eytanz
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Because of various data-losses in the past, I've restarted playing certain holds from the beginning. Occasionally, I reach a room which involves a lot of trial and error and or serpent manipulation and or some other puzzle I don't enjoy, and I know I've solved it in the past, and there is a demo I made in the highscores, but I can't get it because I haven't solved the room in my current DROD installation.

So I'm wondering - could the demo download be changed to always allow me to download my own demos?

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Hear hear.

Actually I'd rather the check for 'can you download demos' is

is the room conquered now || does this player/account have a demo for this room on CaravelNet

That would also allow people with scores worse than the top 25 to not redo the boring bits

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[color=grey]//My comments are grey, though!

And the forum doesn't support it - or using number codes.

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Cheater. It doesn't even look like the forum.

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Rabscuttle wrote:
Hear hear.

Actually I'd rather the check for 'can you download demos' is

is the room conquered now || does this player/account have a demo for this room on CaravelNet

Great suggestions, Eytan and Rab. Even better, I'll work with Matt to make a change in 2.0.15 that also allows downloading room demos if the player is marked as having solved the room on CaravelNet. This is more inclusive than checking whether they have a victory demo on CaravelNet. Yay! More value to CaravelNet!

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Will that make it possible to download demos not in the top 25 (in particular: to download your own if it's not in the top 25)?

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Tahnan wrote:
Will that make it possible to download demos not in the top 25 (in particular: to download your own if it's not in the top 25)?

I'd say so - which demos get listed (if any) is mainly decided on the server side, so just stuffing your demo in there unconditionally shouldn't be a problem.

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The server only stores the top 25 demos.

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Rabscuttle wrote:
The server only stores the top 25 demos.

Are you sure about that? I think I remember Schik once not too long ago saying that demos hadn't been deleted yet...

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Yeah, it stores all of them. My worst is 66th place, and that demo is sitting on the server. When JtRH/CaravelNet first came out, we just kept the top 8 for each room, but within a month or so, I changed it to keep all of them.

So yeah, I can make it so that it will always add <User>'s demo when <User> views high scores for a room.

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Schik wrote:
I changed it to keep all of them.

Yeah, I know I'm being nosy and stuff, but - how many demos are there currently? And what space do they take up?

(If I may ask, of course... )

np: SCSI-9 - Teplyi Dym (The Line Of Nine)

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mrimer wrote:
...allows downloading room demos if the player is marked as having solved the room on CaravelNet.

Major kudos for getting this in place. It's been a lifesaver on a few holds where I've had to reconstruct my progress.

But:

Schik wrote:
So yeah, I can make it so that it will always add <User>'s demo when <User> views high scores for a room.

This is still unimplemented. Can it be done?

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*bump*

I'm currently replaying KDD and JtRH to improve my overall average and since my Mac went *phlpht* last fall I don't have my original player files anymore. There are rooms I'd rather not re-work from scratch if I can avoid it. Any progress on this?

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*re-bump*

The recent FR on a "demo bank" reminded me of this. I wouldn't bump if Schik's post above didn't imply it'd be relatively easy to do.

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*bump*

So, I was looking at some CaravelNet stuff and saw this thread. And now when you view scores for a room in-game, it will add your own score to the list, even if it's not in the Top N.

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Oh, you rock! Of course, it's not working for me--I still can't see my demos in-game--but that's because I need to renew my Caravel membership, so I'm not sure it counts as a "bug". Thanks Schik!

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I can confirm it works where there are relevant demos to speak of, but there's now a display bug in cases where a room has a 1-move solution (attached). I can't download the phantom demo or anything, it's just there in the list.

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Nice! I feel like I just got a Christmas present from Santa Schik. Thanks! This will come in very handy.

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Tuttle wrote:
I can confirm it works where there are relevant demos to speak of, but there's now a display bug in cases where a room has a 1-move solution (attached). I can't download the phantom demo or anything, it's just there in the list.

I knew something was wrong when it seemed to work just fine on the very first try.

Fixed!

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