You wanted your editor?! You got it.

Rankset Contributors can now edit your sets. It can be used to replace zips, sample images and all the text posted.

Just a word of warning: The sample image and zip sections are still untested, so use at your own risk. If something goes wrong, let me know and include as much detail as you can about the problem so I stand a better chance of identifying it.

Now I need to get to bed.

Yup.It was. A lot of people in North America and even Australia could no longer access the site (Myself included. I had to find a temporary proxy just to post on the forum)Things have changed to remedy the problem, so we are certainly back in the game now!

Fixes and updates have been done to the Links section. Notably, I have included Starbase 400 in the Fleet and Premium sections, replacing the USS Pegasus link.

Anything else, I will try to be around when I can. It is still a tough time for me right now due to the extra "work" being done to me... >_>

Thank you to Jeff Chan for your contribution to Kuro-RPG. It certainly is appreciated!

Thank you to Nicole from the Dragon's Lair for your donation to Kuro-RPG. It is very much appreciated.

I am still owie since I am going through a mountain of procedures for the next while... >_>

I have not been around for a bit. Last week I pulled my old back injury while on the job and it has been a week of pain for me. >_> Makes it difficult to do anything useful on the site when I cannot concentrate on anything useful.

I figure it will still be a few days before I can do anything useful again. <_< I will try to get to backlogged emails shortly.

I have not been around much the last couple weeks. Between personal problems and a couple nasty things online, I took a breather from here to catch up on my own life. Necessary evil at times.

I posted a crucial update on the Information Page. This concerns rankset makers who want to expand their influence into Kuro-RPG. I would suggest it is worth a look.

On the forum there is an added incentive to Sugar Spice's "Ship Design" contest. The 1st-place winner also gets a free 10-image rankset made by me.

Thank you to Gator of Kuro-RPG for another donation to the site. That makes his 8th contribution to the site and the hard work that goes into it.

... Wow. o_O

Thank you! ^_^

Using the Rankset Submission pages, I managed to get seven of Marriott's sets on the site. It seems to be working so far. So, to my editors, IF you find any problems, let me know ASAP so I can fix it. Also, Kevin Steeper, formerly of Lusankya.org should be getting stuff on the site sometime soon.

Thanks to CinC of Royal Sim Fleet for your generous contribution to Kuro-RPG. That now makes 50 donators to the site. Quite impressive, in my opinion. :)

... And I am NOT kidding!

For those who are not familiar with some of the more recent Kuro-RPG back story, there has been a generic "Editor" in development for some time to make it easier for people like me to make contributions to the site (such as updates) much more quickly. With old-fashioned HTML, it took a lot of work to copy, paste and re-work boxes so that I could note that there was change to the site. Today, with my hand-made editor, I can easily post an update on the site in 30 seconds. Hooray for learning strange new things! >_>

The most recent add-on to this Editor is a Rankset Submission page for Guest Artists.

Yes, you heard me.

Kuro-RPG is trying to expand it's Non-Kuro artwork big time, by recruiting many of the best rankset makers out there.

For starters, I am opening up the invitation to those with past guest submissions to Kuro-RPG and to some members of the forum who have been very active in putting up superior quality work there. I will also open this up to:
- Steve Marriott, formerly of RPG-Insignias.
- Kevin Steeper, formerly of Lusankya.org
- Brian Minosh, associated with Bravo Fleet

I am fully aware that once upon a time ago they were competitors, but times change and I can no longer locate any of their websites. I would hate to see their work disappear along with them, so...

To contact me, refer to this page please. It's my Contact page (and from the emails I have seen, it does seem to work).

I have also made little changes to both the Guest Rankset and Flash Movie pages.

- Flash Movie artists received a "No. of Movies" add-on to their main listing and each movie has a viewer listing added. Unfortunately, the numbers are a bit low right now, (some movies have been on here for almost as long as the site itself has been online) so if you want to help pitch in and get those numbers way up, there is something like 130 movies on here to watch.

- The Guest Rankset pages have been split into two sections. One is the old setup with all the guest work still there. The other is the new page in development. Once everything off the old set is transferred over, it will be taken down, putting the last page of the old Kuro-RPG site to rest.

Anything else... I will sure to message you... mwah ha ha...

Ranks for all!

Hello everyone.

Yes, Kuro-RPG has been down for the last couple of days. It had to do with a crash that related to a PHP update on the server end of things. It knocked out everyone affiliated with my host provider. (Including his own site)

Anyhow, I am back up and with a mountain of ideas and things to work on around here.

Time to get crackin'!

I have managed to obtain permission to host ~kupo707's work. He is most famous for the "Attack of the Black Mages" series he made.

The link to the most recent (and probably the best animated in my opinion) can be found here.

Anyhow, please feel free to take a peek at his stuff. The more you peak, the more you will enjoy it, for certain! :)

Even though there is other projects in the works, the Flash Section got a nice overhaul to throw in a few extra little features. Spread the movie love around here! :)

Couple new movies out. Have fun :D

... since I uploaded a new flash, but I'm finally back. This time with a music video inspired by Queen's "The Show Must Go On". Some fans have been asking me to make another LoZ/Queen Music video and this is the song that got most of my attention for 2 reasons:
1) I pictured the flash as an anthology video where I show bits and pieces of some of the best moments of the franchise.
2) I did it as a form of self-motivation since 2009 was a crappy year for me.

