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Friday, 2 May 2025
quote [ Being a Japanese organisation, the GPS is held hostage by antiquated and draconian Japanese laws.
[…] The tragedy is that the GPS has done so much to preserve Japan's cultural history. It helped a Kyoto kimono factory when its antiquated computers needed repairing. It built on the pioneering work of others to improve methods of preserving LaserDiscs, and wanted to share it with others. There have been a lot of news stories about preserving Japanese mobile phone games, and the GPS has been involved. ] Interesting doc on Japanese retrocomputing archive running out of cash due to complicated national laws and fan expectations even while receiving government funding.
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ethanos said @ 7:10pm GMT on 2nd May
I scanned the whole thing and did not see one place to contribute...
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Paracetamol said @ 5:29am GMT on 3rd May
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You are right! Is that a Japanese thing? Well, scanning the nicely formatted English newsletter archive linked in the article, it says at the end:
If you’ re not already a GPS member, the best way more infos on the English homepage or via the documentary: Inside Lens - Game Preservation, the Quest [1080p with multilingual subtitles] |
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