This months RGR Competitions:

Screenshot Competition: ACME Animation Factory Christmas
See who can make the best Christmas drawing in ACME Animation Factory
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=34163

High Score Competition: Daze Before Christmas
See who can get the highest score in Daze Before Christmas
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=34162

You can earn up to 10,000 Viz for each of the above competitions, so be sure to compete!

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Last months 'Screenshot Hunter' Screenshot competition results can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=34185

Vizzed has a Facebook App that allows you to play RGR games right on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=166142096817795&sk=wall

Be sure to 'Like' the App and also Share it with your friends!

This will be great for when vizzed goes down, you'll still be able to play retro games! You wont be able to load or save your progress with the games in the app (I've got a separate app coming out eventually for that) and you can't play any of the RGR Plugin games with it but most of the java games are available within the app.

So what's the point? Well like I said, if vizzed goes down, you can still play some retro games. Also, for some people it's hard to get their friends to join vizzed but it's easier to get them to use an app on facebook so this is a great opportunity to introduce them to vizzed!

And before any complains about the look, I wanted to keep it as simple as possible and to keep the strain down as much as I could. Basically the app is on its own server which isn't nearly as powerful as the vizzed servers so therefore I wanted the app to use very little strain. It doesn't use a database and the game navigator is basically all client side.

If you have any questions or suggestions about the app, suggest it in this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=34177

The ability so save and load your game progress works again. The ability to upload stuff and take screenshots should work again as well. And the Chat Bar should work again. The problem was that the log files on the server built up and used up all the servers disk space, this problem has been fixed.

The ability to save is currently down. Not sure why this happened but it's most definitely because Godaddy was messing around with my server and messed something up. Now they're trying to fix it and should have it fixed within 24 hours. Even though it's not my fault at all, I'll apologize for Godaddy and for the inconvenience.

A new version of the Plugin has just been released and it is required to continue playing RGR games. Here's what's new:

Bug Fixes:
-GB and GBC games are now more playable and no longer lag
-There were a few GBA games that had lag, these have been fixed
-If a game fails to download, it'll redownload when you play it again instead of being corrupted
-Some N64 games may play better

New Feature:
HighScore mode has been added to the RGR Plugin games. This means that you can compete for high scores in any of the RGR Plugin games. To do so, scroll down the page where it shows the user high scores and click 'Compete for Highscore'. On top of this, it'll also record how many seconds it took you to acheive that score so in case 2 people have the same score, the person who got that score in the least amount of time will win the tie breaker.

Previous Updates (in case you missed them from the update from earlier this month):
-Saving and Loading works for new users now
-Save files are automatically backed up, so in case your save file gets corrupted or lost, you can recover it from the Save File Manager


You can get the new plugin here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=8676
When you go to install it, it'll automatically try and uninstall the previous version.


Thanks to everyone who donated to help us get this update. Keep up the donations so that we can get more updates!


If you have any questions or feedback regarding this update, please let me know in this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=33911

Vizzed is looking to get physical copies of all the games in the Retro Game Room.

You can donate any game. If we already have it or if it's for a system that we don't have, we'll simply sell the game our self and use the money we earn to put toward RGR Plugin updates. You can also donate game systems as well, but no accessories (unless it's a valuable accessory).

You can also earn Viz. I'll send you 500 Viz for each US $1 the game is worth. If you want to know how much Viz I'd send you for donating your games, respond to the below thread and tell me which games you'd want to donate. If you want to simply donate money, that'd help out a lot too and you earn 1000 Viz for each $1 you donate.

When you're ready to donate your games, PM me and I'll give you my shipping address that you can send the games to.

If you have any questions or want to donate your games, please respond to this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=33843

Vizzed has been in the process of getting the RGR Plugin updated so that it has better game compatibility, less bugs, more features and more systems. While we did just get an update, it resulted into some bugs and didn't have any new features. We still need more money to get all the updates done that we need and since I have to pay someone to make these updates, it costs money.

All donations will go toward tom760, the developer of the Plugin.
tom760: Hopefully you get enough donations to continue working on the RGR Plugin.

Like always, you'll get Viz for donating, you get 10,000 Viz for each US $10 that you donate.

To donate, or to find more information about donating, go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/donations.php

To see a list of some of the things we'd like to get added to the RGR Plugin, go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/thread.php?id=28004

And if you have any questions or feedback regarding any of this, please reply to this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=33650

All RGR Plugin Save Files should be working now.

