#videogamepreservation — Public Fediverse posts

Used Game Stores in an All Digital World

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/used-game-stores-in-an-all-digital-world-08-08-26/

Time Extension: This Cool Project Allows You To Emulate Old LCD Games, Including A Possible Nintendo First. “All of this is me arguing that LCD games did have their place in the wider gaming climate, even if today they are more commonly considered cheap plastic tat you’re more likely to find in a bargain bin than a museum. With that in mind, I was pretty happy to be sent some information […]

Andrew Elmore spent three years documenting every single Namco Museum port: every platform, every region, every release. The result is a roughly two-hour video that's an exhaustive record of gaming's compilation era. The kind of obsessive preservation work the retro community needs. #Namco #NamcoMuseum #RetroGaming #VideoGamePreservation https://pocg.net/news/andrew-elmore-namco-museum-documentation/

Developer Promises To Keep Failed Online Game Servers Up: Art Deserves To Be Preserved

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/15/developer-promises-to-keep-failed-online-game-servers-up-art-deserves-to-be-preserved/

‘Stop Killing Games’ Got Its EU Parliament Hearing

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/27/stop-killing-games-got-its-eu-parliament-hearing/

RE: https://flipboard.com/@pc_gamer_/adventure-pc-games-4rbm0vr1z/-/a-ZM2oPNJKQ_SyH0i9j06QeQ%3Aa%3A2568789945-%2F0

Some utter bullshit. I haven't played it yet, but it's sitting in my backlog. Grab it before it's gone.

#StarTrek #StarTrekResurgance #VideoGamePreservation #Delisting

Nostalgic News: Sega 32X Virtua Racing Has Been Decompiled

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/sega-32x-virtua-racing-decompiled-01-30-26/

Stop Killing Games Gets Over 1 Million Petition Signatures Verified By EU

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/29/stop-killing-games-gets-over-1-million-petition-signatures-verified-by-eu/

‘Anthem’ Shuts Down January 12th And, Poof!, There Goes All That Creative Culture

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/08/anthem-shuts-down-january-12th-and-poof-there-goes-all-that-creative-culture/

‘Anthem’ Shuts Down January 12th And, Poof!, There Goes All That Creative Culture

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/08/anthem-shuts-down-january-12th-and-poof-there-goes-all-that-creative-culture/

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/should-switch-2-key-cards-be-preserved-08-26-25/

I wrote a New Leaf Journal Article several years ago praising Nintendo for having a cartridge-first mindset with the Switch. Nintendo’s emphasis on cartridges has waned with the release of the Switch 2, which has introduced game “key-cards,” which are good for nothing more than downloading the game in question. This brought up an interesting issue for a Japanese government initiative to preserve games and game media. Should game key cartridges be preserved? The National Diet Library says no. I had not thought about it before and will not do so here, but I could see arguments in favor of preserving the game-key cards even though they do not contain the game in question (perhaps as a monument to bad trends if nothing else). But the story did remind me of my experience with the installer for the 2006 English language patch Midsummer Haze to a doujin Japanese visual novel called Manatsu no Kagerou. The patch wants to download the Japanese Manatsu no Kagerou. However, Manatsu no Kagerou has not been downloadable from the developer site for many years. Thus, the installer was useless until your favorite (I hope) online writer managed to find the original Manatsu no Kagerou and shared the knowledge with the world. Whether you should play Manatsu no Kagerou or the English localization Midsummer Haze is a more complicated question.

#digitalOwnership #midsummerHaze #nintendo #nintendoSwitch #nintendoSwitch2 #videoGamePreservation #videoGames #visualNovels

Therе are only a few days left to sign the petition to stop killing video games, if you՝re in the #EuropeanUnion

It`s very close to reaching the target (95% right now)

https://www.stopkillinggames.com

#VideoGame #VideoGames #VideoGamePreservation #EU

🎮 Finalmente stiamo arrivando a un importante traguardo per la preservazione dei videogiochi! I nostri preferiti non saranno più dimenticati. #VideogamePreservation #GamingHeritage

🔗 https://www.spaziogames.it/notizie/la-preservazione-dei-videogiochi-potrebbe-raggiungere-un-traguardo-importante

@kkarhan auf jedenfall, wir haben am Wochenende auch fleißig auf dem #CSD dafür geworben, hatte sehr gute Resonanz ;)

