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Support / More XDCC Download tips.

« on: July 14, 2013, 07:11:01 am »

Some bots have their packlists on web pages. Two bots I use frequently are Cerebrate and Ginpachi-Sensei:




Sadly, another favorite - the web packlist for #NEWS - has been down for quite a while.

Anyway, the newest packs (files) can be found at the bottom of the list.




On the Cerebrate packlist, just hover over a filename and it will display the "/msg Cerebrate XDCC send nnnn" text. You can type that to get your file inside any Rizon IRC channel that hosts Cerebrate, like #Doki or #NEWS.

(The Cerebrate hover display also shows you the md5 and crc32 checksums in case you like to check either of those after downloading. I tried to screencap it but the popup goes away as soon as I hit Alt.)

The command you type is usually the same except for which bot you're messaging and the number at the end. Once you've had some experience with IRC/XDCC, you can just look at the left column for the pack number and you'll know to type: /msg [botname] xdcc send [pack number]

Even easier, clicking a filename on the Gin web packlist will give you a popup where you can just copy and paste the xdcc send /msg into your IRC client.



One bonus about the Ginpachi-Sensei bot is that you don't have to be connected to any specific channel. It will send from wherever in Rizon you are. Cerebrate requires that you be in one of the same IRC channels as the bot, otherwise you get the -Cerebrate- ** XDCC SEND denied, you must be on a known channel to request a pack error message.


Another tip is getting multiple files from a given bot: Say you've looked at the Gin packlist and you decide you want more than one file. Use the xdcc batch command rather than the xdcc send command and it will send you all the files you select, usually one by one. If you want a group of files in sequence it would be:
/msg Ginpachi-Sensei xdcc batch 5909-5914 for all the packs from 5909 to 5914.
If you just want specific files, separate the numbers with commas:
/msg Ginpachi-Sensei xdcc batch 5909,5911,5914

Each bot will usually have some limit set to the number of files you can batch up, often 5 or 10. Batch sends don't work on every bot, only if the owner has set it up. Most bots will only send one file at a time and have the rest queued up, but some will allow two or three simultaneous downloads at once.

Finally, if you won't be watching while your entire batch downloads, you probably want to turn on the Auto-Get feature. In mIRC it's in the Tools menu under Options, then in the DCC section:



Most of the time it is safest to leave the Show get dialog selected. However, the Auto-get is useful if you won't be there to say OK to each individual Get dialog box as your batch progresses.

Have fun.


*edit* Another thing I thought of: Say you're in a Rizon channel and you see a bot announce a new file release. It sounds interesting and you're curious what else is there. Most bots have a text file with their packlist as the very first pack. If you do a /msg [botname] xdcc send -1 that will usually send you the packlist that you can check out at your leisure.

You'll want to be sure mIRC is allowing .txt files: In the Options, DCC section, Ignore subsection look at the list to see which file types are accepted.



If .txt files aren't listed, enter a *.txt into the File type box and click Add.

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Support / XDCC Download tips.

« on: July 14, 2013, 04:13:03 am »

Say there is a show you want that Doki isn't subbing. A useful IRC channel on the Rizon server is #NEWS. You can find bots from many - if not most - fansub groups there.

Once you've connected to Rizon in your IRC client, /join #NEWS



(Every time a file is added to a bot in #NEWS, an announce message is posted which contains the exact string you need for the xdcc send. If you're in the channel already when the announce arrives for a file you want, you can just copy and paste. However, anything before you join the channel, you won't see.)

So, after a show has been released, find the CRC of the show/resolution you want, either from the group's website like the Doki example at the top of this thread, or from a torrent site.



Copy the 8 character CRC string and do an @find in the #NEWS channel using that string.



The brown text you get as a result shows all the bots in the channel that have the unique CRC text you searched for in the filename.
 


When you're choosing which bot to download from, note that some bots have minimum download speeds or bandwidth caps. I chose the A|FanserviceBot since there is no minimum speed and it doesn't look too swamped in the slots department.

Copy, paste and edit the appropriate text to start the XDCC send.



And off it goes.

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Anime / Re: Anime Download Sites

« on: July 14, 2013, 02:13:01 am »

We already have. Instructions are in the Support forum, in the How to - Download with XDCC thread.

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General / Re: Post your collection!

« on: July 01, 2013, 07:42:16 pm »

It's been years since I read A.I. Love You - I just re-read a little of the first volume. From what I remember it was a cute story. It was Ken Akamatsu's first big series and you can watch the art improve from beginning to end. Also it might be hard to suspend your disbelief that a sophisticated A.I. can run on a '90s PCs with floppy discs as the main storage. So yes, it has flaws but it's good.

