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Hit Save! @hitsave.org · 05/10/2026

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our latest project: preserve.games, a browsable catalog of organizations, museums, projects and communities dedicated to video game preservation! If you've ever wondered how to get involved or where you can learn more, this is the site for you!

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preserve.games - Video Game Preservation Portal

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Jo-eek! ‘Dead-chibe' W. 👻 @thestacks.ca · 05/10/2026

Please check out the following wonderful folks who are archiving our world! 🧵 Starting with @ozidual.bsky.social, a total underdog when it comes to scanning Japanese games magazines and boxes! He’s been especially great with Famitsu spinoffs and Famicom stuff+type-ins archive.org/details/@ozi...

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So true! I've come across a lot of personal files on former dev hardware. With any data volume, you gotta take care to not spread someone's sensitive info. People do lots of personal business on work machines, or jot down thoughts before it was conceivable it could be blasted to a global audience.

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Almost all the character designs (as seen in this concept art as well as that prototype intro) changed by the final game. some of these designs are pretty wild!

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fun fact: The first part of the video was my attempt to exactly recreate the intro to the first Castlevania game!

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Some levels, like The Neverhood, are very unfinished and different.

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

After a quick scan through, every level I've checked aside from Space Launch appears to be different from final. Here's the Underworld Lava level in the prototype (left) compared to final (right).

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The prototype build opens with a pretty unhinged (and loud!) intro animation, missing from final, that shows a ton of early character designs.

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've just uploaded a "Demo Disc" prototype build and electronic press kit for the PS1 game BoomBots, dated from May of 1999, around 6 months before release. archive.org/details/boom...

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What a strange adaptation of The Giving Tree!

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You're totally right about that! Zoomoth's keshi offerings were sort of souped-up throwbacks to the old keshi figures of the 1980s, so this is surely a reference to the M.U.S.C.L.E/kinkeshi poses. Actually, since it's essentially a T pose, it was ideal for rigging the model for animation!

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ha ha yeah! Actually, the paint job featured in the video is my attempt at recreating the actual way Zoomoth had their display model painted at Wonder Festival 2014. I think I even read that the sculptor's own son was the one who painted the figure.

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Castlevania has just marked its 40th anniversary! To celebrate, I've 3D scanned what is by far the rarest keshi in my collection: Simon Belmont! Created by boutique toy maker Zoomoth, as few as 80 of these figures were ever sold, during just two days in 2014! Enjoy: archive.org/details/kesh...

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thank you, and thanks for the great work!

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Astounding work! The scope and scale of what you've extracted is amazing, and your ability to present it in such a fully featured web tool is top notch. Well done! Quick note: the green armored woman and people robed lord are cut NPCs named Dorey Lean and Ham, respectively. x.com/MrTalida/sta...

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Alfred Reinold Baudisch @alfredbaudisch.com · 29/09/2026

New game! 585 assets from Quest 64 (Nintendo 64) were imported into the asset browser: all 3D models with ALL ANIMATIONS (characters, monsters, props), maps, sprites, VFX, UI. A complete extraction and labeling of Quest 64 assets. Dedicated to @quest64official.bsky.social

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Drew Mackie @drewgmackie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I interviewed @sincama.bsky.social and @luigiblood.bsky.social about bringing the most obscure bit of Super Mario Bros. 2 fandom to the English-speaking world for the first time ever. Also? Peach utters a profoundly offensive swear word. Really!

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Translating the Long-Lost Sequel to Super Mario Bros. 2 — Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games

An interview with the collaborators who made BS Super Mario USA playable in English.

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F_T_B @ftb1979.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Found by Jumpman at Gaming Alexandria after multiple people including myself have looked for it - The long lost American Xevious arcade commercial! Found in a Phillies vs Mets game, of all things.

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Brenden @bro3256.com · 22/09/2026

An unreleased Nintendo 64 game has been released today by Team Carrot. Kaminari no Gotoku: Choukousoku Igo by Seta is as you can guess from the screenshots a table Go game. This prototype build appears to be near final and can be fully played, as long as you have knowledge of Japanese and Go.

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fantastic game. Still very playable even today.

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Games That Weren't @gamesthatwerent.com · 21/09/2026

MELT, a lost 1997 PC game featuring Iron Maiden's Eddie, has been recovered! We're releasing a build for the first time, along with source code and an updated version for modern PCs. We also speak to developer Paul Tebbutt. Thanks to Tamaracade for their earlier research.

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I like the way Mario lurches towards me and gestures erratically while he speaks.

