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Fingerstyle SNES: A Gametabs Collaboration

May 27, 2009 by ronito

In celebration of the music of the Super Nintendo Gametabs is running a project to compile new well done arrangements. Entries will be judged prior to acceptance.
Requirements for being accepted

* The tab must be arranged for classical/fingerstyle guitar
* The tab must be an arrangement of a song that appeared on a Super Nintendo game
* The tab must your own original work
* The tab must not be a direct guitar transcription. Meaning that there has to be some level of arrangement to the piece and it can't simply be a transcription of a piece written for guitar. Transcriptions from other instruments, like piano, are acceptable.
* The tab must be neat and well presented, and it must be outputted in PDF form

The tentative deadline for this project is June 30th.

Feel free to see the thread for this project here and fun tabbing!

We're moving to a new server

April 18, 2009 by archard
**UPDATE** - if you're seeing this message it means that you're viewing the site on the new server. If you notice anything abnormal please report it here.

Thanks to a friend of mine I'll be moving the site over to his more powerful server for a better price than I'm paying right now. I plan on making the switch today, but to do so I'm gonna have to limit the features of the site temporarily. Shortly I will disabling all features that involve user created content (comments, ratings, new pages, etc). I can't prevent users from editing their account details, so just know that if you do that while the site is moving to the new server, the data won't be saved. So for a few hours today a lot of things are gonna be down. But the site will continue to run as normal and you will still be able to view all the content on the site, as well as use the shoutbox. I will update this post when the site is running on the new server. I'm looking forward to what should be a faster gametabs.net.

About the Downtime

April 13, 2009 by archard

Hello everybody. I have been visiting with friends and family lately so I haven't been on the site really at all for the past week or so. I logged on to my computer today to an email from a member saying that the site was down. After some investigation I concluded that the site had been hacked at around 8PM EST last night. It wasn't anything devastating, just a small amount of code had been injected into the site's index.php. Everything appears to be fine now, but if you find anything abnormal please report it here or PM me.

GTYNP: Saint Seiya - Chikyuugi

February 18, 2009 by archard

This tab was posted over a year ago and has received little attention. That, and it being from a relatively unknown corner of the video-game/anime music world, makes it a perfect 'Greatest Tab You've Never Played'.

Chikyuugi is a wonderfully soulful song from the anime Saint Seiya. Although the type of guitar a song is played on is arbitrary much of the time, this song screams electric guitar. The use of palm mutes and pinch harmonics in particular give it that feel unique to electric guitar.

I personally love this song. Thanks for tabbing it out, CpxAzn!

Link to tab

Who is your favorite video game boss?

February 2, 2009 by archard
Description: 

Out of all the choices below, which is your favorite video game boss? The idea for this poll was inspired from this forum topic asking the same question. The choices listed are the most discussed in that thread. We want to quantify the collective opinion of the community though, so we've decided to put a poll on the main page.

The poll will last one week. I have set it so that only registered users can vote, but if there is a poor showing of voters I may open it up to anonymous users as well.

Ganon
17% (13 votes)
Bowser
8% (6 votes)
Sephiroth
29% (22 votes)
Kefka
7% (5 votes)
Magus
9% (7 votes)
King K. Rool
5% (4 votes)
Bongo Bongo
1% (1 vote)
Psycho Mantis
4% (3 votes)
King Dedede
5% (4 votes)
All Colossi from SotC
13% (10 votes)
Total votes: 75

Some changes to the recordings section

January 25, 2009 by archard

I added a field to the recordings submissions page where you can put the name of the game or anime the song is from. This will make it possible to search recordings by game. So from now on when you create a recording, put only the name of the song in the 'Song Title' field, and only the name of the game/anime in the 'Game or Anime' field. I also jazzed up the 'Game or Anime' field so that when you start typing in the game, it will bring up a list of previous entries that are similar to what you've already typed in. I applied this to the request section as well.

I think I'm gonna go through all the old recordings when I get the chance and alter them so that they can be searchable by game as well. Then I'd like to restructure the recordings page so that all the recordings can be searchable by game/anime. Hopefully I can get around to that sometime soon. I hope you all like the new features.

New Request System

January 3, 2009 by archard

A new request system was requested probably over a year ago. Well today I finally put it up. Requests should no longer be posted in the forum. Instead you can get to the new Requests system by going to the "Request" link at the top of this page. There you will find a list of requests in order of when a comment was last posted there (you can change the order if you want). By default, this page will only list requests that have not been fulfilled, but you can change that using the drop down form at the top of the page.