It is true that a century is 100 years. However, this century - the 21st century - has only lasted about 13 years^[1] so far. Apparently my humor there failed to make it through.

[1] Oh my, I'd happily forgotten about the y2k and the "when does a century start - 2000 or 2001?" debates. So 12.5 years based on 2001, but some may still say it's been 13.5 years with 2000 as the century's start.

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General / Re: Post your collection!

« on: June 30, 2013, 03:22:02 pm »

True, but it's been accumulating for a long time: The anime & manga are the newest additions - only this century. It's been even longer for the graphic novels. Let alone all the books that have been stacking up for the last 25 years.

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General / Re: Post your collection!

« on: June 29, 2013, 11:37:35 pm »

I've been hesitant to post my collection for a while now, simply because many have been doing one pic per item. Taking, managing, uploading and posting a few hundred pics for all of my anime DVDs and manga would be too much of a pain to imagine, let alone do. So I'll stick to pics of the respective shelves with index listings.

First off, are my anime DVDs (mixed in with all the rest):



Next, are all the box sets (and a few forlorn VHS tapes at the bottom):



Now on to the books. First is the bookshelf (1 of 6) with my manga and graphic novels:

The manga section, double-stacked as usual:

The manga section with the front layer removed so you can see the back:

The index of what's there:


Oops, I missed the Witchblade manga 1-2 in my listing above (They're there in the pic underneath the Yotsuba&!). Also, I purged all the Ranma 1/2 and InuYasha manga last year, because things were overflowing badly. I finally have a little bit of shelf space again for continuing series.

And then there are the graphic novels, with a few of the tall Dark Horse manga mixed in.


Finally, no figurines for me: I prefer to use the money (and shelf space) for manga & GN binges.

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General / Re: Post your collection!

« on: June 28, 2013, 05:23:19 am »

1. Next time, resize the images on your home PC in some graphics program to ... say ... half the cellphone pic size - 972 x 1296 - before uploading, not online in imgur. Even MS Paint on Windoze 7 lets you resize 50% and save.

2. Here's your homework, take your entire old post into notepad or some text editing utility ...

Code: [Select]

replace ".jpg" with ".jpg[/img][/url]"

Code: [Select]

replace "http" with "[url=][img]http"

Code: [Select]

copy and paste each image url from between the new [img][/img] tags to after the = and before the ] inside the "[url=]" tag

Code: [Select]

replace ".jpg[/" with "l.jpg[/" and that only changes the url inside the [img][/img] tagsThat's what I did (with a little habitual editing), and you get what you're after.

Edit: well, don't need the quote anymore since you've edited the post above.

So there you go. I don't know where your scroll bars are disappearing to, they automatically showed up when I tested it and left one of your images large in the preview. Perhaps it's your browser? You could make a template in notepad of many lines of

Code: [Select]

[url=][img][/img][/url]to just copy and paste image links into for your next collection update, then just remember to add the lowercase L before the second .jpg of each line.

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General / Re: Post your collection!

« on: June 19, 2013, 06:55:35 am »

I'd like to post pictures ... but Imageshack really sucks...Can any of you tell me of a good place to upload pictures that is free to use? ... How do you guys get your images to show up the way they do in this thread, with bars that allow you to scroll to see the whole picture, if the picture is big? ...

I've used imgur for my posts. I have the images sized large, but not extreme on my system. When you upload a pic, it will give you BBCode like:

Code: [Select]

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/PhqAJ.jpg[/IMG]The big pic will automatically generate the scrollbars when linked in a post.

However, I like to have a smaller version - not a thumbnail, 640 wide or so - that is a clickable link to the big image. Just add a lower case l before the ".jpg" in the image url for the small version. Like this:

Code: [Select]

[url=http://i.imgur.com/PhqAJ.jpg][img]http://i.imgur.com/PhqAJl.jpg[/img][/url]

Hope that helps.

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Anime / Re: The Season So Far...

« on: May 01, 2013, 07:31:55 am »

This is a rather light season for me

Good:
Hataraku Maou-sama is keeping me entertained. It's balancing the day to day comedy well with the ongoing demon world plotline.
Hentai Ouji to Warawanai Neko isn't quite worth all of the hype, but it is funny and building up more depth in the characters. The character design is a little too moe for me.
Suisei no Gargantia is well balanced between the mech and character interaction. It does a good job with the contrast between a total military mentality and a more down to Earth (heh) nature.
Yahari - the cynical humor is keeping this one fun for me. It has similarities to the Haganai and Chuu2Koi plots but is a show of its own.

