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History - 2005
The NES FAQ Completion Project - The Second Topic (12th January 2005)
The popular project has already reached 500 posts and is on to it's second topic. To see more about the project and the topic, see the below link.
The death of Pope John Paul II (1st March 2005)
Chad incorrectly announces the death of the Pope. However, he passes away the next day.
Sash says sorry for his April Fool's Joke. (4th March 2005)
Sashanan, of whom got his April Fool's topic moderated on the General board for trolling, says sorry. =P
The FAQers Profile and History site begins. (16th March 2005)
The first draft of the website was uploaded on this day and profiles were added. It was then called 'The Official FCB Profiles and History'.
Split Infinity reaches the 10Mb mark! (24th March 2005)
Split reaches 10Mb, with FCB users recognising this achievement.
My name's King Kool, and this is the longest 4 years of my life... (25th March 2005)
What starts out as an innocent topic by King Kool, it covers a range of topics - or rather, arguments!
Summer Plans 2005 (29th March 2005)
FCB users discuss what they are planning to do with their summers on the Social board.
December 2004, January + February 2005 FotM Winners Announcement Topic (8th April 2005)
The winners for the FAQ of the Month competition are announced.
FAQ Progress Posting Time Argument no. 235 (23rd April 2005)
FAQers once again argue about the timing of the FAQ Progresses, mainly spearheaded by Psycho Penquin, of whom gets modded a few times to boot.
FAQ Plans: May (30th April 2005)
The FAQ Plans topic for May 2005.
40Kb a day... (1st May 2005)
...keeps the doctor away. Well it doesn't, I just tried to make this introduction more interesting. FAQers boast how much how fast they can work.
BostonFuse51 co-authors with... himself! (2nd May 2005)
BF51 submits an FAQ with Relle, only to find that on the game page he's co-authored with himself!
Pyramid Head rapes demons. Literally. (3rd May 2005)
Zoop explains his choice of vote for the Spring Character tournament.
zomg pix? (4th May 2005)
Karpah proclaims her love for emails when someone asks her for her pic.
E3 2005 - The guys return home! (5th May 2005)
Chad updates his website with images from his recent E3 visit with Devin and Brian.
Steve loves his manager (5th May 2005)
He gets sent home from work for wearing dark jeans...
The FCB's first sticky topic - FAQ Hosting Sites, Good or Bad? (10th May 2005)
The FAQ Contributor Board gets sticky with this topic by Michael Sarich. I'll add pages as they get completed.
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FAQ Progress - Devin has words with a troll. (12th May 2005)
A troll hampers Devin in an FAQ Progress topic.
Psycho Penguin reaches 10Mb! (17th May 2005)
A topic celebrating Steve's great achievement.
PlayStation 3 is announced just before E3. (17th May 2005)
A topic discussing the next generation of video games consoles.
Congrats Split ... again! (19th May 2005)
Yami congrats Split again for reaching 10Mb around 6 weeks since he did it. =) Also contains more squabbling between Masamune 3 and Psycho Penguin.
Writing for DDR is hard. (24th May 2005)
CyricZ explains why it's hard writing for Dance Dance Revolution games these days.
Remember Brakker Z? (27th May 2005)
flowerpot asks the Social board if they remember him...
Your Top 5 FAQers 2005 (3rd June 2005)
FAQers state their top five FAQ writers.
Why copyright, right? (6th June 2005)
A user puts forward his views on copyrights in FAQs.
Alex reaches the 10Mb Mark! (8th June 2005)
The recent popular FAQer Alex reaches the 10Mb mark!
Sulpher, Alex and PP are too popular for my liking, says one random person (11th June 2005)
With the recent Top 5 FAQers topic, TheeMikester announces his unknown five faves and questions why people like popular FAQers so much. Naturally the statement goes down a treat with the regulars...
Merit Celaire and his gaming 'criteria'. (23rd June 2005)
FAQer Merit tells of his criteria that he keeps in mind when purchasing titles... a rather good topic.
FCSB 2005 Summer Targets (24th June 2005)
Merit Celaire asks fellow writers what they plan to write over the summer.
Antseezee and his website. (25th June 2005)
Dang, I'm GOOD with those titles, eh? Anyway, a FAQer applauds his website and antseezee announces his own FAQer rating site...
Battle of the Bands 2005 (26th June 2005)
A year on since the first Battle of the Bands tournament, hosts gobicamel and Gbness host the 2005 edition of this tournament! The Beatles won, naturally.
