> There's half your problem. I watched this site go up, and
> I'm very interested in seeing it rise again. Back when
> Zophar ran this site, it was huge. The counter on the site
> (that has seemingly disappeared at some point in time) was a
> testament to that. Hell, take a look at GoodSNES. You tell
> me what site, other than ZD, could have possibly held so
> much respect from the emulation community that its
> anniversary be compiled into a small demo ROM and placed in
> one of Cowering's Good sets.
> There is no lack of interest in the emulation community,
> there's just lack of action. I'd be willing to see the
> relaunching of this site through, and I'm sure many others
> would if we'd get off our asses and do something, and prove
> to them that something is actually going to happen.
Suggestions, as I've been here for about 10 years. So, if you want to do this, here's a hopeful future consilgiere's advice:
1) Be someone with experience in running a large website staffed by numerous people, or if this isn't the case, have good charisma and people skills. You will have people working for you for free, and you will have to balance prodding them to do stuff and keeping them from being offended that they are being prodded at all, since this is their free time they could be using for something else.
2) HAVE FREE TIME
3) Content first. "New design" later. The inability for anyone to come up with a new design and SwampGas's perfectionism and attitude in this regard has been a huge stumbling block. I would still like to see Packardmelan's ideas come to fruition, as I liked his best, but he has much to worry about in real life. My suggestion is to not look professional, but rather cool. Zophar's Domain is basically the last emulation site around that existed when the Internet had less than 50 million people on it, and was a close-knit and smaller scene where the most important figures and the lamest lamers were well known and mingled on IRC, and familiar usernames abounded. There are over a billion people on the Internet now, and emulation is a massive, and fragmented, scene. Zophar's Domain shows the aesthetic influence of the hacking, cracking, and (no one would admit it) warez scenes, as many of the skills involved in emulation and rom hacking overlap to some extent with these scenes. As such, the pissed off rivethead teenager webpage vibe is kind of a throwback to the old days, and I like it that way, personally. Fagmaster and his Classicgaming, corporate game magazine style can go fuck themselves. God that site was shitty. ZD doesn't need to look like a mainstream gaming site.
<P ID="signature"></P><P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by JadussD on 07/07/06 12:33 AM.</FONT></P>
> I'm very interested in seeing it rise again. Back when
> Zophar ran this site, it was huge. The counter on the site
> (that has seemingly disappeared at some point in time) was a
> testament to that. Hell, take a look at GoodSNES. You tell
> me what site, other than ZD, could have possibly held so
> much respect from the emulation community that its
> anniversary be compiled into a small demo ROM and placed in
> one of Cowering's Good sets.
> There is no lack of interest in the emulation community,
> there's just lack of action. I'd be willing to see the
> relaunching of this site through, and I'm sure many others
> would if we'd get off our asses and do something, and prove
> to them that something is actually going to happen.
Suggestions, as I've been here for about 10 years. So, if you want to do this, here's a hopeful future consilgiere's advice:
1) Be someone with experience in running a large website staffed by numerous people, or if this isn't the case, have good charisma and people skills. You will have people working for you for free, and you will have to balance prodding them to do stuff and keeping them from being offended that they are being prodded at all, since this is their free time they could be using for something else.
2) HAVE FREE TIME
3) Content first. "New design" later. The inability for anyone to come up with a new design and SwampGas's perfectionism and attitude in this regard has been a huge stumbling block. I would still like to see Packardmelan's ideas come to fruition, as I liked his best, but he has much to worry about in real life. My suggestion is to not look professional, but rather cool. Zophar's Domain is basically the last emulation site around that existed when the Internet had less than 50 million people on it, and was a close-knit and smaller scene where the most important figures and the lamest lamers were well known and mingled on IRC, and familiar usernames abounded. There are over a billion people on the Internet now, and emulation is a massive, and fragmented, scene. Zophar's Domain shows the aesthetic influence of the hacking, cracking, and (no one would admit it) warez scenes, as many of the skills involved in emulation and rom hacking overlap to some extent with these scenes. As such, the pissed off rivethead teenager webpage vibe is kind of a throwback to the old days, and I like it that way, personally. Fagmaster and his Classicgaming, corporate game magazine style can go fuck themselves. God that site was shitty. ZD doesn't need to look like a mainstream gaming site.
<P ID="signature"></P><P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by JadussD on 07/07/06 12:33 AM.</FONT></P>
Actually, I'm definately not a leader, but I'll do something to contribute to a good cause. (But not an updated ZD, I'm not good at anything like site making. 
