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====== Welcome to Dumping.Guide! ====== | ====== Welcome to Dumping.Guide! ====== | ||
- | This wiki is a community-driven effort | + | This wiki is a community-driven effort |
* commonly used formats | * commonly used formats | ||
* consistent and repeatable methods for creating dumps | * consistent and repeatable methods for creating dumps | ||
* verification against other dumps | * verification against other dumps | ||
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+ | We tend to prefer tools released under free/open source licenses, so the preservation community can make improvements, | ||
==== Why is this important? ==== | ==== Why is this important? ==== | ||
- | We want to assist the global preservation community with information that will help them in their efforts | + | Video games have played a large role in our cultural history for decades, but we're at risk of losing many older games forever. Floppy disks, CDS, and other physical |
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+ | We need to preserve these artifacts of cultural development so future generations can appreciate and learn from them. | ||
==== How can you help? ==== | ==== How can you help? ==== | ||
- | If you have subject matter | + | We want to assist the global preservation community in their efforts to preserve video games on discs, carts, floppies, and other media. Use the guides on this site to verify games in preservation databases like [[https:// |
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+ | If you have expertise in dumping a specific system or media, or how to best use a specific software or hardware tool, we would love to have you join in on the effort! Please see the [[todo|todo]] page for systems, tools, and media that we need help with, and come [[https:// | ||
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+ | ==== What about current gen systems/ | ||
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+ | This wiki is focused on physical media preservation, | ||
==== Acknowledgements ==== | ==== Acknowledgements ==== | ||
- | A lot of information has been gathered from the [[https://no-intro.org|no-intro.org]] and [[http://redump.org|redump.org]] wikis and communities, an enormous thank you to everyone who has spent time and effort building tools and guides for a huge variety of systems. | + | This is a project sponsored and maintained by [[https://hitsave.org/|Hit Save!]], a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated |
- | //Download icon made by [[https://www.flaticon.com/ | + | A lot of information has been gathered from the [[https://no-intro.org|no-intro.org]] and [[http://redump.org|redump.org]] wikis and communities. An enormous thank you to everyone who has spent time and effort building tools and guides for a huge variety of systems. |
+ | //Download icon made by [[https:// | ||