Guides:Preservation

For now this will serve as a general dump of references as they are found

Disclaimer: None of this info is problematic to read about. The need for these methods, information and emulation stem from your own lack of legislated cultural responsibility and low quality/dead or dying hardware.

General

• https://dumping.guide/start
• https://preservation.guide/
• https://wiki.no-intro.org/index.php?title=Dumping_Guides
• https://scanning.guide/start
• http://wiki.redump.org/index.php?title=Dumping_Guides
• https://www.preservegames.org/2018/05/floppy-disk-dumping-guide.html

Optical Drives

• http://wiki.redump.org/index.php?title=DiscImageCreator:_Optical_Disc_Drive_Compatibility
• https://github.com/saramibreak/DiscImageCreator

Redump

• http://wiki.redump.org/index.php?title=Disc_Dumping_Guide_(MPF)
• https://github.com/SabreTools/MPF/wiki

Sony PlayStation 3

• http://wiki.redump.org/index.php?title=PlayStation_3_Dumping_Guide
• https://wiki.rpcs3.net/index.php?title=Help:Dumping_PlayStation_3_games

SEGA Mega Drive

• https://www.retrodev.com/transfer.html

Tools / Scripts (mmv)

• https://github.com/saramibreak/DiscImageCreator
• https://ucon64.sourceforge.io/
• https://pandorawiki.org/Creating_images_of_PSX_games_using_Linux

Groups

• https://smitdogg.mameworld.info/du/donate.html
• https://www.preservegames.org
• https://hitsave.org/#get-involved
• http://redump.org/
• https://no-intro.org/
• https://hiddenpalace.org/

Decapping (not dumping but still interesting)

• http://www.visual6502.org/
• http://uvicrec.blogspot.com/
• https://seanriddle.com/decap.html