News and Updates

I put together a suite of new features for uploading, managing and viewing pictures. It's available to all users and can be found in the Developer Center.

We've had a Photo Album that was created years ago but it was outdated and using the old site code and format. I made sure to include all features in the previous photo album and I also made sure to migrate all of the photos to the new system.

Before I go over the available features, I wanted to quickly point out that the images and albums can be embedded to any page that your a staff or admin of (forums that you moderate, your threads, your profile, etc). To do this, go to the page you want to add an Image or Album to and at the top of that page click the 'Add Content' at the top of the page and from the 'Select Content to Add' drop down, choose either Album or Image (depending on which you want to embed) and then click 'Save and Continue'. From here, you'll want to add the ID of the Album or Image that you want to embed (the ID can be found in the URL of that page). Here's an example of a page that I embedded an Image and a Photo Album to:
https://www.vizzed.com/u/test.php


User Images
All displayed images not only show title, user, date and thumbnail but they'll also show image view count and number of comments. It makes browsing through 100s of images far more enjoyable.

There's a lot of options available for sorting through images. You can order the images based on Name, Size, View Count, Date, etc. You can filter the images based on Type and Category You can do a text search which returns all images with matching titles and keywords


Image Uploader / Editor
You can upload images as large as 500 KB and all uploaded images will have a small thumbnail generated. The uploaded image page will provide you with image specs and also HTML and Forum codes that you can copy for easy pasting.

There are a few options available when uploading and editing:
-Image Type lets you choose where the image will be used on the site
-Image Category lets you add your very own category which will help you and others filter through images
-Image Privacy lets you choose who can view your image. Public means it'll appear in the search results, Unlisted means it'll not appear in the search results (can only be viewed with direct link) and Private means that only you can view it (or anyone you add as an Admin to your image page)
-Unique lets you specify whether this is something created by you or not
-Keywords (only available after uploading) let you add keywords to your image that makes your image appear when that specified keyword is used in the search engine

The image pages let users leave comments on images and also offers additional details of the image such as how many people have seen the image, how many unique users, the last user to view it, upload date, the last time the details of the page were updated, etc. Here's an example of an uploaded image:
https://www.vizzed.com/u/image.php?id=1


User Albums
This simply displays all of the albums created by users and also offers a few filter and search functions.


Album Creator / Editor
Anyone can create their own album but you can only add images that you uploaded (or are admin of) to the album you created. The albums have a few options available that work the same as the Image Uploader / Editor, which include Category and Privacy. It also has an option which lets you choose the order the images get displayed in.

Work on Albums Together
After you've created an album, you can make someone an staff/admin of the album so that they can also add their uploaded images to your album. To make someone a staff/admin of your album, click the 'Edit Page' link at the top of the page and add their name into the 'Add Mod' section.

Here's an example of an album page:
https://www.vizzed.com/u/album.php?id=3


Questions? Feedback? Go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=103213

I've postponed the start date of the Summer Team Tournament by 1 more week.

It's not too late to sign up:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=103132

I've postponed the start date of the Summer Team Tournament by about a week so that we can get more users signed up.

It's not too late to sign up:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=103132

This more than likely will be the very last netplay tournament that I can host due to Flash being discontinued (the RGR Plugin requires flash). I'm hoping to have 1 last netplay tournament.

The scheduling in this tournament is very flexible and can work around just about any schedule. Users have control over which games they play each week.

To join, or for more information, go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=103132

This competition will involve 2 player teams facing off against other 2 player teams. I haven't been able to host this competition in a few years now due to lack of interest. Since this might be the last netplay tournament, I'm really hoping we get enough users involved.



Results of previous years:
Summer 2019: (never happened)
Summer 2018: (never happened)
Summer 2017: Triple Trouble Win
Summer 2016: Vizzéteers Win
Summer 2015: Vizzéteers Win
Summer 2014: Retro Renegades Win
Summer 2013: Kogarasumaru Win



This tournament will last for 6-10 weeks, 4-6 of those weeks being regular weeks and the last 2-4 of those weeks being playoff weeks (all depends on how many users sign up). The 8 teams with the most points will enter the playoffs.

