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Offline ObsidianShiar

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GameFront shutdown
« on: April 17, 2016, 04:50:22 pm »
As you may have heard, GameFront is shutting down on 30 April.

While the Archive Team has been doing a surprisingly good job since the FileFront network went down last year, it would be best to download the things you care about and maybe upload them to ModDB. I've added SFC1, SFC2 EAW and SFC OP to their game database (as they were missing), and SFC3 was there all along.

There are two distinct remnants of the SFC3 section on GameFront (some files are duplicates and some are not, it had to do with FileFront's weird organization):
this one: http://www.gamefront.com/files/listing/pub2/star-trek-starfleet-command-3
and this one: http://www.gamefront.com/files/listing/gamingfiles/Starfleet_Command_III/

I've been working lately to archive them and upload them to ModDB, as their staff calls people to do so, while also giving the possibility for the original authors to take control or request a deletion if they so choose. It's basically "archive to save, negotiate later". I found Chris Jones who did the TNG mods about half an hour ago, didn't know he worked on Ultimate Universe for Legacy - I offered him a transfer.

ModDB sections:
http://www.moddb.com/games/star-trek-starfleet-command
http://www.moddb.com/games/star-trek-starfleet-command-ii-empires-at-war
http://www.moddb.com/games/star-trek-starfleet-command-orion-pirates/
http://www.moddb.com/games/star-trek-starfleet-command-3

If you're interested in salvaging some other games, here's a list on some of the more prominent GameFront sections: http://forums.cncnz.com/topic/19932-gamefront-closing-file-locations/

All help in this field is welcome, particularly for SFC3 (I've covered SFC1 fully, and am finishing EAW and OP) and other Star Trek games, which didn't have many communities outside the old FileFront.