Archive.vg now open to the public

**finkmac** · 07-31-2012

Well, I figure the assembler games community will be more interested in this than the gbatemp community, So, I'll post this bit of news here too…

Surprised no one on this site has noticed it…

Archive.vg, a site by the same person who runs the macscene.org forums, Is now open to the public.
Previously, Only "Blue Key" (fancy way of saying "beta") members were allowed in.

That's right, Archive.vg is officially open to the public. Tell your friends, parents, children, pets, enemies—everyone, basically. We're still in beta, but now anyone can browse the site and signup.
Here's a recap of who we are, what we're about, and what's been going down during our beta period.

Video Games, Databases, Apps, Discussion

We're seven guys from around the United States and abroad who put our skills to use making a new home for games and everything we love about them. We've built a database—a big one (the biggest, we believe)—to house information about video games. Think IMDb, but for games. Almost 100,000 of them, at last count. And with a better interface and design. We're working on making it bigger and better, and you can help.

I was lucky enough to be a "Blue Key" member, and I can tell you, the site has a LOT of content… It also looks very nice… All that skeumorphism…

Archive.vg is also partnered with the "OpenEmu" project, a "Multi Video Game System" Emulator, looks to me like they will be integrated together eventually…

iPhone App coming zoo, as well…

From OpenEmu's twitter description:

OpenEmu is an open source project to bring video game emulation to OSX as a first class citizen, via its modular architecture. #openemuon irc.freenode.net

This is probably a bigger deal for Mac users than Windows/Linux user, however.

They posted like 5 articles in the last 5 minutes…

http://www.archive.vg

http://archive.vg/blog/8-site-news/3...to-the-archive

Story behind it…

**GrindheadJim** · 07-31-2012

Joined. Looks like a great resource. :)

**cez** · 08-01-2012

Looks great. After I created my account though (same ID as here) and tried to login it just says "user id too short". Do you know of a way to contact an admin over there?

**CodeAsm** · 08-01-2012

creating accound now, nice quick search algoritms. wonder what it do under high pressure :D

**finkmac** · 08-01-2012

Well, you could try contacting him at http://www.macscene.org…
Or, If you have Skype, I have his contact.

**pool7** · 08-01-2012

Is it just me or the website is painfully slow? (I know, I know, it's most likely all the people that are using it now that it's publicly available).

**CodeAsm** · 08-01-2012

quick this morning... I was thinking about asking about the search speed under high pressure... more money more servers ?
Ill see where they go, im never going to pay for game info, for playing is a different story :P ow and the emu's should always offer a free version with unlimited play. Wait, I like the website, thats this topic about, looks nice, different background please, dont like sports. needs Android/Windows apps ?