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leapinlew:
--- Quote from: saint on March 03, 2019, 11:58:53 am ---I appreciate the thought, but no :) This forum is my way of giving back to the Internet community at large - "paying it forward" so to speak. Be nice to someone...
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Uck. I'd rather just give you some money. ;D
Le Chuck:
Yeah can we like posts yet? Kaithanksbai
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: saint on March 03, 2019, 02:25:50 pm ---controls.dat --> http://controls.arcadecontrols.com/ online.
Make sure you're seeing things from the new server. If you're getting a 404 or parts of the page aren't loading, broken graphics, etc, your DNS is probably still pointing at the old server. flush DNS, reload, etc., and if it's still not working let me know and I'll create a temporary new domain name for it.
What does it need Howard? Obviously this is old at this point. Is it dead or do you or someone else want to resume updating?
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 03, 2019, 01:29:30 pm ---We appreciate you man. I know I don't say it enough, but you are a good guy.
The only thing I can think of that you haven't mentioned is controls.dat. I know it disappeared the last time the server broke down, but I can't remember what happened to it. I've got the end product backed up (the inis/xml) but Sirpoogna managed all the database and backend. So I don't even know if it's possible to restore, it's been a dead project for quite a while now, but I do get the occasional question about it, so I thought I would ask.
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I flushed, but I'm still getting a 404.... it's no biggie, I can just wait for it to renew and fix itself.
Honestly I'm not sure what it needs. If I remember correctly, at the time we were thinking about allowing unverified (aka unofficial) entries into the database since we had exhausted most documentation sources at that point. Mame changed the way several controls/control types were parsed in their xml around the time we were discussing how to proceed. Sirp had expressed that he wanted to completely re-do the internal database as he felt it was structured poorly due to his inexperience when we started. Of course all of this was prior to the Mame/Mess merger, so there are now thousands more games/machines/ect to contend with. I know that Headkaze did some work afterwards as well. Now I never touched the database, that was his baby, so I'm not even sure where to begin. It was fairly complex and he had created a solution to pull data from the database and put in the xml/ini and I helped with entries and verification as well as the data structure for the files made available to the public.
So if, and that's a big if, it were to be resurrected the database would need an overhaul as would the structures of the ini/xml files to make the database more compatible with current mame builds. In addition, I'm sure the user submission system on the website would need to be updated to match. Somebody else would probably have to manage the database... I just don't get that much free time these days beyond a few minutes here and there to chime in. I'm not even sure I'm competent enough to work on it anyway. I have no clue about the inner workings of the program he wrote to compensate for mame's constant rom renaming, for example. I could explain the system to anyone that wanted to work on it and I could still probably do submissions and verifications. I think that's kind of why it went dead... not enough time I guess.
opt2not:
Good stuff, Saint! Thanks for your continued support for this small community.
Looking forward to the new site and the new Lightgun forum! (I’ve been gearing up for a lightgun setup recently, so this is very relative to me right now)
wp34:
--- Quote from: saint on March 03, 2019, 02:08:05 pm ---Not really that I'm aware of, mostly bug fixes and tweaks. Anything in particularly on the wish list? I can look to see what mods are available.
--- Quote from: wp34 on March 03, 2019, 01:49:51 pm ---Thanks Saint!
Any new features available with the upgrade?
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As LeChuck asked it would be nice to "Like" posts. Also the ability to ignore a thread would be great.
Thanks!
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