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Topic Started: Jun 6 2008, 03:32 PM (880 Views)
Deleted User Jun 6 2008, 03:32 PM Post #1
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 All the mega-important site announcements and updates will be posted here.

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April 14, 2009 by alxbly
The search function for the site is now operational. "Search" sits under the Nintendo 64 Forever banner on each page or if you're really stuck just click this link.

Note also that you can now also report any posts which you think are offensive or break any rules by clicking the report box underneath the post.

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January 23, 2009 by Mop_it_up
With all of the people selling their Nintendo 64's lately, I figure I'll make great use of this emoticon:

:blasphemy bat:

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October 21, 2008 by alxbly
More stuff!

We all now have a blog option. If you have something to say which doesn't quite fit in any topics, why not create your own blog? It's easy;

Click on "Preferences" at the top right of the page.

Select "Update profile"

Select "My blog" where you call name your blog and change the options.

After you've named your blog you can add blog posts by clicking on your username and on your blog. We'll start a new topic in the Social Board where people can post when they've made a new blog post. Have fun. :)

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October 21, 2008 by Mop_it_up
ZetaBoards offers many features which InvisionFree lacked, so poke around folks, you may just stumble upon a nifty new feature that will enhance your forum experience. There's now a search function, for example, so you can quickly and easily find a topic of particular interest. You've probably noticed that there's an icon next to a member's post which will let you know if they're online, so you won't need to go back to the main page. It's now possible to embed YouTube videos into a post, so you don't need to post simple links anymore. However, please be courteous to those with a slow Internet connection and refrain from posting an excessive amount of videos in a single post.

I'm quite sure there's even more to discover, so put on your headlamp and go exploring!

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October 17, 2008 by alxbly
Okay, so we've been moved to Zetaboards. :omg: You'll notice a few things are slightly different. First, the look of the site. I can't find a decent looking theme with a white background, so for the moment we're using a black background. That might change in future... let me know what you think of it! You can change the theme by using the drop down tab at the bottom left of each page.

Our standard smilies have changed and some of the new ones look crap now (they were designed for a white background). I'll get these replaced with nice new ones in the next couple of days.

Text: you might notice that the way text is sized has changed. It used to be
Code:
 
[size=14]some text[/size]
, etc. Now it's
Code:
 
[big]some text[/big]
in brackets to increase text size. I'd suggest that everyone has a look at the BBcode which applies to the site:

http://s9.zetaboards.com/Nintendo_64_Forever/keys/?c=1

Avatars - I've increased the size to 150x150 pixels because the 100x100 avatars look kinda small here. There's no need to change if you don't want to... but expect jokes about my avatar being bigger than yours... :yeah:

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October 5, 2008 by alxbly
Okay, one last batch of Nintendo-themed smilies.

:toad:

Code:
 
:toad:


:birdo:

Code:
 
:birdo:


:link:

Code:
 
:link:


:mario:

Code:
 
:mario:


:pika:

Code:
 
:pika:


And they're all clickable from the smilie box.

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October 4, 2008 by alxbly
Since I've been swamped with literally no requests for new smilies, I thought I'd give us some. The first is a dancing smiling:

:dance:

which you can use by typing:

Code:
 
:dance:


We also have thumbs up and thumbs down smilies:

:yeah:

Code:
 
:yeah:


:nope:

Code:
 
:nope:


And a confused smilie:

:eh:

Code:
 
:eh:


And, a few of my own creations.... the N64 smilie:

:n64:

Code:
 
:n64:


Lastly, my pride and joy, the N64 kid smilie!

:omg:

Code:
 
:omg:


All the smilies are clickable from the smilie box. Enjoy! :lol:

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September 20, 2008 by alxbly
More work has been done on the archives today. I decided that we would only archive closed topics, the rest have been reopened and are in the process of being merged. We have quite a few topics that cover the same subjects so I'm merging these together. Hopefully, that will make old topics easier to find. Ultimately what I'd like to see is one discussion topic per game, plus seperate topics for other N64 related chat. In the mean time, revel in old topic bumpage. Welcome back to 2006!

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August 25, 2008 by alxbly
The latest exciting update is that I'm planning on retitling some topics to make them easier to find. Obscure topic titles can be funny but they also make finding specific topics a bit hit or miss. The Archives section is a nightmare just now, it's hard to find anything unless you know specifically what a topic was called. Anyway, post your usual encouragement and grumblings about this here and I'll do my best to take any suggestions on board.

First up for the topic renaming will be the N64 Archives. The topics will all be moved to the N64 board for a short while and moved back when the renaming process is complete. If you experience any difficulties accessing the N64 board please post here or PM one of the admin staff.

