Merry Christmas everybody! I got something for you... The Sonic Tales Episode 6 - Carnival Canticle It won't be completely uploaded for another 20 minutes or so, so you'll have to wait :-( I'm also uploading it to my YouTube account , so I suppose it's a race to see which one gets online first. Hi-r...
- Fix for "Return to Videos" link on theater page (on return to the videos page, only the category of the video you were watching is showing) - Video views and downloads are no longer counted for bots
Hey everybody! Another small update, first post of 2011! Don't forget to check out Episode 6 of The Sonic Tales if you haven't already. It's quite hilarious. In other news, I updated some things on the backend of the site, as well as re-encoded all of the videos in our archive. This time, they shoul...
- Standardized all downloads to have a Quicktime and Windows Media version available for each resolution of each video - Links to download each version also appear on the videos page under a video
Through a mixture of boredom and procrastination on other projects, we present a remastered version of Episode 1 of The Sonic Tales! We would remaster it in HD or something, but the game (Sonic the Hedgehog 3) is technically only 240p in terms of resolution, so it'd be kinda pointless. Nonetheless, ...
- Updated the theater to the latest version of the JW Player. Browser and system detection are now supported, so the player will automatically load the proper module for whatever you're viewing the site on. This means you can now view the player on basically ANY device. Computers with Flash get the ...
In a surprising turn of events, we here at RTC Fusion Productions have succeeded in following our own release schedule for the second week running. Will we make it a third week? Come back next Friday to find out! The remastered version of Episode 2 is now online . All of the footage was re-shot exce...
The remastered edition of episode 3 is now online . It was fun re-making these episodes. But now on to new stuff! Next week will be the end of remakes. Episode 4 is basically up to par, but the first scene was somehow corrupted, so I re-shot that. The rest of the episode is the same, and will be rel...
- Disabled auto-play in the theater (good thing? Yes? No?) - Added screenshots for when the video is stopped (I'm working on getting high-res ones up for each video, right now they just use the ones from the videos page)
- Added video management backend (so I don't have to go directly into the database every time I add a video, or add a forum thread every time I add a video) - Fixed XHTML validation on many pages; they should all validate now
Hey Sonic fans! The slightly-remastered-but-mostly-just-cropped version of Episode 4 is now online, along with the commentary-equipped counterpart. Once you're finished watching that, don't forget to watch episodes 5 and 6 before Friday!
- The Videos page now lists the number of videos in the category selection bar - The selected category also turns bold once selected - Keep in mind JavaScript must be enabled
Unfortunately Episode 7 is delayed for at least a day because of availability of voice actors (in other words, Caddie, the voice of Tails, is lazy We'll have the episode out as soon as we can!
As usual, our advertised deadlines came and passed with no hint of a release of a video. For this we apologize, but we are all very busy with our personal lives. Tails is a little busier than Sonic and Knuckles, however, so expect them to comment on that soon :-) Next Up: - Sonic and Knuckles PSA - ...
Edit: All videos are back online. Original post follows: It seems the server our videos are hosted on went offline within the past day or so, so access to the videos is.... well.... non-existent. We're working to have that fixed as soon as possible. It also seems plans just don't fly well with RTC ...
- Changed the podcast to retrieve the highest resolution available of a video instead of the highest resolution compatible with portable devices (which didn't work anyway)
- Added YouTube links for all videos (except the original Episode 2 and the original Episode 4 with commentary) - To watch a video on YouTube, click the corresponding link on the Videos page - To watch the YouTube video embedded on this site, click "Watch in the Theater" then choose YouTub...
- Updated phpBB base code and database to latest version 3.0.9 - Updated base style proFormell to latest version 1.3.2 - Updated all custom code and styles to comply with latest versions - Most importantly, this fixed the weird in-between-videos border on the Videos page in Internet Explorer. So if ...
Basically cleaned up the site even more, moved a lot of "cluttery" pages to a central "Help & Information" page: - Moved about, contact, history, staff, forum faq, members list, and changelog to new Help & Information page - Combined backends of those pages (like about.ph...
