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Post by mpx on Feb 19, 2012 17:37:19 GMT -5
Today I went to Snesorama and I found that site is closed  And The Playstation Datacenter is also RIP  Do you know good alternative for Snesorama? On Snesorama there were download links for obscure PS1 games and is bad thing that site is closed  Also do you know good web site for download GDI Dreamcast games? |
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Post by vetus on Feb 19, 2012 17:38:38 GMT -5
It's closed? That's why I couldn't access to all these days? I hope it's not true.
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Post by mpx on Feb 19, 2012 17:41:23 GMT -5
16.2.2012. PSX Datacenter wrote this on facebook:
Yesterday the Snesorama staff told me that Snesorama (that was the PSX Datacenter hoster since we started the project 4 years ago) is now closed and that they can't host the PSX Datacenter project anymore. I want to really thank the people of Snesorama for they support in the past and for the help that they gave me in the project.
But now is time to think about the future of the project and since I'm still interested in continuining with it, I want to know if anybody will be interest in offer free hosting to the PSX Datacenter. The project is right now the biggest (at least in size) PS1 Games Database in english language in the Web, at today is more than 7GB of space (including the game entries, covers, screens & manuals) and more than 5500 game entries.
So if anyone is interested in host the site please contact me here so i provide you more information.
Thank you.
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Post by megatronbison on Feb 19, 2012 18:38:18 GMT -5
Yeha I tried getting on a few days ago and it was down- this really sucks |
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Post by mpx on Feb 19, 2012 18:42:28 GMT -5
I have just went to Snesorama and here is something new on site.
You can find this message:
Snesorama (aka SOR) might be back soon. But we will no longer provide any illegal files, as I dont wanna risk jailtime or getting sued for millions of dollars, or even worse, EUROS!
I was going to shut down entirely, but I figured, we could just have the legal forum part up.
So I'm going to, if all goes well, upgrade VB, and restore the old database. The main difference being that the trade post will be gone.
SOR will be hosted by nitroroms.com, which is, as of today, 100% for certain, the best ROMs provider.
btw, if it says "download" below, dont click it. Its ADVERTISING silly :9
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Post by lanceboyle94 on Feb 19, 2012 20:13:06 GMT -5
FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Man, I really loved that site. Like I said on the SOPA thread, they had a lot of obscure and hard to find stuff in there. Many PS2 compilations, all of the Sega Ages 2500 games, the Virtual View and Motion Gravure "games", all three MegaRace games and many PC games (they had Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge in there!), plus they had ripped PS1 games which was awesome (for me), and now it's all gone because of copyright nazis.
Fuck them.
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Post by vnisanian2001 on Feb 19, 2012 21:47:45 GMT -5
Don't tell me this is the work of SOPA.
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Post by The Great Klaid on Feb 19, 2012 21:59:00 GMT -5
Bah, after all the progress we've made on the availibility of ROMs... i remeber when they were really hard to find, even harder to find some that worked right. Now we're going backwards. For the purposes of archival this is akin to book burnings....
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Post by jorpho on Feb 19, 2012 22:02:15 GMT -5
So they did have downloads?
They came up on a Google search a while ago when I was looking for that Game.com emulator. I tried to access the page and it said I needed to login. So of course I went to bugmenot.com and got IP banned when I tried to login... When I did manage to register I couldn't find any sign of the downloads anywhere.
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Post by Weasel on Feb 19, 2012 22:48:21 GMT -5
Bah, after all the progress we've made on the availibility of ROMs... i remeber when they were really hard to find, even harder to find some that worked right. Now we're going backwards. For the purposes of archival this is akin to book burnings.... We're either going to need to find a better archival method, or figure out some way to make it more cost-effectively legal to purchase backup devices like the Retrode, for every console system under the sun. (And even then, what of arcade games, digital-distribution-only titles, and those really rare one-off promotional titles?) |
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Post by Sketcz-1000 on Feb 20, 2012 3:30:27 GMT -5
So the entire website is gone overnight? Christ. I feel a bit sick. I only contributed one download, but jeez, some guys uploaded hundreds of rare titles. Things you won't find anywhere else, and things you will never be able to buy in the wild. Certainly not easily. Like all the stuff Lance mentioned. This shit just keeps getting worse and worse. The darkest days of the internet? I think so. And I recently modded my Saturn - now where am I going to find obscurities? The thing about SOR was how amazing it was to browse. I would leaf through their pages for the PCE, and I'd find weird mecha games I had never even heard of. It was like a museum. Google Cache is alright if you know what you're looking for, but you can't really browse like before. So much work destroyed. I know Discoalucard said we (the internet) would bounce back, but it's going to take years and years to grow like it did. Good article on why we need piracy, which I blogged about: technologizer.com/2012/01/23/why-history-needs-software-piracy/ |
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Post by ReyVGM on Feb 20, 2012 3:36:52 GMT -5
snesorama closed because 99.9% of their games were archived in megaupload, which is now gone.
There's always underground gamer or other private torrent sites for the lucky ones that can get invited.
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Post by Gendo Ikari on Feb 20, 2012 4:00:24 GMT -5
Re-uploading on other hosts would have been a hassle but, couldn't it have been achieved gradually, with help from the community?
Sooner or later, all the stuff Snesorama had will find another way to be distributed on the net. The true big loss, is of the place where it could be accessed easily. The rare stuff is obviously the one struck the worst, because it will become even harder to find.
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Post by Ace Whatever on Feb 20, 2012 4:04:09 GMT -5
Good point, Rey. I imagine invites to such place are a very valuable commodity now, especially now that UG opened the floodgates for PS2 games.
Ironically I never could take advantage of most of SOR because MU was blocked here. I'm glad at least that I managed to grab a couple of rare games that I wanted from there before it went belly-up.
RIP SOR...
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Post by megatronbison on Feb 20, 2012 5:35:31 GMT -5
I think the thing that sickens me is that almost all of the content on Snesorama was stuff you couldn't purchase anymore- certainly not outside of ebay. Like Weasel said - until publishers start providing an easy way to purchase these titles legally why should we be forced to pay obscene amounts to someone on ebay who has marked even the most generically available titles as "rare" and charging £30+?
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