Faceplate Database Update (7/30) see end of thread)

**SpaceGhost2K-XBA** · 11-19-2008, 08:25 PM

**EDIT** SEE THE END OF THE THREAD FOR THE MOST RECENT UPDATE. THANK YOU

It's mid-November, and it's come to our attention that there are a couple of issues with the database. The owner did an upgrade to the site software and it has clashed with a couple of things related to the database. Specifically, it's related to the rollout of the New Xbox Experience and the size of the images and how they fit onto the site.

All that to say, we know there are issues. Right now is mega-game time, ans I'm sure your wallets know. Staff is up to their Ray Ban's in game reviews right now. They ask that we be patient until early December when game releases basically stop. Then I will be able to add new plates and edit existing plates. Plus we'll get the thing fixed that attributes plates incorrectly to errant forum members.

Anyway, since I have your attention... we're going to give a few faceplates away in December. Why should Santa have all the fun?

Nothing is in stone yet, but I wanted to whet your appetite a bit. Some of the plates we'll be stickin' in your stockin' include:

- Two Supreme Commander plates (only 250 were made, and these are coming straight from Jacob at Aspyr!)
- A number of Call of Duty 4 and Yellow Naruto: Rise of a Ninja plates.
- An E305 plate or two.
- Hopefully some additional surprises. You'll know when I know.

Anyway, to maintain the goodwill with our developers and PR people, please check out the websites for these games. Depending on how we decide to do the contest, we may require proof that you downloaded and played the demo for these games. I've got a little research to do before I make that call though, so hang tight.

In the meantime, DO please check out the Supreme Commander site at:

http://www.supcom360.com

Aspyr was very gracious in donating these super-limited plates to us. Wanna know what's cool? In their efforts scouring the web, they had already learned about us from a Supreme Commander thread a while back. To make a point: What we say and what we do DOES get back to the developers. We hope that they see our main goals, not just to add to our collections but to help them promote their games and through that, encourage them to ALWAYS choose faceplates as a way to spend their marketing dollars.

**cin84_12** · 11-20-2008, 02:49 PM

Sounds great Space. Can't wait to see what's coming. I make it a point to try every demo available on the Marketplace at least once. There have been several Arcade and retail games I've purchased that I probably wouldn't have because I enjoyed the demo so much.

**LeThAl REMiX** · 11-30-2008, 02:05 AM

Nice can't wait.

**hellonearth159** · 12-11-2008, 08:44 PM

Spacey,
Any updates on the database?

**SpaceGhost2K-XBA** · 12-12-2008, 02:36 AM

Originally Posted by hellonearth159

Spacey,
Any updates on the database?

No. I haven't heard anything back from Kamshaft. I got a message "let's talk over the weekend," but my weekend was wall to wall working. I haven't heard back from him since then.

I don't know how many Naruto or COD4 plates we'll have, and I haven't gotten the Argonauts plates yet. SupCom plates are here. I think I'll just do one of each plus the other plates for this contest, and then give the other two away in a future contest, so that I've always got some good stuff up my sleeve.

**Ohsay** · 01-23-2009, 03:21 AM

aww man i missed the competition.

boo.

**hellonearth159** · 01-23-2009, 06:41 AM

Originally Posted by hellonearth159

Spacey,
Any updates on the database?

Spacy...monthly status check! is the database dead? There have been no updates for months and new plates keep coming out! Is there anything we can do to help?
Thanks

**SpaceGhost2K-XBA** · 01-23-2009, 12:55 PM

Originally Posted by hellonearth159

Spacy...monthly status check! is the database dead? There have been no updates for months and new plates keep coming out! Is there anything we can do to help?
Thanks

Not really. I've been at the mercy of Kamshaft. He bought a new computer and moved everything site-related over to it. We've talked in the last 3-4 days and he understands that it needs some TLC and fast. People will continue to drop away if I can't continue to add content as it becomes available. I was just thinking about it this morning. I have all of those Japanese celebrity-designed plates in the database. I have pictures of the plates uploaded, but I'd really like to have the pictures of the celebrities that designed the plates included.

I also have more contests to get going, but it seems like every day I get off, something at work goes to hell and I have have to go in. I worked ten hours yesterday with no lunch.

**SpaceGhost2K-XBA** · 01-29-2009, 01:52 PM

Kam got the upload/edit part of the database working again. I changed one of Air Effex plates from "customizer" to "Air Effex" and added my Bangles plate to make sure I could do both. Later tonight, I'll add a bunch of new plates. I've probably got another 50 in line. I have to check them all to make sure they haven't been done before and forgotten, so I'm not adding them in there twice.

**SpaceGhost2K-XBA** · 01-30-2009, 12:55 AM

Yikes. I have 93 more plates to add, sitting in my folder. That will put 1191.

Gotta find nine more plates somewhere.

Ooh, I don't have the Star Ocean one yet...o

**SpaceGhost2K-XBA** · 01-31-2009, 02:18 PM

OK, I'm sell over 100 more plates in my folder so 1,200 isn't going to be a problem. Getting the time to add them before Monday is going to be the problem. Kamshaft also tweaked the portal for the faceplates. The entry to "XBA Chat" is going away on the front page, giving the Faceplate database and forum entry more visibility. He also added a mini window so that the last five plates added can be seen. Then, he added two plates to make sure it was working. I also had the Mayhem Festival plate in my stack of plates to add, so I'll probably tweak his description a bit. The Medal of Honor Airborne plate is signed, so it's different than the MoH:A plate that is in the database already.

