[game_preservation] AJP and Guru Decapping Project

[Jan Baart]

Quite interesting, hadn't seen that yet, thanks!

While we're at it though, here's another recent low-level preservation 
approach by the guys from the Software Preservation Society.

http://www.softpres.org/doku.php?id=glossary:kryoflux

On 24.11.2009 23:46, Devin Monnens wrote:

> The American Journal of Play's Fall issue is now out, which features 

> the IGDA White Paper on Game Preservation! I was so glad to get a copy 

> in the mail!

>

> In addition, I don't think this is listed on the IGDA Projects, but 

> the MAME guys are working on low-level backups of arcade boards. They 

> are using high-res digital images to manually backup an arcade rom 

> (costs about $200 per chip). This is done to bypass security software 

> that prevents traditional data backups. This is really neat as they 

> have detailed documentation for why the techniques were chosen. In 

> addition, it is some concrete documentation on how much it costs to 

> accurately back up an arcade game.

>

> http://guru.mameworld.info/decap/index.html

>

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> Devin Monnens

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