An Odd World; Oddworld Stranger's Wrath Prototype
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2023-06-25 •
Game,
Oddworld Stranger's Wrath,
Releases
In April, in the Hidden Palace Discord server, a user with the handle ‘Sgabbit’ asked about the Oddworld Stranger’s Wrath prototype that had been shown on the YouTube channel PtoPOnline. Unfortunately, many years later, it still wasn’t publicly available.
Aiming to change that, we decided to make an offer to the individual behind the channel, and after acquiring some better capture equipment and sending our Xbox off to have more RAM soldered onto the motherboard, here we are today!
Continue readingA look at our data storage methods
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2023-06-04 •
ArticleHey there, Daniel here. Among other things, I help out with some of the sysadmin type stuff around here.
This article is a bit different to what we usually post - its a behind-the-scenes look at how we handle our data storage needs, ensuring our collection is backed up and nothing is ever lost or corrupted.
Continue readingHere's to another great year of preservation! And a little surprise...
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2022-12-25 •
Announcements,
ReleasesIt’s been an absolutely incredible year when it comes to preservation.
Continue readingA whole new world, and uh, faster wheels too
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2022-11-26 •
AnnouncementsHi everyone, we’ve migrated the website to a new host and away from WordPress, which will hopefully result in a significantly speedier site!
Additionally, if you’ve not noticed already, the old file archive is no more and now directs to our new Data Dungeon website.
We’ve spent a lot of time ensuring that redirects are available for everything but can’t make an absolutely 100% guarantee that some links won’t be broken, and in such a case do let us know, and we’ll examine why or what happened, and see if it can be resolved.
This is something that we had been planning to do for a long time now. The Data Dungeon was the first step towards that, and now we’ve finally finished that process—and can get back to writing new articles, hopefully a little more consistently.
The Data Dungeon is here!
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2022-09-26 •
Announcements
It goes without saying that the archive we’ve provided here for some time now doesn’t really do much in the way of context or any other information for that matter, which has always bothered me. It’s more of a file dump than an archive. And what’s also bothered me is that, besides the Internet Archive, there are few sites that aim to provide a curated catalogue of data.
This is something I deeply wanted to change and something we’ve started working on.
So, today, after some delay, I’m happy to finally unveil the future of our archive in the form of The Data Dungeon! It’s faster, we can update it more frequently, and we have our own in-house indexing tool for generating the whole thing.
This is of course a first step for the new archive, and right now it’s very raw, but this will change over the coming weeks (and months) as we provide our indexing tool with more metadata and make further improvements.
If you’ve got any feedback for us too, we now have a GitHub repository open for tickets and, of course, our Discord.
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