If you have any questions or if you are still missing a save file, please report it here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=33576

The RGR Plugin games are back up but you'll notice that there's a new version of the Plugin. The main update to this Plugin is that anyone should be able to save and load their progress now, even new users. With the old Plugin, we reached the max number of users who could save their progress. Bug testers of the new RGR Plugin also reported that it ran a little faster. The new Plugin can be found here: https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=8676

Most of the Save files are up but for some users they are not. If you notice that your save files are missing, don't worry, they probably haven't been updated yet. All save files should be working within 16 hours.

A big thanks to tom760 for making it his priority to getting the RGR Plugin updated so that save files would work for new users, so be sure to give him full credit and thank him, not me.
tom760: Thanks for your hard work, we all look forward to your future updates to the RGR Plugin!

If anyone has any issues with the new Plugin, be sure to report it here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=33576

Please give me 2 more hours and the RGR Plugin games will be up again. Sorry for the delay.

Vizzed RGR Plugin Games will be back up at 10:00 central time. This maintenance is necessary in order to release the New RGR Plugin and to allow people who currently can't save to save.

You can still continue to play the Java emulated games.

The Vizzed RGR Plugin Games Will be taken down in 15 minutes. This maintenance is necessary for the release of a newer Plugin which will Allow people who currently can't save/load their progress to be able to do so now.

This is a response from the previous announcement. I had Google rescan the site and they found no viruses. This means that vizzed is no longer flagged.

It appears that Vizzed may have been flagged by AVG, Google and/or Firefox as having malware and/or viruses but that is not true. I'm not sure why this happened but I'm thinking a competitor site has falsely reported vizzed as having harmful files.

If anyone else is noticing these problems or has more information, please report it here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=33474

Vizzed 7 Year Anniversary is coming up on December 6th but the annual Vizzed Awards Voting has begun. Vote for others and see if you got voted for so far here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=33404


Also, the Java Super Nintendo emulator is back up which means those who can't install the RG Plugin for whatever reason can play SNES games on the site using Java. It's been a few months since the Java SNES emulator was up so enjoy. NOTE: A lot of SNES games don't work in the SNES Java emulator.


If you have any questions regarding this update, please ask here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=33412

All of the games that use Java Emulators are back up. The save files should also be back up and working for the Java emulated games.

The play Window for the games are a little different and have more information on them. Also, JavaBoy play screen is bigger and VizzedAEPgb play screen can be enlarged (see instructions on the play window to the right). I hope the info to the right side of the java game play windows aren't very intrusive.

The Java Emulator and games are now located on a different server. This means that even if Vizzed goes down, you'll still be able to continue playing your game and may also be able to save and load. It also means that if vizzed transfers to a new server, those games wont go down since they wont need to be transferred. The ability to take screenshots with the NESCafe and VizzedAEPgb has been removed and timetrial mode with NESCafe will be stripped soon (and replaced with the ability to do timetrials in the RGR Plugin).

I know I said that you'd be able to continue playing your game even if vizzed goes down but it doesn't do you any good if you can't access vizzed while it's down to find other games to play. I've got a solution to that: Facebook App. That's right, I'm announcing it right now for the first time, sometime in the future, I'll be putting together an App on Facebook that will allow you to navigate the Java based games from the RGR right on facebook AND you'll be able to load/save your save files on there as well.

If you have any problems or questions, please ask in this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=33342

Some of the Java Emulators are back up, which includes: Nintendo, Game Boy Color, Game Boy, Game Gear and Sega Master System. The saving on those games should work as well.

I'll have a more thorough update in about 16 hours and the rest of the java games should be up by that time as well.

There will be no highscore competition this month, instead there will be just 1 mega screenshot competition worth 2.5 more Viz:

Screenshot Competition: Screenshot Hunter
Take screenshots of games missing screenshots in the RGR
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=33260

Earn up to 25,000 Viz in this competition.

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Last months 'Master Chief in Mario Paint' Screenshot competition is in voting, please vote here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=33238

Last months 'Tecmo Super Bowl 2K12' High Score competition results can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=33237

Might be another 1-2 days before Java emulators are back up. Sorry about this.

When transferring to the new Linux server, I was surprised to find out that a directory can only contain 31,998 directories, which means there were some save files that couldn't be transferred. New users (anyone with an ID above 145372) and users with IDs between 87815 and 99999 wont be able to able to load or save their progress for the time being. I'm hoping to figure out a solution to this problem within a week. I'm very sorry for those who fall into this category. Once I've figured out a solution, your save files will be transferred, they will not be lost.

Everyone else should be able to load and save without problems.

If you have any questions or feedback, please ask in this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=33155