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====== Welcome to Dumping.Guide! ======

This wiki is a community-driven effort in documenting preferred methods of preserving video games by the method of "dumping" them (saving the game data to a computer file) from their original physical media in ways that support:

  * commonly used formats
  * consistent and repeatable methods for creating dumps
  * verification against other dumps

==== Why is this important? ====

We want to assist the global preservation community with information that will help them in their efforts of preserving video games on discs, carts, floppies, and other media.

==== How can you help? ====

If you have subject matter expertise in dumping a specific system or media, or perhaps how to best use a specific software or hardware tool for dumping, 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://hitsave.org/#get-involved|chat with us on Discord]] :)

==== What about current gen systems/digital? ====
dumping.guide is focused on physical preservation at the moment, and will not include current-gen systems or digital storefront dumping guides.

==== Acknowledgements ====

This is a project sponsored and maintained by [[https://hitsave.org/|Hit Save!]], a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to the preservation of video games, their history, and related physical and digital materials.

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.

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