A small update for the Nintendo Game Boy Color video snap set. Version 2.5 brings 10 new videos and higher quality encoding for the SQ version. Details of what's new are down below, enjoy!

Version 2.5

• Added / Replaced 10 Video Snaps
• Captures & Edits @Audi85 @Circo

Details:

Update your videos today

Minor update for the Nintendo Game Boy Video Snap collection over here at EmuMovies.com.  Version 2.6 brings 17 new videos to the set, some are new and some fix some videos that had issues (color).  Scroll on down for details of what's new!

Version 2.6

Added / Replaced 17 Video Snaps

Captures & Edits @Audi85 @Circo

Details:

Update your videos today

I just wanted to give everybody a heads up that we are starting the process of migrating servers here at EmuMovies.  Because of this we expect a period of downtime this weekend.  We are doing everything that we can to keep downtime to an absolute minimum but it may be as much as half a day or more.  The good news is that this upgrade will make the site and site downloads even faster.  

Thanks you all for your patience as we make this upgrade to the website.

Update: The downtime is expected to be on Tuesday May 31st

GAMES

For 3 years, I wrote a section called random game, where I would normally point out a random game I played from my past or even on emulator in recent years on my old site call the 3rd level. While I had fun with it. It was quite draining to do because I covered a lot of systems with great effect. So while we collect these games and add them to our collective setup's, whether its arcade, computer, console, hell even pinball and various other forms of gaming goodness. I will try to bring it home. Yes, I will hopefully include board games and card games also. but I will cover mainly Video games but you may get the oddball other game review.

well without further adieu, lets start off this new home of Random game with this little classic out of 1988

First off, I played this on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum and it showed how good of a game it could be. Designed by the legendary Oliver twins of Code masters heyday back when it was a start up company. The Oliver Twins were a pair of 17 years that created this little game and sold it to Code Masters at the time when bedroom coders were a thing. While the graphic are nothing special, the main draw of this game is the fact each room you enter is a puzzle. The object of the game is to defeat the evil wizard Zak and save Daisy. Each room you need to either need to be carrying an item to stop an enemy or just simply move something. This is one of them games you can play but you really need to know what you are doing. if you knew nothing about this game. you could get very confused to getting the spell ingredients (example is using a bag of gold on a bucket near a shack to raise said bucket then jumping offscreen to get the silver lining). It's interesting because each challenge is very different from the others. As an 11 year old this was a challenge and the amount of lives you could find as well was a good thing because you needed them. I played this a few years ago and it held up surprisingly well considering the games we have. While following Dizzy games had more inventory spaces the first game presented you with the unique challenge of actually timing what you needed for that moment as dropping it could actually destroy the item if it had multiple use (bird seed, Raincoat, Insecticide and the miner hard hat).

The first screen you see of the game normally sets the tone of the whole game, Lets see if it works here!

  Screenshot taken from the Amstrad 464

The first screen reveals nothing, just a cauldron, a well and a tree with a spider dangling. To me, it revealed nothing except your character was an egg with red gloves and boots and smiles a lot. The main character is cute but the hazards are no joke at all. Virtually everything is trying to kill you hence the lives in plentiful supply. While there are youtube video with the whole game to completion (in the case of RZX archive it took them 43:14). Playing this now without the solution, This game would provide a challenge, as you need to remember what to use and where to use it. Dizzy has appeared on virtually every system But I will never forget my first time. If this isn't in any of you game list on any system I suggest you should at least have a look at it because it won't disappoint. Ok, did you think I didn't play this game guess again.

oh one last thing, the map to this was actually quite large for the time, hence why it took about 43 minutes to complete with the solution. This is JHS signing off for my first emumovies Random Game. Give me a comment positive or negative.

Our Video system for sharing tutorials and such has had some issues over the last month and after some tedious bug searching is finally fixed.  You can visit the videos page here

It's voting season and that means it's time to vote for your favorite front-end(s) and tell the world why your vote is the vote that matters.  Head over to our forums and cast your vote and if your favorite front end is not shown please let us know and we will get it added to the list.  You can vote for more than one if you choose.

