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History - 2004
FCB Fun III AIM Chat (2004)
A FAQer chat from what I think is 2004; this takes place over about 3 hours, from 23:30-02:30 GMT.
First FAQ Progress of the Year (1st January 2004)
The FAQ Progress from New Years Day!
6th Prolific FAQers Tournament (1st January 2004 - 26th January 2004)
At the start of the year the 6th Prolific FAQers Tournament begin, ending toward the end of the month. As always the event was hosted by Devin Morgan (with the bracket created by Brian Sulpher), where over 25 days 128 writers compete to be crowned the winner. This time voters had to give reasoning with their votes to get rid of the cheating issue. At the end, Adrenaline SL beat ASchultz to claim her second prolific tournament victory.
Announcement Poll - Page 1 | Page 2
Division 1, Round 1 - Page 1
Division 2, Round 1 - Page 1 | Page 2
Division 3, Round 1 - Page 1
Division 4, Round 1 - Page 1
Division 5, Round 1 - Page 1
Division 6, Round 1 - Page 1
Division 7, Round 1 - Page 1
Division 8, Round 1 - Page 1
Division 1, Round 2 - Page 1 | Page 2
Division 2, Round 2 - Page 1
Division 3, Round 2 - Page 1
Division 4, Round 2 - Page 1
Division 5, Round 2 - Page 1
Division 6, Round 2 - Page 1
Division 7, Round 2 - Page 1
Division 8, Round 2 - Page 1
Divisions 1-2, Round 3 - Page 1
Divisions 3-4, Round 3 - Page 1
Divisions 5-6, Round 3 - Page 1
Divisions 7-8, Round 3 - Page 1
Divisions 1-4, Division Finals - Page 1
Divisions 5-8, Division Finals - Page 1
Quarter Finals - Page 1
Semi-Finals - Page 1
Final Round - Page 1
Tournament Winner Topic - Page 1
SinirothX gets busted for plagiarism. (3rd January 2004)
Siniroth X, once famous for his long and in depth Final Fantasy FAQs, gets caught out plagiarising Split Infinity via putting in semi-intentional false data and wording to get him. Sini's FF FAQs got removed from the site, and he has rarely been seen on the FCB since.
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Did the game developers contact you relating to your FAQ? (7th January 2004)
A topic asking if any game developers have gotten in contact with writers relating to their work. There are replies from a crop of regulars, including CJayC.
PARTY AT SULPHERS! (9th January 2004)
An usually long FAQ Progress, with no arguing either! Ah, the good old days. =)
Board Snapshot (10th January 2004)
STOP... snapshot time! Below are links to the topic pages for all three of the boards, showing the topics that were on this date.
Split List - Link
General - Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4
Help and Critiques - Page 1 | Page 2
How long did it take you to go prolific? (10th January 2004)
Writers say how long it took them to go prolific. Accordance to that date, of course. ;)
Do your other hobbies get in the way of FAQ writing? (11th January 2004)
King Kool creates a topic on the FCB Social about what hobbies get in the way of writing, with a rather funny post from Brian Sulpher.
Zoop PWNED Steve. (11th January 2004)
How or why I don't know... but this topic contains some trolling, Warhawk imitation and Shark / SF76 fondle around. >_>
Trace returns to the FCB! (12th January 2004)
After Meowthnum1 left GameFAQs, he returns to answers a question from me frog involving the tournament. People jumped at him however...
FAQers go E3. (13th January 2003)
Some FAQers are going to E3, however the topic soon goes off topic and out of control...
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Who are your favourite non prolific writers? (14th January 2004)
Another one of those monthly ego raising topics rolls around.
What happened to the old CJayC? (14th January 2004)
A topic pondering on what happened to the Jeff V of old. Includes replies by CJayC himself.
Zoop and Steve bitch at each other once more (15th January 2004)
Read above. You get the picture, right?