#piratenMuc #StopKillingGames #ECI #EuropeanCitizenInitiative #EUpol #ConsumerProtection #ConsumerRights #Gaming #Archival #GamingArchival #GamesArchival #Culture #Preservation #GamePreservation #CulturePreservation #Games #Videogames #VideogamePreservation #CulturalHeritage #DRM #Enshittification #ReducedLifecycle #LiveService #LiveServiceGames #Delisting #PlannedObsolescence

Ok testing out donated PS2 discs on Retrobat and PCSX2. Got it to boot up Samurai Jack game thru a few fiddle tweaks. Does anyone know how to configure #RetroBat so when a disc is popped in, I can select it from the game list? #emulation #retrobat #pcsx2 #samuraijack #retrogaming #playstation2 #ps2 #gaming #videogames #gamedev #gamecollecting #retrocomputing #retroconsole #retrotech #videogamepreservation

BOOST boost boost boost it noowwwwwww ​:repost_ok:​

#gaming #videogamepreservation #europe #europeanunion #stopkillinggames #boost #boostappreciated #spreadtheword

RE: furry.engineer/users/exec/statuses/114738235865714833

Hey, the Stop Killing Games initiative still has a chance on passing.
Even though the signatures are only halfway through and there's only a month left, remember we still managed to pass the conversion therapy ban initiative when it only had a week or so left.
Demotivated video on it: https://youtu.be/HIfRLujXtUo
Actual link for the signatures collection: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

#games #gaming #videogames #videogamepreservation #eu #europe #europeanunion #stopkillinggames

GamesRadar: Sonic fans are leading the charge on a new preservation tool that can help give any Xbox 360 game a native PC port. “…this new tool, called XenonRecomp, simply gives fan developers a path to creating PC versions of Xbox 360 games. As the GitHub page explains, it ‘converts Xbox 360 executables into C++ code, which can then be recompiled for any platform.’ It’s not magic – you […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/06/gamesradar-sonic-fans-are-leading-the-charge-on-a-new-preservation-tool-that-can-help-give-any-xbox-360-game-a-native-pc-port/

https://mastodon.social/@jrychter/114005399933838770

this reminded me of a really niche issue in #VideoGamePreservation... It used to occasionally be a thing for devs releasing freeware to put the download link behind an ad-supported redirect link, sometimes a series of nested ad-supported redirect links, with the idea being that they could earn a few cents from the click-through since they weren't charging for the game.

(I think this was mainly a thing with pirate sites tbh, but I've seen it a handful of times when looking for old VNs from the actual developer's blog.)

But of course those redirect sites that would pay you for ad views are dead now, and a lot of devs are no longer active to update download links. So you can end up with the situation where the download link is probably still live and working, but the game is still lost because the redirects are broken.

Eurogamer: Games preservation took steps forward in 2024 – but still has a long way to go. “While games preservation has been largely a product of passionate hobbyists, the call to professionalise the field is gaining traction as organisations such as the Embracer Group Archive and the Video Game Heritage Society fill the gap between the hobbyists and the game industry. Working with […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/05/eurogamer-games-preservation-took-steps-forward-in-2024-but-still-has-a-long-way-to-go/

« The Video Game History Foundation (VGHF) is making its digital library system available to the public for the first time next week »

› https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-video-game-history-foundation-makes-its-digital-library-available-to-the-public-next-week/

#VideoGameHistoryFoundation #VGHF #Gaming #Retrogaming #VideoGame #VideoGamePreservation

Good Old Games (GOG): GOG Joins European Federation of Game Archives, Museums and Preservation Projects (EFGAMP), Expanding its Game Preservation Efforts. “GOG, a leading European platform for digital game distribution, joins the European Federation of Game Archives, Museums, and Preservation Projects (EFGAMP), the largest organization in Europe dedicated to preserving video games as cultural […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/16/gog-gog-joins-european-federation-of-game-archives-museums-and-preservation-projects-efgamp-expanding-its-game-preservation-efforts/

In the rarely used #GoodNews category of #VideoGamePreservation, Epic Games has granted the Internet Archive permission to archive old versions of #UnrealEngine and #UnrealTournament and make them available to anyone who wants them… for #FREE! It may be a small step in the wide-ranging universe of outmoded #videogames, but it is a step! Take heed, publishers hoarding old games!! #RetroComputing #tech https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/22/unreal-on-internet-archive/

