WhiteVanDaycare
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I think that's because that game is likely the only one where that section is called "Changelogs" instead of "Changelog".
WhiteVanDaycare
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Actually there are a lot of issues, like it doesn't have the dev name in title (after version in []).
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it is described in detail in the FAQ in OP. it remembers both the version you had marked as installed, aswell as the version you marked as finished playing. it could happen that your installed version is outdated, and you had not finished playing the installed version either, in this situation both checkboxes would be "half". in your case there, it has marked the version you currently have installed as fully finished playing, but it knows there is a new update available.
i hope you are not switching back and forth between versions. this *will* cause issues. never downgrade unless specifically told to do so. since the checkboxes work differently in 11.x, it takes some time of you marking updates as installed and finished playing for them to start making more sense. going back to previous versions will destroy that progress and only confuse you even more.
again, check FAQ for intended usage.
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i see what happened. there is still this old bug i mentioned before, where after like a month of the cache api being online, the latest updates watcher just stops for no apparent reason, i noticed some things were showing up in latest updates but not detected within 5 mins, so i could tell this is what was wrong, checked the server and indeed it has stopped watching latest updates 10 days ago.
so what happened is: latest updates were not being watched, so it did not notice the new info when it was published, it noticed the new version with the 12-hourly version check, and so it detected the update. however, when it detected the new version, the update had not been promoted to latest updates yet, so it had the old date, and when it did get promoted it did not notice this because the updates watcher was broken.
im confident this shouldnt happen again: i made the cache api restart the python process every 24 hours, so the updates watcher will no longer manage to get stuck; also, ive made the latest updates watcher (the 5 minute one that should do the heavy lifting for detecting updates) check the first 4 pages of each category instead of only 1, so it should be able to detect most changes for the 360 most recent games on latest updates within 5 minutes always now. for those not in the first 360 by update date, there is ofcourse the usual 12-hour version check, and the 7-day max cache validity.
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I was just thinking that I should make a f95 update checker and it was right at the top of the tools and tutorials section lol
Than help develop it and add directory scan for game executable. It took me hours just to add my favorite games I have many other games that I can't add as it will take too damn long.
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and you'll be able to add it yourself. Don't demand others to invest their own time implementing features that you want in FOSS.
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it is explained in the FAQ, and it is labelled as "finished" checkbox in many places in the program itself. it is to mark the currently installed game version as fully finished playing. thus when there will be an update it will know the version is outdated (on the installed checkbox instead), and after marking the new version as installed, the finished checkbox will know that you havent finished the version you just installed and will show as half-set. again, more details in FAQ.
Thanks when I read finished I was thinking you meant game is completed/finished. Glad to understand what it is and how it works now.
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It would be nice if they added more hover texts. But, right-clicking the column header shows it in the field list.
When the game is finished, the status of the game is usually marked Completed. Edit: by the dev.
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Sam Sorry for the OT, but I gotta say, I just LOVE your ava/sig... I am not sure but I think I've seen just about all of the Groucho and Marx Bro's movies/skits and Groucho is one of my all time Favs.
Some of the best childhood memories. Comedy Capers, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Marx Brothers were the best I ever seen on the tube.
Some of the best childhood memories. Comedy Capers, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Marx Brothers were the best I ever seen on the tube.
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Not that simple.
A) there's the issue how to recognize what type of game it is... for one, as in the engine used, for another, picking the correct executable. Some game engines use more than one exe, and it's not always named the same as the actual game name.
Also, some games may contain files that could lead to a false match.
B) if it isn't already in the checker, there's just no easy way to find the corresponding F95 thread. In fact, this would probably take even more time than just adding the thread to the checker and selecting the executable after download/unpacking.
Now, if it is already a part of the checker... it's just stupidly simple to add the executable as long as the game folder name is matching the game name at least for 85% or more. Even if you have over a thousand games, there's no way in hell you're gonna play them all at once, so adding an executable for the one you do want to play when you want to play it is so trivial it's almost laughable.
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