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BLueSS
December 29, 2009, 02:22:41 PM - ORIGINAL POST -
So our community contains a TON of knowledge about DDR, Arcade machines, and the Bemani world in general. In an attempt to educate others (like Arcade managers) I had the idea to start an article collection that's publicly available.

The ideas I had so far are:

DDR Machine Maintenance
   Cleaning (detailed step by step, with pics)
   Business Card Trick  (detailed step by step, with pics)
   How to test if a sensor is reported bad (detailed step by step, with pics)

Tournaments
   How to run a DDR Tournament
   DDR Tournament Ideas / Types of tournaments
   How to run an air-hockey tournament
   
How to Play (New people who visit our arcades might not know what the features/settings are)
   DDR
   ITG
   Pop'n
   Drummania
   Guitar Freaks

Arcade Tips
   Best tips and food suggestions for Acme Bowl
   Best tips and food suggestions for Power Play
   Best tips and food suggestions for Narrows Bowl

I'm open to any suggestions - and I'm going to need help from anyone who wants to contribute to this. It'll become a resource for bemani players all over, but especially our community, and the arcades in our area. Once it's created, I'll be sending it out to arcades that have DDR in case they need the information (say for repair techs who might not know why people are complaining about the 'bad sensors').

I think it'd be helpful if we helped each other with content. There isn't any fight for who gets to write an article, we'll all do these as much as we can.

So more ideas? Anyone want to start working on some of them?
DO NOT STEAL ANYONE ELSE's CONTENT! The more graphics and pictures the better too.

« Last Edit: February 12, 2010, 08:51:26 PM by BLueSS »
 
BLueSS
Read January 06, 2010, 01:29:35 PM #26
I'm going to have to take a look at that tonight. Not sure why it's not working right now.
 
pantsuuuu
Read January 06, 2010, 02:45:18 PM #27
i might do something for bemani pages that have nothing to do with dance games. 
 
Suko
Read January 13, 2010, 10:19:24 AM #28
Any progress w/ the login?
 
BLueSS
Read January 13, 2010, 05:26:17 PM #29
Last few nights have been busy, I should have it back online tonight though. Smiley
 
BLueSS
Read January 14, 2010, 12:20:32 AM #30
Might be switching wiki systems. :\ The other one is being a pain. No loss of data, just login access not working, and might as well upgrade to a better wiki in the process. Smiley
 
Suko
Read January 20, 2010, 08:52:45 AM #31
update?
 
BLueSS
Read January 20, 2010, 11:58:47 AM #32
The update is that something bad happened, and neither wiki works. I've been working on it, and haven't figured it out yet. I think something in the php got screwed up.
 
BLueSS
Read January 21, 2010, 12:02:22 AM #33
Well, I now have the wiki back up and will be working to fix the logging in error that I'm getting. Smiley
 
BLueSS
Read January 27, 2010, 12:28:06 AM #34
FINALLY!  Suko, please try it now. It should be working and letting you login with your forum account. Smiley

http://www.pnwbemani.net/wiki/
 
Suko
Read January 27, 2010, 09:33:09 AM #35
Yep, it works. I'll try to put some more stuff on it soon.
 
Keby
Read January 28, 2010, 09:53:11 AM #36
If I get the time later today, I'm gonna write an article on holding the bar. Why it's used, different ways to hold on that feel comfy, that sorta thing. haha
 
Suko
Read January 29, 2010, 11:54:21 AM #37
I wrote up a few things today. I mostly posted about how to clean a DDR pad (I mostly got it from DDR Freak's Tips section) and I put up a thing on the business card trick, sensors, & sticky arrows.
 
BLueSS
Read February 12, 2010, 08:52:30 PM #38
I'm going to get those going here in a section soon, Suko. Thanks again for writing those up. They looks great!
 
BLueSS
Read November 22, 2010, 09:05:04 PM #39
BUMP FOR GREAT JUSTICE! Cheesy

I have scratched the old Wiki integration system in favor of a completely different mod.

*drumroll*
We now have a built-in Article system!

You can add and edit articles on the site (kinda like a wiki).
I'm not sure what it'll do if two people try to edit at the same time (probably cause the universe to implode while trying to divide by zero) but that's ok.

I have already given some frequent users permissions for the articles system to add and edit articles. There is no backup or revision history, so the system is going to stay reserved for trusted members of the community.

Instead of using the wiki and finally having me make a page for it, you can go and create an article now! (if you have permissions)

If you do not have permissions, PM me and I'll grant you them if you're a frequent, trusted member of the community.

You will notice an Arcade Locations category. This will allow us to update machine conditions instead of always trying to update the first post of a thread!
For anyone adding a new location, PLEASE follow the basic format I made for the Seattle - Gameworks location.  I would actually like to improve that format, so if you have suggestions on how to make the template better, feel free to post here with your updates.

« Last Edit: November 22, 2010, 09:10:05 PM by BLueSS »
 
BLueSS
Read November 22, 2010, 09:14:49 PM #40
Additionally, to add the first post of each arcade thread will be changed to look similar to Gamework's new first post.
http://www.pnwbemani.net/western-wa/(arcade)-seattle-gameworks-seattle-wa/

I'd love any thoughts / feedback about the article system. Smiley
 
Suko
Read November 22, 2010, 09:33:29 PM #41
Where do we access this system at?
 
BLueSS
Read November 22, 2010, 10:12:44 PM #42
Suko, look at the top menu. There is a "Local Arcades" and an "Article" button. Both go to the same system, although the Article is the main starting point and the "Local Arcades" goes to an already created category.
 