Thanks.

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June 6, 2008 by alxbly, original post
First up, regular members will notice a slight change in Nintendo 64 Forever's board layout. A few of the less used boards have been merged together to hopefully make Nintendo 64 Forever look a little bit neater and be slightly easier to navigate.

So the Forum Guidelines have been merged into the Welcome section, which is now titled Welcome, Guidelines and Announcements. As this is the first part of the board new members are likely to visit, it seems reasonable that our guidelines should be there.

Site Help and Site Suggestions were rarely used so I've merged the two sections together. The resulting (and innovatively titled) Site Help and Suggestions section is also now in the Welcome area.

Feel free to comment on any of the changes or announcements in this topic. :)
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Mop_it_up Jun 7 2008, 06:25 PM Post #2
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Dark Birdo
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 How about getting a little more creative with your board titles? They sound so boring. Something like this would be better:

"Welcome 64, Guidelines 64, and Announcments 64 (PlayStation Sucks)"

There, that's 64 times better.
===MISQUOTE OF THE MONTH===
"2D games are dull and boring." -alxbly
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Deleted User Jun 7 2008, 08:17 PM Post #3
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 And I could change the name of the site to Nintendo 64 Fanboy 64 Forever 64.
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Deleted User Aug 25 2008, 05:24 PM Post #4
Deleted User

 The latest exciting update is that I'm planning on retitling some topics to make them easier to find. Obscure topic titles can be funny but they also make finding specific topics a bit hit or miss. The Archives section is a nightmare just now, it's hard to find anything unless you know specifically what a topic was called. Anyway, post your usual encouragement and grumblings about this here and I'll do my best to take any suggestions on board.

First up for the topic renaming will be the N64 Archives. The topics will all be moved to the N64 board for a short while and moved back when the renaming process is complete. If you experience any difficulties accessing the N64 board please post here or PM one of the admin staff.

Thanks.
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Mop_it_up Aug 27 2008, 11:03 AM Post #5
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Dark Birdo
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alxbly
Aug 25 2008, 07:24 PM
First up for the topic renaming will be the N64 Archives. The topics will all be moved to the N64 board for a short while and moved back when the renaming process is complete.

Wait a minute, are you planning on renaming every topic in the Archives section? Are you moving them to the N64 board so you can keep track of the ones you've renamed?

...You want someone to pitch in on this? I suggest Floorcat...
===MISQUOTE OF THE MONTH===
"2D games are dull and boring." -alxbly
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Deleted User Aug 27 2008, 12:31 PM Post #6
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Mop_it_up
Aug 27 2008, 06:03 PM
Wait a minute, are you planning on renaming every topic in the Archives section?

Nope.

Mop_it_up
Aug 27 2008, 06:03 PM
Are you moving them to the N64 board so you can keep track of the ones you've renamed?

Correct!

Mop_it_up
Aug 27 2008, 06:03 PM
...You want someone to pitch in on this? I suggest Floorcat...

Lolz. :D It's alright I don't mind going through them. :)
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dagoss Aug 28 2008, 06:59 AM Post #7
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 ... Isn't it a little pointless to manually archive topics, considering that invision automatically does it (see the link at the bottom of every page).
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Deleted User Aug 28 2008, 04:38 PM Post #8
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 Good question but the two archives serve different purposes. As far as I recall, Invisionfree's own archives are only kept for a short while as an emergency backup (for example, if the board should be hacked and all topic were deleted), but after a while that info is lost. Our own archives let us keep topics that are years old.

Obviously if the invisionfree archives were kept long term there wouldn't be a need for read-only boards, such as our own archives. We'll continue to archive our own topics until a better or easier solution is found.
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dagoss Aug 30 2008, 07:22 AM Post #9
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alxbly
Aug 28 2008, 05:38 PM
Good question but the two archives serve different purposes. As far as I recall, Invisionfree's own archives are only kept for a short while as an emergency backup (for example, if the board should be hacked and all topic were deleted), but after a while that info is lost. Our own archives let us keep topics that are years old.

Obviously if the invisionfree archives were kept long term there wouldn't be a need for read-only boards, such as our own archives. We'll continue to archive our own topics until a better or easier solution is found.

As far as I can tell, Invision's archives are kept long term. I was even able to find my first post on this site, which was like two years ago. Personally, I think there is a bigger chance of Invision ending their free service than those archived topics disappearing.

