charlie_123456
New member
I'm new to this scene and forum, but have been interested in this for years. Specifically, I've been wanting to re-texture Mariokart 64, but I see that there are many many other re-texturing projects as well. It appears that many of you talked about this forum being "dead" aside from this HRTP pages. Doing a google search of "n64 retexture project" takes you to many forum posts, but no central location. I'd like to propose setting up a site that will handle everything necessary to accommodate a collaborative, sectional, project based retexturing system.
I've discussed this briefly with Gecko Lee. His ideas for requirements of a central location are:
- member pages (picture, nickname, age and other optional details, trackback (commented on, created bla), own texture hacks, rating)
- texture hack page (screenshots, downloads, details, counters (downloads, visits...), created by, comments, at least a 50mb upload feature, per cent counter on how complete a texture pack is...
I think this is basic stuff that is absolutely needed. I propose setting up this ideology on a central server. I would recommend using Drupal with modules such as forum, uploading, user profiles, etc. Drupal is a multi-user contribution platform, open source and written in PHP (for those of you who are unfamilliar with it).
I would be more than happy to be the one to setup this central page, but please -- are there any legal ramifications that you all can think of? Perhaps things anyone has run into over the course of doing this sort of thing? We won't be hosting any emulators or roms, we'd simply be hosting texture packs, possibly configured plugins, etc. Please send any info or requests for what YOU would like to see on such a page. Believe me, it's all possible with moderate work. I am a web developer fluent in PHP, MySQL, XHTML, etc., and have the drive to get something like this up and running. Let me know all of your thoughts!
Thanks,
Charlie
I've discussed this briefly with Gecko Lee. His ideas for requirements of a central location are:
- member pages (picture, nickname, age and other optional details, trackback (commented on, created bla), own texture hacks, rating)
- texture hack page (screenshots, downloads, details, counters (downloads, visits...), created by, comments, at least a 50mb upload feature, per cent counter on how complete a texture pack is...
I think this is basic stuff that is absolutely needed. I propose setting up this ideology on a central server. I would recommend using Drupal with modules such as forum, uploading, user profiles, etc. Drupal is a multi-user contribution platform, open source and written in PHP (for those of you who are unfamilliar with it).
I would be more than happy to be the one to setup this central page, but please -- are there any legal ramifications that you all can think of? Perhaps things anyone has run into over the course of doing this sort of thing? We won't be hosting any emulators or roms, we'd simply be hosting texture packs, possibly configured plugins, etc. Please send any info or requests for what YOU would like to see on such a page. Believe me, it's all possible with moderate work. I am a web developer fluent in PHP, MySQL, XHTML, etc., and have the drive to get something like this up and running. Let me know all of your thoughts!
Thanks,
Charlie