JonnyDBrit
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Thank fuck this had a happy ending. Hope the preservation goes well from here!
Yeah, that's sadly one of the lessons here.sucks you had to get media coverage or they wouldn't have helped you.
Huge update, they've been found and recovered! https://byuu.org/emulation/preservation/found-package/
And given how clearly labeled the package was, that it made it all the way to the Atlanta, GA recovery center ... where undeliverable mail goes up for public auction ... I really feel that more effort could have been made.
My package was sitting in Atlanta, GA for well over a month with my address clearly visible right on the box. Had this case not been escalated to the media, it likely would have gone up for auction in a bin with other electronics sometime in March.
Can you not call USPS and request an overgoods search? Maybe the box did fall apart or dumped the games somewhere and they don't have the box or label to have any idea where they go.
Probably stolen, but I know that FedEx at least has a pretty robust overgoods set-up where items are sent to and carefully catalogued.
Slim shot, but it is a shot.
Great news!!!
....and these idiots were going to auction it off.
WTF?!
Glad they were "found" after getting "lost"
Great! now Nintendo can download them and sell them on Virtual Console - everybody wins!
Glad they were "found" after getting "lost"
What the fuck? You have no idea what you're talking about
Good news!
I understand and fully respect the goal of complete preservation, so I get why this shipment is important, but the news got me wondering: does the SNES library have many PAL-only games?
but the news got me wondering: does the SNES library have many PAL-only games?
It's a crack about how Nintendo may be downloading roms of its own games from the internet - at the very least, Super Mario Bros - to then use in its Virtual Console releases. Frank Cifaldi covered it in a GDC talk.
That said, still not the appropriate place or time for such a joke.
A quick search finds quite a few lists but one has to filter out the localised versions of Japanese games (e.g. Dragon Ball Z: Super Butouden which I believe was French only, possibly Italian too). The list here looks good:Good news!
I understand and fully respect the goal of complete preservation, so I get why this shipment is important, but the news got me wondering: does the SNES library have many PAL-only games?
A happy ending but man what the fuck were the postal service doing, utter dogshit of a company.
Huge update, they've been found and recovered! https://byuu.org/emulation/preservation/found-package/
In fairness, the initial working theory was that the box was stolen. That it turns out there was an honest mistake in routing is very much a less serious infraction. Now, should their sorting machines handle boxes more carefully? Probably. But it doesn't appear there was any malicious intent.The guy is too forgiving with USPS, it was their fault that the package got lost and they didn't even attempt to send it to the right person and were going to sell it off.
They don't deserve his apology.
Really happy to hear they were found. Would you mind posting a higher res pic of the carts? I can tell they are rare as I know PAL games welI and can recognise only a handful of labels in low res - Vampire's Kiss, Mega Man X, Jurassic Park, Earthworm Jim, Daffy Duck, Flashback, Addam's Family, Bubsy, Castlevania IV
.I'd love closer shots just to admire them too. Good stuff!
Fiddle with the imgur urls. Remove the l from them like so:Really happy to hear they were found. Would you mind posting a higher res pic of the carts? I can tell they are rare as I know PAL games welI and can recognise only a handful of labels in low res - Vampire's Kiss, Mega Man X, Jurassic Park, Earthworm Jim, Daffy Duck, Flashback, Addam's Family, Bubsy, Castlevania IV
Huge update, they've been found and recovered! https://byuu.org/emulation/preservation/found-package/
USPS is pretty solid, I've had very few issues with them. Once you deal with international shipping, it becomes a complete shitshow.
Use FedEX for international.