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Section 0
Tim Starling is working on the interwiki template system today, so you might see some bugs like the one you reported. Hopefully they'll be working again soon. You might want to subscribe to the mailing list to get updates on bug fixes and other Wikicities news. Angela (talk) 06:58, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Hello. I've added a Sitenotice since this wiki is currently getting a lot of visits from Japan so I wanted to make sure that Japanese users would be able to find other wikis if they couldn't read this English one. Angela talk 04:35, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks Angela. Is there an easy way to check how many of the Japanese visitors actually look beyong the first few pages?  I know this wiki is linked to from a Japanese portal that doesn't exactly explain the link is to an English site... -Afker 04:49, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Dungeons & Dolls Images
I'm aware that AliceSoft has said no images of their games should be placed inside the Wiki unless the image itself is on their page as well, but I was wondering something...

I've been taking pictures of every girl in Dungeons & Dolls (about 80% done) and I was wondering if I could off-link to, say... My Photobucket account where they would all be. Would that still be in violation of AliceSoft's terms? -GrayFox2510 27 January, 2007.


 * Your photobucket account would be in violation of AliceSoft's terms, and I would consider linking to it also as a violation. I would advise using "imitations", some examples can be found in AliceSoftWiki:Policy (and it only took 10 minutes for me to make most of them). -Afker 03:27, 30 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I did see about the imitations, but I think it wouldn't be the same. Oh well, at least I'll have a collection of them for if I ever feel nostalgic. Too bad I can't really show them off through. Thanks for the answer however. -GrayFox2510 30 January 2007

About Putting Links
Hi, thanks for reminding me. I'm still pretty new to Wikis so I'm sorry that I've somehow broken the wiki rules when I don't realize. What I am trying to do is just to encourage more collaboration among the gaming communities, by putting game info's link on good wikis, and putting links to good wiki on game info. (AliceSoft's link is on Gameinfo's mainpage.) My approach may be a bit wrong this time, so let's promote our gaming community together in a good way! =) Also, thanks for visiting and editting for GameInfo, I hope our link on GameInfo will add visitors to AliceSoft too. --Eric 20:43, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

GalZoo Island Omake Dungeon
Well, I can try revising it out of memory. Truth be told, I didn't really feel like going through that place again. Plus, I've already uninstalled (or more like simply deleted since there are no registry records) the game because I needed the space for some other things. Though then again, there's really nothing too hard about that dungeon aside from getting the tokens and fighting the... weird bosses that show up. -GrayFox2510 March 05, 2007.

WGEP
Your comment on Anime:Animepedia talk:Wikia Graphical Entertainment Project was interesting. I don't feel that we're going to change the name further anymore. ACG is a Asian coined word, but it's not recognized in the Western world where most of the WGEP's readers come from. Plus technically it would mean we're using an abbreviation within an abbreviation. WACGP for the abbreviated form, Wikia ACG Project supposedly would be a proper name, but the real full name would be Wikia Animation, Comics, and Games Project. And because the readers are mostly westerners the Games part would get confused with other types of games which are under the watch of Wikia's Gaming Hub. And the biggest reason... T_T It's a hellofalotta work to change the name. I changed it from Wikia Anime Project to Wikia Graphical Entertainment Project, and there was so much work involved in that, even using Bots to take out most of the work there are still remnants of the old name left over.
 * As for the Alice Soft Wiki joining the WGEP, that sounds interesting. Have you familiarized yourself with the various things that happen to wiki which join the project? Pages with info on that can be seen at What will happen? and Extended information. The first thing I scanned were your templates. Once the AutoTemplate bot runs, your Template:Disambig, Template:PD, and Template:Stub will be overridden. And Template:GFDL will become useless (I can help with any migrating you want; Bots handle that like pie). So you should check over Anime:Template:Disambig, Anime:Template:PD, Anime:Template:Stub, and Anime:Template:FS. I'd be interested in learning a bit of the Alice Soft Wiki's policies and positions on various things to compare them with the WGEP's. I was at some point considering creating a bot to regenerate the sidebar (because the sidebar is used to link back to the WGEP, and at times new Top-Level wiki are added), considering the extra links would you be comfortable adding new links using a special type of format? Most likely it'll be done by adding a few subpages to MediaWiki:Sidebar which the bot will read to decide what to add in addition to the standard things.
 * One of the things which deterred me from AliceSoft, other than the Gaming focus was the Japanese. How much more Japanese is used in the general areas of the site? I see something even in the site notice, but I don't know what it means. The Visual Novel and Animanga Related Games section of the WGEP was a unofficial idea, not a planned phase. So it can actually come in at any point. In fact, it might make the MMKB a little less opposed to joining.

On another note, I saw your stuff on Image Use. But from my memory you can at least use a few screenshots from the games under Fair use laws. Of course, there would be a few limitations, but generally Fair use laws are geared with free documentation in mind. ~Dantman -local (talk&#124;local) May 13, 2007 @ 20:41 (UTC)
 * I realize it won't work for much of the interface. But, using fair use you could probably use some box art, and screenshots of general areas of the games on the individual Game's main articles. It would be good for giving people a good look at what the game is actually like. On another note about re-drawing the interfaces. If you had your readers use SVG and draw those images in an editor like Inkscape, the quality of those images would be improved, and you could scale them up. ~Dantman -local (talk&#124;local) May 13, 2007 @ 21:01 (UTC)


