Video Game History Foundation

[mitsuman]

Just found out about this site.

http://gamehistory.org

[majors]

https://www.gamepres.org/

[Psycho Punch]

The bald frenchman's preservation society came first and it is way more appealing to donate since they're actually known to be able to take perfect images of floppy discs, sometimes damaged and unable to be read on normal drives. aka I need to know more than "frank cifaldi donated us his magazine collection!".

If they disclose how they're going to make the preserved material available to the public it might be more appealing to me aside from not having the damn interesting japanese home computer libraries in their deque. As of right now I have no idea how Game Preservation Society will make material available, right now it feels like a talk with one of the archivists would go like this:

"Q: Awesome one of a kind PCE game! Can I see more footage/screenshots? A: uhh no"

At least byuu gives checksums for his SNES dumping project.

[fx-man]

The Game Preservation Society has many projects, but is deeply in need for help.

For example, they have a huge database they'd like to share with more than 500000 entries. But it cannot be seen on the internet as it's mainly using access. So, if you know a DB specialist who can adapt it for internet use...

There are also some articles about the preservation technics. But in japanese. The need to be translated in english and other languages. Here also, need for help.

Many things are to be revealed this spring (and one of them is concerning the PC Engine). But, as always, the more people participate, the faster it will go.

For more informations : https://www.gamepres.org/en/media/

[majors]

New user, one post to defend GPS?...so really, who are you with the group?

[xcrement5x]

The Game Preservation Society has many projects, but is deeply in need for help.

For example, they have a huge database they'd like to share with more than 500000 entries. But it cannot be seen on the internet as it's mainly using access. So, if you know a DB specialist who can adapt it for internet use...

There are also some articles about the preservation technics. But in japanese. The need to be translated in english and other languages. Here also, need for help.

Many things are to be revealed this spring (and one of them is concerning the PC Engine). But, as always, the more people participate, the faster it will go.

For more informations : https://www.gamepres.org/en/media/

Le-wut, ACCESS?  At least it's not an Excel spreadsheet. 

I think there are a couple REAL DBA people here, I just do a lot of incidental work on them myself. 

[fx-man]

New user, one post to defend GPS?...so really, who are you with the group?

New user, but i registered 4 years ago to this forum and i'm on the user list since 1998 https://www.pcengine-fx.com/PC-FX/html/pc-fx_world_-_pc-fx_users_list.html ^^
It's just that don't post often on forums....

And about GPS, i'm just working on their website. I didn't have the impression to defend GPS but to clarify some points.

[elmer]

And about GPS, i'm just working on their website. I didn't have the impression to defend GPS but to clarify some points.

Thanks for posting! 

I love the work that the GPS are doing.

As someone that spent an entire career writing games, it's nice to see that some folks are trying to actively preserve their history in the best-way-possible ... in a playable form rather than just purely sitting in someone's dusty collection.

Please pass on my thanks to the guys there.