2007! yes! Told you it'd look different. As for new content, I'm waiting for a part to turn up so I can fix the computer most of the stuff is on. Once that happens, I... still probably won't update, but at least there's a chance.
okay! well it's nearly christmas, and the site is looking slightly more festive. assuming I haven't fucked up the coding, a completely new design should come into effect on 1/1/2007, 0:00:00 GMT (the real man's time zone). of course it's all cosmetic, there's no new content whatsoever... but there will be. some time next year, at least.
Balls to Emax. They terminated my account for reasons I won't go into (but suffice to say they thought I was doing something I wasn't actually doing), which I was not expecting. And now they won't answer my emails. So, the last backup I had locally was from mid-November, and I've lost a good chunk of stuff that I was working on but hadn't made public yet. Arse. But, yeah, once again I've moved hosts and everything should be working just fine. New stuff is still forthcoming, just later than I planned. I will continue to keep on top of the 505 and Simple lists, at least, although they may be out of date for a while.
Okay, well. I've moved the entire site to a new host (this lot [19/12/06 edit: nevermind, they aren't getting any more free advertising from me]), and remarkably nothing seems to have gone tits-up. Should be a lot less downtime from now on (I hope). If you notice something broken, post on the messageboard or email me.
Comments. Yeah, you can now leave comments on these news posts. If you want to.
505 Gamestreet, then. Now 505 Games, apparently "UK-based" according to this latest press release, run by a bloke called Ian Howe, and publishing European-developed PC games. Mm. I dunno. I hope this isn't the direction they're heading in now. I liked them as the enigmatic Italian publisher of quirky Japanese games, not a generic UK publisher of hyper-realistic military FPS's that I really couldn't give a shit about. Ah well. Hopefully they can keep both sides going at the same time. Hell, maybe with the extra money Armed Assault will undoubtedly bring in, they could afford to pick up Goemon or something. The DS Goemon. Or the PS2 one. Or Tales of the Abyss. Or something equally unlikely.
in news of interest to absolutely no one, myself included, i've updated the news script a bit. links now work, and some other things. yeah. incidentally, i am still pretty much keeping on top of the simple and 505 games, for those of you primarily concerned with that sort of thing.
I am now the owner of a Watara Supervision. so. yay for that. The Gamates are taking their damn time to get here, though. Some of the Supervision games are pretty fun, at least, although they're obviously outclassed by pretty much everything on the gameboy. But I suppose they were rushed a bit to get a decent number of games by 1992, considering the only third parties supporting the thing were Sachen and B.I.T.S.
As far as site stuff goes, I'm currently trying to figure out how to use a cheap webcam to take decent screenshots of an LCD screen behind a highly reflective piece of plastic with a huge scratch across it.
Well. I now have a Supervision, two Gamates and a few more games on their way to me from various parts of the world. If there's one thing I know how to do, it's piss money away. But, yeah, now I'll have to do something about them for the site. Especially the Gamate. The Gamate gets no love. Even the Game Master had an FAQ written about it.
(by the way, I'm aware that relative links don't work in the old news pages. I'll probably fix that at some point.)
This was something I planned to do more with before I actually "opened" it (as it were), but my internet access has been limited recently. Plus I'm lazy. And I've only got my laptop here, which is shit. So, here it is: a page about Japanese Super Mario Bros. hacks, featuring a whole two of them. Plus an English version of a Japanese IPS patcher that I translated on a whim.
edit: google ads? what google ads?