Tutorial: How to start Perfect Dark v0.992

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[silverado]

Perfect Dark is a new file sharing program in Japan and possibly the successor to Share and Winny.

1) Download Perfect Dark version 0.992
Starting with version 0.992 Perfect Dark uses an English interface.

<a href="http://www.hiderefer.com/?http://www.divshare.com/download/3438184-093" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://www.divshare.com/download/3438184-093</a>

2.1) Start "perfect dark.exe"



3) Configuration





Create a nickname



4) Go to http://www.hayasoft.com/syumi/dark/ and copy the nodes. It should look like this



5) Navigation

IMPORTANT:
"perfect dark is offline" indicates that it's offline.
"perfect dark is online" in BLUE LETTERS: normal mode.
"perfect dark is online" in RED LETTERS indicates that it can't open the port.
*Try Port: 25975 if you have port problems.



6) Adding Files



7) Rating Files

In order to rate a file and to give it a postive or negative feedback, click on the ?? tab. Right-click a file and choose
(G) for high-quality
(N) for average
(B) for fake/mislabeled/virus-infected
 Everyone's feedback translates into a positive or negative integer in the ?? column on the search and download tabs.

8) Other Perfect Dark Tutorials
http://members.shaw.ca/aw-sp/PD/Perfect_Dark_-_Setup_Guide.pdf

Here is a Perfect Dark video tutorial by Harun
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U9CFHYRJ

Japanese download & tutorial:
http://www21.atwiki.jp/botubotubotubotu/

Error Messages: (register to read)

[legoman]

It takes time to find an open pear, but then it will download with highspeed.

How much it usually takes time? I still haven't be able to download anything.

[silverado]

The concept of p2p is based on 99% luck and 1% good search terms.

[LastLagoon]

I'm not entirely sure how to search in Perfect Dark. Are there clusters and/or triggers? Are you supposed to first search for a category and then the file you want within that category so it branches? Or do you just search for the file you want and leave it there even if it initially returns 0 results? Does it continually search for it if you don't remove the query?

[BurningFury]

I found a way to run Perfect Dark under Wine in Linux. :P

I'll post a how-to when i have time guys.

Laters :P

[Zycle]

Hi guys. I´ve got a problem. I can´t downlaod anything.

The files I want to download are always 0%. It doesn´t start.
I added some files to upload but I´m not sure whether it uploads.

Here´s a screenshot:
Maybe you can find the mistake.



Hope you can help me.

[silverado]

Add some files to share and be patient. You need a broadband connection (50+ KB/s upload) in order to use perfect dark.

[LastLagoon]

Can someone please answer my questions?

[Demon Eyes]

Hi there.

I followed the tutorial to the T but when I search...I get zero results.

I tried ??? for Dennon Coil and got back only one result!

The tried the few examples I've seen here and yet I recieve (0) results again!

Help meeee. Am I doin' it wrong?!!

ScreenShot:

[silverado]

You can try to use a new version of perfect dark. It looks like you're connected to only very few nodes. Since you got no download or upload.

[Demon Eyes]

Thanks silverado.

I got the newest one and reset everything but it is worse now than before.

I don't know what is wrong.

Everything looks fine but searches return nothing.

Sigh

And now I got this RED(BAD) message

[silverado]

it says it's outdated. use a new version!

[Killian]

I've been getting the "unity" 2000 mb popup as above, hasn't happened before. Since it started happening, I haven't downloaded a bit of anything. 0% on all downloads. I have left it on for several days before (this has been happening about a month) and lately I left it on all week. Still 0% on anything. Something is wrong. Sure that "unity" 2000 mb message doesn't mean anything? My unity file is set to like 40 gigs. . .

[keijiro]

I fail at this




it just stays at 0%. I always get that 2000mb unity message. I tried setting it up at 20gb but it automaticly reverts back to 40.

[ar-a-mach]

  for those who can search and select a dl but the DL won't start 

i had the problem and it now works after a re instal 

i love the search on PD but can we have more than 1000 result ???

when it download there are no speed showing for each dl  ::see later screenshot::

and well it's not that fast actually i have better speed on share 817k/s Vs 185k/s

[rocknard]

what means this in english?

[silverado]

It's a http port.

[UFO888]

do i have to add some files to upload before i can download anything?

[Niko^]

English translator ;)



http://www.madjoki.com/tiedostot/PefectTranslation.rar

 

[Sosodo]

THANK YOU!
Posted on: September 01, 2007, 02:09:34 PMbut I cant get it to work past the settings screen (translator) , any thoughts?

[Niko^]

it doesn't yet work on main window due to limit of windows api

Updated file, should not lag anymore

[silverado]

That's a good start  

[Sosodo]

Still cant get it to download though and when I try to upload somthing It gives me a message about my keyword although I dont know what it says.

