Posted: 12/7/2012 10:16 PM
Post subject: Clean up forum descriptions
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antd
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The "forum descriptions" do not use a uniform style and looks untidy and unprofessional. Perhaps they could be cleaned up. Here are some suggestions of what could be done: 1. Add periods/full stops to all forum descriptions in order to maintain consistency. 2. Uniform capitalisation of words: "Sega Saturn Games" + "Playstation games", the G is capitalised in one but not the other. 3. Use the official trademarked terms of consoles, although this one is not entirely necessary, it sets apart the cheap publications from the real publications: "Playstation" technically should be "PlayStation". (the ny-times will almost certainly use the correct usage! You shouldn't read a newspaper that doesn't capitalise the S here ;)!!!) 4. Consistent usage of "and": "Sega Master System, Game Gear, SG-1000, and ColecoVision games" + "Virtual Boy, Neo Geo Pocket (color), WonderSwan (color) games." 5. Anything else like this.
Posted: 12/7/2012 11:21 PM
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I totally second this. Shouldn't be too hard to fix.
Posted: 12/7/2012 11:32 PM
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The language forums too. They currently have 3 different descriptions: A place to discuss TASing in Russian language. A place for users to discuss TASing in Japanese language. A place for users whose native language is Swedish to discuss TASing.
Posted: 12/7/2012 11:35 PM
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Tell me what to put for each one that needs changing.
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Posted: 12/8/2012 3:54 AM
Post subject: cleaner punctuation + capitalisation
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adelikat wrote:
Tell me what to put for each one that needs changing.
I won't change any of the wording; just the punctuation, trademark, and capitalisation. corrections -----> For site news and announcements. Nintendo GameCube and Wii games. Game Boy, SGB, and Game Boy Color games. Nintendo DS games. Sega Master System, Game Gear, SG-1000, and ColecoVision games. Sega Genesis / Mega Drive, 32X, and Sega CD games. Sega Saturn games. PlayStation games. PlayStation 2 games. Atari 2600 and Atari Lynx games. Discussions about Bizhawk, an NES, SNES, GB/GBC/SGB, SMS/GG/SG-100, PCE/PCE-CD/SGX, Atari 2600, and TI-83 Emulator. Emulators for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Famicom Disk System games, including FCEUX, FCE Ultra, and the obsolete Famtasia. Discussion about Dolphin, a GameCube and Wii emulator. For discussing DS emulators such as DeSmuME. Emulators for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, 32x, and Sega CD games. Sega Saturn emulators such as Yabause-rr. PlayStation emulators such as PSXjin and PCSX-rr. Discussions about computer emulation: JPC-rr, openMSX, our approved emus as well as VICE, Qemu, Bochs, and dosbox. Mednafen: a multi-platform emulator, including: Turbo Grafx 16/PC Engine, Atari Lynx, Wonderswan, Neo Geo Pocket Color, PC-FX, and SuperGrafx. PCEjin: a windows only version of mednafen that supports only PC Engine & variants. VBjin: PCEjin with a Virtual Boy core instead of PCE. (Btw I have no idea about TurboGrafx and MSX stuff)
Posted: 12/8/2012 9:47 AM
Post subject: Re: cleaner punctuation + capitalisation
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Warp
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antd wrote:
Game Boy, SGB, and Game Boy Color games.
I don't think there ought to be a comma before an "and" when listing things. Either remove the that comma or the word "and".
Posted: 12/8/2012 11:50 AM
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Warp wrote:
antd wrote:
Game Boy, SGB, and Game Boy Color games.
I don't think there ought to be a comma before an "and" when listing things. Either remove the that comma or the word "and".
I thought "A, B, and C" was the correct way to write it out now. At least, that's what my English professor told me.
Posted: 12/8/2012 12:32 PM
Post subject: Re: cleaner punctuation + capitalisation
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Warp
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CoolKirby wrote:
I thought "A, B, and C" was the correct way to write it out now. At least, that's what my English professor told me.
Maybe it's different in English, and I'm misapplying foreign grammar rules. I don't remember seeing the comma used in that manner even in English text, though.
Posted: 12/8/2012 12:33 PM
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No, the comma is an implicit "and" in itself in lists.
Posted: 12/8/2012 1:09 PM
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Comma is debatable. I was always taught never to use a comma before "and", but it seems acceptable in these situations. In the case of "Game Boy, SGB, and Game Boy Color games." I think it works better without the comma, though. :)
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Posted: 12/8/2012 3:40 PM
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No commas for simple enumerations. It needlessly breaks the flow and it already is implied by the "and" anyway. To separate enumerations themselves, though, it should be added. "I have a Nintendo GameCube, N64 and Wii, a Sega Genesis, Nomad and Dreamcast, and a Sony PlayStation, PSP and Vita." As long as it's consistent, I won't mind.
Posted: 12/8/2012 8:09 PM
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I suggest people arguing read the article linked two posts back. Long story short, most academic grammarians would prefer "Gameboy, Gameboy Color, and Super Gameboy".
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Posted: 12/8/2012 8:43 PM
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Relevant. Anyone saying that either case is wrong, is themselves very wrong. Both ways are correct.
Posted: 12/8/2012 8:52 PM
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Relevant.
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Posted: 12/9/2012 9:12 AM
Post subject: Oxford comma
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How dare you challenge my English, Warp!
Posted: 12/9/2012 6:52 PM
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Both are correct, but unless there's any ambiquoity, I prefer it without the oxford comma.
Posted: 12/10/2012 1:40 AM
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I'm thinking about changing the game forum descriptions to something like this: 
NES Games
Nintendo Entertainment System (Famicom), Famicom Disk System

