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WanganRunner
09-28-2009, 12:07 PM
I've started trying to amass a collection of odd/interesting "soft" gaming stuff.
By this I mean debug/unreleased ROMs, looping demo video files from kiosks, high-quality tech demo footage, 3D models and other files, etc.
Anyone else into doing this? Anyone know where to get some high quality tech demos? All the ones on Youtube look like garbage.
I have a high quality tech demo video of nexus 2 if u want... also theres a site where you can download the von braun fallout tech demo (actualy demo) if you want :| gonna have to look for something specifically i think though :S
Kiddo
09-28-2009, 04:24 PM
Not sure if this is quite what you mean in the purest sense, but Satellaview games are downloaded into rewritable flash memory, which makes collecting 8M Packs with data in them a borderline case. That's before you take into account Soundlink audio which was streamed off the Satellite radio, of course.
Since much of that is a bit tough for me to collect I've gotten a bunch of videos of gameplay pulled from the past, with players actually playing the games with the Soundlink audio and all. Keep most of it on Satellablog for anyone who cares to view.
The 1 2 P
09-28-2009, 06:11 PM
I have a few kiosk demo loops of PS2, PS1 and Xbox games.
darkslime
09-29-2009, 01:23 AM
Nope, seems like a waste of time to me.
Ed Oscuro
09-29-2009, 05:12 AM
GBA Video and other looping video ROMz (like the Twilight Princess demo on DS) are already included in GoodTools releases, so don't worry that nobody else is keeping them. Personally, they take up way too much hard drive space, plus they suck so I wouldn't want to keep them anyway. I'd generally rather save the space for something else - not that this is a major storage space issue on my new laptop drive, or that it would be if I installed a terabyte drive. It's mainly an issue of taking forever to download these things.
Out of the blue: VLC 1.0.2 released yesterday, go get it.
HappehLemons
09-29-2009, 06:01 AM
might as well be collecting 1s and 0s
Icarus Moonsight
09-29-2009, 06:35 AM
1 <---- This 1 is truly my favorite one. It's an R9. All my zeros are either false or as common as null values. :/
pseudonym
09-29-2009, 07:01 AM
I collect teh romz.
Compute
09-29-2009, 08:16 AM
I collect memories of games that I enjoy playing
chrisbid
09-29-2009, 08:23 AM
if it is from a game i really enjoy, then sure, but collecting every little trinket you come across... nah
WanganRunner
09-29-2009, 12:35 PM
if it is from a game i really enjoy, then sure, but collecting every little trinket you come across... nah
Yeah, I don't necessarily intend to just amass everything, but it would be nice to, say, have all the looping Gamecube kiosk footage (as some came on memory cards rather than the multi-game demo discs).
Or the aforementioned debug ROMs, things like that. I like non-retail stuff.
Anything that was released at retail I'd have less interest in.