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[Stupot]

What shall I do about Cosmos Quest?  It seems the author tried deleting everything including his own name from the game page.  (I remember he was a bit of a controversial chappy). But the games do still exist on AGSA.  Should I try to repair these pages or just delete the database entries and let them exist on AGSA?

[AGA]

I think we should really remove both.  If the owner clearly wanted the game removed, their wishes should be respected.  We'll always have people like Peder and Leon to reupload the game if it comes to that!

[cat]

As far as I remember he removed the game because of the panel rating. There is no such rating on AGS Archives so I'd keep it there.

[Stupot]

Okay I deleted them from the DB.  The pages were basically blank slates with the word 'deleted' dotted about everywhere, so I'm sure he would have deleted them properly himself if he'd been able. I think it would be nice to keep them on AGSA though. It is an archive after all.  And Good point Cat.

[Leon]

if the download link for a game is broken, is it best to just delete the link and the page will display the download unavailable message? Even though the red asterix makes me think it's not possible to update the game data without a link...

Leave it there for now. It can give clues in which archives to search for a copy of the game. Eventually they could all be removed.

[Peder 🚀]

He personally contacted me back then to have them added to AGS Archives so I won't be deleting them from there.

When it comes to AGSA and games none will ever be permanently deleted, but if the author of a game for any reason don't want the game to be available any more, it can be disabled.

[Tramponline]

Nice! So far we seem to have covered: #,A,B,C,_,_,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,_,_,_,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z

If some of these are still in the list, it probably means they are either leftovers (i.e. games that are unavailable) or the changes haven't been administered yet.


That seems to leave us with those games starting with D, E, P, Q, R? (...never payed much attention watching Sesame Street though! )


Not absolutely clear about the S through Z section though. Leon and selmiak probably know more...
 

edit: I'll go with R (down) if that's OK. (Though I definitely wouldn't mind if someone wanted to help out and go bottom-up in R )
And maybe try some of the games in the "vanished" section - though at least half of those seem to be games by FSI++!

[Narushima]

I'll take care of D and E today if it's still available

[cat]

Ok, then I go for P

[Leon]

Yep, at the moment it S and downwards (T-Z is mostly done).

[Stupot]

Someone else mentioned before about demos.  Last night i counted nearly 30 of those games still on the list were demos. I think if screenshots cant be found for them and the download links dont work, it might be worth clearing them out. Especially if they are more than say 6 or 7 years old and there is no sign that the full game is still being worked on.

P.S.  O is basically done, but there are a couple I need to sort out still.

[cat]

What is actually the difference between agsarchives and new.agsarchives? Can I use both?

[AGA]

new. is where new design / feature tests are run, I believe.  The database should be the same, but it's probably better to use the main URL just to be sure.

[cat]

Finished P

Phoenix 1 fixed the screenshot but the DL link is broken

Princess Marian VIII has a working screenshot and DL but is still in the list: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/656/

pSyCHo!@! - link broken, not in archive

Is is possible to get a list of all games with broken download link? I think we should fix that too.

[AGA]

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.

[Tramponline]

I'm confused, these are two completely different and unrelated game demos, aren't they?
In the database: Red Dwarf Demo by Dan_N released in 2007
In the In-Production thread: Red Dwarf: The Game by Blobby 101, Demo released 2010

Shame so lovely screenshots...to be had, the 'easy way'...arrrrhh! And why isn't the second demo in the database, looks great. Download link is dead though, gonna send him
a PM, he was online in March. 

[Peder 🚀]

new. is where new design / feature tests are run, I believe.  The database should be the same, but it's probably better to use the main URL just to be sure.

It is indeed best to use the main URL for now . I used the new. url by mistake Cat, sorry .

[selmiak]

Not absolutely clear about the S through Z section though. Leon and selmiak probably know more...

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okay, I was going to start out from the very bottom and it starts bad. The 2 Zelda dance remix games are unavailable (and were rated 1cup), then the wretcher demo has a screenshot already and is still in the list... then all other W games are not available anymore
same for the one game with U left...

so all UWZ games that are left are unavailable

did some D games today, but not all...

[Narushima]

did some D games today, but not all...

Please don't, I'm doing D and E.

[selmiak]

oh, okay, sry.