[game_preservation] And the archives lump of coal this year goes to...

[Devin Monnens]

Well, the only ones I know about are Metroid Database, Metroid Recon, and
Castlevania Dungeon. And there were better versions of most of the
Castlevania music that Kurt had.

This affected all Hosted sites (the same ones that went under and that may
or may not have been backed up by the archivist). There was probably some
interesting material on the other pages, but the wealth of it lay in the
site content rather than hosted files.

Devin

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>wrote:


>  Wow...that...really sucks...

>

> How many other sites are affected? Anything important we should look to see

> if we can get a hold off them with a formal letter or something?

>

> Andrew

>

>

> On 21/12/2009 16:51, Devin Monnens wrote:

>

> IGN.

>

>  They decided at the last minute to delete all the Fileplanet files from

> hosted sites without letting anyone know about it ahead of time. Thankfully

> I have everything backed up in a safe place (multiple places actually), and

> our new server can handle the traffic, but this was NOT something I wanted

> to deal with on Christmas week. I'm curious to see whether they will be

> offering to send all the files via internet transfer or over DVD.

>

>  Thoroughly displeased.

>

>  -Devin

>

>

>  We are contacting you as at one time you were an IGN Hosting user.

>>

>> Before retiring the service, we indicated that files uploaded to

>> FilePlanet would remain downloadable even after the retirement of the IGN

>> Hosting service. Unfortunately, we are unable to continue maintaining this

>> service, and are having to disable these download pages. To clarify, these

>> are all the download pages that have URLs beginning with "

>> http://www.fileplanet.com/hosteddl.aspx?/hst/" (that is, files uploaded

>> via ftp://fphosted.gamespy.com/). *This does not affect Planet site

>> files, only hosted site files.*

>>

>> If you need a copy of your files, please send an e-mail to

>> oysterhelp at rt.ign.com *within the next seven days*, clearly stating your

>> old FTP username (which can be found from the URL of a file, for example,

>> the username associated with

>> http://www.fileplanet.com/hosteddl.aspx?/hst/p/h/phrozenk/file.zip is

>> "phrozenk").

>>

>> We apologise for having to stop supporting this service, and also for the

>> short notice. Please can I stress that you contact oysterhelp at rt.ign.com*within the next seven days* should you need a copy of your files, as

>> automatic snapshots of the directories are not kept for much longer than

>> that.

>>

>> Thanks,

>> IGN Hosting

>>

>

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> Devin Monnens

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>

> The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

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