Have you ever contributed to video game preservation? Ever dumped anything?

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Anonymous Thu Sep 19 15:57:46 2019 No.5893347 [Reply] [Original]

Have you ever contributed to video game preservation? Ever dumped anything?

>>	Software and so on Thu Sep 19 16:06:42 2019 No.5893373 I found the copy of chu-teng the owner of which other anons doxed and harassed into ripping. I guess that's something I did here

>>	Anonymons Thu Sep 19 16:09:45 2019 No.5893386 File: 22 KB, 550x128, NT2.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] i did some documentation for NerdTracker

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 16:49:08 2019 No.5893446 File: 1.37 MB, 2592x1944, IMG_0831.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Sure. I'm preserving every game in my collection.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 16:51:11 2019 No.5893449 >>5893446 You aren't though. They're rotting as we speak.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 16:52:04 2019 No.5893452 >>5893386 show me

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 16:56:43 2019 No.5893471 I dumped every prototype of Rockman X2 (2 prototypes) and Rockman X3 (3 prototypes) currently on the internet, and other things.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 17:43:55 2019 No.5893574 >>5893347 Dumped a ton of shit. Even uploaded some of the worthless stuff so rom hoarders could get their fix.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 17:49:37 2019 No.5893589 Anyone have the roms of Darius and that Games Can thing from the Mega Drive Mini, yet?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 18:14:26 2019 No.5893645 File: 79 KB, 1024x577, 1990-NWC-Nintendo-World-Championships-Gold-Competition-Cart-VGA-GRADED-85-3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5893347 Yes I'm preserving a copy of NWC, how could you tell?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 18:16:32 2019 No.5893649 >>5893347 I uploaded a huge dump on your moms chest.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 18:17:50 2019 No.5893653 >>5893645 Can i have it

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 18:21:13 2019 No.5893664 >>5893449 They'll be serviceable for the next 500 years, provided they're not in a fire or flood or he doesn't live neat the ocean. Mask ROMs are incredibly robust.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 18:22:15 2019 No.5893668 >>5893645 >exposing the EPROM windows to light FUCKING AMATEURS

>>	Software and so on Thu Sep 19 18:34:53 2019 No.5893684 >>5893668 Supposedly the archival case is 100% UV resistant but it's not like anybody is ever going to check

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 18:36:37 2019 No.5893689 >>5893645 lolz

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 19:12:12 2019 No.5893761 >>5893373 >doxed and harassed into ripping wtf are you talking about

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 19:18:30 2019 No.5893769 >>5893649 Hot

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 19:20:49 2019 No.5893775 >>5893347 Yeah, I keep my games in perfect condition.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 19:21:53 2019 No.5893778 >>5893446 Beautiful.

>>	Software and so on Thu Sep 19 20:03:54 2019 No.5893860 >>5893761 Fine, cold contacted and repeatedly but politely requested ripping

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 20:04:55 2019 No.5893862 >>5893347 Nope. I'm made of Dur Butter.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 20:10:46 2019 No.5893871 https://twitter.com/saintttimmy/status/1174192598359117827 Why don't hoarder boomers care about preservation?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 21:09:51 2019 No.5893967 >>5893871 That guy is based. It's hilarious that you autists get upset over this shit.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 21:39:10 2019 No.5894018 >>5893347 I tweeted frank cifaldi hair tips so he can preserve his hair finally?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 22:08:00 2019 No.5894047 >>5893871 The "30 year old boomers" are learning from their baby boomer parents how to ruin life for others as much as possible.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 23:21:08 2019 No.5894137 >>5893347 I have the prototype for the mc hammer saturn game, ill only share it if i get a bj from a okay looking girl or a hot trap I dont ill ever share it

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 23:23:19 2019 No.5894142 >>5894137 I dont think^ ill ever share it Sorry got upset while typing

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 23:24:50 2019 No.5894145 File: 23 KB, 531x355, Hammerman_logo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5894142 I hope Hammerman kicks your ass.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 23:30:06 2019 No.5894153 >>5894145 Please calm down its only 10 mins worth of content max

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 23:31:28 2019 No.5894157 >>5894145 Man the intro to this cartoon is so amazingly animated, but the cartoon itself has horrid animation. What a letdown.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 19 23:34:31 2019 No.5894163 >>5893373 Find the Roly-Polys game. Here is a lead https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7aw3mJ_zDNY

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 02:42:16 2019 No.5894446 >>5893373 >i larped and shitposted. I guess that's something I did here

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 04:10:09 2019 No.5894524 >>5893871 >>5894163 what a gigantic faggot >>5893967 >that guy yes it's totally not you. grass is also purple and water is solid

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 09:15:49 2019 No.5894828 >>5894163 The second one? There are japs that have it on Twitter but they won't sell it

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 09:19:38 2019 No.5894834 Commercially sold games will likely be always around somewhere. The BBS era rare stuff is what I'm concerned, much of it is already lost.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 09:53:54 2019 No.5894878 >>5894834 >and nothing of value was lost

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 10:16:33 2019 No.5894908 >>5894878 To me there's much more nostalgia that than in the commercial crap.

