Because sometimes preservation is a BATTLE. Support pls?

Here is a letter we just sent to our local retro game store after calling them and asking if they do console repair. It is very long because this ended up being such a rabbit hole.

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Never be a collector: not only is it one of those "crack would be cheaper" hobbies, but it also apparently turns you into a goddamn electrical engineer.

There are nights when I look at things like this letter, look at the sheer lengths I go to just to bring things like the Interlight saga to some sort of conclusion, and I ask myself... is it all worth it? The time and research and learning what an M48T08-150PC1 chip even is, let alone the difference between the old and new ones? The money (which we're actually kind of tight on right now) that goes into all these parts and repairs and scan converters and capture cards and whatnot? All just for... this?

But then I look at the comments that video got. The fact that we posted the first-ever footage of that game, and what it meant to those commenters to finally have documentation of it after their childhoods, and... yeah. Yeah, I could never walk away from all this. I believe in the cause too much.

But man.

Anyway if you want to help out (because $oof), we're currently six five holy heck we actually did it followers on Twitch away from the magic 50 threshold at which point we can claim affiliate status and set up channel points and subscribers and all that fun stuff. A friend suggested getting a Patreon to help with expenses like this in exchange for the content we're creating, a way for you to support us in our mission. That's a good idea, but at this point, it's probably easier to just do that through Twitch, you know? Like, if you support us then you can subscribe? Only you need to be affiliate for that, and we need just a few more followers to qualify for affiliate we have the followers and just need to stream more to get the other stats up AAAA THANK YOU. ;A; So, please consider giving us a follow if you haven't already, just to put us over the top. And if you want to give us Patreon-esque support so we can excavate through more lost media, then maybe consider subscribing to our Twitch channel once we're big enough for that to become an option?

https://www.twitch.tv/kjorteo

At the very least, follows and spreading the word are free. :3

Anyway, thank you for your time, as always.