Broken image links

Leon · Sun 12/05/2013 17:54:41

Simpsons Adventure Game and Sweet_Nightmare are both in the list twice. Can one of them be deleted?
I'm done with the S and down. Everthing that's still there can't be found on short notice. Maybe when I dig deeper into (my) archives I can find some more.

From the other letters in the list I'm sure I still have some games so if everyone's finished I can have a go at the list again?

cat · Sun 12/05/2013 18:05:42

I noticed that some games are listed but are not marked as download broken. Was it not possible to download the game and make a screenshot? If so, shouldn't we mark the links as broken?

Tramponline · Sun 12/05/2013 18:20:47

Quote from: Leon on Sun 12/05/2013 17:54:41
From the other letters in the list I'm sure I still have some games so if everyone's finished I can have a go at the list again?

D and E might be still in the making and Q hasn't been done yet, I think?

I can safely say that the sections H I J K L and R contain only relics - no easy downloads, anywhere on the Net. Maybe you can find some in there Leon?

Quote from: cat on Sun 12/05/2013 18:05:42
Was it not possible to download the game and make a screenshot?

Ahh, darn, I totally forgot to report broken ones as broken - but on the other hand the rest of the list we get should indicate unavailable games anyhow, no?

Narushima · Sun 12/05/2013 18:23:08

I couldn't find the following (most have an AGSA page with link "coming soon"):
Day of School
Deepbright Demo
Deflus Technical Demo
Demonslayer 1
Der verschwundene Husky
Domestic Conspiracy Demo
drugs and aliens
Enter The Story
Ernie's Big Adventure II
Everlight Forest Demo v1.1
Everlot-Demo
D.Jones: Deceased

These I couldn't get to work:
Deepbright Demo
Demonslayer 1

I am currently trying to download and get a screenshot for these (my connection keeps dropping them whenever they're almost done, but I'll get there):
Der verschwundene Husky
Ernie's Big Adventure II

Finally, this one should be deleted, since it's basically simply an ad for a web site. I know one of their games, "Dante's Divine Comedy", has its own page, so they can create pages for each game. Can I delete this?:
Enter The Story

EDIT: for what it's worth, the "buy" link for "Dante's divine comedy" is now wrong on the AGSA, it should be: Buy link on AGSA is wrong, it should be: https://secure.bmtmicro.com/servlets/Orders.ShoppingCart?CID=4751&PRODUCTID=47510004

Tramponline · Sun 12/05/2013 18:27:33

Quote from: Tramponline on Sun 12/05/2013 18:20:47
Quote from: cat on Sun 12/05/2013 18:05:42
Was it not possible to download the game and make a screenshot?

Ahh, darn, I totally forgot to report broken ones as broken - but on the other hand the rest of the list we get should indicate unavailable games anyhow, no?

OK, sorted. Reported all unavailable games as broken download. Thanks for reminding me Cat!

I will check "Demonslayer 1"...

edit: Ah, these are DOS-games, that's why they don't work, you need DOS-box and some additional files for those.
I can edit those two if you like, Narushima?

cat · Sun 12/05/2013 18:38:44

Just one more thing: some of the games were very old and wouldn't run on my computer in their native setup. And setup wouldn't run too

So what I did was copying the acsetup.cfg from another game.

Narushima · Sun 12/05/2013 18:48:40

Quote from: Tramponline on Sun 12/05/2013 18:27:33
edit: Ah, these are DOS-games, that's why they don't work, you need DOS-box and some additional files for those.
I can edit those two if you like, Narushima?

Please do. I tried running them through DOSBox but I lacked the patience to hunt down the needed files.

AGA · Sun 12/05/2013 18:53:35

If there are multiple entries for a game, please let me know the details so I can merge the download counts and such for the two. Please don't delete anything without consulting me!

Leon · Sun 12/05/2013 19:07:48

I'm not deleting anything $:-\$
~~I know I have Verschwundene Husky and Ernie's Big Adventure.~~ You can get the screenshots from my server

If there are any problems getting games to start let me know. I've got several emulators that I'm sure will be able to run the game. If not, I can always set up my trusty DOS 3.2 machine

Narushima · Sun 12/05/2013 19:16:22

I'm now done with D and E. All that's left is the ones I listed in my post above.

