Voting system fixed
May 17, 2010, 03:45:49 AM Lenophis
To all of you that may have been voting for the various patches we have hosted here, you may have noticed that the voting did not work at all. Thanks to Hypher, that problem has been fixed.  Hooray legacy PHP issues. :tongue:

Additionally, all hacks have had their votes reset to 0, so everything gets a clean slate. Some steps were taken to account for the spam votes, hopefully that's been taken care of. Rejoice. :happy:
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No more email crap
April 25, 2010, 11:14:10 PM Lenophis
To address the ongoing issue of dealing with email and submissions, I figured the best option now was to make a submission subforum right here. And that's what I did. It should be easier to poke me with stuff now instead of "did he read it yet?!" :tongue: Hopefully things go smooth. :happy:
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We're back!
March 03, 2010, 09:26:34 PM Hypher
So "Tomorrow" on Friday turned into Tuesday night. Sorry about the lack of warning, but the sysadmin for the server couldn't do the upgrade on saturday, so it got moved, and I forgot to update this post. Anyways, slick is back and I'm working on bringing the other sites online now.
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Downtime tomorrow
February 27, 2010, 12:12:55 AM Hypher
The sysadmin of Gopherbork is planning on installing Gentoo Linux on our server tomorrow (we're currently running Debian). The site will be down from about 10am PST till the upgrade is complete, hopefully less than 6 hours. See you all on the other side, from Gentoo!
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White stuff!
December 25, 2009, 12:06:11 AM Lenophis
Ahhh yes, the time of year when snow falls, it gets cold, and for some reason it's the only time of the year when people are nice to each other. :tongue:

For some people, they go trying to figure out what to get for people. Others may go just because they hadn't had time off in 5 months. Then there's the group of people that are :cycle: because they haven't a care in the world.

A good bunch of us are buried in snow, anywhere from 8 to 25 inches. That makes some people :angry: because it involves shoveling, you lazy bastards. :tongue:

And finally, a bunch of us will go :omg: because some poor fools take pity on a bunch of us and give us presents, none of which any of us deserve. :tongue:

So have a Merry Christmas from all of us here at Slick, because if you don't some treasure hunter thief may take it upon himself to loot your goodies. :lungs:
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Good News: The Server Transition is complete
December 01, 2009, 02:11:54 PM Hypher
I wanted to let everyone know that the transition from Pair networks to Slicehost has been completed, and the domains redirected. As far as I know there was no downtime. I'm somewhat amazed that it all went so well.

The only thing not yet worked out on the public facing side of the transition is the forum's outgoing mail server, which I still need to setup on this server. Until then, the forum won't be able to send out mail, so please don't forget your passwords!
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Temporary location and domain downtime
November 24, 2009, 10:29:22 PM Hypher
Good News! The main move of Slick Productions is complete. The forum has been upgraded to the latest version of SMF, and everything lives on our new awesome Slice Host server. Unfortunately, there are a few issues with the transition:
  • I waited a bit too long with the domain transfer, and as such, there may be a period of time (the next five days or so) where the domain slickproductions.org is down. Sorry :/ :isuck: In the meantime, the site will live at http://slick.gopherbork.net
  • I haven't setup DKK's site or MNRogar's site on the new server yet. That will happen soon.
  • The new version of SMF isn't compatible with our old themes, so everyone has been reset to the default (and rather obnoxious) pastel blue theme. As I'm not the one who created the themes, we'll have to wait till Leno or DKK can update them.
  • Some of the most recent additions to the site haven't been transferred yet, but I should get that fixed soon.

Thanks to everyone for enduring this rough patch in Slick Productions life. I'm doing my best to get everything working.
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Server Migration and Downtime tonight
November 24, 2009, 07:17:33 PM Hypher
Hey Everyone, SP's sysadmin speaking :) Slick Productions will be going down tonight for a few hours while I move the site to a new server and update the DNS. With any luck this will go smoothly and everything will back up and running by midnight, but I can't make any promises. My apologies for any disruptions this causes.
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At last, DTE in Final Fantasy's battles
October 15, 2009, 09:04:43 PM Dragonsbrethren
Yes, it's true: Lenophis took it upon himself to fix one of the more annoying aspects of the game, from a text hacking perspective. As anyone who has tried to utilize DTE for text that appears in battle knows, you would normally get a single garbage character, instead of the two expected characters. This is because the battles were still using the Japanese game's DTE table, which was used to print (han)dakuten over top of another character. This patch corrects that, and DTE can now be used anywhere. This should allow for more in-depth text hacks, without needing to repoint strings to any tiny bit of free space in the bank.



You can get the hack here, at Romhacking.net, for the time being. I'm sure Leno will add it to the site once he's back. (More on that here.)
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Blargo!
August 10, 2009, 03:15:37 PM Lenophis
This is an announcement of sorts. Lately, Yahoo mail has been worse and worse in terms of service and in annoyance. I had been using their service for the better part of 10 years, but now I've reached my breaking point. This obviously puts a hamper on submitting stuff to the site, so I've set up an email account to handle that. The new account is subWOWHOWIDUDATmissionITSLOLLIKEatWTFTHISISAWESOMEslickAHAHAHAHAHAprodZOMGuctionsALLYOURBASEAREBELONGTOUSdotorg. All of that is to throw off the spammers. Do not send large emails, else I'll be likely to start blocking it.

Also, :bored:
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