I'm just trying to save you work since, conceivably, no one would ever want to read any topic anyone on this site has ever created anyway, with the obvious exception of all of my topics.
Honest Gamers
Ubuntu Linux
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Deleted User Aug 30 2008, 08:26 AM Post #10
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dagoss
Aug 30 2008, 02:22 PM
As far as I can tell, Invision's archives are kept long term.  I was even able to find my first post on this site, which was like two years ago.  Personally, I think there is a bigger chance of Invision ending their free service than those archived topics disappearing.

Thanks for your input. When you say you found your first post, do you mean your introduction? The reason you're able to find it is because it still exists on N64 Forever:

http://z9.invisionfree.com/Nintendo_64_For...p?showtopic=210

If that topic were deleted from N64 Forever then I suspect it wouldn't be in Invisionfree's archives for very long. Our own archives are handy if we want to bring back any old topics, not that it happens very often.
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Deleted User Sep 19 2008, 11:06 PM Post #11
Deleted User

 More work has been done on the archives today. I decided that we would only archive closed topics, the rest have been reopened and are in the process of being merged. We have quite a few topics that cover the same subjects so I'm merging these together. Hopefully, that will make old topics easier to find. Ultimately what I'd like to see is one discussion topic per game, plus seperate topics for other N64 related chat. In the mean time, revel in old topic bumpage. Welcome back to 2006! ^_^
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Stephen Young Sep 21 2008, 10:07 AM Post #12
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StYoung Forever
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 The memories. ;_;


dagoss
Nov 17 2007, 05:13 PM
OMG, this is the best topic ever made.  I nominate Steve for God!
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Mop_it_up Sep 21 2008, 12:28 PM Post #13
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 2006 was a great year, up until the 8th of August. That's when things started going downhill...
===MISQUOTE OF THE MONTH===
"2D games are dull and boring." -alxbly
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dataDyne Sep 21 2008, 07:03 PM Post #14
You don't stand a chance
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Mop_it_up
Sep 21 2008, 12:28 PM
2006 was a great year, up until the 8th of August. That's when things started going downhill...

I took me a good five minutes before I got that. <_<
Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But hit a man with a brick, and you can have all his fish. And his wife.
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Franklint Sep 22 2008, 02:03 AM Post #15
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 Just thought I'd point out that dataDyne is now exactly one thousand posts ahead of StYoung. I'm not suggesting any kind of race, I just thought it was interesting.

Off topic. My bad. *hits self*

Cheers,
Franklint
My have/want/trade lists: http://www.franklint.co.nr/page1/page1.html
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Stephen Young Sep 22 2008, 03:32 PM Post #16
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StYoung Forever
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 I don't get the reference.

And yes, I've been surpassed by almost everyone these days. Wahhhhhhhhhhhhh.


dagoss
Nov 17 2007, 05:13 PM
OMG, this is the best topic ever made.  I nominate Steve for God!
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Deleted User Oct 4 2008, 09:18 PM Post #17
Deleted User

 Since I've been swamped with literally no requests for new smilies, I thought I'd give us some. The first is a dancing smiling:

:dance:

which you can use by typing:

Code:
 
:dance:


We also have thumbs up and thumbs down smilies:

:yeah:

Code:
 
:yeah:


:nope:

Code:
 
:nope:


And a confused smilie:

:eh:

Code:
 
:eh:


And, a few of my own creations.... the N64 smilie:

:n64:

Code:
 
:n64:


Lastly, my pride and joy, the N64 kid smilie!

:omg:

Code:
 
:omg:


All the smilies are clickable from the smilie box. Enjoy! :lol:
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Stephen Young Oct 5 2008, 03:38 PM Post #18
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StYoung Forever
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 :omg:


dagoss
Nov 17 2007, 05:13 PM
OMG, this is the best topic ever made.  I nominate Steve for God!
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Mop_it_up Oct 5 2008, 04:43 PM Post #19
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Dark Birdo
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 Nice. :yeah:

Any chance we could add these as well?

Posted Image

Posted Image
===MISQUOTE OF THE MONTH===
"2D games are dull and boring." -alxbly
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Deleted User Oct 5 2008, 06:33 PM Post #20
Deleted User

 Okay, one last batch of Nintendo-themed smilies.

