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LeroyJenkins, do gaming w The people who made these back in the day are heroes

I remember I used to print these guides out on Epson inkjet printers in the early 2000s and wondered why I never had any ink left to print my homework out

InvisibleShoe, do gaming w The people who made these back in the day are heroes
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I used to have a giant one of these walkthrough guides printed out for Might and Magic 7 when I was a kid. Those guides were great. I miss Acromage :(

FunderPants, do gaming w The people who made these back in the day are heroes

How else would we finish ogre battle with all the cool units?

Ragnarok314159,

Still one of the best SNES games to be made. I finally broke down and used a game genie on it for max rep that never went down. Was like playing on god mode.

BenVimes,
Gork, do gaming w The people who made these back in the day are heroes

Is there an archive for those old GameFAQs?

Isoprenoid,

Yeah, it’s called GameFAQs.

Here is the Chrono Trigger one from the image.

Daft_ish,

Dingojellybean at hellokitty dot com

The true hero of the day

Edit:

Version Last - Everything complete…all endings revealed, lists and bestiary are up. Also a format change that’s easier to read. (11/23/00)

Minor Update - Luca’s mother bit was finally revised…after all these years of neglect from it. Numerous readers added this…sorry I couldn’t get to it sooner. (10/06/01)

Man jellybean don’t be so hard on yourself

deweydecibel, do gaming w The people who made these back in the day are heroes

These often were solo written guides, too. Not wikis.

Somewhere, a company employs one of these people, and they have the best documentation you’ve ever seen.

fsxylo,

There actually were usually citations of usernames that you never heard of that provided corrections and niche secrets.

It was pretty neat.

Patches,

Somewhere, a company employs one of these people, and they have the best documentation you’ve ever seen.

Not my company 😂😭

BambiDiego,

Whoever was the guy that wrote the Breath of Fire 2 walkthrough I read when I was 12 was a godsend for me.

I was still learning English and his FAQ was so thorough and clear that I actually improved my vocabulary and grammar from using it.

chiliedogg,

I keep spectacular documentation on personal projects because there’s no deadlines.

If I get hit by a bus, my office will collapse because I ain’t got time to document shit.

CheeryLBottom, do gaming w The people who made these back in the day are heroes

I loved Dan Simpson’s walkthrough for all the BioWare/Black Isle Studios games like Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale, Planescape Torment, etc.

Corno, do gaming w They're often much older if I'm emulating

Can confirm that emulation is great with a powerful PC because the native resolutions on the console often didn’t do the games justice, and they’re absolute eyecandy upscaled 5x. Being able to modify a game that would otherwise run at 30 FPS so that it runs at a smooth 60 is also wonderful

Corno, do gaming w The people who made these back in the day are heroes

So many things are hard to find on Google now, like I’d type all of the relevant keywords but nothing actually relevant would come up except for some ancient GameFAQs document complete with the ASCII titles 😂

DaCrazyJamez,

Ive had the best luck finding links in peoples old reddit posts, which ddg/ google do a decent job of finding

alvvayson, do gaming w The people who made these back in the day are heroes

I often do miss the internet of the old days.

Hosting a modern day gamefaqs would cost $500 per year or so.

I guess a wiki would be easier to offer version control, links and images for the author.

Maybe that would be $1000 a year.

dohpaz42,
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A small vps should cost no more than $10/mo, and should be enough to run a text-based site (with compression) reasonably well. Obviously the gotcha will be bandwidth, but you could subsidize that with donations.

alvvayson,

I’m accounting for a domain name and sufficient bandwidth.

I figure 10 TB per month should be enough.

The $500 is a conservative estimate.

onion,

You could try hosting it at home on an old laptop and see how it goes

That’s 100% more bandwidth than not doing it at all

brygphilomena,

I have free hosting and free bandwidth essentially. Have any recommendations for a CMS dedicated to this?

DaCrazyJamez,

Notepad++

SuperSynthia, do gaming w The people who made these back in the day are heroes

I have fond memories of AbsoluteSteve’s FF7/8 guides, which were infinitely better than the official guides

Spaghetti_Hitchens,

Oh man. Thank you for reminding me of them. What an absolute boss he was for putting them together

TheBat, do gaming w The people who made these back in the day are heroes
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Tfw you know what to do, you just aren’t co-ordinated or fast enough to do it.

FlatFootFox, do gaming w The people who made these back in the day are heroes
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I recently went back and played the PC CD-ROM DOS game Star Trek - The Next Generation: A Final Unity. The GameFAQs guide for it was originally written in 1995 and had a CompuServ email address. 😱 The ancient texts certainly got me out of a tough spot with a floating platform puzzle.

The_Picard_Maneuver,
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How was that game?

FlatFootFox,
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Without hyperbole it’s probably one of the best Star Trek games. Definitely in the Top 3. Full TNG voice cast, point-and-click adventure games are a good format for away missions and diplomacy, and it runs well in DOSBox!

Nouveau_Burnswick, do gaming w The people who made these back in the day are heroes

When you dust off an old game and go look for guides.

Then see one you wrote.

PhobosAnomaly,

I was just thinking “nah no way was it twenty years ago that I wrote mine”, but no - fifteen years ago.

Time has flown. My faq has been lifted wholesale and improved upon in the main third party wikis for the game though. Happy days.

dohpaz42,
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Thank you for your service. 🫡

PopcornPrincess, do gaming w The people who made these back in the day are heroes

Thank god you got Mercy on your side…

youngalfred, do gaming w The people who made these back in the day are heroes

Made it through Legend of Zelda Ocarina of time on N64 because of these - I remember the Forest temple and Water temple being doozeys!

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