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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #40 on: May 08, 2010, 12:01:56 am »
bumpage  ;)

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #41 on: June 25, 2010, 09:22:02 am »
looks like everyone wants to help get this back up!

such a shame it's been down for so long.. let's do it  :notworthy:

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #42 on: June 25, 2010, 12:14:48 pm »
I've been trying to find all the content that was on there to put it up again, I even had it on an external but as the rule states; 'Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong." and so that drive is unreadable. How many gb of content did Local Arcade have anyway?
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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #43 on: June 28, 2010, 01:54:06 pm »
I've been trying to find all the content that was on there to put it up again, I even had it on an external but as the rule states; 'Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong." and so that drive is unreadable. How many gb of content did Local Arcade have anyway?

I have some programs to help get the files off hard drive
send me a PM.

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #44 on: June 28, 2010, 02:13:39 pm »
The drive has already gone through a professional recovery process, Most of the information was unrecoverable, that includes the local arcade images.

Who runs local arcade anyway,  I can just host a page if necessary.  If anyone has most or all of the art, let me know and we can set something up.
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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #45 on: June 28, 2010, 02:39:40 pm »
Zorg has as much of the art as anybody and it is already hosted.


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/

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Sirwoogie is a member here (did you read the thread ?) and I'm sure will turn his attention to it when he has a chance.
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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #46 on: June 28, 2010, 02:50:16 pm »
cool, yeah I know about vectorlib and I read some other thread about it a few months back.   I'm looking more to bring it back as it was, site and all.
I miss Retroblast :(

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #47 on: June 29, 2010, 04:45:12 am »
Sirwoogie is a member here (did you read the thread ?) and I'm sure will turn his attention to it when he has a chance.

years after, with no sign of life ? do you really think this will happens ??
I'm on the planning stage

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #48 on: August 04, 2010, 03:03:54 pm »
This needs another bump!

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #49 on: August 19, 2010, 10:53:15 am »
This is still a bit rough around the edges as I've upgraded the 4images software, so I may have introduced a some bugs into the site. However, I have it all running as it was prior to it going dark. I've moved it to a new domain because that old domain just had to much spam and junk associated with it.

The new address is:

http://arcadeartlibrary.com/


I will go through the forum and change any of the links to go there instead.

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #50 on: August 19, 2010, 10:58:06 am »
Nice to see it back! ;D

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #51 on: August 19, 2010, 11:34:36 am »
Sirwoogie is a member here (did you read the thread ?) and I'm sure will turn his attention to it when he has a chance.

years after, with no sign of life ? do you really think this will happens ??

I do now!

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #52 on: August 19, 2010, 11:53:48 am »
THIS IS AWESOME NEWS!
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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #53 on: August 19, 2010, 12:13:34 pm »
This is great... I have been looking for various art files for a long time that I knew were part of the library before it dissappeared.  So happy it is back.

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #54 on: August 19, 2010, 12:43:13 pm »
Just an FYI  the site link isn't working.


This is still a bit rough around the edges as I've upgraded the 4images software, so I may have introduced a some bugs into the site. However, I have it all running as it was prior to it going dark. I've moved it to a new domain because that old domain just had to much spam and junk associated with it.

The new address is:

http://arcadeartlibrary.com/


I will go through the forum and change any of the links to go there instead.

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #55 on: August 19, 2010, 12:50:12 pm »
It worked when I posted, but now, not so much.

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #56 on: August 19, 2010, 12:58:56 pm »
I logged in a few minutes ago but it's down at the moment.
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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #57 on: August 19, 2010, 12:59:44 pm »
Yeah, no sooner than I tell everybody it's up, the system takes a kernel fail (first one I've had in 7 years). I am having them power-cycle it.

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #58 on: August 19, 2010, 02:35:14 pm »
Yeah, no sooner than I tell everybody it's up, the system takes a kernel fail (first one I've had in 7 years). I am having them power-cycle it.

Nevertheless, thank you Sirwoogie!!!! Looking forward to it being fully operational!

