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j.raido 【雷堂嬢太朗】 (100538) on 8/12/2009 4:37 AM · Permalink · Report
This has happened to me a few times intermittently in the last few days, but sometimes when I go to a game with multiple platforms and try to view a specific one. Example: Gunstar Heroes.
Dunno if this is happening for everyone, but if I click on Game Gear, Wii, or Xbox 360 for the platform it shows up fine, but if I click on Genesis then it just sends me back to the main page for the game, rather than the Genesis-specific page. Which means the credits aren't viewable.
I've had it happen a couple other times but chalked it up to a database hitch...this happening to anyone else?
Zeppin (8407) on 8/12/2009 4:41 AM · Permalink · Report
I tried the Gunstar Heroes entry and I couldn't get into the Genesis page, either. I had the same issue. I tried accessing the credits via the Rap Sheet bar to the left but while it listed them as being on-file clicking on them simply sent you back to the general credits page, asking you to again select a platform.
j.raido 【雷堂嬢太朗】 (100538) on 8/12/2009 9:59 AM · Permalink · Report
I've just found that this is happening to any game that has both Genesis and Wii as platforms, and it's always Genesis that is inaccessible. Checked a half-dozen games and they all did the same thing...
I'm finding myself wondering about the technical side of a problem like this. =|
Brian Hirt (10407) on 8/13/2009 4:04 PM · Permalink · Report
I've located the bug and working on a fix. The problem was created by the new game that was added to the system called 'Genesis' a few days ago. The URL rewriting system didn't expect there to be both a platform name called genesis and a game called genesis. MobyGames is extremely confused and It's pretty much creating havoc for any game that exists for the genesis platform.
I expect to have something out shortly.
Sciere (930960) on 8/13/2009 5:19 PM · edited · Permalink · Report
That's really odd, I'm glad you could locate it.
It made me think of Bobby Tables.
Brian Hirt (10407) on 8/13/2009 6:47 PM · Permalink · Report
It is working now.
lol, at least the inputs were sanitized, just some stupid assumption i made that game name != platform name turned out to not be true 9 years later....
Anyway, I had to really dig deep into the internals of how the requests get parsed and make some pretty serious changes. I don't think there are any side effects, and I put the changes through some pretty good testing. However, if you notice something weird elsewhere in the system with a request not really giving the page you expect, let me know.
j.raido 【雷堂嬢太朗】 (100538) on 8/13/2009 8:21 PM · Permalink · Report
Awesome, thanks for the fix and the detailed explanation of what was going on. :)
Sciere (930960) on 8/14/2009 11:04 AM · edited · Permalink · Report
I don't know if it's related, but I just approved the credits for
It says:
There are no credits for the PlayStation 3 release of this game.
The following releases of this game have credits associated with them:
But nothing happens when you click that link.
Kabushi (261495) on 8/14/2009 12:15 PM · Permalink · Report
This happens with some other games too: Alpha Storm
Sciere (930960) on 8/14/2009 3:14 PM · edited · Permalink · Report
The Killzone ones show fine now, but those of Alpha Storm are still broken. From Brian:
It's a problem with caching, I'm working on getting something out. Once I get the fix out new ones won't have the problem, and old ones will clear up in the next 12-20 hours
Let me know if there any broken listings left after two days...
j.raido 【雷堂嬢太朗】 (100538) on 8/15/2009 5:21 AM · Permalink · Report
I hope this didn't open up a can of worms here. Probably not related, but I just had a company vanish on me: Kogado Software Products is showing up on searches and in game profiles but can't be directly viewed. I submitted an alternate name, then when I went to add some history I got an error message.
Sciere (930960) on 8/15/2009 9:48 AM · Permalink · Report
I've notified Brian of these problems. It seems the rewriting system isn't fully working. I had a problem myself when I tried to rename a Genesis game. It first automatically changed the title to "Genesis". After a second try it was stored properly but now the game cannot be viewed anymore, just like those other examples.
I'll keep you updated.
Brian Hirt (10407) on 8/17/2009 2:28 PM · Permalink · Report
Gah.
I'm still looking into this. It looks like some problem with caching of the rewriting rules. I manually flushed the cache and all links in this thread are now working. I checked the database, and everything has the proper data in it. So the good news is that this should be easy to fix, and I wont have to go back and manually fix the recently approved items.
I'll let you know when I get this fixed. In the mean time I'll make sure to keep flushing the cache every few hours or so to help minimize the problem.
Brian Hirt (10407) on 8/17/2009 3:30 PM · Permalink · Report
I just put out a fix and updated the news item on the home page. I haven't getting ahold of Sciere yet, but I don't see any reason to keep approvals on hold now.
