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Working to restore the gamester website

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I have been talking to one of the tech guys at the game spy network. He is looking to finding a fix to the decaying gamester website... I moved this topic out of the other post, it was off topic and taking away from Kurts outstanding work!!!
-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Condon via RT [mailto:XXXXXXXXXX@rt.gamespy.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 12:00 PM
To: Mike MG. Gehri
Subject: [IGN #134779] Old Game spy hosting account.

Hi Mike,

I will attempt to puzzle out this situation by end of week. You
mentioned cg bins - did you run a dynamic php/mysql site by any chance?

We've been moving active or trafficked sites to a modern CP system, and
we did keep some backups of the old dynamic gamespy servers when we
retired them...

Thanks,
Chuck


> [XXXXXXXXX@redstorm.com - Wed Feb 27 07:51:01 2008]:
>
> Hello, my name is Michael Gehri. I was once ran one of the hosted sites
> on your network over at the old Planetblood.com site. I ran a site
> called Gamester, it was a multiplayer level index website.
> Unfortunately, time has seemed to have ravaged my old site.
>
>
>
> I know it's a long shot, but I thought I would ask if you have anything
> backed up from so many years ago. The reason the site get so beat up was
> because when I first got hosted, I ran a site called battle grounds. The
> sub directory was called "BG" (planetblood.com/bg). I used the bg folder
> for my cg bin and fileplanet access to upload files. When the site
> backed up or moved around, the bg folder was deleted.
>
>
>
> If you have an old back up of that bg folder and your able to restore it
> I would be very grateful. Not to mention all of the blood nut fans still
> floating around <http://forums.transfusion-game.com/> the internet!?
>
>
>
> Thanks for your time, as well as being the first step to me getting into
> the gaming industry - hence the Red Strom email address J !
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Good luck Mic.
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Progress update: Well, the BG folder can't be found... But he is going to give me access to the FTP so I can repair any damage and re-upload...

My question to you guys, Do we have a full on single zip file or installer that holds all the maps in one blow!? If so I would just put that on the main page.

In hopes to make it easy for Blood 2 players install and play!
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I can make one if need be, I think I have every map available.
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Awesome! Put that up some place when you have time :)
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Ok, my Blood2 folder is a mess but I think I got most of them.

Sorry dude but my ISP will only let me upload files up to 8mb so I had to split them up.



http://home.comcast.net/~jvolante6/Maps1.7z
http://home.comcast.net/~jvolante6/Maps2.7z
http://home.comcast.net/~jvolante6/Maps3.7z
http://home.comcast.net/~jvolante6/Maps4.7z

CTF maps:
http://home.comcast.net/~jvolante6/CTF.7z


I also got all the custom REZ's including the gamester ones, I am kinda reluctant to upload the speed rez's though :?
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if i get it right
is this are the maps of the mod?
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Thanks Joe, all i need are maps :) So no worries about the speed rez
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Let me know if anything is missing, I'm sure I have it if it's not there
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I think I also need the rez files. The zip files you sent me have all the dat files in it.
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Let me try this again....... for some reason the links were all screwy.

Some Rez's:

http://home.comcast.net/~jvolante6/Rezs.7z

and Bastard CTF:

http://home.comcast.net/~jvolante6/BASTARD_CTF.7z

which I believe was released after PB stopped working.

As always, if anything is missing just ask :D
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Post by Mic »

Awesome...

Now I would like some suggestions. I going to make the site a quick resource for finding a copy of blood2 on Amazon or ebay. How to get it up to date, and a link to download the a single file with 60+ custom maps in it.

I will cover the transfusion game, with quick links and how a how to.

Also, I didn't play blood one nearly as much as b2, so if you have any thing I should include, please let me know.

Just a quick & dirty "how-to" to get you up to speed. So you can play online or whatever. I'm looking for suggestions for what else to put on the front page when I fix the site.
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Question, can you run the Festival of Blood mod on a normal server? I am looking to get the giant level pack put together, FOB comes with some great maps, but can you only run the maps? Or if your running the fob rez file, you can still join a normal server?

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Yes you can, FOB didn't require anything specific to run.
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So if a server is running no add-ons, Someone running the FOB mod can join? Same goes for if the server is running the FOB mod and and a user running nothing?

I ask because I know that teh FOB mod messed with the guns and stuff...
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