ZM90

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    What do you think of when you hear the term "beta community"? If you think of a bunch of geeks who are a small part of the gaming community that have interest in the collection and preservation of prototypes by almost any means necessary and the documentation of alpha and beta content then you would be correct. In this blog I will try to explain why the beta community needs the modding community and why the modding community needs the beta community. While the beta community will by any means necessary obtain prototypes and dump them into ROM or ISO formats to preserve and share them with the public there are times when such a thing is not possible such a example is I just bought the Spirit Tracks E3 beta cart on Ebay but, yet I cannot dump it or another example is well if the prototype is impossible to obtain. What do you do whenever you cannot obtain or preserve a prototype? The answer to that question is a very simple one, you turn to the modding community to preserve what can possibly be preserved within the final game itself. Two examples here on Deadly Stream of that in action are TSLRCM and K1R. So you are probably saying "It sounds like the beta community needs the modding community more than the modding community needs the beta community." to which I say "not true my friend." and I will explain why. First of all what do you think gins up interest in modding a game? If you answered "beta content" you would be correct, you have to look no further than years ago whenever TSLRP was started by Team Gizka. Due to that project we modders got some awesome tools and interest in modding TSL greatly rose. Another thing that helps is that the beta community may be a tiny blip on the huge map of people that is the entire gaming community but, I have never seen such a passionate group of people as the people in the beta community, well except maybe modders. So as you can see the modding communities and beta community share a mutual interest, a mutual partnership, and a mutual respect and as the communities go forward together in this partnership to the future I am sure we will see as much content preserved and protected as possible.
     
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