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Submission + - USPS kills SNES preservation project

Submitted by wertigon on Monday February 13, 2017 @06:40PM

wertigon writes: Long-time bsnes developer byuu has been doing a preservation project in order to preserve and validate the ROMs of all SNES games currently in existance. As it turns out, someone at the USPS thought it was a good idea to lose the package, thereby robbing the project of roughly $5000 and the sad hopes of ever seeing a full indexing, like the one done to the U.S set. Byuu writes:
On January 5th, a package containing 100 PAL games were sent to me to dump. The United States Postal Service has either stolen or lost this package. [...] I do still want to dump and scan the Japanese games I already purchased. But we will never have a complete PAL set. I can't ever afford it, I won't risk purchases with the incompetent USPS anyway, and I will never again accept cartridges lent to me. And considering I've had exactly zero offers to give me PAL carts (meaning it would be more acceptable if they were lost in the mail), that means no more PAL games. If you guys ever want the PAL set preserved, and remember I found two corrupted dumps (marked as verified) in the 100 carts I dumped so far, then it's up to you guys to do so yourselves.

Submission + - Microsoft joins the OpenID foundation (live.com)

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wertigon

on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @05:25PM

wertigon writes: "Windows Live ID just became yet another OpenID-provider. While the cynical me wonders how long it'll be before Microsoft transforms OpenID to something propreitary, they have undoubtedly put even more weight behind the OpenID initiative. So, how long before I can use my OpenID to post on Slashdot?"

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