Well, believe or not...I am not making this up...It is National Egg Salad Week. I hope you like eggs, because you're going to get a healthy dose of it in this week's features! First off, we have the featured game, Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg for Nintendo Gamecube. It's a very interesting game in which you roll eggs and play with eggs...you get the point. Secondly, we have our featured image. The image is for a not very well known egg-cellent game by the name of Eggomania. Just look at that image. Wow. Our featured hardware is the Pro Controller for the Atari Jaguar. Look at all of those buttons. Geez! Finally, our featured collection goes to one of our resident pack rats, Ghost Soldier.
Buy some eggs, cook some eggs, eat some eggs, enjoy some eggs. Don't throw some eggs, you'll get in trouble! And always, keep it tuned to channel 3 here at RFG!
Hi there, this is your neighborhood friendly Site Director telling you to come to RFG Chat, this Monday at 8PM EDT! As with every week, RFG chat is hosted by our resident host Shaggy, and is sure to cover very interesting topics! So yes! Visit our hosted chat tomorrow night by clicking the Chat button in the Main navigation bar or in the forum navigation bar! This chat room exists 24/7 (provided the site is up), so stop in at any time, if you sit around I am sure someone else will eventually stop by!
See you in chat!
Yup. April Fools day is going to continue a bit longer as we focus on toddler stuff this week. This may or may not be fun. The featured game is Fisher Price's I can Remember, a game which I can proudly say I own. The featured image is that of Sesame Street ABC/123 which is yet another game I own. The featured collection is that of Cobra Blade, congrats on being nominated and do not take offense to having the featured collection. I simply made the connection between Cobra and G.I. Joe. Finally the featured hardware is the purple Nintendo Gamecube because...
1. Kids like purple.
2. Nintendo is kiddy.
3. Nintendo is kiddy.
April Fools. Anyway, keep it tuned to channel 3.
Yes, it was an April fools joke, just like my personal favorite April Fools joke, Pretty Generation, where everyone was pretty as a posy. What a beautiful time that was.
For those of you who did not see the April fools joke, you can find Toddler Generation here. You can also find the posts of April Fools in the the April Fools category of the forum. This won't be a permanent category, and will likely be decommissioned in a week or two. So get to seeing those posts if you haven't seen them yet.
Luckily for you guys, unlike the previous two years the site remained fully functional today save for the hideous color pallette that was Toddler Generation. As such, any changes you made to your collection on April 1 will remain them, and any submissions made also still exist. I'd like to thank our resident graphic artist den68 and our Database Director Eddie Herrmann with assisting me with the joke, this would have been much harder without them.
For those of you who wonder about the previous April Fools jokes of the site, here is a list of them in chronological order:
As you can see, this is a reoccurring theme here at RF Generation, so you can expect to see another one of these jokes come again next year. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Having said that, we have a lot of things cooking at RF Generation. Our third birthday is coming up, and you can expect to see some contest and birthday bash in 4 weeks. Also, we've began the extremely arduous process in cleaning up the site and making it use CSS tags. I guess you could call it a site redesign. Don't expect to see the new site rolling out in the near future, but I thought that perhaps you might like to know what's cooking at RF Generation. As that gets closer to fruition I am sure more will be said about that project.
As always stay tuned to RF Generation. More is certainly going to follow when you keep it tuned to channel three.
Hey everyone! Just a little note to give props to everyone for adding images to the database! We're over 36,000 images and growing by the minute! Check out everyone's collection. Our members have been hard at work collecting and also adding pictures of their new finds!
Also, if you get a chance, head over to the messege boards and leave your opinion on a variety of topics! We love hearing from all our members!
As always, keep it tuned to channel 3 here at RFG!
I don't want to title this week, but if I had to, I guess it'd be....Sonic Week! Why? Well, while at home, watching TV, I would always see these wonderful commercials for the fast food chain Sonic. Well, they have these drinks that combine ice cream and flavored slushie, and I have always wanted to try them since we don't have Sonic in our area. Well, my wife and I went on vacation last week to the south and decided that we had to find a Sonic. Heaven, pure Heaven. It definitely beats our crap in the North. Anyways, I digress.
Our featured game happens to be the odd cartridge, Sonic & Knuckles. Most people love the fact paced platforming hyjinks of our hedgehog friend. This is a great game for everyone to play. Heck, it's like a 4 in 1 cart if you own some of the other Sonic games. The featured image is the Japanese front box version of Sonic Advance 2. Our hardware is one of the great "unknown to most" systems, the Neo Geo Advanced Entertainment System (Japanese version). Last, but not least, our featured collection belongs to Fighter17. Fighter17 has one of the best collections on our site in my opinion. Nearly every one of his games are owned because he plays them. That is something us collectors do not do nearly enough of.
That's about it folks! So remember, keep it tuned to channel 3. Visit the forums! Visit our collection tools! And please, visit a Sonic!
After a long hiatus, the RFGeneration features are finally updated. My apologies about that. Kicking off this week we have a theme centered around a genre of games which seems to be unknown to the RFGeneration community. I am talking about the sports genre.
The featured game this time around is WWF Wrestlemania Challenge which I firmly believe is the wrestling counterpart to Tecmo Super Bowl. Our featured image is that of Ken Griffey Jr.'s Winning Run which at the time had some of the most gorgeous graphics. The featured hardware is the classic Sega Genesis controller which is one of the most comfortable controllers ever made. Finally, our featured collection is the collection of Rabusma, a user whom has multiple versions of many systems.
