Author Topic: Local Arcade art files backup? (Read 28559 times)

sean-o-mac · « **on:** October 17, 2009, 04:07:16 am »

Hey guys, I was wondering since localarcade is down, does anyone have all the artwork backed up from the site? It would be a shame to lose all that art. If anyone has it or would send it to me, I would host it all on a new website.

Sir woogie if you should read this, maybe you could send me the files? I would be more than happy to pay for material and shipping.

I have about a quarter of it backed up but not all of it.

TheShanMan · « **Reply #1 on:** October 17, 2009, 12:35:52 pm »

I have all the PP guts and a cockpit cabinet at work to serve as reference so I'll probably do a repro of the cockpit cabinet. I was counting on the artwork on localarcade because my chances of someone doing a real repro of the artwork seem to be slim to none. Hope it comes back!

zorg · « **Reply #2 on:** October 17, 2009, 01:27:51 pm »

yep, all the art from AAL (plus some other ones) is backed up.

we (some mates and me) are working on setting up (currently running but not finished) web site to host all those precious files.

stay tunned.

sirwoogie · « **Reply #3 on:** October 17, 2009, 04:03:04 pm »

Sorry guys, meant to post hear sooner. Somehow The abuse department at GoDaddy took the domain out as they say spam has been sent with the address. The problem is, their evidence shows it's just someone including the URL for the site, not relaying through it. It's just taking me a bit to get this through their legalese to get it reinstated (without charging me $75 dollars!).

sean-o-mac · « **Reply #4 on:** October 18, 2009, 11:50:33 pm »

Quote from: sirwoogie on October 17, 2009, 04:03:04 pm

Sorry guys, meant to post hear sooner. Somehow The abuse department at GoDaddy took the domain out as they say spam has been sent with the address. The problem is, their evidence shows it's just someone including the URL for the site, not relaying through it. It's just taking me a bit to get this through their legalese to get it reinstated (without charging me $75 dollars!).

Sir Woogie, you need some cash to keep the site up Im sure we can all pitch in and help out...

sirwoogie · « **Reply #5 on:** October 19, 2009, 05:18:53 pm »

I think I'll be fine once I get through all their red tape. But, thank you for the kind offers. I'll be sure to put up a paypal link. Someday I'll get to cleaning things up better.

Turnarcades · « **Reply #6 on:** October 19, 2009, 07:38:51 pm »

Silly question, but has anyone got or can anyone link me to a download location for pixelhugger's mame logo's (the round blue and orange ones), whilst localarcade is down, or can you sirwoogie?

Red 5 · « **Reply #7 on:** October 19, 2009, 08:04:49 pm »

Quote from: Turnarcades on October 19, 2009, 07:38:51 pm

Silly question, but has anyone got or can anyone link me to a download location for pixelhugger's mame logo's (the round blue and orange ones), whilst localarcade is down, or can you sirwoogie?

http://vectorlib2.free.fr/Mame/

Turnarcades · « **Reply #8 on:** October 19, 2009, 10:25:46 pm »

Thanks a bunch!

RayB · « **Reply #9 on:** October 20, 2009, 03:07:39 pm »

Why does it go down so much?

sirwoogie · « **Reply #10 on:** October 20, 2009, 07:46:55 pm »

this one was not neglect. This is an issue with the registrar. Still working on it (jebus they're slow).

kcorcoran · « **Reply #11 on:** October 25, 2009, 10:27:15 pm »

any ETA on this?

It's breaking my heart.

sirwoogie · « **Reply #12 on:** October 27, 2009, 01:24:06 pm »

Still working.

lungdart · « **Reply #13 on:** November 24, 2009, 12:15:57 pm »

2 months have gone by. Wondering what the status of localarcade.com is, or if anyone seems to have a backup of all the art. (including bitmap)

syph007 · « **Reply #14 on:** November 30, 2009, 11:54:57 am »

Shoot I was looking for that blue space CP background alot of folks use. I'm pretty sure it was on this site. It's the one that looks like these discs of different charater (pacman etc) are spinning away from the center. Anyone know where else this might be? It was a large bitmap image if I remember correctly.

