[game_preservation] Nintendo 3DS trailers

[Rowan Kaiser]

For example:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/10/27/darkspore-drm-shuts-out-new-players/

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Christian Bartsch <cb at softpres.org> wrote:


> This is the ugly face of the convenient way games are delivered today. I

> am very sure we will notice many games missing in the years to come and it

> won't get better with all the DRM mania and other specialties of modern

> delivery channels.

>

> MP3 was freed a couple of years ago, but videos and games still come in

> chains. Incriminating those breaking such protections is understandable

> from a publisher's point of view, but a problem for preservation. So where

> do you draw the line? And: Encryption is really getting strong. Just look

> at those mobile phones.

>

>

> --

> Christian Bartsch

> The Software Preservation Society

> http://www.softpres.org

>

> On 7 Nov 2011, at 22:26, Henry Lowood wrote:

>

>  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).

>

> --

> Devin Monnens

> www.deserthat.com

>

> The sleep of Reason produces monsters.

>

>

> _______________________________________________

> game_preservation mailing listgame_preservation at igda.orghttp://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/game_preservation

>

>

> --

> Henry Lowood

> Curator, History of Science & Technology Collections;

>    Film & Media Collections

> HRG, Green Library, 557 Escondido Mall650-723-4602; lowood at stanford.eduhttp://www.stanford.edu/~lowood

>

>  _______________________________________________

> game_preservation mailing list

> game_preservation at igda.org

> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/game_preservation

>

>

>

> _______________________________________________

> game_preservation mailing list

> game_preservation at igda.org

> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/game_preservation

>

>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/game_preservation/attachments/20111107/e1d80403/attachment.htm>