[game_preservation] Archivist's Burden

[Andrew Armstrong]

That was an interesting read (mainly for how to get the audio tracks 
separate to the data...although why you'd do that for true dumping is a 
bit odd). A real shame it's windows only, then again, windows only helps 
for a lot of people.

I'll add this now to our resources list and should contact them at some 
point. We've also still got a need to do some general guides for "end 
users" who want to backup things, and this would be good to use there :)

Andrew

Jan Baart wrote:

> 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?

>>

>

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