October 22, 2011: So...I kind of failed at updating. It's Super Mallow here. Jay and Joe are derps who came over and told me I had to update right this second, so I am. So uh...yeah...I failed at updating, but I've still been checking the site and forums. I'll need to go and figure something out for DP's future. I'm not happy where it's heading right now, if I'm honest.
In the meantime enjoy this! (From Jay and Joe)
Introducing Contests! Create a Paper Mario
Partner!
Posted by on June 21, 2011
Donut Plains is proud to announce our newest
feature:
Contests!
And with the introduction of contests, we needed
one to kick us off! And we got that with Donut
Plains' first contest:
Create a Paper Mario
Partner! In this contest, you can use
your creativeness to come up with some amazing
partners for the Paper Mario series! All details
can be found on the Contest page. It will end
July 10, so hurry up!
We also have a new Ally in
Metroid Wiki,
and a new Affiliate in
Zelda Wiki!
Both are amazing sites for their respective
series, so definitely go check them out. I would
also like to personally thank Metroid Wiki for
helping us with our own Wiki. It means a great
deal to us.
I just got off a 53 hour work week - I didn't
add any content. I will over the next few days.
I apologize for it, and I apologize to the fans
who submitted content. It will be up soon.
I also have not formally introduced the new
Forums yet, so I have to do that. You
should join the forum. It's a bit slow since we
started over, but it's just so much better. I
think you'll like being a part of it!
5 New New Super Mario Bros. Mii (For WiiU)
Screens!
Posted by on June 7, 2011
Feel free to use, but please give credit!
8 New Mario Kart 3Ds Screens + Trailer!
Posted by on June 7, 2011
Feel free to use, but please give credit!
8 New Luigi's Mansion 2 Screens + Trailer!
Posted by on June 7, 2011
Feel free to use, but please give credit!
8 New Super Mario 3Ds Screens + Trailer!
Posted by on June 7, 2011
Feel free to use, but please give credit!
8 New Paper Mario 3Ds Screens + Trailer!
Posted by on June 7, 2011
Feel free to use, but please give credit!
6 New Mario & Sonic: Long 2012 Screens
Posted by on June 7, 2011
Feel free to use, but please give credit!
WiiU Images
Posted by on June 7, 2011
Smash Bros. 4 Announced
Posted by on June 7, 2011
Smash Bros. 4 was announced, but there's no
details.It will be both for the Nintendo 3ds and
the new console/controller, the Nintendo WiiU.
New Super Mario Bros. Mii was shown, but it was
announced to just be a tech demo. Mii characters
would have been playable in the game, though it
seems like it would've been a full New Super
Mario Bros. Game. Maybe later on?
Mario Kart 3DS To Include Flying? Tanooki Suit
Mario, Luigi's Mansion 2
Posted by on June 7, 2011
Nintendo just showed off a video during their E3
conference which just showed a lot of things.
Mario Kart 3Ds will include hang gliding, or at
least that's what happened in the video.
Actually, there will be hang gliding and
underwater racing! It will be released Holiday
2011
In Super Mario 3DS, Mario can use the Tanooki
powerup. This game will apparently have a lot
more open areas, and will be out before the end
of the year.
Luigi's Mansion will also have a new game on the
3Ds. There will be multiple mansions instead of
just one.
Join Us For Nintendo's E3! New Forums!
Posted by on June 6, 2011
Donut Plains will be at E3 this year! Well, in
spirit at least.
We'll be having ultimate E3 coverage. And I mean
it. We didn't really do it last year, but this
year we're ready. We're going to have the
following:
- A special E3 section, launched before hand
- A bunch of site updates as the news breaks
- A chat on Msn you can join us in (Add
smrpglegacy@hotmail.com to your Windows Live
List)
- All trailers will be posted on our
Youtube Channel
(including Non-Mario games)
- The entire press conference will be on our
Youtube Channel
- All announced games will get a homepage
- All new screenshots will be posted
And so on. We'll have it all. Our team has
cleared everything aside for tomorrow, and we
want this to be epic..
On top of everything, we'd like to announce
Vanilla Dome, which is our new
message board. We host it, and it's much better
than the last one. So join today and be part of
a great Mario community! We know this isn't a
formal announcement with E3, so we'll do that
later.
Paper Mario Marathon Part Uno + A Major Wiki
Announcement!
