There's still half a month left to compete in this month's Vizzed competitions.

MEGA Screenshot Competition: Star War Characters
See who can take the most screenshots of Star Wars characters
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90768

You can earn up to US $25 or 50,000 Viz in the above competition!

Video Competition: Hack and Homebrew Music
See who can record the best music in a rom hack or homebrew games
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90769

You can earn up to 100,000 Viz in the above competition!

Highscore Competition: Classic Kong Complete
See who can get the highest score in Classic Kong Complete
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90767

You can earn up to 50,000 Viz in the above competition!

Win $75 in Vizzed Minecraft Competition
The Autumn Minecraft Competition recently began and the theme is 'Christmas'. The competition ends on December 21st and has a $75, $25 and $10 cash prize. More information can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90649

I'm going to be live streaming with 1upTV Games tomorrow, 11/5/2015, from 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM (central time zone). We'll be netplaying games in the Retro Game Room in a collaboration to help promote the RGR netplay and their YouTube channel. There will most likely be 4 of us in the stream so if you have any recommendations on 2-4 player games we should netplay, please post your suggestions in this thread.

The stream will take place here:
https://gaming.youtube.com/1uptvgames/live

EDIT: The event is over but the stream was uploaded to YouTube here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsrU9a7rSas

This months Vizzed Competitions

MEGA Screenshot Competition: Star War Characters
See who can take the most screenshots of Star Wars characters
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90768

You can earn up to US $25 or 50,000 Viz in the above competition!

Video Competition: Hack and Homebrew Music
See who can record the best music in a rom hack or homebrew games
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90769

You can earn up to 100,000 Viz in the above competition!

Highscore Competition: Classic Kong Complete
See who can get the highest score in Classic Kong Complete
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90767

You can earn up to 50,000 Viz in the above competition!

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Last months '5th Gen Console Music' MEGA Video competition results can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90699

Last months 'Mega Man in Mario Paint' MEGA Screenshot competition results can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90765

Last months 'Tecmo Super Bowl 2016' High Score competition results can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90764

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Win $75 in Vizzed Minecraft Competition
The Autumn Minecraft Competition recently began and the theme is 'Christmas'. The competition ends on December 21st and has a $75, $25 and $10 cash prize. More information can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90649

On Thursday, 10/29/2015, from 5 - 7 PM (central time zone) we'll all be listening to and rating the songs submitted to the 5th Gen Console Music Competition. Around 30 seconds before each song is done, I'll put up a poll which will allow everyone to vote. I will be hosting this event on my Twitch channel and I'll be giving away a total of $200 worth of steam games and/or 200,000 Viz to random viewers of the stream so the longer you stick around and vote, the better your chances of walking away with a cash prize. To qualify for the cash and Viz prizes, all you have to do is vote on the music and follow my channel.

If you win a raffle, you get to choose whether you want 20,000 Viz or 2 steam games from this list: https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90659. If you can't stick around for the entire thing that's fine but it'd be cool if you could stop by and hang out in the chat for however long you can. It's usually a lot of fun chatting with vizzed users, talking about video games and listening to awesome video game music.


My twitch channel can be found here:
http://www.twitch.tv/davideo7
(be sure to "Follow" my channel)


If you have any questions or comments, please post here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90660

Chat Rooms Back Up
The Chat Rooms are back up which also includes the netplay lobby. Unfortunately I was unable to transfer the files from the old server to the new server for some reason. I invested a few hours into this with no luck. This basically means that all of the chat room settings have been reset and all user chat room stats have been reset. The accumulated chat room minutes on your profile are still the same.

The staff are in the process of trying to get the chat room back to how it was. We'll be trying to adjust the settings to match the old settings over the next few days and we'll also be adding back some of the old rooms. The chat room may run better now and be more stable.


Vizzed Minecraft Server Back Up
The Vizzed Minecraft Server is up and running again. Nothing was lost and the server should definitely be faster and more stable (of course your own computer's performance ultimately determines how well it runs).

I've also launched the Autumn Minecraft Competition which is Christmas themed so be sure to take a look at that for a chance at some nice prizes: https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90649


File downloads for non-CD games and some CD games should be faster over the next few days. I'm not sure whether this will be a permanent change or not but most likely these speeds will only be temporary (and eventually exclusive to staff members and users with the download accelerator).

I've still got a few more things to take care of but I'll be taking care of those things later this week. Those additional things include adding and removing netplay servers, fixing various things that need to be fixed due to the transfer and adjusting how and where the files are retrieved.