 * In terms of ACG, I was mostly using it as a springboard to make the connection that AliceSoftWiki's focus would be highly related to WGEP. Your arguments against renaming makes perfect sense, and I respect that (-:
 * Most AliceSoft games are not actually "Visual Novel and Animanga Related Games", unless you count having a stereotypical "Anime art style" as being "Animanga related". And if simply having a stereotypical "anime art style" is sufficient to being considered an animanga-related game, then the "Visual Novel" part of the section name probalby should be deleted for redundency and dilution of focus.
 * Thanks for the headsup about the template conflicts. I'm fine with using Animepedia's version of the templates, and also fine with our GDFL template being useless.
 * For the sidebar, as long as I can keep the custom links we currently have, I don't mind the exact formatting or addition of new links.
 * The usage of Japanese:
 * Japanse site notice - Angela added it for us originally, and I modified it slightly. It currently says "Welcome to wikia!  For all Japanese wiki content, click here".  Angela added it because supposedly we are getting quite a bit of traffic from Japan (our site is listed on one of the major Japanese PC game walkthrough portals).
 * On the main page - The Japanese paragraph on the main page says "AliceSoftWiki is a wiki for all the fans that support Japanese (although it's currently only in English). It is not the AliceSoft's home page.  For AliceSoft's home page, click here."
 * Our Template:Box and Template:Game also uses Japanese. They display the English name, the Japanese name (in Japanese), and the romanization of the Japanese name, of various people/places/events/games etc.  Our Games article also shows the games' Japanese titles alongside our translated English names.
 * Sengoku Rance:Version history currently has quite a bit of untranslated Japanese text. Those are just placeholders until I (or someone else) get to translating them into English.
 * If there are any that I forgot about, please let me know. In general, this is an English content wiki.  Usage of Japanese is limited to notate the original Japanese term, or non-content notices for Japanese users (that are unnecessary for English users).
 * For image use, I intentionally chose a policy stricter than Fair Use, because the AliceSoftWiki is more as a fan wiki then the average "documentation wiki", and as an overzealous fan I would like to respect what AliceSoft wishes of us. That said, it is something that only applies to the AliceSoftWiki, and I do not intend to impose such limitations on any AliceSoft-related article on the main WGEP wiki (I assume for each game it'd have a general article on the WGEP wiki).  Is letting AliceSoftWiki keeping its existing policy while having the main WGEP fairuse anything AliceSoft-related an arrangement that is acceptable to you, or do you believe that the AliceSoftWiki should allow any fairuse image in order to be part of the WGEP?
 * For naming policies, we currently adopt a "plain-text friendly" convention towards romanizing Japanese names. That means where wikipedia uses "ō" we tend to use "ou".  Exceptions include things like "Tokyo" (Wikipedia doesn't use "Tōkyō" as their article name; and we probably won't use "Toukyou" if we need an article for that, unless it's something that happens to have the same pronouncation, but is not actually the current capital of Japan).  In the end, as long as redirect works, I don't particularily care about the exact naming convention.
 * Importing from wikipedia
 * Atlach-Nacha is an article that is imported from Wikipedia. For attribution, I mentioned wikipedia and provided the perma-link to the version that I exported from Wikipedia.  I'd be happy to have the article changed to whatever format WGEP requires for proper attribution to Wikipedia.
 * Aside from Atlach-Nacha, I don't really see any other article being imported from Wikipedia. If there happens to be a wikipedia article of decent quality on something AliceSoft-related, I'd be happy to import it.  But generally speaking I can type up an article from scratch better than what's currently on Wikipedia (with respect to AliceSoft-related topics).  So in general, I would prefer to be able to bypass the "when creating a new article, import what Wikipedia has first" policy.  Of course I can hack around it by simply import the wikipedia article, then do a complete rewrite (keeping the attribution which will become meaningless), so it's not too big an issue for me.
 * Those are all the issues I can think of right now. -Afker 21:43, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

For centralization, this conversation is being continued on AliceSoftWiki talk:WGEP

