Coaster Buzz Games?

sportsful25

Thursday, October 13, 2011 5:43 AM

Doesn't exist anymore? Where can I download all of those fantastic tracks and scenarios :(

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Jeff

Thursday, October 13, 2011 12:23 PM
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Other than a giant zip file somewhere, the site no longer exists.


Jeff - Editor - CoasterBuzz.com - My Blog

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sportsful25

Thursday, October 13, 2011 6:39 PM

Where is the giant .zip?

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Raven-Phile

Thursday, October 13, 2011 6:42 PM
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Judging from his post, I'm going to guess "somewhere" means just that.

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Ensign Smith

Thursday, October 13, 2011 7:11 PM

...i.e., over the rainbow.


My author website: mgrantroberts.com

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sportsful25

Thursday, October 13, 2011 7:47 PM

I just want all of Gonchar's tracks :(

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Lord Gonchar

Thursday, October 13, 2011 7:59 PM
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:)

I don't have copies of any of them myself.

Most of the really good ones have probably been ripped off and posted other places. I'm too lazy to look around though.


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Raven-Phile

Thursday, October 13, 2011 8:23 PM
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Me too. In fact, I'm too lazy to finis

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sportsful25

Thursday, October 13, 2011 8:28 PM

I've tried searching for just "Lord Gonchar RCT2 Downloads" but it's a giant circle that leads me from CoasterImage back to CoasterBuzz back to missing sites. Le sigh.

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Lord Gonchar

Thursday, October 13, 2011 9:06 PM
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Yeah, I removed the RCT pages from my site a while ago but Google kept pushing people to them. So I put them back up without links anywhere on the active site just for posterity.

Maybe someday we can get Jeff to make that big ol' zip file available to us?


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sportsful25

Friday, October 14, 2011 10:04 AM

I would certainly hope so. I miss all of your tracks :\

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Jeff

Friday, October 14, 2011 12:10 PM
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The zip full of files isn't that useful without the database that describes them.


Jeff - Editor - CoasterBuzz.com - My Blog

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LostKause

Friday, October 14, 2011 2:46 PM
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In other words, there is a snowballs chance in Hell of us ever seeing the site come back with all of the old files? That makes me sad. :(


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Jeff

Friday, October 14, 2011 5:39 PM
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Who would actually use it though? I mean, you guys, but even a dozen doesn't quite make it worth the effort. I'm not even sure if what I have includes the source code, and it was tied to the old version of the CoasterBuzz database, which has changed dramatically since then.


Jeff - Editor - CoasterBuzz.com - My Blog

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Lord Gonchar

Friday, October 14, 2011 5:54 PM
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Honestly, I'd never use it anymore and I don't really need those files because I'll never fire up old versions or RCT again.

But every time it comes up, I remember I don't have copies of any of those files.


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sportsful25

Friday, October 14, 2011 6:29 PM

I mean, it wouldn't hurt to just add a database archive for the people that still do. I, for instance, will never play RCT3. Only RCT2 and the originals.

Either that, or go through to all of the other sites you guys control and stop forwarding everyone to a ghost site.

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Lord Gonchar

Friday, October 14, 2011 6:42 PM
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Well, you'll notice that there are no links at all on Coasterimage to the RCT pages. Those pages are are old and were removed from the active site structure long ago.

The only way to get to those pages (which are an old design that doesn't even match the current site design and dated 2008) are from other sites still linking to my outdated info. I removed links to those old pages shortly after CB Games went away.

The problem lies with other sites pushing you to outdated info on my site.


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Jeff

Friday, October 14, 2011 6:42 PM
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If I could bring it back from the dead, certainly it would be read-only. But it would be a fair amount of work, not the least of which is because it ran on a version of .NET that's now seven or eight years old!


Jeff - Editor - CoasterBuzz.com - My Blog

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sportsful25

Friday, October 14, 2011 6:48 PM

Oh the downsides of having a game that is ancient.

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Jeff

Friday, October 14, 2011 8:26 PM
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I fire it up once or twice a year. The nostalgia wears off and I go do something else.


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