Round 1-1 - Page 1
Round 1-2 - Page 1
Round 1-3 - Page 1
Round 1-4 - Page 1
Round 1-5 - Page 1
Round 1-6 - Page 1
Round 1-7 - Page 1
Round 1-8 - Page 1
Round 2-1 - Page 1
Round 2-2 - Page 1
Round 2-3 - Page 1
Round 2-4 - Page 1
Round 3-1 - Page 1
Round 3-2 - Page 1
Final Round - Page 1
Tournament Winner Topic - Page 1
Scapped Projects. (1st July 2005)
FAQers tell the board the FAQs they have scrapped in the past.
Another Shark joke... with a difference. (1st July 2005)
BTB's Shark jokes are a big hit at this time (>_>) so Alex decides to contribute his own.
8th Prolific FAQers Tournament (1st July 2005)
Over a year on since the last tournament (as the last few had the same competitors with little change in ranks), Devin Morgan presented the much awaited 8th prolific tournament, reflected by the high turnouts and heated discussions that occurred every other round. However at the end of it all, Devin Morgan lost to BSulpher making a total of three prolific tournament victories; his second on the trot!
Announcement Topic - 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 1, Round 2 - Page 1
Division 2, Round 2 - Page 1
Division 3, Round 2 - Page 1
Division 4, Round 2 - Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3
Divisions 1-2, Round 3 - Page 1
Divisions 3-4, Round 3 - Page 1
Quarter Finals - Page 1
Semi-Finals - Page 1
Final Round - Page 1
Tournament Winner Topic - Page 1
When will YOU reach 10Mb? (3rd July 2005)
A topic asking FAQers when they think they will reach the 10Mb mark.
London wins the 2012 bid! (6th July 2005)
A topic celebrating London's winning of the Olympic bid. However the events of the next day over shadow this...
The 7/7 London Bombings (7th July 2005)
A topic pondering on the cause of the events in London on the 7th July.
CVXFREAK says hi. (7th July 2005)
Hi CVX.
Hypro Gets Banned. (7th July 2005)
Hypro gets another account banned for making comments about the London Bombings.
July AIM Chat (7th July 2005)
A topic announcing an AIM Chat for FAQers. Below is the topic as well as the chats.
How long have you spend on a game? (9th July 2005)
nm14 asks the Social board how long FCB users the longest they have spend playing a game.
FAQ posted in the 60's shocker! (9th July 2005)
Someone gets their FFX2 FAQ posted on the 31st December 1969.
BTB asks... (10th July 2005)
...what did the legless surfer say to the lifeguard?
Crazyreyn turns 18! (11th July 2005)
The topic celebrating the birthday of the magnificent Crazyreyn the third.
nm14 argues in an FAQ Progress. (12th July 2005)
nm14 argues about something (negative comments with Devin?) in an FAQ Progress.
Trace... the history teacher! (13th July 2005)
CVXFREAK and Trace both want to teach history, it seems. =P
The Fifth Non-Prolific FAQers Tournament (14th July 2005)
Brought back to life by the reappearance of the 8th Prolific Tournament (which was on going when it began), Trace (Meowthnum1, winner of the first tournament) hosts the latest non-prolific tournament (titled the second non-prolific tournament). 47 entrants were nominated and the remaining 19 were taken from Patterson's prolific ranking (using writers that came short from being in the Prolific tournament). Unlike the other non-prolific tournaments, each writers CRP was used instead of the normal one FAQ for judging. In the semi finals, Snow Dragon beat Crazyreyn and Pheonix 1911 beat ATadeo. Snow Dragon won in the final.
P.S. This really isn't the second non prolific tournament, I believe. This is the fifth, but only the second or third that was actually completed properly. krustster ran the first, BTB ran the second and third, Guitarfreak86 ran the fourth, and Meowthnum1 ran this one.