Gaming Hub
Hi Afker, I wanted to introduce myself. I've been working at Wikia for about 6 months working on a variety of marketing and business projects, but as of last week I am totally focused on growing our gaming communities. I think its great that you are asking the communities to link to the new gaming hub! I hope this will start to create a larger gaming community and editors will start editing multiple game wikis. We are also going to start to use the spotlight across Wikia to promote gaming wikis. Jimmy is doing an interview on G4 Network tonight to promote the gaming wikis so hopefully we will see a traffic bump from that too! Since you are obviously a passionate gamer and very knowledgeable I would love to get your ideas on other ways to grow existing and attract new gaming wikis angies (talk) 20:35, 22 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Some thoughts:
 * I only sent out a general email over the mailinglist, which many people may not have read (or may not be on the mailing list). I'd suggest go to each gaming-related wiki, post on ther MediaWiki talk:Sidebar and/or Talk:Community Portal about adding the gaming hub to the profile.  Then after a few days, have wikia staff add the gaming hub to the sidebar of gaming wikis that were inactive/apathetic (for the wikis that discussed it and decided against it, respect their choices).
 * Alternate use of the wikia blogs - Right now the wikia blogs is only some low priority experimental tech toy to see if certain wikias can gain exposure via various blog-spiders. However, I see it as having potential to help develop a sense of higher-order community.  By letting members of the community feature articles from their side, and if we can let the gaming blog appear in the bottom of the gaming wikis (similar to how the Magazine wikias have RSS feed of content from other magazines, except I would suggest something that take up much less space), that can help encourage users to participate in other gaming wikis, or show them how other wikis structure their articles (and give them ideas on how to improve their own wikis).
 * Unfortunate wikia's current tech priority seems to be the new skin, and work on the blog is having lower priority. This affects which wikis actually can publish to the blog.
 * Another issue is that right now the Gaming blog is effectively taken over by fan fictions from the Earthen Ring Wiki. Fan fictions itself isn't a bad thing, but when other sites try to come up with an article from their own gaming wiki (which isn't a fan-fiction wiki, but a game-documentation wiki), it might skew the view of "what is appropriate" or "what is effective" to put on the gaming blog, and have an discouraging effect on other gaming-wikis to show case their feature articles on the blog at all.  Thus I would suggest that fan fiction articles go on some "Creativity Blog" instead of the Gaming Blog.  That might entail changing the blog association of Earthern Ring Wiki from Gaming to Creativity, or allow wikis to be a member of multiple blogs where they can choose which blog to publish about which article (as opposed to publishing in all the blogs they are associated with).
 * GameInfo needs a more active community to help establish itself as a focal point in the greater wikia gaming community. The hub on central is nice and useful and all, but a one-page hub isn't capable of building the greater community. We need an active community at GameInfo to be the nexus that cares about an inter-game meta-community, and that will attempt to keep wikis of individual games connected.  GameInfo needs to establish enough of a reputation so that, if a particular game doesn't have its own wiki on Wikia, it would actually occur to a user to look on GameInfo and build upon the content already there (either by adding to GameInfo, or if the info has grown enough to split that entire section into a new wikia), instead of simply requesting and creating a new wiki from scratch.
 * Right now the Gaming hub seems to say that if a game "Foo" doesn't have a wiki, I ought to just request one, suggesting that there's nowhere else on Wikia that would have information on the game "Foo" (which effectively further cripples GameInfo from what it already suffers due to lack of activity, IMHO).
 * Unfortunately I lack time and concrete vision to actively take a part in helping GameInfo (my hands are already full with respect to my own wiki and some other stuff), but if an overall greater gaming community is to succeed on Wikia, I believe GameInfo needs to be active and successful.
 * -Afker 02:48, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Wow, these are some great ideas. I really like your idea about using blogs more. I am going to spend some time thinking about that. I just submitted a request to engineering to enable the wiki to blog to all the Gaming wikis. Regarding GameInfo, I agree with you completely. We are actually talking about potentially using the MainPage of gameinfo as the hubpage. I don't actually get the feeling that any of the admins (Garret or Furrykef) are active anymore. Another idea we had was to merge gameinfo with gaming.wikia. They both seem to have a similar mission, and gaming.wikia community has been growing. Thoughts? angies (talk) 16:15, 23 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Merging GameInfo into Gaming is a possibliity, though that idea has its own sets of issues:
 * The Magazine's system needs to be more transparent, so it doesn't feel like sites run by the NY staff who are too busy to do much with it. How do articles get promoted to "popular articles"?  It seems the staff have sole power over it, and if they are too buzy, new articles gotta wait forever to become "popular", by when it may be out of date.
 * Articles become promoted based on the number of votes/comments the article receives and if it achieves the required number in 24 hours; after 24 hours, the score goes up. Votes are worth one point; comments by logged-in users are worth .25 points (with only one comment per use counting toward the score).  The only power the NY guys have is controlling how many votes/comments it takes to get promoted.  The reason the new articles have "taken forever" recently is because the amount of votes was set too high. But we are happy to lower it and also allow the community to determine what the requisite number of votes/comments should be, and are trying to make it so admins can set the publish score. --Roblefko 19:55, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

The mazazine skin is too specialized, and doesn't allow much customization via MediaWiki: namespace. I've tried using Javascript to deal with it (see http://gaming.wikia.com/index.php?title=Help_test_layout_customizer%21 ), but I can't figure out how to make it work with Opera.
 * We're trying to make the site a lot more friendly to those who aren't familiar with MediaWiki, and the skin is the best tool with which to do that.  Right now, building a skin that allows for user customization is really time consuming, so basically, we ask that you bare with us as we improve those services.  It may be a long while, though, as we're still focused on adding features into the skin. --Roblefko 19:55, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

The current layout of Gaming, IMHO, contributed to the flood of consol fanboy flame wars that plagued the beginning of Gaming.wikia's launch. And now after the immature children have moved elsewhere to flame, what's left is a remanent band of contributors trying to revitalize the site, but their effort hampered due to a number of things needing staff intervention which ordinary sysops lack power to do (or unconfindent whether they should do it or not, since the site feels like it's being run/owned by the staff).


 * The redesigned front page and general layout (which you've been helping me with and will be up next week) should fix that. Thanks for giving me advice on how it should look. We're also going to re-do the green menu bar so it is not focusing on specific consols --Roblefko 19:55, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

I've tried to see what I can do by requesting my own gaming-related openserving, hoping with shared content but my own frontend I might be able to help with some stuff, but my openserving request still hasn't gone through. The number of contributors may be growing (counting after the fanboys left), but I don't see much of a community on Gaming. I believe the entire Gaming.wikia need a major structural overhaul (the skin, main page design, structure/organization of articles), and let contributors feel they have more power on the wiki (or alternately, the staff would need to put in significantly more time dealing with the structural issues of the site), before it can really rise out of the ashes of the consol fanboy flamewars and develope a general gaming community.
 * We're hoping that the redesigned front page and general layout, combined with the more social networking tools that you've already seen, will help foster a community. About the User: page move; well, you can still use the bottom of the User: page instead of UserWiki: -- that's for you and the rest of the gaming.wikia community to decide.  We're just trying to brainstorm options. --Roblefko 19:55, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Magazine articles (opinions, reviews, news) ought to be clearly separated from the game articles (an information page about a game, a game or game series' mini wiki). Ideally I would like the magazine articles be tossed into a different namespace, however that will probably break a multitude of things with respect to Openserving's content sharing system, so it will probably have to be the the game articles that get tossed into a "Games" or "GamingWiki" namespace (not to be confused with the "Gaming" namespace for site stuff... which means it will be very confusing).
 * Different namespace causes all sorts of problems from an otisder's perspective, and honestly, have proven unnecessary on ArmchairGM. For those who aren't familiar with MediaWiki, they're more trouble than they're worth.  Opinions and other articles that require a set-off are flagged by the vote box appended to it.  So it's not a terribly bad problem. --Roblefko 19:55, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Yep, hear you on this and agree. I also shared your comments with Dan/Rob. They are working on a re-design (which I believe you are helping with) and are planning to spend a lot more time on the gaming.wikia going forward (as gaming in a top focus for Wikia right now). I think they do want community to have more active involvement (like they do on armchairgm) so I would encourage you to share these concerns with Rob. I think you will find him very open to suggestions you have about developing a productive community


