access our news. This is something I have used in the past with EmuFanatics which worked out great for our visitors who already used KlipFolio.
I have made a little guide on how to get started with KlipFolio and how to add our feed. I have also created 3 different klip files which offer different checking times. The 3 options are to check every 60, 30 or 15 minutes. You can of course edit this on your own by downloading our klip file and editing it in a text editor.
Well while I am posting site news I figured I would let you guys know that we are currently working on our download database. We are adding missing files, updating file information and doing some reorganization. We will post again once we are done. :)
Some of the loyal EmuHelp visitors may have noticed that I've been posting here(when possible, vex and keith apparently don't have lives;) and not at EmuHelp, well, this is why, EmuHelp is officially joining The Network, which, I think, gives it an air of completion, as the original conspiracy plans envisioned some time ago.
So, I would like to welcome all of EmuHelp's patrons to the new site, where you will find copious amounts of everything emulation, and a great community too!
This is just a quick note to let you know that our third dedicated server has been setup and it's already serving a few sites from the network, more to join soon to balance the load. A third server has been needed for a while now as weekend traffic has caused some overload troubles. New server specs:
DELL -Server SC420
Intel Pentium IV 3,4 GHz
2.048 MB DDR2-RAM (400 MHz)
2 x 160 GB SATA harddrives (7.200 rpm)
2.000 GB bandwidth per month
SuSE Linux 9 (Fedora Core 3)
100 Mbit/s connection
I am proud to announce the merger of EmuFanatics, Emulation64 and Emutastic. Our main goal with the merger is to provide you guys with the best site possible with our combined content and talents.
The main changes you will notice is the design if you are an Emulation64 regular and the expanded news coverage. The Network now covers all gaming emulation but I have added a news option to filter the NextGen type news. On the main page you will see a link that you can click to only show NextGen news. This should hopefully satisfy those that come to Emulation64 for NextGen news only. You will need to have cookies enabled and no registration is required.
With the new merger also brings all the wonderful guides from Gent's Emutastic site. Currently Gent is in the process of adding the guides to the site and already has a few up for your viewing pleasure. We will also be expanding the forums to provide you with better support for various emulators.
With the merger of EmuFanatics you will notice all the new files for the file database as well as a few articles. The merger also brings our Developer Spotlight interviews which we will have a few more new ones up very soon.
Many thanks for all the support from Keith, Martin, Gent, [vEX], PsyMan and from the rest of wonderful team here at the Emulation64 Network.
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