P.S.S. You may have noticed that the last few tournament pages are missing. For some reason, I can't find them. I could have *sworn* that I saved the buggers, so sadly you won't be able to know what exactly happened in the latter stages. Sorry. If anyone happened to save them, then please email me them. Thanks. >_>
Idea Topic - Page 1
Announcement and Nomination Topic - Page 1 | Page 2
Bracket Announcement Topic - Page 1
Division 1, Round 1 - Page 1
Division 2, Round 1 - Page 1
Division 3, Round 1 - Page 1
Division 4, Round 1 - Page 1
Division 1, Round 2 - Page 1
Division 2, Round 2 - Page 1
Division 3, Round 2 - Page 1
Division 4, Round 2 - Page 1
Divisions 1-2, Round 3 - Page 1
Divisions 3-4, Round 3 - Page 1
Quarter Finals - Page 1
Semi Finals - Snow Dragon > Crazyreyn , Phoenix 1911 > ATadeo
Final Round - Snow Dragon > Phoenix 1911
Winner Announcement - Page 1
New Hits and Ratings in the Contributor Central (15th July 2005)
CJayC announces the new hits and ratings system for contributors.
Trace's Tournament Troubles (16th July 2005)
Meowthnum1 discuses the tournament on the Social board.
Have you talked to other FAQers? (16th July 2005)
Via cellphone, or course. Or mobile phone, which is the same thing. Ahem.
Astro Blade's rating topic. (16th July 2005)
Because apparently, he had nothing else to do at that moment. This spawns several rating topics, killing thousands of brain cells in the process.
Trace Jackson and the fully read novel (16th July 2005)
Meowthnum1 finishes the latest Harry Potter book, The Half Blood Prince on the day of release. Note that the topic may contain some spoilers for the said book.
I need 10cc's of WhatPulse, stat. (16th July 2005)
The creation of the FAQ Contributors WhatPulse team.
His FAQ got excepted. (17th July 2005)
Someone gets their first FAQ excepted. ;)
FAQ Hits Total Topic (17th July 2005)
Thanks to the recent update in the FAQ hits, FCB users calculate their total hits so far in the year, and the average amount.
You log your account in, you log your account out... (18th July 2005)
In out, in out, rating FAQs is what CJayC is on about. He addresses an issue with the recent FAQ rating system.
Myke pops up at the Social board. (18th July 2005)
Absent from the FCB for a while, he turns up and says hello and realises how long he's been on the site.
What game am I? (21st July 2005)
BTB pits video game character riddles at the users of the Social board.
Yami rocks the contest! (23rd July 2005)
Space Medafighter X / SMX / Yami Shurieriejprjealot is doing rather well in the 2005 Summer Contest.
Go Frog. (24th July 2005)
Zoop creates a topic discussing the ongoing Summer Contest, which changes to which Zelda games are the best.
General FAQ Questions - The Help and Critiques sticky topic (24th July 2005)
Kirby021591 created this topic with helpful Q+A's.
YSF and his Kb raising trickery! (25th July 2005)
FAQers discover how YSF has been raising his Kb total...
What are some things you usually cannot stand in video games? (27th July 2005)
Gbness poses this question to the Social board.
Berserker93 wins IGN's Writer of the Month! (30th July 2005)
The topic celebrating another WOTM award winner.
Itchy itchy Scott came... (30th July 2005)
Zoop and fellow FCB users reminisce about Resident Evil.
Meet the FAQers! (August 2005)
nintendomaster14 conducts interviews with a range of FAQers and posts them on the Social Board. I will post the interviews here so they are all together.
Game List added in Contributor Central (2nd August 2005)
A topic announcing uncovered game lists by system in Contributor Central.
Maps and Images get their own section on FAQ Pages! (3rd August 2005)
A long time coming, on this date maps and images have their own section separate from In Depth FAQs. Starfighers76 informs the board.
F-Zero GKiss (4th August 2005)
Zoop tells the Social board his love for F-Zero GX, with a rather surprising comment from Alex...
The Summer 2005 Moderator Applications open! (4th August 2005)
A topic talking about the moderator applications that where open over that weekend. Although four regulars from the FCB made it, interestingly none of them posted in this topic.
Chad appears in Nintendo Power! (7th August 2005)
SubSane spots BTB on the Pokemon XD page in the August 2005 edition of Nintendo Power.
BIG FAQER CHAT! (9th August 2005)
With your host, Astro Blade. Kudos to Steve (Psycho_Penguin) for saving the chat.
The FAQers Profile and History - Version 2.0 topic (9th August 2005)
This site gets a new sticky topic, explaining the changes. This was stickied until March 2007 when it was replaced by v3.0.
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Would you die for your country? (12th August 2005)
Hypro poses this question to the social board.
SayainPrince turns prolific! (17th August 2005)
But does the contribution recognition page REALLY look any better? Tune in next time to find out!