DeLuSioNal29 · « **Reply #15 on:** December 07, 2009, 07:53:12 pm »

Quote from: syph007 on November 30, 2009, 11:54:57 am

Shoot I was looking for that blue space CP background alot of folks use. I'm pretty sure it was on this site. It's the one that looks like these discs of different charater (pacman etc) are spinning away from the center. Anyone know where else this might be? It was a large bitmap image if I remember correctly.

syph007, I have those files. PM me your e-mail address and I will send them to you.

DeLuSioNaL29

Bender · « **Reply #16 on:** December 09, 2009, 10:05:23 am »

Any word?

Anywhere I can get Ms pacman side art and marquee?

EDIT: found them here http://vectorlib.free.fr/MsPacMan/

still would like to know what's up with Local Arcade

can Saint host it here in the file repository?

DeLuSioNal29 · « **Reply #17 on:** December 09, 2009, 01:31:56 pm »

Quote from: Bender on December 09, 2009, 10:05:23 am

can Saint host it here in the file repository?

Now THAT is a good question.

Hmm.

D

ChadTower · « **Reply #18 on:** December 09, 2009, 02:01:13 pm »

Do you mean the whole art repository? That's like 400gb.

Hoopz · « **Reply #19 on:** December 09, 2009, 02:19:36 pm »

Quote from: syph007 on November 30, 2009, 11:54:57 am

Shoot I was looking for that blue space CP background alot of folks use. I'm pretty sure it was on this site. It's the one that looks like these discs of different charater (pacman etc) are spinning away from the center. Anyone know where else this might be? It was a large bitmap image if I remember correctly.

I didn't see this earlier, but if you still need the file, post in the artwork section. It's called Rom's character fusion or fusion explosion. Plenty of people have it on email that they can send (Encryptor, Arzoo etc came up in various threads from the search).

You may also send a message to Scott at Mamemarquees to see if he can email it to you. I know it's been uploaded there before. I'm not sure if he can or not but it's another place to try.

Good luck.

CheffoJeffo · « **Reply #20 on:** December 09, 2009, 04:42:39 pm »

Quote from: DeLuSioNal29 on December 09, 2009, 01:31:56 pm

Quote from: Bender on December 09, 2009, 10:05:23 am
can Saint host it here in the file repository?
Now THAT is a good question.

IIRC, saint was pretty clear on not wanting to host copyrighted artwork.

Having said that, there are a number of people, like zorg, who would be happy to.

DashRendar · « **Reply #21 on:** December 22, 2009, 12:27:47 pm »

Woogie, if they still have your domain blacklisted, I might be able to help.

At one of my recent jobs, I was the head of the abuse department for a major ISP. I'm very knowledgable of spam and how to dissect spoofed headers, and have worked with several ISPs and registrars to clear these things up.

Let me know if they're still accusing you of spam, and send me a copy of one of the messages (as an attachment). I can analyze it for you and tell you what to tell them.

sirwoogie · « **Reply #22 on:** December 22, 2009, 05:16:02 pm »

Nah, it's proven already that it wasn't me doing it. They just want $100 to leave them or $200 to stay with them (great extortion plan). I've not been able to nudge out of the costs, so I'll have to figure something else out. Over the holiday break I'm probably going to temporarily bring it up on another domain I have.

DashRendar · « **Reply #23 on:** December 22, 2009, 05:22:55 pm »

Yeah, I've seen some of these businesses do that. I especially liked the one that would blacklist half the domains out there each week. You could pay $50 to have them delist you, but they say there is no guarantee that you won't get blacklisted again in a week. Which usually happened.

Definitely need to be careful who you listen to blacklisting advice from, as that company was a scam, pure and simple.

rchuncleskeleton · « **Reply #24 on:** December 23, 2009, 08:05:20 am »

I'd be more than happy to host the files I have on my mediafire account....most of the files I do have are screenshots and box scans for snes,nes,genesis,tg16,n64 etc. let me know, though I do hope localarcade comes back because it's a freaking awesome site and I love it!

bkenobi · « **Reply #25 on:** December 23, 2009, 09:48:49 am »

I don't think this is a question of where the files can be hosted. I think it's more a question of how to get the website back up and running. I personally think a mirrored storage solution would be best for both bandwidth and accessibility reasons. As long as the files are still SOMEWHERE, I'm sure they will be back at some point (either at the web site, or with Saint hosting them).

rchuncleskeleton · « **Reply #26 on:** January 08, 2010, 11:23:50 pm »

any update on the situation?

