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The Castlevania Dungeon Forums => General Castlevania Discussion => Topic started by: Nagumo on January 26, 2012, 06:17:45 AM
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Are there any pictures of the old forums? Is there a way to still acces it in an archive or something? I'm kind of curious about this lost piece of Castlevania fandom history. :P
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http://forumplanet.gamespy.com/castlevania/ (http://forumplanet.gamespy.com/castlevania/)
^that's the remnants of the forum before it got converted. The old forum before that no longer exists..
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It looks more cozy than the current forum. :)
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OMG nostalgia :'(
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Huh. I don't ever remember the Dungeon Forums looking like that. Must have been during my 6 to 7 year absence.
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If there are any information about where Castlevania Dungeon was hosted before, earlier versions could possibly be found via Wayback Machine. (http://www.archive.org/web/web.php)
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^that's the remnants of the forum before it got converted.
Damn, I had forgotten about that place. Didn't realize until now that I still have more posts over there than I do over here. Weird.
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at least irrelevant advertisements are no longer here to try to distract the castlevania environment of this forums, we'll probably ignore them anyways
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I still remember the Forumplanet days... our board colors were the default white/green/black for years.
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You can probably access it using the wayback machine. Castlevania forums were a lot more fun back in the day. A lot more interesting personalities and personality interactions, and a stronger sense of community. But, then, I think more interesting things were going on with Castlevania at the time, and it was more the age of forums as a medium, which have taken a hit from social networking. Fan forums especially have had it harder, I think, due to competition from big corporations, like Game Spot and IGN.
Now, here, it seems like no one really knows or cares about anyone, and my own forum is full of elitists who circle jerk to Demon's Souls while bemoaning everything and everyone in a hidden chat.
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The only thing you need to know about the Forumplanet CVDF:
(http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=1164;type=avatar)
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Castlevania forums were a lot more fun back in the day. A lot more interesting personalities and personality interactions, and a stronger sense of community.
pfft, you got that right. even though I try to do my part & keep things interesting.. it's just not the same anymore. I'm certain that some dark force was behind Maria's transformation, but it doesn't matter now.
A wild Ralph appears.
*throws pokéball, unsuccessful yet again*
(http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=1164;type=avatar)
this.
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..aaand my account is still active there, ha! Awesome.
mmmaybe some of the classic members will returnnn
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I wish I was around back then. Nagging about IGA, and complaining about the upcoming movie...
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I remember posting on the CVD before The Great Purpling. I think my first post was like 'WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT IF SIMON WAS IN ANOTHER GAME?!' because I was very original with my thoughts. That was also where I first encountered Successor-sama and thought Gunlord was a girl.
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The only thing you need to know about the Forumplanet CVDF:
(http://castlevaniadungeon.net/forums/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=1164;type=avatar)
*Insert that picture of Simon whipping the Blue Hat Guy in the face*
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That was also where I first encountered Successor-sama and thought Gunlord was a girl.
lol!
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That was also where I first encountered Successor-sama and thought Gunlord was a girl.
Girls wish they could be Gunlord.
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Nice, never seen the old dungeon before and I see some familiar names in there too.
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Seems as though my mod powers are still active there, tested it on a topic and voila, unlocked and locked at will. Can also still ban there, but what's the use heh.
Also the blue hat guy was the most hated avatar at that time, I recently have reused it here.
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We're going way back, then.
It will be next to impossible to find the old "Threaded Forum", which is the oldest incarnation of the Castlevania Dungeon Forums one could possibly find. It was just threads, threads, and thread responses.
The Great Purpling? It's not like it was a bad thing. :P Then the forum was purged and we went to SMF, at which point I had to quickly Frankenstein a skin that resembled the older one. We had the "Forumplanet Green" default for quite a while.
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The ED page for ICVD has a couple screenshots of the ezboard Dungeon, which was the second board after the original text-based Site Power Up one (which, as Jorge mentioned, was just threads—like, a cascading tree design where each reply was linked).
http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/ICVD (http://encyclopediadramatica.ch/ICVD)