I've been collecting and archiving raw game trailers and videos, and you can help!

[Hero of Legend]

New forum, new place to get more help for this project of mine!

For many months I've spent doing 1080p and more recently 4K upscales of game trailers and the like on YouTube. This is a long and tiring process (especially when so many vids came out with issues). In my work, I discovered archive.org where I found a lot of those trailers at.

Then it finally hit me; what if I contributed? :O And so I have!

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So far I've put up 58 vids as of right now. From the source logo animations of Next Level Games (a very welcome new addition to Nintendo's merry band), to HQ HD vids from IGN of yore like from E3 2006, to old no longer easy to obtain .flv files (thanks to the death of flash and the kill switch that came with it). It's been a long road, but the spoils have been worth it! Plus I've gotten some help from folks around.

That's where you guys come in. got old vids downloaded ages ago collecting dust in your HDD's? Bring them here! You can also just make your own account and do that yourself if you'd like, but right now I'm just trying to round up what cool vids I can find and let all freely see them without that horrific YouTube compression.

One thorn in my side is GameTrailers' catalogue. With their closure, their old videos are SUPER hard to obtain. I had the Discipline WiiWare TGS 2008 trailer handy from the raw file I uploaded to YouTube that Google Takeout gave back to me (love this feature to death). If you got a YouTube channel with raw videos on it and feel like trying Takeout to reobtain them, give it a consideration!

So yeah, let's do this!

 

[Krvavi Abadas]

You really should try looking through Press CDs if you have the chance. the early to late 2000s ones are more likely to contain video files. Some examples i can think of include one for House Of The Dead Overkill (scroll down), and the THQ ECTS 1999 disc.

Quality might not be the best in all of them, though.
There was also a few DVDs containing high quality video as well. Like this one made for E3.

 

[Hero of Legend]

You really should try looking through Press CDs if you have the chance. the early to late 2000s ones are more likely to contain video files. Some examples i can think of include one for House Of The Dead Overkill (scroll down), and the THQ ECTS 1999 disc.

Quality might not be the best in all of them, though.
There was also a few DVDs containing high quality video as well. Like this one made for E3.

Oh I have! I upscaled many trailers from those (look in my 1080p and 4K links in the OP). But properly splitting the trailers and retaining the 4:3 aspect ratio and quality isn't that easy. Avidemux can do it via the copy function for video and audio, but the aspect ratio comes out as the original 720x480 res, meaning you'd have to use your player to make them 4:3. The DVDs are native 720x480, but are defaulted to displaying the proper 4:3 aspect ratio.

I have the DVD trailers for Donkey Kong Racing, Raven Blade, and Kameo at least ripped this way as full-quality .mp4 files that look 1:1 with the DVD source in quality, but again are in the 720x480 aspect ratio. If folks don't mind the extra step, I can upload those to the account.

 

[Hero of Legend]

BTW I've uploaded the original .mov download of Xenoblade's E3 2009 trailer, and the HQ .flv download of the Xenoblade X E3 2013 trailer.

 

[Hero of Legend]

I just uploaded a massive file; a legit lossless version of Brawl's E3 2006 trailer. It's 7.43GB. Good luck playing it properly though, this one is picky with its codec and such, but the quality is unsurpassable.

Here's a screencap to show:

 

[GJ]

I'm glad to see this thread made it over. Sadly I don't have much to add in terms of content, but I'm looking forward to seeing all those shiny HQ videos.