This place needs a front page with regularly updated Nintendo news, previews, reviews, features, etc. How about a DS Lite makeover? An Animal Crossing Wild World on-going feature much like the game's homepage. A history of Samus Aran/Link/Kirby Chronology/et al.
How about a tag under your avatar that has your DS, and soon to be Wii, friend codes?
What about giving select individuals, specifically those who can write well, a blog on the front page? They give their opinion on the industry with respects to games, news, previews, whatever. An individual could potentialy gain a fanbase, get linked to on other forums given their strong arguements, or get people who read just to find something to disagree with.
This place is home to what I think are some of the best video game message board intellects that I've come across. That is, many of you have sound or cogent arguements with a flair for conflict. USE IT. Why not write some articles? The result will either be people who agree with you and take your side (possibly joining the message board) or people who disagree and want to argue the finer points (also joining the message board). Why not discuss why the Gamecube sold the least of any Nintendo console? What Nintendo needs to do in order to reign king in the handheld market? How the Wii could become number one by being everyone's second console? Does Nintendo NEED new franchises? Can they continue to survive by simply putting new twists on characters we've come to love? Which characters have been played out? Is Mario THE gaming icon? What is Mario's appeal? How Sony's recent blunders may be Nintendo's opportunity to rise to the top. A look back at Rare; Are we missing anything? Forget next-gen, new-gen is almost here. So many more. Get some attention.
How about turning the whole site into a myspace type place, where everyone has a homepage with blog, and everyone can come together at the message board?
Oh, and drop the title of "PS3 is a steaming pile...". It seems rather juvenille.
EDIT: How about having some fun with a photo contest with your DS? "The DS Lite is a sexy peice of kit, so it only makes sense that it makes those who play it sexy as well. Show us!"
How about a front page poll of are you getting the Wii?
EDIT2: The top 10 Nintendo games of all time. Reveal one a day and make it a two week feature. Whatever game was being discussed should have a in-depth article as to why it's so great, especially among so many great games as Nintendo has.
Design a logo contest.
A countdown on the front page to the Wii release (once you know the release date, that is).
A list of the dates for Nintendo's Fusion Tour. Have someone attend and report back. I'm going to try and go to the one in October.
There's alot you can do with the front page...and you're going to have to do something with it in order for this place to grow. I think that, if you got serious about this, you'd also find quite a few Nintendophiles who would be willing to help out in any way they could with no compensation. It's an exciting time right now, what with all the hype surround the phenomenom known as the DS, and the curiousity and excitement over the different experience the Wii will be. Who knows, you could get popular, get sponsored, get free games for previews...in any case, you're going to have to start somewhere.
Interesting, and yes there are a lot of technical hurdles to overcome. Hopefully they'll manage to do just that. 50 years from now, I'd like to get my old outdated blood replaced with the latest technology, with wifi and "neowi" tech. I made neowi up. Like, in the future they invent wormholes, and they use them for the most mundane tasks at first because they be so small, like "wired wireless" internet connections. It's all in my new sci-fi story, which reads like the appendix of Lord of the Rings. It's EXCITING!
This is like the greatest debunking ever. Of course, some people are all religious about it and say "well, if you believe it's true from the start all the evidence makes sense" (which is true for pretty much anything).
I'm willing to put all the resources of TovenSolutions to work to get more members. So I'm officially opening this thread for discussion. What piece of technology can I offer or develop that will breath new life into this forum?
A new internet threat has been identified by TovenSolutions that could lead to identity theft. It's called phishing, or otherwise known as spoofing.
Step 1 of this scam is to create a bot. In the threat that we identified a bot reads threw eBay listings and gathers some public information about your account. Public information includes items you listed and your email address.
Step 2 of the scam involves the bot sending out an email to you using the email address it found on your eBay home page. The email renders to look identical to an official "user has sent you a question" email from eBay.
Step 3 of the scam presents you a link to supposedly your eBay account in the generated email. Since there is a link in the official email as well, this usually arouses no suspicion. The link in the email however does not take you to an official eBay server instead it takes you to a spoof server that has a similar domain name or URL. The page your taken to looks identical to the official eBay login page complete with false Vera sign logo. The unsuspecting user enters in their login information and the false page now has stolen your eBay login. The page then submits your information to the real eBay logon page, which sends you an your way, and your none the wiser.
What you can do
My suggestion is to download Internet Explorer 7 which has a built in phishing filter which is live and always up to date. Using Internet Explorer 7 you can report sites that look suspicious as well.
Another method is to look for a VeriSign logo on the page. Click on the logo and look for "Identity Verified" in the page, also make sure it as a genuine VeriSign seal it should start with "https://seal.verisign.com", with nothing in front of it. If the URL starts with anything but "https://seal.verisign.com" it is a fake site and should be closed out immediately.
One final technique for identifying phishing sites is to closely examine the URL. Look for URLs like "http://sfsdfsf.com:8080/http:my.ebay.com", two http's or a valid URL inside of another URL is a sure sign of a spoof.
And with a small program, it can be easily installed and browsed. I think the next step is a way to get a higher capacity drive into the system (in other words, creating a partition compatible with it using similar software on another SATA drive).
At any rate, my main interest right now is getting my old XBox saves onto the new system. Unfortunatly, the method they have now has some major problems (for example, the need for certain hardware and the inability to transfer certain saves that are "locked"). I suppose this MIGHT support the XBox 1 hard disk as well? That would make things easier if I gut my XBox for the hard disk within.
Of course in the end MS just needs to provide a software solution to this problem. It is well within their capability to do so. As I described earlier, MS screwed up by making the new card ports on the 360 incompatible with the original (especially since there are in fact 64 MB memory cards for the original box), but they can make up for that now. Just patch both the 360 and the original XBox with a new option called "link to XBox/XBox 360" where it will attempt to find the opposing system somewhere on the local network (just like both find other systems in system link mode in various games), and once this occurs, the user simply OK's the link on both systems and goes to whatever system they want to send files to and moves/copies all the data they want over (move will be available for ALL data, copy only for data that is not "data locked"). Bam, problem solved and data transferred. I'm really surprised they haven't already done this. Did they fire everyone who has access to what's needed to patch the original XBox at some point?
Wii-exclusive game from the maker of Killer 7. Looks just as stylish... Video available (for download), click the link now! (or whenever the site starts working again, it seems to be having bandwidth issues...)
