deegeese@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
I think the bigger problem is when a publisher goes out of business, is there anyone left who care enough to save the archives?
If lucky, there will be an acquiring publisher who cares enough to fold the archives into their own.
Otherwise it’s dependent on the outgoing editor in chief or some other individual to save that stuff and keep in in their garage until one day they die and their heirs send it to the dump.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Which is why archive.org is so important. Many of the earliest films have been lost to time. Now Nintendo is trying to shut down rom sites and websitea hosting pdf’s of their game manuals, and yes, Nintendo Power.
So far they’ve been sucsessful, except for archive.org, who has an exemption. That exemption lasts for a few years, and every few years it needs to be voted on to KEEP that exemption.
I don’t trust our government to always do the right thing. So over the next few weeks, I’m hoard downloading. Instead of downloading 1 or 2 roms at a time, for games I recently discovered, I’m just downloading entire rom sets. Fuck you Nintendo. Instead of downloading a few dozen roms, I’m now downloading your entire catalog, and making backups once I have everything. And sorry Sony, but Nintendo roped you into this. And microsodt? Oh, you’re safe. I don’t give a shit about xbox…
Vorticity@lemmy.world 3 months ago
How does the archive.org exemption work? When is it voted on next?
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
NGL I kinda want to look into OG Xbox emulation, been waxing nostalgia for Fable.
3ntranced@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Last I was playing around with it (about 2 years ago) there were at least 20 stable games running, even 360 ones