So there you have it. Hopefully with the addition of sports week RFGeneration can become a bit more diversified. As always, keep it tuned to Channel 3.
I'd like to apologize for the slowness seen on the site this weekend. I do not know if it was necessarily our fault, but I have made some steps to ensure that our load on the mySQL server is decreased. Hopefully these improvements will allow for the increased responsiveness of the mySQL server, and subsequently our site.
Sincerely,
David Murnan
Site Director, RF Generation.com
PS: See you in Chat tomorrow!
Here is something for you all that not even the staff knew about. Want to pimp your collection stats in an easy, banner sized image? Here you go! This image generates in real time your collection stats for the games database. To get your stats up here is the general link:
http://www.rfgeneration.c...collectionstats;user=USER
Your stats will show up when you replace USER with your forum username. It may also be advantageous to save this as a separate image, as the loading speed is at the mercy of the mySQL server.
Enjoy!
After countless hours of programming and optimizations tonight RF Generation releases the submission system version 3.0, which you can find here. You may be wondering what this submission system allows you to do, well, here is the short list of new features:
- Ability to add Alternate Titles
- Ability to add Countries to a game, if it was not a region wide release
- Ability to add a game ratings and rating descriptors, such as for the ESRB
- Streamlined Media Formats
- More forgiving submission search scripts
- Ability to search by country in the advanced search
- Ability to see all the new features on the game and hardware pages
- Lots of backend improvements
We hope that these improvements and new features further solidify our place in the internet as one of the premier games databases and collection tools. I'd like to thank everyone on staff for helping to debug the scripts as well as the donors for unknowingly debugging the system as well. Hopefully their assistance will keep the occurrence of bugs to a minimum, however, if bugs do pop up please let me know, so I can quash them as quickly as possible.
From all of us at RF Generation, thank you for keeping it tuned to channel three, and we hope that you continue to keep it tuned in for years to come.
This week's theme is about the Earth! Why? No idea, but there are a lot of games made with Earth in the title. More than all the other planet's combined actually! Go ahead, check; I dare ya!
Anyways, the featured game is Earthbound. Some gamers consider this the best RPG of all time, mostly due to the story line, gameplay, and flow. It's not graphically superior to most games of it's time, but it just works.
The featured image is from Earth Attack from the Atari 2600. Atari gets no love, so it's nice to feature it here and there. It's a very peculiar game with some incredible artwork on the cartridge. Check it out!
Our hardware feature is for the Atari 7800 Pro System. Sometimes considered the bastard child of Atari, this system was far too neglected. It had some great games!
Last but not least, our featured collection. This belongs to LifeGame. He has a wonderful collection as seen in his photos! Take a look!
Well, another week passes and time keep flying by. Spring is on it's way, and I bet we all can't wait. In the mean time, please come to our forums. We love hearing from new people. Don't be afraid! We talk about way more than video games, and we even have a trading fourm, so maybe you can get the game you've been looking for!
Hope to hear from you all soon, and may RFGeneration be with you!
hanks to the suggestion of DevIancE, a new feature has been added to the "All Collections" page. It is now possible to sort the collecions by hardware and software, so that you can now view people's collections as separate hardware and software collecions.
Thanks again to DevIancE for the suggestion!
I've done it...you've done it...we've ALL done it! We have all, at one time, cheated.
No, no, I'm not talking about that late-night show on G4...I'm talking about cheat codes! Those glorious unlockable rewards hidden in nearly every game in existance.
To celebrate Cheaters Week here at RF Generation, our Featured Hardware is the good ol' Game Genie. The featured game of the week is Serious Sam for the Xbox, which has a moderate cheat menu hidden within the game. The Featured Image is a screenshot from Serious Sam: the Second Encounter for the PC.
The honor of Featured Collection goes to GagaMan, with his real nice collection of Dreamcast and Megadrive games, so be sure and check it out!
To further promote Cheaters Week, I'd like to send out a personal challenge to everyone to submit as much "Cheat" info as possible. Cheat codes, whether they be your standard "up+down+circle+circle" or the old Game Genie codes, can all be submitted under "Easter Eggs" in each game page.
With all that being said, let's all go forth and promote God Mode to the underachievers in gaming!
Well everyone, here it is, the week we have all been waiting for. Yes, it is the week where Shimra presents another halfway thought out article and declares an even more poorly thought out week. Yes everyone, it is the week you have all been waiting for, it is of course Super Quirky Handheld Games Week.
Now that you have let the awesomeness seep in, I shall present to you the featured game of the week. It is an outstanding game where you take the role of a rookie defense attorney whom is quickly raising in the ranks. Yes I am of course talking about Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. Our featured image is of Trace Memory, a unique point and click adventure for the DS. Our featured collection would be DevIancE's. The reason being that DevIancE has tons and tons of handheld games and systems, not to mention the name DevIancE is pretty amazing.
Well there you have it. As always, keep it tuned to Channel 3, and may we never forget Michael Collins.
We've finally rolled out our SQL-based collection system. The new system should be faster than the previous system and will be more friendly towards future database expansion.
A few new minor features have been added:
- Hardware/Software dropdown menu
- Sort by Hardware/Software in stats
- View all page to view your whole collection
The first time you use the new system it may take a while to transfer your collection over. After the first page load, it should run quicker and you should be ready to go! Please post any bugs in the announcements forum. Enjoy!
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