Hey everyone, thanks for all of you being such good sports on April 1st.

so the TRUTH is we’re not going anywhere, we’re fine, Nintendo didn’t send us a letter and you have no idea how many of you pm’d me to be sure it wasn’t true…you’re all so gullible, i love it!

The Yoshi sprites is something i’ve been planning since last summer i’m sure Yoshi really loved that

OH and Dragonxkiller, Genno, and Mattimeo are NOT staff, do you people think i’m freaking retarded?  All of you who saw “Dragonxkiller” in game as a staff member…it was really me   thanks for making us staff laugh so hard over and over again.  We actually had some members claim they were leaving over that one (good riddance imo)

all in all it was great, you guys were great, i’m sorry we didn’t get to do everything we had planned to, guess you can all wait till next year.  I honestly feel like i half assed the main page but a very large portion of you STILL fell for it, and the priceless reactions will keep me laughing in anticipation of next year.

with that, here’s a sneak peak at the next update http://tinyurl.com/2py92f

/gunslinger

It is with a heavy heart and an immense amount of sadness that I bring you guys this news. Yesterday i received a letter from Nintendo of America (at least it was english i guess?). Specifically I recieved a Cease and Desist order. Under threat of legal action I am being forced to take down the server.

As of noon tomorrow the game server and Teamspeak server for Hyrule online will close forever. As part of the agreement I have worked out with the NOA reps we may keep our website and forums active, however we must swiftly remove any and all references to any Nintendo IP.

It has been alot of fun guys…i tried to fight this but we are not capable of doing anything except failing in the end…
Stay tuned, Stoffe and I, along with the other devs are going to begin discussing a new project that we CAN bring to you guys.

I am truly, truly sorry for all of this guys.

If you  guys don’t already know, TheSpeedGamers will be holding their 1 year anniversary marathon, a 72 hour Zelda Marathon for Ally’s House charity this Friday.  The event will start at 7pm EST.

We will be playing the following games

* The Legend of Zelda
* Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
* A Link to the Past
* Link’s Awakening
* The Ocarina of Time
* Majora’s Mask
* Oracle of Ages
* Oracle of Seasons
* The Wind Waker
* The Minish Cap
* Twilight Princess
* Phantom Hourglass
* Four Swords Adventures

CD-I:  Wand of Gamelon

CD-I:  Faces of Evil

Your very own Gunslinger (baltes) will be playing Links Awakening AND I will also be getting pepper sprayed live on friday evening.

The video and chat feeds will be embedded here on the front page of HyruleOnline.net for anyone who wishes to watch from here.

check out www.thespeedgamers.com for more info

also check out http://www.allyshouse.net/ for more info about our charity!

/gunslinger

Well our wonderful developer and coder Mr. Goron turns 17 today (at least according to the forums he does)

If you do happen to see our good friend, give him a hello and wish him well.

In other news, i know alot of you are wondering “Where the hell is 1.7!?”

Well we are all wondering the same thing ourselves.  The few bugs that exist within the 1.7 code are tricky buggers, the issue is with the way the maps are now rendered, all of the map drawing subs and functions were completely redone!  We are working on it and hope to have some real, concrete news within a few days for you guys.

/gunslinger

if you haven’t changed the IP in your config file there is no need to now.
Admin has supplied me with all the info to keep his DNS up to date with my own IP.
Sorry for the inconvenience!

Ok beautiful Comcast decided to cycle my IP for some really odd reason today, i’ve had the same IP for a good 6 months at least.
The no-ip info for our DNS name, hyruleonline.no-ip.info is probably the ONLY thing I don’t have a password to, cause I never needed it.
the server IS up, but you must do a few things to access it
First, go into the folder where you have Hyrule Online, find the file named config.ini and open it in notepad
the second line should say
IP=hyruleonline.no-ip.info
change that line to
IP=hyrulemmo.no-ip.org
save and exit
connect and play
Or you can just wait a few hours for admin to get my PM and update the dns that is already in your config file.

ok i’ve had enough of this downtime, we’re so close to being ready for 1.7, but everyone wants to play NOW!
so i’m throwing up 1.6
everyone is encouraged to update your passwords and if the client tells you your password is wrong, just use your old one.
we’ll be restoring an update from the weekend that everything started getting so crazy…so expect to have something to play within the next hour or so.

uuuh yeah, so i keep saying things like TOMORROW or FRIDAY or whatever as far as release date.

Well Monoxide is doing his best and he’s pretty sure he has almost all of the bugs fixed and everything, like I said before he just isn’t a robot.

We are hoping to be ready to release tonight, thankyou all for your patience, we’re doing our best get back up and running.

Ok guys I just spoke with monoxide and he says we’re 99% on everything but he isn’t a robot, he is only human and he requires sleep!

BUT he assures me that tomorrow we will be ready, so everyone stay tuned right here!

btw, go check the screenshots section for some new stuff

/gunslinger