We're a little confused as to handle variations and autographed plates. We can list them as separate plates, or we can include them in the "additional pictures" section. If we list them separately, you'll be able to search for autographed plates where you wouldn't be abel to if they were just in the additional pictures areas. But if we list them in the main area, they're really not a distinct plate.

So what we were thinking was that we could assign a code of "Original" or "Variation" to a plate when we entered it into the database. You could sort by "Original" which would give you just the unsigned plates, or "Variation" which would give you all the others, or "All" which would show the whole list. Also, you could search by "Autographed," "Unsigned" or "All" and get any combination of those. I SERIOUSLY doubt we'll be able to search by SIGNER unless there is a way we can search for keywords in the description to look for "Allard" or "Molyneux" or "Cliff".

**pierrevincy** · 02-21-2009, 03:38 PM

I found the package of the AIR JORDAN 2K faceplate :

Yep, I saw that pic, too.

There are two Air Jordan plates. This one, I have seen with both the NBA 2K8 and NBA 2K9 pictures (like in your pic) so I'm not sure if it came with one or the other or both. The other one I've only see with shoes, not with a game. They're both in the database, but because the info is sketchy and I can't do "additional pictures" yet, I can't add that pic that you just posted.

**SpaceGhost2K-XBA** · 03-03-2009, 05:16 PM

We are currently at 1114 plates, and I have another 137 plates in my folder to be added. Before I start that venture though, I'm going to go through the forums again and see if there is something recent that I might have missed... most likely some of Air Effex customs, if anything.

**SpaceGhost2K-XBA** · 03-03-2009, 06:07 PM

O
M
G.

I'm over 200 more pics in the folder. Lots of them came from Air Effex's myspace but some are ohsay's and others too.

Wow.

I know there are dupes of some of air effex plates so that number will go down. Bad part is, I have to check them all to see if I've already put any in and if they're under his name.

When I get done with this, we could have over 1,300 plates.

**SpaceGhost2K-XBA** · 03-12-2009, 03:38 PM

New update. I'm still adding plates to my folder on an almost daily basis.

Here's where we currently stand:

Uploaded: 1186!
Ready to upload: 106
Need work before uploading: 26

Once these are all in, it will put us at 1318 plates.

**hellonearth159** · 03-12-2009, 08:56 PM

Spacy,
How many of you remaining plates are corporate?

**SpaceGhost2K-XBA** · 03-12-2009, 09:09 PM

Originally Posted by hellonearth159

Spacy,
How many of you remaining plates are corporate?

Not sure.
4 GOW2, 2 SFIV, 2 RE5, 3 RB, Last Rem, Rise of Argonauts, Star Ocean, 6 UK Futbol, Olympique de Marseille, the two Halo Wars plates, five from Imageware, 2 NFL, Ninja Gaiden console, Koin.... console, Prince of Persia, 2 Pelican, Champ of Gaming, Red console, etc.

**SpaceGhost2K-XBA** · 03-16-2009, 09:19 PM

Yay! We've officially broken twelve hundred plates!

The current count stands at 1212.

I'm gonna go eat.

**SpaceGhost2K-XBA** · 03-22-2009, 05:35 PM

Stardate 2009.3.22. Spring is here. Yeah, whatever.

OK, you have probably noticed some changes in the forums. There are a couple more coming, but for now some dead stuff was pruned, and some new stuff planted. And since there's plenty of fertilizer in this place to go around, it should be growing again nicely.

As far as the faceplate database goes, the situation is the same as the forums. There's new stuff already in place, and new stuff on the table. The stuff on the table is going to stay there, because I don't want to turn into Peter Molyneux and tell you the database is gonna let you kick chickens and then take it away from you. Or something like that.

What we now have in the Database is Alternate Pictures and Variation Pictures.

Here's an example of a Variation Picture:

(imagine picture of Medal of Honor Airborne plate)
(imagine picture of Medal of Honor Airborne autographed plate)

Same plate, but one is signed and one is not. The "altered" plate is the Variation. There will be a lot of Variation plates for the E305 Rings of Light, for example, because there are a lot of them out there signed by different people.

Also, custom plates with the same theme but different versions will be Variation Plates. For instance, I will have a pic for the "Heroes" title, and then a second plate with "Heroes" and the Sylar Slash with blood around the DVD slot. I also did a number of both. "Heroes" will be the master, "Sylar Slash" will be the Variation, and then BOTH pics will have Alternate Pictures.

Alternate pictures will be extra pictures you can see when you click on a plate. Right now, when you're on the plate's page, you can't enjarge the original picture. Over time, I have to go back into every page and add every faceplate as its own Additional Image so it will let you open up a bigger picture. Then, if I have them, I will add additional pictures. For instance, the Japanese plates all have add'l photos of their designers holding the plate, and the plates on display.

Ach, gotta go put out a fire. Laters.