SNES Games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Super Famicom)

Nintendo 64 Games

GameCube and Wii Games

Game Boy Games
Game Boy, Super Game Boy, Game Boy Color

Game Boy Advance Games

Nintendo DS Games

SMS and ColecoVision Games
Sega Master System, Game Gear, SG-1000, ColecoVision

Sega Genesis Games
Genesis (Mega Drive), 32X, CD (Mega-CD)

Sega Saturn Games

PlayStation Games

PlayStation 2 Games

TG-16/PCE Games
TurboGrafx-16 (PC Engine), SuperGrafx, CD-ROM, PC-FX

Arcade Games

MS-DOS Games
Old DOS games on PC

MSX Games
MSX, MSX2, MSX2+

Atari Games
2600, Lynx

Windows Games
Games that operate with Hourglass

Other Handhelds
Virtual Boy, Neo Geo Pocket (Color), WonderSwan (Color)

Anything Else
I'll do something as well for the emulator forums. Edit: Here is my plan for the emulator forums: 
Bizhawk
NES/FDS, SNES, GB/SGB/GBC, SMS/GG/SG-100, TG-16(PCE)/PCE-CD/SGX, Atari 2600, ColecoVision, TI-83

SNES: lsnes, Snes9x, ZSNES

N64: Mupen64

GCN/Wii: Dolphin

GBx: Visual Boy Advance

DS: DeSmuME

GEN(SMD): Gens

SAT: Yabause

PS: PSXjin, PCSX-rr

Arcade: FBA, MAME

MS-DOS, MSX: JPC-rr, openMSX

Mednafen/PCEjin/VBjin
TG-16(PCE)/PCE-CD/PC-FX, Lynx, WonderSwan (Color), Neo Geo Pocket (Color), SuperGrafx

Windows: Hourglass
Technically not an emulator

Other Emulators

SMS emulators (deprecated)
Deprecated Sega Master System Emulators such as Dega. BizHawk is the preferred emulator.
I also plan to shut down the Swedish, German, and Finnish boards and create a new "Other Languages" forum. 
日本語
日本語でTASについて話す場所。 Japanese

Français
Un lieu pour parler de TAS en français. French

Español
Un lugar para hablar de TAS en español. Spanish

Português
Um lugar para falar de TAS em português. Portuguese

Русский
Поговорим о тасинге по-русски. Russian

Other Languages
Something like this.
Posted: 12/10/2012 8:26 AM
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Haven't both Snes9x and ZSNES become deprecated?
Posted: 12/12/2012 2:27 PM
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Warepire wrote:
Haven't both Snes9x and ZSNES become deprecated?
Yes, but that's hardly a point here. We have threads for these emulators, and a SNES subforum is certainly the most logical place to put this content. Plus, there is still relevant discussion to be had (people are still using snes9x for instance, and encoders are always re-encoding things).
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Posted: 12/12/2012 3:04 PM
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adelikat wrote:
Warepire wrote:
Haven't both Snes9x and ZSNES become deprecated?
Yes, but that's hardly a point here. We have threads for these emulators, and a SNES subforum is certainly the most logical place to put this content. Plus, there is still relevant discussion to be had (people are still using snes9x for instance, and encoders are always re-encoding things).
I just figured that there should maybe be a deprecated notice on them, like the Dega emulator for SMS TASing.
Posted: 4/17/2013 5:01 AM
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FractalFusion wrote:
SG-100
I failed to notice this earlier, but it appears there's a slight error in this system's name. It should be "1000". Could someone please correct this? It would take less than 30 seconds.
Posted: 4/17/2013 6:51 AM
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CoolKirby wrote:
FractalFusion wrote:
SG-100
I failed to notice this earlier, but it appears there's a slight error in this system's name. It should be "1000". Could someone please correct this?
Fixed.