 * As for the idea of putting the gaming hub on GameInfo's main page, I also have some thoughts:
 * Things like the Earthern Ring Wiki and the Halo Fannon don't really provide any information about the game. They are fan creations derivied from games.  As such, they should have less or no prominence on the main page of GameInfo.
 * GameInfo should have a basic info page even for games that have their own wikis. Some gaming-wikis may make the assumption that any visitor to their wiki would already know the general information about the game.  If the hub is to be on GameInfo's main page, then it shouldn't be linking directly to individual gaming wikis, but rather to GameInfo's own information page about the game, from where a prominent link to the gaming wiki is provided (except for other general wikis such as CheatBase etc that'd still have direct link from the GameInfo main page).  This also makes mini-wikis (on GameInfo or elsewhere) more locatable in general.  Games that make the GameInfo main page hub would be the ones that have its own wiki or mini-wiki somewhere (but the link on the main page hub would go to GameInfo's general information page on that game).  Thus, on the main page there's be a link to Halo, and then Halo's page would have a prominent link to Halopedia and another link to the Halo fannon.

If we can work out the issues you described above I think this can all happen gaming.wikia, where each game will have its own "snap shot" page linking to its game-specific wiki (where there is one). I would propose banding these two small (somewhat inactive) communities together, gameinfo/gaming.wikia, to make something bigger/better using the great tools the NYC guys have created. Whatcha think? angies (talk) 22:32, 1 June 2007 (UTC) 17:22, 31 May 2007 (UTC)


 * -Afker 23:06, 23 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi Akfer. I agree with you about the blogs. I'd love to see them used more widely once we've fixed the remaining bugs in them, and I'll talk to Earthen Ring about which blog might be more suitable for their content. Features on gaming.wikia like the "popular articles" section can be changed by any admin. We're happy to make active editors into admins so they can help with these features - it's definitely not a staff-only thing. Whilst the NY team got the wiki started, it's like any Wikia site and relies on the community to maintain and develop it after that point. There is a division between the magazine and "library" content, but perhaps we need to make that clearer. It relies on page templates rather than namespaces, but there should still be a way we can make it clear which section of the site you're on. Angela talk

Hi Afker, I responded to all your concerns about gaming.wikia. See above (I wrote my response under each individual concern). We want you to lead the community at gaming.wikia so that we can focus on helping the wikia Gaming community at large grow... taking the above responses into consideration, what do you need from us? --Roblefko 19:55, 1 June 2007 (UTC)


 * After you guys are done with the social networking stuff and new features, and move on to the interface, first work on making the sidebar customizable by sysops via MW messages. Once that works and is rolled out, then worry about individual user customizability. (-:
 * I do acknowledge the issue with namespaces. My primary concern as been that when looking at Sitescout and RecentChanges, it can be hard to tell whether an article is a Magazine article or a game information article.  With RecentChanges, it's actually doable via Special:Recentchangeslinked/(category), in which case I'd like to be able to place those links on the interface somewhere via Javascript.
 * Can the sitewide global javascript, MediaWiki:Common.js be enabled? That would give me (and other sysops) the power to modify the interface to improve user experience without you guys' intervention.
 * I understand for some Openservings, there is a concept of "Ownership" (which doesn't, or at least isn't supposed to, exist on normal wikias), and Ownership supposedly gives the user more power than a typical sysop. A while ago I've request an openserving (game-related, meant to share content with Gaming.wikia), partly to see what abilities being an "Owner" would give me, and thus to see whether it would be useful for me to ask for those abilities on Gaming.wikia itself.  Is the "Owership" tied to the Bureaucrat flag?  Or is it a separate user status thing?  What are its capabilities beyond what sysops and bureaucrats can do on a typical MediaWiki installation?
 * I feel my vision and imagination are still clouded by the legacy of the "old" (current) site structure/interface. Lack of vision tends to increase skepticism.  Hopefully as the structure/interface improves, I'll be able to see more and more. -Afker 00:26, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

DaiBanchou Characters
Hey, was thinking about making a guide in here for DaiBanchou (I don't think too many play the game still, but since I was doing this for me anyway, might as well put it up here for others to see if the need arises). Anyway, I noticed there are two sections related to characters in DaiBanchou, one for "conquest" and the other for "stats".

The layout I had in mind included both stats and all of the stars requirements along with all other sorts of things together, so I was wondering if it was ok to "combine" both sections.

I probably won't upload much until I have it done. I'm using the help of Cinderwood from HongFire (well, the guide he started), so I suppose it shouldn't take me too much. -GrayFox2510 3.29, 20 October 2007 (GMT-6)


 * I think for stats it'd be nice for each character to have its own row, that way the table can have sortable columns. With this in mind, having the character clear info (stars requirement) in the same table might produce extremely narrow columns that are vary hard to read.  Therefore I would advise against combining both sections, but encourage linking between two sections (so character A on the stats page would have a link to an anchor for the same character on the character clear page).
 * But in the end, "Having Content" is more important than the specifics of the formatting. You are welcome to structure the information in the best way you feel is appropriate (until someone else becomes interested in that section also, then you guys would have to discuss and reach a consensus). Anyways, thanks for helping out! -Afker 22:28, 20 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, I actually revised the format. It looks simpler and not so crowded I guess. I suppose we can leave the section that only has the stats for a "quick glimpse" and the one I worked for the full blown-out details. Anyway, I'll upload a sample to my user page so you can see it. I still need to work on the images (which are coming from AliceSoft's site, don't worry). -GrayFox2510 8.07, 20 October 2007 (GMT-6)


 * The duel approach is fine with me. -Afker 02:11, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

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 * Feel free to test things in the Sandbox. -Afker 17:53, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

me.

Say I wanted to add a few things to locations in Daiakuji. It is possible for you to organizise a map anywhere? Sine we can´t use screens I can`t take the one ingame.

