Rareware Musicians in the Tepid Seat: Part Deux
Posted by Powerlord on 12/26/04 11:39 AM
You may remember me 8403" target="_blank" class="postlink">mentioning in October that the Rareware Music team was accepting questions that they would later answer.
On December 23rd, the answers to our questions were posted.
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Happy 8th Birthday, VGMusic!
Posted by Powerlord on 12/19/04 03:20 AM
It's that time of year again!
VGMusic was started by Mike Newman on Geocities 8 years ago today. I bet he didn't expect this site to grow to the size it has when he started this site.
18000 files... 10000 unique visitors every day... 15GB of bandwidth daily...
It's amazing how time flies...
More VGMusic History is available for your perusal.
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Attachments update
Posted by Powerlord on 12/15/04 07:56 PM
Attachments should be working on the forums again now.
All attachments made from sometime on Sunday, December 12, 2004 through the morning of Wednesday, December 15th, 2004 are gone.
I ran the "Shadow" Attachment removal tool, which should have cleaned up all the links to attachments that no longer exist. However, it did not fix the paperclip icon. It still shows up next to threads that had attachments even if they're gone.
If your attachment is missing, please edit your post to add it again.
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American Final Fantasy Concert Tour
Posted by Powerlord on 12/14/04 11:18 PM
Following the success of the concert in Los Angeles earlier this year, Square Enix decided that an American tour was in order.
The first stop in the concert is Chicago, IL's Rosemont Theater on Saturday, February 19, 2005. Tickets are available from Ticketmaster's website, by phone at 312-559-1212, or by visiting the Rosemont's box office.
Further concert dates, times, and locations are not known at this time. We will attempt to keep you informed.
Added 2004-12-15: I somehow omitted some details earlier:
The concert is two hours long, will be played by the Chicagoland Pops and their Grammy award winning director, Arnie Roth.
VIP tickets include a meet & greet session with Uematsu.
Source: 1up.com
Source: Uematsu's Music @ Square-Enix
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500 Internal Server Errors
Posted by Powerlord on 12/14/04 01:52 AM
Some of you might have been seeing 500 Internal Server errors around the site during the past day or two. This was due to a new security measure that I implemented, which seemed to be misdetecting some normal requests as security breaches.
It has been removed for the time being.
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Fixing a location
Posted by Powerlord on 12/10/04 09:10 PM
When the NEC PC-98 section was added to the site, I created it in the console directory heirarchy. Unfortunately, PC-98 is not a console architecture. It has now been moved to the computers section, and all links to it have been fixed.
Redirects will be in place for a few weeks.
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Forums reminder
Posted by Powerlord on 12/04/04 03:06 PM
A quick reminder about the forums:
Everyone is a guest on our forums. We reserve the right to lock topics, move topics, delete topics, and ban people from the forums for any reason. However, we do not just randomly ban people: We have a set of guidelines that we actively enforce. Additional guidelines may be posted as Announcement topics on the board they apply to.
For those of you in the United States: this is not violating your first amendment rights. The first amendment only guarantees that the Government will not interfere with your free speech. As a private entity, we can and will enforce our standards of decency on our private property: this webserver.
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Things to know before buying a Nintendo DS
Posted by Powerlord on 11/22/04 07:01 PM
There have been a number of things that people who are thinking about buying a DS need to know.
- The DS can play GBA games, but not GB/GBC games.
- The DS can not play multiplayer GBA games... there's no port to plug in a GBA link cable.
- When you buy a DS, try it out before you leave the store. In particular, look for any dead pixels on the two screens. If you see one, exchange it for a different DS.
- The battery only has a partial charge. You'll need to recharge it before any serious usage.
This will remain on the front page for a few days, then be moved to the General Message Board.
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A Death Knell for Nullsoft
Posted by Powerlord on 11/11/04 02:15 PM
According to an article on The Register, Nullsoft lost the last of its original staff members this week. Only a few people remain at the company, and it is speculated that that there will be no further improvements to their software products.
Which software products, you ask? Why, the Winamp media player and the Shoutcast streaming radio server, of course.
Old software never really dies, though. I suspect that everyone who uses Winamp will continue to use it for the foreseeable future.
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Sad day, sad day...
Posted by Willow on 10/30/04 09:11 PM
Nobuo Uematsu has reportedly retired from Square Enix.
Notably, this does not mean that he has died or that he has sworn off working for Square Enix ever again.
More details are available on RPGamer's site.
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Staff Changes
Posted by Powerlord on 10/14/04 07:42 PM
Over the past few weeks, two of our update staff, nZero and The Sorcerer, have chosen to retire.
We have added two new staff members to our update team to replace them. Please welcome Black_Wing and Hunter-Zero to our staff!
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Thank you MSN!
Posted by Powerlord on 10/10/04 01:57 AM
Earlier tonight, my test server got hit by MSN's Search Bot. Unsurprisingly, this caused all sorts of problems, as this server is not currently ready for public consumption. It also reiterated to me how said code isn't ready to go live.
It not only brought the server to an extremely high load level (42, when it should be no more than 1 per processor), but unbeknownst to me, also caused a number of database connections that should have closed, to instead stay open.
Things should be fixed now, though.
As a side note, vgmusic.net and vgmusic.org point to the correct location again.
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RPGamer music contest
Posted by Powerlord on 10/07/04 01:10 AM
RPGamer has started a new monthly music contest. This month's contest "is to remix a theme that you attribute to your favorite character from a role-playing game."
More details are available on RPGamer's site.
Post any comments you have in this topic on RPGamer's boards.
Edit (2004/10/14): Links updated to the new page for this contest.
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