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Oct. 29th, 2023 08:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedTurns out that half the pages of the Getter Love!! website turn up 404 on Internet Archive. I found out two days ago while creating an Upwork post for some YouTube thumbnails, hoping to link somewhere to give candidates a feel for the game's characters.
That itself is not what bothers me so much. Things appear, and they eventually disappear.
What bothers me is that I had a second chance courtesy of Kristina all those years ago, to preserve all that content somewhere, even just on our old external hard drive for the time being, and now I've likely lost that too, stuff that could make the leap to a wiki once people see enough of the game in English to create one.
When I contacted her two years ago, just for some pictures to use as thumbnails then, she told me three days after I tried PM'ing her on GameFAQs (also that she hardly checks her email anymore, due to work and her aforementioned child) that she likely still had everything backed up, but on something she didn't have access to at the time.
I PM'ed her two days ago, going as far as to suggest she check around March 2, 2012 in her old email outbox. However, while my GF outbox appears to indicate them as unread, I can see that she's already visited the site itself several times since. If she does get back to me sooner or later, it wouldn't be the first time I've had someone delay a response for whatever reason, and I don't think she'd have any reason to up and ghost me in particular, but right now, I'm not feeling all that optimistic in such a mindset as I'm in, and I would hate to think that she might've stopped checking her messages altogether.
Forgive me for all but jumping to conclusions, when she has taken longer before to get back to me, but it was to my library inbox where she sent all those files, the Suffolk County library system shut its email service itself down years later, and there is no point now trying to contact Jake, the only person I ever relayed them to, when he didn't even reply before to a few unrelated emails at two different points after our endgame.
Brought the issue up with Ozzy that night, and he linked me to a couple of galleries on Wayback Machine, but they are still incomplete, and several images in one of them are outright broken.
https://web.archive.org/web/20021216100206/http://www.hudson.co.jp/gamenavi/gamedb/softinfo/getterlove/kabegami.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20070711043040/http://www.hudson.co.jp/gamenavi/gamedb/softinfo/getterlove/gallery7.html
Checked our aforementioned external hard drive yesterday morning, and somehow, I barely have anything backed up from 2012 or '13. (Mom and I never did hear back from Brian or even Marie, on the off chance that either of them, Brian more likely, might have made their own backups.)
Remained depressive even after having breakfast and while helping out around the yard, until someone on Discord, the very creator of the Earthbound ROMhacking program CoilSnake, offered to reinstate that game's two known missing cutscenes quickly and for free, following a dispute I was having with Muhammad that led me to bring things up with Vadim and then on both PK Hack and Mother 2 Deluxe.
Last night, I created a post each in r/HelpMeFind and r/lostmedia. (Linking to both, even though they OPs are mostly the same, for the sake of whichever comments end up under which posts. The Lost Media post also starts with an extra paragraph.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/HelpMeFind/comments/17iq1cp/complete_archive_of_an_old_website_of_getter_love/
https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/comments/17iqzx9/partially_lost_complete_archive_of_an_old_website/
I have also added a tidbit under the very first section of my planned walkthrough, which is titled in bold "Read this first!" Bound to stand out even further with the only bit of highlighting in that part of the first page itself.
And if Kristina doesn't get back to me beforehand, I am going to explain the situation when I start recording my first playthrough. (Makes me glad I still have yet to begin, due to that whole computer issue, and now this whole ongoing paint job Mom has been giving the apartment, something that involved rearranging the furniture temporarily, for before Aunt Marie et al come to visit on November 9.)
That itself is not what bothers me so much. Things appear, and they eventually disappear.
What bothers me is that I had a second chance courtesy of Kristina all those years ago, to preserve all that content somewhere, even just on our old external hard drive for the time being, and now I've likely lost that too, stuff that could make the leap to a wiki once people see enough of the game in English to create one.
When I contacted her two years ago, just for some pictures to use as thumbnails then, she told me three days after I tried PM'ing her on GameFAQs (also that she hardly checks her email anymore, due to work and her aforementioned child) that she likely still had everything backed up, but on something she didn't have access to at the time.
I PM'ed her two days ago, going as far as to suggest she check around March 2, 2012 in her old email outbox. However, while my GF outbox appears to indicate them as unread, I can see that she's already visited the site itself several times since. If she does get back to me sooner or later, it wouldn't be the first time I've had someone delay a response for whatever reason, and I don't think she'd have any reason to up and ghost me in particular, but right now, I'm not feeling all that optimistic in such a mindset as I'm in, and I would hate to think that she might've stopped checking her messages altogether.
Forgive me for all but jumping to conclusions, when she has taken longer before to get back to me, but it was to my library inbox where she sent all those files, the Suffolk County library system shut its email service itself down years later, and there is no point now trying to contact Jake, the only person I ever relayed them to, when he didn't even reply before to a few unrelated emails at two different points after our endgame.
Brought the issue up with Ozzy that night, and he linked me to a couple of galleries on Wayback Machine, but they are still incomplete, and several images in one of them are outright broken.
https://web.archive.org/web/20021216100206/http://www.hudson.co.jp/gamenavi/gamedb/softinfo/getterlove/kabegami.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20070711043040/http://www.hudson.co.jp/gamenavi/gamedb/softinfo/getterlove/gallery7.html
Checked our aforementioned external hard drive yesterday morning, and somehow, I barely have anything backed up from 2012 or '13. (Mom and I never did hear back from Brian or even Marie, on the off chance that either of them, Brian more likely, might have made their own backups.)
Remained depressive even after having breakfast and while helping out around the yard, until someone on Discord, the very creator of the Earthbound ROMhacking program CoilSnake, offered to reinstate that game's two known missing cutscenes quickly and for free, following a dispute I was having with Muhammad that led me to bring things up with Vadim and then on both PK Hack and Mother 2 Deluxe.
Last night, I created a post each in r/HelpMeFind and r/lostmedia. (Linking to both, even though they OPs are mostly the same, for the sake of whichever comments end up under which posts. The Lost Media post also starts with an extra paragraph.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/HelpMeFind/comments/17iq1cp/complete_archive_of_an_old_website_of_getter_love/
https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/comments/17iqzx9/partially_lost_complete_archive_of_an_old_website/
I have also added a tidbit under the very first section of my planned walkthrough, which is titled in bold "Read this first!" Bound to stand out even further with the only bit of highlighting in that part of the first page itself.
And if Kristina doesn't get back to me beforehand, I am going to explain the situation when I start recording my first playthrough. (Makes me glad I still have yet to begin, due to that whole computer issue, and now this whole ongoing paint job Mom has been giving the apartment, something that involved rearranging the furniture temporarily, for before Aunt Marie et al come to visit on November 9.)