Vjuchi 11:28, 23 February 2008 (UTC)


 * While you cannot take the one in-game, you can draw one yourself. See Sado for an example of me drawing my own map of JAPAN to illustrate where Sado is.  I also hand-drew the maps for Kichikuou_Rance:Locations.  Let me know if you want me to draw the Daiakuji Osaka map for you. -Afker 11:50, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi
Hi afker, you dont go to irc anymore?
 * The IP I use somehow got banned by Rizon for being drones or something )-: -Afker All hail AliceSoft! 12:19, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Afker, you want to move the channel somewhere else so that you can join too? I don't mind opening up another tab for another server. Jtle 19:24, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Thats a great idea

Hmm, I'd like to keep the channel on Rizon because #H-g is still there, and I like to stay in touch with our roots (with out H-g, the AIH and ASF channels probably would never have started), even if for whatever reason Rizon likes to ban the IP I use. That said, I am not opposed to branching to other networks. I'm going to set up a "mirror" channel in Freenode. -Afker All hail AliceSoft! 00:44, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

That's fine with me and most likely with the others too. Just let us know when it's ready. Jtle 05:54, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Well, I'd prefer a servernetwork that supports SSL, personally. But anything is better than the current situation ;-) Backup1723 05:59, 29 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Backup channel is up. See Project:IRC. -Afker All hail AliceSoft! 05:22, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Toushin Toshi stuff
Hello! Work's been keeping me busy, but I'm trying to get things going again >_< Anyway, I was looking at the character section and saw "Yayoi and Setsufu". I translated the 2nd ninja's name as Yukikaze (I think that sounds more ninja-ish maybe?) Is there a definitive reference on this? :) Skippy22 01:26, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

It's Paru, not Baru ^_^

Is there a spoiler tag to mark text so it's invisible until it's highlighted? Some of the plot stuff seems important, but bad to just blurt out for some of the chars (like Poe's story and Alexander's)

What's the story with X997 vs. X999? I see both in the script, but I don't really get it...Skippy22 02:02, 28 August 2008 (UTC)


 * There's no definitive romanization, but I'm fairly certain the second kanji in her name should be read as "fu" or "fuu" instead of "kaze". As for X997 vs X999, it's modeled on the traditional story of the guy who's collecting 1000 swords.  So, X997 is teh guy's name when he's only defeated 997 ppl and took 997 swords.  He wanted Custom's sword to be the 1000th in his collection, so he refuses to fight Custom until he has collected 999 swords (and became X999). -Afker All hail AliceSoft! 09:32, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Talk Alpha-29
Yeah I have checked out Toushin Toshi, looks very interesting (the third one) Does it have as much H as Sengoku Rance? o.O Also thanks for dropping by whenever I posted a change

RE: Fancy templates
You mean a generic technique for things like See also?

I did make an interesting improvement to the Directory template. However it's not really portable right now, so it's desynced from acg.

I'd honestly rather work on pushing advanced stuff php side that would make these kind of things not need ugly hacks, but you know how I've been loosing interest in PHP and MediaWiki coding. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Feb 1, 2009 @ 05:02 (UTC)


 * SMW? See the w:c:souleater:Episodes/List, the infobox w:c:souleater:Template:Infobox/SoulEater/Episode and the w:c:souleater:Template:Episode template that goes and turn the episode number into a full link and name (there is also formatting for a citation or even a full ref tag). ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Feb 1, 2009 @ 06:27 (UTC)


 * What about adding a Property:Sequel of and autogenerating the inverse Property:Sequel and lists. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Feb 1, 2009 @ 08:32 (UTC)


 * The only prev-next relationship I am using is forced by the game plot, but not really a proper intrinsic property of the individual dungeon areas (at least for the Mabil Dungeon). Thus I'm against setting actual properties between the different dungeon areas. )-:  -Afker All hail AliceSoft! 08:41, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Pastel CC
Hiya i tried making a brief guide on it could you "edit" it or give some feedback Cheers ^^

Indexing
discussion centralized to User talk:Darkman 4

Hey
Hey Afker, I'm Richard1990, part of Wikia's gaming team. I'm just dropping by to gave your wiki some search engine optimization (SEO). The main thing I wanted to do was to change MediaWiki:Pagetitle and MediaWiki:Pagetitle-view-mainpage so that they include 3 keywords that people often use to search for topics related to this wiki's subject. This will improve the rank this wiki will have when people search for those terms, resulting in a growth in the wiki's community. The Magic Bullet explains this and has some more tips. You may also want to use Wikipedia's Wikia template by using it on Wikipedia's articles related to this wiki's subject. I'll also leave this message on the talk pages of the other active administrators, if there are any.

So is it alright if I edit MediaWiki:Pagetitle and MediaWiki:Pagetitle-view-mainpage? If you don’t reply in a few days, I’ll just go ahead and change them. You can revert my edits if you want, but you’ll be losing out on more contributors if you do.--Richardtalk 17:46, 6 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Arg, why does Pagetitle-view-mainpage not default to Pagetitle? BTW, what *are* the three keywords people most often use to search on AliceSoft-related topics? We are approaching the anniversary when Webtools went stale and stopped updating.  Generally I'd say go ahead, but I might have issues with specific words (or combo of words) that might just be accidentally giving us large amount of search traffic without being related. -Afker All hail AliceSoft! 18:55, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Largely what I have been doing is using Google AdWords Keyword Tool for the 3 keywords. I put in th wiki's subkect (in this case, Alice Soft) and then set the country to United States and pick the 3 most search keywords. If there's odd keywords in the top 3 then I go down the list and pick the next best keyword that is applicable. If you want you can select the key words yourself or not bother with them, it is up to you.--Richardtalk 17:15, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

Kojika
Hi, I'm a newbie, so please excuse any mistakes I make by leaving a message here.

