discussion Request: When a game has update patches keep a few in the OP

[helpfulsunglasses]

Title covers it all. There's a couple games that tend to release much smaller update .zip files as well as a full release, but whenever a new release comes out the previous patches get edited out of the game thread. It'd be nice to keep a few listed for people who miss a game update so they don't need to do a full download to catch up. Shouldn't take any extra work, and if the old patches expire I'm not asking for them to be re-uploaded. Just keeping the current release up is enough work already!

I noticed because I'd missed the 0.11 of LittleGreenHill and lucked out that someone had quoted the OP before it was updated, but normally I'd just be SOL and have to do the full 8GB download instead of the 800mb update. Tribulations Of A Mage does update patches as well and they release every few weeks so it's really easy to miss one and get forced into a full download.

Thanks!

 

[Kaeru]

That's good advice actually. I'm gonna do that next time I release an update.

 

[exerp]

Yes .. this please!

And it would be great if more games .. the big ones especially .. had update patches.

Thanks to the helpful workers who make compressed versions as well!

 

[helpfulsunglasses]

Yes .. this please!

And it would be great if more games .. the big ones especially .. had update patches.

Thanks to the helpful workers who make compressed versions as well!

That's on the dev to implement, and it's not that easy to do. Renpy may the easiest and you still have to separate out all the new images into their own .rpa and then replace all the script files each update. Stuff like Tribulations of a Mage has a bunch of clever renpy work to support looking for the next updateXX.rpa and if it doesn't exist it bails to the end of update screen. Even with all that work they entirely replace a few .rpa files wholesale every update because there's no good way to apply spelling corrections to individual lines.

Unity/unreal/godot games you need binary patchers to do updates and most devs just let steam handle that and do full downloads for everyone else.

A particularly enthusiastic uploader could script something that does it but that's asking a lot from someone sharing games for you with no compensation.