DiipuSurotu
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Found some answers to some of the questions in this thread:
Uhh so his equipment is one of a kind but the other guy's collection isn't? :/
Found some answers to some of the questions in this thread:
That or pay for it to be registered. That way every time it was touched it had to be signed for.My partner, who is a professional archivist says it would be the latter. This is what a museum curator would do , you don't let it out of your sight.
Hey everyone, thanks for the concern and well wishes.
I noticed quite a few questions regarding insurance, why I'm doing this, and the like, so I wrote an article to try and answer everyone's questions. I hope this helps.
https://byuu.org/emulation/preservation/lost-package/
If anyone reads the entirety of the article (it's lengthy, sorry), and still has questions, I'll be happy to answer them.
Thank you all!
They did, but not for the full value.
More details on byuu's forum: https://board.byuu.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1525&start=0
Hey everyone, thanks for the concern and well wishes.
I noticed quite a few questions regarding insurance, why I'm doing this, and the like, so I wrote an article to try and answer everyone's questions. I hope this helps.
https://byuu.org/emulation/preservation/lost-package/
If anyone reads the entirety of the article (it's lengthy, sorry), and still has questions, I'll be happy to answer them.
Thank you all!
As someone who has shipped a lot of extremely expensive equipment all over for work, I feel his pain. Most options will have a maximum insurance amount and, for us, we ended up shipping a lot of medical gear with the max insurance available... which was about 1/3 the value of the stuff lol.
And then there's the stone fact that even if you are able to insure a shipment for the true value it's a coin flip as to whether the shipper will fight a claim. "Oh your crate went missing? Ok, but our records show it was in transit through a third party shipping company (actually a random dude with a truck who drives packages around sometimes for extra cash) at the time, we use them in rural areas as subcontractors for this sort of thing so you'll have to sue them to get your insurance money, they may or may not be bonded even though we told you they were lol"
If they get caight they get fired. The union can't protect them in that situation. Your claims of theft in processing are true and that is where most of it happens. We had a carrier that would take SI swimsuit issues, Victoria's Secret catalogs and the like. Some of his customers complained about missing little things like that. They investigated. He was stealing fapping material. Mostly nothing of value outside of a couple of magazines. Got fired and ruimed a 20 year career.Really sad but I used to live in NJ and know people that worked at that processing center. There was a reputation for theft there. They know what packages to steal for low impact which is why they don't take cash or gold which will usually get them caught/fired.
With some lucky it might just be sitting in storage somewhere but if their investigation declared it "lost" you will probably never see it again.
If they get caight they get fired. The union can't protect them in that situation. Your claims of theft in processing are true and that is where most of it happens. We had a carrier that would take SI swimsuit issues, Victoria's Secret catalogs and the like. Some of his customers complained about missing little things like that. They investigated. He was stealing fapping material. Mostly nothing of value outside of a couple of magazines. Got fired and ruimed a 20 year career.
The USPS loses money because congress passed a bill saying the USPS had to prefund the retierment heath care costs of all of its current employees at the time over a 10 year span that ended this year. They had to pay $5.5B a year. This plus congresa really wont give them autonomy when it comes to their rates. And email.I feel so bad for both parties involved. And the USPS wonders why they continue to lose so much money every year.
I saw a lot of sad stuff while I was there bit for the most part everone was on the up and up and were paid decently enough to do their job properly.That is really unfortunate someone ruined a career like that. Most of the people I know are kids who are only working at these places because they have lax hiring rules. They probably don't care much about their jobs in the first place.
Just about every game, even the most rare ones, have been dumped. This project was to make sure everything is 100% correct or something like that.Im assuming these are rare games where there is no roms for. Or are not the original release from the cart.
- Agrees to ship valuable items across the globe
- Uses USPS
You would think with all of that shipping cost it would have been cheaper to fly to the collection and knock it out in a few days.
For important stuff, UPS is the only way.
USPS is just garbage, and FedEx is not that great either, at least in my experience.
Those boxes need to be altered in photshop to say "SNES Games."
Not Photoshop and I gave up 10 seconds in.
You're welcome.
EDIT: shit
3 months' worth of work is "a few days"?
Fucking this. I bought Mr Gimmick and that alone warranted DHL in my mind
Vampire's Kiss, Hagane... holy shit
Edit: it seems they used DHL... so how did USPS get hold of it? I expect all DHL parcels to be delivered by a yellow coated person
Perhaps I dont know how long it takes to rip an individual title. But at two minutes a title you are talking 26 hours. 65 hours a five minutes a title.
Found some answers to some of the questions in this thread:
Fucking this. I bought Mr Gimmick and that alone warranted DHL in my mind
Vampire's Kiss, Hagane... holy shit
Edit: it seems they used DHL... so how did USPS get hold of it? I expect all DHL parcels to be delivered by a yellow coated person
Some existing Rom Dumps aren't correct, the point of this project is to make sure there's a 1 for 1 perfect dump of every cart that can be used to assemble a list of checksums for verification (as well as to get have digital copies of the original packaging and manuals for these).
DHL is the main carrier of Germany so it's regular mail for them.
When it arrived here it transferred to the US regular mail.
It wasn't sent via DHL premium courier service.
stealth brag
Uhh so his equipment is one of a kind but the other guy's collection isn't? :/
USPS processed 1.6 billion parcels this holiday quarter. Statistically, they're doing a good job.
Perhaps I dont know how long it takes to rip an individual title. But at two minutes a title you are talking 26 hours. 65 hours a five minutes a title.
DHL is the main carrier? Germany really is the best country. Unless, DPD becomes the main carrier in UK. They are truly the best couriers. The best.
I have very low energy levels and become exhausted after about 2-4 hours of this a day. I've had a lot of theories but never found the definitive cause. But my current guess is that I might have very low testosterone levels. But it's something. Because damn, I am always, always tired no matter how much I sleep.
Just what I thought.Wouldn't it have been cheaper and easier to just send his equipment to the guy with all the games? He could dump them and put the files in the clouds.
Have you considered using a digital camera or even smartphone instead of a scanner? If you mount one securely and have even lighting you can get great results and it can be quick for multiple items.
Also international travel isn't that scary - it's fun With the internet in your hand and English being fairly widespread in many cities you'd be fine.
This is a bit of a tangent, but have you considered checking out a sleep clinic? I'm no expert, but it could be a case of sleep apnea or something of the sort if you're getting a full night's sleep and still feeling tired.
Disgusting. Taking 'pictures' of stuff is hardly comparable .
Here's what I do when I scan album booklets for preservation: