Announcing Pangya Inventory

[pixeldesu]

Preservation of Pangya files, official or not, always relied on some specific cloud storage providers, namely Google Drive and MEGA. Those are great free alternatives, but they have somewhat harsh limits in storage, download limits etc.

For sharing files once or twice that might be okay, but for long-time storing files that kinda is a pain. Especially when people have to create several accounts with separate Drives to store a lot of files.

I thought about how to solve this problem, and quite randomly I stumbled upon a good offering I figured I’d use for this.

So here, I am announcing:

Pangya Inventory

Pangya Inventory (https://inventory.pangya.golf) is a cloud storage dedicated to preservation of Pangya files. Instead of being limited by a storage or other download limits, this Nextcloud instance has a whopping 5 TB of storage that can be utilized, enough to store all of Pangya a few times probably!

Here’s a link to the public archive portion!

So, what can go on there?

The things that we decide to put on there! First and foremost it should be official sources that can get lost to time like installers, clients, media etc.

Maybe some tooling and private server related stuff if it fits in the same category, nowadays a lot of the code side is on GitHub already and that’s a better place than serving binaries built by someone.

What’s already in it?

Currently, with the help of some people in the community and searching, plus the old Google Drive folders, we assembled a solid amount of Pangya Clients and Installers for all kinds of regions and versions of the game!

I have some old files, how can I upload them?

You can reach out to me here in the forums, or on Discord (the username is the same), or even in the Retreev Discord server. Once you told me what you want to share, I can provide you with access to upload files to Pangya Inventory and I will take care of cleaning up the files and moving them to the proper locations in the archive.

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If you have any questions or something is not clear, feel free to ask right here!

[Varthall]

Thanks for all your hard work, this repository is what we were really missing all these years!
If I could suggest something: what if we rename all the installers to follow the PangYa_Setup_{region}_{patchNum}.exe naming convention? We’d lose the original filenames, but on the other side a rename is in some cases necessary, e.g. for the JP installers which all had the same name. Also, this would help when searching for a specific client revision, and to quickly find duplicates. A table with the original names could be added in the Readme.

The videos and wallpapers are a welcome addition. Maybe my archive of JP comics and the full soundtrack archive could be added, and I remember there was a “multimedia kit” as well, I’ll search it now (archive.org is being painfully slow today).

EDIT: Found. There were two kits, found here: スカッとゴルフ パンヤ - 無料で楽しめるオンラインゴルフゲーム！
One archive contained material for fansites: https://web.archive.org/web/20160331102617/http://www.pangya.jp/download/pangya_fansite_kit.zip
The other had logos and emoticons for MSN: https://web.archive.org/web/20130830211101/http://www.pangya.jp/download/pangya_icon.zip

Varthall

[pixeldesu]

Thank you for the nice words!

I used this as a motivation and focused on JP for media preserval next, went through the archives and uploaded all wallpapers and kits I could find, including your 4koma collection!

Archive

[Varthall]

What about your soundtrack collection?

The Full Pangya Soundtrack

I wasn’t sure where to put it, but as it is neither development related nor a tool in itself, I guess it goes here! I went through the final release of Pangya JP and combined all patch files to gather every piece of music that ever got released for the PC version. Not just that, I also properly tagged them with publicly available information and added a makeshift cover I quickly spun up myself. [cover] Here’s the full tracklist (the tracks in the album itself are not numbered): 1-Hole Short…

There’s an additional archive by dreamlink with missing tracks, plus the PSP one from me and an addendum by dreamlink, and all his archives of fan-made remixes. It would be great to merge all these archives into one and add it in the Inventory, and maybe version it since one day we still might find some new tracks from supbaby.

Varthall

[Varthall]

@pixeldesu What about uploading your complete archive of Pangya Mobile too?

Pangya Mobile: Looking for game files!

I have all Pangya Mobile files (at least the very last update’s worth), and I could provide them, but it’s between 2 to 6 GB of assets that I first need to find a place for. To fulfill your general request however, here’s a direct rip of all music files from the game assets. It’s in OGG because that’s what the game says they have been provided in, converting them to WAV wouldn’t do much aside of blowing up the file size.

Not strictly related to the PC version, but your archive might very well be the only online backup of the game.

Varthall