If you have any questions or feedback, please go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90494

All CD games should now work! PC-FX, Turbo Grafx CD, CDi and Sega CD were transferred and made available again sometime yesterday. The transferring of Sega Saturn took place around 36 hours ago and was just made live now. PlayStation was made available again a few days ago which I posted an announcement about already.

The Vizzed Minecraft Server, Chat Rooms and a few other services will most likely be available tomorrow. The migration of those services takes some custom configuration which can be a little time consuming. The Minecraft Server files have all been transferred and extracted but for some reason I still can't get it to work; I'll continue looking into the issue tomorrow and will hopefully have it working again.

Over the next few days I'll also be making some adjustments to how the Game Accelerator item works. I'll also be adding 1 or 2 new netplay servers and taking down 1 or 2 of the current (hopefully the new ones run better).

Thanks again for everyone's patience and please be sure to take a look at my previous announcements if you haven't already. If you have any questions or feedback, please post it here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90494

PlayStation games are finished transferring and are available to be played again! Well technically some of the games have been available for a while since the games have been transferring for the past few days but they're basically almost all finished transferring now.

The transferring of the other CD games will begin tonight and will probably take until Sunday to finish transferring. The next CD system that I'll be working on will probably be the Sega Saturn so you can probably expect them to become available again Saturday night.

The main Chat Rooms are still down (including the Netplay Lobby chat) but I'll hopefully get them back up over the next 2-3 days. The Vizzed Minecraft server is still down since I'm having troubles transferring it over to the new server due to the size. There are probably a few other lesser known services that I'm forgetting to mention that are still down but I'll be sure to let everyone know as I get each down service back up.

Again, I apologize for all of the inconveniences lately and as a way to make it up to everyone, PlayStation games will be available to everyone for 0 Viz for the rest of the month. For more information on that, go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90586

My host finally got back to me with instructions on how I can fix the problem myself but it's kinda too late since I'm already in the process of migrating the file server to a new host. The full migration could take anywhere between a few days to an entire week but I'll focus on finding solutions in the mean time to bring up some of the other services quicker. Here's a break down of the possible benefits:
-Faster Game Downloads
-Faster and more reliable Minecraft Server
-Faster and more reliable Chat Room
-A new netplay server which could be faster and more reliable than the current
-Enough space to potentially add more CD systems in the future without having to worry about upgrading

2 services that I was able to bring back up today include the game chat (and netplay chat) and the cometchat bar (for those who have access to it). Those services were previously hosted on the vizzed.co server but I've moved them to the vizzed.com server and after doing so, they actually function so much better now (response time is amazing)! When the new vizzed.co server is set up, I'll be placing those services back on vizzed.co but if it doesn't run as well on the new server compared to how well it currently is running, then I may just leave it on the vizzed.com server.

In the mean time, I'm going to try and get the CD systems up and running within the next few days. I apologize for the delay and I appreciate everyone's patience (those who had patience anyway). This was so sudden and completely out of my control.

If you have any questions or feedback or just want to stay up to date, go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90494

One of the Vizzed servers are currently inaccessible which means the following services are unavailable:
-Most CD systems *
-The Game Chat
-Chat Rooms
-Vizzed Minecraft Server
-Cometchat Bar

*Most CD systems includes PlayStation, Sega CD, Turbo Grafx CD, Sega Saturn, CD-i and PC-FX. Dreamcast games will work since they're located on a different server.

All of the games were previously down for any staff member and user with the Download Accelerator all morning but I just made it so that all files are being downloaded from one of the still working servers but our CD systems aren't located on that server which is why I wasn't able to bring back up the CD systems.

The issue is a DNS related issue. I've been working on the issue and this server is 1 of 2 servers that I still host with Godaddy. I spent quite a while on the phone talking with grumpy tech support and they weren't able to help me resolve the issue. I'll hopefully have it taken care of within the next 24-48 hours.

If you have any questions, please let me know in this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90494

The PlayStation item is currently 30,000 Viz for the rest of the month as you can see here. Once the month ends, the item will go back to the regular price of 50,000 Viz.

The PlayStation item on Vizzed gives you access to play nearly 2500 PlayStation games without having to spend any additional Viz. We have just about every PS1 game ever made on the site and also a lot of rare unreleased stuff as well. The games play great and the majority of the games work! Below you'll find a few ways that you can quickly earn that 30,000 Viz today (be sure to click the links for more information). Even if you already have the PlayStation item, you can still do these offers if you want to earn lots of Viz.

Rate my Super Mario Maker Levels = 9,000 Viz
This should take no more than 15 minutes of your time!

