[game_preservation] Blog about Video Capture project

[Devin Monnens]

Thanks for the info, Henry!

Now those are for factory-sealed games. These were kept in a climate
controlled storage facility for a significant period of time as well,
right? It would be interesting to compare these with numbers from other
collections.

I would expect the numbers to be lower as well for games that were already
open, but 3.8% after 25 years seems promising. Unfortunately, if you only
have one copy of the 4%...


On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Henry Lowood <lowood at stanford.edu> wrote:


> All,

> Ok, I have some data. Not up to the current date, but specifically with

> regard to 5.25" media in the collection.

> From the first 499 pulls, there were 10 read errors. Of the 490 remaining

> items, 9 were unmountable after imaging.  So 19 failures out of 499.

> That's 3.8% as a failure rate for the data pulls.

> Henry

>

>

> On 9/11/2013 9:43 AM, Henry Lowood wrote:

>

>> Andreas,

>> Ok, let me check if we have any data that we are ready to share.

>> Henry

>>

>> On 9/11/2013 12:35 AM, Andreas Lange wrote:

>>

>>> Dear JP and Henry,

>>> thanks for your feedback. I haven't expected numbers now, but would be

>>> still interested in the kind of media, which you have choosen to test and

>>> record. Have you e.g. included magnetic media?

>>>

>>> Andreas

>>>

>>> Am 10.09.2013 20:13, schrieb Henry Lowood:

>>>

>>>> JP,

>>>> We are still in the middle of our project. We do have some numbers, but

>>>> not a complete set yet.

>>>> Henry

>>>>

>>>> On 9/10/2013 9:57 AM, Dyson, Jon-Paul wrote:

>>>>

>>>>> Andreas,

>>>>>

>>>>> The project is still in process so I'm not in a position to share

>>>>> final numbers or specific breakdowns by system/material type but so

>>>>> far of the more than 7800 pre-2005 games we've tested there has been

>>>>> an initial failure rate of around 2.75%. That reflects some degree of

>>>>> remediation (e.g. cleaning and retesting) but not extensive work on

>>>>> games to see if we can make them work.

>>>>>

>>>>> Henry might have some numbers to share from his new imaging project.

>>>>> Henry do you have numbers?

>>>>>

>>>>> JP

>>>>>

>>>>> -----Original Message-----

>>>>> From: game_preservation-bounces@**igda.org<game_preservation-bounces at igda.org>

>>>>> [mailto:game_preservation-**bounces at igda.org<game_preservation-bounces at igda.org>]

>>>>> On Behalf Of Andreas Lange

>>>>> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 10:58 AM

>>>>> To: game_preservation at igda.org

>>>>> Subject: Re: [game_preservation] Blog about Video Capture project

>>>>>

>>>>> Hi JP,

>>>>> this is great news. Congratulations to that important project! Which

>>>>> systems/ media will you use? Specially I am interested in the

>>>>> percentage of the not working games, which are stored on magnetic

>>>>> media...

>>>>>

>>>>> Andreas

>>>>>

>>>>> Andreas Lange

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>>>>> Am 09.09.2013 15:40, schrieb Dyson, Jon-Paul:

>>>>>

>>>>>> The Institute of Museum and Library Services recently posted a brief

>>>>>> blog I wrote about our IMLS-funded project to capture video of game

>>>>>> play. Here’s the link in case people are interested:

>>>>>> http://blog.imls.gov/?p=4091.

>>>>>>

>>>>>> Best,

>>>>>> JP

>>>>>>

>>>>>>

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