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Nostalgic News: Sega 32X Virtua Racing Has Been Decompiled

On January 30, 2026, Time Extension reported that the Sega 32X version of Virtua Racing has been decompiled. If you are reading this, there is a decent chance you may have questions such as "Sega 32what?" or "do you mean Virtual?" But for me, the headline represented a bit of nostalgia in my Miniflux feed reader. On December 6, 2024, I published an article on The New Leaf Journal titled Musing About Tesla Cybertruck at Brooklyn Bridge Park. The post was prompted by my photo of a Cybertruck […]

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/sega-32x-virtua-racing-decompiled-01-30-26/

Nostalgia: Sega 32X Virtua Racing Decompiled

News that the Sega 32X version of Virtua Racing has been decompiled struck me as nostalgic since I had a 32X and Virtua Racing back in the 1990s.

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Techdirt Jan 30

Stop Killing Games Gets Over 1 Million Petition Signatures Verified By EU

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/29/stop-killing-games-gets-over-1-million-petition-signatures-verified-by-eu/

Stop Killing Games Gets Over 1 Million Petition Signatures Verified By EU

I’ve been talking about the Stop Killing Games movement for some time now, so important is its mission to me. This collection of volunteers focused on video game and cultural preservation is …

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Adrian Jan 26

Please join us when we talk shop all things Flash, video game presevation and community building with @raven. This Wednesday 4pm CET on Discord.

https://social.sciences.re/@InputPokeSave/115961763250501622

#Flash #VideoGameHistory #VideoGamePreservation

Input, Poke, Save ! (@[email protected])

It takes a village to preserve a game, especially if the game was made in ⚡ Flash. That is why we'll sit together with @[email protected], co-lead of Flashpoint Archive, to talk all things video game preservation and community building! - Wednesday 28 January at 4pm (CET) - Join us on Discord [1] Flashpoint Archive [2] is an international community project dedicated to preserving Flash games and animations on the web. The discussion will focus on the complex process of preserving these digital objects, including resource management, decision-making, and community engagement. [1] https://discord.gg/F2kNh4fq [2] https://flashpointarchive.org

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Techdirt Jan 9

‘Anthem’ Shuts Down January 12th And, Poof!, There Goes All That Creative Culture

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‘Anthem’ Shuts Down January 12th And, Poof!, There Goes All That Creative Culture

When I get on my little soapbox and begin preaching about the importance of video game preservation, particularly when it comes to publishers shutting down servers required to play the game, I ofte…

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Adrian Jan 7

This one is for my ⚡ Flash afficionadxs ✨ The end of this month we host a session with @raven from the community-driven Flashpoint Archive on organizing and maintaining the project. More infos via @InputPokeSave. Come, it will be great!

https://social.sciences.re/@InputPokeSave/115854277030902589

#Flash #Archive #VideoGamePreservation

Input, Poke, Save ! (@[email protected])

Happy new year everyone! The next session of the Input, Poke & Save online seminar will take place on Wednesday 28 January at 4pm (CET) and will be held in English. We are pleased to welcome @[email protected], co-lead of Flashpoint Archive, an international community project dedicated to preserving Flash games and animations on the web (https://flashpointarchive.org/). The discussion will focus on the complex process of preserving these digital objects, including resource management, decision-making, and community engagement. Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/HHRDAubDE9

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Nicholas A. Ferrell Aug 26, 2025

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/should-switch-2-key-cards-be-preserved-08-26-25/

I wrote a New Leaf Journal Article several years ago praising Nintendo for having a cartridge-first mindset with the Switch. Nintendo’s emphasis on cartridges has waned with the release of the Switch 2, which has introduced game “key-cards,” which are good for nothing more than downloading the game in question. This brought up an interesting issue for a Japanese government initiative to preserve games and game media. Should game key cartridges be preserved? The National Diet Library says no. I had not thought about it before and will not do so here, but I could see arguments in favor of preserving the game-key cards even though they do not contain the game in question (perhaps as a monument to bad trends if nothing else). But the story did remind me of my experience with the installer for the 2006 English language patch Midsummer Haze to a doujin Japanese visual novel called Manatsu no Kagerou. The patch wants to download the Japanese Manatsu no Kagerou. However, Manatsu no Kagerou has not been downloadable from the developer site for many years. Thus, the installer was useless until your favorite (I hope) online writer managed to find the original Manatsu no Kagerou and shared the knowledge with the world. Whether you should play Manatsu no Kagerou or the English localization Midsummer Haze is a more complicated question.

#digitalOwnership #midsummerHaze #nintendo #nintendoSwitch #nintendoSwitch2 #videoGamePreservation #videoGames #visualNovels

[Note] Should Switch 2 Key Cards Be Preserved?

An article about whether Nintendo Switch Game-Key Cards are worthy of preservation left me with no answer, but it seems to be a close question.

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TheGreenWizard Jul 6, 2025

WE ARE MAKING SOME REAL STRIDES!
HELP #StopKillingGames TODAY! WE WILL ALWAYS NEED MORE SIGNATURES! WE WILL OWN OUR GAMES, AND WE WILL BE HAPPY! Feel free to spread the poster around anywhere! make your own too!

EU: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

UK: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702074/

#videogamepreservation #ConsumerRights

TheGreenWizard Jul 5, 2025

Another day, another opportunity to remind you to help #StopKillingGames ! We can NEVER have enough signatures! We are doing well, but we could be doing better!
#videogames #videogamepreservation #ConsumerRights

EU: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

UK: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702074/

TheGreenWizard Jul 4, 2025

Things are looking good, BUT THEY COULD LOOK BETTER! Daily reminder to help #StopKillingGames We cant slow down now! The more extra signatures the better! That goes for both the EU, and UK signatures too! GO GO GOOOOO!

EU: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

UK: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/702074/

#gamepreservation #videogames #videogamepreservation #ConsumerRights