Posted by on May 25, 2011
Hopefully everyone is enjoying Shadow Flare so
far! We've received pretty much nothing but some
positive feedback on it, and we really think
we've improved the site so far. At least,
everything we have seen or been told so far
points to Version 3 being the best version yet.
For that, we're excited!
To start things off today, let's talk about the
Wiki,
but let's be honest with ourselves too. Up until
this point, we did not manage the Wiki well. We
let it get infested with spam, and it wasn't a
very good place to store Mario information.
We're not going to lie about that.
However, we have finally gotten a solid hold of
it. ALL WIKI SPAM IS GONE!! We installed some
security things and since then, there hasn't
been a piece of spam on it. The Wiki has
actually be greatly improved with the removal of
the spam, and there has been some new content
added to it. We would like to extend our thanks
to all those who helped us find a solution, and
we would like to personally highlight the
contributions of
Sparky, a user
who has contributed a huge amount of information
and has done things such as create templates and
delete spam.
So since we're doing a
Paper Mario
Content Marathon here on the site, and since the
Wiki is all set now, we were hoping that you
guys, the fans, would want to help out with this
marathon. Of course, no one has to do so, but if
you'd like, you can register at the wiki and
start creating and editing pages immediately. We
hope to see some dedicated fans there, it would
be great for us, but more importantly, it helps
out other Mario fans the most.
The Paper Mario Content Marathon is going very
well, and as you'll see in just a few lines,
we've added a lot of content already. Content
from Smrpg Legacy has been transferred, but as
this is being typed, we're not sure it's been
posted yet. Just uploaded behind the scenes. We
also have some new
Fan Art and
some more
Fan Reviews!
And lastly, our buttons and banners were old and
stale. We've revamped the
Link Us page we
new buttons and banners!
Dark like a deep shadow with a flare that fuses
color and homage. This is Shadow Flare. This is
Donut Plains: better, stronger, sleeker.
Welcome everyone to the new layout, which is
called Shadow Flare. It combines various
elements from other versions but brings a
completely fresh design. This layout shows off a
totally different style of the site, combining
images, sprites, artwork, and themes from Super
Mario RPG, Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Smash
Bros. Brawl, Donkey Kong Country, and Donkey
Kong Country 2 to create an improved design to
the site. It also brings new content, better
content, and reinforces already existing
content.
This layout took nearly 200 hours to design and
implement. And there's a lot of new features
too. The navigation bar is now on the right and
is shaded a different color., and it has also
shrunk a bit to make things easier. The content
area is bigger. The horizontal nav has rollover
effects - if you scroll over them, you'll see
some cool effects! The images on the navigation
bar and other images that use the Super Mario
RPG font have rollover effects too!
Most existing pages have been updated if they
needed to be, such as the
About Us page
or the
Past Updates
archive. Each individual page now attributes
credit to the staff member that submitted it,
though site pages are excluded from this because
they reflect all of us.
I would like to take this opportunity for a few
things. First off, I need to thank Iwelyk of
InsertDisc for
helping to set up and style the News Blog. This
is long overdue and I apologize to him. For the
help, InsertDisc, a well written gaming blog,
will become an honorary Ally of the site. Please
give them a visit.
Secondly, I've caught up on all Fan submissions.
I owe an apology to 1056Kirby for the extreme
delay, and I thank you for your patience during
the Shadow Flare construction.
And I would like to thank the
News Blog staff
as well and as always. In the absence of the
site content, they have continued to do an
excellent job in providing everyone with the
latest Mario and Nintendo news. The blog is
exactly how I pictured it, and they haven't
slipped up yet. You guys are doing a tremendous
job.
So now's the time for the big question: Content.
We've got a lot this update. A new
Soundtrack,
over 1000
Screenshots,
new
Who Am I?
entries, and a lot of
Character Profiles!
And there's 2 other big things coming as well.
The first is that all content from
Super Mario RPG Legacy,
Sm's first website, will be brought over to
Donut Plains. This extremely bolsters are Mario
RPG knowledge! Another thing is that we have
decided to do a content marathon. For the next
month or so, JJ, BB, and Sm will be working on
content sections for
Paper Mario!
We're going to try to get a good chunk of pages
for it! We're considering doing these content
marathons for other games as well in the future.
So, let's get to the important part of the
update. Here's the latest content added! We hope
that you will continue to support and enjoy
Donut Plains in this new era!
