Castle Paradox

Hercule Pro · Joined: 04 Feb 2004 Posts: 6 Location: Ghent, Belgium

A while ago I have uploaded a new game: The Adventures Of Siege.
The previous one is now called DELETE THIS GAME! and it has to be DELETED! but when I added the game to the list I didn't uploaded a .rpg file. and later when I looked in the gamelist I saw that there WAS a file to download. When you go to the gamelist and search for The Adv. Of Siege you will see that it is downloadable (for 60kb) and you get an Rpg called Square1.rpg (I think). and I didn't upload it myself. does anyone know a conclusion for this? (I didn't play Square1.rpg yet, I wonder what it is?)

Jack · **the fool** Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 773

it's phil arts game that was a blatant ripoff of RMZ's Mr. Triangle.. which i believe he also renamed and wanted deleted. i'm not really sure how this would have messed with your own file unless they were both renamed the same exact thing.. but even then i'm not really sure what would have happened.
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Phil Arts · Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 4:37 am Post subject:

What a minute, how in the hell did that file turn up in the AoS game? Really confused

Edit:I just check my games in my profile and guess what...
ITS GONE Exclamation

Time for a wonderful happy day Big grin

But I still dont see How it end up in Adventure of Seige game.

Gizmog1 · Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 7:32 am Post subject:

I think I've figured it out. The gamelist reassigns numbers as things are deleted, added, and shuffled around. If you hit the upload button, without having a game, (Instead of No File), I think it gives you the last file to be assigned that number, or possibly just the nearest thing to that number, which could be any number of old rpgs. I'd have to ask IM, but this theory seems to make good sense. (This happened to me earlier, when my game was assigned 12.)

Inferior Minion · Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 10:24 am Post subject:

Close Giz. Very close.

When the hacker went on a massive deleting spree, I tried to minimize the casualties as much as possible.

The biggest problem came in the gamelist. The hacker had deleted a few games. Then Giz and Hercule Pro added their games. When I reverted to the backup database, Giz and Hercule's game ids were no longer valid. Giz's game, for instance, had overwritten one of the Bastard Guns games by Gilbert. I had all the old gamelist entries, but 2 games were now pointing to the the wrong game files (or so I thought). To counter this, I manually moved their games into valid game ids, copying the existing zips along with it.

I didn't realize Hercule Pro didn't upload the .zip file. During the preps for the transition last month, I had moved quite a few files around. I'm guessing game deletion is somewhat glitchy as a result. Normally you wouldn't notice it, since I threw a tag in there to determine how many times a game has been uploaded. If it's 0, even if there is a .zip file, you don't see a download. Same goes for the screenshot. Leftover files from a game deletion would have to be overwritten before the screenshot or .zip would show up in the gamelist.

Since I manually ported the 2 game entries, this check was bypassed.

~IM
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