gratitude thread by JILost at 5:06 AM EST on December 31, 2010
I realize there are little bits of this kind of thing spread around through various other threads, but I wanted to take the time to say a few words and hope others follow suit when they feel the need.
hcs: Thank you for all your continued efforts with vgmstream, setting up the tracker and keeping it going, the multitude of things you've done and continue to do for the community (creating the USF format, housing a ridiculous number of files in a ridiculous number of formats, creating all your crazy software, etc.), and for creating this forum and bringing this community together in the first place. You've obviously put a lot of time and effort into all this and I hope you know that not all of us take it for granted.
Knurek: You work your tail off creating all these (2SF, DSF, SSF, etc.) files and archives and it certainly shows. You bring your own organizational touch to everything and you always do quality work. The community needs more like you.
bxaimc: You continue churning out your custom vgm files and, in my eyes, keeping the spirit of creativity alive with it. As I recall, you've also helped with vgmstream and VGM Tools; both of which can always use as many willing and able bodies as possible. You're a tireless contributor to the community and that deserves not to go unnoticed or unappreciated.
Mouser X: Despite your post lengths exceeding "tl;dr" for many's taste, you're always helpful and provide "noobs" with as much information as possible when confusion arises. You're a shining example of what every community needs - especially in contrast to what most actually seem to HAVE. Thank you for always lending your three cents.
Pluginja: You've brought us many great players and I hope your efforts continue well into the future - otherwise I eat your children.
I think that about covers it for now. Again, feel free to expound whenever the need arises - I'm sure everyone above (and others) appreciates knowing their efforts are valued, so let's just not forget to let them know that now and then. :)
Big ups to manako as well. He doesn't post here much but he does a lot of work. Check the uploader name in the tracker torrents, you'll see his name there regularly too.
My thanks also go to hcs and bxaimc for their wonderful contributions and snakemeat too if I recall.
Thanks to hcs, for getting me into archive reversing.
Thanks to kode54, who helped me get my groove back in coding random shit no one really cares about ;p
Thanks to Josh for the FB2K ports. I appreciate that. Thanks to him, now I can play ALL my USF tunz with insane amounts of reverb and echo effects, using my FB2K DSP effect array. (since I like post processed audio)
I come here infrequently, but I want to thank everyone on the forum! All my questions are answered quickly and with plenty of detail! This is a great community, and I'm always glad to see it!
I especially want to thank hcs for this site and everyone else who works on vgmstream! It is always quickly updated.
Finally, I want to thank Prime Blue for his Metroid Prime rip (and hopefully soon of Echoes!). I've done so through PM's but I want to keep making this public! It's great to see people like him making perfect rips of difficult or incomplete soundtracks.