There are multiple category sections to upload files to - please select the one you want your file to go in.
If your table release works fine with VP9 and has been fully tested to work with VP9 - put it in the VP9 section. If it requires VP8 or below, stick it into the VP8 section.
Any table that is designed for use on a top-down perspective or some other cabinet type build platform - single screen/full screen/please upload it to the "16:9 cabinet tables" section and come up with a way to describe how it is working in the short description field. I leave the descriptions up to you and won't edit them, just be consistent or come to a concensus so they can be set up properly.
1) The same file you are uploading should not already exist in the download sections. You can check this with a quick search where it says "Enter words to search" on the right following this link for VP 8.x tables/VPM Recreations at the top red navigation bar -- http://vpforums.org/...d...y=A-Z&pp=25
That will pull everything with your search terms, from all the download sections.
Duplicate files have a greater chance of being deleted. When a file is deleted I'm fairly sure it removes the 'support thread' that is autocreated as well as any/all replies to that thread from the forum.
2) If you are updating your own file you originally uploaded, you can make any changes you like, at any time. Until Noah's coders get this fixed though, every edit will require you to manually edit the support thread and add _thumb to the screenshot to size it back down to a thumbnail again.
3) Before uploading a table, please ensure your email address and website preferences are valid in the table info - it's in your best interest to not leave a bad email address if someone wants to contact you directly, or them being unable to reach your website of choice. For frontend users, common additional values are CompanyName, CompanyYear, and TableType. Also ensure the version number is correct in the table, as well as the upload/edit form.
4) For the "Machine Details" section of the upload form, this is all about the real life machine, so the Release Year would be the year listed on IPDB.ORG. The IPDB link should be an http link copied from the machine number as pictured here:
The reason for this of course, is so we don't see multiple older games with release dates from this year - it makes it a little easier to know if it's playboy from bally 1978, data east 1989, Stern 2002. The date of release for the table and date of last update, and the date of the support thread posting all indicate when your table was made available already, and you can add revision history and readme files or comments in the script, and the file date also indicates the date of table release/last save too.
5) If you have table caching enabled, please don't add the .vcache table to the zip - on different systems it will need to be deleted and recreated by the end user in order to be of any help, and without the vcache file in the zip/rar file you can save 5-10 mb or more off the entire filesize.
Of course, these are simply requests - you can look them over, decide which ones you agree with, and leave feedback or comments here for the staff to look over if you like, or not.
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