I'm not sure what the problem is here, do you want us to ask permission to host a free mirror for your custom covers?

sixtyten wrote on Jul 1^st, 2010, 11:36pm:

Your first post is confusing, you said "I love the Dreamcast community as much as the next guy, and do everything I can to support it", then you ask for the covers to be taken down, that doesn't make any sense to me.

sixtyten wrote on Jul 1^st, 2010, 11:36pm:

We have put in place a limit of five posts before allowing links to try and combat spam on the forum, it is just a preventative measure and is not meant to annoy anyone, here's a link to the album you are concerned about:

ReviveDC Project DVD Covers

You have misread the album description, it clearly says "Mirror for", it does not imply that Photobucket is the mirror, it also has the URL for the original source. We have tried to credit every source in every album, if the covers come from another site we try to ensure the description says the album is a mirror. On top of that we have tried to credit every custom cover within the gallery, just click on any of your covers and you will see. Try to download any of your covers and you will also see Sixtyten has also been added to the filename. Nobody else within the community has gone to those lengths to create an archive for custom Dreamcast covers.

sixtyten wrote on Jul 1^st, 2010, 11:36pm:

I am really at a loss here, the whole reason your custom covers are in the gallery is for the community, in fact everything on the site is for the community. Hundreds of covers that were once considered lost are within the gallery, and we are also still tracking down the ones that are missing. The covers are not floating around the internet, they are archived for the community.


sixtyten wrote on Jul 1^st, 2010, 11:36pm:

How is one question asking what you want being a smartass?, we will gladly continue to mirror your custom covers for the community just as we do with thousands of other covers, but if you still want your covers removed, just post back.

sixtyten wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2010, 2:38pm:

The problem stems back many years, the Dreamcast community has always been fragmented for one reason or another, there are always small pockets of fans here and there, but now the community is even smaller it's easy for someone looking from the outside to see the scene as dead. I guess someone would really want to be a part of the community to even consider helping with any projects, and to be honest I do not think there are that many that can spare the time to help (or maybe they just cannot be bothered).

sixtyten wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2010, 2:38pm:

Sadly sometimes it does end up being a one man effort, but the way I look at it is like this: if just one person gets some pleasure out of something you have created then the effort was worth it. For every single person that likes something, there will be thousands of others who do not, but is that a reason to deprive that one person of simple pleasure.

sixtyten wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2010, 2:38pm:

I am sure the community would be grateful for any contribution, I am not sure how we will go about submissions though, I guess we could look into setting up an FTP account or something (if not good old email), I'll get back to you about that. A printing guide would be great, are you using just text or including pictures?. We only have a couple of guides in the gallery so far, perhaps something like these would work:

Tutorials

sixtyten wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2010, 2:38pm:

We are primarily an independent (homebrew) network, we had planned on doing something for a commercial section but the work on the indie stuff takes all our free time. Perhaps in the future we will incorporate a commercial game section within DCHelp. I will point out though that we do not want any warez on the sites (there's enough grey area material already), we are trying to keep the network as legal as possible, the line has been drawn for custom covers and scans, and we will not host or link to commercial games.

sixtyten wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2010, 2:38pm:

Apology accepted, I too would like to apologize for any problems caused by not contacting you almost two years ago when we first put the mirror album in the gallery. It certainly was not our intention to cause any problems, all we are trying to do is gather together all the contributions that have been made for the community (and maybe show a few people along the way that the scene is not dead after all).

sixtyten wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2010, 2:38pm:

To be honest, back then we had just started to rebuild the sites from the ground up after being hacked, there was no real direction of where to go or what to do, and as you have found out it can be disappointing trying to rally support for yet another Dreamcast project. We decided to go it alone and try to build up a repository of all the fragmented community output, the gallery is just one part of the repository (and even that is far from being complete).

If you are interested in using DCHelp as a base for the commercial game info you have compiled, I will get in touch with Curt (our web Guru) to try to sort where to go next.

If you need to talk out ideas or anything related to your artwork just send me a PM, I will check back here tomorrow (maybe later tonight) when things slow down a bit at home, as much as I love the Summer - I truly hate the chores .