u/Eutek23

I’ve been running a collection on the Internet Archive for a bit over two years now, mostly archiving physical media like magazines, CDs, and video games/Flash games.

Before that, I honestly had no idea these kinds of guides even existed, and I also didn’t really know what to search for to find them. I only came across them recently, but I think they’re really well written and organized. The process can definitely be time-consuming, but it also leads to really high-quality archives.

So I was wondering if people here already know and use these guides. I just wanted to share them since they’ve helped me a lot.

They’ve been useful for scanning physical media like print magazines, but also for properly dumping/copying games from discs (CD-ROMs, DVDs, PS2 discs, etc.).

• Preservation Guide:

https://preservation.guide/

• Dumping Guide:

https://dumping.guide/start

• Scanning Guide:

https://scanning.guide/

• Flashpoint:

https://flashpointarchive.org/

• Hitsave (preservation of video games):

https://hitsave.org/