Original Unreal and Unreal Tournament have been officially provided to archive.org for download.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/classic-shooters-unreal-and-unreal-tournament-are-now-free-and-preserved-on-the-internet-archive

#videogames #videogamepreservation #unreal #unrealtournament

GOG's 16th anniversary sale launched with a message about game preservation and re-release of classic titles.

https://www.gog.com/en/gog-preservation-program

#videoigames #videogamepreservation #gog

Well... I just watched as a true neck beard #SoftwareEngineer resurrect a corrupted digital #Pokemon for an adult, who caused the issue to begin with as a child, to see his long lost digital #Blastoise come back to life in the digital realm it once roamed. Man tears might have swelled up in my eyes while watching this. #Preservation #VideoGamePreservation #NickRobinson (#Babylonian)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqgmR1Hqvbk

Modern Vintage Gamer just released a video about the urgent need for Video game Preservation, also dealing with the related topics Piracy and Emulation. 🏴‍☠️

Invidious:
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=FFINynRcFtk

YouTube:
https://youtu.be/FFINynRcFtk

#retrogaming #gaming #videogames #videogaming #videogame #game #gamer #games #videogamepreservation #emulation #emulator #piracy #copyright

Días atrás la Oficina de Derechos de Autor de los Estados Unidos anunció que no otorgarán la exención en la ley de Derechos de Autor del Milenio Digital, lo cuál supone un golpe durísimo para la preservación de los videojuegos. Entra en geimers.com para enterarte de todo.

#videojuegos #preservaciondevideojuegos #retro #geimers #retrogaming #videogames #videogamepreservation #juegosretro #geimer #noticias

https://geimers.com/ataque-a-la-preservacion-de-videojuegos-en-estados-unidos/

Analogue presenta su consola Nintendo 64 con resolución 4k.
#analogue3D #nintendo64 #FPGA #geimers #retro #retrogaming #Videojuegos #lanzamientos #consolas #preservaciondevideojuegos #videogamepreservation #geimer #nintendo #fpgaconsole #retrogames

https://geimers.com/analogue-presenta-su-consola-nintendo-64-con-resolucion-4k/

Una versione beta di Half-Life del 1998 è stata ritrovata da uno sviluppatore originale. Include livelli incompleti, modifiche agli script e alle texture. Un tesoro per gli appassionati di conservazione dei videogiochi! #HalfLife #GamingNews #VideogamePreservation

👉 https://www.absolutegamer.it/un-dev-veterano-ha-trovato-una-build-beta-di-half-life-nel-suo-unita-di-stoccaggio-e-lha-resa-disponibile-per-chiunque-la-scarichi/

Video Game Corporate Archives. March/April 2024 Archival Outlook. #archives #DigitalPreservation #VideoGamePreservation https://bluetoad.com/publication/?m=30305&i=819180&p=6&pre=1&ver=html5

This can't be great news.

Video Game History Foundation estimates 87 percent of "classic" games now unavailable https://www.eurogamer.net/video-game-history-foundation-estimates-87-percent-of-classic-games-now-unavailable

#VideoGameHistoryFoundation #VideoGamePreservation #GamingNews

87% of classic games are out of print. That’s a problem for gaming history. - Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson)

Anyone with a passing interest... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1952784 #videogamehistoryfoundation #videogamepreservation #gaming

Ars Technica: 87% of classic games are out of print. That’s a problem for gaming history. https://arstechnica.com/?p=1952784 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #videogamehistoryfoundation #videogamepreservation #Gaming

Ars Technica: Here’s the tech used to create a nearly 20-foot-tall Donkey Kong cabinet https://arstechnica.com/?p=1931094 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #videogamepreservation #strongmuseumofplay #ShigeruMiyamoto #Gaming&Culture #seoexplainer #strongmuseum #arcadegames #DonkeyKong #explainer #Nintendo #arcade #Tech

Here’s the tech used to create a nearly 20-foot-tall Donkey Kong cabinet - Enlarge / We thank the curators and designers at the Strong Museum of P... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1931094 #videogamepreservation #strongmuseumofplay #shigerumiyamoto #gaming&culture #seoexplainer #strongmuseum #arcadegames #donkeykong #explainer #nintendo #arcade #tech