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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.