Well, from that standpoint there's also really nothing stopping anyone from sending me things they wrote about games or characters or whatever else... Like if someone wanted to write something about Aigis for the Persona 3 section, then I'd be all for that and would be more than happy to work it into the site.

The thing is that nothing like that has even happened. I've even tried asking if people would be interested in writing just general articles (for that article section) and while one person offered he was never actually able to find the time to do it.

Basically, I'm more than willing to accept fixes, adjustments or expansions on any of the content on the main site. There's several ways to contact me... e-mail, the forums, PMs, IMs. And if someone wants to do that once or a million times, it's up to them.

We actually don't have as many as we used to. At one point the forum had to come down and I lost quite a few. There's still more here than I seem to come across at most places, though. Probably too many lol. :corkysm17

This is really weird, but I'm right around that neighborhood lol.

Also, I'll have to look into that Popeye game. Strange.

I've actually been considering redownloading this and giving it a shot again. I've gotten a new computer since the last time I tried it, so I figured why not. I'll try going in channel 8 and let you guys know what my name is when that's all set.

If you have this awesome idea, please tell me what it is and I'll thank you wholeheartedly. The problem is that I'm not even sure what your advice is at this point (aside from maybe you wanting to be able to write news entries?). Everything you've said has revolved around me not doing things right or that there's not enough content on the site. And I think in a way these are justifiable complaints; I've even brought up these issues myself many times in my posts on here and on the main site. This is exactly what we're working to fix and we're doing it with people from the community (as we have all along). I'm not asking my Aunt Sally to help lol.

From my perspective, a lot of what this seems to be coming down to the fact that I didn't post about the Persona 3: Fes finding you wrote about on our forums (although ironically, all Siliconera did was credit your name... I'm not sure why that's so bad if we do it). I'm sorry, I was busy at the time. It was good news, I screwed up in not posting it and I admit that. If I don't see something on the forum, people can IM me or PM or e-mail me, but I didn't receive anything about it (it's possible it was lost, in the case of mail). I would have loved to have 10 people to cover me, but unfortunately that's never come to fruition despite how many times I've asked in the forums and on the main site.

Your other big point seems to be your idea the front page is difficult to update. This isn't the case, although I will say that it's still easier to just click reply in a forum and type a sentence than write, categorize and tag a full post. All of the news posts are handled through a CMS and it's set up far better than anything CuteNews could handle. It handles the archives, it even creates and links comments to the posts into vBulletin automatically. We're not hand coding it lol.

I'm currently working on the site so that EVERY page of the site (including the news) is handled through a CMS. That's what the big update is about, so that every page is as easily updated so anyone working on the site (you, me, whoever in the world) will have a far easier time of it so that these delays and such don't happen anymore on any part of the site whether it's the news, a game page or a new article. And combining this with Traci and a few other people I've been talking to about roles on the site I think that will become far less of a problem... and if we still need more people, then we'll see about getting them.

This is what I was excited about and I thought it would be good news. I guess it isn't.

Yeah, I mean, I definitely do see the strengths of the Wiki platform despite all the concerns I have. I can set one up and obviously anyone can work on it as they please to. If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out.

I would need to find someone that would be interested in the overall management of it. It would be difficult for me to manage both the main site and the Wiki. I can start up some basic sections or something. My concern is that, really, if this is something put on top of me beyond the general installation that it will be half-assed. I just don't have the additional time.

The nice thing about is that if we're too busy with the main site for some reason, people can still expand upon the Wiki. Hopefully enough people are interested to do so.

As for FAQs, the issue is that most people who write them are not open to people using them like that. Half of them won't even get back to me about hosting them on my site, let alone taking information from them. We'd have to get them to OK it and maybe if they wanted they could help maintain sections related to what they're doing. At least that's my thought on it unless someone has a different idea?

Edit: I've pretty much decided on PmWiki, by the way. It seems like it would be the easiest for people to use, which is most important to me.

Well, first of all, thanks for the info. I'm sure Traci will appreciate it.

As for the rest... Part of me just really doen't even want to maintain a Wiki or set it up. Megaten Haven already has one set up as it is and anyone can go add to it now if they wished to. For that reason alone, I just don't think it's really all that necessary and I almost feel like I'd be doubling up on what that site provides even more than I already am through these forums. I'm not really comfortable doing that.