So-so:
Date a Live - harem rom-com, I wasn't planning to watch it but got curious and marathoned the first four eps. It's interesting in a good enough way.
Namiguchiwa no Muromi-san - goofy half-length episode mermaid comedy. Amusing.
Photokano has all the similarities (with good reason) to Amagami, but seems to be going the harem route. The main character started out nice, but is becoming more of an ass as the show progresses.
Red Data Girl - beautiful backgrounds, so-so story.
Shingeki no Kyoujin - Krozam is right. It does reek of despair. Right above the drop line for me.
Sparrow's Hotel - amusing three minute show, ninja-trained bouncy bellhop.

Continuations of past shows and seasons:
Chihayafuru 2 - this had a great pace last season, but has recently switched to Bleach mode with multiple episodes per fight match.
Game of Thrones - waiting until I have all ten to consume at once.
Haiyore! Nyaruko-san W - still offbeat and hilarious, great fun.
Hayate no Gotoku! s4: Cuties - meh, just for completionism.
Hyakka Rouran Samurai Bride - fan-service heavy harem comedy much like the first season. Watch and delete.
Ore no Imouto S2 - it's been doing a good job of filling in backstories of the side characters while keeping the plot moving. Moe as ever, but not overwhelmingly so like HenNeko.
Railgun S is building up well with all the comedy of the first season. The little details you might miss at first glance remain important for the continuing story.
Uchuu Kyoudai keeps chugging along.

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Requests / Search Tips - Read this second.

« on: April 02, 2013, 04:16:06 am »

Here are some search tools and sites that might resolve many of your requests:

Looking for an anime?
   Google part of the title with the word "BakaBT " in front. (If you're a member there, you can browse and search on the site, otherwise, use the google trick to get to their torrents.) I generally use this for completed series. If the show has been licensed then you won't have any luck, but it's worth a try.
   With newer anime you can search at NyaaTorrents. Choose the type of file you're looking for from the drop-down menu at the top. Start general then get more specific on later searches over in the search box.
   If you use IRC and XDCC then you can try an @find in #NEWS. I think that's the channel on Rizon with the most bots.

Looking for Manga?
   Torrents for many completed manga scanlations can also be found on BakaBT. Use the same google trick I mention above, but just use the word "Baka ": This will give you both the BakaBT links (if they exist) as well as the BakaUpdates manga info page, where you can follow links to scanlators, their websites and IRC pages (if you do XDCC). Note: Many scanlators' IRC channels are on IRCHighway rather than Rizon.

Looking for J-pop?
   Try searches on the following sites: http://jishaku.net/, http://nipponsei.minglong.org/tracker or http://www.nyaa.eu/.

Tokyo Toshokan is another torrent option for all of the above.

What other tricks and tools have you all picked up? I'm sure there are many sites I've missed.

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Requests / From I''s OVA

« on: April 02, 2013, 04:01:01 am »

That was an easy one. I found a couple torrent options and even the manga.

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Requests / Re: Scandal Albums

« on: March 26, 2013, 03:53:28 pm »

My first thought was also "Who's Scandal?"

I think this NyaaTorrents search is what you're looking for: The album Encore Show has 27 seeds at the moment and Queens are Trumps has 7. There's also their first album and a discography of singles with 3 seeds each.

I didn't see how many seeds were on Jishaku Toshokan but there were many possibilities there as well. I found some singles and the album Temptation Box on the Pirate Bay with few seeds. There were a couple singles with more seeds on Nipponsei, but still single digits and no albums.

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General / Re: Artist - Fujiwara

« on: January 26, 2013, 03:38:42 am »

As always, another beautiful pic.

Although, after staring at the image for a while the umbrella triggered a reality check. It must be heavy as hell! <geek> So much so that I had to make an estimate: 44 spines in the umbrella. Say 6 glass knickknacks per spine. I weighed a shot glass for a mass idea per knickknack - 3.5 oz (0.1 Kg). Add a couple pounds for the rest of the umbrella and the thing must be about 60 pounds (27 Kg). Probably over half of her mass^[1], and she's carrying it one-handed! </geek> 

Damn! She's strong for a skinny girl.^[2] 

1. Scary, I actually googled "average mass of a japanese girl" ... heh.
2. Yeah, yeah, artistic license, probable magic, maybe the knickknacks aren't glass ... but still ...

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Games / Re: Hangman~

« on: January 20, 2013, 02:12:13 am »

A _ I _ _ _ _ / R _ _ R _ _ _

Strikes (5): H, K, M, S, T
Vowels used: 2/3
Guesses used: 0/3

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Games / Re: Hangman~

« on: January 16, 2013, 08:08:55 am »

Yes, there's Rs.

A _ I _ _ _ _ / R _ _ R _ _ _

Strikes (4): H, K, M, S
Vowels used: 2/3
Guesses used: 0/3