> Welcome to GBAtemp v6 !
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Dear Tempers,

As some of you may know this August GBAtemp.net will be celebrating it's 15th Anniversary! To celebrate this momentous occasion we have been working tirelessly to make 2017 GBAtemp's best year yet!

Welcome to the latest version of your community - GBAtemp v6!

We have a bunch of announcements to share with you so please read on to see what's new at your favourite independent gaming community:-​

A Fresh Coat of Paint

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Introducing tempStyle 2 - designed by @shaunj66 we finally have a brand new look for the site that completely revamps your GBAtemp experience including - hi-DPI support, retina icons, faster browsing, improved layout & functionality, but more importantly a better mobile experience! The skin is still a work-in-progress and we need your help to beta test it. Please find a small Q&A and details on how to provide feedback further down below...

A Better Mobile Experience

We have completely revamped the responsive & mobile browsing experience. GBAtemp is now crafted to fully take advantage of smartphones and smaller screen sizes! We have made the site more touch friendly with a range of new design choices. Go ahead, try visiting GBAtemp.net on your phone!

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A Patreon

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As you can see, we've decided to step up our game this year: we finally have a modern-era site design, and our press coverage has been increasingly extensive and exhaustive. We have published hundreds of reviews for all platforms over the past years thanks to our amazing editorial team. We now provide you with fresh news coverage for the entire spectrum of the gaming industry (Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, computer gaming...), and unlike most other sites we still have the rare freedom of being able to openly discuss console hacking and system modifications. This freedom is due to the independence we have managed to conserve over all these years.

We're working behind the scenes every day to make this community one of the best and largest independent gaming communities on the web and we intend to keep it that way. But in order to make this happen, to be able to keep providing you with fresh editorial content and in order to conserve our freedom under any circumstance, we need your help.

With your support on Patreon, we intend to do great things: just take a moment to check out our campaign and see for yourself. If you decide to back us, there will be amazing consequences from both individual and community perspectives.

Perks include:

• Exclusive backer banner/icons (date & details TBC)
• The return of the GBAtemp Homebrew Bounty - now the GBAtemp Bounty! (details to follow)
• Exclusive site styles
• Early access to tempStyle 2 Dark
• The satisfaction that you're helping support a site celebrating it's 15th Anniversary!

Please visit our Patreon page and we hope you'll consider supporting us just as we've supported you for nearly 15 years.

GBAtemp on Patreon

> tempStyle 2 Q&A

Can I continue to use the old style?
Change can be difficult but we suggest you try using tempStyle 2 for a while to feel the benefits. The old tempStyle's are now obsolete and we can't guarantee any future forum improvements or changes will be made available in them.

But what about the dark theme?
We know a lot of you browse GBAtemp in Dark mode and we hear you. You're welcome to use the old Dark theme for now while we find the resources to create a Dark version of tempStyle 2.

Why isn't there a dark theme available right NOW!?
tempStyle 2 took over 6 months to create - keeping in mind we all have full time jobs at GBAtemp, finding the time to work on the site can be tough especially just for aesthetic reasons. We have launched the Light (default) version now in order to let our members help us find any bugs that may need working out before work on the Dark version. Otherwise early bug fixing would require fixing multiple templates. Please understand!

Can I help?
We have just launched a Patreon to let our members support our site. If you want to pledge to help support our work not only can we devote more time to the site but you get awesome rewards such as early access to the tempStyle 2 Dark theme! See above for more info on our Patreon.

I found something that doesn't look quite right?
We are still working on the new skin and bugs or sections of the site may have been overlooked when designing it. If you find a bug or something that looks unpolished or in need of updating please let us know in the dedicated thread by clicking here.

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All of this just before E3 2017!

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Don't forget that E3 is right around the corner with the EA Press Conference expected to start later today.

GBAtemp will be providing live coverage of GBAtemp E3 2017 both right here on our site and a live Twitter feed. Resident newser @Chary is currently in Los Angeles preparing to provide you all with the latest news, updates and announcements from GBAtemp. Check out our home page for more information!

Follow E3 2017 with GBAtemp on Twitter

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We hope you like the changes GBAtemp v6 brings and that you'll celebrate our 15th Anniversary with us up to this August.

Thank you to each and every one of you for supporting us for these 15 years and for making GBAtemp the best community on the web.

- The GBAtemp Staff

 

[Seriel]

The previous styles will be available until they cause severe problems with the board (say a major upgrade that makes them inoperable). Remember those styles are now obsolete and we won't be making any non-crucial fixes to them.

Yeah I understand they're not being maintained anymore, already avatars on posts are starting to break xD
It's just a thing to tide me over until the new dark thing comes around for the new design.
Thanks for the response!