Software and so on Fri Sep 20 10:32:10 2019 No.5894929

>>5894163
I thought we already had Roly-Polys

>>5894524
Is there more than one volume?

>>5894834
A tremendous amount of that stuff was archived from major BBSs onto CDs that snake BBSs (like mine) would buy and host for our communities, then those CDs have since been archived. I think archive.org has the entire Nite-Owl collection and also lots of others. You could spend a much time as you care to combing through them.

Anonymous Fri Sep 20 10:40:48 2019 No.5894945

>>5894929
>A tremendous amount of that stuff was archived from major BBSs onto CDs that snake BBSs (like mine) would buy and host for our communities, then those CDs have since been archived. I think archive.org has the entire Nite-Owl collection and also lots of others. You could spend a much time as you care to combing through them.

English language/international "mainstream" stuff is quite well preserved on archive.org, but much of the more localized stuff has been lost.

There's this bizarre case of local national library having the whole file library of the largest Finnish BBS (Mikrobitti magazines MBnet), but due to some bizarre copyright lawyer bullshit they are unable to give any meaningful access to it, even when all the files were originally meant to be freely distributed.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 10:42:16 2019 No.5894947 >>5893347 No, I dump unpublished chinese comicbooks and other print works

>>	Software and so on Fri Sep 20 10:57:41 2019 No.5894964 >>5894945 Oh well I don't know about that but it seems like just one person needs to get access to it to rip it and post it on archive.

Anonymous Fri Sep 20 11:15:00 2019 No.5894987

>>5894964
The data is stored somewhere in servers and can be only accessed from workstations in the library that do not have internet access or any easy way to copy data out digitally. There's no software on the workstations to make any use of those 90's DOS/Win16/Amiga executables or file formats so having the archive at all is like a bad joke.

>>	Software and so on Fri Sep 20 12:14:53 2019 No.5895083 >>5894987 They don't have USB ports?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 13:39:13 2019 No.5895191 >>5893471 bless

Anonymous Fri Sep 20 13:59:45 2019 No.5895221

>>5893347
>Have you ever contributed to video game preservation?
yes
>Ever dumped anything?
yes
.. and no, i'm not answering any more of your questions. no comment, mr. agent for games industry.
>>5895083
> old computers having USB ports
you're a special kind of fucking retarded, aren't you?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 14:08:43 2019 No.5895238 >>5893347 I dumped a big nut the other day

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 14:12:24 2019 No.5895251 File: 21 KB, 260x259, 61TjIkFaCoL._SX258_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I dumped this like ten years ago. It's the only copy I'd ever seen online.

>>	Software and so on Fri Sep 20 16:20:22 2019 No.5895459 >>5895221 Why would the library workstations be so old?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 16:25:18 2019 No.5895470 >>5893871 Why is every Australian a faggot retard?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 16:30:55 2019 No.5895484 >>5895251 and the world doesnt even give a shit. good job fuckwad

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 16:44:56 2019 No.5895503 >>5895484 someone cares. If at least one dude downloaded to have some nostalgia that's good enough

Anonymous Fri Sep 20 17:45:46 2019 No.5895615

>>5893347
Yes. I dumped a Euro version of RoboCop for the Game Boy. It seems to be (or at least was) missing from a lot of sites with no-intro sets. No, there isn't anything interesting about it; it's missing some digitized speech, and some attract mode graphics.

Anonymous Fri Sep 20 18:05:16 2019 No.5895647

>>5893347
For a few years I ripped ps1 and ps2 and DC games. I also used to rip and check 360 games. I owned at the time 1000+ ps1/2 and about 100 DC. For 360 I ripped 50 games of my own and about 100+ rented from Blockbuster. I didn't rip stuff I didn't own until 360 era. Everything I uploaded was done for sites that are now gone. The iso still exist elsewhere though, some in full sets. This was at a time when certain games were just rare enough to where no one that did rips had uploaded them. Stuff like Monster Attack for ps2 or Hogs of War for ps1.

