#game preservation

[stopkillinggames]

Attention all Belgium citizens, I am looking for any volunteers in Belgium that would be interested in helping with the campaign, and particularly in getting Belgium to 100% signatures, you may help by signing the petition, sharing it to other Belgium citizens and going to the public to gather signatures and promoting the petition, if you are interested please message me and I’ll get you started, good luck

[wuwubean]

Okay hold on with the Unity thing. Hopefully this change will be stopped, but if not we need to start archiving everything NOW.

Cult of the Lamb won’t be the only one. Hundreds if not thousands of games might be deleted. Years of gaming history, lost forever because people can’t afford this change. This is almost as bad as the Adobe Flash shutdown.

I’m going to be honest, I have absolutely no clue how to go about this. But if anyone does, please organize something. We only have 3 and a half months to do this.

EDIT: The above tweet screenshot ended up being a joke (three cheers for autism), but the fact still remains that a bunch of games will still be pulled of steam, especially the smaller ones that only barely hit the revenue mark for being charged.

[hardcore-gaming-101]

The Video Game History Foundation recently put together an absolutely fascinating video on the lost stages of the Sega classic Sonic the Hedgehog 2. It includes partial recreations of some of those cut levels, which have never been seen before. Definitely worth a look!

[lena--beana]

Being a game collector is so weird bc you tell your friends "hey have you seen this thing, it's one of my favorite things ever and if you want to try it you either have to hang out at my place for a week or emulate it which is always morally correct but there's like a 10% chance it won't play exactly right or buy it secondhand on ebay for $200 more than I did when I found it decaying on a gamestop shelf 15 years ago and you can only play it on the PS2 because that disc doesn't work on anything modern if it still even works at all"

but with movies it's like "hey have you seen Space Jam? It's an hour and a half, I've got it on DVD or we can rent it on five different streaming sites for like $5"

[talism4niac]

Actually you know what, here's a Megathread of the folks behind Project Dragon / Everhaven

I figured the least I could do is highlight as many people as I can that had involvement with the project and has posted their work. If there's anyone that I missed please DM and I'll be sure to update this when I can! Go and show these folks some love! </3

Nicholas Kole : Portfolio | Twitter | Instagram

Airborn Studios : Artstation | Twitter

Ines Marsal : Twitter

Camille Peyrebere : Twitter

Leslie Van den Broeck : Artstation

Chloé Labbé : Twitter

Janneke Bruijnes : Twitter

Malte Sturm : Twitter

Andrea Orioli : Twitter

Charlène Le Scanff : Twitter | Artstation

Julien Allard : Twitter

Lucas St. Martin : Twitter | Instagram | Artstation

Andy Hansen : Twitter | Artstation

Florian Coudray : Twitter | Artstation

Malwina Czech (Mawluna) : Twitter

Joey Vergara : Twitter -Game Designer

Mel Ramsden : Twitter -Game Designer

Shaan Joshi : Twitter -Game Developer

Bethany Higa : Twitter -Narrative Designer

Dave Huddleston : Linkedin -Lead Animator

Cris Velasco : Twitter -Composer

Hunter Howe : Twitter -Director

Michael vicente - Orb : Twitter -3D Artist

[bokujou-monogatari]

Hey there, it's been a while.

Recently, I just acquired a game disc from December 16th, 1999.

Initially, I thought the disc was a dvd before I looked into the file structure. It's actually a PS2 demo disc.

On said disc is a demo of a number of games to be released that year, including Bokujou Monogatari Harvest Moon (Localized as Back to Nature). There are videos for the games, developer interviews, and more importantly - playable demos for the games featured. My problem is that I haven't been able to get it to work. The seller confirmed operation on a Japanese PS2. If there's anyone out there experienced with making this type of thing operational long enough to get the media preserved, please message me. :)

[splinkoplinko]

Things I don't like about Nintendo:

Making games impossible to play again (Vimm's Lair getting raided by a bunch of companies including Nintendo, online stores getting shut down by Nintendo, more than one subscription required for some NSO Virtual Consoles like Genesis, N64, and GBA, lack of regional translations and ports, etc.)

Taking down fan creations (fan games, mods, music remixes, gameplay videos, etc.)

Putting limits on the monetization of tournaments featuring their games (https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/63433/~/community-tournament-guidelines)

Shutting down online services for consoles that are still very popular and used frequently (3DS getting shut down recently.)

The Switch and a few of the more recent games on it being not that great (Pokemon especially, I'm pretty sure the Wii ran better and it's almost 17 years old.)