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

HungUp on Thread 4 RCP is HUNG UP!! Oh! MY GOD!!

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Elegoo Mars 5 Ultra resin printer. It works well... when something doesn't go wrong!

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yeah, I've posted scans of nearly the full run of figures. These Ocarina of Time keshi were created by Bandai and came in metallic green and metallic silver variants. archive.org/details/@kes... I use a desktop-based structured light scanner that is intended for dental applications.

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm just over here 3D printing vintage Ocarina of Time merchandise.

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Gaming Alexandria @gamingalexandria.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Complete dumps of 4 non-retail iQue Player consoles obtained by members of iQueBrew have been released by jhynjhiruu along with an article all about the Chinese Nintendo 64 created by BroadOn in partnership with Nintendo. Enjoy! www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2026/09/i...

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Gaming Alexandria @gamingalexandria.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Even in 2026 there's still undumped games to release for the NES/Famicom. Bought a lot of Fukutake Studybox tapes awhile back and they'll be released soon!

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Even more recovered Firefly boss fight VO. Visually and tonally, I don't think this Firefly would've fit with the Nolan films. I wonder if the game would have followed Dark Knight's plot at all? Based on the files I can see, it seems you fight many villains, and The Joker is just one of them.

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

And here is audio I recovered from what is certainly the boss fight with Firefly which Alfred alluded to earlier. It sounds like he tries to bait you into a fight, only to be undone when the player jumps on his back mid-flight and destroys his jetpack.

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Chris Kohler @kohler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Symphony of the Night design documents on display at the Konami booth at TGS. The mock screenshot is incredible

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

More VO that I've recovered from what remains of this build of EA and Pandemic's canceled Dark Knight game from 2008. These are the only Batman lines I've found in the build; placeholders performed by someone making their best attempt at Christian Bale's bat-voice.

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Certainly! Would be thrilled to help.

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Dug in and seems Pandemic's The Saboteur used the name "Wildstar" in its files too. Was it an engine name, or Saboteur's codename and they didn't update the project name for Batman? Supports @liamrobertson.bsky.social 's research that Dark Knight was built on Saboteur. Leftovers in Batman files:

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm working on recovering assets from a partially-intact June 2008 build of EA & Pandemic's canceled Dark Knight batman video game, codenamed Wildstar. Here's the Alfred VO I was able to recover. Some of the lines seem like they are actually read by Michael Caine (or a very good sound-alike)!

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I created something I've wanted for a long time: a searchable archive of Newsbytes News Network articles: technology reporting from 1983 to 2002. www.savetz.com/newsbytes/ 73,000+ articles, and a fun image gallery.

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Newsbytes Archive

Search 73,350 technology news stories from the Newsbytes News Network archive.

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Yakumono @luigiblood.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Releasing now! Satellaview Super Mario Bros. 2 (BS Super Mario USA) MSU1 ROM containing all 4 episodes with full english dub on project.satellaview.org! #Satellaview #SNES Have fun!

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Gaming Alexandria @gamingalexandria.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Every 1997 Weekly Famitsu has been scanned! Please RT and spread the word and post any cool things you find in these! Enjoy! www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/magazine-...

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Great find! I should have known you'd be there. Would have been nice to bump into you and say hi :)

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

(Fortunately, things sometimes slip through.) bsky.app/profile/mrta...

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A solid minute of hard drives being destroyed at Monolith Productions: youtu.be/Qz4htOKYlZw?... 🥲 This is common practice at game studios and other tech companies, to protect trade secrets as well as protect employee privacy.

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FEAR 2 Unsung Heroes Part 2

YouTube video by MonolithCommunity

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Kay Savetz @savetz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Mail’s here - three boxes of Atari history sent to me to scan

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Hubz @dushubz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thrilled to announce every 1996 issue of Weekly Famitsu is now available on Rosetta Magazine Researcher. Make sure you update to the latest version of you will not be able to download these. Enjoy and please RT and share what cool things you discover! github.com/duhubz/Roset...

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I used to shop at that very same Best Buy. I believe we were neighbors.

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MrTalida @mrtalida.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is mere moments before the fateful act; you can see he is assuming a squatting position.

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Daniel Alba @daniel.gvg.io · 10/09/2026

Kaori Mizuhashi is the original voice of Navi the fairy, a voice that many of us grew up with. It sounds like she's returning to reprise the role in the Japanese version, nearly 28 years later. Clip of an old promotional video for Ocarina of Time where she guided you, fully voiced.

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