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Games that worth saving for sake of archiving Anonymous 07/01/18 (Sun) 11:47:59 b6eda8 No.15090272
What games are worth saving "just to be sure"? In case of "shit fucking up"?
Anonymous 07/01/18 (Sun) 11:50:54 2bdddd No.15090278
>>15090272
I've got a lot of games saved for exactly that purpose. Note things like the recent release of formerly lost/rare games from Japan, in particular.
Anonymous 07/01/18 (Sun) 11:52:35 626ceb No.15090281
Either save everything or don’t bother.
Anonymous 07/01/18 (Sun) 11:55:23 599ecb No.15090288
The ones that are not popular, because they're at the highest risk of being lost forever.
Anonymous 07/01/18 (Sun) 12:21:58 bd61fc No.15090336
>>15090288
This. It's sad how when a new medium emerges it's considered just a novely and thrown away when the new thing comes out because newer equals better. The same thing happened to movies and much of early movie history has been flat-out destroyed.
This does not just apply to the suits, but also to the creators themselves. Richard Garriot for example said in one of his Spoony reviews (don't remember which one and don't feel like re-watching them right now) that it is easy to make a better Ultima game simply because the next one would be using newer technology. It's no accident that most of the source material of the games from Origin was lost and never archived.
Anonymous 07/01/18 (Sun) 12:34:17 90d926 No.15090364
Don't forget patches, mods, custom content, tools, etc
Didn't gamefront go down a few years ago? Did any fucker even archive that site?
Anonymous 07/01/18 (Sun) 12:49:45 2bdddd No.15090390
>>15090364
Yes, there was a project on the Nexus to reupload content from Gamefront. Not sure how thorough it was, though.
Anonymous 07/01/18 (Sun) 14:34:48 536765 No.15090656
It's back up and far as I can tell from the games I care about it seems like nothing's missing. The company that owns Moddb seems to have recovered it for now.
Anonymous 07/01/18 (Sun) 16:59:02 a2a017 No.15091078
Max Payne, as many DOOM WADs as you can hold, Duke3D Megaton, some form of Quake source port, the Jedi Knight trilogy, FEAR, the entire NES, SNES, and TG-16 libraries, Thief and the Dark Mod games. that's a decent start
Anonymous 07/01/18 (Sun) 21:10:06 536765 No.15091909
There's ArchiveRL too, keeping a running archive of nigh every RL.
>-Stats: 1038 archives - 10.4 Gigabytes - 677 games - 620 individual ones - 361 sources
That's outdated even.
Anonymous 07/01/18 (Sun) 21:12:21 536765 No.15091918
Latest changelog right here: http://arkhammanor.com/rpgbase/ARLv0.8changelog.txt
Anonymous 07/01/18 (Sun) 21:14:59 f1fd1e No.15091926
Diablo 1, Diablo 2, Starcraft 1, Morrowind
Anonymous 07/01/18 (Sun) 23:49:25 24e03e No.15092450
undertale