discussion Atlas - Game Manager for LC, F95, Steam, GOG

[CuddleBear]

The client got custom collections yesterday.
Make a custom collection and add titles into the collection

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The context menu also had an update today!


The free text filter supports more fields now and you can limit your search better!

 

[CuddleBear]

Small little announcement directly for LC content in the client!
We limited the browse mode FOR NOW. Browse mode will not be able to see Games+ and AI Games+ content.
This will be updated soon (hopefully within a month) so it will use your own LC login as a verification check for that content!
This way we still support the content and randoms will not see that stuff and complain about the morality of it all.

You can still install Games+ and AI Games+ content in the client without an issue though!
The metadata is all still there, just a display change in browse mode specifically!


Sidenote, if images are not being loaded in for LC content then you might have to login!
If there is any threads with active images that does not show with images in the client then please report them to me in the discord so i can force an update on our side.

 

[CuddleBear]

F95Checker importer is now in the latest nightly version and is working!
Currently imports titles in place so you can keep using F95Checker if you want.
An optional copy/move option is debated.

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[Skux]

Custom entries? as in titles not on LC or F95? sure we could handle that. nothing stops Atlas from importing it all locally.
We also have AtlasDB where we can make new game entries if we wanted, got a few of them so far but only admins can add too that.
If you are in need of anything then go ahead and tell me in the discord, we have a thread there for such things.

Can't discord yet. Still waiting on support to unfreeze my new account.

I have nearly 200 custom game entries (<10% of my library) not on F95 or LC and it's a very common way that I discover games.
Probably pretty unreasonable for either of us to have to put them in your server db, even just from a flow/ order of operations perspective.

1) Get info from ryuu, kimochi, dlsite, itch, etc
2) Drop in as an entry
3) Upgrade it to LC or F95 if they ever get a thread
If they never get a thread I at least have the reference.
Especially common on games that don't have an English translation (obviously).
Also good for mods (which is what F95Checker actually made the feature for)

Basically the only requirements are custom images (just banner really) and custom metadata.

Alternatively I could apply for Uploader here and then just create a LC thread every time as Step 2... Hmm.
Oh wait. The discord thing. Damn.

I'll test out the importer at the very least when it enters a build, not just the branch.
I can see that it supports importing custom entries as negative f95 ids but it'll probably need a form for actually entering it and also converting that custom to a real thread (steps 2 & 3)

 

[xXxLunaxXx]

Oh, so that’s the project @LunaGlow was talking about, the one that brought her here...Are you developing it all by yourself, @CuddleBear? Which programming language are you using?

Are you planning to add AC as well?

 

[CuddleBear]

Oh, so that’s the project @LunaGlow was talking about, the one that brought her here...Are you developing it all by yourself, @CuddleBear? Which programming language are you using?

Are you planning to add AC as well?

No no, im not the Dev. Im the community and brainstorming guy!
Had plenty of ideas for the client with all personal input on all features and interactions to massage it into place.
But @towerwatchman. is the main dev

Also what do you mean by AC?

As for the rest, thats listed in github and in our OP

 

[Kaboobi]

No no, im not the Dev. Im the community and brainstorming guy!
Had plenty of ideas for the client with all personal input on all features and interactions to massage it into place.
But @towerwatchman. is the main dev

Also what do you mean by AC?

As for the rest, thats listed in github and in our OP

Azkosel's Corner, similar to LC and F95​

 

[CuddleBear]

Azkosel's Corner, similar to LC and F95​

thank you.
checking it out now. not much to check out until the admin approves it seems.
we all would need our own account and the scraper its own aswell probably.

 

[xXxLunaxXx]

No no, im not the Dev. Im the community and brainstorming guy!
Had plenty of ideas for the client with all personal input on all features and interactions to massage it into place.
But @towerwatchman. is the main dev

Also what do you mean by AC?