If you have a tight schedule or don't know how your availability is, don't worry, you'll be able to schedule a day and time for your matchup each week. You can also get a backup player on your team who can fill in for whenever you can't make it to a match (or you can sign up as a backup player). You, your team and your opponents each week will come up with a day and time that works for all of you to do your weekly matchup. In other words, it's a very flexible tournament.

You must enter as a team, so find someone who is willing to be your teammate and let me know what your team name is but if you can't find a teammate, just let me know that you're interested in joining but don't have a partner and I'll find someone for you. Your team may contain a 3rd user, a user who will basically be one of your backups in case one of you can't participate in a matchup in any given week or someone who can fill in if one of the main players of the team is bad at a game that gets picked. The 3rd backup player isn't required but is suggested if you can find someone willing to take on that role. If you can't find a teammate, just let me know that you're interested but don't have a team and I'll add you to the list of users looking for a teammate.

Be careful on who you choose as a teammate. If your teammate doesn't show up for a matchup, then it's you against 2. If your teammate gets banned from the competition or drops out, then you have to play the entire tournament alone unless you can find someone to replace them.

NOTE: You don't need the PlayStation item to join PlayStation netplay sessions. Also, the games of this tournament will be available to everyone while the tournament is active.



The games that this tournament will include (some of these might change):

Mixed System:
-Bomberman '94 (TG)
-Wit's (NES) *
-Super Spike V'Ball (NES)
-Final Match Tennis (TG)
-Motoroader (TGCD) ?

Super Nintendo:
-Vs. Collection
-Micro Machines 2 - Turbo Tournament
-Super Bomberman 4 (English Translation) ?
-Tiny Toon Adventures - Wacky Sports Challenge ?
-NBA Jam ?
-Bakukyuu Renpatsu!! Super B-Daman *

PlayStation:
-Micro Machines V3
-Shaolin
-Crash Team Racing ?
-Crash Bash ?
-Micro Maniacs ?

*Games added to tournament for first time this year

If you know of a good 2 vs 2 game, please recommend it and I'll see about getting it added!
Games with a ? next to them are games that aren't confirmed for this tournament yet.


The games will be grouped together and each week a team can veto a group which means for their matchup that week, no game from that system can be picked. This will allow users to compete who are unable to do netplay for a certain system because they'll be able to simply veto that system each week and never have to worry about playing a game for it.



Requirements
-You should preferably live in the United States (unless you have had very little lag problems playing netplay with USA users)
-The RGR Plugin must work fine on your computer and netplay should work for at least 3 of the systems mentioned above
-You must be free at least 1 hour every week that this tournament takes place or have a backup player that can fill in for you any week that you're unavailable
-If your on the ban list, you cannot enter. To see who is on the ban list, go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=60334



Prizes
1st = 300,000 Viz or $300 Worth of Steam Games (aka 30 Raffle Tickets)
2nd = 180,000 Viz or $180 Worth of Steam Games (aka 18 Raffle Tickets)
3rd = 90,000 Viz or $90 Worth of Steam Games (aka 9 Raffle Tickets)
Click here to see all the games you can choose from if you win.
(teams will share the prize)


Trophy Award
Every user of the winning team will get a special trophy item added to their Vizzed Market inventory. Users will be able to display all the trophies they've earned on their profiles (when I'm done remaking them) and they'll also be permanently enshrined on a Hall of Fame page.


Penalty
If you miss more than 50% of your matches, then you'll be added to the ban list. This rule does not apply to backup players and you wont be affected by this rule if you can get your backup player to fill in for you in a week that you'll miss.



Signup ends and Tournament begins on Monday, July 13th.



