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When the game is on flash i also check
https://flashpointarchive.org/
but haven't found TijdTripper
(now i'm downloading the Ultimate version, but needs a lot of time....a lot....)

From ITCH comes
cosmo's trinket hunt
that could be categorized as joke since it lasts one click only

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Purpose : Retired
stating from the itch page, it's a short P&C adv, to be finished in few minutes

Edits
Zombie Train Beyond Earth: Episode 2
(the episode 1 is done with another engine)

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From the author of The Beekeper comes 2 little game about Holmes' brother Mycroft
MYCROFT HOLMES SIMULATOR 1895
MYCROFT HOLMES SIMULATOR 1895 ExEd
I've searched the forum, but strangely enough they aren't advertised in the Beekeper thread
as always not played, i leave the joy to others

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(Hi heltenjon: after pressing post i got the error that another post was published just in the meantime, and i got asked if i wanted to change my text....should we rub our noses?
I'll check immediately your games, chmelnica sounds familiar)

EDIT:
found this in the forum
The Spirit of Christmas
and searching the web this one
Yahoo Groups Metadata Collection
but sadly the group nominated by the author doesn't seems to be on the list

Never thought there was more than just pushing the button in Memochi

(I've spent 10min of my life pushing and writing)

I forgot to link these ones
deep lake mall
Senpai Getaway
drawn to the flame
Sorry but I had some problem checking the site if they are already in the forum

For this one no problem in searching
TijdTripper
This is a 2010 AGS prototype of a later flash game

For Spia: yes, judging by the itch page, the project is on hold (by 2016    )

I'm downloading it!
sharing the experiences, i'm using the itch.io client, that really is time saving for my standard operations
I put here the 'detailed' version of the commands i use for downloading a game from the page

1) When loading a page i use the network tab, under the developer tools, to check all the files that are loaded
Not always all the files needed by a game are fetched in one row, in those case i need to play the game as much as i can to be sure all the files are loaded
For Unity games, on itch for example, generally the only need 10 files or less, and they are all downloaded in one step
On edge and chrome I've found that it's possible to "Copy all for cURL (cmd)", that allow me to get all the addresses of all the files loaded
This is good for many files, if few i download them manually, creating the necessary forlders. The path is is visible on the network tab

2) With an excel file i can manage the addresses, creating the command lines for cURL, by formulas

3) copy and paste all the formulas in a .cmd file, that is some kind of .bat (never checked exactly the differences)

4) the cURL start downloading the files on the list, creating the needed folders

5) the index.html is downloaded via cURL. using the host emulator, that I've searched and found on itch itself (really i doesn't remembered that)
https://uusoft.itch.io/unity-webgl-local-hoster
i can load the index.html file and, let's say 99/100, the game start

All by hand, but i find myself confident that this method may be used on any system (except for the emulator)


cURL is like wGET on linux, but for what I've understood, less powerful: it may be defined like a manual download manager 
Again, i'm not a tech, and i'm sure that cURL may be used with best result, for instance by downloading all the files from a path (i use cURL because, once, a tech friend showed me how to use it when i needed to get files from a wayback machine page)
Another program i use, not often, is HTTrack Website Copier, it's like the old teleport pro (for those who know it), but generally i don't get much luck downloading sites

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Hi all

Spia

Again from Itch.io

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the list of extensions the download manager is set to look for

I understand that your download manager is integrated with the browser, to check the extensions that are downloaded by a page.
I don't use download manager much, in the meaning i don't check how they may really help me, i just put the links in the list and use them as a helper to recover downloads from one session to another, so this is quite new. I've checked Free Download Manager, that i use not integrated with the browser, and I'm not sure that it has something similar to yours.
Which DM do you use?

Must check that also.....for a lazy person like me it's gold!!!
..................
done....works just fine, not for all games, but not sure why
after installed the game, i may use the host emulator to play the game without the itch client!

it sure save me from a lot of manual operations!