This one was an on again off again project that I was working on side by side with FSM 7 and it took me a year to find the necessary inspiration to finish it. As for Four Swords Misadventures 7, It's coming. When? I don't Know! Give it time and it will be worth the wait. In the mean time I made this flash to distract you guys for a few more months.

If you wish to view the movie, please click Here.

Enjoy!

Thank you to forum member Spooky for pointing out an error in the STO section of my ranksets. Thank you!

Night of Fire in 8-bit!

Thank you to Gilbert Trujillo of the USS Acheron for your donation to the site. It is certainly appreciated.

As for the Kuro, well the Kuro has been working on a rather large project that is website related and very important to the very nature of the ranksets here on the site, so... More information will follow.

Hi hi.

Okay, what happened was the update page was being used as a test field for my editor programs to see if I could effectively delete posts or not. For those are / are not familiar with my site, I have a habit of coding ALL my stuff by hand. It allows me to learn things plus it helps to prevent extra "non-essential" coding from sneaking onto my site, reducing the vulnerability of it. =)

Of course, I am working on more coding in the meanwhile.

Ick... It's Valentine's Day, I hear. Oh well... Well, I should pay my respects by posting this suitable video that Shadow Warrior Luke created. You can watch it here. (Contains mature themes and language)

With that out of the way...

- Thank you to Gilbert Trujillo for your donation to Kuro-RPG. It is certainly the first one in a long while so I was starting to worry if I had been forgotten in the web at large... T_T
- Links section got a few minor bug fixes, plus I overhauled the Forum Links section. Found a mountain of dead links which I removed, plus also added a Link to the a Zoids community.

Stay tuned for more. Always more updates and changes on the way.

So Kuro has given me access to writing updates here. Thank you Kuro :)

As Kuro mentioned that I do like to operate in the shadows here. Having said that, I can be contacted if you are having a problem at trekkiemelissa[nospam]@kuro-rpg.net

Just take out the no spam section of the email and you shall get the right address.

Hi hi. Me again, I believe.

I fixed a rather ugly-looking error in the Flash Movie section. The image links were messed up (but the artist name links were fine). Everything points to the right destination now. =)

I also added on another Token Position from Raptor Fleet.

Hello everyone. Evil me again with more evil comments... Evil much?

Not only do I have a fun excuse to play with my update page that uses a new format for dates, but I also get to present our wonderful forum admin. who likes to operate in the shadows, but I prefer that she got her sunlight as well.

Trekkiemelissa of Kuro-RPG Forums, who has for a long time been a great administrator at the forum, now has access to the update section too. This gives her a chance to plug in essential information to our wonderful support group: Everyone who visits the site.

So if you see this image avatar, you will know it is "Serious" time.



See you all later. =)

Hey,

Did anybody notice something new on the forum? Kuro hooked us up with the new rankset for the forums, he's been working hard (under my guidance) on the final revisions of the ranks. I hope you like them because you have no choice :D.

Thanks to forum member Rycon for his catch with the TMP .zip file locations. Looks like most of them were mixed up. They should be fixed and working properly working now.

So, like, hi!

I finally figured out how to work this thing, sort of. So here's my first actual update as updated by, yes, moi :).

This actually is just to say that you can now officially annoy me via the Kuro-RPG mail address :D. twan@kuro-rpg.net.
Cheetos

Hi hi.

I am sick right now and it has been a pain trying to get better. I am not working on anything until I get better.

I know there are messages and stuff waiting for me. I will check on them when I get back online.

Take care for now.

Yay! I got Update #200!

A new "Contact" page has been put up on the site to replace the old email system. Both mine and Heyallo's emails are up, and if Twan gets a hold of me, I could put one up for him as well... <_<

I also threw in an anti-spam question in the hopes of reducing bot spam. Yay. =)

Today I will be working on a means for flash artists to submit their own work on here without having to bug me about it. The flash artist pages could appear a bit sporadic until it is taken care of.

Until later.

At least, I think so.

2 new sets have been added to the site today, both of them related to the Trek #11 movie and both of them without any kind of fade to them. A 2230's and 2250's set have both been added on, bringing the total no. of ranks added to Kuro-RPG to 180 images.

Anything else, well, this site is always under construction anyway, so...

Okay. Some of you may have had trouble trying to access to site yesterday. That was due to some behind the scenes stuff I was working on and somehow I ended up accidentally password-protecting the whole site. My bad. That has been taken care of.

Also, Heyallo is trying to get his "Signature Button" contest going. This requires forum registration to participate in.

The TOS set is up on the website now. It includes no fade effect, 894 images, and a wide variety of background and rank styles. Yay!

Update: A brand spanking new TMP rankset is also up. This covers shoulder and sleeve ranks, and is almost 300 images in size.