EDIT: I came across this game, which has a placeholder image. I'm going to replace it with an actual screenshot, but I guess that's something we cant' really deal with efficiently. It's probably not very common anyway.

EDIT2: nevermind, I won't be replacing it, the game doesn't work.

AGA · Sun 12/05/2013 20:33:04

I think that isn't a placeholder, that it's a 'this image is now gone' image host message. But given the game doesn't run because the ac2game.dta file is missing, there's not much we can do.

Tramponline · Sun 12/05/2013 20:34:11

Quote from: AGA on Sun 12/05/2013 18:53:35
If there are multiple entries for a game, please let me know the details so I can merge the download counts and such for the two. Please don't delete anything without consulting me!

I've got one, not with multiple entries per se, but a demo (which isn't available) while the full game is in the database as well:
DEMO: Lost In The Nightmare - Demo
FULL GAME: Lost In The Nightmare v1.1
We could ask the author Gord10 whether he'd be OK with deleting the DEMO, or if he wants to
upload a working demo game file?

AGA · Sun 12/05/2013 20:52:38

The better idea might be for me to put in a thing that makes it clear the full game is now available, and that people should play that instead (unless they're totally completist and also want to play the demo!). Having the date and number of downloads of the demo is a nice historical record, I think.

Leon · Sun 12/05/2013 21:10:18

Just found Chicken Fraction. Made a screenshot & updated the download link.

selmiak · Sun 12/05/2013 21:12:02

I marked a link a broken and was surprised how fast this went through. Just to avoid abuse of some jerk hating your game and marking the downloadlink as broken I want to suggest to change this a bit to either
wait for at least 2 people to report a link as broken and then mark it broken
and/or have a sign up for 'link reported as invalid' and still link to the destination anyways
or have for example the image uploaders see a message that the a link was reportet as broken and have them confirm this and then mark it as broken without a link.

selmiak · Sun 12/05/2013 21:38:54

tackled the Q games except one which is unavailable.

Tramponline · Sun 12/05/2013 21:49:09

If I'm not mistaken, we're through then. The rest of this list are the 'unavailables'.
Now we just have to check if we've got any of those long forgotten games on our computers.
Or the game creators, of course - and Leon!

...it's so much more rewarding to play with the 'Lucky Dip' option in the DB now. Can't stop pushing that button...

AGA · Sun 12/05/2013 22:24:26

Quote from: selmiak on Sun 12/05/2013 21:12:02
I marked a link a broken and was surprised how fast this went through. Just to avoid abuse of some jerk hating your game and marking the downloadlink as broken I want to suggest to change this a bit to either
wait for at least 2 people to report a link as broken and then mark it broken
and/or have a sign up for 'link reported as invalid' and still link to the destination anyways
or have for example the image uploaders see a message that the a link was reportet as broken and have them confirm this and then mark it as broken without a link.

Whoops, didn't realise marking a link as broken actually disabled the link. Changed it so the link will still show, it'll just also appear on the downloadcheck list.

Awesome work on the updating, everyone. You've saved me weeks of work! If everyone could look through their game archives to see if we could reupload some stuff, I think we'll be complete!

Stupot · Sun 12/05/2013 23:01:39

Good work everyone. I've been out today so couldn't help out, but we've butchered that imagecheck list.

Now to get fixing those links. I tried to fix as many as I could as I went along with the screenshot mission, but that's barely scratching the surface.
We really need to go through and check every game.

LimpingFish · Sun 12/05/2013 23:51:48

The ratings panel has tried to keep the broken download list as up to date as we could. A lot of games we marked as broken are still currently broken as far as I can tell. The number of as yet unmarked broken downloads should be relatively small.

I'm currently trying to get the backlog of games requiring ratings reduced, and marking any new broken links accordingly. There's a bunch of those currently broken links that need fixing, though, so dive in! Just go to the database game list and sort by panel rating (ascending). A lot of the broken links will show up.