/vr/ - Retro Games

Well what are you gonna do about it senpai?

>>4835141
I'm powerless. I don't have the connections to find undumped games or the know-how to dump them.

Hundreds? Hundreds of thousands. They're all worthless and shit though, wouldn't worry.

>>4835137
Nooo, not my strip pachinko bootlegs!

>>4835149
Then why bring this up?

>>4835149
>connections
An internet connection is all you need.

>>4835159
Humans like to converse.

There are also people dying of hunger, thirst and disease, but do you give a fuck?

>>4835137
>bit rot
top meme

>>4835173
People are replaceable. A single existing prototype of an unreleased game is not.

>>4835137
But why anon?

>>4835137
That sucks.

>>4835173
No. Do you?

>>4835173
>negroes
>people
What did anon mean by this?

>>4835137
consider the following:

every day, far more than 24 hours of porn is produced a day. even if you were sitting in a room lined with TVs, you could not experience all the porn at once. we have long passed the porn singularity.

the same is true of video games, and practically any other media. Sure, there will be timeless classics, but it's healthy and normal to forget trash. it's also normal for people to have different experiences in different places, even if that means you'll miss out on the GOAT games you've never heard of.

Prototype collecting is a form of autism IMO. Good riddance.

Nobody's gonna play them anyway. Oh look, they used different tiles for that one level, totally worth spending $5000 to buy it off some nerd's hands.

>>4835137

>>4835235
>100% complete
>canceled anyway
>never to be seen again
>probably sitting in some collectors basement or a landfill

>>4835239
PCE Cocoron sequel also unreleased

>>4835173
I only give a fuck about my proximity. From ching chongs to milky white fucbois ~600km away from me can choke on shit for all I care.

>>4835216
>when you're proudly a turbo-pleb

>>4835137
I hate proto hoarders so goddamn much.

>>4835154
who cares if they are bad. they should be available anyway.

The only relevant undumped proto is Earthbound 64. The rest can just disappear for all anyone would care

>>4835313
Ah wait there's also the NBA Jam with Jordan. That one too

>>4835213
there should be a crowd funded library for games

maybe we can get companies into contributing?

>>4835321
I wish but copyright law.

>>4835137
>As we speak, there are hundreds of undumped games dying of bit rot and disc rot.
I'm don't really care about each and every undumped game out there.
But It makes me feel bad when I think bout all the unfinished BIG releases, especially for x86 machines. Some of them were dropped at the final stage or at least a working prototype/demo (like, judging by rumors, Rave racer or early builds of DNF).

>>4835321
>copyright law.
how does copyright work with a library?

never thought about that....

>>4835331
>I'm don't really care about each and every undumped game out there.
i do

it's part of our history, our culture of humanity.

Like movies from the 00s 10s or 20s.

>>4835189
Nice argument underage

>>4835173
>Implying i give a single fuck

>>4835173
I don't want to turn into /pol/ but this has to be said

Planet resources are already thin with us

You turn a 3rd world country into one like ours and get them out of a rut, and then they begin to eat at our resources

We need less people on this planet, not more

>>4835137
Any game that's still undumped by 2018 very likely isn't worth preserving.

>>4835216
I agree with you. Chances are games not released would be shit anyway. Maybe I'd like to have a look at FF7's initial prototype. But other than a couple of games, we know the rest are shit.

I think some people cannot let go retro consoles.

>>4835856
>>4835173
That relative privation

>>4835137
Hundreds of BAD games.

Do we really need to preserve garbage for future generations? Let it rot.

>>4835137
there are about 3000+ ps1 games available right now online. Go and finish them all first

>>4835306
My point is, there is no end to preservation. There are seemingly infinite games to be ripped, the line must be drawn somewhere.

>>4835248


because the Japanese collectard even refused an offer of 30k $...

>>4836168
>preservation society
more like hoarder society
>SegaSonic Bros cannot be released, ShouTime has stated he will get no more rare games from anyone if he releases it.
>Sega Sonic Bros is dumped but I cannot release it yet due to the conditions of the person who gave it to me. I thought I would share its existence since no one knew about.

>My goal is to preserve and release everything someday. Some things will take longer than others.

I don't really know what to do about it, and probably don't have the required discretionary funds to make a difference.

Tell you what though, if I ever win the lottery, I'll buy up and dump carts all over the place.

>>4835173
if my hobby was hanging out with africans then sure.

>>4835334
The library buys everything they own, and are free to distribute them however they want essentially. As long as a copy isn't reproduced in any way then it should circumvent copyright.

>>4836186
Single party "preservationists" are cancer. We need software crackers and pirates themselves to distribute shit.

>>4836194
Well, you can take up manual scanning. Those are in far more dire need of preservation as a lot of scans of obscure-ish games are covered in watermarks or in a super low quality. I'm gathering some of my manuals to go and scan them later tonight.

>>4835173
not /vr/

>>4835137
Which ones?

>>4835213
This is a good way of thinking. Thanks, anon.

>>4835213
>we have long passed the porn singularity.

Eh, not at all. Most of the porn produced is trash.

>>4841112
You didnt finish reading his post did you?

>>4835137

Man, NTHT was an endless parade of groin punching, wasn't it?

>>4841160
Yes it was. Also, one of the best anime series ever made. It makes me sad that there are so few like it.

>>4835213
Something like 70% of silent films have been lost forever. Having said that preserving data is so much easier than preserving physical copies less stuff should be lost.

>>4835137
w-what about the old e3 beta demos

>>4835137
You'd never have played them anyway. There's plays performed tonight you won't see. It's not a problem.

>>4835137
>hundreds
No
>dying
No
>bit rot
No
>disc rot
Has yet to actually be definitively proven to affect any disc manufactured properly.

7/10 I replied

>hundreds
Name ten.

>>4836186
>I cannot release it yet due to the conditions of the person who gave it to me.

So a Sega employee being a faggot. What a surprise.

good fuckem my backlog is already too big

There are thousands of games already released that you could be playing RIGHT NOW, but you don't care to because you're a child who's only interested in possessing what you can't have.

>>4835149
Are there updated lists of currently undumped games?

>>4835137
How bad is disk rot anyway? Should I even bother getting a Dreamcast?

>>4842348
It's a very minor problem. It most effects CDs and laserdiscs made in the 80s. When it comes to games, just the act of keeping them in the case with the paper manual - to help absorb moisture & contaminants - will ensure they'll last for decades to come.

>>4835137
I doubt that's considered a priority of concern for those who exist in her time.

>>4842230
https://wiki.no-intro.org/index.php?title=Undumped_Games_Lists

http://bootleggames.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Undumped_Games

http://wiki.redump.org/index.php?title=Discs_not_yet_dumped

>>4841804
Eh, a little mystery is a good thing. Gives future generations something to aspire to, maybe they can recreate lost works using their own imagination or something. Sounds more personally interesting to future people anyhow.

I would really love if the prototype of bandersnatch for the speccy got leaked. it was a really promising game, and was cancelled only due to corporate bullshit (the collapse of imagine).

it was ultimately acquired by psygnosis and released for the atari st under the name "brataccas", but it was obviously not the same game at this point.

>>4835336
We also lost a shitton of Greek/Roman tragedies, comedies, philosophical/scientific treatises and histories (and if we have them, there also a lot of texts that are fragmented as hell) yet life still goes.

>>4843745

Corporate bullshit? They ran out of cash m8

>>4835137
Whats this gif from? Ty.

>>4835137
name them, faggot

>>4835137
> this tired old bait
why even bother