wyansas | 131 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 http://bootgod.dyndns.org/ It seemed like it had been unattended and in disrepair for a while, but lately it's been down completely. Doesn't even show up in a Google search. Anybody know what's going on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mega Tank | 955 Posted August 25, 2020 Share Posted August 25, 2020 I am not tech saavy enough to save all this, but I found this: https://web.archive.org/web/20171025225830/http://bootgod.dyndns.org:7777/ I hope the website comes back online. It has been one heck of a resource! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNESNESCUBE64 | 531 Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 I noticed this the other day, it's a shame as it's a good resource Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhleo | 2,184 Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 :\ man this is the third time this has happened in the past couple years. I regularly use it as well. I wonder if there's a way to get in touch with whoever runs it, if it's a financial issue I'd be more than happy to contribute to a "keep bootgod alive" fund. Can someone just make an online archive of gaming history, maybe under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License and keep it open source and downloadable....maybe even have a torrent image of the entire archive. If only the technology existed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeatherRebel5150 | 1,055 Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 It always seemed like that site went down at least once a year back when I used it heavily. It always came back up though after a few days possibly as long as 10ish days the one time I remember 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,929 Posted August 26, 2020 Share Posted August 26, 2020 That sounds about right, and I've had to deal with that issue too in SNK circles. There's a site called HardMVS which is fantastic, but it used to yo-yo off and online for years. Currently it's up, someone from france resurrected it with a .fr address as it was and it's a valuable tool. Though for MVS the equal on that would be mvs-scans.com as they do all the stickers, board variants, even the known pirates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhleo | 2,184 Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 (edited) Still down for me What a terrible couple years it’s been for game archival. Seems like the only way to have a proper database is to make it open source and downloadable. >_> I think I might start something. Keep the scope ultra small and go from there, I’m tired of sitting on my hands. Edited September 20, 2020 by ThePhleo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkchylde28 | 1,546 Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 IIRC, aren't dyndns.org addresses the ones where the page is actually being hosted on someone's personal computer and it's an app that's bridging their home IP to the "static" one? Taking a very brief look at the site seems to confirm this, so my guess would be that the owner/operator of the site is either having issues or has bowed out without letting anyone know. Hopefully the archive.org backup is an up-to-date and complete one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rethunter | 6 Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 Mirror: https://nescartdb.com/ 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strikezone1 | 154 Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 2 hours ago, rethunter said: Mirror: https://nescartdb.com/ Thanks for sharing this! I use this site all the time for a reference. Hopefully bootgod can have it back up and running soon but in the meantime it’s nice that someone created this mirror. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docile tapeworm | 4,194 Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 3 hours ago, rethunter said: Mirror: https://nescartdb.com/ 1 hour ago, Strikezone1 said: Thanks for sharing this! I use this site all the time for a reference. Hopefully bootgod can have it back up and running soon but in the meantime it’s nice that someone created this mirror. ya i dont have any idea what a mirror is but thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhleo | 2,184 Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 Nice, thank you for this. Is there a way to get a downloadable version of this? A permanent shareable archive is far more important than having an online version that can go offline at any time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,397 Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 (edited) 49 minutes ago, ThePhleo said: Nice, thank you for this. Is there a way to get a downloadable version of this? A permanent shareable archive is far more important than having an online version that can go offline at any time I guess more broadly, what are other similar collecting resources that need to be archived? Bootgod isn't even on internet archive and there's no *easy* way to archive an entire website on Archive.org, besides manually submitting pages to internet archive. I guess SNES Central would be an important one as well, RetroMags too, I'd have to think of other things. Imgur isn't forever either, they want to be a sort of social media site, not an image hosting site. Photobucket went down and there's a lot of great old forum threads with pictures of rare things that were obliterated with it. NintendoAge sure wasn't. We should start a Collection on archive.org. Edited October 8, 2020 by DefaultGen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhleo | 2,184 Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 Archive .org is always a risk of being sued into oblivion since they straight up give away stuff for free under the guise of academic use. The ironic thing about archiving game history is you need to do it with mass appeal while staying low on the radar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultGen | 5,397 Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 (edited) 1 minute ago, ThePhleo said: Archive .org is always a risk of being sued into oblivion since they straight up give away stuff for free under the guise of academic use. The ironic thing about archiving game history is you need to do it with mass appeal while staying low on the radar. So back to old reliable, squirreling everything away into my personal digital hidey holes. But I still think archive.org is the internet's best chance at survival. You're a smart archivist, what are other websites that need to be saved? Edited October 8, 2020 by DefaultGen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePhleo | 2,184 Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 AssmeblerGames, NeoGAF (whatever it’s called now), racketboy, sega16, NeoGeo, this very website......4chan video games, pastebin game related stuff, The websites of the various game publishers across the world....then stuff that isn’t really “websites” but stuff like App Store interfaces, game console store interfaces. Magazines are a big part of early game history so they need to be archived (is Castlevania II even possible to finish without a guide?) Also there’s stuff like the Nintendo Gigaleaks. They’re totally unethical to dig through but they’re there...so what the f do we do with that data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,929 Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 You archive it whether they like it or not because otherwise it would be lost. It sucks it got stolen, but the act is done and anyone who wanted to steal something or use it maliciously had that cat out of the bag long ago. Might as well leave it out there for historical and preservation services at this rate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowering | 0 Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 Yea, I used bootgod all the time. I started to update GoodNES again, and POW, his site goes down. The newest profile he had was Bible Adventures V1.5. Was there anything newer? Hint, I need that 'data' :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a3quit4s | 4,091 Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 There are board pics for most games at pricecharting if anyone is desperate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcgamer | 4,719 Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 7 hours ago, a3quit4s said: There are board pics for most games at pricecharting if anyone is desperate I'm guessing they don't have Famicom PCBs though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a3quit4s | 4,091 Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 (edited) 47 minutes ago, fcgamer said: I'm guessing they don't have Famicom PCBs though That guess is likely correct, they still don’t even have board pics for all the NES games, really just a last ditch effort place for people to check lol Edited October 20, 2020 by a3quit4s 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowering | 0 Posted October 20, 2020 Share Posted October 20, 2020 I have a raw download of bootgod data from about 4-5 years ago. However, finding it on a backup will be pretty impossible right now without some exact filenames to use in the search of my index files. Anyone have a cache with a pic name in it, or the name of a site php file besides 'index.php'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverjazzzoo | 1 Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 someone should web crawl and scrape the entire site into a spreadsheet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadeye | 1,595 Homebrew Team · Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 On 10/8/2020 at 9:09 AM, rethunter said: Mirror: https://nescartdb.com/ Quoting this in case people missed it. Go here while it is down. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pendragonx | 117 Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 Glad to see a mirror was created.. This is such a great resource for the hobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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