 

[OrGoN3]

I love the Temp. Been here for ages, but used to just lurk. Now I sometimes yell at ignorant noobs, as well as still lurk. $10/mo is a bit too pricey for my poor butt. My eyes are a bit sadened by this, but who really needs them anyway, right? I mean, eyes are completely overrated. When I go blind sooner because of the forced monthly monetary donation for a dark theme in progress when it is completed enough for beta usage, I will switch to electronic braile. And then? Then it'll be dark theme 24/7, FOR FREE! MWUAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH!!>.........wait...........nope, I'm good. MWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

 

[lonewolf08]

I love the Temp. Been here for ages, but used to just lurk. Now I sometimes yell at ignorant noobs, as well as still lurk. $10/mo is a bit too pricey for my poor butt. My eyes are a bit sadened by this, but who really needs them anyway, right? I mean, eyes are completely overrated. When I go blind sooner because of the forced monthly monetary donation for a dark theme in progress when it is completed enough for beta usage, I will switch to electronic braile. And then? Then it'll be dark theme 24/7, FOR FREE! MWUAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH!!>.........wait...........nope, I'm good. MWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Um ok? I'm not sure if I'm the one who should be trying to help you, pretty sure I'm not qualified but you should probably lay of the drugs...they bad for you mmkkay

 

[Fishaman P]

Initial reaction to the new theme:

The same content takes more space. And not in a good way.
The floating notification bar is twice as tall for no reason. It's also missing the number of notifications now.
The entire site is... lighter. Even compared to the old default theme(s) which I've used since the day I joined. Contrasts between posts and navigation is poorer than I would like.

Speed improvements are very noticeable on Desktop though. We'll see how I feel about the new mobile layout.

 

[SG854]

Oh ya, I forgot gbatemp was a website that existed. I haven't been here, then I come back to this and I'm like wtf.

 

[shadow1w2]

Personally I miss the one we had in the GBA days heh.
Overall it looks good, though the flat look kinda kills my eyes a bit.
Hoping to see a dark version as an option later on if possible, just too much flat and bright for me.
Seems everyone is going the flat and bright colors look these days.

 

[Madobe Ai]

I keep getting the new generic cookies popout on all pages
I wonder if it's not using a cookie

 

[TimX24968B]

Initial reaction to the new theme:

The same content takes more space. And not in a good way.
The floating notification bar is twice as tall for no reason. It's also missing the number of notifications now.
The entire site is... lighter. Even compared to the old default theme(s) which I've used since the day I joined. Contrasts between posts and navigation is poorer than I would like.

Speed improvements are very noticeable on Desktop though. We'll see how I feel about the new mobile layout.

would definitely like to see a bit more contrasts between the posts and their background, too.

 

[Qtis]

Looks great for the mobile interface! Now to finalize it, a dark version would be highly positive as most of my browsing of the temp happens in the evening where the bright version burns my eyes

Here's for 15 years and another to come! Happy to have been part of the site both as a regular member as well as the editorial staff

 

[SuzieJoeBob]

I'm glad that the Patreon donation avenue came to fruition. I am also enjoying the new layout, even though I didn't even recognize the forum at first glance.

 

[Luglige]

btw I never made a comment on this in this thread, I like it, but if you make a dark mode I will love it.

 

[sarkwalvein]

Initial reaction to the new theme:

The same content takes more space. And not in a good way.
The floating notification bar is twice as tall for no reason. It's also missing the number of notifications now.
The entire site is... lighter. Even compared to the old default theme(s) which I've used since the day I joined. Contrasts between posts and navigation is poorer than I would like.

Speed improvements are very noticeable on Desktop though. We'll see how I feel about the new mobile layout.

Initial reaction to the new theme:
So bright, it kills my eyes. Not for me.

Switches back to tempStyle dark:
Now the old style is so broken! Profile pics out of their boxes, spoiler tags content cut in the middle of the post box, falling apart.
Oh please, kill me.

 

[Luglige]

Initial reaction to the new theme:
So bright, it kills my eyes. Not for me.

Switches back to tempStyle dark:
Now the old style is so broken! Profile pics out of their boxes, spoiler tags content cut in the middle of the post box, falling apart.
Oh please, kill me.

I'm still doing tempStyle dark, It's all worth it.

 

[jDSX]

The previous styles will be available until they cause severe problems with the board (say a major upgrade that makes them inoperable). Remember those styles are now obsolete and we won't be making any non-crucial fixes to them.

What about for Tempstyle shadow from Shadowfied?

 

[DarthDub]

Why fix what wasn't broken in the first place? The old design was fine.

 

[TimX24968B]

Why fix what wasn't broken in the first place? The old design was fine.

i feel ya. but at least the new theme improved from when it first launched and doesn't feel as much like a mobile site on desktop as it did when it first came out.

 

[JFlare]

Wait... I'm reading this a second time... because I can... why does it say "amazing consequences"? If you want us to back the site why would we get consequences?

 

[T-hug]

Wait... I'm reading this a second time... because I can... why does it say "amazing consequences"? If you want us to back the site why would we get consequences?

A consequence doesn't have to mean something bad. It can just mean 'as a result of'.

 

[JFlare]

oh

 

[PrincessLillie]

But what about the dark theme?
We know a lot of you browse GBAtemp in Dark mode and we hear you. You're welcome to use the old Dark theme for now while we find the resources to create a Dark version of tempStyle 2.

It's nearly been a year. how long will this take again?