This month's RGR Competitions:

Screenshot Competition: In Game Advertisements
See who can find the most In Game Advertisements among the Retro Game Room games
https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/thread.php?id=21092

High Score Competition: Super Mario Bros 3
See who can get the highest score in Super Mario Bros 3
https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/thread.php?id=21091

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

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Last month's 'Art Alive Christmas' Screenshot competition results can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/thread.php?id=21089

Last month's 'Daze Before Christmas' High Score competition results can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/thread.php?id=21087

First of all, I'd like to say Merry Christmas to everyone

Secondly, you'll all be rewarded a nice Christmas gift when you come to the site on Christmas (server time). Additionally, you'll be rewarded a random amount of Viz for each day that you come to vizzed from now until the end of the year, the 'Vizzed 7 Days of Christmas'.

Enjoy

If you have any questions or comments, please reply to this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/thread.php?id=20831

3 updates here:

Game History
You can now see the last 50 games you've played in order from your Gamer Profile (about half way down the page). This is handy for those who have the laptop item or have a game system and want to track which games they've played. Also note that if you play a game 2 times in a row, back to back, it will show that you've played that game 2 times back to back.

Cheaper Games
As everyone knows, Viz is easy to earn (you get 100 just from coming to the site each day) and is free but I've gone ahead and made many of the RGR games cost less Viz, the average game dropped by about 5 Viz. This is a permanent change. This will probably increase the cost of the server's bandwidth slightly so feel free to donate to help me out

More Graphics
I added Box Graphics and Screenshots to many of the Apple II games, before hardly any of them had graphics. I also added Box Graphics and Screenshots to many of the Commodore 64 games, none of them had graphics before. Having graphics to games is important because it helps people figure out whether a game looks like it's worth playing or not because many people enjoy discovering games and finding new ones to play.



If you have any questions, comments or feedback about these updates, please reply to this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/thread.php?id=20083

Enjoy

I put together a list of around 20 Christmas games which you can play in the Retro Game Room. The list can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/thread.php?id=19714

Enjoy

An update I did earlier today caused some of the RGR games to stop working. This has been fixed and all games that worked before should work again.

If anyone is still having any problems, or if you want to verify that it's working, please do so in this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/thread.php?id=19695

That's right, today is Vizzed.com's 6th year anniversary! More details can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/thread.php?id=19609

This month's RGR Competitions:

Screenshot Competition: Art Alive Christmas
See who can draw the best Christmas themed image using the game 'Art Alive'
https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/thread.php?id=19414

High Score Competition: Daze Before Christmas
See who can get the highest score in Daze Before Christmas.
https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/thread.php?id=19417

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

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Last month's 'Best Game Glitch' Screenshot competition results can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/thread.php?id=19360

Last month's 'Donkey Kong' High Score competition results can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/thread.php?id=19355

For the past few days, users were unable to submit screenshots or get high scores for NES games. Even worst, the pages took a while to load and usually cut off. These have been fixed.

Also a reminder that there's only 2 days left to participate in this month's screenshot and high score competitions, remember that there's 27,000 total Viz to be handed out in these competitions.

If you're still having problems with the submitting screenshots and high scores, or if the pages are still having troubles loading, please let me know in this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/thread.php?id=19240

There's just 2 more weeks left to participate in the Vizzed Awards. All you have to do is vote on someone for each of the categories, results will be revealed on Vizzed 6th year anniversary which is December 6th.

Vote here:
https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/thread.php?id=18323

I've added MSX and Commodore 64 games to the site. However, the MSX games haven't been tested yet so play them at risk because they might not work. As for the Commodore 64 games, they haven't been tested and they still have to be properly named, play those at risk also. I'm hoping by the end of the month that all the non working games for those systems will be removed, the games properly named and the adult games removed.

If you have any feedback or questions, please post them here:
https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/thread.php?id=18653

Vizzed is back up and is now on both servers again like it had been before the incident of this past week.

If you are having any problems that are due to this transfer, please let me know here:
https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/thread.php?id=18357

Vizzed will be down for a few minutes sometime during the next half hour, I'll be transferring the Database over to the 2nd Server again.

For the next few hours you all might notice the Forums being rearranged, I'm working on a few forum structure which will be available in a few hours. You can still post like normal.

As most of you know by now, Vizzed is back, for more info, refer to the previous announcement.

As a way to say sorry for Vizzed being down for 12+ hours, games will cost 50% less Viz for the next 3 days!

If you have any comments regarding any of this, please reply here:
https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/thread.php?id=18277

For reasons beyond me, the Plesk Control Panel which is installed on the 2nd Server which hosts the Database for Vizzed got messed up and the server also got messed up (I have no idea what happened either, I didn't touch anything). After many hours I was able to get Godaddy to fix the server but the Plesk installation is beyond repair so I'll have to have that server formatted and the Plesk CP reinstalled. So for the time being, the DB will be on the same server as everything else. A month or so ago I got a 2nd server to help reduce site strain in order to increase the site speed. Until I get the 2nd Server back up and running, the site will be a little slower than normal since the DB will be on it again. When the 2nd Server is ready for the DB to be transferred, Vizzed will probably be down for just a few hours, this will probably take place within the next 1 or 2 days.

If anyone has any questions or feedback, please post them here:
https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/thread.php?id=18259

This month's RGR Competitions:

Screenshot Competition: Best Game Glitch
See who can take a screenshot of the best glitch in any retro video game!
https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/thread.php?id=17964

High Score Competition: Donkey Kong
See who can get the highest score in Donkey Kong and become the new King of Kong!
https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/thread.php?id=17963

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

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Last month's 'Mario Painting' Screenshot competition is in voting right now so please vote on a submission here:
https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/thread.php?id=17962

Last month's 'Tecmo Super Bowl 2K11' High Score competition results can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/thread.php?id=17958

About 6 hours ago Vizzed DB was transferred to a new Server. This process actually went very smoothly, I think the site was only down for a half hour if that.

What does this mean for everyone? Well the pages should still run quickly even during peak hours. Vizzed should now be able to handle between 2000-3000 people on at a time, compared to 500-600 before. Connecting to a DB that isn't on the same server as the PHP files adds a slight delay but hopefully it isn't to noticeable.

I also updated the Chat Bar to a stable release which means that it should have less glitches now. I also changed the scheme of it a little.

If anyone has any questions or comments, please post them here:
https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/thread.php?id=17266

I've purchased a 2nd server to help out with the Server strain.

Vizzed will be down for a few hours any time between 12 AM and 12 PM Central Time.

The 2nd Server will increase the site's speed greatly, there's just to much traffic for only 1 server so it's about time that we get a 2nd server.

Unfortunetly this also jacks up the monthly fee to keep the site up to about $400 a month, so this is also a reminder to donate to Vizzed if you can afford it.

For any questions or comments, please reply here:
https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/thread.php?id=17231

Sorry for the inconvenience of being down on and off, everything should be up and working fine now. There might be another security update tomorrow but I will inform you all with an announcement if I plan on doing anything which could result into the site being unavailable.

Vizzed will be undergoing maintenance for the next few hours.