I have some new Member Class information for 2016 and limits are going up! Advanced members have been upgraded to 2GB per day and we have a new class "Awesome Members".

Basic Members

• 384kb/s bandwidth cap
• 1 Gigabyte data transfer per day
• Basic Access to Download Service Utility (Artwork Only, 250mb/day cap)

Advanced Members (20+ forum posts)

• 512kb/s bandwidth cap
• 2 Gigabytes data transfer per day
• Basic Access to Download Service Utility (Artwork Only, 250mb/day cap)
• Donation Discount - 25% off of Lifetime Supporter donation tier

Awesome Members (50+ forum posts)

• 512kb/s bandwidth cap
• 3 Gigabytes data transfer per day
• Basic Access to Download Service (Artwork Only, 250mb/day cap)
• Donation Discount - 50% off of Lifetime Supporter donation tier

Supporting Members / Lifetime Members (Donated to the Site)

• Download unlimited files per day
• No bandwidth cap
• No transfer cap
• Full Access to F.T.P. File Server
• Full Access to Download Service (Artwork and Videos)
• Access to 480p Video Content

Content Contributors / Developers / Elite Members

• Download unlimited files per day
• No bandwidth cap
• No transfer cap
• Full Access to F.T.P. File Server
• Full Access to Download Service (Artwork and Videos)
• Access to 480p Video Content

If you have and questions or comments you can view the forum post HERE

Developers:
Front-Ends Teams
Emulator Teams
Utility Creators
Support Sites Admins

If you or your TEAM fall into one of these categories please submit a support ticket under "Developer Access Requests" our team will review the request and usually have a response within 48 hours.

Content Contributors:
EmuMovies supports the following content types

Video:
Video Snaps
Video System Intros
TV Commercials
Video Game Reviews
GameEx Database Videos

Artwork:
Game Snaps
Title Snaps
Game Over Snaps
2D Boxes
3D Boxes
Box Spines
2D Carts
3D Carts
Cd Images
Disc Images
Game Manuals
PC Boards
Arcade Cabinets
Flyers
Marquees
Controllers
Maps
Walkthrus
Photoshop Templates
and basically anything else you can conceive of

What we don't want:
HyperSpin Themes
HyperSpin Wheel Images
(Those belong strictly at HyperSpin-FE.com)

Submissions can be made though the website or FTP (Website Preferred)
If you would like to be considered for Content Contributor Status please submit a support ticket under "Content Contributor Access Request"

We hope this clears things up and happy 10 years of EmuMovies everyone.

Starting today:

Basic Members now have a 1GB per day site download limit

Advanced Members (Active in the Forums) have a 1.5GB per day site download limit.

As always Content Contributors and Supporting Members are unlimited.

Happy 10 years of EmuMovies! Let's make the next 10 years even better!

Download this new version here:

http://emumovies.com/files/file/321-/

Also if you have not checked them out lately I wanted to remind everyone that our DSU and API is currently developed and maintained by Tom from Spesoft.com home of the GameEx front-end, GameEx live and the technology also powers Gamesdbase, an excellent site also run by Spesoft.

Currently Cinemavision creates and distributes media for Movie Theaters and Home Theater enthusiasts. On the Home theater side of things their content is currently supported by the Cinema Experience plugin for Kodi (formerly known as XBMC). The aim of the plugin and content is to give you the ability to have the full blown cinema experience that you experience in movie theaters,

The flow of the cinema experience plugin is as follows:

Cinema Experience Sequence

1. Trivia Intro Video(s)

2. Slides w/ music playlist

3. Trivia Outro Video(s)

4. Movie Theater Intro Video(s)

5. Coming Attractions Intro Video(s)

6. Trailer(s)

7. Coming Attractions Outro Video(s)

8. Feature Presentation Intro Video(s)

9. Rating

10. Audio (DD/DTS/THX etc)

11. Countdown Video

12. Movie Starts

13. Intermission Video(s) - If selected

14. Rating Video - if selected

15. Audio Format Video - if selected

16. Next Movie Starts

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. The last three can repeat up to 3 more times

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17. Feature Presentation Outro Video(s)

18. Movie Theatre Outro Video(s)

We have lots of big plans to help grow the media and the project with the Cinemavision team in 2015 and hope everyone has as much fun with this project as we are.