- Changed the way files are attached to posts and PMs - Changed the CAPTCHA to use Google's reCaptcha - Removed secondary anti-spam measures - Fixed spacing on parent category selection on videos
- Standardized formats - all non-YouTube videos have both Quicktime H.264 and Windows Media formats - Working on getting downloadable versions of all YouTube-only videos since we have the space now - Videos will be on media.thesonictales.com (for stat-keeping purposes)
- Fixed img alts on videos page - Updated theater player to latest version - Made control bar overlay (so viewers don't suffer from oh-this-much-time-is-left-so-these-are-my-expectations) - Slightly increased player width (mostly because it wouldn't center align properly) - All videos are back online
- Removed YouTube link on the videos list - Removed Rate/Comment link on the videos list - Fixed hover titles and image alts on download icons on the videos list - Shortened "Choose a Resolution" to "Quality" on the theater page - Added playlist functionality to the theater - Eve...
Hey Sonic Tales fans! Glad to see you're still here! Just a couple quick updates from yours truly: - Videos went down last week, but I managed to secure a new server and re-upload them, so everything's good now. - In my free time that I can't make videos but I can work on the website, I managed to a...
- Removed invisible "Skip to Content" link in the banner - Moved Moderator and Administrator Control Panel links - More minor language changes - Updated FAQs even further - Changed quality switcher in Theater to be much faster - Updated compatibility with javascript-less browsers
- Updated Login/Logout link to redirect back to where you were before logging in/out - Updated the Theater's playlist to load different qualities with JavaScript, like the plain Theater, heavily increasing quality-switch times
- Fixed error handling on the info page - Slightly optimized video statistics on info page - Various other code optimizations - All videos now have full screenshots displayed in the theater - Added video screenshots to the Picture Gallery - Fixed thumbnail handling in the backend - Video screenshots...
- Moved screenshot download link to the downloads area to have size and download count - Tried to add an aspect ratio switcher to the playlist theater, but the problems outweighed the benefits - More code optimizations
TheSonicTales.com finally took a shower. Er.. I mean, in my spare time at my new all-life-consuming job, I figured out some enhanced encoding settings for our videos that make them look prettier but retain file size. Basically, all the videos look a little better now. Cool, huh? Check it out! Next U...
- Small favicon adjustment - Changed category selector style on Videos - Added some functionality to hide unselected parent categories - Changed "All" to "General" for Videos and Pictures (makes sense, right?) - Made sure "General Videos" and "General Pictures"...
- Added Featured Video to the front page - Added category names to Featured Video - Featured video is random out of a small selected set of videos - Internally centralized resolutions and formats - Fixed 404 error on invalid downloads for Quicktime-only videos - Added a warning for users with JavaSc...
- Updated many video titles on sites and on YouTube - Fixed XHTML validation on some video titles with quotes and ampersands - Updated Twitter account to KaisonicPro (Kaisonic is now just a personal account)
- Heavily cleaned up the forums and memberlist from spam entities - Implemented a new site-themed Q&A method of preventing spam registrations (should be extremely easy for any Sonic Tales fan)
- Updated language to use custom file on custom pages - Changed comments number format on news page - Updated all language files with better capitalization and phpBB 3.0.10 changes - Updated all colors (fixed random incorrect ones, new link colors, better readability, etc) - Updated theme to proForm...
- Re-capitalized "Terms of Use" and "Privacy Policy" - Fixed copyright footer - Updated code to read video thumbnails from a different directory - Removed playlist link on videos page if a category only had one video - Fixed noscript warning message - Added additional functionali...
- Show only "All" for content parent categories with only one sub-category - Added category name to content page titles - Removed "All" from theater for parent categories with only one sub-category - Removed "Videos" from category selector (so it's just a number of how ...
- Updated admin content management modules - Hid category counts except for "All" and in the title bar of the actual content listing - Changed videos page to have the screenshot link to the theater instead of downloading the screenshot (you can still download screenshots on the theater pag...
- Reverted content pages to the old top-and-bottom layout - Move gallery text back to the side - Updated copyright year (I should really get something to automate that....)
- Fixed playlist quality calculations - Enhanced video unavailable error checking - Updated server PHP version - Downloads now always open in a new window (or tab, depending on your browser preferences) - Admin tool updates
- Updated download icons and video verbiage (Zune hasn't existed for a while...) - Updated Theater & Videos FAQ - Added "Last Updated" dates to all info pages
- Fixed videos/theater for videos longer than an hour - Added support for Blu-ray quality videos - Fixed downloads not showing GB correctly - Fixed Rate/Comment link not properly counting ratings (poll votes)