game preservation
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Saving Japan’s Games
Photo Illustration by Elena Scotti/Kotaku/GMG, photos via Chris Kohler, Shutterstock. On a Sunday morning in September, Typhoon Talim was flooding the western part of Japan with a torrential downpour, but at Todoroki Station in Tokyo on the other end of the country, its effects were limited to a light rain.
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YouTube Video Sparks Debate About Relabeling Vintage Cartridges
A YouTube video about relabeling cartridge games opens up a whole can of worms on the ethics of how to restore old, worn-down video games.
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One Month Later, Guy Recovers $10,000 Worth Of SNES Games That Were Lost In The Mail
Last week, I reported on Byuu, an emulator developer and game archivist who was trying to preserve every single SNES game ever made. He declared his plan “dead,” however, after $US10,000 ($12,972) worth of rare games went missing in the mail. Fortunately, this story has a happy ending.
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Apparent Leaked Footage Reveals Cancelled Mega Bloks Halo Game
It seems that Master Chief almost ended up blasting Covenant made of Mega Bloks. After showing the Diddy Kong racing sequel that never was and a scrapped sequel to Oni, archivist Andrew Borman is now reporting on the prototype for Mega Bloks Halo in a new video on his YouTube channel.