I've been playing Sengoku Rance, and I can't seem to recruit Kojika. I've seen her events (up to when she finally attacks Mouri's castle, where all her subordinates are killed, and she leaves after being raped) and conquered Mouri, but nothing more ever comes of her. There are no commands anywhere for recruiting her even though I have captain space and spare national power. What do I have to do?
 * Hi, Kojika is one of the trickiest one to recruit, and I don't remember all the required events to get her. But it would appear that when you conquered Mouri, some of the requirements are not met.  Sorry I can't remember more to be of better help. -Afker All hail AliceSoft! 20:29, November 10, 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your help, it turns out that there was /one more/ event after Kojika's escape from Mouri castle - you have to see her working at a tea shop before conquering Mouri. I managed to recruit her after that.

Another question - any idea on how to get CG #14? It's the only piece of CG I haven't gotten yet.

What's up
Hi, I'm BTK69, I'm learning japanese and I'm planning on making a game based on the Tsumamigui series.

Need Help Editing
Hi Afker, new to wikia here. Decided to jump the gun and added a new page: Sengoku_Rance:Five_Star_Kill_Monkey_Alternative_Opening >_<. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find the add section button on that page, so everything is kinda in a mess right now. If I missed something important, let me know. I'll try my best to fix it. EdibleDango 14:10, December 5, 2009 (UTC)


 * The add section button isn't automatically on for most article pages. I've enabled it for you. Let me know if you have any other questions! (-: -Afker All hail AliceSoft! 09:54, December 7, 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks! I actually figured out how to add sections manually (by using subheadings in the edit), but it was confusing because it was different from every other pages I've seen. No more questions for now :) --EdibleDango 14:59, December 7, 2009 (UTC)

Daiakuji
Thanks, I've thought about it. But I haven't read Daiakuji carefully enough to write about them. Can you help me to create the map of Oosaka? Or just instruction to create a map? I've seen the code of the map oF JAPAN (Sengoku Rance) but I haven't understood it yet, men. P/s: Sorry about JAPAN's article. JeroL
 * Daiakuji's organizations
 * Daiakuji's Oosaka map


 * The basics about JAPAN's map is using a coordinate system. Basically we specify the x and y location to place link overlays over the map image.  It took me quite a while guestimating and fine-tuning the x and y positions to place those links (just make a random guess, preview and see how bad off it is, then change the x and y a bit, rinse and repeat).
 * Btw, is the image of the Oosaka map taking from AliceSoft's website, or is it a screenshot you took? Our image policy would disallow direct screenshots.  That is why for example for Kichikuou Rance I had to draw my own map.  Thanks again for all your work on the wiki so far!!! -Afker All hail AliceSoft! 01:46, January 22, 2010 (UTC)

Rance 6
Hi, I got the link to this wiki when I was playing the Yandere translation of Sengoku Rance. That game section was pretty well filled out, and everything I would need to know was on it. Then I started playing Rance 6. I've been getting through the game fine, but I noticed that the section for it was sparce, to say the least. I used to have a version of Atlas, but I have a new computer now, and I don't have the program anymore. Do you know of any good free translation programs? I've heard Babelfish works somewhat, but my old version of Atlas had me spoiled. If you do, it'd help me fill up the Rance 6 Wiki. Talvert 08:11, February 16, 2010 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately I am unfamiliar with translation programs. If you have specific paragraphs I can explain them for you, or specific questions about the game. Other people on the wiki or on IRC might know stuff too (the IRC is often very quiet, but if you hang around long enough you might see activity). Thanks for your interest in contributing to the wiki!!! -Afker All hail AliceSoft! 05:47, February 17, 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, I went ahead and set up the Japanese unicode and such to run AGTH, and honestly, while it is clearly not the best translation, Babelfish is manageable. I think I can use context to clue in everything else. It's Rance, anyway. How hard can it be to understand his motives? Talvert 09:34, February 17, 2010 (UTC)
 * Haha cool. Well, still feel free to ask me when you need to understand the villians' motives! d-: -Afker All hail AliceSoft! 15:02, February 17, 2010 (UTC)


 * Well, I got a free trial of Atlas, and it is SO much better than babelfish. I can use it to actually understand stuff now... although one thing has been bugging me... does 様 at the end of a name mean sama? Like ランス様 would be Rance-sama? Atlas translates it as Rance externals... Also, is there a way I can PM you or something? I feel like I'm adding needless clutter to your talk page. And one last thing, how do you change the title of a section? I was wanting to change the Gal Monsters section of Rance 6 into a basic enemies section, then make the gal monsters and their locations a sub-section of it.Talvert 07:19, February 18, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes ランス様 would be Rance-sama, Atlas failed (-: Don't worry about "cluttering" my talk page, the whole point of user talk pages is for this type of purpose, unless you *really* got something private to message me that you don't want it being visible to other people...  As for the "title of a section", what you really meant was the title of an entire page/article.  The Template:Rance 6 nav you tried editing is merely a template providing links to articles.  To rename an article, you can find the "Move" tab in the upper right area of the page.  Anyways, I'd advocate moving it to "Enemies" and not "Monsters", since there are human enemies in the game as well (-:  -Afker All hail AliceSoft! 19:54, February 18, 2010 (UTC)

Daiakuji
Can you tell me how to recruit Kaga Motoko without making her a prostitute? I follow the instruction at Daiakuji:Character clears and capture Kaga Tarou. But after torturing him four times, I don't find any event at Senri. - JeroL


 * It's been a while since I played the game, so I dont' remember clear. According to the instructions, make sure:
 * Motoko has been kidnapped by her father
 * Wakame fallen
 * it is not yet the 4th week of August when you torture Tarou for the 4th time.
 * If all these conditions are met, then I'm really not sure what is wrong. I can try dig around Japanese walkthrough sites to see. -Afker All hail AliceSoft! 19:59, March 24, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you. I think I missed the 4th week of August condition. I've successfully recruit Motoko. - JeroL

