> 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

 

[Blue]

both of you were late i said NVM

Or quick, because we quoted you before the edit applied

 

[TimX24968B]

Or quick, because we quoted you before the edit applied

now i just gotta update my sig to mention it.

 

[AlanJohn]

Fuck yes

 

[doughmay]

I love the new temp look! So new...So shiny...Now to wait for the dark theme....

 

[FateForWindows]

Looks really nice, but on my 1366x768 screen the viewing space is a little less than before. It looks closer to Tempstyle if I set the zoom to 90%.

 

[FAST6191]

I too favour having a screen brighter than the sun but taming it by having it display dark colours (since I ditched the SLI setup it doubles as a nice heater), all while making my computer theme look like default windows 2000.

The layout is nice though.

 

[lonewolf08]

I kinda like the new design but it feels like everything is in my face while at the same time none of the important things are in front of my face. I use this site on mobile 99.99% of the time , the only time I use the computer version is when I do my update time where I update everything that I use on the 3ds. I have a fairly big phone 5.5inch and I will be upgrading soon to a 5.7inch phone and I never had any issues with the old one, everything was fast and easy to access but I didn't like that I couldn't tell which tab I was on.

With this one I can tell which tab I'm on but I don't have easy access to the latest alerts, by that I mean before I could click the alert at the top and it would list the latest alerts and the absolute newest ones were highlighted so I wouldn't open two tabs of the same thread. Now I have to click the avatar, click alerts and then it takes me to the dedicated alert page and the newest ones are not highlighted or at least not noticeable so.

Quick reply is missing a lot of the functionality of the old one and I know I know it's quick reply lonewolf most people didn't use the editing stuff anyways. It was a nice touch and allowed me to see if there were new replies or if I wanted to include other people while I edited the first reply without having to double post.

Being on mobile I use this site pretty much anywhere but mostly in bed at night which desperately needs a dark theme but that will come with time. If I find anymore things I'll edit my post.

I'm posting this here too for visibility and because it seems everyone is posting their thoughts on this thread.

Edit: no quick access to conversations and I completely don't see the old watch threads or whatever it was called that would show the threads you haven't been keeping up on with the option to see all threads you're watching. The more and more i use this new style the less and less I'm liking it =/. I'm also experienceing slightly more lag? When I open a new tab and in the current tab I tab something and switch to new tab, when I go back to the first tab I realize it has stopped loading what I clicked on and have to tap it again and sit there while it loads.

 

[HaloEliteLegend]

Things like this remind me of why I love GBATemp so much. Keep up the amazing progress, everyone!

 

[Justinde75]

I just opened it and it fucking BURNED my eyes

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Also seriously? Patreon for tempstyle dark?
Going back to the old one.

 

[Seliph]

Whoa
Cool

 

[gamefan5]

My eyes are burning...

but my burned eyes are freaking happy with the changes.
I am willing to be patient until a dark style of v2 arrives. The UI is so much more clean, faster and easier on the eyes, for finding information.

 

[ATofix]

I'm getting more lag on my PC now with the new website update...

 

[TimX24968B]

I'm getting more lag on my PC now with the new website update...

It feels like alot more effort, at least in stylizing the new site, went more towards mobile, and not so much PC

 

[shaunj66]

Please can you stop posting complaining about the lack of a dark version, seriously, it's coming - we even addressed it in the first post. You don't need to complain about your eyes hurting from a white web page (maybe you should address your concerns to an optician). We get it! There's just no point making a second version of the theme until we have addressed all the teething issues first with this one which the dark one will be built off of - I'm not about to make bug fixes to 2 separate themes when people can just be patient and wait or revert back to the old dark style.

The dark version is coming just be patient.

 

[TimX24968B]

Please can you stop posting complaining about the lack of a dark version, seriously, it's coming - we even addressed it in the first post. You don't need to complain about your eyes hurting from a bright web page (maybe you should address your concerns to an optician). We get the point. There's just no point making a second version of the theme until we have addressed all the teething issues first with this one which the dark one will be built off of - I'm not about to make bug fixes to 2 separate themes when people can just be patient and wait or revert back to the old dark style.

The dark version is coming just be patient.

why does the new theme look oversimplified and overly clean, though? it looks kind of bland personally, but was that just a design choice to make it more "modern", or is there more to be added?

 

[fmhugo]

A nice surprise

 

[VinsCool]

why does the new theme look oversimplified and overly clean, though? it looks kind of bland personally, but was that just a design choice to make it more "modern", or is there more to be added?

It's a design choice. Take or leave. You can always use the older theme if it bothers you that much.

 

[shaunj66]

why does the new theme look oversimplified and overly clean, though?

By that notion it should be overcomplicated and messy? Not sure I get the criticism!

 

[AsPika2219]

Oh yeah! New GBATemp look! I hope animated avatar bugs will fixed SOON™!

 

[Skelletonike]

I miss the dark theme. >.>
Blue always hurts my eyes for some reason.