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #59 on: August 20, 2010, 04:59:13 pm »
So....a day later and still nothing.....

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #60 on: August 20, 2010, 06:52:35 pm »
<checks calendar> Nope, today isn't April 2.   :dunno

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #61 on: August 21, 2010, 09:28:17 pm »
FYI, my box is still dead at the moment. The hard drive is starting to go, and I'm in the process of moving to a new host. Rock solid for 6 years, and then boom.

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #62 on: August 22, 2010, 12:31:50 am »
FYI, my box is still dead at the moment. The hard drive is starting to go, and I'm in the process of moving to a new host. Rock solid for 6 years, and then boom.

We feel your pain.  Loosing hard drives....well it sucks.
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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #63 on: August 25, 2010, 12:07:37 pm »
Back online. Moved to a new host that should be more reliable (knock on wood).

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #64 on: August 25, 2010, 12:42:27 pm »
What registrar is it registered with?  I ask because a couple of different ones said GoDaddy and that it is pending delete.  I then went to GoDaddy and they say localarcade.com isn't in the database and it is pending delete.

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #65 on: August 25, 2010, 12:45:57 pm »
It isn't localarcade.com anymore

I now have this at arcadeartlibrary.com

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #66 on: August 25, 2010, 01:00:02 pm »
Thanks Sirwoogie.   Working good for me  (fingers crossed).  :applaud: :applaud:

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #67 on: August 25, 2010, 01:14:13 pm »
Good stuff.  Thanks!   :cheers:

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #68 on: August 25, 2010, 03:53:42 pm »
I had a number of humorous responses for sirwoogie here...but they do not do justice to the appreciation I have for bringing back that artwork.

Thank you. :)

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #69 on: August 25, 2010, 04:46:49 pm »
Big thanks from over here too, sirwoogie. And just in time for me to make my instruction card (found some good stuff!).

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #70 on: August 25, 2010, 09:28:19 pm »
Brilliant news and thanks for the heads up. Hopefully now someone with web space going spare could offer to mirror the repo in the event of slowdowns or go-downs.

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #71 on: August 26, 2010, 12:14:00 am »
Brilliant news and thanks for the heads up. Hopefully now someone with web space going spare could offer to mirror the repo in the event of slowdowns or go-downs.

Yes, perhaps. One of my first thoughts here is to offer a nightly or weekly zip file of the entire art directory. My other alternative is to get a torrent of it going to crowdsource the content. :)

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #72 on: August 26, 2010, 01:22:17 am »
Torrent it IMO...torrents are fantastic for things just like this. 

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #73 on: September 10, 2010, 09:21:39 am »
Bumptastic news folks!

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http://www.arcadeartlibrary.com/

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #74 on: September 10, 2010, 10:57:53 am »
Torrent it IMO...torrents are fantastic for things just like this. 

+1  I would love to see a torrent for this.

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #75 on: September 22, 2011, 01:36:21 am »
Hey that's a good idea :)

It saves bandwidth because torrents are spread by users :)

Here is "http://arcadeartlibrary.com/arcade_art/" complete from September 19 2011

It's about 2.3 GB

Also "http://vectorlib.free.fr/" complete from September 21 2011

Weighing in at 721 MB

RAR'd for a total of 2.65 GB

Let's all seed it, it will be slow at first but eventually will gain speed as more people start seeding.

Try downloading it from here :

http://www.kat.ph/arcade-artwork-rar-t5853509.html

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #76 on: September 22, 2011, 03:03:47 pm »
We need more seeders :D
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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #77 on: September 22, 2011, 03:33:23 pm »
This is one of the torrents I'm going to keep in my transmission for seeding purposes.
Thanks alot for the torrent guys!

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #78 on: September 22, 2011, 07:19:51 pm »
Did anyone back up B a l l s o f s t e e l?

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Re: Local Arcade art files backup?
« Reply #79 on: September 23, 2011, 10:38:07 am »
Trying to help, but no-one on the torrent.