SkyeWelse

Hello Everyone,

I wanted to officially announce that the Cave Story Tribute Site and the Cave Story portion of the forums are now under new ownership and will be moving away from MG.Net.

The new owner, administrator and webmaster is Andwhyisit, who has purchased his own server space and vBulletin forum.

Very soon, he and I will be closing the forum down in order to rebuild it over at the new site. When that is done and everything has been verified to be working correctly at the new site, Miraigamer forums will reopen with the Cave Story Tribute Site content removed.

This is a very good thing to happen for this community as I have nothing but respect for Andwhyisit's work here, (as well as S.P. Gardebiter's administration) and on the website and I feel that he will surely continue to make the Cave Story Tribute Site that much better going forward. I've moved on in my life and I do not have any additional time that I can utilize here regarding something as large to follow as the Cave Story community. I'm glad to have started this place, but to be truthful, I'm equally glad to see this community move on to greener pastures as I simply do not have time to manage or upkeep it going forward.

Please keep in mind that we will be closing the forums to the public for an indefinite amount of time until we are completely ready to reopen. So please use this time to backup what you may need before the forum is closed and reopened.

My apologies for any inconveniences in downtime that this may cause some of our other guests who also share the forum, namey, the Zelda3C project and Darkside translations. Please be assured that while the Cave Story content is moving, you all are more than welcome to continue using MG.net as a home for your gaming projects.

Sincerely,

-Thomas
(SkyeWelse)

It has come to my attention that several threads and discussions have opened up in the Cave Story Hacking/Mods sections regarding hacking into the WiiWare version of the game and releasing pirated content for use on the PC.

I do not condone of these actions in the least as not only is it a subject of piracy and distribution of commercial intellectual property, but in general it is highly disrespectful of Pixel-san. Posts and threads of any kind of this nature of distributing or hacking the Cave Story WiiWare content should be removed immediately or the following will happen:

1. Threads will be permanently deleted
2. Members who start and/or heavily contribute to discussions regarding this subject will be banned.
*3. If this is not controlled, there will be no Cave Story modding/hacking sections any more. I don't want to pick on the modders and hackers out there, but ultimately it is this very hacking/modding scene left unchecked that has led to this very issue.

I'm not kidding folks, this is wrong to do and many of you already know this. I'm quite ashamed to see a site that was started as a tribute site to Pixel-san and Cave Story, used as a method of distributing pirated content that not only hurts Pixel-san himself, but any future commercial endeavors he may pursue one day.

Again, if this cannot be controlled, then this forum will only have a section open for the discussion about the game without mods or hacks being a part of it.

Cave Story for PC and various Emus are freeware and are okay to distribute, but anything belonging within Cave Story for WiiWare is a commercial property. There is a difference between the two and everyone needs to understand that.

That's all I've got to say about that.

-SkyeWelse

Earlier this morning Mirai Gamer Forums was hacked and the index page was reset to show the hacker's signature. Someone who called himself "Red Devil".

Not sure if it was just someone who wanted to see if they could hack the forum, or if it was someone who intends to do it again. In any case, things are at least for the moment back to normal again, but it is advised at least for the time being to backup anything you may consider current, recently posted or important in case this sort of event happens again.

MG Forums operates on a vBulletin forum which are supposed to be one of the securest forums on the web, but even vBs can be hacked apparently if someone wants badly enough to do it.

Fortunately the database appears to be unaffected, so after a fresh reinstall of the newest version of the vB software, here we are again.

-Thomas

So we now have a Youtube BB Code installed now:



There's a button on the side that you can click on to use the code, or you can simply enclose the youtube filename (*NOT THE ENTIRE URL LINK!) in a BB Code bracket for [ YOUTUBE ] [ /YOUTUBE ].

So for example, the movie above was displayed with the following code:

[ YOUTUBE ]xKNguyctayI[/ YOUTUBE ]

NOT

[ YOUTUBE ][ /YOUTUBE ]

Get it?

You got it, and with that you now each now have the power...

-Thomas

Hey everyone,

I'm starting a study on categorization of game genres to help with redefining what makes an Action-Adventure RPG and to also help with developing a good name for a website that will focus on the genre.

To get the best results, we may ask a series of questions over time. We would greatly appreciate anyone who would take the time and PM their thoughts to the questions at hand. Thank you very much for your time!

For the first question, the only requirement is you played or have knowledge of two of the games in the following list.




Oh and:

***** PLEASE DO NOT POST RESPONSES TO THE QUESTION IN THE THREAD, PLEASE PM THEM TO ME INSTEAD *****

Okay, here is the first question:

What 10 defining traits do the following games share?



1. Ys

2. Faxanadu / Xanadu

3. Golvellius

4. Crystalis

5. Neutopia

6. Battle of Olympus

7. Xak

8. Zelda

9. Alundra

10.Illusion of Gaia



***** AGAIN, PLEASE DO NOT POST RESPONSES TO THE QUESTION IN THE THREAD, PLEASE PM THEM TO ME *****

Thanks for your time,

-SkyeWelse