The OLD way to share was to make email accounts that had 100-500mb of storage and use account downloaders to spread files and make backups available. When google or whatever caught on you changed to the backup accounts. Torrents were not reliable enough and sites like mega or rapidshare required people pay to get easy access.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 18:24:02 2019 No.5895683 >>5895647 Now that is based.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 20:31:35 2019 No.5895970 >>5895615 Was this a retail release game, or a proto?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 20:35:50 2019 No.5895975 >>5893347 I produced a lot if Japanese PS and SAT rips in the early 2000s that still circulate on many ROM/ISO sites today. Most stuff was first distributed over peer to peer. Over a thousand. Before that it was PCE CD.

Anonymous Fri Sep 20 20:36:14 2019 No.5895978

Haven't physically dumped anything myself, but paid for a few releases of N64 dev software to be made. I also at one point had compiled a massive 15 GB stash of development materials (docs, tools, etc) that I distributed around a few private trackers back in the early 2010s. Long gone now unfortunately :( Pieces of that collection wound up here though https://m.emuparadise.me/sdk/

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 21:26:19 2019 No.5896096 >>5893471 Sup Protodude, when you gonna leak that Legends 3 Prototype .cia

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 21:29:59 2019 No.5896114 >>5893871 Because they think their precious collection will decrease in value if they can just pirate things so everyone can have them. I dumped a proto for Capcom's Werewolf: The Apocalypse Saturn game.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 21:33:19 2019 No.5896130 >>5894945 >Finnish And nothing of value was lost

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 21:42:30 2019 No.5896143 I've dumped plenty of games, including cereal box bullshit that could be lost forever. Good thing too, out in the trash they go.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 20 22:21:47 2019 No.5896215 >>5896096 (Protodude didn't dump them, but I did send most of them to him for public release since I figured they'd get the most attention from interested parties that way)

Anonymous Fri Sep 20 22:24:46 2019 No.5896223

>>5896096
Protodude didn't dump them, but I did send most of the ROM files to him for public release since I figured they'd get the most attention from interested parties that way. GoldS made some great entries about them on tcrf, if you haven't checked those out yet.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 21 03:06:59 2019 No.5896596 >>5895970 It's a retail release. DMG-CP-UKV.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 21 03:57:16 2019 No.5896650 File: 9 KB, 180x236, przekletaziemia.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] dumped this game

Anonymous Sat Sep 21 05:06:34 2019 No.5896715
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>>5893347
I only dumped a couple of C64 games on tape that I bought back in the day before the tapes got unreadable (two already were). But there's no use in uploading those somewhere else, since all of those games were already cracked and available as ROMs. But mine were the uncracked originals still with their original loaders intact. Too bad that I couldn't dump some of them since they're either already corrupted or used more complex loading schemes, like multiloader tapes (which I dumped anyway but couldn't check yet if all the levels were loading correctly like Turrican 1 + 2 or Bard's tale). The single load tapes worked fine though beside a text adventure called "Venom".

And it wasn't that hard after all. I just connected the audio-out of my stereo (still has a tape drive, I bought this one for this very reason) to the audio-in of my laptop and recorded it into Audacity, fiddled with the setting a bit and finally put the audio through UberCassette (that I had to compile for my Mac first) which made TAP files out of the data found in the audio files. Later I cleaned the TAP files up with FinalTAP, that I had to use through Wine since I never owned any Microsoft Soft or Hardware.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 21 06:06:01 2019 No.5896764 >>5895083 Probably disabled, and I suppose the whole session runs in the server via remote desktop so a usb drive couldn't get mounted anyway.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 21 10:25:48 2019 No.5897031 >>5893347 I have the worlds only known copy of street fighter 1 prototype for the SNES using newer sprites. My uncle married a nip lady and her dad worked on it, she gave it me as a gift when he passed away.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 21 10:37:07 2019 No.5897045 I recorded the intro of some PC98 adventure because it was nowhere on youtube.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 21 12:40:38 2019 No.5897241 >>5897031 Make an email for me to contact you and there will be a five figure sum for the cart and you can appear on my youtube channel

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 21 13:19:51 2019 No.5897310 >>5895251 thank you for your service.

