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Comment by wgerard | Hacker News Reader

And concjumping maps from TFC! Those were a ton of fun.

I wonder if there is an interest or place to dump these old maps. I have a ridiculous amount of TFC, CS 1.5, etc maps I've scoured the internet for and mirrored locally just because I'm worried they'll disappear forever at some point.

Maybe you can put these on Archive.org?

I think I'll do that! I just need to clean up, run em through resgen and probably zip them up to keep the clutter down.

Actually looks like I already have about 32k of them zipped from one of my mirror runs. Roughly 195GB, with most of it being CS 1.5 maps. I'll get that upload started. I've got somewhere around 1TB total though that I need to eventually get uploaded.

I have a few burnt CDs from the early 2000s (found them when my dad passed late last year and I had to clear out his place) full of TFC maps.

There might be an overlap with what you have. I could see what I have and release it out there if others will find it useful.

I remember with skulltag/doom there was an auto-wad downloader that would find the map for you if you didn't have it. I wonder if there is a want for something similar or a searchable database for all of these old maps for twenty year old game mods.

Perhaps 99% of people are content with fornite/etc. and don't want to bother spinning up old games no one cares about.

Like classical artwork and music, this is culturally relevant content that needs to be preserved. Thousands of hours went into creating it, even though it is not for the masses.

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