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I have been getting into emulation (discussion) (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 month ago by Gamers_mate@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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I have been getting into emulation though there is no emulation community here to talk about it. I assume emulation discussion in gaming is welcome any thoughts?

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[–] shapesandstuff@feddit.org 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I love how much the emulation scene is doing for game preservation

Plus its super interesting from a technical point too

[–] Gamers_mate@beehaw.org 8 points 1 month ago

Emulation has come a long way. It is a great way to experience videogame history without original hardware.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Until archive.org soon will be ceased. Other big ROM sites were forced to close as well.. It's madness!! And we are not doing enough to prevent this. For example: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2024/06/one-of-the-webs-oldest-rom-sites-removes-games-by-nintendo-sega-and-lego

[–] Gamers_mate@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

we really need to archive archive.org tbh. If there was an open source fediverse alternative that would be great. The hard part would be the amount of storage needed for the whole thing.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We need to leverage existing solutions like how Ana archive is working. Which makes use of torrents. https://annas-archive.org/ Like read this carefully: https://annas-archive.org/datasets

[–] Gamers_mate@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago

cool I haven't heard of ana archive. Looks interesting.

[–] shapesandstuff@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah its a shame. Idk how much "we" can do about corporates misguided copyright craze