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I understand completely. Same here, only I have a time-vampiric wife (she laughed when she heard that term, hopefully your gf will laugh if she sees that)

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Don't stop improving that site man. Cheers!
Oh I won't.

FTR, I decided to go ahead and completely remodel the website to celebrate just how close we are to 300 games

Still not done, but I think it looks way better now.

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I'm sure you'll work on these points when you have some time or are working on them already, but the site needs some CSS to make the lists and text boxes less... 199-ish, and a non-serif font for the clickable stuff is probably a good idea. It'd be good if you used a font family with serif and non-serif versions which gives you some flexibility while not compromising the look of the site.

Having said that, I have two extra things to suggest, but these are personal, as in, my 2 cents.

First of them, the header is... poor. It doesn't even let us see how the site is called. I know the site is still under construction, but some visibility is good. And the second point is that you're... naturally loquacious with text. This is good in the reviews (which you know I love), but maybe not for the web site's commands. When I think of a site, I envision the amount of words per clickable elements kept at a minimum, with more info coming up when you hover on an element. And certainly if you can spare yourself some big text boxes with a little icon, by all means do so.

So instead of having the text boxes:

1) Like what you see? GET THIS GAME!!!
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2) Already got it? HIT THE FORUMS!!!

You could use 2 icons:

And a similar one for the forum. Then you'll save tons of space and the website will look cleaner.

Here's a bit about publishing apps in the Android Dev Guide. Since they mention website publishing as well, which is what you actually do, you may want to give it a look: http://developer.android.com/guide/p...ublishing.html

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I'm sure you'll work on these points when you have some time or are working on them already, but the site needs some CSS to make the lists and text boxes less... 199-ish, and a non-serif font for the clickable stuff is probably a good idea. It'd be good if you used a font family with serif and non-serif versions which gives you some flexibility while not compromising the look of the site.

Having said that, I have two extra things to suggest, but these are personal, as in, my 2 cents.

First of them, the header is... poor. It doesn't even let us see how the site is called. I know the site is still under construction, but some visibility is good. And the second point is that you're... naturally loquacious with text. This is good in the reviews (which you know I love), but maybe not for the web site's commands. When I think of a site, I envision the amount of words per clickable elements kept at a minimum, with more info coming up when you hover on an element. And certainly if you can spare yourself some big text boxes with a little icon, by all means do so.

So instead of having the text boxes:

1) Like what you see? GET THIS GAME!!!
and
2) Already got it? HIT THE FORUMS!!!

You could use 2 icons:

And a similar one for the forum. Then you'll save tons of space and the website will look cleaner.

Here's a bit about publishing apps in the Android Dev Guide. Since they mention website publishing as well, which is what you actually do, you may want to give it a look: http://developer.android.com/guide/p...ublishing.html
I greatly appreciate what you've said here! I'm more than welcome to the kind of criticism you give because it's actually constructive instead of the typical condescension that I traditionally expect from self-titled pros on web development forums.

I definitely will be changing the box text boxes to buttons asap (like tonight), and plan to act upon your other recommendations as well.

As for my header, I'm all for gaining visibility... but could you elaborate on what you mean when you say "It doesn't even let us see how the site is called."?

And what fonts would you recommend? Admittedly, I just went for whatever fonts fit, with Verdana and Broadway being the only choice I made in consideration of aesthetics.

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Sonic 4 Episode 1 comes up as not compatible with my Play on the Market...

Is there any reason for this? Is it my crappy carrier (Verizon)?
 
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Sonic 4 Episode 1 comes up as not compatible with my Play on the Market...

Is there any reason for this? Is it my crappy carrier (Verizon)?

Yeah maybe cause I bought it off Google Play and it works with the gamepad
 
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Has Dosbox turbo made this list yet? Since the dev has been working so much to make it perfect for XP users. Input modes etc.
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Absolutely humongous update!

Not only is this list caught up to XperiaPlayGamer.net... I've created a method to where I can sync it with the site database! Much less work on my end.

You also may notice that the screenshots have been replaced with the game's header pictures... which is pretty much just a result of the site's database not having screenshots for every game yet. As soon as the site's database has all the images from the Google Play Store, we'll return to using screenshots instead of header images.

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