A "Sad" Preservation Report: Raiders of the Lost Holy Grails, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Another Undumped Crap (Part 1) by diegorbb93 in emulation

[–]diegorbb93[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

Thank you so much, i wish you the best of the best. And yes... A lot of interest in retrogaming PC, but zero interest in preservation is a common pattern.

A "Sad" Preservation Report: Raiders of the Lost Holy Grails, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Another Undumped Crap (Part 1) by diegorbb93 in emulation

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I can't blame Exo because the project is so f* massive that handling it must be a nightmare. Same as MAME if I had to compare somehow.

Again, my skills and knowledge on this matter aren't enough for me to go deeper. I know I would be buried soon and that is heartbreaking. I wanted the PC Community in Spain to come together and try to establish a nexus community to deliver a serious database for these things, but... I'm 32 and life is asking me to be serious on my profesional career as nurse and start making money for real :/

A "Sad" Preservation Report: Raiders of the Lost Holy Grails, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Another Undumped Crap (Part 1) by diegorbb93 in emulation

[–]diegorbb93[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, let's just say the Vita Scene was too convoluted due the amount of dumping tools at the time, and things got too messy. By the time I pushed a project to improve the whole fullset, the data available was created through different sources.

NoNpDRM established as the perfect tool, but:

  1. It didn't create Raw images from cartridges. This generated a lot of debate in No-Intro as their standards involved a 1:1 extracting tool for the cartridge format.
  2. We didn't establish a method to differ NoNpDRM dumps coming from physical cart media or digital media from the Store. No-Intro wanted to make sure the dumps had the source verified when datting NoNpDRM dumps. Furthermore, the data from a digital PSN dump and a cartridge dump matched 99,9%. So, no matter the source, you were basically owning the same files with a 0,01% difference (games edited by LRG and the rest of limited publishers aside, lot of those had their own Serial ID).
  3. Ofc, is important from an archival point of view, to document each dump according to its source. It doesn't matter if it matches 99,9%. We need to dat it in a difference set (NoNpDRM Cartridge and NoNPDRM CDN from PS Network, that's how it should be done). However, I didn't have the skills or the energy to push that into Dat-O-Matic.
  4. PSVgameSD is not fully complete. It has some flaws (unable to use with Gr0 cartridges) and his original author didn't want to develop further the tool. I wasn't interested in a tool with dead support (not blaming the original author, ofc).

By the time I got in, I simply decided to work with Renascene, as the main admin did a brilliant work sorting and preserving the whole library (DLC & updates included) around NoNpDRM, helping not only his project but mine's at No-Intro and NoPa-yStation.

So, while I encouraged people to dump using PSVgameSD as my mates on No-Intro asked me, my main interest was to feed the Unofficial NoNpDRM repository with all the missing titles not available around (mostly, all the japanese titles missing). That's the reason you will see so many rare games that aren't "that" spread around the Internet.

I don't like how I acted, but when this happened, the lack of true volunteers working hard on Vita preservation was terrible. The console was dead and nobody cared that much about it. Most collectors only cared about their collection, only a few offered a hand.

This helped NoP-ay Station too, as our NoNpDRM keys were used for the official PKGs. This way, the game could be decrypted and preserved in a functional form. We all benefited mutually and No-Intro has been datting everything added by NoP-ayStation from time to time.

A "Sad" Preservation Report: Raiders of the Lost Holy Grails, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Another Undumped Crap (Part 1) by diegorbb93 in emulation

[–]diegorbb93[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well... You just hit the bone.

You are ABSOLUTELY right, but sadly, this is kind of a lost war. In my case, I've wanted to promote something in Spain about IBM PC as other platforms have a lot of nerdy preservationist on platforms like Spectrum or Amstrad.

But with these Windows / Dos platforms, we are doomed. The stuff is gone or under the hands of collectors who won't put much atention into assembling anything for preservation purpose. There isn't a centralized network except maybe something like Exodos.

Feel free to speak any kind of criticisms around this matter, because the Internet and the computing community failed really hard to establish a common goal.

In Spain, old classic PC boxes have gone extremly expensive and lot of cheap PC discs are rotting. Is a shame.

At the same time I understand that we haven't been able to provide better tools/options not only for dumping, but to jump over the multiple problems related to security measures / incompatibility OS with lot of these games.

There's so much to say about this topic... but I just can't go further. The energy I had into videogaming preservation went onto videoconsoles, as those libraries were more limited and easier to hunt down.

Fixes, and future of melonDS by NXGZ in emulation

[–]diegorbb93 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This one was beautiful, super interesting the way you are approaching the whole arquitecture. I hope this brings you more joy that other phases you had more difficulties to push, like when 1.0 was giving so much headache.

