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[amptor]

UG has some sweet ass stuff.

Also, forums? lollllllsssss

It was so difficult to acquire a lot of roms back in the snes scene days that you pretty much would have to run a top BBS with multi nodes to acquire the vast majority of files.

[scaramouche]

Men, i full understand this guy. Some people love to listen Vinyls today, and of course if someone ask "hey .. anybody know were i can buy a Phillips Vinyl disc player?" i don´t think anybody will tell "Are you crazy?? buy you an MP3 player or BLUE RAY!! Even de CD are obsoletes now!"

Believe it or not, i know people that love to listen music from a Vitrola (even previous than the Vinyl discs).

Is not just about the music or the game.. the format , the way you take it.. for some reason i love to burn games on my GB exchangers from a "pain in the neck" parallel port based devices even wen i got very easy USB based units that i can just burn from my netbook.

The game is funny.. to make them run on old and obsoletes units and devices is funny too. Full understand this guy and good look with the search. I will ask over here just in case and let you know.

[SpooNMan]

Sorry to ressurect this old post, but I just noticed it and feel like I have to comment...

I still have nightmares of the 8 hour days I spent copying SNES carts to floppies in the early 90's! We sat in tiny cubicles with nothing but a table and a tiny B&W TV.

Videogamer555 was right about everything... Well except that we used SWC DX's to dump .SMC files.. That was our only fun. I used to dance in my cubicle to the menu music (when the guards wern't watching of course!)

Back to reality.. Does anyone actually want the original scene releases? I think Art of the Game (from numbers BBS) still has them untouched with NFO's.. I think I have the first couple discs. If anyone really wants them I could pack them up and throw them on Undergroundgamer or something.

[madman]

The AOG CDs renamed the ROMs and there are no NFO files. On the first disc (or two) a few ROMs didn't work properly, though some do have the scene intros in tact.

[romiso]

the art of the game cds are all unpacked and ready to play, there is no real scene stuff on that (other then the (renamed) games themself)... around 95% of numbers cds are repacks (all files are packed with .zip instead of .lha or .lzh and files are mostly renamed)

i was deeply into that thematic during the last 2 years as i was involved with the "bbs scene project". the goal of the project is the preservation of old scene archives and sorting them into folders according to todays scene standards (there were around 14k+ releases sorted for around 20+ systems last time i counted).. quite a niche when it comes to collecting so don`t bother if you never heard about it - the project mostly was known in the german speaking area. we also did the snes and genesis scene torrents @ underground-gamer.com.

if anyone is interested in the thematic, likes to share or trade old bbs archives or Pirate CDs or is looking for a specific file from back then feel free to pm me

[SpooNMan]

[romiso]

[SpooNMan]

[amptor]

Heh I don't have nightmares but I have som memories of things still. I remember when a friend of mine was running a BBS and acquired Fulgore's password which happened to be the SAME password that digital messiah used on every BBS he was on. So he told me to try it on USS Enterprise and it worked. So I downloaded everything I ever dreamed of from there until Picard caught me and consequentially took his BBS down completely after 2 weeks. Still not sure why he took the board down.

I remember dialing out to boards and downloading the latest ROMs and usually trading PC games for credits because SNES games were much smaller. I could get a lot more video games to play this way.

I still remember all the silly underground and invite only BBSes like The Ghetto in Crockett and stuff like that. Cambit let me use his account on The Ghetto and there wasn't much going on on there at all really. It had telnet with ISDN or something. It wasn't all that spectacular when I was able to finally get in. It was suppose to be pretty good before Sega busted them though I guess.

The copying of games onto floppy disks was fun and it was interesting fitting 1.6 megs onto a 1.44 and figuring out the latest tools to use to get up to 1.72 megabytes on the disk. The only thing I missed out on was the 2.88 megabyte floppy drive. I never purchased one of those. But I think only the SWC DX2 was compatible with it.

Not kissing ass or anything but I remember seeing Spoonman's files on various BBSes, Razor1911 hq's and such. A couple boards in El Cerrito I guess and also probably on Spatula City in Vacaville. Those were always really cool to see in the file listings. He made a big name for himself by distributing that stuff which I think mostly was cheat codes for games and information; no pirated software.

What I really don't miss was being unable to get a large quantity of games, the download speeds were horrendous, telephone bills I usually kept at about $60/mo which is absurd since back then compared to today's money that's about $120 or so in today's buying power.

[romiso]

[SpooNMan]

I meant I need to sort out my personal texts & stuff from the original BBS files. Those don't need to become [pd]!

[xiaNaix]

I used to frequent many boards in the U.S. and U.K. back in the day under a different nick. Luckily, I avoided most of the shit that went down towards the end there with MAPHIA, etc. If anyone has contact with Howie tell him to shoot me a PM. All I have left from those years are some random floppies and a handful of printouts. That BBS archive project of yours is like a dream come true for old-timers like myself. Thanks for putting it together. If there are any updates be sure to let us know.

[vectrex_rox]

that would be awesome to have access to such an archive ... unluckyly nearly all my archive is gone ;(

best regards ... TermX