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    OG is raising money to form a non profit community interest company enabling us to preserve more history than ever before!

    Unfortunately, like most things in life this is going to cost money and we're asking for some help from the community. All users will be given donator status, along with early updates and depending on how much you help us with we'll try to chuck in some free merch!

    This will cost us roughly $850 for two years including business address/phone number etc which is needed to register a business bank account within the UK.

    You can help us by making a custom pledge, or by making a general pledge as it all helps us greatly. We're happy for a one time donators even though Patreon asks monthly. To prevent charge backs we're unable to accept Paypal at this time. Although once live this will be sorted too!

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Where will the ASSEMblerGames archive be hosted?

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With ASSEMblerGames.com going down at the end of the month one of our moves has been building OG, along wth a static archive of the site, we've released a few different types of backups so far, along with others by Nemesis/more to come by archive.org etc.

What have we done so far? We've bought assemblergames.net in auction, along with https://www.assembler-games.com/ the .com being the main site to host the archive.

Alpha wrote a custom Python script to crawl the site and populate a database which'll be hosted on A-G.com once the site goes done. Akira has been writing a front end for it based on the style AG is using currently.

We'll post more as always, just a minor update to the things going on.

We also have new stuff coming shortly, so keep an eye out OG :)

Ps, We've added an option here: https://www.obscuregamers.com/account/account-details to add your original AG username and join date, copy from your profile and it'll display in your posts/profile :)
 
Damien
Damien
Damien
Damien/Demon is the tech guy behind ObscureGamers & Prototopia, If it breaks it's normally my fault so please send abuse my way if needed. :eek:

I'm dedicated to preservation on all levels, having managed to do many important preservation projects.

Below is a list of projects I've helped with/ran.

  1. 2015, Bought XboxModders.com and renamed it ObscureGamers.com in early 2016 when AssemblerGames.com went offline due to a breach of the servers security.
  2. 2016, released the first ever Wii RVT-R disc dumps without the use of Wii developer hardware. (Further sending the custom drive made by Credier to Bad_Ad to clone.)
  3. 2016, released the earliest known Crackdown builds for X360, along with a ton of Sonic builds for 360 getting noted on sites such as https://sonic.fandom.com/wiki/Sonic_Unleashed for sharing a preview build with lost/removed levels.
  4. 2017, Released over 300GB of builds, including the first ever SEGA PICO Source Code seen online.
  5. 2018, Was donated an XBOX ONE Alpha Kit (Durango) by a former developer who drove 300 miles to deliver it in person. This system was later restored into fully working order and donated to a private museum.
  6. Left ObscureGamers.com as owner and passed it onto MorphicSn0w, Due to issues we can't talk about the site was closed.
  7. September 2018, Seeing things not going to plan with AssemblerGames.com me and Morphic decided to build Prototopia.net as a private forum for mature preservationists.
  8. With the help of many months of work from GerbilSoft I released the first ever RVT-H Wii dumps.
  9. Founded the ProjectXe XBOX 360 Alpha G5 kit restoration project, The goal being to restore the system into working order.
  10. Opened Prototopia.net up to vetted members in late 2018.
  11. Pending Project: 50TB Project, over 80 developer kits, thousands of discs to be dumped by myself and a major private collector. ETA unknown, but I intend to make a video of the project highlights.
  12. Unable to disclose NDA'd Preservation project.
  13. Relaunched ObscureGamers.com due to AssemblerGames.com closing and merged Prototopia.net into it.
In the mean time I randomly post site updates and continue to research stuff.

Comments

Damien
Just a few pics of what we have working so far thanks to Akira. :D

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Logins won't be a thing, but we've made the forum look as original as possible, avartars won't be there and will show default. Same as member profiles we don't need these as our focus is to show the posts/threads in original format.

This should be finished over the coming couple of days, paginav/thread urls work already and in original url format as ASSEMbler used meaning if you have a bookmark just adding - between assembler-games will be enough to view a topic.
 
FamilyGuy
Damien said:
Just a few pics of what we have working so far thanks to Akira. :D

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Logins won't be a thing, but we've made the forum look as original as possible, avartars won't be there and will show default. Same as member profiles we don't need these as our focus is to show the posts/threads in original format.

This should be finished over the coming couple of days, paginav/thread urls work already and in original url format as ASSEMbler used meaning if you have a bookmark just adding - between assembler-games will be enough to view a topic.
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Why no avatars? I find those quite practical to rapidly scan for a particular reply.
 
Damien
FamilyGuy said:
Why no avatars? I find those quite practical to rapidly scan for a particular reply.
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More coding, although we can add it later on still. we're just trying to push this out fast as possible while working as simple as possible.


Here's a quick preview we made running from the custom database/frontend.
 
FamilyGuy
Damien said:
More coding, although we can add it later on still. we're just trying to push this out fast as possible while working as simple as possible.
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Fair enough for me. Though I think it's worth implementing eventually.

Are the external images hosted on the backup too?
 
Damien
FamilyGuy said:
Fair enough for me. Though I think it's worth implementing eventually.

Are the external images hosted on the backup too?
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They will be yes, we had a few issues with renamed files in the HTTRACK, but the original names are in the WGET's so we should be good there. All hardlinked AG.com links will be edited to A-G.com etc and the files put over :) just spent a few hours scanning for bits we may have missed, and found about 800MB of press stuff not mentioned on site anymore but still on the server.
 
Chaotic Mind
I had made this suggestion already. Would it be possible to change the names of those who are still active here? Example: I used to go by "sonicdude10" before I took this name on. Might make it easier to cross reference original posts with still active members.
 
Damien
Chaotic Mind said:
I had made this suggestion already. Would it be possible to change the names of those who are still active here? Example: I used to go by "sonicdude10" before I took this name on. Might make it easier to cross reference original posts with still active members.
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This shouldn't be hard to do, the names are pulled from database so we could leave the original name and (Chaotic Mind) in brackets next to the original name.

Thank you for your suggestions, will work on them all once we're closer to launching the site.
 
Akira
Damien said:
More coding, although we can add it later on still. we're just trying to push this out fast as possible while working as simple as possible.


Here's a quick preview we made running from the custom database/frontend.
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FamilyGuy said:
Fair enough for me. Though I think it's worth implementing eventually.

Are the external images hosted on the backup too?
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Adding the avatars isn't an issue code wise, i can add implement that no problem. It's more of a data issue, i'd need all the avatar files and preferably in a formatted naming convention.

For example
{{userid}}.jpg or {{username}}.jpg
 
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