GuitarSim

[Jam0864]

GuitarSim is a guitar-simulation program I

[Jam0864]

I was looking at my youtube videos, and I found the GuitarSim video had quite a lot of views. Looking at the "insight" feature, which is basically view statistics, over 95% of the views came from Brazil. I immediately thought this was a fault with youtube, until I noticed that the vast majority of the views came from the video being embedded on webpages. I checked where it had been embedded, and I found what looks like a Brazilian download site. After translating it with google translate, I found my little app had over 16000 downloads, and what looks like an editors review and description. I was proud, seeing as the app was merely a test of sgdk2's audio functions and a bit of a gui sample.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.baixaki.com.br%2Fdownload%2Fguitarsim.htm

[bluemonkmn]

That's pretty impressive.  Way to go!

[Vincent]

Wow!  Congratulations! 

[SmartBoy16]

That's Great! Maybe if gets even more popular you could add more features like a recording feature or maybe more guitars. (just throwing suggestions)

oh! and you download link on youtube is broken, you may want to fix that

[Jam0864]

oh! and you download link on youtube is broken, you may want to fix that

Yeah I lost all the hosting, apparently you cannot put too much load on the server if you're using free hosting or you get banned. (I was using it as a PHP sandbox)

According to my data only 0.1% of the downloads were ever from that link anyway.

Looking around it seems that it's ended up on a lot of different sites around the web, and the vast majority of the downloads are from non-english websites. Strange I thought, since the program and it's instructions were only in english.

[bluemonkmn]

That's an SGDK2 project right?  Did that ever get into the project listing?  Why not host it there?

[Jam0864]

I posted it on the project listing and my personal site, somehow it spread around multiple other sites.
http://sgdk2.enigmadream.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=27&func=fileinfo&id=22

Of course, I had it separated into a .sgdk2 file, a standalone package and a source code package on my own site, whereas the project listing only had the .sgdk2 file. I suppose all the download sites that posted it went with the standalone package off my own site, which is understandable. I never expected my hosting to go down however, and when it did I didn't bother fixing it up again as I didn't see much traffic going there. I suppose the download sites downloaded it from there, then the majority of the downloads after that came from those download sites.

I'm currently fixing the link, just have to wait for the domain to update to the new hosting.



EDIT:// It appears that the download in the project listing forwards to my site, which is broken. I've managed to retrieve the standalone package from other download sites but I can't find the .sgdk2 file anywhere. Of course, my HDD managed to die and take out my copy, I assumed it was safe being on two remote locations as well. It doesn't really bother me that I can't find the .sgdk2 file though as I didn't plan on ever updating the app. Is there a way I can move the project in the listing to the binary section?

[bluemonkmn]

The download link seems to work fine for me.  It's hosted locally like all the other projects.  Are you sure you clicked the download link and not the homepage link?

[Jam0864]

I lost the .sgdk2 file, so I simply uploaded the binary with the name of the sgdk2 file so that the link would work. The only thing is that it's now in the incorrect section, I wouldn't want anyone to want to use the GUI and be disappointed when they receive a binary.

If anyone has a copy of the sgdk2 file still, it would be greatly appreciated if you could reupload it. (no matter how unlikely it was worth a shot )

EDIT:// I re-read your post, when I click the download link, it redirects to http://www.jam0864.co.cc/files/guitarsim/guitarsim(sgdk2).zip