Broken image links

[LimpingFish]

You can actually edit the Panel Rating, not that you should really do so without very good reason.

Indeed.

As a panel member, I'd ask that no alterations to panel ratings or comments be made. Having so many people with access to database has the potential to cause some confusion, though I'm sure everybody is contributing their changes in good faith.

Panel activity has been less that stellar over the last twelve months, despite ProgZmax's attempts to kick-start it, but I've been rating a number of titles over the last few days, and I expect this will help us reduce our backlog. Once that's done, we should see an more enthusiastic panel that can add ratings to future releases within a reasonable time-frame.

[Tramponline]

OK, worked through the Broken Link List bottom-up, from "'Adventure Game' demo" to "Guy Slug: Private Eye".
All games from the bottom up to (and including) "Guy Slug" are either completely unavailable or we need to post this list when it's done somewhere, as quite a few author's are still around, some signed in even today. PMed a few, will PM the rest in this segment tomorrow. If someone else wants to have a go, from "Guy Slug: Private Eye" upwards....

There's still the other List of UNAVAILABLE GAMES, if anyone finds one of these games on their harddrive(s)...let someone else know!

edit: I'm an idiot, I fixed Guy Slug! (therefore it's gone from the list) From "Greg's Mountainous Adventure [MAGS]" on upwards...!     

[Leon]

Found some stuff under layer 48...
The McReed Case: Interrogation BETADEMO

I have no clue what the two tales of Chickenry (Chickerny/Chicenrey) are. However, I found a file called "Tales Of Chickenry Chapter 1.rar" which was twice the size of the one I already had. Inside that rar were two files:
- Tales of Chickenry Installer(all voices are done by Yotam Elal).exe
- Tales_of_Chickenry_Installer.exe
I'm pretty sure that these are the two files you're looking for. I'm not sure how to register these in the db though. There are minor differences in the application (control panel is different and in the one done by Yotam you can walk with mouse movement instead of keys alone) but gameplay is exactly the same.

Also found The Parrot Snatchers

[Tramponline]

Awesome, Leon. My PM to Grim about "The Parrot Snatchers" is kind of redundant then.

The broken link list is done. Contacted those authors that were still active in the last 12 - 18 month or so.

I asked them to post the links to their games in this thread too. That way Peder or you could grab some missing ones too.

We should maybe merge both lists and post it in the GAMESEEK thread.
...and quickly too, before anyone manages to put more error reports in there!!! NOOOOOO!

[DoorKnobHandle]

My entire entry for Troopers Tech Demo can be deleted, neither me nor anybody I know has the game anymore, there is no image either and it's 7-8 years old and way outdated anyways.

[Leon]

The first entry (2 Dennis, 1 Bug) can be deleted as well. According to the MAGS thread of dec 2011, there's never been a successful release of this (controversial) game.

[cat]

I just noticed that there is an invalid pic for http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/1176/.

I tried to replace the image link with the screenshot from the agsarchive, but it would not work. The new link is not stored.

[Tramponline]

I just noticed that there is an invalid pic for http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/1176/.

I tried to replace the image link with the screenshot from the agsarchive, but it would not work. The new link is not stored.

That happened to me before. AGA suggested to clear my browser cache and it worked (i.e. the image was already updated, I just couldn't see it). He was wondering why I tried to upload the same image over and over again...
Not sure if it's the same problem though. (usually happens when an image had been stored locally already)

[Stupot]

I'm seeing an image for that.  Judging by the title Glitch Quest, I'm assuming it's supposed to look like that hehe.

That same thing happened to me on one occasion too, but I played around with the image, resizing it and such, and it eventually worked. Wasn't sure what caused it though.

[cat]

I still don't see the image, it should look like this:


Do you see the correct pic?

[Tramponline]

Yep, we see it! See!?

If that happens I usually just close my browser, when I sign back in I can see the image...

[AGA]

CTRL-SHIFT-R should force a hard refresh in most browsers, no need to go closing windows.

[Tramponline]

CTRL-SHIFT-R should force a hard refresh in most browsers, no need to go closing windows.

"...Yeah, like DUH-HA, AGA! Like, we didn't, like, already know that!" * mutter, mumble *

[cat]

CTRL-SHIFT-R should force a hard refresh in most browsers, no need to go closing windows.

That did the trick, thanks!

[Leon]

According to this thread, 'Gerald Radcliff I' probably never saw the internet either.

[Tramponline]

Received PMs from Creator and Sylvr (I hope you guys don't mind that I post the most releveant parts here.):

Sorry, all those games, including the project files are on an older hard drive which has since died. I'd guess the best solution would be to, if possible, delete the entries off the AGS server.

[...] they are on my former laptop for which I no longer have the power cord. Perhaps it might be better to completely delete the entries?

They both suggested deleting the entries, which would be kind of sad though. (Besides someone might still have a copy somwhere!?)

However, I think I'll rework this a bit, to allow game authors to disable their own games. The game wouldn't be permanently deleted, it would just be made invisible to the game playing public, so the author could go back if they changed their mind.

Maybe we could disable the corresponding entries, rather than deleting them?

The games in question are:
Zelda Dance Remix
Zelda Dance Remix II
Bang Bang You're Dead

Dan Finds His Beard
Happy Birthday, Zemp

I hope I didn't miss any...?

[AGA]

I did set up the disabling thing, at least from my perspective (the user side can wait!).  I've now disabled those five.  The entries will still be in the db with all the original info if the authors ever want to reenable them.

[Tramponline]

My entire entry for Troopers Tech Demo can be deleted, neither me nor anybody I know has the game anymore, there is no image either and it's 7-8 years old and way outdated anyways.

The first entry (2 Dennis, 1 Bug) can be deleted as well. According to the MAGS thread of dec 2011, there's never been a successful release of this (controversial) game.

According to this thread, 'Gerald Radcliff I' probably never saw the internet either.

Perhaps it'd be best if you would handle all the deletion requests, AGA?

(From some posts prior: I think it goes without saying that we don't edit "AGS Panel Review" entries! )

AGS Panel Review
"File downloads, but is corrupt. Marking download as broken."

The 'AGS Panel Review' comment might have to be adjusted?

The above was intended exclusively as info for the AGS Panel that the entry about that corrupt download was outdated. 

[Narushima]

By pure chance I discovered that Space had no valid URL (it was the old "bicycle.for.slugs", or something). I updated it and realized that the archive available here contains another game, called "Trapped with hell" (although the archive and enclosed folder ae named "Rich Psycho). It barely qualifies as a game and I don't know who did it, but it doesn't appear anywhere else as far as I can tell. So what do we do with that?

[Tramponline]

[...]called "Trapped with hell" (although the archive and enclosed folder ae named "Rich Psycho).

The Completed Game Announcement for this game...