• keepar_69@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Not to discourage you, but I have nearly 10TB of apk files and I still think its not enough haha

    I started with small, so you can

    Good luck!

    • TheTjalian@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      How on earth do you have 10TB of APK files? Console game collections are that size and they can get pretty damn big in size per game.

      Genuinely curious, that sounds like an amazing collection.

      • keepar_69@alien.topBEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Web scrapping, constantly updating and keeping old files, years and years of data collection

  • V3semir@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    No, because most of them have data to download anyway, so if they go down, the APK itself will be useless.

    • chrisprice@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      If you backup /obb’s, it usually won’t. From Android 1.0 - 11, that should be fine.

      The hard part is with newer Androids that block access to the /Android/data/obb trees.

  • iNfANTcOMA@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Make sure to have different versions of Android on tap as well. Custom roms from XDS would be a good place to start.

  • ishatum@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I would say yes… for the following reasons:

    - some mobile games get updated often, with the new versions being worse than older ones, or having content cut from them etc…

    - then there are a lot of games that never gotten updated for a long time, and can no longer be installed and run on modern devices

    - perhaps there are a lot of delisted games from the Google play store since 2016?

    So I think this collection of yours does have some archival value! :)

  • PirateSKB@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    8 gigs isn’t really alot so I would say it’s worth it tbh

    Also lots of older data is getting way harder to find now, so it might be useful for you in the future too

  • whatThePleb@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    The biggest problem is all the data that’s lost because many games are sideloading content/updates on their own. So we need not only the apk’s (which are also important of course) but all the extra stuff/real content which has to be dumped from the devices.

  • LimesFruit@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    if you enjoy hoarding stuff like this then it’s worth it. 8GB of space for such a massive archive is really not that much, so it’s not like it is costing you anything to archive them.

    If you don’t want to hold on to these files for whatever reason, upload them somewhere such as archive.org then other people can hoard them if they choose to do so. I bet there is something in there that someone has been looking for, and I guess that’s what hoarding data is all about, making sure that media, in this case games, don’t get lost to time like many have.

  • throwaway_bluehair@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    A lot of old mobile games become lost media. Absolutely 100% worth it. I would honestly recommend you to see if you have some lost media in there