Version: Cheese!? (18th January 2004)
Someone makes their FAQ version 'Cheese', and a topic is made with reactions from writers. It's still the same today, and somewhat paved the way for custom versions for FAQs.
Don't you hate it when someone finds something cool? (18th January 2004)
Steve goes on about something (chances are it was to do with Zoop) and fellow FCB users respond.
AstroBlue's gets a funny email. (23rd January 2004)
Astro gets sent a strange but rather funny email that has nothing to do with FAQing...
10 Point FAQers. (23rd January 2004)
A favourite FAQer topic with a difference; writers are asked to allocate 10 points to their favourites.
The Fourth NPFWT (24th January 2004 - March 2004)
The fourth non-prolific tournament, this time hosted by Guitarfreak86. The first topic regarding this tournament was today, and included signups and rule topics throughout February and in March, the tournament begin. However it was never finished and ended after a few rounds. Below are topics from the idea stage to the first few matchups.
Tournament Logo - Image
Announcement Topic - Page 1
The Draft Topic - Page 1 | Page 2
Seeding Topic - Page 1
Groups Topic - Page 1
Replacement for RHarrison Topic - Page 1
Voting System Explanation Topic - Page 1
First Round Matchups - Page 1
First Round Matchups cont. - Page 1
First Round Matchups cont. 2 - Page 1
FOTM and ROTM Winners Announced... (24th January 2004)
CJayC announces the winners of the recent FotM and RotM competitions.
Deadmeat's Illegal Casino! (25th January 2004)
Deadmeat X opens his casino on the Social board, where writers bet on the second Deadmeat posts in. A fun topic that reached 6 pages.
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Another long FAQ Progress! (25th January 2004)
A two page FAQ Progress that I thought was worth including.
The new FAQ of the Day - Sign ups (25th January 2004)
This topic is the signups for the FAQ of the Day, as well as the line up announced the following day.
IKEA: The Game: The Walkthrough. (26th January 2004)
CJayC makes a topic about a joke FAQ for Ikea on another site. Naturally, the topic gets swamped by CJayC fanatics...
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Top 25 FAQ Authors by full dot walkthroughs (28th January 2004)
A ranking of the top writers at the FCB, by amount of full dot walkthroughs they have written.
How do you write yours? (31st January 2004)
me frog asks fellow members how they write their FAQs.
FAQ Progress - Steve vs. Masamune3, fight! (31st January 2004)
After the first one got deleted, this one is created and contains more fun argumentation. =)
FAQ Progress - 3 pages of sheer awesomeness (1st February 2004)
February starts just like January ended - with a cracking FAQ Progress. Three pages of pure magic that only the days of old managed to bring.
Suggestions for 7 Older Bounty-Worthy Games (February 2004)
CJayC wants suggestions for 7 more retro game bounties to make a total of 50. Two topics were made, one asking on the 2nd and another three days later announcing what he choose (in fact he added 9). Both topics can be seen below.
Needed: 7 Older Bounty-Worthy Games - Page 1
9 More Bounties Added - Page 1
Problems with recently complete FAQs and the new FOTM... (3rd February 2004)
Zoop creates a small fuss about how his recently completed FAQ can't be entered into the new rules FAQ of the Month. CJayC replies and later changes the system. Naturally, Zoop wins the said FOTM.
FAQ Writing Program Suggestions, please! (3rd February 2004)
Masamune3 plans to make an FAQ Writing program and asks fellow writers for suggestions.
Dingo Jellybean overtakes Psycho Penguin in the KB rankings... without even contributing anything new. (4th February 2004)
Steve asks why Dingo overtook him in the KB rankings (hosted by Devin). Dingo had requested a guide not to be counted ages back, but as the KB system was changing this was forgotten and so it was counted.
Mike (StarFighers76) gets 'owned' by CJayC (5th February 2004)
An ATTN:CJayC topic is made, with a reply from Mike saying he will never read it. However...
Another case of someone selling guides on eBay. (6th February 2004)
Someone reports that someone is selling guides on eBay, a reoccurring case for writers.
