Hello everyone, and welcome to April 2025 SPREE DAY! Let's come together as a community and go on a posting spree together!


In order to provide more places to post, some previously closed threads have been reopened over the past week. Be sure to take a look through the forums (beyond the "New Posts" page) to see what's open!


To make this Spree Day extra special, and to add a bit of an incentive, myself, supercool22, and zanderlex have put together some prizes and rewards that can be earned by posting.


Even though it's a Tour de Vizzed month, today should be about working together, NOT about competing against one another. We should be aiming to reach a high post total as a community, rather than aiming to make more posts as individuals than other users. You'll notice that none of the prizes or rewards depend on your post total relative to others. Instead, they are about how much you contribute to the community, and about how much the community accomplishes as a whole.

For more information on prizes, go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=105730

I am hosting a "Spree Day" tomorrow, April 18th. The objective is to have as many people as possible go on a posting spree together. It will be fun, and it will give Vizzed Board a nice little boost in activity.

There will be rewards available for those that participate, including Viz, Steam games, shiny Pokemon, and a surprise reward that I will reveal tomorrow.

I will make a thread and a second announcement at 12:00 am central time tomorrow with more information about how to earn these prizes.

Feel free to send me a PM if you have any questions. I hope to see you all in the forums tomorrow!

The Vizzed.co Minecraft Anniversary Event 2 is now live here:
https://www.twitch.tv/davideo7

Feel free to join us on the Vizzed Minecraft server using the following IP:
Vizzed.co

For more information, go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=105725

The anniversary event part 2 for the Vizzed.co Minecraft Server will start on Tuesday at 11 AM central time. This is part 2 to the 10 year anniversary stream I did last year which you can find here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=105400

Be sure to join us on the Vizzed Minecraft server using the following IP:
Vizzed.co

All of this will be live streamed on my Twitch Channel here:
https://www.twitch.tv/davideo7

We'll be finishing the tour that we didn't finish last year. The group call will take place on the Vizzed Discord Channel under the minecraft-server voice chat channel.

If you have any questions or feedback, go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=105725

The issues where the site will be really slow at loading or not load at all has been mostly resolved. It was related to the excessive bot traffic. We're still getting a lot of bot traffic but I've installed some things and configured various settings on the server to handle some of it.

For questions or feedback, go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=105722

The Spring Tour de Vizzed discussion thread can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=105692


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


The Hall of Fame page can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/stats/tdv-hof.php

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

Refer to this thread to see what I'm talking about:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=105687

Many CD Games Removed
I've removed most of the CD games from the website due to not being able to afford hosting them. For the past year, I've been taking a $400 loss on this website per a month, but now with the removal of the CD games, I should be able to get that down to $150. Still not great, but an improvement. My goal is to eventually break even.

I did keep the most popular games for the CD systems. In most cases, I kept the top 5-10%. Here's a breakdown of how many games we now have for each CD system:
3DO = 6
CDi = 18
Dreamcast = 49
PCFX = 5
PlayStation = 100
Sega CD = 25
Sega Saturn = 43
TurboGrafx CD = 40

I originally thought I'd have to remove many MAME games, but I was able to fit them all on the new server.

My wife has been pretty upset with me that this site has had a negative margin of $5000 in the past year. It's been more than 2 years now since this site was profitable. I've been trying to find solutions to keep this site alive, and I'll continue to do so. Hosting terabytes worth of games is costly, which is why the biggest games had to be removed. Removing the Retro Game Room is still not something I want to consider because I think that's the only thing that keeps this site alive. There's a lot of behind the scenes sacrifice I have to make for this site I usually don't talk about, and this definitely would be one of them.

I'm willing to add a few CD games back to the site based on requests. So if anyone has recommendations of games, feel free to suggest them in the below thread and I may get them added back.


Some DS Games Added
The removal of 3000+ CD games is a big loss for the site, so to make it up to everyone, I've added some DS games. At the moment there are 15 DS games, and I'm willing to add more. In fact, I'm willing to add up to 50 DS games total. Just keep in mind that I'm not allowed to have any DS games that Nintendo developed.

You can find the DS games here:
https://www.vizzed.com/play-ds/

If you want to see certain DS games added that you think would be popular and that aren't 1st party Nintendo games, go ahead and make your suggestions in the below thread.


Questions or Feedback
Post them in this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=105666

I've updated the version of EmulatorJS that the site is using to the latest version. The version we had been using was outdated by about 2 years, and the emulator has had a ton of updates since.

For those of you unfamiliar with EmulatorJS, it's currently the best non-plugin option for playing games in the Retro Game Room and it supports most of the games, including many of the CD systems.

Things worth pointing out:
-Overall compatibility is greatly increased
-Games should play a lot better
-There are a ton of new features like rewind
-There's a ton of customization options now
-There are a lot more options in the menus
-The latest version lets you choose between different emulators for a game (be sure to close the page and open it up again for it to work)

Commodore 64 was made available with EmulatorJS with this update. There are also a lot of other systems that EmulatorJS supports that Vizzed doesn't currently have, but we could get them added in the future (anything that isn't CD based, since we don't have space for that).

The EmulatorJS netplay isn't working yet, but I'll work on getting that taken care of and updated soon.

I should also point out that EmulatorJS had been having issues working for some people for a few months now. This issue should be completely resolved.

