Broken image links

AGA · Wed 08/05/2013 23:04:13

Just sent you what I think is a request for write access. That would let me mark them off as I go through them, if that's okay?

Stupot · Wed 08/05/2013 23:12:04

Good idea. You're in.

AGA · Wed 08/05/2013 23:21:37

There we go. I'll mark them off as I go through.

Tramponline · Thu 09/05/2013 13:28:39

Quote from: Stupot+ on Wed 08/05/2013 22:55:49
So that's #, A, B, C and some L done. Any others fancy having a go? Come on Selmiak and Tramponline

ARRRRRHHHH! I'm working on it, I'm working on it, Stu!
The 'L' section - pah! - more like mental vivisection ATM!! MENTAL I TELL YAAAAAAA!!!

Need some POINTERS how to run old AGS games in WINDOW MODE!
(Greenshot is cool, but it only captures the desktop 'behind' the running fullscreen AGS game/ Native 'Prt Scr' function doesn't do anything!)

(Win7 64bit - obviously - no use here!)
(Win XP 32 - disabling 'visual designs' in properties and adding 'windowed=1' in the acsetup.cfg does nothing - game still runs full-screen!)
Some cursing and gnashing of teeth isn't really helping either...well, the cursing helps somewhat!

Also: AARRRRHHHHHHHH! F%$##co@Â§$beep%&?Â§##beep#o#*cr@$!

AGA · Thu 09/05/2013 13:39:29

I just ran a script that copied all of the valid external image links in the games database to the server. This means that all (non broken) images should from now on be stored locally, and all images added in future will too. This should remove the possibility of dead images ever existing again! Now to get the games database tied into AGS Archives so the same thing happens there.

Radiant · Thu 09/05/2013 13:59:35

Tramponline, have you tried DosBox?

Tramponline · Thu 09/05/2013 14:14:55

Yeah, I'm fairly sure that'd work, Radiant - the 'L' section just contains quite a few of those games and
I was kind of hoping for a less 'cumbersome' approach.

Oh, well, off we go then...*sigh*

Stupot · Thu 09/05/2013 14:30:02

Hey Tramponline, did you see my post above about using Leon's walkthrough site (http://gamesolutions.efzeven.nl/category/walkthrough/) to find some of the screenshots. He covers a lot of AGS games on there, especially the older ones, and most (if not all) of them come with a screenshot.

I've found that (in the As for example) by the time I'd found all the screenshots either on Leon's site or on AGSArchives, there only remained a small handful of games that I actually had to run myself to grab a screenshot from. I still tested all the links but I didn't need to actually download all the games.

Tramponline · Thu 09/05/2013 14:46:19

Thanks, Stupot. I wasn't sure whether it was OK to 'hotlink' those screenshots on Leon's site, but since they're mirrored & stored locally as well...
That brings me roughly 50% closer to my aim. That 'L' section is jinxed!
(Chose that category mainly because I really loved "Laura Bow in: The Road to Murder", way, way back.

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Leon · Thu 09/05/2013 21:20:32

Any help needed here? I've got over 90% of the games pre 2010 (with screenshots if played). If I haven't got a screenshot, I still need to play it and can make a screenshot along the way. I use a number of emulators to play the oldies. I'd like a list of the games post 2010 to complete my own list (I missed a few years

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AGA · Thu 09/05/2013 23:30:08

I have 2.3GB of crap in my 'Underground Games' folder by the way, if anyone is desperately searching for anything pre about 2008. I know there's a missing games thread somewhere, but I honestly don't pay any attention to it.

Leon, take a look at this (and its preceding pages). If that doesn't work, I can probably hack something together eventuallyâ,,¢

Leon · Fri 10/05/2013 08:07:48

Well... I've about 11Gb of 'old' stuff.

I have the complete 'bycicle' mirror (about 7Gb), and so does Peder now, and more, gathered from all over the web. I do keep track of the Missing Games thread so if there are requests I jump in. I'll try to catch up with the newer ones though according to the database list. Problem is though that there are also games in the 'completed games' thread that are not in that list so I have to scan them both... $:-\$

Is there still help needed with the missing images?

AGA · Fri 10/05/2013 09:54:25

I wonder whether I could make it a necessity to link to a games page entry when you start a new thread in Completed Game Announcements... Hmm...

35% of all the games in the database (500+) still have dead images, so please feel free to jump in and help! Just pick a letter no one else has claimed, and get going.

There are 1499 games in the database right now by the way. Wonder who'll get the milestone 1500th? Not that the games page IDs line up of course, as some games have been deleted in the meantime; the next id added will actually be 1682.

Tramponline · Fri 10/05/2013 10:28:31

Quote from: Leon on Fri 10/05/2013 08:07:48
Is there still help needed with the missing images?

Of course! Take your pick with any additional letter of games with missing screenshots in the database!?

I'm fine now though, thanks Leon. I took some screenshots out of your database, that helped to ease
the load quite a lot.

Here the rest of the 'L' section:

Spoiler

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Quote from: AGA on Fri 10/05/2013 09:54:25
I wonder whether I could make it a necessity to link to a games page entry when you start a new thread in Completed Game Announcements... Hmm...

That'd be great. Too late though!
Then that 'Gilbert' dude wouldn't have forgotten to put his games in the database!

Then I'd finally get my credit for testing 'Primordia' and it would've been eligible for the AGS awards and all that...AND...

Leon · Fri 10/05/2013 12:52:56

Do I just create a list with links to the images in the format you did or do I update the database directly?

Here's a list (xls) with all the games, their respective database ID's and the links to my pictures. Maybe it'll help speed up things?

AGA · Fri 10/05/2013 13:10:28

That gave me a cunning idea. I've added Leon, Stupot and Trampoline to a special group that will allow them to edit games game entries. You should all get an 'edit this page' link on every page, so you can just update them yourselves. Cuts out the middleman! If anyone else wants to join in, please let me know and I'll set them up.

Please note that every action you make on the games page is logged, so I will know in the unlikely event one of you goes mad and starts abusing this newfound power

Ryan Timothy B · Fri 10/05/2013 13:34:46

Quote from: AGA on Fri 10/05/2013 09:54:25
I wonder whether I could make it a necessity to link to a games page entry when you start a new thread in Completed Game Announcements... Hmm...

Eeek. I don't quite agree with this. There's a few games that people post in the completed games section that they don't quite want on their games list record. To my knowledge, Ben304 has released a few games in the completed games thread but didn't make a games page addition. Likely because they were Oceanspirit games, and in all seriousness, OSD games are a joke (*gasp* blasphemy!).

AGA · Fri 10/05/2013 13:45:10

People shouldn't make silly games then! If not mandatory, it could at least be an option. Might encourage those people who may forget to otherwise to do it.

Leon · Fri 10/05/2013 14:14:10

That's why my list (see above) only has 'real' adventure games. No demo's, no joke games etc. I think it should be the producers choice whether to add it to the database and up to us (the players) to track it. We can only encourage them to add it to the db as well to give more exposure to their product.

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Hmm.. trying to add an image for 'Wet' but it keeps telling me that I have to fill out all mandatory fields. As far as I can see all has been done.?

AGA · Fri 10/05/2013 14:34:17

If there's no one credited for the game, or the file size is zero it won't like it. If you can't work out the person's forums username, you can just copy the 'author' information from further up, and leave the credits blank, like "author: " and it'll work.

The earlier games like Wet often don't have credits, because I think that feature was hacked in after the initial database driven system was created.

Some more intelligent error reporting would probably be a good idea, I'll think about doing that at some point.