VMU

and i quote from what will be an historic chab…. “it’s done, finished… the browser incompatability is over” -kefka, 2am central, 12/10/01 kefka’s site now accepts UPLOADS AND DOWNLOADS FROM ALL ALL ALL ALL ALL DREAMCAST BROWSERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS PARTY TIME!!!! almost a year we have wanted this!!!!! i am buying the drinks!!!!! (not the cheap stuff either) the new project of the group will be building a hella’ big statue in his honor… THIS IS THE WORLD’S FIRST CROSS-BROWSER VMU FILE UPLOADER AND DOWNLOADER!!!!!! — insidious_plots After all of this…. ...

I’ve added the ‘advertisment’, I’ve rearanged everything to look and move nicer and faster… and I’ve added the uploader history to my forums. http://kefka.hypermart.net/forums/cgi-bin/YaBB.cgi?board=vmudev (Dead Link)

kefka, once again, you are the man, the myth, the legend… i have started two new categories at the archive… one is – DCBG Experiment Archive – and the other is – DCBG Browser Add-Ons – i am trying to figure out what to do about the second one… i want it to point people here since we can explain how they work, give support, etc… so, i may start putting in the name and email space DCBG and dreamcastbrowsers-subscribe @ yahoogroups.com or something… but, since the experiment archive is for us to use and abuse, i’ll still put my own name on each upload… i am already putting a few things in there… this rocks heavily… i am uploading to kefka’s site with dp… FINALLY after eight months or more, i can begin easily storing my work somewhere… and hopefully others will be encouraged to contribute… (oh, and i have some tomb raider 4 saves i may submit, too…) — insidious_plots i can add the script to automaticly post an advertisment for files within those 2 directories! ...

Well, instead of it completly and flat out not letting you download, it now starts to load, and then stops. http://kefka.hypermart.net/data/test.vmi (Dead Link) which is a step better than this http://kefka.hypermart.net/data/D00000127.vmi (Dead Link) So, I’m headed in the right direction, but falling short somewhere. Doug is still on the case =) However, I must end my progress here. I need sleep and I’m about to passout. I’ll start working on this bright and early tomorrow……. ...

I thought I was going to bed… heh – i haven’t made it I’m looking at two vmi files, one was created by the Dream browser, the second was created by planetweb… the differences are as plain as night and day, while at the same time it sticks to the same formula. But, I guess a direct translation will not work. Some of the differeces, for example, are: Empty spaces on the planetweb vmi are padded with 0’s (nulls), while DreamKey/Passport are padded with 32’s (spaces). The first 4 spaces of the Planetweb vmi is 65 68 68 64, which is numerical for SEGA, while DreamKey/Passport is 65 4 32 32, which is numerical for the letter S followed by a non-displayable character and 2 spaces. ...

well done, man… looks like we are close… so far as i know, you will be the world’s first… this is already definitely the first multi-browser uploader… and, that is COLOSSAL… and check replies to your previous posts when you get back… one of my questions summed to asking if it is safe to start uploading… — insidious_plots i cannot think of a SINGLE site that i have ever seen anywhere that allows uploads from all browsers… it is just amazing… this is a very big deal… i just wanted to underscore that fact… (and underscore is my middle name) (ya’ know, insidious underscore plots…) — insidious_plots Oh yeah, upload away. The downloading still doesn’t work for the Dream browsers so you’ll still need planetweb to download, but it is safe to upload. ...

Tonight, once everyone goes to bed, and it’s just me and my newly fixed Dreamcast. I’m going to pull out my DreamKey, and I’m going to figure out how to upload, and download with the DreamKey. I AM NOT GOING TO SLEEP untill I figure this out! It can’t be to hard to figure the upload process, it will use the STDIN in the perl enviroment like the one for planetweb, just the information is sent differently… in fact… I just thought of it. Maybe it is sent directly, without any decoding of any sort being done to the raw data. ooohhhhh……. ...

Head to my website ( http://www.dreamserv-gaming.com/ (Dead Link) ), and try the uploader with DreamPassport or DreamKey. I modified the script and I think I’ve come up with something. (Don’t try downloading, that hasn’t been touched yet). Please and thank you 🙂 🙂 🙂 um, dude?… it seems to have worked… now, i may scream for joy soon… — insidious_plots So it did work… now to get the other end of this script to work… ...

Could you add a second line when uploading for email address, and would it also be possible to click a button once you’ve uploaded a save previously to query a database so all you would have to do is put your name in? Like say I put my name as VampMan, email as VampMan@m…, and then next time, put my name in, and click a button so it fills my email addy in for me? Dunno, I’m just lazy, but I think you should definatly add the email address to it. 🙂 Also, are you making a stand alone uploader, or are you planning on working it into your forums? Or both even… Keep up the good work guys. — VampMan Yeah, I’ll add the e-mail line soon. This is going to be seperate from the forums, and I’ll see about making it auto-log your info (I dont want to force a username password situation… I’ll see what I can pull around)!