Hi,

The auto upload script seems to construct the name of your recording file by taking your, initials, romname, score, MAME version and putting them together to form ___.zip. I currently have a karnovj recording uploaded with a score of 999999 but with the game not completed. I've since created a new recording with the same score that is superior in that it finishes the game. I'd like to upload it to replace the existing recording. Unfortunately I get the following message on upload:

./inp/tjm_karnovj_999999_m36b5.zip already exists; did you upload it already?

How does one procede in this instance?

Cheers, Tim

-- Tim Morrow (tjmorrow@bigpond.com), September 25, 1999

Answers

Get a list of the karnovj scores (for instance by clicking the K at the top of the screen). To the right of the one that is yours, you should see an Edit link. Click it. Then change that score to 0. Then you may have to wait an hour or so for everything to be updated. Then upload your new one.

Cheers, Ben Jos.

-- Ben Jos Walbeehm (walbeehm@walbeehm.com), September 25, 1999.

Thanks for replying,

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work. I edited the score for karnovj to 0. Then after an hour my entry disappeared from off the karnovj hi score list - so I thought I was in business. 8 hours later I attempted to upload my new entry and got the same error message

./inp/tjm_karnovj_999999_m36b5.zip already exists; did you upload it already?

Have I not waited long enough for everything to be updated? Any other thoughts on what I can do?

Thanks, Tim

-- Tim Morrow (tjmorrow@bigpond.com), September 25, 1999.

Two things I can think of:

1. (The best solution) Send a copy of the new recording to Zwaxy, explain the situation to him, and ask him to replace the old one by the new one.

2. Specify a different version of MAME (which would result in the resulting filename being different) and, in the remarks for the upload, specify what the real version was you used.

Cheers, Ben Jos.

-- Ben Jos Walbeehm (walbeehm@walbeehm.com), September 25, 1999.

Just caught your post. The procedure is quite simple. Upload the new game as a score of 1000000. When it's posted, go and edit it down to 999999. You shouldn't have any problems.

-- Q.T.Quazar (qan@home.com), September 25, 1999.

Thanks for all your help guys. Just for the record, qan's solution was the one that worked in the end. The entry has now been accepted. Now I just have to wait for the next server refresh and edit the score from 1000000 to 999999. Cheers, Tim

-- Tim Morrow (tjmorrow@bigpond.com), September 26, 1999.