Hacking wiiboxart.com poorly?

[testic-cancer]

Seems everyone is taking money from piracy these days. The kids selling dvd-rs in school, the fella at the car boot sale with his £1.50 dvd-rs, people who simply host a few covers.

If only nintendo could get some of that cash...

 

[IrishStyle]

and if you use google you find some other resources only for wii like this page f.e. http://www.teambadattitude.co.uk/art/wii/0001.htm.

Wow ! you can download the covers there for free , one at a time ... erm like wiiboxart.com
and then you can manually resize them all ... not like wiiboxart.com

also , that link is in the FAQ on wiiboxart.com

The sizes of the cover images at your site that you can download for free are 160x225.....1 Pixel larger than Usb loader with coverflow recognizes

.....So they do in fact have to be resized but I am sure the paid download sizes are the correct 160x224 LOL

 

[ridgecity]

well, I don't know about people selling dvdrs but the whole point of gbatemp is backups of what you already own, not piracy.

I own about 40 games by the way. They are kind of expensive but so is going to the movies or eating out. The main thing about using a hard drive is so your wii doesn't weear out as fast and scratching disks since a ton of people here have kids and don't like buying games and movies again.

As the name says "BACKUPS", of course any extra functionality like will always have the problem of pirates trying to take advantage. The pirates will even try to sell you homebrew software, it's really up to you how you use it.

 

[ToneEQ]

and if you use google you find some other resources only for wii like this page f.e. http://www.teambadattitude.co.uk/art/wii/0001.htm.

Wow ! you can download the covers there for free , one at a time ... erm like wiiboxart.com
and then you can manually resize them all ... not like wiiboxart.com

also , that link is in the FAQ on wiiboxart.com

The sizes of the cover images at your site that you can download for free are 160x225.....1 Pixel larger than Usb loader with coverflow recognizes

.....So they do in fact have to be resized but I am sure the paid download sizes are the correct 160x224 LOL

Ermm, you can _still_ download covers from the site, one by one, whatever size you want?! I just did it for Resident Evil Archives. Go to the site, select your region, type 160 and 224 in the boxes and click "Change Image Size". Scroll to find the cover you want, right-click on the corresponding icon and select "Save Target As" or "Save Link As", job done!

You don't need to pay to resize them one by one. If you want them all or more than one at a time then you have to pay.

 

[hdhacker]

8000 gigs is excellent

who are u with ? i may move the site there and get my own hosting with them.
The main problem now is the server resources and not bandwidth any more - seemingly the resizing is killing the server (which i can understand to be honest) so im trying to find ways around that - the main culprit was the large covers , so i just made a zip of them all instead for anyone wanting more than 200 covers.

Dreamhost. They actually claim unlimited B/W now. I don't know if I'm eligible, but I guess I am. Anyway, it's $9.95 a month if you sign up for a year and less if you sign up for longer.

There are other hosts I can recommend. Let me know if you are interested.

To help the server resources, perhaps it would help if you cached the results? Is sisk space an issue? if not, just store the results in a cache. Before you attempt to resize, check if it's in the cache. No CPU at all and faster response.

 

[dexter222]

Jesus Christ... (I'm not jesus christ, I'm just saying jesus christ, lol)

Careful! He'll sue you for copyright infringement!

QUOTE(djtaz @ Jun 29 2009, 05:33 PM) 8000 gigs is excellent

who are u with ? i may move the site there and get my own hosting with them.
The main problem now is the server resources and not bandwidth any more - seemingly the resizing is killing the server (which i can understand to be honest) so im trying to find ways around that - the main culprit was the large covers , so i just made a zip of them all instead for anyone wanting more than 200 covers.

Dreamhost. They actually claim unlimited B/W now. I don't know if I'm eligible, but I guess I am. Anyway, it's $9.95 a month if you sign up for a year and less if you sign up for longer.

There are other hosts I can recommend. Let me know if you are interested.

