shmups forum - what exactly have we got here then

Reiki · Post by **Reiki** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 9:48 am

Ghegs wrote:Well, we're still re-building the community, I think. Not all of the regulars have joined the new forums yet and the empty Strategy and High-score sections contribute to that feeling as well. Once we get back into groove it'll be like before, for the most part.

After all this downtime and temp forum business it feels like some of the life has been sucked away, not because the forums are missing some sections or members. Not saying it won't improve though.

chtimi-CLA · Post by **chtimi-CLA** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 10:17 am

good work, the background is nice too.
that's really too bad about the loss of threads though, all those strat and hi-score posts, gone.
i only saved my dangun hi-score table

edit: will donate when my paypal account works again

Guardians Knight · Post by **Guardians Knight** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 11:02 am

nice one mate, great job. I'll donate some funds at some point just to do me bit.

big shame about the lost information. But surely all the reviews should be ok?

DEL · Post by **DEL** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 2:13 pm

Malc - if i can Donate by Postal Order? - that would be easiest for me.

DEL

Gozer · Post by **Gozer** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 2:56 pm

It's good to have the forums back.

dbd · Post by **dbd** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 4:01 pm

In full agreement, good to see the fourms back.

This could also be redundant, but - anyone tried the archiver to get at the posts at the old forum?

http://www.archive.org

( use the 'take me back' button )

JigsawMan · Post by **JigsawMan** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 7:21 pm

Gozer wrote:It's good to have the forums back.

Yeah! Nice to have a central place for everyone to post. Although there are a few other good shmup boards, none get quite the traffic that this one does.

Skyknight · Post by **Skyknight** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 7:30 pm

My main concern is that (taking-on-a-life-of-its-own) G-Darius story mode I was cooking up. The situation isn't that serious, since most of it is on an Appleworks file on my computer. The exception is where Our Heroes first confront Absolute Defender...

(Tar-Palantir? Specineff? R-Gray1? Did any of you save it before the final forum blink?)

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 7:20 am

Skyknight wrote:My main concern is that (taking-on-a-life-of-its-own) G-Darius story mode I was cooking up.

Do they ever figure out how to make peace with the aliens in your story?! Because that's one thing I have always obsessed about with the Darius series: "WHY couldn't they make peace with the aliens?" WHAT is the story behind the planet?!" lol

Sorry Storm, I dunno anything about your project. For those who don't know, this an olllld inside joke about a crazy person who used to ask stuff like this allll the time about 5 years ago on the old spam forum. This guy seemed to literally think the Darius series had some sort of secret backstory with complexity rivaling that of Star Wars, Trek and Babylon 5 and was always trying to start lengthy nerd discussions about Darius' "story."

Unfortunately Grant ticked him off really bad and then he turned into Rommel and terrorized us for awhile. But at least I can heal my war wounds with laughter.

Thunder Force · Post by **Thunder Force** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 7:30 am

dbd wrote:This could also be redundant, but - anyone tried the archiver to get at the posts at the old forum?

http://www.archive.org

( use the 'take me back' button )

That doesn't seem to work when I tried it a few days ago. It could be because Gamespy specifically put the following on the hosting server

Dynamic5 Gamespy wrote:User-agent: * # applies to all robots
Disallow: / # disallow indexing of all pages

uwfan · Post by **uwfan** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 8:11 am

ive just realized i have a bunch of old threads [including a few strategy threads] saved to my hard drive, can i "upload" them somehow?

Post by **system11** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 11:24 am

All you could do is repost them, as one big posting, unfortunately.

straight · Post by **straight** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 3:20 pm

Just want to add my thanks for bringing back the forums.

Melf · Post by **Melf** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 6:03 am

Yay! The forums ar back!

Post by **Ghegs** » Fri Jan 28, 2005 6:45 am

melf, that's a hideously oversized image in your sig there. You might want to change it to a much smaller one or remove it completely.

Nate · Post by **Nate** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 3:06 am

Make that 1 more for the cause comin' from my camp, ol' buddy!

This forum has been nothing but beneficial to me the last 7 or 8 years I've been coming around...

Melf · Post by **Melf** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 3:32 am

Fixed. I'm not used to the stict avatar/sig requirements yet and I haven't been able to make a decent banner at the tiny 200 x 50 size.

Post by **system11** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:20 pm

I'd rather see banners disabled altogether. Forums are ruined by them.

chtimi-CLA · Post by **chtimi-CLA** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 8:03 pm

i had completely forgotten to donate to support the forum (not to mention new members), maybe you should put the paypal info in a sticky thread or something.

fenrirwolf · Post by **fenrirwolf** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 1:45 am

Yaaaah! I had very nearly given up on these forums -- imagine my disappointment to find out that Gamespy had dropped 'em. But I'm certainly glad to see 'em back!

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