New P2P on the block: Perfect Dark

[Onniguru]

Originally Posted by Dnous

Not sure if it's allowed to post those sites here. Anyway, check your PM >_>;.

Thanks. Yeah, PM is the way to go, for these kinds of sites

Thanks stark, as well...although for one of those sites I'm glad I made sure my browser security settings were set pretty high.

[Starks]

Originally Posted by erusupaasu

Share works perfectly fine in Vista.

Heh, I recently figured that out too... Share didn't work with some beta builds of Longhorn/Vista.

[Dnous]

... you do know that's just plain stupid? Saying something doesn't work because it didn't work on a beta. Do some research before you're gonna reply =.=.

[Twice Twisted]

I tried last version, which are still marked as "testing" and I don't know how to use it. I tried use it like Winny or Share, but no result :-(

[Koroku]

My Winny nodelist is about 2 years old now... I need to get a good up to date one.

PD... doesn't seem to... appeal to me much. *kicks it*

[Starks]

Originally Posted by JKaizer

My Winny nodelist is about 2 years old now... I need to get a good up to date one.

PD... doesn't seem to... appeal to me much. *kicks it*

A good nodelist updates itself doesn't it?

[Dnous]

Well, I only know one site where they now post new nodes. I'll PM you the link.

[Potatochobit]

I started playing with perfect dark it seems ok format. I like how the top and bottom screen can be switched around at any time.

the font is pretty small though. and CPU usage might be high on older computers.

is the nodes list really updating itself or was that a joke?

[TheFluff]

Uh. The point of Share, Winny and (presumably) Perfect Dark is that they are all true peer-to-peer networks with no central controlling server (like, for example, a BT tracker). The list of nodes is just a list of other peers in the network. Once you are connected to just one peer/node to start off with, the client will get lists of other peers/nodes/whatever to connect to from that peer. Hence you only really need the online nodelist once; the first time you set up the program, so it can "bootstrap" itself into the network. To compare with BT: every client is also a tracker. If the client didn't exchange network info with other clients, you'd have Direct Connect except with no hubs, no file lists and no usernames, only hashes. Which would be kinda useless.

tl;dr: you only need the nodelist to get in contact with someone who's already connected to the network; once you are connected to one node, your client will automagically find and connect to others.

[Sylf]

<--- case in point

I haven't touched my nodelist file in couple of years, and I'm still going strong on both winny and share. PD should be the same way too.

[Potatochobit]

I have decided JP P2P is a bit mentally impaired.

I don't like having numerous incomplete files being stuck in my download folder for days on end. I just want one complete file, and that's it.

[TheFluff]

No, it's not mentally impaired, it's actually a quite ingenious way to have a distributed network with millions of users and billions of files without any central coordination whatsoever.

[jpwong]

Originally Posted by Potatochobit

I have decided JP P2P is a bit mentally impaired.

I don't like having numerous incomplete files being stuck in my download folder for days on end. I just want one complete file, and that's it.

It's the way their network works, you can have partial files for months before you complete it in some cases. If you need complete files on a timeline, you'd probably be better off looking for a BT or DD of the said files.

I find it's only really a pressing issue if you have hard drive limitations

[Fatsobob]

Since I cannot understand the Japanese language and I hate memorizing layouts, is there any information/hope of a sort of localization for PD like Share had? A yes or a no will do.

[silverado]

You can find a Perfect Dark tutorial on jCafe. It's quite reliable in finding manga raws. All my downloads are often finished after a few hours. (Can't say that from Winny or Share). Regular software updates and less fake results contribute to the overall positive feeling of Perfect Dark.

[Skyward]

Originally Posted by Fatsobob

Since I cannot understand the Japanese language and I hate memorizing layouts, is there any information/hope of a sort of localization for PD like Share had? A yes or a no will do.

As of right now, Perfect Dark has the localization hard coded the same way WinNY does. Maybe in a future version, there will be a localization file, but I wouldn't count on it.

[Potatochobit]

are files being downloaded automatically show up in query results available for share among other users like torrents?

I noticed in SHARE ex2 that the cache folder is seperate from the upload folder. I wasn't sure if people had access to that immediately in perfect dark.

[Skyward]

Originally Posted by Potatochobit

are files being downloaded automatically show up in query results available for share among other users like torrents?

I noticed in SHARE ex2 that the cache folder is seperate from the upload folder. I wasn't sure if people had access to that immediately in perfect dark.

Perfect Dark's cache folder is the "Unity" folder in your PD directory, though I have no idea how the network behaves regarding partial downloads. I believe that files are added manually in perfect dark rather than dumping them in an upload folder like share and winny. However i'm not sure because I haven't tried uploading anything to the network yet.

[Starks]

Originally Posted by silverado

You can find a Perfect Dark tutorial on jCafe. It's quite reliable in finding manga raws. All my downloads are often finished after a few hours. (Can't say that from Winny or Share). Regular software updates and less fake results contribute to the overall positive feeling of Perfect Dark.

PD and its users are a bit slower on the draw for new releases... I can get them much earlier on Winny and Share still.

Originally Posted by Skyward

As of right now, Perfect Dark as the localization hard coded the same way WinNY does. Maybe in a future version, there will be a localization file, but I wouldn't count on it.

It can probably be resource hacked in a matter similar to Winny b6.6...

At any rate, we should ask in the PD mission threads on 2ch.net. Kaichou (PD dev) lurks around there.

[Starks]

Okay guys... Massive discovery.

As I posited, Perfect Dark can be resource hacked rather easily. (I used XN Resource Editor on perfect dark.exe)

Things I was able to change.

*Fonts
*Font size
*Languages
*Icons
*Dialogs