Because the online game business shifts from bodily media to a digital future, recreation preservation is an more and more related matter. Saving the historical past of the medium is necessary, and one gaming historian has simply efficiently preserved one of many rarest video video games ever made.
Video recreation scholar Bruno de Figueiredo has introduced (through Time Extension) that he has posted the ISO on-line for TRIPITAKA, the sequel to Cosmology of Kyoto. The unique title was launched in 1993 in Japan by SoftEdge, and this non-linear journey recreation was launched in North America the next yr the place it gained a small following. The sequel is so obscure that solely a single bodily copy of TRIPITAKA is understood to exist.
After a protracted search, unsure that it even existed, I lastly situated the CD-ROM TRIPITAKA 玄奘三蔵求法の旅, the elusive sequel to the legendary Cosmology of Kyoto. Right here is the ISO on your emulational pleasure.https://t.co/vPtRjuo0BO
— Bruno de Figueiredo (@dieubussy) May 22, 2025
The bodily CD-ROM for TRIPITAKA was bought through Yahoo Japan in 2023 for slightly below $300. After almost two years, Figueiredo efficiently satisfied the proprietor to permit him to share the sport on-line for posterity.
Final yr, Xbox put collectively a staff devoted to recreation preservation, whereas Sony arrange its personal recreation preservation staff two years prior. Nintendo has taken a extra dim view of recreation preservation, and the upcoming Change 2 recreation key playing cards has brought about some to query how the video games hooked up to them can be saved for future generations. The U.S. Copyright Workplace additionally dealt the sport preservation motion a blow when it refused to permit libraries to share their recreation collections on-line.