To help the server resources, perhaps it would help if you cached the results? Is sisk space an issue? if not, just store the results in a cache. Before you attempt to resize, check if it's in the cache. No CPU at all and faster response.

I have a similar host - hosthi.com - Monthly Bandwidth Transfer 1798.61/8000000 MB - Disk Space Usage 1463.06/800000 MB - even though they claim to be unlimited if you read the ToS it says basically "unlimited unless you use it" - but what do you expect for $36USD/year including domain name lol

But I agree about resizing the files - it's a HUGE waste of CPU time and is likely going to piss off what ever provider you use. Simply pick the sizes needed and store them in their own directory then access them accordingly. I think I made a comment about it in another topic, something about reinventing the wheel... 20,000 times a day

 

[harsh.realm]

I just find it convenient that Cover Flow Loader gets the images for you, I'm always adding a few games here and there and really don't want to spend the time looking for the images. C'mon it's only 1 Euro, if you don't want to pay it, hey it's ultimately up to you. Same goes as to buying the actual games.

 

[ChronosWing]

and if you use google you find some other resources only for wii like this page f.e. http://www.teambadattitude.co.uk/art/wii/0001.htm.

Wow ! you can download the covers there for free , one at a time ... erm like wiiboxart.com
and then you can manually resize them all ... not like wiiboxart.com

also , that link is in the FAQ on wiiboxart.com

The sizes of the cover images at your site that you can download for free are 160x225.....1 Pixel larger than Usb loader with coverflow recognizes

.....So they do in fact have to be resized but I am sure the paid download sizes are the correct 160x224 LOL

/face meet palm

And if you took the time to read, like I said in my last post some people just lack reading comprehension, you would of seen the nice box at the top that asks you what size covers you want, the default just happens to be 160x225 but you can change it to just about any value you choose.

 

[bengalih]

Download Covers

 

[nIxx]

I don´t wanted to write something and honestly i understand you problems about the bandwidth (even if you should known before) but i still think nobody should pay for this especially since here enough people who are willing to host the images too.
Since the loaders only downloading the missing images they shouldn´t make so much traffic at all ( at least it´s what i´m thinking). And everyone should really keep in mind that the images are most of the time uploaded and created from other users what makes this even more worse, a few days ago it was free work from many community members but now this cost money (yeah unless you download every picture manually) !?
I really can´t support this sorry and i find it really sad that this all is happening.

What i basically want to say is that i think there must be another solution and i really would like to see a bit more communication especially when other people offer you help with a server.

PS: This only my opinion

 

[alucard77]

He is just trying to make a profit, but doesn't have the balls to say it.

He doesn't need help, he just realizes that page views = $$$. He also realizes that if everyone who download gave $1, then he would make money.

If 1TB is being downloaded, you gotta do the math on the number of people hitting the site. There must be at least 10,000 people hitting his site for this stuff. You do the math on how much profit he is making. I see 2 ads served on every page.

At least have the balls to say that your in it for the money.

 

[bluescreen81]

dont need to discuss this anymore, nearto all loaders are looking to setup their own hosts...

 

[djtaz]

Excellent - wiiboxart is closed - ive had enough

 

[Hooya]

And a big thank you to all the people that "donated" - you just paid for his summer vacation.

(it's a snarky joke, he probably didn't get all that much money, but you never know)

 

[bluescreen81]

well taz the function to download covers by myself or in a rar pack would be still nice !

no need to close it.

 

[rustybanana]

Fair comment. There are always a few wankers who fuck it all up for everyone else.

 

[djtaz]

well taz the function to download covers by myself or in a rar pack would be still nice !

no need to close it.

Too much abuse - lifes too short.

Im not stressing myself trying to give out free covers and constantly being questions about the members section.

 

[rustybanana]

I think its about time this thread was closed. It started with a simple question and has now escalated and taken a turn for the worse.

 

[alucard77]

Great, and I guess your giving back donations as well.

 

[djtaz]

Whats left is going to charity - i cant give back what i spent upgrading bandwidth