Astro Blade's rating topic Part II; this time, it's personal. (16th August 2005)
A month on since his last rating topic, he now rates more indepth and with more honesty.
Zelda Trivia! (20th August 2005)
Kirby021591 hosts pop quiz about the popular Zelda series, which turns out to be a popular topic as well.
Who has a girl or boyfriend? (21st August 2005)
Astro Blade poses the question - which FAQers are courting?
The case of the missing FAQs! (23rd August 2005)
When a glitch on the site causes FAQs on their game pages to disappear for a short time, a few FAQers wonder what's going on.
What was the last film you watched? (27th August 2005)
Social board members post what films they watched last, in a topic lasting until late March 2006.
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Best map making program? (27th August 2005)
For those pondering this question, this topic may help you out.
Hurricane Katrina approaches New Orleans... (28th August 2005)
CyricZ worries for the safety of fellow FAQ writer bananagirl.
Kirby021591 says sorry... (30th August 2005)
He apologises and clears his name about the claims of plagiarism against him in the past. He says that he only took some ASCII from BSulpher not knowing that if fell under plagiarism, but pretty much everyone including Brian is cool with him nonetheless.
The new GameFAQs moderators are announced! (30th August 2005)
The new summer 2005 moderators are revieled, including FAQ writers War Doc, Atom Edge, Alex, and SineNomine!
A l e x becomes a moderator (30th August 2005)
A topic celebrating his new found status on the site.
Where do you live? (1st September 2005)
nintendomaster14 asks the social board where everyone resides.
Chad helps out at the Astrodome. (2nd September 2005)
Texas resident BTB helps out the refugees of the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
Going in high. (6th September 2005)
Dark Vortex starts high school, and several board regulars give him advice.
Brian's critique topic gets modded to bits (8th September 2005)
His infamous critique topic on the Help and Critiques board takes a hammering due to the marking frenzy on the site since the new mods and modding system took place.
Contributor Status Update - View submitted works (8th September 2005)
CJayC tells the FCB that any submissions, such as FAQs and Reviews, can be viewed again in the Contributor Status. Very welcome news indeed!
Alex packs for school... (9th September 2005)
...wanna know what he is taking with him?
XBox Save Game Topic (9th September 2005)
A rare long topic on the Save Contributor Board.
GhostOfLegault gets his images featured in the latest site contest! (20th September 2005)
Not once, not twice.. but three times! Impressive.
How old are you? (26th September 2005)
warfreak poses this question to the FSCB possy.
A Hilarious Guide Rejection (27th September 2005)
jelly soup receives a very funny reason for why a guide was rejected. :)
Chad and his tech support! (1st October 2005)
Around this time and a few months after, BTB has been working in Tech Support for Yahoo! and this is one of his many topics about this job.
Twin FAQ Progresses!? (3rd October 2005)
Two users, Crazyreyn and a_heavenly_body post both post FAQ Progress Topics for the same day, at the same time to the exact second. What are the chances?
AstroBlue pops in and says hi. (4th October 2005)
Board veteran from the early era of the FCB says hello to the Social board.
CJayC and his 300 Weapon FAQs! (4th October 2005)
The site admin tells the FCB of his secret pain, that people have sent in an estimated 300 FFVII Weapon FAQs since it's release. Rumour has it he constructed a fort out of all the printed copies and now lives in the Nevada desert.
FAQ Chat - October (16th October 2005)
Astroblade hosts another FCB Chat for this month.
Devin Morgan becomes a Lead Moderator (17th October 2005)
FAQing veteran evolves from a General Moderator to Lead Moderator on the GameFAQs Message Boards. Below is a topic on the social board congratulating Devin.
How was the depression? Great? (18th October 2005)
kirbyroks returns after losing 3MB of his work, with a small discussion about backups. Includes a tasty pun from Trace.
Shadow of the Colossus. (21st October 2005)
The Social board discusses this new PlayStation 2 title.
Astroblade runs a contest with prize money! (24th October 2005)
He asks the Social board to guess his top 10 list of games. Trace (Meowthnum1) won $20 for guessing the nearest!
September FOTM winners revealed! (26th October 2005)
A l e x announces it to the General board.
Introducing the 10 Ten Lists! (27th October 2005)
CJayC announces a new contributor feature, Top 10 lists that would be posted on the home page celebrating the sites 10th anniversary. Several FAQ writers, including A I e x, Atom Edge, CVXFREAK and SubSane get theirs posted in the coming weeks.
