fheroes2: A recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine(github.com)
200 points by tosh | 70 comments
GitHub repository for fheroes2, an open-source GPL-2.0 C++ recreation of the Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine.
#game-preservation on Hacker News
13 stories tagged game-preservation, newest first.
AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary(popcar.bearblog.dev)
64 points by popcar2 | 54 comments
A personal blog post arguing that AI tools are enabling mass decompilation of video games, which the author sees as both exciting and worrying.
VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here's what's next(gamehistory.org)
95 points by rdmuser | 16 comments
Video Game History Foundation blog post announcing its digital archive has passed 5,000 magazines and outlining plans for the collection.
A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history(arstechnica.com)
328 points by WithinReason | 61 comments
Ars Technica article on a 12TB leak of Steam data revealing over a decade of unreleased PC game content, including cut Portal 2 material and Half-Life 2: Episode 3 hints.
Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California(arstechnica.com)
531 points by Lihh27 | 346 comments
Ars Technica article on a California bill advancing that would require game publishers to offer independent play patches or refunds after shutting down servers.
Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels(noclip.website)
416 points by ivmoreau | 53 comments
Noclip.website is a browser-based viewer for exploring 3D video game levels; the captured page shows a WebGPU-unsupported browser message.
The Video Game History Foundation library opens in early access(gamehistory.org)
344 points by pabs3 | 63 comments
Blog post by Phil Salvador announcing the Video Game History Foundation's digital library opening in early access, free for everyone.
Epic Allows Internet Archive to Distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament Forever(techdirt.com)
411 points by chocmake | 96 comments
Techdirt article reporting that Epic Games has allowed the Internet Archive to freely distribute Unreal and Unreal Tournament, framed around game preservation and copyright.
Show HN: Resurrecting a dead Dune RTS game(wheybags.com)
446 points by wheybags | 89 comments
Blog post introducing EmperorLauncher, a patch that makes Emperor: Battle for Dune run on modern systems with high-res support, online multiplayer, and co-op campaign.
F-Zero courses from a dead Nintendo satellite service restored using VHS and AI(arstechnica.com)
355 points by ramn7 | 71 comments
Ars Technica article on restoring lost F-Zero courses from Nintendo's defunct Satellaview satellite service using VHS recordings and AI.
Noclip.website: A digital museum of video game levels(noclip.website)
463 points by mutant_glofish | 91 comments
Noclip.website is a browser-based viewer for exploring 3D levels from video games such as Wii and GameCube titles.
Far Cry 1.34 source code (2006)(archive.org)
552 points by KomoD | 271 comments
Internet Archive item page hosting the complete source code for Far Cry version 1.34 from 2006.
The long road to recover Frogger 2 source from tape drives(github.com)
460 points by WhiteDawn | 175 comments
GitHub repository document introducing a guide and personal story about recovering Frogger 2 source code from OnStream tape drives.