Questions and Answers

Feel free to ask me questions not listed here. However, this should cover all of the basics!

Q: Are you considering adding more categories of items in the future?
A: Yes! I'd also like to add official renders, print ads, audio (music and sound effects), and official merch in the future! It is not currently a priority though and I probably won't accept submissions of these kinds unless you (A) have a large collection already or (B) have something that hasn't been clearly archived elsewhere.

Q: How did you make this site?
A: I used a lot of help from W3 schools and Sadgrl's guides to get things exactly how I wanted them, plus my very basic knowledge of HTML/CSS.

Q: Why no fan content?
A: There's simply too much, and I don't want to be the judge of what does and doesn't deserve being preserved. Moreover, I'd need permission to archive from users who may no longer be active, no longer interested in the community, or are too "big" to contact.

Q: Why no leaks?
A: The fact that most of them are fake. I'd rather not be the judge of what is/isn't true in such a way.

Q: Why does video take the longest to archive?
A: Short version: more time spent cross-refrencing and more time spent uploading if the need arises, plus mild tech issues.
Long version: I have a collection of vidoes on the Archive and a seperate collection on YouTube. Cross refrencing each to see if one was already uploaded to the other takes time, not helped by the fact that the vast majority of videos on both sites don't provide much description on what exactly the video is, yet have the same or simmilar titles for entirely diffrent trailers. So I have to spend a good bit of time going through videos to see which ones match up. If I don't find a match in my lists, I search the sites as a whole. This is easier on the Archive, but YouTube's algoritm means that "rare" trailers are impossible to find unless they have a high veiw count. If I still can't match them, then I then have to do one of two things. If it's someone's recorded gameplay footage, I hold onto it as a reminder for what I still need. If it's a tailer or anything made by Nintendo, I download the video off of one site and re-upload it to the other. And that's all before I update the page's HTML to have the video listed, which then also needs to be put in the right spot. Also, none of this is helped by the fact that one of the devices I use to work on this has a busted audio system, so to hear the video I usually have to then open them on my phone. All of this makes video take much longer to archive than anything else on the site.

Q: I'm uncertain of if this item I have is good to be documented here.
A: Send me a message anyways, worst you'll probably get is a polite decline. Unless you like, spam me, please don't do that.

Q: I'm uncertain of this item's origin.
A: Please try and do as much research as you can before hand. If you can't or already have, then send in what you can and I'll see what I can do!

Q: What if x site you're using to host content goes down???
A: That's what the mirrors are for!