Using official strategy books to write your FAQs... (27th October 2005)
...is downright unacceptable. Discuss? Asks Devin Morgan, spawning a two page debate on the FCB. One of the better topics of this year.
Zoop makes it in to PSM. (27th October 2005)
Also features a slanging match between ZoopSoul, Snow Dragon and others against antseezee.
Halloween! (28th October 2005)
PeTeRL90 asks fellow writers what their Halloween plans are.
CJayC helps a user with his image (31st October 2005)
A user keeps getting his image rejected, so the site admin pops in and lends a helping hand.
FAQ Plans - November (1st November 2005)
The FAQ plans for this month.
CJayC posts 50 new bounties. (10th November 2005)
An announcement on the FCB.
October FOTM winners announced (11th November 2005)
peach freak alerts the General board of the winners.
The First XBox 360 FAQ is... (11th November 2005)
... really a port of a PC one, Call of Duty 2 by Scottie theNerd.
Classic View gets the Contribute Link (18th November 2005)
The sites classic view finally gets this update. StarFighers76 notices this and informs the General board.
BSulpher was in a car accident. (19th November 2005)
The FAQing veteran describes his reaction after his first car crash.
FAQs with the lowest hits (21st November 2005)
ASchultz asks the General board for their lowest FAQ hits, as opposed to their highest.
FAQ 40,000 was posted! (22nd November 2005)
CJayC tells GameFAQs through this topic on the FCB and on The Daily Grind of a great milestone for the site.
FAQ Numbers explored (23rd November 2005)
In the advent of the 40,000 FAQ news, FAQers investigate their own FAQ numbers and to see other milestones.
The XBox 360 hits release week. (24th November 2005)
The Social board discusses the first of the next generation consoles; the XBox 360.
Sick of the Top 10 List (24th November 2005)
The first place 10 ten lists are getting on some users nerves.
Who has seen CJayC? (29th November 2005)
Hypro / Ihatetrolls asks the Social board. Turns out a few users have.
December and Winter FAQing plans 2005 (1st December 2005)
FAQ Writers discuss their writing plans for the next month and season.
FAQ Progress for the (1st December 2005)
A time capsule to see what writers were working on at the time. Plus, it's the first CMoriarty has made for years.
FAQers Interview Topic (2nd December 2005)
Imationdaman asks the Social board if they want to be interviewed for this site. However this never went ahead, but I thought it anyone wanted to pick up where he left off then there some contact details here.
CCC plans on suing another site... (2nd December 2005)
The site famous for taking FAQs without permission, is getting in to a legal battle with another site. This topic discusses this controversial move.
CMoriarty's 10 Random Questions: December 2005 (4th December 2005)
Colin starts what was to be a monthly feature, but sadly wasn't.
CVXFREAK's Freaking Sweet RE Collection (12th December 2005)
What a treat!
Should Tookie have been executed? (13th December 2005)
A discussion on the social board. Yes, A DISCUSSION.
AlaskaFox turns 21! (20th December 2005)
It's everyday that a FAQer turns 21, with a topic made in his honour.
Can't stand this walkthrough... (21st December 2005)
FAQers discuss Adrenaline's popular Chrono Cross guide.
Crazyreyn's FAQers Christmas Card List Aftermath (21st December 2005)
This year I sent 13/14 cards to fellow FAQers. Seemed to be a success! Preorder early for a card next year, people!
POTD (22nd December 2005)
Once a regular feature, AlaskaFox posts a one off Poll Of The Day seeing if people remember who is.
FAQing Goals for 2006 (23rd December 2005)
A topic showing the goals for the coming year, and for January.
FAQ Progresses - 2005 Christmas Edition
FAQ Progress Topics for Eve, Day and Box.
What Santa brought the FAQers. (25th December 2005)
FAQers talk about this year's gift haul.
What's karma? (26th December 2005)
Social board members tease a new GameFAQs user about the meaning of karma on the site.
Remember Brakker-Z? (27th December 2005)
He asks the Social board if people remember him, and various users respond, a few who rarely pop in themselves...
A l e x H o u r s (28th December 2005)
PirateoftheFAQs asks A l e x how many he does so much FAQing.
Pulp FAQtion (28th December 2005)
Antseezee plans making a FAQer movie on The Movies, however this didn't actually happen.
