Idea: Star Wars Games Preservation — Page 2

Author: Moth3r
Time: 12-Jun-2008 3:05 PM
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The N64 videos you can find on youtube are frequently made using Project 64 with HyperCam.

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Author: daveytod
Time: 12-Jun-2008 3:53 PM
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checked youtube many times for the videos I need but no luck

FINISHED:
The Sith Revealed - A Scrapbook
Episode III The Video Game - The Movie
24: The Missing Day
Star Wars - The Interactive Board Game DVD
Battlefront - Journal of the 501st
The Clones Revealed

email me for details daveytod AT btinternet DOT com

Author: ThrowgnCpr
Time: 13-Jun-2008 3:45 PM
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I think the best idea would be to try to run through them yourself. I have used Project64 before with roms. seems to work great. cant comment too extensively, because I dont game much. I like Camtasia as a screen recorder, although I havent ever tried the one you posted moth3r

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Author: Exar Xan
Time: 13-Jun-2008 3:48 PM
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Can you record stuff from your desktop (like Yoda Stories) with Camtasia?

Author: daveytod
Time: 13-Jun-2008 4:45 PM
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I tried the ROMs and whilst it played fine, it recorded terribly and I just couldnt get to grips with teh controls

Author: ThrowgnCpr
Time: 13-Jun-2008 5:18 PM
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Exar Xan said:

Can you record stuff from your desktop (like Yoda Stories) with Camtasia?

yeah, you can record anything on your desktop.

daveytod said:

I tried the ROMs and whilst it played fine, it recorded terribly and I just couldnt get to grips with teh controls

what recorder were you using? and were you trying to use the keyboard (I find this terribly awkward), or a controller. you can get either adapters for your n64 controller to USB or one that is USB already

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Author: Exar Xan
Time: 13-Jun-2008 5:37 PM
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ThrowgnCpr said:

Exar Xan said:

Can you record stuff from your desktop (like Yoda Stories) with Camtasia?

yeah, you can record anything on your desktop.

Great! :D I was a bit let down to think that there was no way to preserve Yoda Stories. Well, another game for me to do.

Author: ThrowgnCpr
Time: 13-Jun-2008 6:53 PM
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Camtasia is a pay software, but they have a 30 day fully-functional trial period. So its best to get everything lined up, and try out the trial.

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Author: daveytod
Time: 14-Jun-2008 6:15 AM
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I was using Project 64 to run the game and Screen Recorder Gold to capture it

Author: strooper
Time: 16-Jun-2008 4:59 AM
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daveytod said:

figured it was about time I chimed in here. The 'Battlefront - Journal of the 501st', 'Episode III - The Video Game Movie' and 'Star Wars Interactive Board Game DVD' were all mine, but I'm not surprised that the torrents are dead. I might pop them up on Demonoid but my seeding capabilities arn't the best.

Thank you very much for these releases. You did such a great work!
As I said before, I downloaded Battlefront, about 95% of Interactive Board and nothing from Episode III Video Game Movie. If there is nobody that can help, I might upload Battlefront next month at Demonoid. My seeding capabilities aren't good, but I can keep sharing until there are a few seeders.

Regards
Fernando

Author: Exar Xan
Time: 16-Jun-2008 7:58 AM
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Battlefront has been upped again at myspleen (by a friend at my request). SO maybe you can help and seed it if you have acomplete verison already?

Author: strooper
Time: 16-Jun-2008 2:49 PM (Edited)
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Exar Xan said:

Battlefront has been upped again at myspleen (by a friend at my request). SO maybe you can help and seed it if you have acomplete verison already?

I'm sorry but I offered to upload the DVD next month because this month I am using a Premium Rapidshare account and there are still other DVDs to get, so I am only getting those files and not torrenting now.

Author: Exar Xan
Time: 16-Jun-2008 2:51 PM
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Thats ok :). Downloading is going slow on this torrent for me today, but as soon as it is done i will seed for other people here.

Author: daveytod
Time: 19-Jun-2008 2:53 PM
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we have a breakthrough.......having hunted for ages for the correct leads to connect my N64 to the TV with no avail, I was having a hunt through my box of leads n miscellania when I realised the connecter for the gamecube was the same shape as the N64. Whack it in, plug into the back of the TV and hey presto! N64 Shadows Of The Empire Great Goodness!!

Of course, every silver lining has a cloud. I've not had much time to spend on it but the little time I have had has been interrupted by the unit resetting itself after 5 minutes or so gameplay. I'm hoping the unit just needs a clean and am about to research opening up an N64.

To be continued..........

Author: Exar Xan
Time: 19-Jun-2008 2:58 PM
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That is great news indeed! :)

I have some news on my own also: After organising some other stuff I had to do I have bit more time for my 2 projects. Podracing has some tracks recording and ofcourse the intro. I also have 2 of the levels from the old Dark Forces game lying ready to be edited.

Author: ThrowgnCpr
Time: 19-Jun-2008 2:59 PM
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great news daveytod. I hope it all works out. I am really looking forward to all of this :)

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Author: hanakin
Time: 23-Jun-2008 4:53 PM
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This is simply amazing, I had no idea people actually do this!

A buddy of mine told me the other day that he got this thing called DosBox that plays all kinds of old Dos games on Windows XP. If I could find my old copies of X-Wing and Tie-Fighter and Rebel Alliance 2 (because the first wasn't that good) I would be in heaven.
And then suddenly, I find out that people are making preservations of many of these old games!
Some people dream of rolling around in hundred dollar bills. I'm now gonna dream of rolling around in these things instead! I feel like I've found the gold mine of all gold mines.

Author: Pat-Fett
Time: 12-Jul-2008 10:57 PM
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daveytod said:

figured it was about time I chimed in here. The 'Battlefront - Journal of the 501st', 'Episode III - The Video Game Movie' and 'Star Wars Interactive Board Game DVD' were all mine, but I'm not surprised that the torrents are dead. I might pop them up on Demonoid but my seeding capabilities arn't the best.

RE: Shadows Of The EMpire, I've got all the material I need bar the N64 still cutscenes, I just couldnt find a way to capture them

I'm always at work on a movie of 'The Clone Wars' from the PS2/Gamecube with footage captured by another member of the forum, but work is going fairly slowly due to other commitments. It's going to be in the same vein as my previous releases, cutscenes interspersed with minimal gameplay to provide a complete storyline

I'd love a torrent on demonid on any of the mentioned projects, especially 501st.

I wish I knew how to make these projects myself. I have an idea about making a Shadows of the Empire movie that combines the game cut scences, game play, comics, soundtrack, and audio book. I saw this really great Transformer movie that turned one of the comics into a movie.