Rocks'n'Diamonds

'[GOOD]' maybe? Except that could break some existing script somewhere... e.g. my own test-tapes.sh :)

But if my thing breaks, I just fix it...

> It does not fix existing truncated scores Since the high score server does know the true score, shouldn't the client receive that and therefore the person who[se RnD] uploaded that tape see the correct score, even in their own local RnD user interface? Unless they're playing offline. And if they'r...

However, trying to edit the level, without even actually changing anything (just going into the level editor, saving, then exiting, then trying to start game) completely breaks it... Yes, that's expected behaviour, as saving from the level editor tags the level to use the latest game engine version...

136205 - 2^17 = 5133, so it looks like the score's being passed through a 16-bit integer somewhere...

(I suppose the RnD standard for that 'little v' is the full-cell '=>' character, as seen in the main menu, setup, etc.; but that seems overly large and intrusive for this purpose...)

It is common in many online discussion venues for the timestamps of posts / comments to be 'permalinks' to that post (scrolled to that comment, in the case of a comment). Suppose by analogy that the time (duration) values in the high score display could be used as a menu button for these extended fe...

I've actually been curious about that for years -- does RnD 'know' the prng algorithms of all the various games it emulates? Or are all of the 'tapes' it can handle self-generated by some version of RnD, so it only needs its own algorithmic history? If there are only 512 starting points, there are o...

(*) what ?

If the prng is so bad, the game engine probably shouldn't be using it either. This would invalidate old tapes so you'd need a tape header flag; or judge by engine version; to decide which prng to use in playing back a tape...

In the process of attempting to restore, have you modified the trashed disk? Reformatted or remade filesystems? If not, there's a decent chance the files are still recoverable, and it sounds like Holger has some expertise in it (not to actually volunteer him, but ...) Basically you should take a who...

I saw this last xmas season ... but I always run latest git code, so I'm not sure if it was actually 'shipping' in time for last year...

My experience was, when my 24K upload first failed, the option to manually trigger the upload was not in Setup; I had to edit it back on in serversetup.conf. Check for some bug in that logic?

When tapes are uploaded, the server plays those tapes against the corresponding levels to verify that they actually solve. So they appear on the server a few minutes later. You should recheck whether yours are now present. Tape uploading is controlled by serversetup.conf in your account's game direc...

Active notifications are a bit tricky, as the server cannot contact the client directly, but it could be possible to create some kind of "pending notifications" on the server for a given player UUID, so requests could check for them and return whatever it was about. This would of course b...

I understand the server validates, or attempts to validate, score / tape files. Some questions, suggestions, and ideas about that: If a level is solved, a tape is uploaded. The server then tests whether it solves a level; but this is asynchronous. If it turns out to be a levelset the server knows of...

Thanks, those sound like good improvements. One point you seem to have missed: - if a tape directory is flagged as uploaded, and any new tape is written into it, and the player has configured not to automatically upload tapes. the directory is unflagged (that could also be managed in terms of filesy...