GameFAQs Archive gemini://tilde.pink/~bencollver/gamefaqs/ This is an archive of FAQs and walkthroughs for video games on home consoles and handhelds. This collection came from gamefaqs.com.
2 years ago 路 馃憤 smokey, mimas, freezr, cobradile94, kelbot, miffy
gemini://tilde.pink/~bencollver/gamefaqs/
Here is a link to an interesting article about GameFAQs gopher://ymodem.org/0/crummysocks/posts/post440.txt 路 2 years ago
gopher://ymodem.org/0/crummysocks/posts/post440.txt
I saw more than one FAQ that was posted the Usenet back when by convention, Usenet posts were implicitly in the public domain. From the very beginning these guides were written as a labor of love and not as a commercial production. In any case, the content was not made by GameFAQs and some of the authors are no longer alive. That's my take as a digital anarchist. 路 2 years ago
@bencollver I mentioned your GameFAQs archive in my log today would be interesting to hear your stance on worrying about copyright as a fellow archiver. gemini://tilde.team/~smokey/logs/2022-09-20-copy.gmi 路 2 years ago
gemini://tilde.team/~smokey/logs/2022-09-20-copy.gmi
Thanks Birabittoh! For a backup, see the Offline Viewing link on the About page. 路 2 years ago
Great work! Are you planning to make this ultimate backup available on a public repo? 路 2 years ago
The archive was just a bunch of plaintext files. I fixed encoding errors, sanitized file names, then used a short TCL script to import the details into an SQLite database. I used another short TCL script to generate the directory indexes with links to the plaintext files. I found that the archives on endangeredsoft and archive.org are not identical. Each has some walkthroughs that the other doesn't. I used the ones from endangeredsoft where available, and then added a few platforms from the sitegrab on archive.org (atari2600, ds, pc, ps). 路 2 years ago
@bencollver thanks a lot ben! much appreciated. 路 2 years ago
that鈥檚 is fantastic! I routinely old NES and computer games and having this in Gemini is so helpful. great work @bencollver
can you talk more about how you generated the gemtext from the Archive? 路 2 years ago
A gemini version, yay! 路 2 years ago
Hi smokey, i just added the PC games section, please try again. 路 2 years ago
I can't seem to be able to find the PC games section? 路 2 years ago
that's cool 馃憤 路 2 years ago
Awesome! Thank you!!! 馃幃 路 2 years ago