Another question, about Ran's character clear: going against Ippatsu after breaking Satsu's heart? What does it mean? And how can I recruit Yamazawa Asami? Defeating Wakame and City Council? - JeroL


 * For Ran's clear you need to be in Satsu's route I think. If you are in Satsu's route then breaking her heart is probably obvious. To recruit Yamazawa Asami, she needs to be captured by the Wonderful Doctor (in Wakame) and become a drug addict, and then you need to defeat Wonderful Doctor / Wakame to rescue her. There might be a time limit that you need to rescue her by, not entirely sure. -Afker All hail AliceSoft! 19:59, March 24, 2010 (UTC)


 * Oh, I've killed Suteki before his testing Asami, so that's why I failed @_@ - JeroL

Some more questions (sorry for taking your precious time):

Can you tell me how to go through each of five heroines' routes?
 * For Nogi Kikuko, maybe that's talking to Shigehiko in Nogi residence? And how to clear her? - JeroL


 * For Kaga Motoko, take her as a subordinate and what else? Marrying her as the walkthrough will clear her, yes? - JeroL


 * And for Haku Minka, Takega Satsu and Henri Pelori, how to meet the condition to go through their routes? - JeroL

About Ran and Aoba: how EXACTLY to prevent Aoba following Ippatsu after defeating Wakame? NOT capture Ran? Defeat Wakame before the doctor joins? Or NOT recruit Motoko? - JeroL

And, is it REALLY impossible to have both Aoba and Motoko as suborinates? - JeroL

I think: Capture Ran -> Lose Aoba; Defeate Wakame after the doctor joins -> Lose Aoba; Timeline: The doctor joins Wakame -> Tarou fights -> Be able to capture Tarou and torture him;

Because I've encountered these cases: Kill Ran before the doctor joins -> Have Aoba and lose Motoko (can't capture Tarou because he doesn't fight) Capture Ran before the doctor joins -> Lose Aoba and lose Motoko (can't capture Tarou, same reason) Kill Ran after the doctor joins and Tarou's been tortured four times -> Lose Aoba and have Motoko (after the doctor joins) Capture Ran after the doctor joins and Tarou's been tortured four times -> Lose Aoba and have Motoko (capture Ran)

So the only way to get both Motoko and Aoba (or at least that I think) is: Kill Ran and torture Tarou four times before the doctor's joining -> Have both Motoko and Aoba

And I can't do that because I've only encountered Tarou begins to fight after the doctor joining.


 * Kikuko -- keep talking to her grandfather. After numerous visits, a dialogue choice shows up.  One of them gets you Kikuko.  Forgot clearing condition, probably automatic when clear game.
 * Motoko -- probably just marry her for clear
 * Minka -- Keep visiting her to raise affection. Then one day she'll ask you to make a choice.  Abandon the dirty life and you'll be able to marry her (which places a notable of handicap on you for the rest of the game).
 * Henri -- I think you need to clear Minka first, then when starting a new game one of the options will replace Minka with her. Then keep visiting her until she disappears. You'll find a dungeon, get to the bottom to have the choice to save her (or get some item? and lose her)
 * Satsu -- Don't quite remember, but I think you need to clear all the other heroines first (not sure if include Henri). Then when starting a new game you'll be given the choice of getting her route.

Daiakuji (cont.)

 * Not sure about having Aoba + Motoko. But since you can't get Ran & Motoko at the same time anyways, might as well clear Motoko the same run you clear Ran if that is the case.  BTW, do you actually kill Ran, or just defeat her?? -Afker All hail AliceSoft! 01:16, March 25, 2010 (UTC)
 * About Ran's "death", I think I really killed her: Her HP reduces to 0 and a coffin's image replaces her image, that's what is called "Death" to characters in Daiakuji I think ^^.
 * I've countered a new case: after Ran is raped by Dekao (he and Dr. Suteki overthrown Wakame), attacking Senri and takeing over Wakame doesn't make Aoba follow Ippatsu, and this case Aoba and Motoko are both my subordinates. - JeroL


 * Thank you for the instructions. That helps me a big time. I've just finished coding the map of Osaka.
 * Where can I go to visit Minka and Henri? - JeroL
 * How can I recruit Tsukigase Nene, Toki Haruka and Haguro? - JeroL

adding pictures
So how do you add pictures to the site and would love to add some to my dungeon section

also would love to get some feedback on my addition!

Zaldar 00:57, August 2, 2010 (UTC)
 * While editing articles, one of the buttons in the "tool bar" lets you pick a picture from your computer to upload. Keep up the good work~! (-: -Afker All hail AliceSoft! 04:16, August 3, 2010 (UTC)

daiteikoku
Hey Acker,

Don't need anything around Daiteitoku at the moment, but I will start Brushing up on my Japanese soon, so I can get some Translation going. I'm really poor skill level at Japanese, So it will take awhile for anything to translated.

What I would like to know is this.. I know that alicesoft has blocked their site (I've used ijapan glype proxy, but I can't get the images which also have information on it, and I am wondering also how to actually purchase Daiteitoku if it is Japan sales only. I searched the web, but haven't found a consistant answer.

I'll keep posted on the Daiteitoku project on my page.

