[game_preservation] Archivist's Burden

[Devin Monnens]

I've mentioned Redump a few times before (introduced through the list
actually). Trouble is they don't explain why they chose the method they did
- they just say 'do it'. The Slightly Dark disc backup technique explains
why they chose the software and methods they did (however, it's not
specifically for lossless, though it does include instructions for FLAC -
I'm not sold on an archival method for audio CDs).

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>wrote:


> 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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