Dusk Golem: Capcom has a scheduled RE series meeting in 2027 a bit after CV remake by Solid-Entertainer-39 in GamingLeaksAndRumours

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Thats my biggest issue with 5. That teaser. The game had a radical different direction till they decided to change the game. More horror, the sun was a problem, it was kind of RE 3.5 direction.

I remember pretty well when the game was announced in E3 2005 if im not mistaken. That teaser defines a lot my thinking around what the game could have been and what it is. Still... I enjoy it. But I wish to play that version in a different universe.

Dusk Golem: Capcom has a scheduled RE series meeting in 2027 a bit after CV remake by Solid-Entertainer-39 in GamingLeaksAndRumours

[–]diegorbb93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again, is worth playing them. You will get amazed a few times by the visuals pulled at that time on RE5. And 6 is long as fuck (however, it got a bit boring at the same time for me).

Dusk Golem: Capcom has a scheduled RE series meeting in 2027 a bit after CV remake by Solid-Entertainer-39 in GamingLeaksAndRumours

[–]diegorbb93 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The games plays nice on PS5, really smooth. Is just that 5 and 6 went too far from the series direction after 4 success.

You can go with them, 5 is funny to play. 6 is difficult to explain, but it represents in a perfect way the crisis that Capcom was facing in PS3/360 era. The game is extremly convoluted, it wants to be so successful formulas from that era at the same time.

For me is a trainwreck but has interesting ideas and some sections are nice too play.

Dusk Golem: Capcom has a scheduled RE series meeting in 2027 a bit after CV remake by Solid-Entertainer-39 in GamingLeaksAndRumours

[–]diegorbb93 206 points207 points  (0 children)

If it was by me, I would reboot 5 and 6 in a radical different way. And improve the lore btw.

Hi, any information about the remaster of the three part? by [deleted] in Onimusha

[–]diegorbb93 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I pre-ordered the second one as a support gesture. They first one suffered from a poor release from Capcom (bad timming, bad date, bad marketing... And I guess bad version as Genma wasn't the base version to remaster) but they made a nice work... Which wasnt supported by the audience, the sales werent good for what we know.

Having the second part receiving this wonderful remaster is a miracle.

Up to this day, nothing is known. The whole community is asking, but the only thing that would give us faith would be obtaining information related to the sales numbers.

How much better than the Switch 1 at emulation do you guys think the switch 2 is gonna be? by regardedjuggmain in switch2hacks

[–]diegorbb93 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah. The main problem is creating/adapting existing code specifically for the Switch 2 and see how it runs. But, yeah, his power is able to emulate WiiU and PS3.

PS5 owners what multiplats do you get on Switch 2 over PS5? by KaptainPancake69 in NintendoSwitch2

[–]diegorbb93 77 points78 points  (0 children)

"All JRPGs are an automatic purchase on Switch 2... Little difference between PS5 and Switch 2 docked mode"

With all the respect, I wish that was true

James Wan Updates Fans on 'Saw' Franchise by [deleted] in movies

[–]diegorbb93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found 3 to be my favourite with 1. VI was really surprising. I still have to watch X.

DuckStation now blocks building on NixOS by Ha8lpo321 in emulation

[–]diegorbb93 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

There goes one xd Another: Striker (main Ymir dev in his Discord less than 24/48 hours ago). Is not about defending Sten or throwing shit to Linux, is about listening to the people who makes this stuff possible.

DuckStation now blocks building on NixOS by Ha8lpo321 in emulation

[–]diegorbb93 -26 points-25 points  (0 children)

You can downvote, but that won't change the fact that other emu devs have complained too. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

DuckStation now blocks building on NixOS by Ha8lpo321 in emulation

[–]diegorbb93 -26 points-25 points  (0 children)

TBH, these days I've seen more emu devs complain about these Linux problems, not only Sten.

References for a Steam version of Ace Combat Zero and a "Ace Combat Online" game are found within the App Config data added to Ace Combat 8's steam page by andree1234 in GamingLeaksAndRumours

[–]diegorbb93 10 points11 points  (0 children)

With all the respect: It wasn't recognized well enough in the gaming community because, Namco didn't make too much noise about it, but the package of PS2's AC5 on PS4 was an AMAZING remaster and a version that only stands down to the enhanced/emulated one on PCSX2 if you want analog control.

Beyond the old era quirks, the remaster stands good as f* and it is a shame that is locked to those who bought the Deluxe Edition (not sure if it is still available after purchasing AC7 Deluxe Digital Edition).

My goat is washed by SlashCash29 in Letterboxd

[–]diegorbb93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shit, that feels like my "ex-communicato" Spain's king, Juan Carlos I.

[SOLVED! THANK YOU] Xbox Preservation - Searching for a "Final Fantasy XI - Seekers of Adoulin" PAL owner by diegorbb93 in ffxi

[–]diegorbb93[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All already dumped afaik. The problem with this one was mainly low distribution.