Vegita leaves the FCB. (8th February 2004)
Regular visitor and long time writer Vegita posts his leaving topic.
The early bird gets the FAQ Progress? (9th February 2004)
nm14 firstly posts the 'official' FAQ Progress for that day too early, and it gets closed.
The early FAQ used the ROM? (10th February 2004)
Steve complains at how everyone is using the ROM of Metroid: Zero Mission to write the FAQ before the game's release.
Let's create a list of FAQs CheatCC has stolen... (13th February 2004)
A CheatCC topic.
If your guide is taken by another web site without permission, DMCA 'em. (14th February 2004)
Yet another CJayC topic in early 2004, he gives advise to FAQers about action against guide stealing sites.
Attn the Devin the Morgan (16th February 2004)
nm14 posts a topic to ' the Devin the Morgan' about his impending prolific status.
Another FAQ Progress, another argument about the post time (16th February 2004)
The FAQ Progress gets posted 10 minutes early. Naturally, another war breaks out between the FAQers. =)
Board Snapshot (17th February 2004)
STOP... snapshot time! Below are links to the topic pages for all three of the boards, showing the topics that were on this date.
Split List - Link
General - Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4
Help and Critiques - Page 1 | Page 2
Contributor Registration Issues (17th February 2004)
Thanks to someone, CJayC had no choice but to make it impossible to register existing contributor accounts with new board accounts.
Overlord Bounty, anyone? (23rd February 2004)
CJayC offers material for anyone working on an Overlord bounty.
nm14 asks CJayC for a bounty extension... (24th February 2004)
djg40, StarFighers76 and Crazyreyn argue with nm14 as he asks CJayC if a bounty deadline can be put back so he can work on the FAQ.
7th Prolific FAQers Tournament (1st April 2004)
Another 128 of the top prolific writers at that time entered to see who was to take the crown this year. In the end, BSulpher and AstroBlue were finalists with BSulpher claiming his second tournament victory with 17 votes to 12.
Brian Sulpher's Super Great Amazingly Spectacular FAQ Critique Topic! (17th May 2004)
Spanning almost two years and the first 500 topic on the board, Brian hilariously critiques various FAQs that users put forward!
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Regarding Chris MacDonald... (19th May 2004)
On the 17th May 2004, Chris MacDonald, aka Kao Megura passed away. This topic was created two days after by his brother, Charles, passing on the message to the FAQing community, and reaches the 500 post mark. CJayC also put the message on the front page to inform the rest of the site.
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The NES FAQ Completion Project (24th May 2004)
Created by ASchultz, the NES FAQ Completion Project aims to have a complete FAQ for every NES title on the site. This is on going to this day, and is on it's fifth topic (which will be added when it's completed). Thanks to Revned for saving the old topic files.
Update - Between February and November 2005, 100 games were covered thanks to this project!
First Topic - Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 | Page 6 | Page 7 | Page 8 | Page 9 | Page 10
Second Topic - Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 | Page 6 | Page 7 | Page 8 | Page 9 | Page 10
Third Topic - Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 | Page 6 | Page 7 | Page 8 | Page 9 | Page 10
Forth Topic - Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3| Page 4 | Page 5 | Page 6 | Page 7 | Page 8 | Page 9 | Page 10
Fifth Topic - Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 | Page 6 | Page 7 | Page 8 | Page 9 | Page 10
Website - Link
Elliot "Ny0Cloud" Long passes away (2nd September 2004)
Meowthnum1 informs the FAQing community of another death, of the contributor Ny0Cloud.
Devin's last prolific FAQ ranking site update. (13th September 2004)
I saved the last update that Devin made to his FAQ ranking page for nostalgia purposes, to see what the website was like and who was ranked where at the time.
Applying to college and want to put FAQing in there somewhere? (7th November 2004)
Here is a topic containing a paragraph I used in my UCAS (British Universities) application. I think it worked well for me, so it's a nice guideline I guess.