Star My Levels in Super Mario Maker = 18,000 Viz
This offer requires access to the Super Mario Maker game but has a huge payout and requires very little time.

Help out Vizzed = Earn 10,000+ Viz!
This thread has tons of different ways that I'm offering users to earn Viz simply by helping out Vizzed.

Vizzed Market Forum
This forum has tons of threads created by various users and myself allowing anyone to earn lots of Viz.

Donating
Of course the quickest way to earn Viz is by donating to the site. The site has been struggling financially for a while now and I've been having troubles keeping up with paying the RGR Plugin developer. You can earn 10,000 Viz for each US $10 that you donate so if you have anything to spare, please consider it.

Submitting Site Content
You can earn both Viz and CP when you submit various forms of content to the site.

If you have any questions or feedback, please let me know in this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90376

This months Vizzed Competitions

MEGA Video Competition: 5th Gen Console Music
See who can record the best music in a 5th gen console games
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90129

You can earn up to US $75 or 150,000 Viz in the above competition!

MEGA Screenshot Competition: Mega Man in Mario Paint
See who can create the best Mega Man themed picture in Mario Paint
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90125

You can earn up to US $25 or 50,000 Viz in the above competition!

Highscore Competition: Tecmo Super Bowl 2016
See who can get the highest score in Tecmo Super Bowl 2016
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90127

You can earn up to 50,000 Viz in the above competition!

This months Vizzed Competitions

MEGA Video Competition: 5th Gen Console Music
See who can record the best music in a 5th gen console games
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90129

You can earn up to US $75 or 150,000 Viz in the above competition!

MEGA Screenshot Competition: Mega Man in Mario Paint
See who can create the best Mega Man themed picture in Mario Paint
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90125

You can earn up to US $25 or 50,000 Viz in the above competition!

Highscore Competition: Tecmo Super Bowl 2016
See who can get the highest score in Tecmo Super Bowl 2016
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90127

You can earn up to 50,000 Viz in the above competition!

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Last months 'NEC Music' MEGA Video competition results can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90107

Last months 'Funny Comic Strip' MEGA Screenshot competition results can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90145

Last months 'Ms. Pac-Man Plus' High Score competition results can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90123

The Autumn Tour de Vizzed is here and can be found there:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90109


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


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


You can find more information there:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/controlpanel.php?category=help&help=terminology&name=Tour%20de%20Vizzed#Tour%20de%20Vizzed


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

Vizzed RGR Plugin 2.40 is ready for download! This is the first official non-beta release to fully support Google Chrome after Google Chrome discontinued NPAPI plugins. In other words, if you use Google Chrome, this plugin upgrade should allow you to play RGR Plugin games without any problems.

For all browsers, this release also contains a ton of bug fixes, should run smoother and should also start up faster. This release most likely will become a mandatory download in order to play RGR Plugin games eventually.


Download RGR Plugin 2.40
(Download 2.40 Mirror Download)


These updates are expensive so please help me fund them by donating to vizzed. We've got a lot of plans for a lot of highly requested updates so if you're interested in helping fund certain updates or if you have an update request, go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=87980


If you have any questions regarding the Vizzed RGR Plugin 2.40, go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=90029

On Tuesday, 9/29/2015, from 5 - 8 PM (central time zone) we'll all be listening to and rating the songs submitted to the NEC Music Competition. Around 30 seconds before each song is done, I'll put up a poll which will allow everyone to vote. I will be hosting this event on my Twitch channel and I'll be giving away a total of $200 worth of steam games and/or 200,000 Viz to random viewers of the stream so the longer you stick around and vote, the better your chances of walking away with a cash prize. To qualify for the cash and Viz prizes, all you have to do is vote on the music and follow my channel.

If you win a raffle, you get to choose whether you want the Viz prize or whether you want to pick a steam game from a list of steam games which I'll provide sometime before the event begins. If you can't stick around for the entire thing that's fine but it'd be cool if you could stop by and hang out in the chat for however long you can. It's usually a lot of fun chatting with vizzed users, talking about video games and listening to awesome video game music.


My twitch channel can be found here:
http://www.twitch.tv/davideo7
(be sure to "Follow" my channel)


If you have any questions or comments, please post here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=89994

There's still about a week left to compete in this month's competitions.

MEGA Video Competition: NEC Music
See who can record the best music in NEC games
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=89572

You can earn up to US $75 or 150,000 Viz in the above competition!

MEGA Screenshot Competition: Funny Comic Strip 6
See who can create the funniest comic strip using screenshots
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=89586

You can earn up to US $25 or 50,000 Viz in the above competition!

