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[KingBroly]

Is this a new record for oldest necrobump?

No, someone bumped a 10 year old thread where they predicted G4 would be out of business before Nintendo was out of the Hardware-making business

It was Great

 

[eot]

Oh man- I have no idea how I necrobumped, this was on my usual first page and I didn't see the dates. I hadn't searched anything :| Apologies everyone.

I find that hard to believe tbh

Sure you didn't mean this thread?
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1361109

edit: actually yeah, the post you quoted is also quoted in that thread, so I guess you clicked the link to the post and didn't see that it was old when you quoted it yourself

 

[gabbo]

Video assets are a completely different thing. I can see those being lost, easy. But code? VERY hard to 'lose.' It does happen, but not on finished products, usually. More likely you'd lose an old build or something. Every programmer should have the entire code base on his machine anyway.

Just being bought out or closing is enough to lose source code. Let alone for decades old games where none of the companies involved still exist.
Whoa didnt see the necro. Still an interesting topic

 

[Piers]

Is it right that developers would lose source codes in freeing some back-up space in the 80's/90's?
I seem to recall this happened with Silent Hill 2, thus the freakish HD ports.

 

[Cerium]

No, someone bumped a 10 year old thread where they predicted G4 would be out of business before Nintendo was out of the Hardware-making business

It was Great

Link?

 

[Jezan]

It was a joke

My bad then. Sorry

Though how random to get a CD like that in the wild.

 

[Marche90]

Link?

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=139161766

 

[Cerium]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=139161766

I smiled.

 

[commissar]

yeah i know :/
but they changed lots of things after the leak.

we never saw the tentaclething in the full game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-toGCptJ2Vw&fmt=18

That was cut because it wasn't fun to play against [raising the bar]. Apparently it was a small and easily missable glowing blob until you suddenly died, which would be p. frustrating

edit: lol 2008 wtf

 

[BetterThanNothing]

Is this a new record for oldest necrobump?

Pretty sure someone necrobumped console war threads about the GameCube, PS2, Xbox a few weeks back.

 

[HueyFreeman]

I find that hard to believe tbh

Sure you didn't mean this thread?
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1361109

edit: actually yeah, the post you quoted is also quoted in that thread, so I guess you clicked the link to the post and didn't see that it was old when you quoted it yourself

Fuck you're right. My bad - I completely thought I was posting in that thread. I was so confused because I swore it was a thread that had just been opened. As far as necrobumps go, this is a pretty innocent one - that dude gave no indication that that was a 9 year old post!

I mean, to be fair, people are actually having an interesting discussion ITT :b

 

[onken]

Thanks this thread made me sad twice in 9 years.

 

[Trojita]

Oh how I'd like to go back to 2008. I'd buy so much bitcoin.

 

[Atom Heart Mother]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=139161766

wonder who's gonna bump it this year. only 7 days until a year without a bump!

 

[MysticLeviathan]

I read Heroes of Might & Magic 3's Expansions' source code is lost, hence why the HD version doesn't have the expansions.