Last time I was complaining a little how my script that is collecting statistics about my homebrew game threads and downloads did not work anymore. The reason was something cloudflare did to detect "automated browsers" or bots. I can totally understand why this is there offcourse, but i was pretty much out of luck in my attempts at making it work again. But a few days ago it got on my nerves and I really wanted to also collect the stats of the original game's download I put in the download section....so I put my mind to it and actually made it work again!!!! 
Among all threads and downloads in that two month period I had more than 11,000 views and 205 downloads. It's amazing to see that the earlier versions are still being downloaded.
Now the statistics are working again I should really find some time to work on the actual game again! That has been a while actually....vacation times I guess. Hahaha
Well....I was ofcourse in the process of making YouTube video's...and along the way fixing a few bugs and errors that made things crash. I think I posted about it before.....but the Wii version now has background music too! Finally put the time in a few weeks ago to port the required libmikmod library and got it working! It's driver ain't perfect by any means....but it works and sounds great. Dolphin does not like it so much and it has a few frame skipping issues....but from what I remember that was not the case on the real hardware. Since the GameCube has nearly identical hardware it should also work on there....but memory might be an issue. Need to test it to know for sure I guess.
Hopefully this weekend I might have a couple of hours to play with this stuff again. I really want to upload the gameplay video for the Wii as I already did for the PC Linux version here. Please keep in mind that my blogs are 80% meant for me to clear my thoughts and read back in a few months. If it does not make sense then I am sorry...but now you know the reason.
Thank you all!
Code:
GBATemp stats
TimeA: 2021-09-03 12:00:58
TimeB: 2021-06-22 18:02:47
Threads:
BatteryCheck - WII 16648 (2363)
BatteryCheck - GameCube 407 (126)
Batterycheck - 3DS 10130 (4211)
BatteryCheck - PS2 3219 (987)
BatteryCheck - WiiU 5224 (3802)
Batterycheck - PSP 3208 (71)
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38836 (11560)
Files:
preview-batcheck-wii-v0.1.dol.zip 119 (5)
batterycheck-gc-preview-2.dol.zip 132 (12)
batterycheck-wii-preview-2.dol.zip 135 (9)
batterycheck-wii-preview-v0.3.zip 125 (16)
batterycheck-gc-preview-v0.3.zip 112 (9)
batterycheck-wii-v0.3.4-ALPHA.7z 21 (15)
batterycheck-gc-v0.3.4-ALPHA.7z 21 (18)
batterycheck-3ds-preview-2.3dsx.zip 213 (17)
bc_setup.3dsx.zip 80 (3)
batterycheck-3ds-installer-v0.3.zip 94 (10)
batterycheck-3ds-v0.3.4-ALPHA.7z 9 (2)
batterycheck-ps2-v0.3.2-ALPHA.elf.zip 44 (25)
batterycheck-ps2-v0.3.3-ALPHA.zip 39 (23)
batterycheck-ps2-v0.3.4-ALPHA.7z 37 (17)
batterycheck-wiiu-v0.3.6-ALPHA.7z 43 (24)
batterycheck.zip 29 (0)
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1253 (205)A bit dramatic maybe, but during the "blackout" I have not been able to collect detailed (in 3 hour intervals) statistics but that's fine. The owners of the original game I am collecting these stats for only wanted a six month update, but I wanted to automate this stuff so it does not matter if I collect once a month....or every three hours. Right? When a new version is uploaded of my homebrew game I hope to catch a spike in views on both the threads and downloads. See which platform is more popular and such, hahahaha. Going purely on the stats above I would have to say the PS2 and WiiU are in the lead above all others. Ofcourse those are the new platforms I only added a few months ago....so that might have something to do with it.
Anyway....here is the actual stats between today and 2021-08-12 when the "blackout" started
It seems that in this three week period there were 88 downloads and 742 views on the threads. This time it's the GameCube taking the lead in number of downloads but very close to Wii, WiiU and PS2. The 3DS seems to have had less downloads though..........but I understand. The latest version is an Alpha with pretty big warnings around it that it's buggy and things are broken. Having people download them anyway gives me the impression they like to see how far I have got with the project. Keeps me motivated a lot....even though I can't seem to focus on things lately. Seeing these stats helps keep me going in this project!
When a new version is uploaded of my homebrew game I hope to catch a spike in views on both the threads and downloads. See which platform is more popular and such, hahahaha. Going purely on the stats above I would have to say the PS2 and WiiU are in the lead above all others. Ofcourse those are the new platforms I only added a few months ago....so that might have something to do with it. Anyway....here is the actual stats between today and 2021-08-12 when the "blackout" started
Code:
GBATemp stats
TimeA: 2021-09-03 12:00:58
TimeB: 2021-08-12 18:00:56
Threads:
BatteryCheck - WII 16648 (334)
BatteryCheck - GameCube 407 (23)
Batterycheck - 3DS 10130 (99)
BatteryCheck - PS2 3219 (125)
BatteryCheck - WiiU 5224 (143)
Batterycheck - PSP 3208 (18)
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38836 (742)
Files:
preview-batcheck-wii-v0.1.dol.zip 119 (3)
batterycheck-gc-preview-2.dol.zip 132 (5)
batterycheck-wii-preview-2.dol.zip 135 (2)
batterycheck-wii-preview-v0.3.zip 125 (6)
batterycheck-gc-preview-v0.3.zip 112 (5)
batterycheck-wii-v0.3.4-ALPHA.7z 21 (10)
batterycheck-gc-v0.3.4-ALPHA.7z 21 (11)
batterycheck-3ds-preview-2.3dsx.zip 213 (6)
bc_setup.3dsx.zip 80 (2)
batterycheck-3ds-installer-v0.3.zip 94 (4)
batterycheck-3ds-v0.3.4-ALPHA.7z 9 (1)
batterycheck-ps2-v0.3.2-ALPHA.elf.zip 44 (8)
batterycheck-ps2-v0.3.3-ALPHA.zip 39 (9)
batterycheck-ps2-v0.3.4-ALPHA.7z 37 (7)
batterycheck-wiiu-v0.3.6-ALPHA.7z 43 (9)
batterycheck.zip 29 (0)
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1253 (88)Now the statistics are working again I should really find some time to work on the actual game again! That has been a while actually....vacation times I guess. Hahaha
Well....I was ofcourse in the process of making YouTube video's...and along the way fixing a few bugs and errors that made things crash. I think I posted about it before.....but the Wii version now has background music too! Finally put the time in a few weeks ago to port the required libmikmod library and got it working! It's driver ain't perfect by any means....but it works and sounds great. Dolphin does not like it so much and it has a few frame skipping issues....but from what I remember that was not the case on the real hardware. Since the GameCube has nearly identical hardware it should also work on there....but memory might be an issue. Need to test it to know for sure I guess.Hopefully this weekend I might have a couple of hours to play with this stuff again. I really want to upload the gameplay video for the Wii as I already did for the PC Linux version here. Please keep in mind that my blogs are 80% meant for me to clear my thoughts and read back in a few months. If it does not make sense then I am sorry...but now you know the reason.
Thank you all!
