PCE Software Bible updates

[esteban]

FYI: Updates are now on hold for AT LEAST 6 months (possibly more) while the whole site gets a complete remake. It'll be worth the wait, I'm putting an extraordinary amount of love into each and every page. I just hope to finish it this decade   

GOOD LUCK .

If I interpret things correctly, you're hoping to unveil the upgraded site in 6 months? Awesome . Do you think you'll still have time to do the pce podcast?

[sunteam_paul]

FYI: Updates are now on hold for AT LEAST 6 months (possibly more) while the whole site gets a complete remake. It'll be worth the wait, I'm putting an extraordinary amount of love into each and every page. I just hope to finish it this decade   

GOOD LUCK .

If I interpret things correctly, you're hoping to unveil the upgraded site in 6 months? Awesome . Do you think you'll still have time to do the pce podcast?

I'll finish it first before I upload it. I think 6 months is probably underestimating the time it will take actually. Erm when you consider there are almost 600 games listed the chances of me doing 2 games a day, every day until then are a little remote. Of course some days I can get through 3 or 4, a weekend quite a few, but with looming MMORPGs I'm unlikely to keep up the speed for that long.
The podcast will continue as planned, at least for most of the year (undecided if I will still be doing it next year).

[esteban]

FYI: Updates are now on hold for AT LEAST 6 months (possibly more) while the whole site gets a complete remake. It'll be worth the wait, I'm putting an extraordinary amount of love into each and every page. I just hope to finish it this decade   

GOOD LUCK .

If I interpret things correctly, you're hoping to unveil the upgraded site in 6 months? Awesome . Do you think you'll still have time to do the pce podcast?

I'll finish it first before I upload it. I think 6 months is probably underestimating the time it will take actually. Erm when you consider there are almost 600 games listed the chances of me doing 2 games a day, every day until then are a little remote. Of course some days I can get through 3 or 4, a weekend quite a few, but with looming MMORPGs I'm unlikely to keep up the speed for that long.
The podcast will continue as planned, at least for most of the year (undecided if I will still be doing it next year).

Indeed. Good luck and have fun .

[sunteam_paul]

I've created one of those Live Space thingies now for the Software Bible, with the intent on supplying information regarding the update status of the site. It also allows me to ramble on and on blogstyle about stuff, cry about all the work to do and cover scans I still need and have pictures of PCE games fading in and out which is always nice. If anyone is reeeealy bored they may want to take a look here: http://peelfruit.spaces.live.com/


And if you don't use the guestbook I'll feel lonely.

[sunteam_paul]

*ahem*

[SignOfZeta]

This is very nice!

Please though, don't ever re-design your site again. To the average user, seeing their favorite sites being re-designed just means months and months of no visible updates or in many cases total down time. Also, you never know when the site owner is going to just decide it wasn't worth it and just give up on the site all together because the redesign turned out to be a bigger job than originally though.

So, like I said, I love it. Now don't ever change it again! 

[sunteam_paul]

This is very nice!

Please though, don't ever re-design your site again. To the average user, seeing their favorite sites being re-designed just means months and months of no visible updates or in many cases total down time. Also, you never know when the site owner is going to just decide it wasn't worth it and just give up on the site all together because the redesign turned out to be a bigger job than originally though.

So, like I said, I love it. Now don't ever change it again! 

Firstly I will never, ever give up on the site  It's consumed over 10 years of my life in various forms and it's my little baby.

Second, I don't think I'll ever do a major redesign again. This one was essential to convert the crappy on format constructed using layers in a really old version of Dreamweaver to something that is far easier for me to update and far less likely to foul up in different browsers. So there's no need to worry! 

[Game and Watch Kirby]

You might want to look at the thread below this one  :-"

*ahem*

Thanks for helping me out a bit, Sunteam_Paul. I have responded to your previous comment to me on your video about some of my thoughts on the new website. I'll kinda miss the old design now that I've browsed around the website a bit more, but I hope that the further enhancements to this design will improve it to an even greater deal. My only major complaints are the lack of the Omake section (currently), and the External Links for the games (though I see that some of them may present more information on signifcant objects in them, I, personally, wouldn't highly trust Wikipedia to be a good source to present accurate information on any items, though it is an ultimate one in this sense; Though it has  much the same information presented as it, I prefer the website Answers.com as an Internet encyclopedia, mostly due to the interface). Other than that, I'm glad that you've gotten the update going at last.

[sunteam_paul]

You might want to look at the thread below this one  :-"

*ahem*

Thanks for helping me out a bit, Sunteam_Paul. I have responded to your previous comment to me on your video about some of my thoughts on the new website. I'll kinda miss the old design now that I've browsed around the website a bit more, but I hope that the further enhancements to this design will improve it to an even greater deal. My only major complaints are the lack of the Omake section (currently), and the External Links for the games (though I see that some of them may present more information on signifcant objects in them, I, personally, wouldn't highly trust Wikipedia to be a good source to present accurate information on any items, though it is an ultimate one in this sense; Though it has  much the same information presented as it, I prefer the website Answers.com as an Internet encyclopedia, mostly due to the interface). Other than that, I'm glad that you've gotten the update going at last.

