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Adventure Related Talk & Chat / Re: Broken image links

« on: Yesterday at 18:23 »

That's what I've been saying all the time. Just check the games db to see if the link points to agsa download (not games page). If not, check if the game's available on agsa. If it is, change the link to point there,

Yep, that's what we have been doing all along...

if it isn't and the games is elsewhere, create the page and download on agsa and point the games db to that direction.

No one has told me we were able to do that..?! That would've saved a lot of time!!! Mediafire...*mumblemuttercurse*

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The Rumpus Room / Re: *Guess the Movie Title*

« on: Yesterday at 18:16 »

There your are, finally!! I told you aaaaages ago already! 

Yes, it's your go...

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Adventure Related Talk & Chat / Re: Broken image links

« on: Yesterday at 16:37 »

Yeah, I wasn't clear about that. Linking the AGS database entries to Peder's AGSA is basically what we did for the past two weeks (with a few minor exceptions that actually only have outside mirrors). If the missing game was in the AGSA database, we linked it there. I even pasted an AGSA link as download mirror in most entries while fixing screenshots. I meant exclusively those games that have no mirror at all so far, no AGSA entry (or file!), no outside mirror...
Means, how/where shall we store those game files until someone can upload those to the AGSA database?

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The Rumpus Room / Re: *Guess the Movie Title*

« on: Yesterday at 16:20 »

"The Laughing Policeman" aka "An Investigation of a Murder" (<-- which kind of moron thought that was a good alternative title for that film!!! )

Probably because I likely wouldn't ever watch a movie called "The Laughing Policeman". But "An Investigation of a Murder" sounds better (although still sounds a bit cheesy).

Obviously, but you know what I mean. That's like calling "The Big Lebowski": "Stoned dude wants his carpet back", how more dumbing-down does it get?! If you've seen "The Laughing Policeman", the protagonist doesn't even smile one single time throughout the whole movie, it's a hardboiled cop film - that's the whole cynical punchline...

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Adventure Related Talk & Chat / Re: Broken image links

« on: Yesterday at 15:56 »

That would be great, Arj0n. Especially considering your ability to make those missing games appear out of nowhere!

Some info in between: All available versions of AS Racing Manager are missing the ac2game.dat file.
It seems to have been downloaded 5,500 times, no comments on the entry page. Was there ever a version that actually worked? Does anyone know?

edit: Nevermind, it seems to have worked at some point in 2005 at least:AGS Games in Production / AS Racing Manager, however buggy.
Anyway, every zip file is missing that file so far...


And one question: I'm slowly getting somewhat confused with all the upload/download resources we have. We can't just simply link those game entries to Arj0ns uploads (or the link Peder posted: http://arj0n.agsarchives.com/) directly, or can we? We download them and upload them to sites like mediafire for now (at least that's what I did with the few games I fixed from the 'unavailable' list so far). Sorry, total noob concerning all that server mubojumbo-overhead-bandwith-limitations stuff.

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The Rumpus Room / Re: *Guess the Movie Title*

« on: Yesterday at 14:25 »

Absolutely, Snarky! That's it.
A gritty urban police procedural film with a great bunch of characters. Quite cynical & "honest", in a sense that the protagonists are as clueless as the viewer at times and you see
them following up on many dead-end leads. In certain key scenes it almost feels like an "American Giallo" for some reason (yeah, I know, I'm an oxy-moron! ), but it fits the overall mood of the movie to the point.) Watch it if you can...

EDIT: Dang, sorry bbX1138! Seems like you guessed it first! Stupid alternative titles, it's the same movie:
"The Laughing Policeman" aka "An Investigation of a Murder" (<-- which kind of moron thought that was a good alternative title for that film!!! )
Sorry Snarky! Blame the international releases!

Yep, your go bbX1138!
     

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Adventure Related Talk & Chat / Re: Broken image links

« on: 20 May 2013, 23:01 »

Wolf Country (demo) is in the list, not confirmed works for me, well at least a file is downloadable, didn't check further...

LOL! I didn't only post those, I fixed 'em too...

Got three more games from the 'unavailable' list, by courtesy of 'sthomannch':

No Traveller Returns (Demo) - ...another working link(!) was in the game's "Completed Games Announcements" thread - first post!!! (hosted by SSH)

Underwater Adventures

Wolf Country (DEMO)

To be honest, I rather doubt that it makes that much sense at this point to go through our database in search of broken links and not to look up those 'broken' games in the AGSarchives at the same time (i.e. instantly fixing broken links as we go along). Almost all of the games you listed are downloadable in the AGSarchives database right now! Except mabye 2 or 3. It wouldn't be much use to mark those as broken links, since they're available (apart from those 3). The list I compiled was just for reference, those are games that aren't available in the AGSarchive database, the "Net" or our database.
My list is no good, selmiak (it's 'out of date' already), use AGA's automated ones...or is it?!? - too tired...another day.   

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The Rumpus Room / Re: *Guess the Movie Title*

« on: 20 May 2013, 22:38 »

Almost spot on - concerning the year of release.

It's a good movie, but it is REALLY not that well known.
 
I wouldn't even consider it unfair to consult IMDb.com in this case...

