Testing vBulletin Tracker system

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DOWNLOADING INSTRUCTIONS:

Click on Torrents (on your navbar) -> Reset Passkey. You only need to do this once. If you click on it again, you'll have to redownload all your .torrent files..

Download the .torrent attached in this post, and see if it works.

UPLOADING INSTRUCTIONS:

Create a torrent. Any torrent. Some clients like uTorrent can do it for you.

Set the announce URL to this:
http://www.gamingforce.org/forums/announce.php

Attach your brand new .torrent file to a thread or post.

This is important: Re-download the torrent you just attached. This will encode your passkey in the torrent file.

Seed as normal.

Hopefully falkon2's indomitable spirit will see our first torrent through:

(NOTE: RESET YOUR PASSKEY FIRST BEFORE DOWNLOADING)

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  \                    \      .      \       .   .       /     .      .       /
  /\_____      .   ____/\      \     /\_  ___/\ /\______/\  ___/\    /\______/
 /\.     \    /___/\  .  \.____/\___/___\/    .\\_.   .  / /  .  \  /    __. \
.  \      \/\/:    / /    \      \.          __:\ \    \/ /  /    \/    /  \  \
    \.     \ :    / /__\   \  .   \: _ .   ./ .    \:   \/. /__\   \ . /   /  .\
     \.     .    / /    \.  \:/\   \/ |   _|_/\     \   /  /    \.  \  \__/    /
 .    \:   /\   /    /\___   \  \  . /|:  \    \____/  /:    /\___   \       ./
  \____\: /__\_/__  /     \  /_  \  / |:   \.   .     /:__  /  /  \__ \_.__::/
   \:   \/       /\/______|\/  | .\/___\  /_\::____ __./__\/__/:_  /_\/JoGa  \
    \.  /__.    /  __     /.   | |   __ \/  / /  .  \ /.   ______\/ __   ./   .
    /     /____/.  /_____/.    |_|:_ /_____/./  /_   \_____    \|   /___:/
.  /:      .    |____.    |:        /__.    |.    :   \ .      .\:___.    \    .
 \/:______/|    |   |     |:______:/  |     |:____   /______._:_/    \.    \  /
 .\/       |:_  |   |:__  |           |:__  |     \____ \/            \:___ \/.
  O\          \/        \/                \/           \/                  \/.
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 o .      Pop_n_Music_14_Fever_JPN_PS2DVD-WjR
  o|                                            
   O      Company........: Konami                File Count.....: XX*50
   |o     Released.......: 07/10/2007            Media Type.....: DVD
   | O    Origin.........: Ntsc                  Game type .....: Music
   | O    Language.......: Japanese
   |o                                       .
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  /\  ___  _____ _/\  ____/\      . .     .   .       . .   .       .
 |__|/   \|  ___/_  \/   __/......   .   .     .     .   . . .     . .   ......
 |  |  \  / / _/  \_ \_ /   \....     . .       .   .     .   .   .   . .
 |  |__| /___| \_____/____  /...       .         . .           . .     .
  \/....\/................\/...                   .             .
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      Have Fun :) Enjoy The Game as much as we did.!
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 ..|.o...   .   .   .     .   .     .     ....../   __\   __\/_  \ __|  |  __ \
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  O|                    .       . .         ...\____  /___\  \____/\____/  |.
 o |                             .           .......\/.....\/............\/.:
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  o|       We are now looking for people who can:         
   O       * get NEW unreleased games before store retail dates (USA/JAP/PAL) 
   |o      * get NEW unreleased games and have fast uploads ( 300k/s +  )     
   | O     * experienced coders, capable of coding their own  tools used
   | O       for ripping.                                      .
   |o      * rip games. must be experienced and be on a fast connect.      
   :       * Suppliers of Private Unix Boxes exclusive to wjr/wpr           :
   :       * get unreleased pre store DVDS or Screeners or Telesyncs        :
   :       * If you think you qualify contact us u will find a way          :
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   o__/\______ _____ ____/\______ __/\      . .     .   .       . .   .     :o
  /   __\   __\  __/  __/___  ___/ __/......   .   .     .     .   . . .  ..|o..
 /   /   / /  \  _\_  _\_  /  /\_ /   \....     . .       .   .     .   .   O
 \____  /___\  \____\____\/__/ /____  /...       .         . .             O|
   :..\/.....\/.....................\/...                   .             o |
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                                 WAM - COMPLEX                              |o
                                    DEViANCE                                | O
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                               & all our friends                            |o
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                         Special Greetz: C**** and JoGa                     :
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           Another Greetz for all guys who Help Us more Actually            |                              
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   ...!Want.PaL.Release!.The.Style.....................Askee/JoGa^uNCREATiON>..
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Let's give a shot. If it doesn't work, I blame my ISP and will switch. =o

Let's see if I'm doing this right =x.

edit:
I can't tell if it's working or not, I'll try again later.

I don't see the torrent link in the navbar. Is this usergroup based?

This thread needs more Soul:

/test

Originally Posted by Secret Squirrel

I don't see the torrent link in the navbar. Is this usergroup based?

Anything you don't want guests to see is most likely usergroup-based. Anyway, I don't see it either so us grumpy ex-mods are SOL.

I see it, and it works! :33333 Blah

Artist: Michael Kamen (composer)
Orig. Artists: Jule Styne & Sammy Cahn (track 21)
Album: Die Hard Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Year: 2002
Genre: Movie Soundtrack
Publisher: Varèse Sarabande Records, Inc.
Catalogue No.: VCL 0202 1004
LIMITED EDITION PRINT OF 3000 COPIES



Ripped to WAV and converted to FLAC using Exact Audio Copy v.0.95 beta 4
Tagged using Tag&Rename v3.2
Bitrate: N/A
Encoder: FLAC 1.1.2 -5
Type: FLAC Lossless Audio
Not Protected



Rip release Date: Friday, August 17th, 2007
Included Files: M3U, SFV, TXT, LOG, CUE, 9 scans
Scans: Yes
Size: 368 MB
Ripped by Blue_Kirby2




~TRACK LIST~

01 THE NAKATOMI PLAZA				(01:48)
02 GRUBER'S ARRIVAL				(03:40)
03 JOHN'S ESCAPE / YOU WANT MONEY?		(05:52)
04 THE TOWER					(01:49)
05 THE ROOF					(03:37)
06 THE FIGHT					(01:07)
07 HE WON'T BE JOINING US			(03:53)
08 AND IF HE ALTERS IT?				(02:40)
09 GOING AFTER JOHN AGAIN			(04:31)
10 HAVE A FEW LAUGHS				(03:30)
11 WELCOME TO THE PARTY				(00:58)
12 TV STATION / HIS BAG IS MISSING		(03:52)
13 ASSAULT ON THE TOWER				(08:17)
14 JOHN IS FOUND OUT				(05:01)
15 ATTENTION POLICE				(03:38)
16 BILL CLAY					(02:02)
17 I HAD AN ACCIDENT				(02:36)
18 ODE TO JOY					(03:36)
19 THE BATTLE					(10:15)
20 GRUBER'S DEPARTURE				(01:59)
21 LET IT SNOW! LET IT SNOW! LET IT SNOW!	(01:57)



Total Running Time: 1 hour, 16 minutes, 38 seconds










Questions or comments about this album? Feel free to contact me, Blue_Kirby2, at Yoshiisthebest@hotmail.com

Where did this come from? http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/showthread.php?t=994
			  http://www.vgmemporium.com/smf/index.php?topic=68.0

EDIT: Apparently you have to enter the name of the torrent in the title of your post in order for it to show up on this page.

Also, Blah fucking rules. <3

Intense props Blah, this shit is awesome. Really digging the stats page. I can see this growing into a very resourceful, er, resource.

Giving this a try.

Do we have to register for this tracker?

Yes, you 'register' by resetting your passkey.

SS, torrent link should show up for you now.

Pretty nifty. *randomly gets sued a month later*

Awesome, Blah. Thanks a shitload for putting this up.

The only thing is we'll eventually need to find a way to organize these, and possibly have a small subforum for uploading them, or something. I have plenty of ideas, but I don't know how feasible they are with this hack. If you give enough of a shit that you want me to list them, just say so.

(I'm in no way ungrateful, I'm just making suggestions. Fucking A+ shit as it stands already.)

Sure, lay them all out. I've got another day or two to implement them before I go on holiday.

Sorry, this is massive. I apologize in advance for sounding demanding, though that's not what I'm trying to do.

• Heavier stat tracking. On each member, if possible. Perhaps have the stats display in the user profile, or, preferablly, have a seperate user page for each member that lists things like ratio, uploaded/downloaded totals, and a list of torrents they're either seeding or uploaded. Things of that nature.
  
• Access to these stats from some simple common area. Perhaps on the username drop down list? Perhaps in the post bit, underneath level, it'll say something like "ratio: x.yz", and it's clickable to take you to said page.
  
• Torrent organization. A way to categorize your torrent, and likewise, a way to browse by these categories. "FLAC", "MP3", "Other Lossy", "Video", and the like.
  
• Individual torrent description pages. Something when uploading the torrent that you can add that says whatever you want it to say. A title is sometimes not descriptive enough. Someone could upload something as Bokujou Monogatari Gameboy Original Sound Collection, and your average asshat will probably not know that's a Harvest Moon soundtrack. It'll also allow for people to mention how something was ripped, or perhaps give an extraction log. (I really liked this feature in GFTracker, the ability to attach logs to the description pages. Made checking for proper rips easier.)
  
