Post by hlwys on Sept 5, 2022 16:08:11 GMT
RuneScape is an online game originally created as a browser game in 2001. It has become very popular, with over 300 million accounts created. But although the game was being continually updated every week, the developers did not start making full version control backups until 2012.
However, if you have any old computers or hard drives that you may have played RuneScape on, even just once, there's a very good chance you have a missing version. The game's files would be downloaded then stored in a hidden location on your computer. We have made a search tool that will automatically scan a drive for the relevant files and combine them into a file that can be uploaded.
Hopefully because of the sheer number of players who ever tried the game, we should be able to recover every version.
Resources:
Lost Media Wiki page
Spreadsheet tracking lost versions
Search tool
Discord
A video showing how the game has evolved over time:
