Update of levelbase needed for sector 243 pt2

Last week, Daniel, the author of the Sector 243 levels and walkers' revenge contacted me regarding the comments I'd made about his levels. He'd redesigned Sector 243, but in addition to changing sky in some levels and adding a very cool and quite unique ending stage, he had in fact followed my suggestion of evening out the enemy destribution a bit.

When I asked where to download this, he revealed it was already on the levelbase, and sure enough, when I deleted the current copy of Sector 243 part 2 complete and downloaded again, I got the new levels, ----- well at least I did when I separated the newer copy of the part 2.1 folder that was inside the zipped folder i downloaded to my bonus directory, sinse Tstarter wouldn't work otherwise.

I suggested to Daniel that he contact whoever is in charge of the levelbase to have the updates made and recognized, but he doesn't seemed to have got around to it, so I'm mentioning it now.

From what I've seen the new 2.1 version is very superior in it's difficulty and has an extremely cool design for it's last stage.

i'm not sure whether the old version should be replaced or just updated, but either way it would really help let people (and more importantly the tstarter program), know about the changes if the dates on the levelbase were updated, and maybe the folder structure changed to make it work better with tstarter.

I appologise if Daniel's already discussed this privately with Bronko, Robert or anyone else around the Turrican community, but just in case he hadn't, I thought I'd let people know, ---- sinse the changes are cool, and more and better Turrican levels to play are always welcome.

Well, what I'm interested in is what went wrong with the T Starter, as the auto-update worked for me. Do you use the current version?

Maybe the fix for "Flügelwalker" broke T Starter...

It was the standard version of Tstarter 2.7 running on windows xp. I was using. As I said, I think the reason it had the trouble is that instead of just having one zip folder with the gfx, lvl, music and other T2002 level pack folders zipped inside it, Daniel stuck all the level's folders into a sector 243 2.1 folder, then in turn put that into a sector 243 part two complete.zip folder.

Once I separated the 2.1 folder and zipped it, Tstarter was fine, indeed now I have two copies of sector 243, the part two complete and part 2.1, not that that is really a problem.

No, that's for sure not the reason, T Starter compares the actual contents of the archives online and on your hard disk and if it find's just one difference it adds it to the download list. And as I said it worked for me. There was a very short period of time when a broken version was online which included needless files with umlauts (Flügelwalker like Bronko said), mabye you just tried in that period.

Tstarter downloaded the levelpack fine, it just wouldn't run it directly for some reason, not until I fixed the folder structure, which was odd.

Either way, it might be good to update the levelbase dates to let people know the pack has received an update, the way Bronko's under earth levels got their dates and descriptions changed when he updated those back in I believe 2009.

Ah, that helped, thank you. Daniel told us it was a download problem, but it wasn't after all. Actually just a problem with the compression and the zip lib I used, just recompressing the archive solved the problem.
Fixed that, moved all files to root, so T Starter finds a difference, recompressed it and upped the new archive.