:toad:

Code:
 
:toad:


:birdo:

Code:
 
:birdo:


:link:

Code:
 
:link:


:mario:

Code:
 
:mario:


:pika:

Code:
 
:pika:


And they're all clickable from the smilie box.
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Mop_it_up Oct 5 2008, 09:35 PM Post #21
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Dark Birdo
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 Awesome. :birdo:

But was it really necessary to add this one: :pika: ? I'm quite sure you did it just to spite me. If only there were some way I could remove it... <_>
===MISQUOTE OF THE MONTH===
"2D games are dull and boring." -alxbly
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Deleted User Oct 6 2008, 01:28 AM Post #22
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Mop_it_up
Oct 6 2008, 04:35 AM
If only there were some way I could remove it... <_>

I'd just add him straight back in again. ;) Quit hating on the 'Chu!
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Rapueda Oct 6 2008, 03:19 PM Post #23
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Gemini Squadron
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alxbly
Oct 4 2008, 09:18 PM
Lastly, my pride and joy, the N64 kid smilie!

:omg:

Now that one's just plain creepy... :eh:

Otherwise, they look nice! Great job! :dance:
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Mop_it_up Oct 7 2008, 12:14 PM Post #24
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Dark Birdo
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alxbly
Oct 6 2008, 03:28 AM
I'd just add him straight back in again. ;) Quit hating on the 'Chu!

One, two, three, four, I declare a smiley war! :link:
===MISQUOTE OF THE MONTH===
"2D games are dull and boring." -alxbly
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macN64 Oct 10 2008, 02:55 PM Post #25
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 :link: I'm lovin' Link! :link:
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Deleted User Oct 17 2008, 04:14 PM Post #26
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 Okay, so we've been moved to Zetaboards. :omg: You'll notice a few things are slightly different. First, the look of the site. I can't find a decent looking theme with a white background, so for the moment we're using a black background. That might change in future... let me know what you think of it! You can change the theme by using the drop down tab at the bottom left of each page.

Our standard smilies have changed and some of the new ones look crap now (they were designed for a white background). I'll get these replaced with nice new ones in the next couple of days.

Text: you might notice that the way text is sized has changed. It used to be
Code:
 
[size=14]some text[/size]
, etc. Now it's
Code:
 
[big]some text[/big]
in brackets to increase text size. I'd suggest that everyone has a look at the BBcode which applies to the site:

http://s9.zetaboards.com/Nintendo_64_Forever/keys/?c=1

Avatars - I've increased the size to 150x150 pixels because the 100x100 avatars look kinda small here. There's no need to change if you don't want to... but expect jokes about my avatar being bigger than yours... :yeah:
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Mop_it_up Oct 21 2008, 01:33 PM Post #27
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Dark Birdo
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alxbly
Oct 17 2008, 04:14 PM
Avatars - I've increased the size to 150x150 pixels because the 100x100 avatars look kinda small here.
Sweet! Now I don't need to cut off the bottom of my lovely author icon.

Anyways, ZetaBoards offers many features which InvisionFree lacked, so poke around folks, you may just stumble upon a nifty new feature that will enhance your forum experience. There's now a search function, for example, so you can quickly and easily find a topic of particular interest. You've probably noticed that there's an icon next to a member's post which will let you know if they're online, so you won't need to go back to the main page. It's now possible to embed YouTube videos into a post, so you don't need to post simple links anymore. However, please be courteous to those with a slow Internet connection and refrain from posting an excessive amount of videos in a single post.

I'm quite sure there's even more to discover, so put on your headlamp and go exploring!
===MISQUOTE OF THE MONTH===
"2D games are dull and boring." -alxbly
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alxbly Oct 21 2008, 01:55 PM Post #28
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 More stuff!

We all now have a blog option. If you have something to say which doesn't quite fit in any topics, why not create your own blog? It's easy;

Click on "Preferences" at the top right of the page.

Select "Update profile"

Select "My blog" where you call name your blog and change the options.

After you've named your blog you can add blog posts by clicking on your username and on your blog. We'll start a new topic in the Social Board where people can post when they've made a new blog post. Have fun. :)
Xbox Live: alxbly | PSN: alxbly | Wii friend code: 2326 4589 7536 6941
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Mop_it_up Jan 23 2009, 06:42 PM Post #29
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Dark Birdo
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 With all of the people selling their Nintendo 64's lately, I figure I'll make great use of this emoticon:

:blasphemy bat:

Code:
 
:blasphemy bat:
===MISQUOTE OF THE MONTH===
"2D games are dull and boring." -alxbly
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alxbly Apr 14 2009, 05:50 PM Post #30
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 The search function for the site is now operational. "Search" sits under the Nintendo 64 Forever banner on each page or if you're really stuck just click this link.

Note also that you can now also report any posts which you think are offensive or break any rules by clicking the report box underneath the post.
Xbox Live: alxbly | PSN: alxbly | Wii friend code: 2326 4589 7536 6941
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