I am also am not really convinced that most people would even add to the thing considering the existence and status of that one and the actual Wikipedia entries in general (which contain some rather basic information). A lot of the point of this site was that I wanted to make a site that I was responsible for and where I could maintain some level of control over the presentation, writing quality and so forth. Allowing a Wiki to take over all of this is the complete opposite of what I was going for, although I suppose making it complementary like you describe wouldn't hurt that.

I don't think it's a bad idea, don't get me wrong. I think if it worked out well it could help a lot. It's just hard to invest the time, energy and bandwidth into something I'm not convinced people would even use. I invested a lot of time and money into these forums, for example, and it took over a year for them to even be considered slow lol.

But If people think they'd use it and I'm wrong, then I'm willing to do it. I mean, that seems like what qbasic is pushing for in addition anyway (although none of that really mentions the writers/editors name, so I don't know). Assuming you were thinking you might add things to it, that's two people potentially right there lol.

I don't know of any of those that has every game on it. You have to be careful though. a lot of them will say they have 10,000 games and then it will turn out to have only about 10 different ones. The rest are variations on the original 10 that don't work right.

Nintendo will never do something like that, though. They're making too much money charging people $5 for NES games on the Wii.

I like quite a lot of old games, myself. I don't play too many anymore since I've sold my SNES and NES, although I do still have my Atari 2600 and other newer systems like the original PlayStation and N64.

Also, I've never heard of Popeye for the SNES. The NES version is OK, though. It's based on the original arcade version Nintendo made in the 80s, although it's not quite as good.

I tried to keep this short, but there's so many points it brings up that I want to address...

I haven't looked for anyone on the "outside". I only know Traci thanks to making this site. You're in the forum, you've read the main posts on the front page then right? I've asked for help on the main page and those posts appear in this very forum for all people to read and post replies to (or people can even PM me). No one had ever seriously responded before and actually helped except Traci. And she just contacted and offered out of the blue. Sorry to tell you.

This is the first request I've made where anyone has given any serious response to me about actually helping. Emilio and Demi-Heat offered to help, I spoke them and we're figuring out every thing they'll be doing and how to set it up. They're all set to go. They will be staff, they will be on the staff page. You're telling me that people here could be the staff and that's exactly what's been happening all along! lol

You're acting like you're aware of every e-mail, PM or IM I've ever gotten regarding this site. Sorry, but it's not all in plain view on the forums. You don't even specifically know what Traci has done so far... which, trust me, is far more than it might seem to you.

I still can't even get over the idea of "giving credit" being a pat on the back. Emilio helped out with some quickly written Lexicon entries and so he'll get credit for that. Enid put up news about the anime, so I credited him for pointing it out. Traci has actually done things beyond that on the main site, so she's on the staff page. All three of them seem happy with this and you seem to be the only one coming to this conclusion that I'm undermining and insulting them. This isn't some crazy methodology I've invented, this is how sites are usually handled.

If people want to help and have anything specific to offer to the content of the site they have to tell me. 99% of the news worthy things that get posted here wind up on the front news page and the person who wrote about it is given full credit. This is how every other site seems to work without a problem. Really, there's only so many times I'm going to ask for help with little results before I give up and just allow people to come to me about it.

What do you want me to do? Make every one that posts in here ever a staff member of the site? Pay them? What would I have to do for you to not consider it a pat on the back? What sites have you been to that do this?

I mean, you're basically volunteering the whole forum when none of them have even said they wanted to do this. Never mind the fact that the previous people who have contacted me mostly have had forum accounts and just haven't had the time they wished to help. What can I really do about that? Nearly every one that has said they're interested turns out to not be able to help and I'm getting bitched out over that? How is that my fault? lol

I can't just give every one with some news or an idea free roam of the main site. It's not just news sections, it's also pages about games and characters and whatever else. That's what forums are for, people can post whatever they want in there. If you want to make a site that's set up like that, feel free to. That's just not how this one works. It's not a Wiki. Megaten Haven has one of those, people can contribute to it freely as they wish to.

Anyway, if you don't see my point after this I don't know what else to say and I'll certainly regret writing this much (as I did with my previous post). I'm sorry you feel I'm treating people poorly, even though none of the people in question have told me they feel that way.

Do you mean from the card game? I have quite a bit of those as well... I would be interested in seeing how many we'd have if we combined our collections.

What exactly is the problem? I'm not even sure what you're ranting about at this point. This is a hobby for anyone involved and I have a full time job aside from this. This isn't freaking Associated Press. I lose money on this thing between hosting, paying for the vBulletin license, items from Japan to add to the site, the games to begin with, not to mention the time spent that could be done doing other things. If I was pulling something in here and it was all I did you might have a point.