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Read November 23, 2010, 07:50:15 PM #43
Are all links supposed to be underlined?
 
BLueSS
Read November 23, 2010, 08:59:43 PM #44
Quote from: Davyn on November 23, 2010, 07:50:15 PM
Are all links supposed to be underlined?
Yes, I updated the CSS for better navigation on parts of the site.
 
BLueSS
Read November 27, 2010, 01:59:05 PM #45
I migrated the rest of the articles from the WIKI to the new system.

Here is still a list of articles that would be great to have in the system, and anyone can make them.

DDR Machine Maintenance
-  Fix DDR Pad errors with the "Business Card" trick  (detailed step by step, with pics)
-  How to test if a DDR arrow sensor is reported bad (detailed step by step, with pics)

Tournaments
-  How to run a DDR Tournament
-  DDR Tournament Ideas / Types of tournaments
-  How to run an air-hockey tournament

How To Play (New people who visit our arcades might not know what the features/settings are)
-  How to Play: DDR
-  How to Play: ITG
-  How to Play: Pop'n Music
-  How to Play: Drummania
-  How to Play: Guitar Freaks

Dance Game Techniques

Arcade Tips
-  Best tips and food at Acme Bowl
-  Best tips and food at Power Play
-  Best tips and food at Narrows Bowl

And anything else you guys want to add. Smiley
 
KevinDDR
Read November 28, 2010, 02:10:37 PM #46
Oh man, best tips and food at Acme Bowl...I call that one. Well, unless Laura wants it. Tongue
 
Suko
Read December 02, 2010, 10:23:43 AM #47
Is it possible to incorporate some kind graphical depiction of the pad's condition? I don't remember what site I saw it on, but somewhere out there I came across a place that let you rate each arrow on a machine. From what I remember, it looked something like the image I attached below.

Is it possible to add a feature like this to the articles, or somehow give us the ability to show information like this on the arcade's thread?

edit: Also, on an unrelated note, you should make it so that attachments get placed at the end of the post, but before the user's signature. This might make it a bit less confusing.

P.S. Is there a way to upload images to an article? I have some diagrams I made to help illustrate the business card trick. I could host them off site, but that doesn't seem as effective as having them attached and referenced to the article.

« Last Edit: December 02, 2010, 11:35:24 AM by Suko »

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BLueSS
Read December 02, 2010, 08:53:30 PM #48
@Kevin, Laura said go for it. Smiley

@Suko, lots of good feedback.

Quote from: Suko on December 02, 2010, 10:23:43 AM
Is it possible to incorporate some kind graphical depiction of the pad's condition? I don't remember what site I saw it on, but somewhere out there I came across a place that let you rate each arrow on a machine. From what I remember, it looked something like the image I attached below.
YES! I will be finding the best way to put this in, even if it's a simple table or something.

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Is it possible to add a feature like this to the articles, or somehow give us the ability to show information like this on the arcade's thread?
Not easily, no. Additionally, I've always struggled with the first posts in the threads up top, because they take up SO MUCH space, and my dream for the arcade page is that it would be FULL of details, instead of just a little bit. If all of that was on top of the thread, it would be really messy and long. If anyone knows a good way of doing it, I'm all ears but SMF and the various plugins are fairly restricting.

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edit: Also, on an unrelated note, you should make it so that attachments get placed at the end of the post, but before the user's signature. This might make it a bit less confusing.
Looking into that now. Smiley EDIT: DONE. Check out your post above.

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P.S. Is there a way to upload images to an article? I have some diagrams I made to help illustrate the business card trick. I could host them off site, but that doesn't seem as effective as having them attached and referenced to the article.
Articles do not support attachments. What will work is I can make a new album in our picture/file gallery for "Article Attachments" and host them that way. They'd all be organized together and then you can easily link them into the article. That seems like the best solution I can think up.

« Last Edit: December 02, 2010, 09:14:28 PM by BLueSS »
 
BLueSS
Read December 02, 2010, 09:50:23 PM #49
Suko,

Update on the machine pad scores: The other site you had seen before had a nice script set up that stored the scores and (if it did color them) ran a little script to configure that. The article system on this site allows as much as the forum post do. [Very little]

In order to keep it simple to edit, it'll need to stay simple to look at.
I'd love if it was possible to have them all look good like you have, but this site isn't made for that. A LOT of BBCode would go into formatting something like that (again, unless someone knows a good way I dont) and with a lot of formatting it quickly becomes very annoying to edit.

In all likelihood, it'd probably end up being just like below:

P1 Pad - P2 Pad
[] 8 [] | [] 8 []
6 [] 7  | 5 [] 6
[] 8 [] | [] 8 []

Simple, but easy to edit without lines of BBCode getting in the way.
Either that or I could have images that are "1.jpg", "5.jpg", "#.jpg" and you'd have to replace the number to the arrow you were changing. That adds more BBCode again though.

« Last Edit: December 02, 2010, 09:55:29 PM by BLueSS »
 
Suko
Read December 02, 2010, 10:42:28 PM #50
Thanks for the news. Glad I could make some useful suggestions.

Having a album to upload the files would be a step in the right direction.

Regarding the pad rating; If you can't do a graphical representation that looks good, perhaps just abstract it down to colored numbers in a cross formation, one for each side of the pad.

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I've always struggled with the first posts in the threads up top, because they take up SO MUCH space, and my dream for the arcade page is that it would be FULL of details, instead of just a little bit.
I'd argue that it is full of information. Very little of it is wasted space, IMO.

« Last Edit: December 02, 2010, 10:48:21 PM by Suko »
 
 
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