Approximately $7500 in vintage gaming lost forever

For those of you who have been following Byuu's SNES preservation project, you can stop now. The United States Postal Service has effectively killed his ambition by losing a package in the mail from Germany. After not arriving or getting any help for nearly a month and a half, the archivist decided it was time to hang it up and admit defeat rather than risk losing someone else's valuable games.

Byuu was working on the arduous task of archiving every Super Nintendo game in the world by dumping images from the original cartridges collectors around the world lent him. The lost package contained anywhere from $7500 to $10,000 in retro games that were en route from Germany to have their ROMs dumped. This was the second such shipment Byuu had received from Germany, with the first one only taking ten days between shipment and arrival. The author of the higan emulator is done waiting, and instead is planning on reimbursing the anonymous donor so they can either hunt down the games they lost or just keep the money.

Byuu still has a few games to dump before sending them back to the donors, but after that he's made the declaration that "the SNES preservation project is officially and permanently dead." The donor who lent Byuu the lost games hasn't necessarily asked for reimbursement, but the higan programmer doesn't want that kind of loss on his conscience despite the package being lost in transit. It's a sad day for retro gaming to be sure, as the project showed a lot of promise despite the ambitious goal.