New study reveals most classic video games are completely unavailable

New study reveals most classic video games are completely unavailable

  • Evoke3626@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is depressing. I cannot stress enough how critical emulators are in this area. Especially emulators that can emulate old obscure CPU architecture or whatever else needed to run super old games. We can preserve them forever this way regardless of available hardware. Keep ROMs archived on many places too, cold storages, etc.

    • million@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      FPGA are also really big, they are close to hardware perfect as we are going to get.

  • Meow.tar.gz@lemmy.goblackcat.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I can still find the ROMs for the classic NES, SEGA, and TurboGrafix 16 platforms. But that’s only a subset of the desired ones. Where are they going?

    • Ilflish@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I can’t actually open the URL but I imagine they are speaking about alder generations and arcade cabinets. I recall a GDC talk about piracy where they discuss attempting to find any information on some of the earliest releases for a studio and finding one or two adverts only,