If you have any questions or feedback, please go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=105664

Today I've added 64+ Steam Codes for 32 Steam Games
https://www.vizzed.com/market/listings.php?type=Digital

For a list of games added:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=94586&ppp=20&page=17#1411239

Just a reminder, these games can be purchased with Viz.

The Winter Tour de Vizzed discussion thread can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=105595


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


The Hall of Fame page can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/stats/tdv-hof.php

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

Since we currently have no Global Mods, supercool22 and pokemon x will be the admins for the first half of 2025.

You can leave them feedback in this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=105594

I wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas


7 Days of Vizzed Christmas
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 the 25th until the end of the year, the '7 Days of Vizzed Christmas'. Be sure to visit the site each day to claim your random Viz gift!


Christmas Games in the Retro Game Room
The Retro Game Room has 40+ Christmas games. You can find them all here:
//www.vizzed.com/playonlinegames/index.php?sort=best&search=Christmas&searchBy=theme


Christmas Video Game Music
I put together a big playlist of Christmas themed and Winter themed video game music:
https://www.vizzed.com/videogamemusic/playlist.php?id=4


Retro Christmas Game Montage
A few years ago I put together a video highlighting 12 Christmas games (non hacked):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcbh8UIMMj8


Any questions, comments or feedback? Or do you simply want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas? Do so in this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=105592

2024 was definitely the least active I've ever been on the site, and I apologize for that. Life and work outside of the site got busy, and I struggled with my ambition and focus on the site and with my job as a Software Engineer. I think a lot of it stems from my inability to sleep well getting worst over the past year, possibly related to my stressful job. I really wanted to put together a tribute video for the 20 year anniversary but a combination of not having time and not wanting to be on the computer after being on the computer all day at work really destroyed that project.

A big thing that did take place for the site in 2024 was the server migration which resulted into the site being significantly faster and no longer having various issues that it was having over the past year. The server migration was actually pretty time consuming and technically isn't done (I took a long break from it).

You can find all of the awards and additional information here
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=105577

Vizzed Board turns 20 years old on December 6th, so you guys have about 2 weeks to vote for whoever you think deserves any of the awards below. Voting will end on December 5th and the awards will be given out on December 6th. There are 25 awards you can vote on, 20 user awards and 5 thread/post awards.

You can cast your votes here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=105573

I'm going to be doing a server migration over the next few days. The site will be down on and off during this time.

Anything uploaded to the site after this post was made will be lost during the transfer. Content submitted to the site (posts, reviews, user accounts, etc) will not be lost. Just files will be lost during this time (like screenshots).


There are 2 reasons for the migration:

1. The site hasn't been paying for itself in quite a few months. The site fees are $450+ month, the site revenue is less than $100 a month. I'm consolidating all of the servers into a single server, and while that server is still expensive (around $260), it's a lot cheaper than the $450. The current servers include the site sever, netplay server, minecraft server, and file server.

Unfortunately, new server will not be able to contain all of the games from the Retro Game Room, as it's only a 2 TB hard drive. It'll be able to contain all of the music and cartridge based games, but the CD based games will be too large, which means most of those games will be taken down. I'll take the top 10% most popular games from each of the CD systems and those are what I'll keep.

2. The current server software is very outdated and can't be updated. Having better hardware/software will allow me to do things with the server that I've never been able to do. It also gives me the power to improve the site performance by utilizing features that prevent bot abuse.

I should also point out that the new server is 2x more powerful than the current main server, which is crazy because they're about the same price.


With all of that said, the site will perform a lot better after the migrations. I've already purchased and setup the new server, all of the files have already been migrated. The things I have left to do include:
1. Configuring the new server to match the configuration of the current
2. Figuring out what things I need to install on the new server so that nothing stops working
3. Transferring the database
4. Pointing the domain name to the new server


If you have any questions or feedback, go here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=105556

The Summer Tour de Vizzed discussion thread can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=105417


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


The Hall of Fame page can be found here:
https://www.vizzed.com/stats/tdv-hof.php

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

Let's welcome back pokemon x as an admin, and with him, supercool22 is joining the admin team for the first time.

You can welcome them here:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=105416

For those who missed the Vizzed.co Minecraft Anniversary Event Stream, I've uploaded it here:



We didn't get around to showcasing everything so we might do a part 2 if anyone is interested. If we do a part 2, anyone is free to join the Discord call.


For feedback, comments or questions:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=105400

The anniversary event for the Vizzed.co Minecraft Server will start today at 12 PM central time, which is roughly 1 1/2 hours from now.

Be sure to join us on the Vizzed Minecraft server using the following IP:
Vizzed.co

All of this will be live streamed on my Twitch Channel here:
https://www.twitch.tv/davideo7




12:00 PM (CST): Tour of MC Vizzed
We'll start out with doing a tour of everything for the first hour. We'd do the tour of the worlds in order of their creation and try to showcase those worlds in order of the creations within those worlds. We'll discuss various details about what we're showcasing including the history and any fun memories related to them.

The group call will take place on the Vizzed Discord Channel under the minecraft-server voice chat channel.


1:00 PM (CST): Activity TBD
We haven't decided what activity we'll be doing but we plan to do a few hours worth of activities based on the number of people interested and based on the suggested ideas. If anyone has any ideas for activities and games we should do, feel free to suggest them.


If you have any questions, suggestions or feedback, go to this thread:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=105392