That is the reality usually of guides on forums.
For those reasons on previous forums I made, I had a reference guide section to only contain the relevant guides not posts which were not relevant (ie sort the wheat from the chaff); that meant at the time I couldn't allow users to edit the guides. Although it got some resistance, over time people realised it made sense as they could find the guides easily and the information they wanted; and most were converted to be having far more benefits than not.
That was taken further with the new website, which you have all the guides for, it took well over 100 hours, if not longer, to make; all guides were re-written, all nerdy guides removed and only the basic-moderate level guides were left on purpose. My work with guides since I started modding in 2007 was to take out the black art of modding and make all guides easy to follow, and also publish all knowledge I knew. That is what made my site and forum popular.
There are a number of systems I have no experience with, so what I suggest is inviting members here who have more information to add to my existing guides to do so, and more importantly, add more guides to the section for systems that are not covered, to make things more complete. Then, a moderator can edit the topic if needed, ensure the images are stored to the server and use those image links for the guide, and add them to the new reference section here.
If you then advertise this Racketboy reference guide section and sell it as a positive benefit, by way of YouTube videos, exposure on other sites, make it prominent on the main forum page as its own section, etc; you will generate new members for the site and hopefully bring it back to a higher level of active members like it used to have here. Worth a shot.
As to my involvement, I thought the bottom had fallen out of the commissions, after did the N64 and SNES systems recently - a guy is about to pay me, in advance, for making him an N64 in a GBA carry case; so i'll make a guide for that in the modding section here; won't be anything new to add but will hopefully encourage others to make a system if they are interested. I will still do commissions and mods.
On that subject, the mods I intend to do in the coming months:
* complete the Unity system 2, all be it with less systems than was going to originally.
* convert my French RGB Atari 7800 into a SCART or HDMI console and incorporate it into a case (not sure what yet) to sell it.
* convert my ColecoVision motherboard into a smaller console system and sell it.
* convert one of my N64's to RGB and into HDMI and sell it.
Other things in mind to make too.
Bacman continues!
