[game_preservation] Nintendo 3DS trailers

[Henry Lowood]

Devin,

are you asking about preservation of video game trailers or of the 
actual delivery channels themselves?  I am a little unclear about the 
question, but in a nut-shell, yes, there are efforts in both 
directions.  On the game side, there are several collections that are 
focused on video and trailers are included (cf. the Internet Archive 
Moving Image collections), but there is some work in digital 
preservation around environments in which media and software were used, 
such as at the British Library (and not so much about games).

Henry

On 11/7/2011 12:58 PM, Devin Monnens wrote:

> I know this is a few weeks after the fact, but I didn't read the 

> message until after the fact anyway. Nintendo has been offering some 

> trailers for the 3DS through their DSiWare Store for use on the 3DS. 

> These included trailers for Mario, Mario Kart, and Luigi's Mansion. 

> However, at the end of October, the trailers were removed. 

> Unfortunately, while I had considered downloading everything there, I 

> did not get all of it. This raises a question regarding the 

> preservation of additional media such as game trailers. With these, 

> though, I assume they could be downloaded onto the flash card and then 

> transferred to an external storage device - though I have not tried 

> this myself. I was just curious if anyone has been pursuing Virtual 

> Console preservation (the same thing could hold true for broadcasted 

> material over the Nintendo Video Channel, along with DSi Videos - they 

> seem to be taken down from service after a few days).

>

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