Oooo, another Smt fan I see. I haven’t explored your site fully yet, but def try and add some of the old persona web images, backgrounds, and buttons if you haven’t already!
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beyourtruemind
4 days ago
Massive visual overhaul + Added a bunch of art from the Persona 20th and 25th anniversary celebrations I missed out on the last time. Also added a Guestbook for anyone wanting to leave a comment.
Hello, this project has not been abandoned, I'm still slowly working on this site offline and chances are I'll update the live version when I at least have all my basic pages down, hopefully sometime in December.
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beyourtruemind
2 years ago
Main purpose of this update was to test how quickly my image-heavy pages load. Looks like I'll have to downscale some of my thumbnails further, but I'm pretty happy that I managed to increase my remaining storage from about 30% to 50%.
beyourtruemind
2 years ago
Proper pages about Persona 1's development and characters coming shortly. On the backburner is a Megaten interviews page where I consolidate developer interviews for the series all in one place.
beyourtruemind
3 years ago
Converted all the thumbnails to jpgs so images should (hopefully) load faster. Saves space on my end too. Added scroll to next section/top functions on the Extra Media and Gallery pages and spruced up my Link page. Also added the ability to change site themes, though for now it's just changing the main site colour and the image on the homepage.
beyourtruemind
3 years ago
Gallery expanded with Persona concept art and manga illustrations. Added thumbnails and hid the images on load so hopefully the page ends up loading quickly. I'll fill in the remainder of the Persona 25th anniversary images later, it's not a priority.
beyourtruemind
3 years ago
The 'Extra' page showcases Persona 1's supplementary media, such as its manga adaption, official novelisation, game guides, and more. Due to the few translation/scanlation projects that exist, few are in English. Even fewer have been scanned and put up online at all.
beyourtruemind
3 years ago
If my remaining storage space allows, I'd like to host the untranslated raws on this site, in case the blogs/sites of the original scanners ever go down. But I'm already at 50% capacity, so I may have to use Mega or rely on the Wayback Machine in the end.
After some searching on where the images in this link (https://megamitensei.fandom.com/wiki/Persona_20th_Anniversary_Festival) came from, I finally found it! They were created to commemorate Persona's 20th anniversary and were exhibited in the 3331 Arts Chiyoda Museum (https://personacentral.com/persona-20th-fes-anniversary-event-venue-pictures/)!
beyourtruemind
3 years ago
It's also unfortunate that I can't get them in a higher quality, but at least I know their source. No wonder I couldn't find anything about them on SauceNao or TinEye, they were never posted online in the first place!
beyourtruemind
3 years ago
After finding this (https://twitter.com/uedas10/status/812085012111597569/) I'm starting to think SauceNao isn't particularly good at sourcing non-Pixiv art. It's hard to find these kinds of things because: 1. Often the artists don't tag their work and 2. Pieces made for a specific event in 2016 and for a popular series oft get overlooked after the event is over, and drowned out by 5 years' worth of fanart.
\o There’s dozens of us! And I wasn’t expecting to find a Trinity Soul fansite of all things, that’s the entry I know the least about. I plan on adding a ‘Fan’ section to archive art and such from old persona/smt fansites eventually. In the meantime you can scroll down the Links page, I do have links/buttons of a few old fan communities, including a few in-depth P2 fansites and fanlistings you might like!
I'll def look into that! I need to get around to making the links page so I can put buttons on, but you'll one of the first I bet :D