If you want to enter, reply to the below thread with your team name, who the leader of the team is and who is on your team. If you don't have a team or can't find one, respond to the below thread saying that you want to form a team with someone and I'll add you to the list of users looking for a teammate.
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=103132

These will be the 2 admins for the 1st half of 2020:
Boured
Furret

https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=103119

The Summer Tour de Vizzed discussion thread can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=103116


Each day there will be 4 Jerseys you can compete for:
Yellow Jersey: Most words in a day
Blue Jersey: Most posts in a day
Red Jersey: Most CP in a day
Green Jersey: Most CP actions in a day


Hall of Fame page can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/tourdevizzed-halloffame.php

You can find the current Tour de Vizzed results page here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/tourdevizzed.php

It's time to elect the 2 users who will be admins of the site in 2020 from July - December. You can vote for 2 Admins. They're listed below, click them to see their application:

Boured

Furret

SonicOlmstead

EX Palen


Here's how this works

Respond to this thread with up to 2 users you think would do a great job. The more users you choose, the less weight your votes have. So if you feel really strongly about someone, then vote for just 1 user.

Here's what determines the weight of your vote

The weight of a vote depends on the user and how many votes that user makes. Users who have a high rank, been around for a long time, and have a high post count, will have a vote with more weight. This is fair because those users should have a bigger impact on the results since they're more familiar with the community and have a higher reputation compared to someone who just registered with the single purpose of altering the results.

Here's the formula for figuring out the weight of your vote:
User Level * Power Level

And if you have multiple votes, it'd look like this:
(User Level * Power Level) / Vote Count

The User Levels can be viewed from their profile and also next to their posts to the left. A User Level is based on how long a user has been here and how many posts they have.

Here's the numbers that represent each Power Level:
0 = Newbie
1 = Normal
2 = Trusted
3 = Elite
4 = Site Staff
5 = Local Mod
6 = Global Mod

Rules
-Can't vote for yourself
-Can't vote for more than 2 people
-Posts with negative ratings will be investigated and potentially ignored

Voting ends on Thursday, July 2nd.


Be sure to submit your votes to this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=103107

The annual Bomberman '94 Tournament concluded last night with these final results:
1st. Davideo7
2nd. Foxyman1113
3rd. M4g1cW4rr10r
4th. Barathemos
5th. deggle

If you missed the stream, it has been uploaded to YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7oSFybRWR8

Form teams of 2 to take us on in a 2 vs 2 match for a chance at winning $500 worth of steam games. To enter, go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=103095

The Bomberman '94 Spring 2020 Final Matchup is Now Live
https://www.twitch.tv/davideo7/

For more information, refer to the previous announcement.

The final matchup of the Spring Bomberman Tournament has been scheduled along with the special "Beat Davideo7 and Foxyman1113" event that takes place soon afterward!

Both events will take place on June 23rd, Tuesday, from 2 PM - 6 PM central time. Read below for more information.



Defeat Davideo7 and Foxyman1113 & Win US $500 Worth of Digital or Steam Games! Event starts at around 4:00 PM central time on Tuesday, 6/23/2020
As soon as the Bomberman Netplay Tournament ends, there will be a special Bomberman event that'll take place right afterward (just like the last few years). You'll form a team with anyone and take us on in a 2 vs 2 match and if you can beat us, you and your teammate get to share the $500 worth of Digital or Steam games! (or 500,000 Viz if you want that instead). Basically you'll be given 50 Raffle Tickets which you can use to redeem here (also click that to see the list of games that you can get which includes more than just Steam games).

