[Talisman]

It's a weird hack, bharvey. The normal stuff we're used to don't work with this, for some reason. Guess it's because it's still a beta. I imagine futureal will tidy things up in time.

I had the same problems you guys are describing. So I searched the thread and found little scattered comments in here that serve as work-arounds. But they're not easy to find and they're not very thoroughly described. Sounds more like those who posted knew what was going on at the time, but it's not so clear to the rest of us. (At least it made little sense to me, at first.)

There are two things you need to look at:

1. If your situation is like mine..... any time you upload the graphic files to your database yourself, it won't work. Same thing if you run the queries, either using a script or doing it manually. The big globs of gobbledygook (great big columns of binary blob things) in the database come out differently than they do if you upload them using the "add game" or "modify games" options in the ACP.

2. The other thing to check if this isn't working right is the path provided by the hack in the ACP. It's not correct..... you have to delete the first slash. (This is mentioned in passing early on in this thread.)

Sounds like these might be the reasons your graphics aren't getting in there. You can't enter them by query or manually yourself ...... and the bad path in the ACP prevents you from the uploading them the way this hack wants you to do it.

Look at the screenshot I took of this and you'll see what I mean.

Hope that works for you.