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Publishers are absolutely terrified "preserved video games would be used for recreational purposes," so the US copyright office has struck down a major effort for game preservation (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I’m sitting on the RetroAchievements collection over here. It is my single most seeded torrent, by leaps and bounds. I went with RA, because it means I can throw any of them at RetroArch and the RetroAchievements integration will work without having to fiddle with game versions. It also has a surprising number of ROM hacks and homebrew.

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ay, elaborate a bit because I see a lot of unofficial RA collections and the official one on archive.org doesn't list a magnet or torrent file.

Are they seriously just hosting their most current archive in one place?