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lordnikon
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Sat Feb 28, 2015 2:34 am
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I ran across this site recently: https://www.segarevolution.co.uk/

Its an old site from around 2000/2001 era. The admin had the files on an old hard drive, then saw that his domain was available again and put his site back online after all this time in its same state that it was before. There are a bunch of articles, reviews, and perspectives on the Dreamcast and Dreamcast Online. Awesome stuff!
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Green Ranger
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Sat Feb 28, 2015 6:35 pm
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Nice find! I assume the admin is still re-uploading material because there are numerous incomplete reviews for games such as Street Fighter 3: Third Strike, Dead or Alive 2, Burning Rangers, Shenmue 2, Skies of Arcadia, etc. Neutral
 
lordnikon
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Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:38 pm
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Interesting...

This looks like "bitrot". Many reivews are cut off and incomplete. Either the data he found on CD in storage was corrupted, or something else went wrong. I looked up the site in the webarchive and found the rest of the 3rd strike review:

https://web.archive.org/web/20010412234053fw_/http://www.segarevolution.vas-net.net/reviews/sf3.htm

Interestingly enough back then segarevolution.co.uk was just a site with an iframe that pointed to content at segarevolution.vas-net.net

Looks like I will have to take the two datasets and merge them together for one complete archive.
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Green Ranger
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Mon Mar 02, 2015 3:45 pm
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Webarchive to the rescue! A pity the review images weren't saved as well, but at least I can now read some of the full reviews.
 
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