Hi all
well, i was a bit worried talking about the techniques that one may use to download such games.
I mean, if the author is uploading a game only online, is it "honest" to download it anyway, or at least is it honest to share the technique or the game?
So, after this preface, since we are in argument
@LimpingFish: i should try your method, i think it's simpler than mine, for AGS games

1) I download all the files from the page, html included
I check all the files that are being downloaded by the page, while loading the game
(in ITCH, for example, all the games are identified by an index folder, so in the downloaded files list, i can filter only the files of the game, discarding the other that are loaded by the page)

2)than i use a local hoster, some kind of emulator of a host, that makes the game believe it's running on the server
This is working for most of the games that haven't a download link (not only ags, but unity and so on)

if the amount of files is large (lets say more than 20), i use the option to copy all the links. Edge have an option to copy all of them to be used with a command line (under windows)
I've an excel file that, with some formulas, generate the command lines to be used within a batch file.
Then i run it, wait for the files to be downloaded, use the host emulator, check if the network tab is giving any error (404 error, or similar), if all is ok i'm adequately sure that the game is fully downloaded

P.S.: the host emulator is free and i don't think it's against any law

Spoiler

taken by the fear that certain things actually cannot be written, and considering that LimpingFish also remained vague, I modified the message to eliminate direct references to software or commands

[close]

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Falling Skywards now has a permanent home here.

At last!
Thanks for the link

And here another one
Annie Londonderry

Still on Itch

Smasher
(i've searched the forum, but haven't found it, still i think it could be somewhere...)

Hey, nice to see others are still reading this thread: i was a bit worried about the number of edits i've made on my previous post (just to not double posting  )

Still on ITCH.IO
Bloody Scream
Sweet Nightmares
Get Some Sleep or You'll Die!

Edit
America 2000
New City
Tomten

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Hi all
have found this thread only today, and my bad i haven't think about, despite the interest that the forum have about the games already in DB and not

For each game i searched the entire forum for any posts:
Desert Miner
boite, La
City That Drowned, The
Fixer
Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat, The
Prodigal
Bruises
Vexation Island The Game
Wormhole - Ch.1 - Remake
Animal Agency
Escape the brothel
Monkey Island 4 Testprojekt - It's a post from 2016, but the download link is still functional
Putt-Putt Saves The Stew
Driftwalker
Zap and Andy
Color me bad - I've contacted the author, KarjaJr, using an old email address from 2010 and a PM on AGS forum
Best Buddies In : Corporate Espionage
Kidnapper Escape - room escape
Kubik - hand drawn isometric puzzle
Wulffenstein – Das Adventure für Zurückgetretene - should be a joke i think, just select a dialogue. There's a link to a page where download it
Mission Zukunftia
geiger-counter – Ivans Adventure - download no more available, i've contacted the author via Adventure-treff forum
Jenseits von Traum und Zeit
Shards of Gods
Beep Boop
Magenta: IN SPACE
Leisure Suit Larry 3 Point and Click Remake
O Jardim das Fadas
Noir Bois: The Prequel Prelude Saga
Scratching Away
Murder on the starlight express
Les archives de l'insondable
Waiting For Your Boyfriend Simulator
A crow cawled raven
America 2000
Weeping Lilium
The last no vax
Fuori ora
The Misadventures of Patches the Spazcat
The Blob Game
Splurt in wasted town
Bunny's Night Out
Ael
Escaped
Escaped 2
Buddiest Universe - Day Off
The greatest story ever told
Elvves
Dream Diary Quest
Slick Adventures
Joke Quest
ziggy shorts :the milkshake of doom
Raastaja
Raataja
Neon Wilderness
Plastic Mines
AP0
Basement in the Woods
Witch Way Out
Cullfield Investigation
Kłopoty Mirmiła - Rozdział 1
Fantastyczna podróż Tytusa, Romka i A'tomka
Inconvenience

In ITCH there're other games made with AGS, they could be found using the tags, the bad is that not always they are advertised as made with it

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Hi Cedric!

