[game_preservation] AJP and Guru Decapping Project

[Devin Monnens]

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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