[game_preservation] Game preservation videos?

[Jim Leonard]

Andrew Armstrong wrote:

> archive.org (along with some machinima and a few other things). I didn't 

> know of their MPEG-2 restrictions, which means for some games like that 

> one, a square doesn't fit very well. I don't think trivia is needed on 

> the video itself, it kinda suited it here, but if you read it you missed 

> some of the action (thus you changed it during the breaks, nice touch!).


Thanks :-)  BTW, they're not "restrictions" per se -- they just want 
normal, valid Full D1 or Half D1 MPEG-2.  It's a standard, it can be 
burned directly to a DVD and watched on any set-top player, and it 
eliminates guesswork out of the automated conversions.


> Recording it off the actual arcade machines would be ultra-difficult 

> with little payback, but I'd have loved to see someone playing the 

> arcade version - looks like a difficult game to master.


You barely move when playing it.  It's a pattern-recognition + reflex 
game :-)
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