As for the rest, thats listed in github and in our OP

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= AC
ok thanks

 

[CuddleBear]

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= AC
ok thanks

Thanks, we are signing up and taking a peek at it. Quite likely it will get supported.
First we need to gain access though haha

 

[CuddleBear]

F95Checker Importer was added on Sunday by the way.
You can bulk import your F95Checker library, even titles without game files, those can be added to a wishlist.

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Yesterday we got the basics of a download manager into the client!
Currently you can download PixelDrain urls from F95. LC will be added so don't you worry! Just getting one part out and testing before we expand! F95 Login is required! But PixelDrain login is optional (it uses premium downloads even!)

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EDIT: Mega.nz support started rolling out.
Also XLibrary imports got added since last post.

 

[SloWolfe]

Finally got the manager set up, and wow, I was really missing out by not using it sooner. Out of the 77 games I added, 25 were behind on updates, and I never would have realized without it. I still have a few more to go through, but the experience has been great so far. It even helped me discover that I'd accidentally downloaded two games twice and stored them in different folders.

Also, thanks for adding collections so quickly. They've made organizing everything much easier.

One suggestion, although I'm not sure how feasible it would be, is to have a panel showing available mods or add-ons for each game. A lot of renpy games have community mods, and if downloading through the manager becomes more common, those could easily go unnoticed since users won't necessarily visit the forum page anymore.

 

[werewolffromth]

This looks absolutely fantastic , been using f95checker for a while but this could be the solution to some nitpicks and annoyances

 

[Kaboobi]

Finally got the manager set up, and wow, I was really missing out by not using it sooner. Out of the 77 games I added, 25 were behind on updates, and I never would have realized without it. I still have a few more to go through, but the experience has been great so far. It even helped me discover that I'd accidentally downloaded two games twice and stored them in different folders.

Also, thanks for adding collections so quickly. They've made organizing everything much easier.

One suggestion, although I'm not sure how feasible it would be, is to have a panel showing available mods or add-ons for each game. A lot of renpy games have community mods, and if downloading through the manager becomes more common, those could easily go unnoticed since users won't necessarily visit the forum page anymore.

I was wondering about mods as well, of course there are some mods that can take a long time to be updated after the game gets an update, or some that never do, and in some cases like an outdated walkthrough mod will still allow you to play it fine, but some outdated mods will just break the game.

 

[CuddleBear]

As for mods. I don't see how it can easily work. Seems like quite a bit of work for very little sadly.
Mods gets out of date, they are version specific more often than not.
I just don't personally see much to gain form making that simpler.
Though if its listed in the OP then perhaps we can just support downloading said mods, it would just reuse much of the download code we have in place now for Pixeldrain and Mega.nz

We can currently read and pick out specific downloads. but currently there is no way to download anything as a mod or as a patch.

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EDIT: Obviously if anyone has any ideas of doing mods in a decent way,
or want to take on the issue themselves by helping with the code then go ahead!

 

[Tripping1894]

oh, this is great, looks like it has a better implementation than xlib

 

[CuddleBear]

oh, this is great, looks like it has a better implementation than xlib

Thanks, the client is quite feature packed at this point. Polished too for the UX.

IMO, its the best alternative out there by far which was the point of pushing it that far.

 

[Xakorik]

I'll check this out once I have a working PC again, was using F95Checker with F95 donator DDL but this already looks better as it includes multiple sources.

 

[CuddleBear]

I'll check this out once I have a working PC again, was using F95Checker with F95 donator DDL but this already looks better as it includes multiple sources.

So far so good! Both PixelDrain and Mega.nz is supported currently. Obviously LC and F95 aswell.
Need to get the download system working with LC aswell though.

Been testing it quite a bit. 800 gigs downloaded through the client so far and it has been flawless.
Only issues i had was bad uploads that wont extract or whatever which is quite rare.

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There will be more download sources support coming though. we are missing some gaps. plans are to add those that dont have listings of the other two so we hit the blindspots with atleast one source per title on f95. thats the idea anyway.

 

[Sainto]

does atlas store a backup for deleted files somewhere? it glitched out during import and deleted nearly all my games...

edit: it deleted everything...