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#1 hwd405
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@wemmick: Ahh, I see what you mean. I think I've heard that there's a number of videos on the servers that aren't currently tied to pages / had their pages removed but not their video files. By the looks of it the missing Spyro videos aren't referenced at all in the api and there doesn't seem to be a direct download link to the file (e.g. editing the download link to "Movie 2" to something like https://gamespot-pdl.akamaized.net/d3/gsc//spyro3_3_700.flv just brings up a file not found error) so it seems as though they've been deleted from the server side and so they're probably not just lying around unfortunately, so I doubt they'll be recovered unless they happen to have been stored by Gamespot somewhere other than on the site. A big shame, but I hope that the project goes well regardless and I wish you luck!

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#2  Edited By hwd405
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@wemmick: Thanks for the reply! Just to clear up, does this mean recovering videos that have been deleted from the site or just fixing the old videos currently on the site that don't play? Regardless I'm really looking forwards to seeing where this project goes, and I hope it goes well! I'll be keeping an eye on the website.

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#3 hwd405
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Hi! So, I've been looking for prerelease content for Spyro: Year of the Dragon for a while now and I noticed that earlier versions of the site featured five different videos of a prototype version of the game. The video files themselves were not archived and cannot be recovered using the wayback machine. Nowadays, there is only one video still available on the site and it cannot be viewed without downloading the video file directly due to an issue with the video player.

I was wondering if there's any way to recover the lost videos? I'm assuming there's nothing I can personally do about it as the video files were not archived and unlike the one remaining video it seems as though the files for the videos have been removed from the servers as well as their corresponding pages. Would it be possible that content from the site is archived by the moderators in some format? I'm really hoping this little piece of gaming history isn't lost.

Thanks in advance!

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#4 hwd405
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When Pokemon Sun came out, I played that pretty much from the moment I woke up until I went to sleep for like, four days if I recall correctly? It was at the end of the term and I'd done all the work I was required to have done so I had plenty of time to focus on Pokemon, hahaha.

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#5 hwd405
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A to-do list really doesn't sound like a bad idea. I've got a backlog of like, probably 20 games I intended on finishing but never got around to it. And a fair few games I've purchased but never played :/

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#6  Edited By hwd405
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HeartGold and SoulSilver! Always been really fond of those games and I don't think any other Pokemon games since have paralleled them in being consistently enjoyable and content-filled. I really hope the Pokeathlon and more unique safari zones make a return in the future. Fantastic soundtrack, too.

Not sure it's fair that some games get grouped together with their upper versions while others don't in this poll though haha.