Links:

Cinemavision.org

Kodi Media Center

Cinema Experience

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Here is a link on how to easily Flush your DNS cache:

https://www.whatsmydns.net/flush-dns.html

Apologies for the inconvenience, thanks for bearing with us while we performed this necessary maintenance.

http://emumovies.com/files/file/321-/

We have also improved our API to make processing faster for other uses of the API in the future including HyperSync.

The performance improvements in most instances will be staggering when it comes to searching and matching your content and the utility now downloads two files with up to three concurrent API accesses at a time to maximize your bandwidth usage.

You can find the Latest Version of our Download Service Utility by following the link provided.

Download

Link to Client Area for support tickets

#2 If your account gets banned or locked out, the only recourse is to create a support ticket here. Our team will review the information and make a decision to reinstate based on the situation.

We hope this does not cause any inconvenience to our users but we had to do something and this seemed like the best solution.

Give GameEx a try here - GameEx

• 0.92: Now features automatic on the fly conversion to AVI video format.
  
• 0.93: Give better status information when AVI conversions are remaining.
  
• 0.94: Ensures same file only downloaded once.
  
• 0.95: Bug fixes.
  

Upgrades:

We have recently been receiving reports from outside the US, primarily the UK, that the download speed of the service was in the 100k - 200k range while speeds from our FTP file server were usually above 1 mb/s. With the growing popularity of the service this was decided to be unacceptable. As of today we have added a new server with a direct network connection to Europe. This should effectively increase the download speed by a factor of 10 in areas such as the UK. In addition to the network and bandwidth improvements the opportunity was taken to roughly double the processing power of the server. This should lead to much quicker operation of the service as well, since matching and processing of the media happens on the server.

Updates:

The following systems have recently had media replaced, added, or updated:

Action Max

Adventure Vision

American Laser Games

Amstrad GX 4000

Atari 2600

Atari 5200

Atari 7800

Atari Lynx

Atari Jaguar

Bally Astrocade

Bandai Wonderswan

Colecovision

Commodore Amiga CD32

Daphne

Dice

Emerson Arcadia

Fairchild Channel F

Future Pinball

Interton VC-4000

Magnavox Odyssey 2

MAME

Mattel Intellivision

Mega Duck

Microsoft MSX

Microsoft MSX 2

NEC PC Engine

NEC PC Engine CD

NEC Turbo Grafx

Nintendo Famicom Disk System

Nintendo NES

Nintendo Virtual Boy

Nintendo Super Nintendo

Nintendo Gameboy Advance

OpenBOR

Sammy Atomiswave

Sega SG-1000

Sega Master System

Sega CD

Sega 32X

Sega Saturn

SNK Neo-Geo CD

Sony Playstation

Taito Type X

Taito Type X2

Texas Instruments TI-99/4A

Touhou Project

V-Tech Creativision

ZiNc

Any feedback on the download service upgrades or set updates are greatly appreciated. Please let us know what you think in the comments section.

#1 - File size reduction between 50-70% across the board.

#2 - Increased quality (especially the FLV sets)

In addition as I am finalizing these sets I am ensuring that at a minimum they are 100% compliant with the HyperList naming convention (when applicable). For those of you that are not aware let me take a brief moment to explain what the HyperList naming convention is. For the most part, again when it is applicable, the HyperList naming convention is the same as No-Intro. However, no-intro is in the habit of changing it's naming convention sporadically. These small changes would require the file names on over 50,000 videos to be constantly monitored. The goal of the HyperList team is mainly two fold:

#1 - Have a consistent naming standard for roms and artwork that is static ensuring the greatest compatibility across time and platforms.

#2 - Give us a filtered "minted" list of all English playable games for any given system.

What the team did was first put together a complete list of USA released games. Then add in any other "Mostly European" games that do not have a USA counterpart. This is more difficult than it seems as in many cases the European game will have a completely different name than the USA game. What we are left with is an extremely complete and usable set. Please if you have any questions or coments on moving over to this naming convention let us know.

BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!

I would think at this point most of you would say that's a pretty good update, and I would agree, but I am not stopping there. No Sir!

In addition to all of this, ALL sets are having their audio normalized properly. The first go at this led to some pretty loud videos. Ok, that's not really doing it justice, EXTREMELY LOUD VIDEOS. EmuMovies member NoLogic (our resident scripting and software developer) has been working with me non stop to develop better tools for audio normalization (in addition to editing and encoding optimizations).

THERE COULDN'T BE MORE...OF COURSE THERE IS

Most of my efforts this year have been to really finalize these video sets and get out the best possible product that we could. Over the last five years the quality and content of the sets have been improved upon again and again. That meant that in most cases the newer sets was much more polished than the older sets. The newer sets have a fade in a transition between the game and title and a fade out. There are also much stricter standards on what is included in one of our game videos. Each set is getting the star treatment before being re-released. All videos have been painstakingly re-edited from the masters and in many cases completely redone. The goal being that we have a much more consistent quality product for our members.

EmuMovies usually ends up having a major back end hardware upgrade once or twice a year. The growth rate of this site has been staggering at times and it has caused quite a few headaches for me and some members of the team, but they have been the good kind of headaches (those our the kind of problems that websites want). Last year saw us upgrade servers and bandwidth on three separate occasions, and that is not near as fun as it sounds. Well luckily it seems like we are going to be good for awhile as the last server we moved to would be considered overkill by most. But there is a needed upgrade and right now it's delaying me getting all this content up. The time has come to upgrade to a commercial class internet connection here at EmuMovies HQ so I can handle the bandwidth necessary to get all of this new content up on our servers. (Yes we have more than one ) This is being installed early next week and it should speed things up nicely.

OK, BUT WHATS DONE?

I'll be honest, I started with the easiest stuff and am now getting to the hard stuff. Here is a list of what's complete and ready to go up.

COMPLETE

AAE

ACTION MAX

ADVENTUREVISION

AMSTRAD GX4000

ATARI 5200

ATARI 7800

ATARI JAGUAR

ATARI LYNX

COLECOVISION

DAPHNE

GAMEBOY ADVANCE

MEGA DUCK

NINTENDO VIRTUAL BOY

PC ENGINE

SEGA 32X

SEGA MASTER SYSTEM

SEGA NAOMI

SEGA SG-1000

SEGA SC-3000

SNK NEO GEO POCKET COLOR

SUPER GRAFX

SUPER NINTENDO

TURBO GRAFX CD

VTECH CREATIVISION

BALLY ASTROCADE

BBC MICRO

CASIO LOOPY

DICE

FAMICOM DISC SYSTEM

NEC PC-FX

NINTENDO ARCADE SYSTEMS

NUON

ODYSSEY 2

SNK NEO GEO POCKET MONO

WATARA SUPERVISION

SEGA DREAMCAST VMU

ALMOST COMPLETE

EMERSON ARCADIA

FAIRCHILD CHANNEL F

MATTEL INTELLIVISION

NINTENDO

NINTENDO GAMEBOY

NINTENDO GAMEBOY COLOR

SEGA GAME GEAR

SEGA MODEL 2

SNK NEO GEO

TURBO GRAFX 16

ALSO WORKING ON (The Short List)

MAME

DREAMCAST

That being said, a big thank you goes out to our content contributors. We have quite a few members helping with missing videos and uploading to the WIP area of our FTP. That is helping me tremendously is getting these final sets out to you at a fast pace. If anyone would like to help contribute videos to the project please review our 2011 Video Submission Guide. Any sizable content contributions also result in that member being promoted to content contributor status which equates to full lifetime access to all areas of the site, elevated and bragable status, and access to tools and areas of the site not available to the general public. You want to be cool right?

So that's it in a nutshell, there have been a few minor site updates, including this project blog. I will continue to post frequent updates here and hopefully our other content contributors will follow suit.

Cheers

Important Links:

2011 Video Submission Guide

HyperList Site