Lost Japanese Video Games Discovered in a Folder on a Private Forum

Re:Lost Japanese Video Games Discovered in a Folder on a Pri... by userbinator on Sunday June 10, 2018 @12:51PM (#17278933)

In uploading the game to Mega, it’s possible the folder will be pulled from the internet. But in doing so, the person advanced the interests of game preservationists worldwide by leaking the this game and others.

If the leaker had any bit of sense, (s)he would've copied everything first.

“It's a weird situation because this really is not a great way to be preserving games, just collecting things that leak out,” he said.

There's a similar situation with availability of service information for appliances, cars, laptops, phones, etc. --- a lot of it is out there if you look hard enough, but almost all of it comes from leaks.

Either way, archive.org is certainly a very good place to put things like this.

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Re:Lost Japanese Video Games Discovered in a Folder on a Pri... by pimlottc on Sunday June 10, 2018 @03:58PM (#17279881)

> If the leaker had any bit of sense, (s)he would've copied everything first.

One assumes so, but it's hard to know the specifics here; if it was on some sort of proprietary forum, there might not have been an easy mass-download option. Maybe there was some sort of credits system. Maybe it was on a tenuous internet connection. If was a private torrent site -- the article's not clear but does mention bittorrent -- none of these restrictions would be that unusual.

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