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Casey Neumiller
Trandoshan
Joined: 24 Sep 2003
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 Posted: Apr 23, 2014 01:12 Post subject: Site updates? |
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Is anyone actively updating the site anymore?
Just for kicks I went through the "Links" section, and almost all of them are broken.
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Pumpkinetics
Ree-Yees
Joined: 16 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Apr 23, 2014 17:08 Post subject: |
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I haven't seen a post from the MaZZter in years, and I know people have submitted "finished" levels since 2010 or so. I would like him to show up again, seeing Tower of Doom as (still) the most recent levvel is getting to be rather depressing (and I would like to put something new in its place but I dunno if that's possible at the moment)
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Burning Gundam
Kell Dragon
Joined: 28 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Apr 24, 2014 00:00 Post subject: |
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Yeah I know it. I submitted that demo for the code lock last year and it's still not here. It's still hosted from my website but it seems to me that this place has been mostly abandoned. Maybe Lucius can make an admin change since he's the one paying for hosting or at least add another one for up keeping. But to be honest I'm not sure how that works.
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Casey Neumiller
Trandoshan
Joined: 24 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Apr 24, 2014 21:14 Post subject: |
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Clearly, something must be done.
I vote you do it.
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Barry Brien
Dark Trooper Phase 1
Joined: 26 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Apr 24, 2014 21:37 Post subject: |
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Does this mean all the levels and whatnot are no longer available? If that is the case I'm pretty sure I have them all stored somewhere.
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Casey Neumiller
Trandoshan
Joined: 24 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Apr 24, 2014 22:00 Post subject: |
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Most of the levels are available, but at least a couple of the downloads are corrupt.
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Casey Neumiller
Trandoshan
Joined: 24 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Apr 27, 2014 00:48 Post subject: |
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FWIW, one of the corrupt downloads is the cutscene back for TIE Defender Base.
Kinda bad for a download in the HoF to be broken.
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Jackson
Dark Trooper Phase 2
Joined: 24 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Apr 29, 2014 01:37 Post subject: |
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Looks like DF-21 is in need of a little spring cleaning!
I still have my passwords, so let me know if you come across anything broken or corrupted. I'll go in and make the fixes.
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Casey Neumiller
Trandoshan
Joined: 24 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Apr 29, 2014 15:15 Post subject: |
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Does that mean the cutscene zip has been fixed?
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Pumpkinetics
Ree-Yees
Joined: 16 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Apr 29, 2014 18:13 Post subject: |
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Oh boy! Time for my intimate knowledge of broken level zips to come in handy! (I made a personal backup of every download on DF-21 back in 2009 and a few zips were broken from the start)
BROKEN LEVELS:
The Darktrooper Center (redirects to Dark Trooper Showdown)
Girl Eaten By Stormtroopers (alpha.zip)
Hidden Enemies* (hidden.zip)
Icky Not-Real-Level Funtime (icky.zip)
Imperial Subway (impsub.zip)
Jabba's Smuggler Depot (smugrev1.zip)
Jawa Base (jawabase.zip)
Operation Bespin (bespin.zip)
Rescue Jabba (hutplace.zip)
Ruins of Talos 3: Goatha's Palace SE* (goatha.zip)
SORTA BROKEN:
Frogman: the .zip on DF-21, frogmod.zip, is actually a modified version of the original Frogman level, with 900% more enemies. The old frogman level may be lost to time, but if anyone has frogman.zip then it should probably go here
Beyond Dark Forces: not so much "broken" as "completely impossible to utilize with existing downloads". Someone could spend half an hour remaking the necessary gobs with the LFD included in this zip, and the result would only be 10 megs at most, but holding the zip in the format it is now doesn't seem worth it.
*: hidden.zip and goatha.zip were also hosted on The Admiral's Command Chamber back in the day, and so I managed to find copies of them for my backup. However, the Goatha's palace zip was only of the original and not the Special Edition.
It's possible I've missed a broken zip somewhere, but I double checked all of the above and they're definitely still broken on-site.
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Casey Neumiller
Trandoshan
Joined: 24 Sep 2003
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| Posted: May 01, 2014 14:41 Post subject: |
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Thank you for doing the heavy lifting on that!
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Jackson
Dark Trooper Phase 2
Joined: 24 Sep 2003
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| Posted: May 02, 2014 15:59 Post subject: |
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Definitely a big thanks, Pumpkinetics. That's a huge help! And thank you, Casey, for starting this thread. The downloads and links are in desperate need of repair.
Sorry for the delay, everyone -- it's been a hectic week. I'm going in now to make some of the fixes and will update this post as I work.
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Does anyone have copies of the following? If so, kindly re-upload!
The Darktrooper Center (dtc.zip)
Girl Eaten By Stormtroopers (alpha.zip)
Fixed Zips
Hidden Enemies (hidden.zip)
Icky Not-Real-Level Funtime (icky.zip)
Imperial Subway (impsub.zip)
Jabba's Smuggler Depot (smugrev1.zip)
[EDIT: I have to head out for now, but let me know if those work. I don't have a working copy of DF at the moment (for shame!) so I can't vouch for the GOBs, but any TXTs I came across opened just fine.]
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Pumpkinetics
Ree-Yees
Joined: 16 Oct 2007
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| Posted: May 02, 2014 23:11 Post subject: |
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Well, I managed to extract .gobs from all 4 of those zips, which was more than I could do with the ones previously on site. When I come online next (could take a few days) I'll let you know if the gobs are functioning properly, but I can only assume they are if they've gotten this far.
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Burning Gundam
Kell Dragon
Joined: 28 Sep 2003
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| Posted: May 04, 2014 14:29 Post subject: |
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I remember downloading EVERYTHING back in the day onto a CD so if I have it still I'll upload those later.
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Pumpkinetics
Ree-Yees
Joined: 16 Oct 2007
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| Posted: May 05, 2014 08:49 Post subject: |
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Bad news; the gobs extract fine, but when I try to run them through DF on DosBox I get an "out of memory" error. This only happens with these 4 gobs; my DF is still able to run other onsite levels just fine.
I noticed these four zips have a MACOS folder with nothing but shortcuts inside - it could be a mac DF to PC DF issue? I dunno.
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Jackson
Dark Trooper Phase 2
Joined: 24 Sep 2003
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| Posted: May 06, 2014 02:32 Post subject: |
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Ah, that's a bummer. I'll have to get my PC running and see if I can make a better fix.
In the meanwhile, if anyone has any of the levels Pumpkinetics listed above, please send 'em my way!
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Fenwar
Admiral Ackbar
Joined: 15 Sep 2003
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| Posted: May 16, 2014 21:29 Post subject: |
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Finally found some time to dust off the backup drives...
I've got some copies of the 4 listed missions without the Mac gubbins in them. Uploading them via the upload form because I haven't a clue what my passwords were any more.
The GOB file sizes are slightly different too, so hopefully you'll have better luck.
No sign of alpha.zip/dtc.zip here though.
[EDIT] I've located dtc.zip. Not sure if this is really something you will thank me for.
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Burning Gundam
Kell Dragon
Joined: 28 Sep 2003
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| Posted: May 18, 2014 02:13 Post subject: |
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I will thank you just because I can 
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