huh 2016
wow the vertical labels on the left are cool
i'm still enjoying this game. |
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If it's good, it's good! I rewrote that whole part, and there was also a brief period where the version on the site couldn't upload speedruns, so it's likely I did fix whatever it was. :) |
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Thank you, I did download the newest version & it seems to work properly now. I guess by now you don't need to know what exactly didn't work anymore!? ;) |
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kirima: What's wrong with them? Coincidentally I just finished a rewrite of all the solution management stuff, which should have fixed all the known bugs, and I just uploaded a new version for windows and macOS. So maybe try that one out and hopefully it was fixed. :)
jonas: I decided to go with just c:\escape\, because reading about it, %APPDATA% seems like a kinda poor choice too (for example, I think it is hidden by default?). Hopefully this works ok for people! |
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Bug report: Suddenly bookmarks do not work properly on OS X any more? |
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The irony of this scare campaign by these font companies, is that for decades they have been stealing fonts from other companies, and then selling them off as their own. One should read the incredible research at the site "The Font Forging Industry" site by Ulrich Stiehl which exposes in detail the "Forgery, Cloning, Piracy, Plagiarism of Fonts" by big-name font companies including Monotype, ITC and others. For example the font "Frutiger" was forged by Monotype as "Segoe" (installed on Windows) and forged by Bitstream as "Humanist 777". (I can't post a web link here, but you can easily do a web search for it). |
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Tom 7: could you install everything, including the program, to a directory under the %APPDATA% directory? I think some packages that want to install new programs dynamically without admin privileges do that on Windows. |
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MrBawn: Yeah, noname tells me that you are no longer able to write to Program Files by default. I think I need to change the default installation dir to just like c:\escape\. Suggestions (at least ones that keep all the data in the same place) are definitely welcome here! |
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Happy 20th birthday, Escape! |
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Stupid freaking Windows 10. I had to run as administrator to get past player creation. |
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I am able to get back the ratings from my old file, and the new version seems to work. Thank you, Tom7. |
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Ok, I did it again and now it seems to be o.k., thank you! |
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Ugh, oops, while removing the debugging code before uploading I also deleted the code that actually saves your rating! So that last version is also broken. mm, sounds like you got that poison version, so you should update again and paste your ratings in there again. I checked that this version is working, though. Maybe time to add some tests... :/ |
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Oops, no, it didn't work! The ratings HAD been there, but after closing the game and re-opening some time later, the ratings had disappeared again?! |
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Thank you, Tom7, I could fix the ratings. And of course -> noname, thank you, too: your levels are always great! |
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Thanks, I fixed the moderately interesting bug with losing ratings and uploaded new versions for windows and OS X. Unfortunately, this (mostly) corrupted the ratings in your player file when it saved your .esp again. It's possible to manually recover them if you have a backup of your player file. If you look at the file in a text editor, you'll see a section that starts with "-- ratings". Each line in that section is a checksum of the level and then the encoded rating. If you see any that start with "0123456789abcdef", then these are buggy ones and you might as well delete them. You can just copy and paste any good ones from your old file. Also if you haven't really done anything with the new version, just copying your old .esp file to the new version should work fine now.
If anybody lost all their ratings and doesn't have a good way to get them back, I could maybe make a recovery mode, but it would be nice to avoid that complication. Let me know. Data-loss bugs are the worst kind, so I'm really sorry about that!
noname: Thank you for all your great levels and cogent feedback and enthusiasm; it's been a pleasure! |
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13292. Anonymous (117.204.134.206) –
27 Aug 2016 09:47:35
[ Another failure ]
Broken Mario Bros.?
(http://sketdance.wikia.com/wiki/Special_Mariko_Broken) |
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BTW: I forgot to mention that my ratings are missing as well. |
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And I would like to thank Tom7 for making this game, and to everyone who made levels and played my levels. I've had a lot of fun with this game for the past 11 years. |
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Thank you so much, Tom! Is seems to work normally on OS X El Capitan. |
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Yes, the other data (solutions, preferences) seems to be imported correctly. Only ratings are missing.
BTW, the website says that the default installation folder should be fine, but on Windows that folder is a subfolder of Program Files, and it seems that all modern Windows (I think starting from Vista?) by default do not allow modification of any subfolders of Program Files except during installs/uninstalls. At least in Win 8, any writes by a program to its own folder under Program Files are redirected somewhere (I can't remember where). Not sure about the case of Win 10, but when I tried to install the 64-bit Escape to the default folder and start the program (without moving/copying any player file), the Default player is shown but cannot be selected: if I try to select it, it gives an alert which says,
Couldn't read player Default.esp
ENTER: OK
and if I then press ENTER, Escape just quits. Of course, my solution is to install to another folder not under Program Files. But this means that the default folder in the installer is probably not working for new Windows, contrary to what the website says. |
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Thanks for the excellent feedback!
It seems that maybe a simple solution for the accidental-enter issue would be to just let the restart action be undone like other moves. This would complicate things a bit (right now undo is implemented by just truncating your current solution) but I think it could be made intuitive and I do understand that frustration.
I vaguely remember that solution bug, which is a bit harder because I don't really understand the solution management code any more (I was in the middle of redesigning it in 2009 I think, which is what caused the bug). Will look, and your pref seems like it'd be straightforward.
I will look into the ratings being missing this weekend; if I can reproduce it, it's probably a shallow bug. I guess the other data (solutions) was imported correctly? |
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Bug: After copying my noname.esp to the folder of the new 64-bit Escape and opened the file with 64-bit Escape, all my ratings are gone. |
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BTW, it seems that some players prefer that when one solves a level again, the new solution replaces the default solution if faster, and is discarded if slower. I myself prefer that new solutions are always stored, without discarding anything. So I suggest that when the solution management system is redesigned, the player can choose whether new solution replaces old solution or is just stored, in the form of a setting in the preferences menu. |
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