Image attachment justification is handled internally by the forums software and is not adjustable I'm afraid.

Then I guess there is no doing it, Well, they arent much of an issue though, Can live with it

Another Thing, How about Making Site Announcements also appear at the homepage / Portal ??

The problem with that is that they would mix in the news posts, and while site announcements are important, they're not exactly front page news.

plot, i think we modify the portal page a little in order to attract to ppl
we should add more screenshots and videos of PCSX2
and PCSX2 news should be also on the portal page

@emulation news, we should provide direct download link (i mean attach)

Thats already being worked on Gilgamesh, though its not that easy as it sounds

And so is direct downloads from General emu server.. or links possibly.

As for PCSX2 NEWS, they are already posted whenever the PCSX2 NEWS team posts news. However, due to the fact that new news posts are made, the portal shows only the newest ones

This post was last modified: 01-19-2007 01:13 AM by RealOne.

ya i know
i think PCSX2 news should always on the top though there is a new post

'cuz i think ppl in our don't post much

This post was last modified: 01-19-2007 03:30 AM by Gilgamesh.

We could try something like Sorting News into different Categories so the user can choose which news he wants to check on.. Though it seems that's gonna be another pain in the ass

Badabump!
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SUGGESTION 1: IRC info
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To help populate the generalemu IRC channel, I suggest that a short table be added between "General Emulation Forums" and "General Emulation Rules Of Conduct", and providing IRC info to get on chat.



I'll take the opportunity to propose a draft:

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SUGGESTION 2 : Icons for each main section
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Putting different, significant icons for each principal section of the forum, rather than the generic . A few original (vectorially-created) renders of consoles or similar icons should be considered to be made.

I recommend 32x32 size, and different renders of the icon set for each of the themes available (actually, only so they blend in nicely, without weird halos)

I second suggestion 2.

I know of a few emulation icons sets that might be really good for here. If anyone is interested in the idea of using icons for the forum also, I could find the links and post them here.

I was also going to make my own set too, but that will be limited and may not cover all systems that we cover in the news submissions or in general on the site.

post the icons here, if they are good, maybe plot'll decide on it

You could pm for these sites. I could check some of these. schatten should be interested too, since he's the "designing force" here.

Vectorial originals are better because those could be rendered to blend perfectly with each theme here. I had the NGemu icons in mind at first, but I didnt get any answers about who made them, and if it's by an NGemu-er, if they could freely be used here (or elsewhere for the matter). The only problem with those, was some of them are kinda small, wich means a necessary vectorization.

This post was last modified: 07-24-2007 05:29 AM by Hard Core Rikki.

remember, we dont want to copy other forums, we need somethin of our own, though if you take from a site, please ask permission from them to do so. otherwise there could be problems

What you're asking for is something that could take a long time if it isn't already predone, and if you want them to be original considering the amount of consoles that GE covers. Recreating everything in vector may take a long time to do. We need a list of all systems that are covered here first. Like I said before, I was going to make some myself anyways because it's something that I wanted to do for a while but I was going to do cartridges first. If you can find us high res/medium res images (so that we have enough detail to work with when vectorizing them) of all of the consoles that should be covered, all with similar/good perspective, then some of us might give it a shot.

Anyways, here are my favorite emulation icon sets that I've found on the net over the years. It is strongly reccommended that we contact the artist who created the icons if we choose to go with them first since it's only right to get permission first like RealOne said.

http://www.ix.sakura.ne.jp/~yoshi/icon/game/ <= This site might be the perfect candidate for icons, since it has icons for almost every single console ever made. I personally don't use them for my personal needs because I only really use icons with smooth transparency, but I think they would be perfect for the site.
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/7464607/
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/23217105/
http://www.rysley.com/pages_html/icoroms.htm
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/54302593/

Smooth transparency means alpha transparency, which only Firefox, opera and IE7 can handle, and IE6 cant.
And I strongly recommend we dont use any pics from outsiders in the first place, I'm sure rob would agree with the idea. If you guys' tries arent successful enough, I'll join in for some then, though it might delay 1 or 2 few other things I'm on now. Perhaps you guys misundestood me when I spoke of NGE's iconset as the only seemingly acceptable exception.

Cartridges icons arent the highest priority for now, as they fit more into the misc. zone.
Using pictures depicting each console's logo like gcube's "Cube" should be less complex than rendering areal console (like it'd be detailled enough to differentiat them, try differentiating between lowsize xbox and ps2)

Also, if you like some icons, Its ok on everyone's radar to make vectorial renders of some from lowsized pics, as inspiration. If you have trouble with vector rendering, feel free to contact me, folks. I've got a giant tablet sitting idle here, just for the notice.

This post was last modified: 07-25-2007 07:26 AM by Hard Core Rikki.