trar wrote on 2023-09-04, 22:51:

I was trying to find the 3.2 patch for Michelin Rally Masters: Race of Champions, and while PCGamingWiki is usually pretty good about hosting patches themselves, their link to the patch is hosted on patches-scrolls.de which is currently down. Are there any other good patch sources (other than this website I guess) I'm not aware of?

What did the link point to exactly? If it pointed to the patch file itself you may try your luck with Internet Archive to see if that link (file) had ever been backed up before. If it's the download page then I'm not so sure.

That took some digging.

Michelin Rally Masters: Race of Champions - Update Patch v3.2

Sharedigger.com can be useful when looking up specific filenames.

liqmat wrote on 2023-09-05, 00:23:

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That took some digging.

Michelin Rally Masters: Race of Champions - Update Patch v3.2
rm32usec.zip

Sharedigger.com can be useful when looking up specific filenames.

Thank you very much. This site's a good source after all; I'm pretty glad it exists.

LSS10999 wrote on 2023-09-05, 00:17:

trar wrote on 2023-09-04, 22:51:

I was trying to find the 3.2 patch for Michelin Rally Masters: Race of Champions, and while PCGamingWiki is usually pretty good about hosting patches themselves, their link to the patch is hosted on patches-scrolls.de which is currently down. Are there any other good patch sources (other than this website I guess) I'm not aware of?

What did the link point to exactly? If it pointed to the patch file itself you may try your luck with Internet Archive to see if that link (file) had ever been backed up before. If it's the download page then I'm not so sure.

It pointed here: https://www.patches-scrolls.de/patch/3348/7/29726

trar wrote on 2023-09-05, 04:34:

It pointed here: https://www.patches-scrolls.de/patch/3348/7/29726

Just tried that page on Archive and I was not able to reach the actual file... after all, Internet Archive is not that good when it comes to JavaScript-powered pages.

liqmat wrote on 2023-09-05, 00:23:

Sharedigger.com can be useful when looking up specific filenames.

Will give this a try if I need to find something that's hard-to-find due to link rot. Maybe it could be a good supplement to Internet Archive when it comes to old public downloads.

I hope patches-scrolls.de can get back online. It's one of the few places where thousands of old game patches were still available. Some of those were from the DOS and Win9x era.

It would be pretty bad to lose all that.

patches-scrolls.com is still up, but you get a SQL error if you try to search

Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2023-09-05, 09:28:

I hope patches-scrolls.de can get back online. It's one of the few places where thousands of old game patches were still available. Some of those were from the DOS and Win9x era.

It would be pretty bad to lose all that.

The de site seems to be back, but yea, it's rather disconcerting how many patches are available only there. What's even worse is the number of patches that were available on the older .com site that are not available on .de.

IINM I remember reading that people can request specific files from .com to be made available on .de. I don't know why they don't just migrate everything.

That all makes me think people should organize some sort of project to download/collect everything there so it can be preserved, and re-uploaded elsewhere if needed.

The patches for Michelin Rally Masters: Race of Champions are also available from the archived developer's website which in this case is Digital Illusions CE (short DICE) -> https://web.archive.org/web/20061010104321/ht … ice.se/support/.

I also downloaded copies of the patches and will add them to my games patches page (https://soggi.org/misc/game-patches.htm) in the future.

BTW Patches Scrolls has a lot, nearly (but not) all game patches available - I also didn't understand why the creator changed the design the way he did and sometimes the website is also a bit confusing. I'll never reach this completeness as I don't only focus on game pages, but I try to provide some (most) important patches.

kind regards
soggi