The Omake section is gone for good now. With the aim of having many of those 'omake' features as standard for game entries as I add to the site, the section becomes pretty much redundant as time goes on. There seems little point in relisting every game that has a video (which you can get to via YouTube anyway) or a game cover scan. Best to just look up the games you are interested in and see what is there.

There are two features of the external links. The first is to supply outside information related to the game, such as fan sites etc. The second (and this is particularly relevant for those swarms of games with no specific websites for them) is for me to just be a bit random by creating some very tenuous links to something completely different. Strangely enough, while looking for many of these I've found a lot of interesting sites, so it's worth giving some of them a look.

Regarding Wikipedia, it's very fashionable to poo-poo it as a source of completely innacurate information. But it's the most well known site of its type and it does contain a lot of truthful information within it. It's up to the user whether they wish to use it or not, I decided it's better to give them that choice than to leave it off completely.

[Game and Watch Kirby]

You might want to look at the thread below this one  :-"

*ahem*

Thanks for helping me out a bit, Sunteam_Paul. I have responded to your previous comment to me on your video about some of my thoughts on the new website. I'll kinda miss the old design now that I've browsed around the website a bit more, but I hope that the further enhancements to this design will improve it to an even greater deal. My only major complaints are the lack of the Omake section (currently), and the External Links for the games (though I see that some of them may present more information on signifcant objects in them, I, personally, wouldn't highly trust Wikipedia to be a good source to present accurate information on any items, though it is an ultimate one in this sense; Though it has  much the same information presented as it, I prefer the website Answers.com as an Internet encyclopedia, mostly due to the interface). Other than that, I'm glad that you've gotten the update going at last.

The Omake section is gone for good now. With the aim of having many of those 'omake' features as standard for game entries as I add to the site, the section becomes pretty much redundant as time goes on. There seems little point in relisting every game that has a video (which you can get to via YouTube anyway) or a game cover scan. Best to just look up the games you are interested in and see what is there.

There are two features of the external links. The first is to supply outside information related to the game, such as fan sites etc. The second (and this is particularly relevant for those swarms of games with no specific websites for them) is for me to just be a bit random by creating some very tenuous links to something completely different. Strangely enough, while looking for many of these I've found a lot of interesting sites, so it's worth giving some of them a look.

Regarding Wikipedia, it's very fashionable to poo-poo it as a source of completely innacurate information. But it's the most well known site of its type and it does contain a lot of truthful information within it. It's up to the user whether they wish to use it or not, I decided it's better to give them that choice than to leave it off completely.

I see. That was my favorite section of the website, and I went there often to listen to a few tunes from the games (even with an echo effect in the HuCard music) or look at their photos. At least the music videos from YouTube have been put up on there.

I am aware that Wikipedia can have correct information, and I won't try to stop anyone from using it as a source, but as its entries can be written by anyone, I often try to avoid it for reading about certain objects. Therefore, I'll just completely ignore it on your website; at least it's not featured on every page, anyway.

[sunteam_paul]

Can anyone let me know if they get any glitches with the display on the homepage? If so, which OS/Browser are you using and what is the glitch.

Thanks

[ceti alpha]

Looks great!! I love the HuCARD theme. 

[Necromancer]

Lookin' good and I love the 'secret' page. 

And if you don't use the guestbook I'll feel lonely.

I'd comment if I could, but Microsoft doesn't like me.  That disc that MACCASPAN is talking about is indeed a CD+G; it was a pack in with the TG-CD. 

[sunteam_paul]

Lookin' good and I love the 'secret' page. 

And if you don't use the guestbook I'll feel lonely.

I'd comment if I could, but Microsoft doesn't like me.  That disc that MACCASPAN is talking about is indeed a CD+G; it was a pack in with the TG-CD. 

Now the update is done I wouldn't worry because that space won't be looked at probably forever again

[Game and Watch Kirby]

Can anyone let me know if they get any glitches with the display on the homepage? If so, which OS/Browser are you using and what is the glitch.

Thanks

From the links possible to get to it, I still had the older homepage appearing oftentimes (though this can be fixed by clicking the "HOME" button on it). I use Internet Explorer 7.0 for the computers, which AOL 9.1 is used for the Gateway 560GE model and AOL Desktop 10.0 is used for the Sony VIAO NR Series notebook (the Wii browser has yet to be tested).

I have also noted a few other issues that occurred within the website:

When trying to access the links from the "Why not try..." section from Bonk's Revenge, the pages were unable to be found with the exception of Bonk's Adventure. The pages themselves work fine, and the links to the rest of the games work just fine, also.

On the Bari Bari Densetsu page, tires is spelled as "tyres" in the "Overview" section. I'm not sure if this is just an English language variant (such as the English Added U (favourite) and the Switched Around Ending R and E (metre)), but I thought it would be needed to point this factor out.

On the Dragon Spirit page, the link to see a larger version of the Japanese cover art is unable to found.

This may not be a problem relating to your website, but the link to see the dragon pictures that is found for the "External Links" for Dragon Spirit and Dragon Knight II are unable to be found. The Famous Dragons link for Dragon Knight III was not located in the website itself (it's a shame, too; I was excited to view these pages ).

I'll let you know of any more problems that I encounter from the website.