Anonymous Sun Sep 22 01:12:09 2019 No.5898594

>Have you ever contributed to video game preservation?
Yes, I reupload games for BlueMaxima's Flashpoint and rip Docomo i-Mode games off the existing dev sites.
>Ever dumped anything?
No, official, physically released games last longer than any website and will still be around for at least 20 more years.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 01:34:55 2019 No.5898631 >>5893347 I scanned a buncha Die Hard Game Fan back in the day for Underground Gamer. RIP!

Anonymous Sun Sep 22 01:51:42 2019 No.5898650

>>5893871
>waaaahhh it's not enough that I can find 1000s of obscure games with the click of a button, I NEED *EVERY* game I don't have
Just because it hasn't been dumped doesn't mean it has been lost. Check Amazon/Yahoo Auction every once in a while, put down the hundred bucks or more necessary when a copy appears, do it yourself if it's so important.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 01:55:20 2019 No.5898657 >>5893668 Imagine being so stupid that you don't understand how much UV is needed to erase even a single bit off those chips

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 01:59:52 2019 No.5898660 >>5894018 Based >>5898650 The only guy who gets it

Anonymous Sun Sep 22 03:10:39 2019 No.5898736
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I had a dreamcast kiosk disc of power stone and I forgot to rip the .ISO before selling it, dunno if it might have been an earlier build since there was a few graphical glitches I noticed that wasn't on the retail version.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 03:23:27 2019 No.5898747 >>5893452 pm'd you :)

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 04:26:31 2019 No.5898820 >>5898736 Now some hoarder fat fuck is using it as a drink coaster.

Anonymous Sun Sep 22 04:48:50 2019 No.5898846
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>>5896715
I also meticulously scanned and prepared the original manuals of many of those games (and additionally some japanese exclusive PS1 titles like "Fire Pro Wrestling G" and "Stahlfeder") into a couple of PDFs and uploaded them to a site dedicated to said original manuals years ago ... and all of those scans haven't showed up there to this date.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 08:47:48 2019 No.5899107 Anyone has a link to that collection of xbox,xbox 360, ps2, ps 3 isos one guy posted here a few months ago? It was on 1fichier I believe.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 13:18:03 2019 No.5899648 >>5898650 >bro that game was sold twice online since 1999, lost media wtf?? just wait half a decade for it to show up dude

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 13:21:07 2019 No.5899653 >>5899107 yeah it's up on bathewithjesus.com right now

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 13:21:10 2019 No.5899654 File: 25 KB, 480x360, hqdefault.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5893373 >>5893860 >of which other anons doxed and harassed into ripping

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 13:28:17 2019 No.5899669 >>5895975 So can we blame you for the shitty rips of Saturn games that were on places like Emuparadise?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 15:22:06 2019 No.5899938 >>5894163 already dumped retard

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 22 17:51:50 2019 No.5900274 >>5899648 Which game are you referring to?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 17:51:32 2019 No.5902656 >>5898747 i shidded & cummedd, thx

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:18:23 2019 No.5902706 >>5893871 I actually have a dump of that Mars Ball game he's raging about (and dumps of almost all eroge on that list)

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:36:20 2019 No.5902759 >>5902706 If true why don't you upload them anywhere? I personally don't care but why do you sit on these files, is it just to have an ego boost or are you lazy? Wondering about the guy in the video too

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:38:08 2019 No.5902764 >>5893347 An internal dev build of an Xbox 360 XBLA game

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:41:17 2019 No.5902773 >>5902759 They're coming, I just need to switch ISPs (my upload speed is slow) and trade with some chink for other missing titles

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:43:40 2019 No.5902779 >>5902773 So the chinks are the actual hoarders? interesting

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 18:48:49 2019 No.5902789 >>5902779 There are some taiwanese people on 9moe.com who request old titles all the time and among them there's one who only trades who has some rare ones But he doesn't even come close to this motherfucker: http://oldgamehome.blog.fc2.com/

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 20:26:00 2019 No.5902968 >>5902706 >dumps of almost all eroge Is there an archive of things delisted from DLsite anywhere? https://www.dlsite.com/maniax/info/sellend/

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 20:27:53 2019 No.5902971 >>5893645 AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Anonymous Mon Sep 23 21:22:56 2019 No.5903076

>>5893347
It depends on what you mean by "preservation". Because I like LPs of someone playing and beating the game with commentary I have started contributing my own LPs to games that don't have one that is completed.

Most games have english let's plays out there, but many of the ones in the 80s and early 90s don't have completed ones unless they are simple platformers.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 23 21:52:01 2019 No.5903131 >>5902968 Doubt that, DL editions are preserved rather poorly

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