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Happy Valentine's Day for tomorrow (or today, if you're from an especially silly time zone) from all of us here in the Caves. For some reason, we chose this day to launch our brand new Final Fantasy VII section.

Then we pulled it forward to today anyway.

Still.

We've deviated a little from the norm on this one. While you'll still find the game data coverage you've come to expect from us, we've focused on adding more in the way of guides and tips to this section. No longer are sidequests bundled into unexpected places in the walkthrough; you'll now find detailed guides dedicated to the optional and non-sequential elements of the game, written both by staff and various long-time friends of the site, who are credited on the section main page.

We're also trying out a new spoiler system for the section, and we'd love some feedback on it. It's not perfect — if you go and look at the last chapter of the walkthrough when you're still playing the beginning, you're still going to get things spoiled — but hopefully it should largely protect you from wandering into massive spoilers accidentally, unless you turn the spoiler option on to view the full section content.

Plus, as usual, you'll find a selection of fanart and fanfiction, and a few downloadables we thought you might enjoy.

As ever, please do let us know of any errors or omissions, or things we could improve, particularly things you think should be spoilered that we might not have noticed. And finally, a massive, massive thank-you to everyone who's contributed to the section over the stupidly long time we've been building it, and special congratulations to Mr Thou, whose work on the section leads him to officially becoming a CoN staff member as of today.

Enjoy! ♥

The third fanfic from Shotgunnova, called "The Last Hour of Olan Durai.", is now up in the FFT fanfics section.

Feel free to comment on the fanfic here, or in the appropriate thread in the site submissions section.

This time it's Fanart. We've got new fanart from another series of artists, including Aora, Ashe, bratkitty, riceNoOdleZ,
Silverfork, and SilverMaduin. Again, thanks to The_Pink_Nu1 for his help in preparing this new batch.

And, again, I plan to have another wad of Fanart ready to go in just a few weeks.

As you might recall from a previous news post, I promised a pretty good chunk of new media coming your way. Finally I got around to doing it.

Here's what you'll find:

• Final Fantasy I Official Art
• Final Fantasy IV Official Art
• Final Fantasy V Official Art
• Final Fantasy VI Official Art
• Final Fantasy I Downloads, including NES hacks, ROM editors, wallpaper, and audio files.

I took quite a bit of time assembling these sections, so I hope you enjoy them. Thanks also to Neal, Djibriel, Kappa, and others for their help in sourcing content.

Forum member Shotgunnova has provided us with two pieces of fanfiction for the Final Fantasy Tactics section. The first is a poem called "Off He Goes", and the second is a longer piece titled "The Battle of Fuse Plains".

Feel free to leave comments in this thread, or in the appropriate threads in Site Submissions

We've had some fresh reports of the dreaded "error 28 from table handler" coming back (along with the odd error -1). In fact, I believe it's happening right now.

Let me stress that this is only our fault in so much that we chose FuitadNET as our web hosting provider. There's nothing we can do to solve this short of harassing them. It's their problem that they let areas fill up that are necessary for the correct operation of our databases. We can't empty them, since much of their contents belong to other users - again, let us stress that this problem is caused without our mistake; the error belongs to the web hosting company and their staff.

Still, thanks to those of you that let us know. I'll reiterate my guidelines for e-mailing us from last time this happened:

It's better that not every member e-mails us: perhaps the folks in chat at the time could arrange for one person to send the e-mail. Keep the subject line "SQL Error" (change the '+' in the default subject to a space, if it's there) so we can filter the messages nicely.

Thanks for your patience, folks.