Redump [portable]

They are the silent guardians, the archivists with soldering irons, the people who spend 14 hours configuring a DOS driver for a Plextor drive just to verify a single track index on a copy of Myst.

If you have ever downloaded a ROM that worked flawlessly, used an optical drive emulator (ODE) on a Sega Saturn, or simply wanted to verify that your 20-year-old copy of Silent Hill 2 is still readable, you have Redump to thank. But what exactly is Redump? Is it piracy, preservation, or paranoia? redump

In the US, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) makes it illegal to circumvent copy protection, even for archival purposes. The Librarian of Congress grants exemptions every three years, but the language is narrow. They are the silent guardians, the archivists with