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This points out a possibility I never thought of: archiving your children's play! I suppose we already keep art that our children produce but something so compl

This points out a possibility I never thought of: archiving your children's play! I suppose we already keep art that our children produce but something so complexly imagined & constructed over hours was previously fairly ephemeral. I recently had the pleasure of reviving a game world my brother & I had built three years ago. Wandering around that was a nice trip through nostalgia. These kids will be able to do that for their ten year old selves, all the way up.

lbotos 9y ago
I still have a stack of floppy disks of Roller Coaster Tycoon Savegames. I should probably go convert them to some solid state media.
- RandomInteger4 9y ago
  That reminds me, I should go back to those old hard drives and see if they're (Roller Coaster Tycoon, Sim City, The Sims, etc. [Dyno Park Tycoon anyone?]) recoverable.
diamondo25 9y ago
I also have visited old minecraft worlds i made with my friends, but I must say that bitrot is a serious issue. Once the world is corrupt or lost, you cannot look back at it like you did. This save and restore is what I have grown up with. I remember the day my Pokemon Silver savegame got erased, due to a depleting battery, for example. People should not forget to take pictures and movies and make them physical, instead of dumping it on the internet. Having a small amount of pictures is more than enough, that make those events even more special. I had a lot of gaming memories saved on Xfire. They stopped their service a couple years ago and all the contents and thus the strong link to memories are gone. Just like people you have had contact with online, eventually you'll loose contact and then these pictures can help you not forgetting that time... Maybe we are making and processing so many events, that we'll get issues remembering stuff in a couple years?
- bringtheaction 9y ago
  My Pokémon games still hold their saves, about 20 years after I got them. I turned on my GBC and checked a few months ago and the saves were amazingly still there then. I want to dump the save files but I haven’t quite found the right equipment at the right price. Does anyone know of some electronics that are not too expensive and that can be used to dump the save games onto a Linux computer?
RandomInteger4 9y ago
I archived a bunch of my old worlds as well, though I need to go back and organize them and triplicate the backups as well as getting back into some of those worlds and playing around again on an updated rig. Some worlds I had to cut short due to diminishing FPS the more and more I built (shakes fist at stair roofs). One thing I wish I had access to though were the builds I've done on public servers.
heywire 9y ago
I would love to be able to walk through some of my old Doom levels I made when I was younger!

lbotos 9y ago

I still have a stack of floppy disks of Roller Coaster Tycoon Savegames. I should probably go convert them to some solid state media.

RandomInteger4 9y ago
That reminds me, I should go back to those old hard drives and see if they're (Roller Coaster Tycoon, Sim City, The Sims, etc. [Dyno Park Tycoon anyone?]) recoverable.

diamondo25 9y ago

I also have visited old minecraft worlds i made with my friends, but I must say that bitrot is a serious issue. Once the world is corrupt or lost, you cannot look back at it like you did. This save and restore is what I have grown up with. I remember the day my Pokemon Silver savegame got erased, due to a depleting battery, for example. People should not forget to take pictures and movies and make them physical, instead of dumping it on the internet. Having a small amount of pictures is more than enough, that make those events even more special. I had a lot of gaming memories saved on Xfire. They stopped their service a couple years ago and all the contents and thus the strong link to memories are gone. Just like people you have had contact with online, eventually you'll loose contact and then these pictures can help you not forgetting that time... Maybe we are making and processing so many events, that we'll get issues remembering stuff in a couple years?

bringtheaction 9y ago
My Pokémon games still hold their saves, about 20 years after I got them. I turned on my GBC and checked a few months ago and the saves were amazingly still there then. I want to dump the save files but I haven’t quite found the right equipment at the right price. Does anyone know of some electronics that are not too expensive and that can be used to dump the save games onto a Linux computer?

RandomInteger4 9y ago

I archived a bunch of my old worlds as well, though I need to go back and organize them and triplicate the backups as well as getting back into some of those worlds and playing around again on an updated rig. Some worlds I had to cut short due to diminishing FPS the more and more I built (shakes fist at stair roofs). One thing I wish I had access to though were the builds I've done on public servers.

heywire 9y ago

I would love to be able to walk through some of my old Doom levels I made when I was younger!