DeLuSioNal29 · « **Reply #27 on:** January 27, 2010, 06:28:56 pm »

Found an alternative in the interim:

http://vectorlib.free.fr/

And here is the Mame Multi files on that site:
http://vectorlib2.free.fr/Mame/

D

DeLuSioNal29 · « **Reply #28 on:** January 27, 2010, 06:30:49 pm »

Also found this which may be of some interest:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.localarcade.com/arcade_art/

D

Triangel7D · « **Reply #29 on:** February 12, 2010, 07:51:47 am »

sirwoogie,

Any updates? Any thing else we can do to help? If it's back to money being the issue, I would be very willing to give you what I can. I think others would too. Local Arcade has been an invaluable resource, and I personally am holding off on getting my art printed until I know I can do a full search of your site to find the rest of the things I need.

Please tell us if we can do anything.

shrunkenmaster · « **Reply #30 on:** February 12, 2010, 05:01:24 pm »

CheffoJeffo · « **Reply #31 on:** February 12, 2010, 05:27:53 pm »

Quote from: shrunkenmaster on February 12, 2010, 05:01:24 pm

bump

bump from this morning ?

deweyhewson · « **Reply #32 on:** February 12, 2010, 06:50:12 pm »

I have a web server with ample space and monthly bandwidth and would be willing to use it to mirror the files, at least until the original site can be brought back up.

SavannahLion · « **Reply #33 on:** February 12, 2010, 09:56:10 pm »

Quote from: sirwoogie on December 22, 2009, 05:16:02 pm

Nah, it's proven already that it wasn't me doing it. They just want $100 to leave them or $200 to stay with them (great extortion plan). I've not been able to nudge out of the costs, so I'll have to figure something else out. Over the holiday break I'm probably going to temporarily bring it up on another domain I have.

I'll donate what I can if you give them a grand ---fudgesicle--- you and go with a different registrar.

Mamezilla · « **Reply #34 on:** February 13, 2010, 01:01:44 pm »

Using the web archive link, I was able to retrieve a few of the screenshots that they backed up but they didn't backup any files that were more than 10 Mb. So I wasn't able to grab the visual pinball screenshots, NES, SNES, N64 and others. In the meantime, if someone could upload some of these on rapidshare or megaupload for the others, that would be great. I'd be willing also to donate to SirWoogie so he can get LocalArcade back up with someone else, not those SOB's...

kcorcoran · « **Reply #35 on:** April 01, 2010, 10:53:12 pm »

what's the deal with this site?

is it ever coming back up?

it can't be a matter of just money to godaddy to get it back up because there are plenty of interested hobbyists who would put up enough money to cover getting it back online.

i guess it would be one thing if all the art came from one person but a lot of that artwork was the result of multiple people contributing to the hobby.

i completely understand the costs behind keeping that thing up for so long in terms of hosting and bandwith but we're going on 4+ months now without any resolution to this.

can someone give the community some concrete dates or at a minimum throw all the files on a torrent and let it rip so at least we can have something.

not trying to flame, just kind of frustrated that something i looked forward to giving to and taking from is just plain gone over what what initially said to be a $70-200 issue.

kegger · « **Reply #36 on:** April 26, 2010, 02:06:13 pm »

Quote from: kcorcoran on April 01, 2010, 10:53:12 pm

throw all the files on a torrent and let it rip

That would be a good temporary fix...

bkenobi · « **Reply #37 on:** April 26, 2010, 03:29:38 pm »

It's a good permanent solution if the site isn't coming back. If updates are likely, then a site would be better (or at least someone to maintain the torrent and add the new files).

milkit · « **Reply #38 on:** April 26, 2010, 04:57:06 pm »

if someone has the full collection, i have several web servers...

WhereEaglesDare · « **Reply #39 on:** April 26, 2010, 06:54:36 pm »

Quote from: milkit on April 26, 2010, 04:57:06 pm

if someone has the full collection, i have several web servers...

Same Here, we can get several mirrors.


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