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Turnarcades:
For the first time in years I casually browsed through the guides/links/examples instead of just lingering on the forum for once and noticed many of these categories are now seriously outdated.

Understandably it can be hard to maintain that much info and a lot of information is always going to be relevant (like the info in Saint's book), but many of the links are now dead, relate to products/software that no longer exists or references arcade projects or companies that have disappeared.

Not trying to hava a ---smurfette---, but if you read this saint, maybe now is a good time for a little 'spring cleaning' as it seems more noobs come straight to the forums wanting every answer in 30 seconds these days.

geocab:
Hey, while you're here, can you tell me the basics to building a control panel?  What's a good layout?  What's an 8-way stick?  Is it better than analogue? 

Lyellin:
Speaking as a noob who came here... read a bunch... then decided to buy Saint's book.. and now finally registered... I applaud this idea. If I knew more, I would help.

BobA:
Not sure what causes it but you seem to get the same newbee questions in waves.   Everyone gets caught up and then the same newbee questions surface again.

I think that the major problem is that there is so much to learn by reading the wikki and the read first info that the newbees do not have the patience to do their homework since the hobby is so interesting and complex and they need to get started on that 5 joystick 100 button control panel RIGHT NOW.      ;D ;D ;D

Flake:
I agree - I dont know how many times I see people respond to questions/inquries with a READ THE WIKI post.  For some this is probably a reasonable piece of advice but I think for many it doesnt answer all questions and many people post real, new issues.  I mean the capabilities here are updated almost weekly so its safe to assume something that was posted 6 months to a year ago are out of date.  I know for myself, I read a ton before even registering but during my build I ran into a problem with my particular video card and using component out.  It wasnt working the way I thought it should and come to find out my card didnt actually support component out the way I thought it would so I had to adapt my connection.  From what I can tell on the wiki and the forums no one has really had really documented this issue.  It is now - if you search for it using the right search parameters........if not you'll probably post a new topic that yields the same results.

I would imagine this is a monsterous task so its probably not likely to be done any time soon so maybe all you "veterans" out there could cut the new kids some slack and try to provide some constructive advice before posting a READ THE WIKI post.  BTW - I cant be sure but I dont think this has ever happened to me so dont think I'm impartial.....

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