The idea of this system is that requests which have not been fulfilled will get more attention than those that have. And it provides a means of keeping track of which requests have been fulfilled and which ones haven't.

When you make a request, you now fill out the name of the song and the name of the game separately. This allows requests to be sorted by song and by game, and potentially be searched by that criteria as well. There is also a box for you to put details regarding the request (info about the song/game for example) and a link to where the music can be heard. I am going to strictly enforce that all requests must have a link to where the music can be heard. It is impossible for someone to make a tab out of something that they can't hear (unless they know the song really well). This will benefit both the requesters and the requestees (is that a word?).

There is a link on the request page that says Mark Request Fulfilled (or Mark Request Unfulfilled if it's already fulfilled). Any registered user can mark a request as fulfilled/unfulfilled, so I am counting on the community to make this system work.

Questions? Comments? Ask away.

More New Things

December 24, 2008 by archard

I just put up a couple of new features. First, comment notifications. If you'll notice, the comment forms now have a new option at the bottom labeled "Notify me of follow-up comments posted here." You can choose to be notified when any new comment is posted, or only ones that are replies to your comment, or you can choose not to be notified at all. If you do choose to be notified, an email will be sent to you when the event you select happens. This applies to any content type that has comments (tabs, recordings, forum topics, articles, etc). Note that there is also a new setting in your user account settings that will let you set the default notification setting. There you can also choose to be notified when comments are posted on nodes (fancy word for 'posts') that you've created, such as forum topics or recordings. Think of this as like a subscriptions system.

Also, I've added 'mark topics read' functionality that's seen often on most forums. Just click the link and a certain amount of posts will be marked as read depending on which page you're looking at. If you're looking at the forum home page (http://www.gametabs.net/forum), all topics in all forums will be marked as read. If you're looking at a 'container' of forums (http://www.gametabs.net/forum/943 for example), all forums in that container will be marked as read. If you're looking at a specific forum (http://www.gametabs.net/forum/946 for example), all topics in that particular forum will be marked as read.

Hope you all like the new features, and before I forget:

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Interface Changes

December 21, 2008 by archard

In response to people using low screen resolutions have trouble reading tabs, I've killed off the right sidebar completely. I moved everything to the left sidebar, accept for user account specific stuff like the 'My Profile' and 'My Favorites' links. Those links I've put in a new drop down list on the top navigation bar (with some snazzy effects). I hope this makes things easier for you guys, and if not I really want to hear your feedback. Let me know if anything is confusing.

I also killed off the Latest Transcriptions and Latest Arrangements lists in favor of the more classic lists which you should see above this post. I think most people like these lists the way they are now, so I will most likely keep them like that. As always, I await your feedback.

Private Messages, and such

December 19, 2008 by archard

What's up everybody? I know I haven't been very active on the site lately, and I'm sorry for the neglect but my life has just been very hectic lately. I'm currently working my butt off at university, and having a part time job at the same time and trying to squeeze in a social life somewhere inbetween. On top of that I've been sick for the past week, and hardly have had any energy to work on anything at all. I just got done taking my final exams for the fall semester though, and now I'll have a lot of free time for the next few weeks to work on some of the long awaited issues plaguing the site. To everyone who has been helping to add tabs to the site, thank you so much. I really, really appreciate your help.

One thing you guys have been asking for since I changed the forum system is private messages. And well, they're finally here. You should notice a link under 'My Favorites' that says 'Private Messages'. From there you can view and send private messages to any registered user on the site. It's a very simple system, and I don't think there needs to be any explanation on how it works. But if you have any questions, you're welcome to ask.

One issue that has been coming up a lot since I put up the new layout is that in some screen resolutions the tabs don't fit within the content area. To resolve this I'm going to move some things around the screen a bit. I'm going to kill off the right sidebar completely and all the user navigation links (My Profile, My Favorites, etc) to the top navigation bar, and everything else over to the left sidebar. This should free up more than enough room for things to look fine in any screen resolution.

Also, a lot of you have been complaining about the forum. I know its not perfect, but I think in the long run it will be the best solution. I need you guys to tell me exactly what it is you don't like about the forum. Be specific, and I will be glad to come up with a solution. If there are any other issues for that matter, please feel free to specify what it is so I can work on it while I have the free time.

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