My jolly good fellow, if they're easy to find, why bother preserving them? Indeed! :) Apologies if my questions appear a little dense; I definitely have ideas of my own about why things need to be preserved, but I can't make any assumptions. That's why I want to do one on one interviews if at all …

RoyBatty wrote: Heiberg: You may want to try contacting someone at redump.org , it is a database dedicated to preservation of optical media. (NO WARES!) Thank you for the tip. I'm looking into it. 😀

What is more interesting - and more difficult I have to say - is preserving the game's printed documentations and manuals. You are right, that is absolutely interesting (and difficult; it's hard enough to find a game with its original casing and manual in the modern console world, let alone the …

Hi everyone! I'm sorry for using the incorrect terminology for this website. I didn't mean to imply that what you were doing was illegal or a hack-job as some of you have pointed out in the comments. I'd be happy to edit the subject line of my original post to more accurately reflect the range of …

Hello! My name is Cherie Heiberg, and I’m a Masters student at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. I’m writing my Masters paper on emulators. Specifically, I’m writing about how hobbyist creators of emulators and ROMs preserve video games. …