Download Service Beta Testing

[Stubborn]

I am checking matching on C64 Goodname.

Adverts for example I got 997 matches.

I have 3338 adverts in my old files ( of wich 95% are not named exactly right ).

I want to compare this to your available source to get some info on matching, but I cant find C64 in your ftp? Am I blind or are you not keeping a lot of the smaller systems there?

[Circo]

I am checking matching on C64 Goodname.

Adverts for example I got 997 matches.

I have 3338 adverts in my old files ( of wich 95% are not named exactly right ).

I want to compare this to your available source to get some info on matching, but I cant find C64 in your ftp? Am I blind or are you not keeping a lot of the smaller systems there?

The adverts on the server are a mess, can you upload what you have and I bet I can get it fixed tonight.

[Stubborn]

I doubt you can get them done in a night. There are thousands to be renamed.

My main goal was to test the matching engine by looking at your file source. Can you dump a filelist from the server so I can hit it up against my matched list.

Uploading to WIP/Stub/C64

[Circo]

I doubt you can get them done in a night. There are thousands to be renamed.

My main goal was to test the matching engine by looking at your file source. Can you dump a filelist from the server so I can hit it up against my matched list.

Uploading to WIP/Stub/C64

no point, they are named like ad&d1 and so on, ill tell you what, as soon as your set is uploaded, I'll pop it in on the server and then you can match it

On second glance, while yours are better than mine they are a mess as well. I am seeing this with alot of the adverts that initially went up. They need to be game name specific. Let me see what I can do with yours.

[kamen rider akira2]

I got a message: Search Error: Maximum free downloads for this user and system reached... at snes system.

Please reset the limitation for further testing

[Circo]

I got a message: Search Error: Maximum free downloads for this user and system reached... at snes system.

Please reset the limitation for further testing

Members are set at 250MB per day on the forum, although i didnt realize that carried to the app.

[Stubborn]

no point, they are named like ad&d1 and so on, ill tell you what, as soon as your set is uploaded, I'll pop it in on the server and then you can match it

On second glance, while yours are better than mine they are a mess as well. I am seeing this with alot of the adverts that initially went up. They need to be game name specific. Let me see what I can do with yours.

That's no mess, Maps, now that is a mess. It is much smaller. I have 80 to your 31, But there are multiple different pic formats, one is in a pdf, several are multiple jpegs that could use to be joined together, one is text, and one is even and xls that could use redoing into something else.

Also all those adverts are [developer]_[game].

I was going to write a quickie to strip off all the names of major companies at some point, to make matching easier, but haven't yet.

[Stubborn]

Downloading C64 Video set of 122. It looks suspicious. Mainly because 112 of them start with numbers or the letter A. The remaining 10 are from the last letters of the alphabet.

Without knowing what you have server side I cant say anything on the quality of the matching.

[Candiman]

I got a message: Search Error: Maximum free downloads for this user and system reached... at snes system.

Please reset the limitation for further testing

Me too and I had not yet downloaded a single file. I got the error while it was seemingly scanning my Genesis folder. But as of yet I have 0 files other than the roms.

[Circo]

Downloading C64 Video set of 122. It looks suspicious. Mainly because 112 of them start with numbers or the letter A. The remaining 10 are from the last letters of the alphabet.

Without knowing what you have server side I cant say anything on the quality of the matching.

I will see about getting you a listing, these came out of the wip folders i believe.

[Circo]

Just added/updated the gameboy avi video snaps on the download server. Should be 100%

[DJoneK]

I've given the tool a whirl and so far it's been flawless. Excellent idea, whoever thought of it first.

[Tizi78]

Im New in this forum but I like this, Im not chance... i know, thx anyway!

[B2K24]

Just added/updated the gameboy avi video snaps on the download server. Should be 100%

Thanks for you're work Circo. Since GameEX and HS both support flv, is there any more need to be doing avi anymore?

[Stubborn]

I will see about getting you a listing, these came out of the wip folders i believe.

I just looked through WIP again, It must not be visible to me.

[DJFlex]

Hey Circo,

I managed to run a short test on it today

Scanned:

MAME

c64

NES

worked 100%

I will put it through its full paces in the next few days and let you know if i can break it

thanks for such a great app.

DJFlex

[Circo]

Thanks for you're work Circo. Since GameEX and HS both support flv, is there any more need to be doing avi anymore?

I really think that time will come, does Mala and Maximus support FLV?

Also updated the following sets on the download service tonight

GameBoy - Video Snaps - FLV

GameBoy - TV Adverts - AVI

[lukensteinz]

Great idea!

Glad I could help. Very very wonderful service you have, and this program has finally convinced me to subscribe sometime.

Infinitely handy mate.

Also, one more suggestion, although I'm not so sure how it would work in practice... An offline mode?

An offline mode as in, the subscriber has already downloaded full collections for their purpose, but now wants to sort (copy to new location) the files that match a different romset.

Example being, an arcade machine builder, such as I, will have full libraries of art/movies at some point, and will do new installs to new machines, using a different romset for the customers. To enhance their product we would also include videos, art, and text for the frontend.

Rather than use your tool to re-download all of this again for a differing romset, would it be possible to set a directory of content to be something like a mirror of your content, and so copy files to a new install from that?

I already do this with batch files for mame artwork (such as marquees to wheels for hyperspin), but it could very well be another good feature to consider at a later date.

Maybe even use both, like perhaps *local mirror + * external mirror?

It would have to cut down on traffic atleast

[tspeirs]

great progamm

I got problems if downloading of gameboy advance media. The Downloader is complaining about to long filenames (no intro romsets of gba).

lengh >255

Im not sure what can be done about that. .net has a limitation on path size. Is the error a windows.net error? Can uou post a screenshot and can you try and figure out what the filename and path in questions is?

Many thanks

[bosanova x]

I've been out of the game for a while but this has bought me right back up to speed.

So far I've had no problems, its super easy and straight forward to use.

AWESOME STUFF !!!

[njboesl]

Circo!! Incredible!! I am very excited to test this! Talk about saving TONS OF TIME! I'll post as soon as I can test, look forward to seeing how it works for everyone!

[garonm]

I'm getting a Server Not Found error when trying to download the utility. I was sent the beta email and tried to download from that as well as tried to download the newest version. Any thoughts?

[tspeirs]

Ive released version 0.5 which features a download speed indicator and minor fixes.

http://www.gameex.com/download%20service%20utility.exe

[tspeirs]

I'm getting a Server Not Found error when trying to download the utility. I was sent the beta email and tried to download from that as well as tried to download the newest version. Any thoughts?

Try the download link above.

[Stubborn]

Sega Game Gear has Advert listed as an available media. I found no matches. This is the first time I have come across a blank section. Is there an error or is there no data for it?