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Title: What powers the submissions board?
Post by: qubit on November 26, 2004, 04:42:39 pm

I'm trying to create a record site for Crash Bandicoot games, and I want to use what powers TSC's submission board.  So, Rolken, what script do you use?

Title: What powers the submissions board?
Post by: qubit on November 27, 2004, 10:28:44 am

I'm hoping Rolky picks this topic up...

Title: What powers the submissions board?
Post by: sonicam on November 27, 2004, 07:08:11 pm

I'd like to know as well, I want to make a site dedicated to competition as well, I want to make one for Pokemon Stadium/Pokemon Stadium 2 Mini-Games and  MegaMan Anniversary Collection(Time Attack), and MegaMan Xtreme 2 Boss Attack. It's a small array of games, but I'd eventually evolve it. Well, the chances of Rolko looking at the forums is pretty slim, lol, I'll talk to him at the IRC Chatroom.

Title: What powers the submissions board?
Post by: SadisticMystic on November 28, 2004, 09:33:22 am

The old version of the site (as in some time around January) had a source.zip file or something that contained all the PHP files.

Under the current system, those files are a lot more obscure, so even if there was a new source zip, you'd need some sort of documentation to make sense of it all.

Title: What powers the submissions board?
Post by: qubit on November 28, 2004, 10:22:05 am

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The old version of the site (as in some time around January) had a source.zip file or something that contained all the PHP files.

Under the current system, those files are a lot more obscure, so even if there was a new source zip, you'd need some sort of documentation to make sense of it all.

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Do you still have the old version?

Title: What powers the submissions board?
Post by: Rolken on November 28, 2004, 05:00:18 pm

I didn't respond to this because I'd emailed about it before I noticed it. :x

Truth is, you really don't want to use the TSC code unless you know PHP/MySQL really well or are willing to slog through learning it and hack up the code to make it do what you want. The old code is pretty crappy and even less customizable; you don't want it. I can send the new code, but right now security-through-obscurity is my mantra so I don't want to make it entirely public.

Title: What powers the submissions board?
Post by: qubit on November 30, 2004, 12:27:27 pm

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I didn't respond to this because I'd emailed about it before I noticed it. :x

Truth is, you really don't want to use the TSC code unless you know PHP/MySQL really well or are willing to slog through learning it and hack up the code to make it do what you want. The old code is pretty crappy and even less customizable; you don't want it. I can send the new code, but right now security-through-obscurity is my mantra so I don't want to make it entirely public.

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Are there any other competition sites that are easier to read the code for?

Title: What powers the submissions board?
Post by: Rolken on November 30, 2004, 01:23:44 pm

cyberscore.net is the only other automated site I know of, but I don't expect they'll give it away.

Title: What powers the submissions board?
Post by: qubit on November 30, 2004, 11:10:23 pm

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cyberscore.net is the only other automated site I know of, but I don't expect they'll give it away.

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So I guess I'm stuck with you...

Title: What powers the submissions board?
Post by: Rolken on December 02, 2004, 04:34:18 am

For the curious, you can get the source at http://www.soniccenter.org/source/v3.2.zip (http://www.soniccenter.org/source/v3.2.zip) - englodude got it already (I assume). It's still extremely convoluted, though (and most of the comments are wrong or don't make any sense~)