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Game media preservation, where? (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 week ago by fullovellas@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world
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Sometimes, a video game enjoyer just wants to be showered in nostalgia.

Sometimes maybe they just want to be more immersed before starting a playthrough of a classic game.

Maybe they obsessively keep a (digital) journal and want to give it a bit more color by including trailers, posters, commercials, you name it.

So I wanted to ask what your go-to sites to get all that good stuff are. Are there any, even?

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[โ€“] arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Not the most searchable since it's main use is through it's api (I use it through retrodeck/ES-DE which is for ROM libraries) but screenscraper.fr contains scans of boxart, title art, videos from the games, manuals that used to come with physical copies and a lot more.

If you want retro ROMs, I can't help you since I don't know if I can link to those types of sites but ask on !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com and check their wiki linked at the top of the community.

[โ€“] fullovellas@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Sounds interesting, I'll check it out.

Luckily, I have the ROM part covered, but thanks for the pointer ๐Ÿ‘Œ

[โ€“] SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 days ago

Discs, roms, piracy.

[โ€“] Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.org 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://archive.org/ has old media of all sorts including game magazines, demos trailers and manuals.

a lot of video material has been uploaded to youtube, that was formerly hosted elsewhere. hell i've watched the old eoLithic frag movie from like 2002 a week ago.

vimm's lair is also worth a visit if your are looking for old game manuals.

[โ€“] fullovellas@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah I've sometimes used all those sites at some point, but they're so vast (or have only manuals, like vimm's lair). I was interested in finding something a bit more curated and game-oriented.

[โ€“] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This one Archive.org user has a bunch of "Champion Collections" which may fit the bill. https://archive.org/details/@madhattersez

[โ€“] fullovellas@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

awesome!

[โ€“] Zarxrax@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://archive.gamehistory.org/

[โ€“] fullovellas@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

this is awesome, thanks!

[โ€“] Brewchin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

GOG does preservation. That and Archive.org are the ones I use.

[โ€“] B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Out of Print archive is my go to for nostalgia.

make sure to look in the WIP section for even more magazines

[โ€“] fullovellas@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Thanks! Didn't know about this one.