[game_preservation] Archivist's Burden

[Jan Baart]

I know I'm late to the party but I still wanted to add this. There is 
actually a CD-ROM game backup community out there at redump.org. They 
also have a guide to preserve CD-ROM based games without copy 
protection, either with or without audio tracks. It's not the easiest 
method to grasp but apparently it's the most accurate one.

Here's a link to their guide:

http://redump.org/guide/cddumping/

, Jan

Mike Melanson schrieb:

> So I was thinking recently about how I didn't have enough to do with 

> my life (that's sarcasm at work) and I came up with yet another project:

>

> I have a 750 GB RAID-1 storage device (i.e., mirrored 750 GB drives 

> for redundancy) that recently freed up. I have somewhere around 800 

> games on CD-ROM (of which a fair number consist of multiple discs). So 

> how about archiving the discs? I guess it's sort of a duty when I am 

> sitting on this kind of collection. Who else knows more about 

> forgotten educational games and licensed Barbie titles?

>

> The question becomes "how to archive?"

>

> My first impulse: Write a Python script that automatically copies the 

> data track from a CD-ROM ('dd' Unix command). Additionally, for any 

> audio tracks, automatically rip them and compress them losslessly 

> using either FLAC or ALAC (Apple Lossless).

>

> Comments?

>