If you're interested in challenging us, read the full details and respond to this thread here:
//www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=103095

This event will be live streamed on my Twitch Channel here:
//www.twitch.tv/davideo7
(be sure to 'Follow' my channel so you don't forget)



2020 Spring Bomberman Tournament = Final Matchup at 2:00 PM Central Time on Tuesday, 6/23/2020
The final matchup of the Bomberman '94 Tournament ends on June 23rd with the final matchup taking place at 2:00 PM central time. The tournament started at the beginning of April and began with 16 of some of the best Bomberman players. It is now down to 5 players; here are those players and their overall rank (which will determine their player order):
P1. Davideo7
P2. Foxyman1113
P3. Barathemos
P4. deggle
P5. M4g1cW4rr10r


Here's how the final matchup will work. At the end of each round, the user (or users if there is a tie for last) with the lowest trophy count will be eliminated. We keep doing this until only 1 user stands, which will be our winner. If you miss the stream, I'll be uploading the video to my personal YouTube account here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/davideo7/videos

The matchup will be live streamed on my Twitch Channel here:
//www.twitch.tv/davideo7
(be sure to 'Follow' my channel so you don't forget)

The final matchup will last anywhere between 45 minutes and 90 minutes. Here are the results and uploaded streams of all the previous years:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQfNIFn02_A
2019: 1st. Foxyman1113, 2nd. Davideo7, 3rd. Barathemos, 4th. ruanito, 5th. brandon101101


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChJzR73boek
2018: 1st. Davideo7, 2nd. Foxyman1113, 3rd. nakina, 4th. DavidMcC1989, 5th. Vanelan


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg_FQvpPiU8
2017: 1st. Davideo7, 2nd. Linkums, 3rd. Foxyman1113, 4th. gamerforlifeforever, 5th. Barathemos


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSMe6sghQXA
2016: 1st. Davideo7, 2nd. Foxyman1113, 3rd. AceShock, 4th. Linkums, 5th. mvhupsel


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5zZOQmapM8
2015: 1st. Davideo7, 2nd. Foxyman1113, 3rd. Linkums, 4th. deg2000, 5th. lilwildwolf21


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlhE2Lhzr-w
2014: 1st. Davideo7, 2nd. madison, 3rd. AceShock, 4th. Koda, 5th. Forest Dragon



Foxyman1113 is the current reigning champion. Can one of us take him down? Find out tomorrow

Any questions? Go to this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=103096

As a way to bring recognition to the New Layout Creator, and to also get some templates made for others to use, I'm giving away cash prizes to those who make the best layout with it!

Whoever makes the best layout wins. It can be of any theme as long as the theme is appropriate for all ages. You'll have 2 weeks to make the layouts and then they'll go into voting for 1 week. You can find the new layout creator here:
https://www.vizzed.com/u/layout.php

Rules:
-Privacy of layout must be set to "Copyable"
-All images should be hosted on Vizzed
(need somewhere to upload them? go here)
-The height should be no more than 500 px
-Total size of all images should not exceed 250 KB


Prizes:
1st. US $25 or 50,000 Viz or 5 Raffle Tickets
2nd. US $10 or 20,000 Viz or 2 Raffle Tickets
3rd. 10,000 Viz


Competition Ends:
June 15th (winner will be revealed June 22nd)


Competition Begins:
Now


If you have any questions or feedback, go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=103057

So my log system started acting up 2 days ago which caused a lot of features on the site to stop working. This includes:
-Retro Game Room
-Video Game Room
-New Threads
-Vizzed GO
-Many Others

For more information, or if you have any questions, let me know in this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=103032

Hello everyone! Here's your gentle reminder that the May VCS has begun! There are prizes in store for you, as well as a Near Guaranteed good time while you participate! Now is the best time to rack up that Viz, you'll need it for playing so many RGR games while you're home...

You can find more information here:

https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=102978

Additionally, just want to take some time to remind you all that we have a Discord server. The link in the thread had expired unexpectedly, but I've created a new one recently. You can join by clicking this link:

https://discord.gg/cjPuZ3w

I added a few new rewards to my Patreon Tiers

Digitized Patron
Extra Vizzed GO Trap: You can deploy a 2nd trap as many times as you want in the Vizzed GO game.

Idolized Patron
Download RGR Games: Access to download any game from the Retro Game Room.

Colorized Patron
Your Own Minecraft World: Your very own world on the Vizzed.co Minecraft Server. Choose the settings and do just about whatever you want with it. World gets removed once you downgrade pledge but a copy of world will be sent to you.