Now I know that Nintendo isn't the only one that does this. Microsoft, Sega, and Sony aren't that great with their older games (though some of those are better than others), but Nintendo is much worse and much more strict. Sega doesn't even make consoles anymore, and modding isn't as popular on PlayStation and Xbox platforms due to it being tricky, but their games that are on PC have had plenty of mods, and the companies have no issue with them. I've heard the Xbox Series X/S isn't too good, same with the PS5, though I haven't noticed whenever I used my friend's consoles, and I have an Xbox 1 and PS4. The consoles are also definitely better than their previous gens, which is hard to say with the Switch (hot take, I prefer the Wii U 💀).

[gratuitousgalvantula]

i don't think people realize how important the osrs community servers are

like, these servers will potentially allow for game preservation when jagex eventually shuts down the servers. that's huge

[eater-of-the-sand]

If you own The Crew™ from Ubisoft.

PLEASE watch this video.

We have a chance to Fight Back against Ubisoft and the practice of Killing Online-Only games.

With The Crew shutting down on April 1st Ross from accursed farms (the guy who made Freeman's Mind) is planning a mass campaign worldwide, and needs help.

We need Everyone in the EU, but especially Germany and France to help.

Here's what you can do to help:

Save proof of purchase of your The Crew copy. Be it physical or digital, make sure you have proof you owned it. If you own the game digitally take a screenshot of the game in your library, with your account name included in the photo.

Contact Ubisoft now, asking them how to play the game past April 1st. This will help set a precident that you attempted to resolve the issue beforehand.

If you know your country's local consumer laws please contact ross regarding them at rosswscott@gmail.com.

If you are from France, you can send a Mail to Ubisoft regarding the issue according to these instructions.

This will help once again setting a precident for the upcoming campaign.

Unfortunately, if you are in America you cannot help.

According to ProCD, Inc. v. Zeidenberg you do not own ANY of your games.

Please help spread the word.

This may be our only chance to force companies to make online only games that get shut down playable.

[soupum]

extremely cool and also normal that in 5-10 years when Nintendo inevitably shuts down the switch eShop your only solutions for playing any download exclusives will be:

hope the switch you bought it on lasts for the rest of your life so you can play the copy you brought

buy a switch from eBay at markup with the game you want and hope THAT switch lasts the rest of your life

mod your switch (assuming nintendo hasn't taken the tools down by then), dump your game, mod any future switches you buy if the original dies (ASSUMING NINTENDO HASN'T TAKEN THE TOOLS DOWN BY THEN), repeat ad infinitum

suck shit and wait for nintendo to sell it to you again either in a membership or as a $60 rerelease that may still be download exclusive anyway (thus the serpent consumes its own tail)

[trutown-the-bard]

The Xbox 360 store is closing today, nearly 19 years after its release and ironically not soon after the heads of the Xbox division spoke about their “commitment” to game preservation.

It’s dead. They killed it. They will kill again.

[legoless1]

I have spent the past 7 months or so digging through old hard drives looking for a copy of an old Flash game I backed up in 2009. Thievius Raccoonus is a collection of 5 minigames created by Sony Entertainment Europe in February 2003 to promote the PAL release of Sly Raccoon for PS2. The game was an executable that could be downloaded from the old SlySchool website. I distributed it for a couple years via Legoless's Fun Pack but later took it down. In the intervening years, it seems that the game was lost, and it became something of a white whale for Sly archivists. I was dismayed to discover that the game was considered lost media, and doubly so when my backup could not immediately be found. Luckily—eventually—it turned up. I present to you the Thevius [sic] Raccoonus: https://archive.org/details/thevius-raccoonus.-7z I'm currently in touch with the folks at Flashpoint to get this game into a functional state so that it can be properly archived. Unfortunately, the original exe doesn't play well on modern systems. Fingers crossed this obscure chapter of Sly Cooper history won't be lost again 🤞

[wjbs-aus]

"If you want me to buy the game, sell me the game, otherwise I yo-ho-ho it with a bottle of 'go fuck yourselves'!"

Civvie 11, THE WOLF THAT TIME FORGOT

[stopkillinggames]

Welcome to the stop killing games tumblr account (community run btw) I will try what I can to reach to the community here and try to get the signatures we need for the EU petition, if you are an EU citizen and of voting age, you can sign it.

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[derekscorner]

Source: https://x.com/rockmancosmo/status/1808606770560188795?s=46&t=4hFFKtwsgHgr7sgJahecEA