If anyone shares this .sav I will kill you and put your corpse up on the pirate bay.

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hey so if you ever have a scratched cd you bought, dont ever ask for it to be sent to you via a thread like this, else its immoral.

distributing it to those whove not paid is different but in the case of Fumu, with his horribly erase-battery-prone EMS cart, whats tha problem?

Well I mean, IDC if the homie Fumu wants to back up a dying piece of history for himself. I'm talking about if someone else who might have this cart, backs it up, and posts the link in public. I don't think there's any malicious intent, but it might not be a good idea before clarifying with people first since they still own it

Hm, I don't think that's worse though. I mean they sold it for like $100 - IIRC you got the cart for a donation of like $150, so they didn't even make a profit on it here. They probably just wanted to sell it to someone else who'd be genuinely interested in the data. Now if the .sav started floating around and got shared though, it now brings up concerns of property of each individual artist (like Bit Shifter said), the property of Blip Festival materials, and above all it now turns that special cart into a blank flash cartridge. I think that's kind of depressing IMO

Contact the artists?

e.s.c. has. Perhaps we can get either
a) the original artists to release their own .sav or .lsdjsng
b) permission to extract individual .lsdjsng's from the .sav and release them seperately or one small collective save

I'd only go so far to learn from the backup

Basically this. I've learned a lot through other peoples .sav's in the past, so naturally I wanted to check these out. If the artists are against it that's completely fine and understandable. It is their artistic property after all.

herr_prof wrote:

My opinion is that sharing it would ruin the value for the people who managed to kickstart Blip. Why devalue their support?

my support was valuable?

For a small period of time in the past, YES!

My opinion is that sharing it would ruin the value for the people who managed to kickstart Blip. Why devalue their support?

my support was valuable?

Since this was given away as a perk for a Kickstarter campaign, I think the expectation is that the save is at least semi-public. I would think of it more as a piece of history than as someone's private files. Though considering the small number of artists featured on the cartridge, you could also just ask them. Of course, since we don't know who won the auction (right?) it's that person's decision too, in the end and this discussion is hypothetical. They may not want to risk devaluing their cartridge. Then again, won't be long until the battery dies.

agreed, i think now, 5 years out, its hit a point where most if not all orig carts are about to have battery death, and those artists knew it was to be redistributed a bit already.. ill try and direct some of them to this topic to get thei opinions as to how many fucks (if any) they give about the sav being shared.. im sure some of the tracks are already available as sav file somewhere