Be sure to check out my Patreon page for a full list of all the perks of pledging to the site. You can pledge as little as $2 a month and the things you can get include:
-All Ads Removed
-Access to More Site Features
-Download Songs from the Video Game Music Room
-Promoted to Vizzed Elite
-Massive Viz Multipliers
-Ability to change username, color and style
-You get 1 - 8 hours of my time
-And a lot more

If you're interested in pledging, go to my Patreon Page here:
https://www.patreon.com/DavidAuchampach/

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I wanted to give a shout out and thanks to my supporters on Patreon. Their financial support has really helped out a lot. I'm hoping these shout outs give them more recognition among the Vizzed community. If anyone else is interested in supporting this site (there are tons of benefits for doing so), you can help out for as little as US $2 a month here:
https://www.patreon.com/DavidAuchampach

Here are all of my current supporters:

$10 Tier
Light Knight :

$5 Tier
Okazaki Tomoya :
TwitchyLS :

$2 Tier
AuraBlaze :
DavidMcC1989 :
Devantaus :
Ultrajeff :

Thank you guys

If anyone else wants to give thanks to these amazing users, you can do so in this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=102958

I've been spending the past few weeks making the site more adaptive so that everyone has the same site experience and features no matter what device they're on. Instead of spending a bunch of time trying to explain how responsive the new layout is, I've made a video to demonstrate it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1qOJOJjv8s

Things added or updated in the past 3 weeks:
-Site adapts to almost every screen size
-Users on mobile devices now have access to far more content now
-The size of the generated HTML of the pages is a little smaller, allowing for quicker page loads
-Site users less Javascript, which helps reduce the amount of strain the site can put on your browser
-Site can be shrunk down to a width of 250 pixels
-Messages Center takes up less space
-Site reserves more space for showing who is on a page and the users with less posts take up less space
-Vizzed GO box takes up a lot less space now
-Rearranged some ads
-Enhanced the appearances of various elements on the site and with the way some things are displayed

Things fixed:
-Some old post layouts have been fixed
-Added a ? icon to the header links which allows you to access links that would sometimes get cut off due to lack of space
-Information and Navigation Columns no longer exceed the vertical height of browsers that aren't very tall (they receive scroll bars instead of being cut off)
-Navigation Column also received scroll bar if there are too many links and the links exceed the height of the Navigation Column (especially good for staff, who have access to a lot of links)
-Fixed an issue with the HTML5 RetroArch emulator where the game fails to load on the first attempt
-Some posts couldn't be editted, this issue is fixed
-For posts that have been edited, the previous post box didn't display what the previous post's contents looked like, this is fixed


What sparked this series of updates was when I realized my ad revenue wasn't as high as it could be. Ad Manager told me that the ads for mobile devices were low because of the way the site displayed its content to mobile devices. Basically mobile devices were viewing a different site layout, but now that's not the case. I also noticed that Google was in some situations indexing the mobile pages instead of the desktop pages.

To sum things up, this series of updates should help increase site's revenue, traffic, and everyone's overall user experience.

If you have any questions or feedback, go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=102916

Hello all,

I realize that the previous announcement had a bad link, and was also ill-timed. I'm making another announcement to remind everyone that the April 2020 VCS is still ongoing! There are a TON of prizes to win just for posting around the boards! You can find more information here, if I don't mess up the link again:

https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=102858

Be sure to check it out! It's far from too late to even take first place. The prizes will surely enhance your Vizzed experience.

For more information, refer to this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=102859

Hello everyone!

As you all know, there was supposed to be a VCS in March. Unfortunately, due to the database issues, it had to be postponed. But now we're all raring and ready to go for April!

The prizes for this month are INCREDIBLY generous, with almost 600,000 Viz going around, as well as extra goodies! This opportunity is PERFECT for the newbies looking for more Viz and have something to say! I hope you'll all consider giving it a shot!

You can find more details here:

https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=102858