Check CNN. There shutting down by the end of the month. So grab what you can. Something about no funding and costs
They simply did not have enough money to keep the site running.
Meanwhile, Frank Cifaldi has done more for actual game preservation (read: not out here dry begging for places to pirate roms for their personal collection) than everyone in this forum combined. But sure, pluck out one line that supports your axe to grind with LRG.
surely the corporations that abuse and change copyright law, having extended it beyond it's original purpose will allow Mr. Cifaldi to keep preserving them and allowing the public to gain access to gaming history.
Very upbeat worldview you've got there. I agree that there should be a handful of full sets of backups around, but that's not the goal of... let's call it 99.9% of anyone on an emulation forum ever. The Myrient guy doesn't even have enough space to preserve everything, so the notion that a kid from the sticks asking about Pokemon roms for his temu handheld somehow has the same goal in mind, is laughable.
Does this actually have video games or is it just a museum-type of thing? Because video games are primarily made to be played, not "preserved" like insects in amber.
Lol lmao even
laughable is you posting rage-bait every post you make.Very upbeat worldview you've got there. I agree that there should be a handful of full sets of backups around, but that's not the goal of... let's call it 99.9% of anyone on an emulation forum ever. The Myrient guy doesn't even have enough space to preserve everything, so the notion that a kid from the sticks asking about Pokemon roms for his temu handheld somehow has the same goal in mind, is laughable.
They preserve materials and also source code, but also help in unearthing unreleased or lost projects, this sort of thing. They recently had a hand in recovering 100 Sega Channel roms, which they then shared via Gaming Alexandria. Iirc they've also worked with Hidden Palace on some things too, though offhand the exact titles escape me. Just today, they apparently put at least a temporary stop to the guy being doing all the takedowns over any content involving Cookie's Bustle. The point is, they're doing the work to get actual content out there, they're not joe blow meandering onto a forum looking for PSP roms or whatever.
Some of the stuff on this site is only here because of the work they did, but ok I guess.
They've actively attempted to get changes to support things like private servers for defunct games, alter copyright law in regard to digital preservation, and you're correct in saying that big money got in the way. But that doesn't invalidate their work, because what if they're successful one day? Seems like a better path than hoping User1234 on some rando forum has downloaded an entire NES romset or whatever.
