Original .DAT Archive

[Oreo]

What happened? D: The link no longer works

[Dyshiono]

Originally Posted by Oreo

What happened? D: The link no longer works

Yeah, I just noticed. >.> Its not just this link, a whole bunch of others are getting a 404 as well. Someone's gotta fix this DX

[Gulkeeva]

Oh yeah the site stuff was changed forgot to have that moved over

Will try to see if can get it back up and working by today sometime.

Also any other links of stuff giving 404 should be PM'ed the link of whats giving the 404 error!

Although the dats are kind of old, have to bug dracovivi wherever he is to go about updating them!

[Oreo]

Originally Posted by Gulkeeva

Oh yeah the site stuff was changed forgot to have that moved over

Will try to see if can get it back up and working by today sometime.

Also any other links of stuff giving 404 should be PM'ed the link of whats giving the 404 error!

Although the dats are kind of old, have to bug dracovivi wherever he is to go about updating them!

Thank you Gulkeeva! I was going to replace a bunch of stuff I had changed and never really bothered backing up cause I always used this.

Guess I'll start making back ups now ^^;

[Gulkeeva]

Well might take another day, didn't expect it to be massive, 11GB takes awhile to transfer

[Gulkeeva]

Updated first post with the new url , let me know if theirs any problems (besides the dats being super old!) :P

[Gulkeeva]

Opps copy n paste failed me had the new url but pointed at the old url >.>

should be fixed now

[saigex]

heya, i know your probably still working on this, but incase you didnt realize it, i keep getting "You're probably trying to go somewhere you shouldn't be!" with all the dats im trying to get... i made an oops and replaced some dats in the wrong folder when i was adding back my originals ^^;;

rom/32 - 60, 68, 92, 28

so now i have nothing where they usta be ^^;; please help soon i dont think ill be able to play w/o them ; ;

EDIT never mind :D a friend send em via msn. EDIT

[Gulkeeva]

found the issue, and how to fix it, kind of messy way but the only way till someone can find him to update several thousand lines of html code >.>

[saigex]

thanks alot ^^

[SomethingJ]

Example:
http://neko-sentai.com/users/dracovi.../ROM/51/93.DAT
wont work (link from the page) but
http://users.neko-sentai.com/dracovi.../ROM/51/93.DAT
still does- idk what was changed to make it not work..

so just change it to that format for which you're looking for.

[Dracovivi]

Originally Posted by SomethingJ

Example:
http://neko-sentai.com/users/dracovi.../ROM/51/93.DAT
wont work (link from the page) but
http://users.neko-sentai.com/dracovi.../ROM/51/93.DAT
still does- idk what was changed to make it not work..

so just change it to that format for which you're looking for.

Server change caused the change from ....com/users/dracovivi/ to users.neko-sentai/dracovivi/

I've updated all the code, so the entire site should work... the only downside is it's over a year old... so if files have changed during updates those are invalid, but anything that hasn't should be functional.

As for updating this... I would have to reinstall the game and hope that the guy that has my account has it active or his active for me to use and update client or someone else takes it over.

Sorry.

[ffxiAhleah]

Wow, thanks for putting forth the effort to fix the problem caused by the server change! That really means alot when you no longer even play ffxi.

As far as updating the files to include newly added content, would simply providing the folders and their enclosed .dat files be sufficient to complete this archive? Is there any way I could help out or perhaps learn to recreate what you did? Let me know!

[delusionalbastard]

i half to every so often reinstall the game from my mods, trying out others, updates, exc
and that is coming up soon, since there has been so many updates that i'm not sure my current backups are right
so i can also step forward and offer to upload all the game over one night if you want
i just need to know what tools i need or what i need to do to upload them for you once i go to do my next reinstall

[Gulkeeva]

Due to this being somewhat out of date now, will be taking this thread off the sticky list later, if anyone feels like taking up the project let me know!

[ffxiAhleah]

It's not TOO out of date :3

I'd say leave it up, it still covers like 95% of the dat files. ^^;

[delusionalbastard]

what all would be involve in taking this over
in my new place now i got a decent internet service of 30M down and 5M up service
and i haven't installed any of my mods yet into the game since I have redone my machines in moving
(also why I haven't been posting or making new mods)
busy real life kinda sucks at time lol
is it just basically uploading and making sure the links are correct or would it be taking over the whole original dat archive and updating its look and everything

[Gulkeeva]

Would be up to you on how you'd redo it, although the way its laid out now in html seems to work pretty well for people :P

I'd presume most of the work would be...

New patch -> upload the changed files -> done

and the "small work" would be like adding new... uhh file icon for new dats not on that list, the initial work of updating this would probably take a few hours, but after that just uploading "patch updates" would take 1-5min depending on how often you keep up to date on ffxi and how well you find the dat changes or whatever method you use :P

Reploading all of ffxi per patch isn't recommended "update" method :P

[delusionalbastard]

lol no its not but I can make a dump folder and there are programs that can compare folders for sync to see which ones actually change and would need updating, and would also point out the new files as well

but yeah the initial reload of all the files would be the easiest, learning how to do the snyc file system and uploading new content will be the fun learning part

my weakest link would be the html coding unless most of it was built with a site program that did most of the work, its been ages since i have worked html code and i can only remember the bare basics.

yeah in looking at the page, i take it the updating of the welcome page is no longer going to be done maybe even removed? or is that going to be picked back up

does the world clock automatically reset with the server maintenance and all or is that manually done?

the link for the patch details is that self updating when i upload new content or do I half to manually update that?

would the page still be in dracovivi name still or would it be transferred into a page with my name?

say doesn't playonline half to list what files they change in there updates any how or do they not half to list that info

lol the main question i would have is would you be able to make a backup of the page before i started to play with it. that way if its more work than me and you figured upon, you have a way of reverting it back

[delusionalbastard]

lol did i put to many questions