Hint: The book this movie is based on was written by a Swedish couple of crime fiction writers. In it's adaptation
however the setting was changed to some major metropolis in the US. (Clint Eastwood escaped from some famous prison island over there, in some
totally unrelated movie. )
 
Edit: Also, check Eric's godawful spelling(!) in the post above. Good hint!

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The Rumpus Room / Re: *Guess the Movie Title*

« on: 20 May 2013, 18:25 »

Good point, Eric! Let's say he has a certain brooding menacing quality in the one in question. By the way, you must know that movie. I know that
for a fact! (don't want to stall the thread for too long...)

Correction:

hint: The most 2nd or 3rdest most serious & menacing you will ever see Jack L...W. Matthau on screen...

by that hint dropping dude below!v v v

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The Rumpus Room / Re: *Guess the Movie Title*

« on: 20 May 2013, 17:57 »

Yeah, I was already pretty sure it's Jack Lemmon in that first photo - unmistakable cheekbones. But I still don't know what film of his is this.

HEheheee, nice one Ascovel, didn't see that one before!! During a certain period quite permissible to imagine they're one and the same though!

Yeah, I was hoping that came through, he has got a very 'distinct' profile...

hint: The most serious & menacing you will ever see Jack L...W. Matthau on screen...  

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The Rumpus Room / Re: *Guess the Movie Title*

« on: 20 May 2013, 17:53 »

Nope! None of them is the real McCoy!

Another one then...

That's the dude, that was neither Nicholson nor Keitel in the previous shot...

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Adventure Related Talk & Chat / Re: Broken image links

« on: 20 May 2013, 17:13 »

Arj0n, you are officially awesome!

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Adventure Related Talk & Chat / Re: Broken image links

« on: 20 May 2013, 17:03 »

Got three more games from the 'unavailable' list, by courtesy of 'sthomannch':

No Traveller Returns (Demo) - ...another working link(!) was in the game's "Completed Games Announcements" thread - first post!!! (hosted by SSH)

Underwater Adventures

Wolf Country (DEMO)
 

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Adventure Related Talk & Chat / Re: Broken image links

« on: 20 May 2013, 13:19 »

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/downloadcheck/.  This only shows games where the download has been reported as broken though.  Automatically checking all the links the way I did the images would take far too long.

The broken download links list contains only reports from users/members as far as I know. In each entry the link 'If the download link or mirror link doesn't work, please report it.' --> then confirm broken link.
I'd suggest let's fix as many as we can for now and then discuss how that might be avoided in the future. (e.g. Some kind of automated e-mail posting system once screenshot links and download links are reported as broken and confirmed(!) to be broken or something similar. Storing them locally etc. and so on and so forth)

On a kind of related note, I got 5-6 wrongly reported broken download links - the download sites just took a while to load the file and/or you had to click a button or enter captcha and such.

edit: Though I do agree with you Leon. In order to make this effort seem lesser like "Sisyphus playing ball with the rock" , it'd be very, very usefull if someone would be able to update the AGSarchives storage database alongside. Especially, for the 'long lost' games section - some games people were able to recover (now & before), but files on outside servers will continue to expire, those games will disappear again and we can start all over again. (Please, don't get me wrong Peder, I know you're updating the database and I know nothing about the 'background logistics', it just seems like a Herculean task (OK, OK, enough with that Greek stuff already!! ).

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Adventure Related Talk & Chat / Re: Broken image links

« on: 20 May 2013, 10:54 »

So before I disable all the games that have either a broken image or a broken download link, can I just check that still having a broken image link means the download link is also broken (so nobody was able to download it and create their own screenshot)?

Yes, I went through those once more and re-checked. Provided of course, no one reported 'new' broken images - but as far as I can see, those have been fixed as well.

I'm sorry, but I'm just not quite sure about the disabling thing yet: There're still some requests and messages to game creators (that still frequent the forums now!) in limbo and we're awaiting their responses. I suppose they should still be able to edit their entries (maybe I'm misunderstanding something).
RaGG and Layabout for example and others. 

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The Rumpus Room / Re: Name the Game

« on: 19 May 2013, 23:54 »

At first I thought "Conquests of the Longbow", but the graphics weren't that elaborate and I couldn't think of any scene
that comes close to this. I'm intrigued!!

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The Rumpus Room / Re: *Guess the Movie Title*

« on: 19 May 2013, 23:12 »

You mean the one with Basinger? Then nope.

That one was realeased 3 yeares AFTER "The Two Jakes"...

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AGS Games in Production / Re: Pizza Nostra! - Crime and Comedy in the '30 Trailer available!

« on: 19 May 2013, 23:06 »

WOW! That trailer is insane!
Really psyched about your project. Much energy for the home stretch!

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AGS Games in Production / Re: A Golden Wake

« on: 19 May 2013, 22:24 »

Those screenshots in the first post are giving me a django unchained vibe for some reason..!

What a base way of slagging off those beautiful graphics, Mods!

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The Rumpus Room / Re: *Guess the Movie Title*

« on: 19 May 2013, 21:58 »

Nice one, but no.

That's neither Nicholson nor Keitel in this shot, though the protagonists might've gas from time to time - not sure though .
It's quite a few years older than the Jakes...

Here it is once more so you don't have to go back to the previous page all the time: