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Fighting game community culture is built upon years of uploaded video footage (primarily to YouTube) that can be lost without ongoing efforts to archive them. This page will go over ongoing efforts and best practices to contribute.

Projects

Arcades

Arcades (or Game Centers) are shutting down around the world and years of uploaded video can be lost as channel owners shut down their online presence. This table will provide information about efforts to preserve footage.

Arcade Footage preservation projects
Channel Venue Project Page
a-cho battle movie A-Cho (Kyoto, Japan) A-Cho Archive GSheet
a-cho GAME A-Cho (Kyoto, Japan) A-Cho Archive GSheet
a-cho staff A-Cho (Kyoto, Japan) A-Cho Archive GSheet

Downloading

TubeUp (for Internet Archive)

yt-dlp (for local backup)

Alternative tools

Uploading

BitTorrent

Internet Archive