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5/8/08 (James): Content Submission, Error Reports, Email Form
Today some of the contact forms inside Kongming’s Archives have received an overhaul. Specifically, you now have access to a new Contact Us form, a new Error Report form, and a new Content Submission form. While the forms are easier to use (and definitely more secure), the only thing here that is relevant for discussion is the content submission form.

You now have the ability to upload and submit a file to us using it. A walkthrough, a biography, an article, or a zip file of images. Almost anything you would want to share. We can make special arrangements if a large file is not submitted by the form (e.g. a music collection). Just as I have been spending much more time working on Kongming’s Archives over the past month, your content submissions are also going to receive the same love and attention. Artbook scans? Portraits? Walkthroughs? Would you like to write an article for our site? Please let me know!

I know there are some other poor or broken forms on the site. They are going to be remade soon enough and announced on the home page. Also, please pardon the dated material in the submissions area. It, too, will get some love soon.

We also use image verification now. Rather than some boring numbers we have decided to integrate reCAPTCHA, an image verification service that also works to digitally preserve books whenever you use it. So when you verify words in our forms you are actually doing something meaningful.

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5/4/08 (James): Cao Shang's Three Kingdoms XI English Patch
I have just added Cao Shang’s Chinese/Japanese to English Patch for Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI Patch Downloads Page. If you are interested in playing a patched Windows version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI, you can Import Sangokushi (Japanese with PUK) from Play-Asia.com. Other versions of Sangokushi Xi are available.

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4/30/08 (James): Liu Bei Sanguozhi, Playing Cards, Cao/Xiahou Tree
I’d like to introduce a few updates that were posted to the site a few days ago. First, Liu Bei’s Sanguozhi Biography, by Stephen So, is now available. Many of you may have stumbled across this biography in the past in password-protected PDF format, making the contents difficult to cite or reference. That shouldn’t be a problem anymore. That said, this is a marvelously well-written biography with extensive footnotes. Stephen has done a wonderful job with it. It is a must read.

Quite some time ago we discovered a delightful set of two 54-card decks of Romance of the Three Kingdoms Playing Cards, usually only found in Hong Kong, particularly in airports. The artwork is quite fun and we have enjoyed nicknaming many of the cards. We’ve been discussing this deck in our forum, Scholars of Shen Zhou, for quite some time now. In discussing the deck we have also posted occasional scans of the cards. Well, now the entire deck is online for you to view and enjoy, each card scanned and carefully prepared in Photoshop. I hope you enjoy it! You are welcome to share your thoughts on these cards with us in our forum, too!

We would like to introduce a new Cao/Xiahou Family Tree by J.C. Cawley (aka. Kong Wen), a project he has been working on for some time now. This family tree is much more extensive than our existing one, or anything we’ve seen in a book for that matter. J.C. Cawley would like to point out that this family tree is not yet complete, and that some fine tuning is also necessary, but it would be a shame to keep this gem locked away in a musty old chest any longer. I would also like to add that its sheer size has also led me to explore new ways to present family trees here at Kongming’s Archives. Our presentation also needs some fine-tuning and the JavaScript used to create the collapsing menus many of you will enjoy is not working properly in Internet Explorer for some reason. Regardless, I haven’t left any of you out: Internet Explorer receives its own dedicated presentation, and it actually looks quite good. You may like it too.

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4/24/08 (James): Romance of The Three Kingdoms XI, Windows, ENGLISH!
Great news, everyone! KOEI has announced that they are releasing Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI for Windows in English on July 29th, 2008. That’s right! Their wonderful historic strategy simulation series is returning to the PC in English. This hasn’t happened since Romance of the Three Kingdoms IV: Wall of Fire, back in the ’90s. We will keep you posted!

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4/21/08 (James): New Biographies; Site Improvements; DW6 OST
Greetings everyone! I’ve actually been quite busy refining Kongming’s Archives in the background to make it a little easier to use and a little easier to update. I’ve made a few improvements here and there. FAQs and Walkthroughs we feature now enjoy a fine-tuned display script so they are delivered at record speed (being implemented in areas across the site now). The URL of a FAQ we host is also much easier to look at and share with friends, now. As an example, here is Lord Yuan Shu’s Dynasty Warriors 6 FAQ/Walkthrough.

Officer Entries in the Encyclopedia Project have new links, making it easier for you to share biography-like officer summaries on the internet and in forums during discussions. As examples, here is Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Sun Quan.

The Three Kingdoms Hanzi Project and the Style Name Project both share links with the Three Kingdoms Encyclopedia now. This should help to alleviate confusion while viewing similar entries. Our Games Directory Home Page has received a complete facelift to make it a little more intuitive. Lady Wu finally harassed me enough to make it happen. Our Three Kingdoms Encyclopedia, by far the most popular section of our site, now, is going to receive a massive retuning in the near future as well. We’ll share more about that when the time comes!

We’ve added another handful of new links to our Three Kingdoms Link Directory. One addition of note is the Book Purchase Directory, which features purchase links and mini-reviews of some marvelous Three Kingdoms books. Your purchase through these links even takes a nip out of our hosting fees! Everyone is welcome to share their favorite links. Site owners, submit your link to us! Visit our link submission page.

New Sanguo Yanyi Officer Biographies have also been added: Cai Mao (Degui) and Shen Pei (Zhengnan) by Dong Zhou; Shi Huan (Gongliu) by Sam.

By popular request I have just added the Dynasty Warriors 6 (Shin Sangoku Musou 5) original soundtrack (OST) to our music downloads page. It is uploading as I type this, so start with the earliest files to avoid broken links! Odds & Ends users will have a download link in a few hours.

Oh, and please forgive us for our April Fool’s joke. While most of you have found out, now, that we play a joke every single year, there are always a handful of people who are out of the loop, so to speak, and are always caught off-guard. I’ll share more about this in a future update.

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4/12/08 (James): Romance of the Three Kingdoms Community Directory
Today I would like to introduce something familiar but totally new: the Romance of the Three Kingdoms Links Directory. Rather than group all of our links on a single links page (the original links page is still available, but it is no longer being updated) we are grouping them into a full-fledged directory. This makes it much easier for us to share community links and manage broken links. It also makes it much easier for community members to contribute links as well.

Not only have I gone through our old links collection to remove (and in some cases, replace) broken links (I’m sad to see some very good sites have gone offline), I’ve also added a collection of new sites. Please have a look! Explore the Romance of the Three Kingdoms Community Links Directory. If you have any sites to suggest please use our site submission form to suggest them to us. Hopefully we can grow this section remake into a much more valuable resource. Feedback is welcome!

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