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Re: Ok if anyone else wants to try those scores - EXPERIMENTAL !

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Yeah, the level 1 thing is just the old profile scores being uploaded as I've just done the same thing myself, evidently without the level field in place so it defaults to 1?

Not a biggy, I'll knock my old score down proper tomorrow once I've got a few more unlocks back so it at least looks fair :D
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Did something change in the save files between the bugged version and the latest fixed version (the version prior to the online high scores version)? If so, then that might be a good way to identify which scores would be invalid (scores achieved where the boost exceeded 250). If something did change, then you'd have to wipe their local and online high scores. The trouble is, you still don't catch bogus scores that someone obtained in the first bugged version, who then downloaded the fixed version before installing the online high scores version...

The only way to be 100% sure is to have a new save file (that is incompatible with the older versions) with a new exe and wipe everyones local and online high scores. This way you stop people using the old version to get bogus scores then uploading with the new version. I can't be 100% sure that all my scores are 100% legitimate, as I'm sure is the case with other people. I never even paid much attention to the boost counter for the first week or so...
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OK, we definitely have a bugged score upload here:

Rank: 1 - Nickname: Zeether - LeveL: 1 - Score: 165,474,927

http://www.llamasoft.co.uk/lsscore/lsta ... =1&start=0

There's no way that score is possible on a Korma run-through without using the old bugged version.
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Yeah, that is my bugged score. It's fine if it gets wiped, I'll install the fixed version.
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You'll have to delete your save files too, otherwise it will just get uploaded again if it gets removed from the online table.
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I deleted my saves and for some reason the bugged score still shows up on local scores as well as my older scores...
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It looks like a bug here, I have score nr 33 on Korma as "tinomen" but for some reason it gets highlighted as nr 35 for user "Fetthesten". This both in-game and on the webpage.
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_TinOmen_ wrote:It looks like a bug here, I have score nr 33 on Korma as "tinomen" but for some reason it gets highlighted as nr 35 for user "Fetthesten". This both in-game and on the webpage.
I had a similar problem after upgrading. Achieving new high scores appear to fix it on a per-game-mode basis.
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_TinOmen_ wrote:It looks like a bug here, I have score nr 33 on Korma as "tinomen" but for some reason it gets highlighted as nr 35 for user "Fetthesten". This both in-game and on the webpage.
This is a know bug I am investigating, thankfully is not in the .exe itself but somewhere in the computations I do on the
PHP side to get that index.

I still have to figure out why the queries/mechanism I use sometime seems to return a +1 than where it should be.

But being Xmas and all I delayed that debug session for when I'll be less amoeba.

That it reflects both in the webpage and the program is "correct" because it's the server returning back that "highlight index"
not the program, the program just uses it to highlight the position.
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Another (minor) issue with the online tables - on the Endurance table, there are 20 entries, and the Next link is displayed, but when you click on it, you get a "EMPTY SCORE TABLE" message.
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