- Shades of Grey (I can't find any information on this game !)

This is a new game made for GGJ 2023. Download here

Thanks tag2015!!!
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Thanks Arj0n for "Monty Python's Makeout Mansion"

Does anyone know the game called "Question Mark"

https://www.moddb.com/games/question-mark

I think i've seen it in the AGS site or forum, well...or somewhere else  , but can't find any information
sorry if i can't be more clear, but i really don't remember anything, just some sort of dejavu about the screenshots

Thanks
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I've this version
Should be a demo: i have tested and seems working
https://mega.nz/file/kcUx1BzS#yka1JDxyLb66WxOxAYe6vY-BDPdJT97y9HHcsTjIO5A

With sources
http://www.abandonsocios.org/wiki/The_Eternal_Night
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=53089.0
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=53085.0
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=44778.0
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2004/
Also in the AGSArchive torrrent

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Thanks again tag2015
list updated

• Lif and the Treasure of the Tanones =>  owned since 2018: strange that the game was in the list, but good to know: removed from the list. Internet Archive page is on the database too 
• Shadows by the Waterhouse=> removed from list
• GrandMa Ep1 => removed from list
• Trails and Traces: The Tomb of Thomas Tew => removed from list

and one good news
after your first post i've contacted "Metal Dead: Encore" authors, Walk Thru Walls Studios, to ask for a demo i've read about in a defunct page
https://web.archive.org/web/20140114182701/http://www.walkthruwalls.com/
They replied via facebook messenger that the demo is no more available and that the game is still in development: in the future will be published on Steam

Cheers
T.

[Antidote, The]

Hi Tag2015
thanks a lot for the errors you reported: i've just updated the posts, since the games removed were a lot 

Hi, a few remarks about the list:

Antidote, The - Commercial game, available on steam. I don't think a free version was ever released
Epsilon Outcome, The - Same as above
Falcon City Released on steam, now delisted
Larry Lotter Test of Time Commercial, the free version was called Warthogs and is on the archive https://archive.org/details/warthogs
Metal Dead Encore commercial game, never released
Return To Monkey Island available on the house of mojo https://mixnmojo.com/media/files/Return-to-Monkey-Island--Guybrushs-Son
Symplokè Ch2 All three chapters are on steam. Only the first one is free
Sumatra FOY This one too is on steam and is the commercial remake of Pendek https://archive.org/details/pendek
Suli Fallen Harmony Now free on itch.io https://coutalgames.itch.io/suli-fallen-harmony
Submerged AKA LaSol Is available on itch.io or archive (it's the SE version but the mags version is almost identical)

So for

• Metal Dead: Encore: ok, i had some info in the database about the possibility the game was never released, so two clues makes an evidence: i've removed the game from the list and marked as Cancelled in the database
• Return To Monkey Island: i take some more time to investigate: i've two separate records for two games Return to MI, both by SGreco, and from what i can understand there were two projects, but again i've to check better, perhaps invoking the legendary help of Giocherellone, whom also has two records
• Suli Fallen Harmony: striked out in the list, with a thanks 
• Submerged AKA LaSol: I knew about the SE version (that is in the database with its own record), but I always hope the regular version pops up 

Thanks a lot again for the help
Cheers
T.

p.s.: In the database i don't store if a game is commercial or not, so i can't filter them out when exporting a list like the one i've done: i've tried my best to remove all the commercial games, but as tag2015 has shown, there're errors and other are still to be fixed, so if someone find them, feel free to contact me 

Hi Sinusoid
Sleeping Beauty: https://mega.nz/file/JJdyhKDC#IPwIr2OgtEynDqY5q2ckF16I7cfdUpVJfBRlxohePUw
The Object of All Dreams: https://mega.nz/file/VBtQCA5B#FPuAMhmPAYbTh7waOh529nCaYKK6BizjoDd1VW8PUX4

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