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The "video game preservation service" Myrient is shutting down in March (www.gamingonlinux.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[-] Kronusdark@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

I really wish we could get libraries to handle video game preservation.

[-] ampy@discuss.online 8 points 2 weeks ago

This sucks. I used them a lot.

[-] ArmchairAce1944@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

I never heard of them now but video game preservation is as important as film or music preservation.

[-] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe it was just me but they didn't have much of a collection. Some obscure and hard to find but any time I was looking for something obscure and not easy to find they never had it.

Some system collections were pretty big so hopefully others can archive those.

[-] msokiovt@lemmy.today 5 points 2 weeks ago

They had 390 TB of data, so if anything, people are probably archiving it (at least, I hope so).

[-] charles@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I saw that there's a community effort to save the entire archive and they were nearly done (or at least are on track to be done before the shutdown occurs). That being said, I haven't been following this super closely so I might be getting the details wrong.

[-] msokiovt@lemmy.today 0 points 1 week ago

It'd be real dope if it were true.

[-] xvertigox@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Noooooooo FUCK God fucking cunting damn it

This fucking sucks shit

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