I think you're over exaggerating a lot of this to begin with. Traci isn't fully taking over the site, she's essentially taking on a larger role than she did. No one else had ever offered before and I've posted several requests for help on the main site since it has started.

And despite that, Traci was the ONLY person who ever offered me direct help on the site (beyond some corrections or something in the forum that we've always credited) and then actually did anything. Every one else has found that they too are too busy to contribute to this site as much as they would like (which I think is perfectly acceptable and understandable)--and even then I think about 7 people ever contacted me about it. There's not this line of people that have offered to write news posts for me. Do you seriously expect me to have a team of six writers to cover for each other the second something "super duper urgent" happens in the Megaten world? Seriously? lol.

Let's face it, nothing concerning this series is "super duper urgent" to begin with. Not one really has has patted me on the back when we've had news first (which much to my surprise has happened many times), but apparently they're willing to attack when I don't have it on the same day. How is that fair to any of us working on this project?

If it's really that much of a problem, you're more than free to make your own site and I would have no problem supporting it. I earnestly hope it goes well and lives up to your standards. Or you can go check out Megaten Haven or something. I don't know what else to say. You're being more passive aggressive than anything else to begin with, so I'm not sure what's making you fit to judge every one else's time commitments to this site. I've probably put in more time related to Megaten crap than half this board combined, if you want to get snappy about it. This isn't our career, it's not our life and we're just people. I'd appreciate your general input, but I'd also appreciate some level of patience with the situation. Thank you.

And thanks to the people who have been more understanding about it.

Aerozero: I haven't added any new smilies in a long time. I think there's quite a bit if you open up the full box, though.

I'm not really sure what she could do beyond giving credit for the help considering she has to personally enter all of it. I don't think she meant it to be taken that way, in any case. As it is, Emilio will be helping with other things including this anyway so he'll be given some position on the staff page at the least (which I'd still put under the level of "credit", so I don't know lol). I don't think it's a problem and he'll be given proper citation/position/whatever for anything he does. Same as anyone else that offered help.

So, I guess the short story is "it'll be fine". :D

CuteNews isn't even worth the time, really.... but I've had software set up to do news posts since the start. The main issue has really just been every thing else. It's not hard for me, but the effort to make sure people get it just isn't worth it lol.

I've got a pretty simple setup going through another piece of software that will work out fine. It's essentially what I'd ask anyone to do if it were custom to begin with, so that's not really a concern. Alan is handling other aspects of the site that do need to be custom, but I'd want them to be separate to begin with... so it's working out well so far.

I'll keep you guys posted as to any major developments.

I believe www.gamefaqs.com has at least one walkthrough of this game. I'd just check that... It's been so long since I touched this one that I couldn't really give any specific information.

That and I really didn't care for it... :footinmou

There's some exciting things afoot for this website. With the addition of new staff (and all of those who offered to help, thank you! I'll be in touch soon) I've found a lot more motivation. It's amazing what a little help can do.

One of the things this is leading to is a complete overhaul of the backend of the website. The benefit for every one is that it will be completely and totally controlled from a control panel, which is not 100% true of the site currently (aside from news posts and some custom work done by Alan). The hope for this is that, essentially, anyone can be taught to update every function of this site with extremely minimal, basic HTML knowledge (and even most of that can be copied and pasted from example elsewhere on the site).

This should lead to far quicker updates (particularly in terms of the game pages as they'll be the most affected by this), amongst other perks. The benefit for users beyond this is a lot of neat little options that normally haven't worked like I would have liked. This includes a full site search, RSS feeds for any search you like (so, let's say you really care about Yukari, search her out and subscribe to the resulting feed and you'll be told every time something about her pops up anywhere on the site), larger thumbnail images all across the site, video adjustments (embedded and downloadable) and so forth.

I know we're coming off a pretty recent redesign (although it will likely follow this current art style very closely), which makes this somewhat of a surprise (and perhaps even an annoyance to some). However, I bring this up largely because 1.) I want to reiterate this site isn't dead (I've even been offered help by a few people on the Demonary... yes it is real, Alan finished the coding on it several months ago) and 2.) there will probably continue to be few news updates until that time comes.

Thanks a lot for your patience and understanding during this, but it will definitely be worth the time (I'm aiming for December at this point). I've worked very hard on this site over the years, I'm proud of that work and I hope to improve upon it significantly in the months to come.