Monday, September 28
I have added a small arcade music page. There are only a few arcade midis
so send them in! Please don't send midis from home game systems
that were arcade games that we have on our site until I ask. I know many
of them and will add them myself. After I am finished I will ask people if I missed any.
(Necrosaro)
Sunday, September 27
I have come out of my updating coma and did some much needed cleaning
in the new-files page. I removed as many midis as I could by adding them to
the archive and deleting the bad midis and midis we allready have. I have added 45 midis
and deleted about 20 others. Its not much but its a start.
(Necrosaro)
Wednesday, September 23
Telefragged went down earlier today due to a hard drive
crash. All our data seems to be intact, thanks to Telefragged using 2
hard drives. That's why we had downtime earlier today.
(Powerlord)
Thursday, September 17
The Game Music Quiz registration went online about 10 minutes
ago. You can register for the quiz on the
Game Music Quiz page in the Other Archive Resources section.
(Powerlord)
Saturday, September 12
I wrote a new page about the Zelda 64 MP3.
(Powerlord)
Friday, September 11
MILESTONE: We just hit 300,000 total hits! Lets hope we
stay in one spot long enough to get 300,000 more! I was visitor
299,989 when I checked the index, so I reloaded and got 300,004,
so we JUST passed 300,000 when I posted this.
I just found out that the Wishlist Board has
been down for at least 1 1/2 days. If you ever have any problems with the
message boards or upload script, please email me.
(Powerlord)
Thursday, September 10
The top 5 bandwidth midi files have been renamed because we
believe that people are linking to them. The next time that
link (or background music) is used, the web address it came
from will be recorded into my 404.log file.
A few improvements have been made to the additions display. The
only problem is that it only works correctly if the game names are
alphabatized backwards, so that's something we'll have to learn to live
with.
(Powerlord)
Tuesday, September 8
There is a Zelda 64 MP3 taken from the Demo Tape somewhere on the web.
Also on the same site is a petition to bring Snatchers and Policenauts (2 great Konami games)
to the PSX! Sign the petition now!
Go to the site!
The Search Engine now works properly for the music index pages (but nothing else).
I've recreated the link to it.
I modified most of the indexing CGI scripts to create a classic index
page for each system. The only thing that's missing is it's
ability to display pictures like the original NES and SNES indexes.
(Powerlord)
Sunday, September 6
MILESTONE: Yesterday, the website had 2,113 hits
in one day, which was the first time this website had
over 2,000 hits in one day! Note: This stat only counts
hits for the front page. The entire website overall gets
many more hits in total.
(Mike Newman)
Tuesday, September 1
I made a change to the way the PC page links to the FTP server.
The filename is now passed to a script, which presents
a list of mirror sites you can download the file from. This
was done to combat the "Too many anonymous logins" problem.
(Powerlord)
Friday, August 28
Princess Peach Toadstool has joined the VGMusic staff
to help doing updates. I'm still teaching Peach how to
do updates, but at least one file has been added through
Peach's help so far.
(Mike Newman)
I've got my computer back now, for the sole reason that 8 credits
worth of classes are done completely over the internet, and my parents
don't want me installing special software on their computer.
(Powerlord)
Wednesday, August 19
My internet connection is going to be limited
for some weeks thanks to my parents thinking I have
an Internet addiction, and taking my computer (which I
paid for with my own money).
I'll try to access the site from college, but I don't know
if I can visit here on a regular basis.
(Powerlord)
Sunday, August 16
Surprise! This site is now on a new server! The site was
offline for around 24 hours (starting from last night) due
to a temporary server problem. But its up and running now!
This was definitely the easiest transition for this site yet.
(Mike Newman)
Saturday, August 15
I'd like to welcome
Thomas Schrantz (Kalrac)
as VGMusic's new FAQ Page Editor. Kalrac
will not be responsible for doing updates, so don't bother him
about updates! On that note, Greg and I hope to get back to doing updates
soon. We have all been super busy lately.
(Mike Newman)
Thursday, August 6
This August's issue of PC Magazine has an opinion
article about copyrights and music online.
Click here
to view the online version of the article, which was written
by columnist Bill Machrone. The article itself is not super,
but it is somewhat related to this site.
(Mike Newman)
Saturday, August 1
We have reason to believe that the site might be down
for an extended amount of time very very very (maybe
starting as you read this) soon. I extremely
recommend you add your email address to the Emergency News Mailing List,
which is located further down this page under the "Mailing Lists" section.
Otherwise, you might be left out in the dark of what is happening
once the site is offline.
(Mike Newman)
Tuesday, July 28
We've become sister sites with several other sites now.
The other sites logos are below our main logo.
Oh, and thanks to KingMelvyl for the miniture vgmusic.com logo.
(Powerlord)
Monday, July 27
We had some downtime yesterday from one of our DNS servers
going down, followed by our host, Telefragged
going down. If you want to be notified when things like this happen,
join the emergency new mailing list.
(Powerlord)
Sunday, July 26
I took down the VGMusic newsletter. I've decided against doing it.
Its better to put all the information on the
website itself. However, the emergency news mailing list will
still be maintained.
(Mike Newman)
Friday, July 17
The site broke 250,000 (a quarter of a million!!!) total hits
today. Thanks to everyone for visiting.
I've always wondered if my site is popular in the offices, cubicles,
and workstations at videogame companies and videogame magazines.
If you work at such a place, I'd love to hear if my site is popular
or known there.
(Mike Newman)
Saturday, July 11
I moved the japanese and pc sections to new
directories today, as well as put all the pc zip files
on the FTP server. I also got rid of the Files directory,
since everything in it is now separated into individual
directory structures.
(Powerlord)
Wednesday, July 8
I split the Wishlist into two pages:
One for messages before 6/15/98, and one for
newer messages.
I also added Pull-down menus to the message boards.
(Powerlord)
Adam LaStrange offered me a new logo.
I liked it, so I put it up. This logo is actually smaller in filesize
than the last logo (megaman/mario).
(Mike Newman)
Monday, July 6
Last night at around 10pm EST, the webserver came
almost to a crashing hault due to all the CGI index
scripts that we use in the majority of file directories
(NES, SNES, etc.). CGI scripts require some of the webserver's
processor to process them, thus slowing down the server.
For the time being we have replaced the majority of CGI
scripts with index.html files. This means the buttons (A-K, etc.)
won't work. We are working on seeing what we can do.
We probably will break up the big pages into addition html
files in addition to the normal A-Z html listing.
In lighter news, for the first time since I started my
website (Dec. 1996) I corrected the "nastalgia" spelling
error in the opening welcome paragraph. People
have told me about it in the past, but I've never gotten
around to fixing it until now.
(Mike Newman)
Sunday, July 5
With the official additions of the FF7 midi collections (for pc),
the VGMusic website has broken the 4,000 total midi mark!!!
Actually, all those midis has brought the total to 4,300. 5,000
is now not too far away.
(Mike Newman)
Friday, July 3
The Sony Playstation
collection broke the 100 midi mark today. Yippee! Also, the
site also recently broke the 3900 total midi mark. 4000 will
be coming up very soon.
(Mike Newman)
Wednesday, July 1
(OK, so it's only July 1st here in EST and farther east)
I fixed the update list bug by changing the sort method.
I'm not sure if this is a permanent fix or not, as I didn't
write the new code for the Recent Additions CGI Script.
(Powerlord)