• Continuing from there, I like the little catagories in the attachment window, who's doing what for the torrent currently and so forth. Sexy times are had by all there. Very nice. Perhaps a central area for seeing these stats on afformentioned description pages?
  
• Comments, on said description pages. Someone could say "You got XYZ incorrect" or something, like if the uploader typo'd something or got the tracklist wrong or whatnot.
  
• Perhaps a way to automatically obtain passkeys for those who don't have them. Perhaps if someone doesn't already have one, on their next login, they automatically recieve one. Dunno if that's possible or not due to not having any knowledge of how this is integrated with vB.
  
• Torrent browsing, not just by category, like above, but the orphaned/all/top/latest is nice, but perhaps things like "show only seeded torrents", and such could be added there. Alternatively, when in the actual list of torrents in whatever catagory/filter, clickable headers that organize by date/seeders/leechers/speed/whateverthefuck.
  
• A place to keep torrent threads, perhaps a My Stuff subforum?

That's all I got for now. I'll think of something else, I'm sure. Question, though. I guess administration can be done by any mod who deletes an attachment, eh? "This torrent is actually a gig of pictures of poop" or something ends up happening and someone can just nuke it or recatagorize it if we end up allowing for a "lulz" category or whatever. That sort of thing could be a problem, so it should be doable like that, right? If so, an ability to warn mods for torrent faggotry or something would be spiffy. Or we'll just use the existing warning system. Whatever.

Edit: Also, ratio for pure uploads should be read as infinite, not the same ratio as the previous seeder on the list. (See my and Tails ratios being reported as the same as Ben's and yours, above on the Gears torrent.)

edit edit: pictar

Originally Posted by 2401 Penitent Tangent

• Heavier stat tracking
• Access to these stats

These are actually default features, but I've temporarily disabled them while I pretty it up. I'll turn them back on soon.

Originally Posted by 2401 Penitent Tangent

• Torrent organization

I suppose adding a tag field will take care of that.

Originally Posted by 2401 Penitent Tangent

• Individual torrent description pages
• central area for seeing these stats
• Comments, on said description pages

We could have a link to a central torrent description page, yes, but I feel comments can be posted in the torrent thread itself. Maybe the central torrent description page will have a "thread review" style listing of the replies in the thread.

As for logs, you can attach them together with the .torrent file. I'll check to see if it needs to be added to the recognized filetype list.

Originally Posted by 2401 Penitent Tangent

• Perhaps a way to automatically obtain passkeys for those who don't have them.

Yeah, I'll put in something for this. The software is supposed to generate passkeys for everyone upon installation but I removed that bit since we have like thousands of people here and I didn't want PHP to time out.

Originally Posted by 2401 Penitent Tangent

• Torrent browsing, clickable headers

This will take a while, I guess.

We'll probably allocate somewhere in the My Stuff forum for torrents (or maybe use a thread tag). Also, torrent moderation is a matter of deleting the attachment, yes.

I'll try to fix that seeder ratio bug.

Okey doke. I'll wait to see what you've got cookin' before commenting further.

One more bug, though. On the general stats page that is up there currently, the fastest/slowest torrent lists are TEH BROKAN. Gears is on fastest torrent three times, hatepissannoy on slowest 4 times.

I'm loving the fact that this was added, but will our server be able to support it? There's no chance of another financial fiasco, is there?

I hate to rain on the parade, but I've found it's best to err on the side of caution with Gamingforce. =D

Ohhhh, the over 9000 ratio is AWESOME.

I'm getting an ascii boner just thinking about it. <3

8==========D

Testing multiple trackers with a Touhou concert...

Okay Weeaboos, most popular thing on my tracker by far.

Originally Posted by Capo

I'm loving the fact that this was added, but will our server be able to support it? There's no chance of another financial fiasco, is there?

I hate to rain on the parade, but I've found it's best to err on the side of caution with Gamingforce. =D

It's very unlikely, since all the server is doing is hosting the torrent files (which could be hosted anywhere,) and just acting as the tracker, which tells your BitTorrent client who is connected, so you can connect to them.

Basically, very low bandwidth stuff.

Basically, could have just read how BitTorrent trackers work to get the answer yourself.

Hmm. I think this is a really great idea, but I guess it'll depend a lot on the amount of users who take up this service.

EDIT: I seem to get some passkey error? I did the whole reset passkey thing though. Any idea as to what I'm doing wrong?

The passkey error is: Failure: vBTT v3.0: This is not YOUR passkey!！！