tom760 is back at work with doing updates to the RGR Plugin. We're expecting an RGR Plugin update very soon with a few nice features, tons of bug fixes, better game compatibility (especially gba rpgs) and more. But we're hoping to get some money to do even more updates, donating to the site will make these updates possible and quicker to have made. It takes a lot of time and money to get updates added to the RGR Plugin so please read the following features and consider helping make these dreams a reality.


We need donations for any of the following features to be possible, if we don't get donations, than none of this will happen. I can only afford to pay so much of it on my own.


Netplay
Imagine being able to play against someone in Mario Kart, Mortal Kombat, Tecmo Super Bowl or Goldeneye or with someone in Contra, Mystical Ninja, Perfect Dark or Donkey Kong Country. Imagine being able to actually battle others in the Pokemon games or to trade Pokemon with anyone on the site. The possibilities are endless with 1000s of games in the RGR having multiplayer, with this update, every single one of them could be played with someone on the site over the internet.

How many opportunities do you get to play a retro game with someone else? How many opportunities do you get to participate in a retro gaming tournament (that's right, we'd have weekly and monthly tournaments)? Help us make everyone's dream come true and donate to this great cause.

Projected Cost: US $1000



Disc Based Game Systems
Currently we're limited to cartridge based game systems, a whole new world would open up with the ability to play disc based games which could include:
-Sega Saturn
-Playstation
-Dreamcast
-Sega CD
-and more

Projected Cost: US $250 per a system



More Game Systems
Want to have access to an even greater library of Retro Games? This update would add the following systems to the RGR Plugin:
-MS DOS
-MAME / Arcade
-Atari Lynx
-Turbo Grafx
-Neo Geo Pocket
-Neo Geo Pocket Color
-Wonderswan
-Wondersawn Color
-and more

Projected Cost: US $250



More Features
We've got just tons of ideas for new features including:
-Video Recording (record your gameplay and have the video exported so you can upload it to sites like youtube)
-Full Screen mode
-Many others

Projected Cost: US $250+



How do you donate?
You can donate using Paypal from this page:
https://www.vizzed.com/boards/donations.php

Or you can send me cash or a check by mail (PM me for my address). And as always, you get rewarded Viz for donating, 10,000 Viz for each US $10 you donate to be exact.



Questions or Feedback?
If you have any questions or feedback, or if you'd like to let us know which update your donation is going toward, respond to this thread.

Man I'm so excited to read this announcement. So many nice features on the horizon if everyone donates a little.

I'm especially looking forward to Netplay. It would be awesome to play retro games against/with people online. Tournaments would even add to the excitement.

I will make sure to donate ASAP!

Once I get back from my trip to Oregon in the near future, I'll donate whatever money is left to this.

I actually love the idea of possibly seeing more updates and if its gonna enhance NES SNES games then im even more happy about the news

Ooooh SWEET!!! I was just thinking the other day "I want to battle some random person in pokemon --..."

and here the update is over the horizon! O.O  Dont worry, my plan was to donate whenever when slow income taxes come along. (jeez its taking FOREVER)

This looks really good, and I am looking forward to it. However, I do have one question. You mentioned that you were adding disk based consoles to the site (donations provided), but I was lead to believe that the site couldn't have them due to them being too big and band-width and so forth. How would you resolve this?

I was just about to ask the same thing Darkpower just brought up. I thought the issue was more than the cost of disc based console emulators. I thought that it would cost a fortune to purchase a server with the bandwidth capable of streaming that much information, but the list here says about $500. If that were the case, I would have pulled together pulled together a large sum to donate myself to get those on here. Is there more to it than that, or did you find some way around the issues?

Jordanv78 : When you think about the 10,000s of people who use the site each week (probably 100,000), if just 1 percent of them donated just $10, we'd have plenty enough money to pay for every single feature anyone would ever want and we'd have probably every retro game/system ever made added to the Plugin. $10 isn't much at all, I'm sure most of the people on this site spend that much just on junk food in a month.

Or if 4 wealthy people donated $250 each, that'd be enough for netplay.

legacyme3 : Not sure when that is but it could possibly be too late, Tom might only be available to do work for a few more weeks

Darkpower508 : Godaddy has recently offered servers which are literally 3 times more powerful than the previous servers they offered, have around 2 times more disc space and about 10 times more bandwidth for about the same price as their old servers (maybe even a little cheaper). With one of those servers, it would be possible to do this with 1 of the following exceptions:
1. Users can only play a certain amount of disc games a week (maybe like 5)
or
2. Disc games cost between 250-2500 Viz each (a game like Shenmue which has 3 discs would cost probably 7500 Viz to play through)
or
3. Ads appear in the play window for disc games for all users to help pay for the extra server fees
or
4. Make it so only users who have donated get access to play the disc games

Disc emulators like Playstation don't play games as well as cartridge emulators do so there'd be a lot of custom configuring involved and it would require a lot of staff to help test out the games and configure the proper settings for each game.

rcarter2 : Refer to what I said to Darkpower508. Actually that $500 cost would probably include 1 or 2 systems, depending on the system. I'll update my post to be more specifc.

Davideo7 :

I'd leave on the 4th of February.

So it'd be like another week or so.

This would be great!I could play Castlevania Symphony of The Night and play The Legend Of Zelda four swords!This will be awesome!However,I can't donate,sorry david 

Oh my GOD!!! This is the BEST ANNOUNCEMENT EVER!!!! I was thinking about Net play BEFORE and I can't even believe that it's finally happening!! I want to play Super Mario Bros. 3 with someone!! And I'll be able to play Final Fantasy VII!!

Metal Triforce : Well it might not happen if we don't have the money, so be sure to donate

That's quite good. Better donate some money then. Also, should the disk based system be uploaded, will you require some disk games as a donation to get them on the site?

Oh, that would be so cool, but I still have some driving lessons to pay , which means that I can't donate right now. Plus, I have to check the money change and seize the good opportunity to donate a good amount of cash, well after I finished my driving lessons and got my driving lesson indeed.

Dang, The next possible update in the RGR is gonna be Netplay?
Thats gonna be soo.. Awesome!
I cant wait!!

Wow, that's some pretty awesome features that are lined up. I don't really have the ability to donate now, though. =(

I hope other people are at least motivated to donate, though. I think Vizzed would become a lot more popular from the features, too.

Dude. I am extremely psyched to see all of these features that could be possible in the future. Too bad I really don't have any money to donate though. =/

Which means I'm hoping everyone else could chip in a little. I would love to play multiplayer. =D

Darkpower508 : Not going to bother, last time I asked people to donate games, I only got 2 games lol. My dad is a game collector and has a very large PSX game collection so I'll claim his collection.

scootheman : Only if people donate, how can I make that more clear?

I understand Davideo7, Im gonna find a way to donate some of the money I got for my birthday! ^^
Gotta get my mom to put it on the credit card though...