Hi Nesa,

I have made you Arcade Admin to see if that helps you help me

The game that has the link to it is as the davejohnson.co.uk link in the first post. To see it on the website go here
https://www.quizland.co.uk/index.php?action=retro_arch;sa=play;game=6940
As I said above if you use the Contabo link it works fine. For information, I did rename my .htaccess file to see if there was anything in that which would prevent it from connecting, but then I thought about the fact I can direct link to smilies on the site as I have in this post and there are no issues, plus both links in the first post allow the file t be downloaded and that's what I don't understand

Quote from: Dave on Oct 02, 2025, 04:18 PMSorry Nesa, my son is here for a few days so I'm a bit busy at present. I'll sort it out later tomorrow, thanks for the reply though.

No need for an apology it isn't a critical thing, spend time with your son.

I've been using scrcpy for years now to interface with my phone because I can't use a touchscreen.

Sorry Nesa, my son is here for a few days so I'm a bit busy at present. I'll sort it out later tomorrow, thanks for the reply though.

I joined, I tried the game.
I can see that it is hosted on the quizland.co.uk site, I can try to trouble shoot some games if you tell me the ones that are hosted on the dave url.

Quote from: Neša on Sep 29, 2025, 06:40 PMJust a heads up, the gaming company that starts with N is crawling sites for roms, maybe rename the link in this thread.
Not sure if they will flag your site.

Do you get a http error code like 403, or anything in the access.log file?

No errors Nesa, I have a lot of those files on the main arcade, thanks for the heads up.

Just a heads up, the gaming company that starts with N is crawling sites for roms, maybe rename the link in this thread.
Not sure if they will flag your site.

Do you get a http error code like 403, or anything in the access.log file?

I'm not sure why it does it but I assume that there's a difference between the two.

EDIT: I was just thinking... If they are on the same hosting but different packages then maybe the packages are somehow setup differently.

I did notice that you said "buckets" for the 2nd link but not the first. Maybe that's the difference?

All,

I have Chen's Arcade on my main website which, file wise, is beginning to get full up. So I thought I'd link the ROM games offsite from another hosting plan I have for another site of mine, lets call it 'Host'.

What I've done so far is to create a folder in the root of 'Host' called 'test', I then upload a ROM game file to the 'test' folder and then link it to the game settings on the site where the arcade is lets call it 'Main'.

The link I'm using is
https://www.davejohnson.co.uk/test/AdvanceGuardianHeroesUSA.gba if you copy and paste that into your browser the game file will auto download to your PC, it's perfectly safe I promise you.

When I insert that link into the place in the Arcade on 'Main', see attached image, it doesn't work when the game is run it says there's a 'Network Error'

If I upload that file to Contabo to one of my buckets and copy the link and paste it into the external link box it will link to the game and run OK on 'Main'. This is the Contabo link
https://eu2.contabostorage.com/cfedffae94734130b2b6499e91d020d5:roms/GBA/AdvanceGuardianHeroesUSA.gba
So why wont it do it from the www.davejohnson etc? What could block the file being directly downloaded from 'Host' to the the 'Main' site?

Any help is much appreciated

NOTE: CHMOD permission are fine for the 'test' folder 755, I have tried 777 which I know is dangerous but just wanted to see if it was a factor.

Both 'Host' and 'Main' are with the same hosting company but are on different packages.

The official link to android tools is here.
https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools-latest-windows.zip