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There is the website <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.feelies.org/">http://www.feelies.org/</a> which makes new ones for
old games (and new games) which might be worth looking at if you did
want them.<br>
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Media - the actual videogames bits - should be the easiest to backup
(the actual format, ie; some hacked NES cart or some floppy disk
system, is harder but still obtainable as the hardware side is).
Generally feelies (and manuals) are the hardest, since they are damaged
so easily through use. Boxes are less difficult to obtain since they're
usually stored away.<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
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Devin Monnens wrote:
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class="gmail_quote">preserving the videogame usually implies
preserving these too, although the unnecessary and easily damaged items
might be really hard to get<br>
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I've been wondering just how easy it would be to reproduce copies of
these things if they are missing. The same thing is true for disks
actually. It should be possible to manufacture new floppy disks (3.5,
5.25, 8) for restoration purposes. If the original hardware is
considered essential to playback, then the only thing not working is
the medium. Original hardware can be repaired through restoration (but
will always become harder and harder to get), but the media itself
should be easily replicable if the original is properly archived.<br>
<br>
-DM<br>
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-- <br>
The sleep of Reason produces monsters.<br>
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"Until next time..."<br>
Captain Commando<br>
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