Highscore Competition: Ms. Pac-Man Plus
See who can get the highest score in Ms. Pac-Man Plus
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=89587

You can earn up to 25,000 Viz in the above competition!

Full Google Chrome Support Coming Soon
The plugin developer is currently finishing up on the full Google Chrome support but it's not cheap so help me fund his development by donating to the site. We already have a beta RGR Plugin with Google Chrome support but it still needs some improvement; you can find that here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=89635



What RGR Plugin Features Do You Want?
To help me prioritize what should be added next, please vote in the poll in this thread (multi-voting is enabled) and also feel free to respond with any feedback.



Benefits of Donating
-Access to PlayStation games with the PlayStation item for 50,000 Viz
-Access to beta systems with the Beta Test Ticket for 10,000 Viz
-Faster game downloads with the Game Accelerator for 15,000 Viz
-And many other features obtainable from the site's Item Shop



Donate to Help Fund New Updates!
Getting updates added to the RGR Plugin is not cheap for me. I've invested around $25,000+ into the RGR Plugin over the course of about 4 years. The site is struggling pretty bad financially at the moment so if you'd like to help us get new features added then please consider donating! Every little bit helps, whether it be $10 or $100, donate whatever you can whenever you can. Not only will your donations help us get new features but you'll also receive lots of site benefits as well (such as access to more games, access to more systems, faster download speeds, etc).

If you're interested in donating toward the RGR Plugin, go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/donations.php

If you can't afford to donate money, you can donate games as seen here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=58552

Or if you can't donate anything, you can help out in other ways as seen here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=78350



Breakdown of all the possible new features if we get enough donations

More Systems to support Video Recording
Most of the game systems on vizzed allow you to press a single button and record your gameplay but not every system support it. N64, Sega CD and a few others don't currently support it.

Ability to have 2 plugin instances at the same time
This would allow you to have 2 instances of the RGR Plugin open at the same time. Now it would require a fast computer to have 2 instances open at the same time but this would basically allow you and another user to see eachother's games. You'd be playing in your game in your instance and you'd be able to see their game in their instance. This would be great for if you want to play through a single player game with someone else, show someone how to do something or race each other to see who can beat the game the fastest in real time.

Add DOS Games
This would allow us to add those old PC games known as DOS games. So basically most PC games released between 1981 and 1995 (and some between 1995-2000) would be capable of being added to the site.

Upgraded Plugin Architecture for External System Loading
This Plugin architecture upgrade would allow the plugin to load systems on demand. This would allow the plugin to be only 1 MB and basically each time you play a system for the first time, that systems files would download when you go to play that game. The huge benefit to this would be that it'd allow us to update systems without having to need another plugin upgrade since it'd simply re-download the system when it gets updated.

More Systems
What additional systems would you like to see added?

Google Chrome Support
We're still working on this.



If you have any questions or feedback or want to vote on which features you'd like to see added to the RGR Plugin, go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=87980

Want to share a level that you created in Super Mario Maker for the Wii-U with everyone else on vizzed? Reply to the following thread with the name of your level, the ID and maybe a brief description of the level. Also be sure to check out the courses made by everyone else.
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=89786

If you missed the stream, I've uploaded it to YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIhE8HciosU

Be sure to comment on and like the video if you enjoyed this!

2015 Summer Teams Tournament Final Matchup at 5 PM Central Time on Thursday, 9/10/2015
The Teams Netplay Tournament which started back in July will come to an end tomorrow in the final matchup! It'll be the 'Muddled Valorous Punks' vs the undefeated 'Vizzéteers'. The 'Muddled Valorous Punks' consists of Zlinqx and Vanelan while the Vizzéteers consists of Davideo7, Foxyman1113 and lilwildwolf21.

The league started with 10 teams for a total of 22 users. Some teams had a backup player who could fill in at any time but all games consisted of 2 vs 2. Throughout the entire tournament, there were 3 systems with 3 games per a system and each team each week got to veto 1 system and the games in the remaining system were the games played between those 2 teams that week.

The selected system for the final matchup is Turbo Grafx and the potential games that will played include Final Match Tennis, Bomberman '94 and Moto Roader. It's best out of 3 so if each team wins a game, then all 3 games will be played. Vizzéteers has the higher seed so they'll get to pick which game gets played first. The final matchup will last around 1 hour. The winning team shares the $100 prize and the losing team shares the $50 prize.

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

For more information regarding this tournament, go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=88628

If you have any questions or feedback, go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=89696