About Mighty No. 9 Universe

[TheRaven]

For those who are new and or are just lurking, here's a bit of backstory of this very forum Mighty No. 9 Universe. Back in September of 2013, Keiji Inafune (Mega Man creator) wanted to create a game that was supposed to be the spiritual successor to Mega Man. During this moment in time, Capcom wasn't really doing much with the franchise, and Keiji had left Capcom to work at a new company called Comcept. Comcept announced a kickstarter for Mighty No. 9, a game that was absolutely hyped and met lots of goals. I thought to myself "A fan community will be great! And since the official forums will only allow backers (or "beckers", named after the main protagonist), my forum will welcome all!"

So like that I started the forum on a now defunct platform called prophpbb. To my delight and surprise, the forum quickly grew and I even managed to hire some staff to help me make the community the best it could be! However, my co-admin @MechaGS couldn't have full control over the templates to edit the themes we had installed, so we had to move to self hosting. Still using phpBB3, Mighty No. 9 Universe went from free hosting to self hosting. However being the indecisive person that I am, months later we would move from Host Gator to Invision Cloud, this was back when it was $20 a month.

Of course it got to the point where I couldn't pay for the costs of hosting anymore. I was barely making over minimum wage at my job at Walmart, and thus I had to make the decision to move yet again. This time I went with Jcink, since it was free. Well turns out since we have a 18+ section, I had to pay for premium which was $10 cheaper but I still couldn't really keep up with the payments so the forum went offline in 2016.

Fast forward to the end of March 2024. I decided to dig out my old computer I had while Mighty No. 9 Universe was still online and I came across some old database backups of the site. With the recent news of a fan porting the game to the PS Vita and 3DS, I thought "You know I think now would be a good time to bring Mighty No. 9 Universe back online." I've been working on moving from Jcink to phpBB2, to finally going with SMF since I could never get the forum to upgrade properly from phpBB2 to phpBB3 for whatever reason. (I mean phpBB2 is old. I was even shocked that my hosting still allowed me to switch to php version 5.6 just to install the software to be able to convert from Jcink to phpBB2...) Anyways here we are now. I've been fixing broken quotes, images, etc. to bring this forum back from the grave. I don't expect many (or anyone at all) to log back into their accounts here but I wanted to bring the forum back anyways.