[Killian]

Ended up reinstalling windows, thus wiping my hard drive. So, I reinstalled Perfect Dark. And it won't connect. I went through the setup procedure just like last time but now it just says "perfect dark is offline" and never changes. No error messages, no nothing. I downloaded the update linked in the first post, still have the same problem.

[Niko^]

Updated again (added new strings from newer versions)

Edit: Newest versions will be downloadable from http://www.madjoki.com/blog/categories/perfect-dark/

[silverado]

Killian have you tried to change the port? Were your nods up to date? You know that perfect dark won't run on low connections?

[RX79V]

Not sure if anyone has noticed this.
To change the font size or color, edit visual.txt under mutagen folder.
The default font size for searched items is 12.
Changing it to 15 would make reading a whole lot easier.

[silverado]

Damn, that's an easy fix 

[Killian]

Killian have you tried to change the port? Were your nods up to date? You know that perfect dark won't run on low connections?

Tried changing the port, no dice. Nodes were newly copied from the site you gave, so I think they were as up to date as I can make them. I'm now in a dorm room meaning that I have an awesome connection, although that could also mean they block whatever ports I'm trying.

Gonna try some more ports and see if they are just blocked and I'm getting unlucky.

Edit: Trying ports did it, now I'm on. Unfortunately I got that Unity message pop up that I used to get when it wouldn't download anything, hopefully this reinstall has fixed that problem. Thanks for the hlep.

[Raziel666]

Hello. Just tried PD today and it seems good. The thing is that I keep getting the same message about the unity size whenever I start PD. I read above that I should add some sharing files. How is this done? Any help appreciated.

[silverado]

How about reading #6 the tutorial?

[Starks]

Updated again (added new strings from newer versions)

Edit: Newest versions will be downloadable from http://www.madjoki.com/blog/categories/perfect-dark/

Niko, how does it work? Is it res-hacking the executable on the fly?

[Niko^]

Nope. It's all about windows api. Sending messages such as WM_GETTEXT and WM_SETTEXT which works fine for standard buttons and texts which uses windows renderer (ie. text is not written as image, which is done for menu. Windows limits some messages to used from program itself. This is why main window can't be fully translated.

[Starks]

Nope. It's all about windows api. Sending messages such as WM_GETTEXT and WM_SETTEXT which works fine for standard buttons and texts which uses windows renderer (ie. text is not written as image, which is done for menu. Windows limits some messages to used from program itself. This is why main window can't be fully translated.

So, it's impossible to translate?

[Niko^]

It is possible with dll injection, allowing you to send messages from inside program. Unfortunately, my C++ skills aren't high enough (injecting dll is not possible from programs coded with "managed" languages.

[Stickreid]

Having a lot of trouble with this
Everything is installed working but when I try to download something it will just stay at 0% and it just does that.  for every single download.  I've tried like over 200 different files and none work they just all stay at 0%  It says im getting a download speed of 200-400 all the time also but nothing downloads! Please help me asap! Thanks in advance 

[niefong]

For some reason my PD isn't updating to the latest one.  I'm using 0.933 that was posted here a while back.  Can someone post the latest one for me?

[Niko^]

http://www.madjoki.com/tiedostot/perfect%20dark.exe

[agami]

Besides having the same problem like several others (0% downloads for several weeks now, unity being 18 MB only yet), I'm also not able to add files for upload. If I try, I get the following error message:



Furthermore I wonder what exactly the option "encryption" in the upload window is about?

If anyone of you could help me I'd be really grateful. Many thanks in advance!

[soopy]

Perfect dark has a rather limited amount of stuff in it from what I tried until now. And the amount of things going in the cache is huge (it keeps pushing unwanted stuff to my hdd with 100k/s).
What would be really helpful is if someone translated some more of those things in the main window. As it is now, I can't understand at all what are the chances of actually downloading a certain file. In Share it was much clearer, it was written in yellow, means chances are good, etc. Here I can't figure what files from list are in DB only or on a remote node as well.
For example, what does this thing mean:

And how can I find out at what speed a certain file downloads? I only get the global speed.

thanks

For those trying to dl something, here's a file that works for me right now to try on: (???) InterVideo WinDVD8(HD DVD?Blu-ray???).rar

[Niko^]

xns: Every file needs at least 1 keyword
soopy: First tab (??) right side theres ??? (tasks) tab if it's selected task will be shown on space below


Posted on: September 14, 2007, 06:36:24 AMUpdated translator with new string is 0.960 (or some of them). Totally new settings page.
Posted on: September 15, 2007, 01:34:53 AMTranslation for some parts of interface not translated by program.

http://www.madjoki.com/blog/perfect-dark/