Spacebomber 16:40, November 12, 2010 (UTC)

SpaceBomber


 * Hi SpaceBomber,
 * You can check out A guide to buying AliceSoft games for online merchants that usually deal with eroge. Daiteikoku is still too far away so it won't show in their catalog, but Shaman Sanctuary is already available for pre-order. As for proxies, I also can't find one that loads images yet. Anyways, welcome to the wiki and thanks for your participation! -Afker All hail AliceSoft! 08:37, November 13, 2010 (UTC)
 * Hey, I'm not to sure how to use Wiki I know how to add pages., but I want to add a sidebar table of contents page to daiteitoku like in the the big bang age. I am going to clean up a bit.
 * Thank You for the Improvements! I appreciate it.
 * Hiya maybe a bit late but try this proxy http://www.dailila.com/jp/ when the "weather is good", it shows the pic just need to be patient.
 * Regards
 * KingofKongs110.139.61.57 14:41, January 23, 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi Afker, still wiki illeterate, cut can you add sub pages under the nations page for Daiteitkoku?
 * I just need sub pages for the Main ones. Japan, Gamerika, Aeris Empire, Soviets, Dokutsu 3rd Empire for now. 129.65.196.115 21:43, February 25, 2011 (UTC)Spacebomber I'll be working on the wiki pages over spring-break.
 * Regards
 * KingofKongs110.139.61.57 14:41, January 23, 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi Afker, still wiki illeterate, cut can you add sub pages under the nations page for Daiteitkoku?
 * I just need sub pages for the Main ones. Japan, Gamerika, Aeris Empire, Soviets, Dokutsu 3rd Empire for now. 129.65.196.115 21:43, February 25, 2011 (UTC)Spacebomber I'll be working on the wiki pages over spring-break.
 * I just need sub pages for the Main ones. Japan, Gamerika, Aeris Empire, Soviets, Dokutsu 3rd Empire for now. 129.65.196.115 21:43, February 25, 2011 (UTC)Spacebomber I'll be working on the wiki pages over spring-break.


 * Hey Afker, I'm still rather new to the wiki, so please bear with me. I've been visiting the site for a while and with the release of Daiteikoku, I've decided to do whatever I can to help improve the site. Anyway, as I've been going through the pages of Daiteikoku, I was noticing that we have a page for both Conversation Choices and for Events. The events page is currently a stub while the conversation choices page is not, but it seems to me that in the long run, combining the two into a single page might reduce the confusion that some users might have when visiting the wiki. Might I suggest making the conversation choices a sub-heading in the events page? Anyway, thanks for your time. Sagekita 01:02, May 4, 2011 (UTC)
 * Hey Afker, I'm still rather new to the wiki, so please bear with me. I've been visiting the site for a while and with the release of Daiteikoku, I've decided to do whatever I can to help improve the site. Anyway, as I've been going through the pages of Daiteikoku, I was noticing that we have a page for both Conversation Choices and for Events. The events page is currently a stub while the conversation choices page is not, but it seems to me that in the long run, combining the two into a single page might reduce the confusion that some users might have when visiting the wiki. Might I suggest making the conversation choices a sub-heading in the events page? Anyway, thanks for your time. Sagekita 01:02, May 4, 2011 (UTC)


 * I just started playing, and to me "Events" are the list of things you choose from, once every turn. That definitely should be separated one way or another from the "choices" that pop up from time to time in the game where you have to pick a response.  I am neutral as to whether they are on the same page or not, but some differentiation is definitely needed to avoid confusion.  -Afker All hail AliceSoft! 12:20, May 5, 2011 (UTC)

Daiteikoku Translation
Hello Afker, Spacebomber, JeroL

I'm new here on AliceSoftWiki, please to meet you.

I have wandered around here for years since Sengoku Rance age. And I want to say thank about wonderful walkthrough there, so I think I would like to help out on this new project too.

Now I'm living here in Japan. (but I'm not Japanese though~) Therefore it is very easy for me to access to the AliceSoft official website and also I think I can translate the details there too. So I would like to ask for permission first, if it ok or not for me to add the info in Daiteikoku page.

By the way, my English could have a lot of mistake, since studying here in Japan for years now, my English has gone insane T.T. And it might needs a lot of correction...

To sum up, I would like to join in your team for completing the Daiteikoku page in this wiki.

Looking forward to your answer and have a chat with all of you.

P.s. I will post this in everyone talk page.

Piyapong Wongwaiwit Wii 14:32, February 13, 2011 (UTC)


 * Welcome! The spirit of the wiki is that anyone can help out!  There are no official "teams" in charge.  Anyone who wishes to participate can go ahead and start editing!!! (-:  Feel free to ask me any questions related to wiki editing -Afker All hail AliceSoft! 23:39, February 13, 2011 (UTC)

Linking to this wiki
Greetings. I just wanted to let you know that I relinked to here on the Touhou Wiki. I was looking at the edit history and it seemed like there was a link for a long time and then it was removed for pretty much no reason I can discern.

Let me know if that is ok or not, I see you are linking to us so I doubt you'd have a problem with it, but I always like to make sure.

VS3025 23:20, February 16, 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks a lot for restoring the link! (I was the person who originally put the links on both of the wikis). -Afker All hail AliceSoft! 05:58, February 17, 2011 (UTC)

Collapsible Menu thingy at the top?
How do I put collapsible menus in newer wikia pages? Before just adding topics within == == parameters would automatically generate a collapsible index with those sections at the top of the page, but I can't make that happen anymore :( Gahahahahahahahaha!! 10:23, April 22, 2011 (UTC)
 * If hte page has 3 sections or more then it gets auto-generated. -Afker All hail AliceSoft! 17:12, April 22, 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, and you can use the "Paragraph format" combo-box in the visual view to change the level of a section to "Heading 2", "Heading 3"..., it's easier than adding == == parameters. Inarashi 17:21, April 22, 2011 (UTC)

Is it OK to add NSFW material?
Please check this out.

http://alicesoft.wikia.com/wiki/File:S1_6.jpg

^ That one. It shows Rance fucking a chick but
 * 1: It's how the system description on AliceSoft site goes and this is a hentai game. But is it against Wikia policies in general?


 * 2: If so, the picture actually has all "critical parts" hidden (which is why I didn't censor it, there's not anything to censor), is it (nude pic without showing anything) still disallowed? In this context, I noticed that games of other wiki do have nudity: http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/File:Sex_Vesna.png

Please reply soon. Gahahahahahahahaha!! 13:15, June 14, 2011 (UTC)